Osho said – “When you are lost, god is. When you are, god disappears. Both cannot exist together.
The relationship is almost like darkness and light. The room is dark -- you bring light in. The moment you bring light in, the darkness is no more there.
I was reading an old Sufi story -- a parable -- about a very ancient cave. The cave had never known any light -- it was so dark, and it was hidden so deep in a mountain. The sun started feeling very sorry for the cave. He would come every morning and would knock -- but the cave wouldn't listen.
One day he knocked unusually loud and he said to the cave, 'What are you doing there for centuries and centuries? I come every day and I bring such tremendous beauty and colour and light and love and life and warmth -- and you continue hiding there! What are you doing there? Come out! Just for once, just for a change, come out and see what is happening outside. It is no more night. There is no need to hide!'
The cave could not believe it. She had never heard anything about light, colour, warmth, love, life. She had always been there deep in the darkness. She laughed and she said, 'I don't trust. Whosoever you are, don't try to befool me'
But the sun insisted. And just to see whether it was true -- very unbelievingly, in great doubt, in a tremendously sceptical mood -- the cave came out. It was true, and it was really wonderful -- and she had been missing for centuries and centuries!
She was very thankful and she said, 'Now, I listened to you -- you listen to me. Come in. You see my deep darkness too -- you may not have ever seen it. I cannot offer you anything else. I know only one thing and that is darkness. Come in and have a taste of it as I have tasted. As I accepted your invitation, accept mine.'
The sun came in... And there was no darkness. The cave could not believe it. She said, 'What has happened? It was there -- it cannot disappear. It has always been here, for centuries and centuries. What has happened?'
The sun laughed and he said, 'When I am there, the darkness cannot be -- we both cannot exist together. Darkness is my absence.'
Man is the absence of god. Man never meets god, remember! When the meeting happens, man is no more there -- only god is there. It happens with the death of man, with the disappearance of man.”
When you are in thoughts you are in darkness, when you are in dreams you are in darkness...even though it doesn’t exist still it exist so its existence is only possible if light is not there...the darkness cannot say that I have existed for many centuries I will take time to go....no the moment light comes in there is no space for it, there is no space for desire, there is no space for ignorance and there is no space for time.
A very interesting sutra came out of the conversation which I was having with Someone, the sutra is “Don’t worry too much about the darkness, don’t start fighting with it, don’t pay much attention to it instead light a lamp, bring light and your efforts should be more moving towards the sun”.
This simple sutra can change the life of the disciple; with this simple understanding lot of growth can happen, with this small ray of light the seeker can start coming out of his pit and with this small string one can know that the truth is not far away.
This darkness has been called by many names like the negative, the devil, the black and many other...this division has been made from the very beginning that this world has been divided into two forces...the surprising element is that we cry, we shout, we complain, we go through this terrible pain and tormenting because of this darkness but the moment light comes into our life where do these elements disappear, suddenly when the light comes the miracle happens and the truth comes out.
The miracle is both have not met...light and the darkness they have not met each other but still they exist...from the point of view of light it has not seen darkness and vice versa with darkness has not seen light.
There is a power of the dark and there is a power of the light...What I feel is that we are made up of both and man has been given this ultimate choice and freedom to choose...either choose to be with the dark, to be with this body or else to choose with the light, with his higher self, with the spirit. A seeker is the one who has started to understand that he has already lived in this darkness for so long now its time to explore the light....and yes you can exist in darkness but you will simply disappear in light...the ego can only survive in the dark because it is made of dark...in light everything disappears.
The relationship is almost like darkness and light. The room is dark -- you bring light in. The moment you bring light in, the darkness is no more there.
I was reading an old Sufi story -- a parable -- about a very ancient cave. The cave had never known any light -- it was so dark, and it was hidden so deep in a mountain. The sun started feeling very sorry for the cave. He would come every morning and would knock -- but the cave wouldn't listen.
One day he knocked unusually loud and he said to the cave, 'What are you doing there for centuries and centuries? I come every day and I bring such tremendous beauty and colour and light and love and life and warmth -- and you continue hiding there! What are you doing there? Come out! Just for once, just for a change, come out and see what is happening outside. It is no more night. There is no need to hide!'
The cave could not believe it. She had never heard anything about light, colour, warmth, love, life. She had always been there deep in the darkness. She laughed and she said, 'I don't trust. Whosoever you are, don't try to befool me'
But the sun insisted. And just to see whether it was true -- very unbelievingly, in great doubt, in a tremendously sceptical mood -- the cave came out. It was true, and it was really wonderful -- and she had been missing for centuries and centuries!
She was very thankful and she said, 'Now, I listened to you -- you listen to me. Come in. You see my deep darkness too -- you may not have ever seen it. I cannot offer you anything else. I know only one thing and that is darkness. Come in and have a taste of it as I have tasted. As I accepted your invitation, accept mine.'
The sun came in... And there was no darkness. The cave could not believe it. She said, 'What has happened? It was there -- it cannot disappear. It has always been here, for centuries and centuries. What has happened?'
The sun laughed and he said, 'When I am there, the darkness cannot be -- we both cannot exist together. Darkness is my absence.'
Man is the absence of god. Man never meets god, remember! When the meeting happens, man is no more there -- only god is there. It happens with the death of man, with the disappearance of man.”
When you are in thoughts you are in darkness, when you are in dreams you are in darkness...even though it doesn’t exist still it exist so its existence is only possible if light is not there...the darkness cannot say that I have existed for many centuries I will take time to go....no the moment light comes in there is no space for it, there is no space for desire, there is no space for ignorance and there is no space for time.
A very interesting sutra came out of the conversation which I was having with Someone, the sutra is “Don’t worry too much about the darkness, don’t start fighting with it, don’t pay much attention to it instead light a lamp, bring light and your efforts should be more moving towards the sun”.
This simple sutra can change the life of the disciple; with this simple understanding lot of growth can happen, with this small ray of light the seeker can start coming out of his pit and with this small string one can know that the truth is not far away.
This darkness has been called by many names like the negative, the devil, the black and many other...this division has been made from the very beginning that this world has been divided into two forces...the surprising element is that we cry, we shout, we complain, we go through this terrible pain and tormenting because of this darkness but the moment light comes into our life where do these elements disappear, suddenly when the light comes the miracle happens and the truth comes out.
The miracle is both have not met...light and the darkness they have not met each other but still they exist...from the point of view of light it has not seen darkness and vice versa with darkness has not seen light.
There is a power of the dark and there is a power of the light...What I feel is that we are made up of both and man has been given this ultimate choice and freedom to choose...either choose to be with the dark, to be with this body or else to choose with the light, with his higher self, with the spirit. A seeker is the one who has started to understand that he has already lived in this darkness for so long now its time to explore the light....and yes you can exist in darkness but you will simply disappear in light...the ego can only survive in the dark because it is made of dark...in light everything disappears.
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