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THE SPEAKING TREE: Synthesis that Produces a Beautiful Organic Unity
Times of India
10TH December 2005
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Once Osho was asked: Is it right to say that movements in the West like Arica, Zen, Sufism, EST and TM are the inevitable synthesis of Eastern mysticism and Western science?
Osho replied: "East and West are polarities. If you try to synthesise them — take something of the East and something of the West and make a hotchpotch out of it — it will be a compromise, not a synthesis.
It will be mechanical, not organic. You can put things together — that is a mechanical unity — but you cannot put a tree together, you cannot put a human being together.
The unity of a tree grows, it comes from its innermost core and it spreads towards its circumference. It arises in the centre.
A mechanical unity can be put together from the outside: you can put a car or a clock together; but they have neither centre nor soul.
It is a unity put together from the outside. It works; it is utilitarian. But a tree, a bird, a human — you cannot put them together. They grow. Their unity comes from their innermost core. They have a centre.
"A compromise is a mechani-cal unity: a synthesis is an organic growth. So whatever is happening in the name of EST, TM or Arica, is mechanical unity.
The greatest danger is this: the East has developed great insight into religion and the West, great insight into science. When a person from the West starts searching in the East, his attitude is scientific.
He can understand only that which is scientific in the East. Eastern science is rudimentary. When a religious person from the East goes to the West he looks into Western religion which is very rudimentary. And he can understand only religious language.
Now what is happening? East and West are meeting in Arica, EST, TM, and other so-called spiritual movements, and just the opposite to what was expected is happening.
It is not Eastern religion meeting Western science, it is Eastern science meeting Western religion".
Osho warns against creating a synthesis of the religions of the world. He says: "Read the Qur'an, the Vedas, the Bible, the Dhammapada, find similarities but the Qur'an is beautiful only because of those things which are not in the Gita.
Beauty is in uniqueness; similarities become cliches, they become meaningless and monotonous. The Himalayas are beautiful because they have something unique that is not in the Alps. And the Ganges is beautiful because it has something that is not in the Amazon.
Of course, both are rivers; there are many similarities, but if you peep looking for similarities you will live in a boring world.
"Go into your innermost being. If you go beyond the object, you have gone beyond the West; if you go beyond the subject, you have gone beyond the East.
Then the transcendental arises; the synthesis is there. When it has happened within you, you can spread it without also.
The synthesis has to happen within human beings, not in books, dissertations, PhD theses. An organic unity is possible only in an organic way".
The writer edits Osho World magazine, New Delhi.
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FORGET THE OTHERS, REALIZE YOUR SELF
Sunmag
December 2005
Osho explains this: Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness. And not only about jealousy, remember, about all problems -- greed....
Somebody comes to me and says, "I am very greedy about money. How can I get rid of this greed for money?" It is not a question of money. Greed is greed. If you get rid of money you will become greedy for God; greed will still be there.
The night Jesus was saying goodbye to his disciples, one of the disciples asked him, "Lord, you are leaving us. There is one question, and it is on the minds of all your disciples. In the kingdom of God you will be sitting at the right side of God himself -- obviously, you will be his right hand. And who will be sitting next to you? Amongst us twelve, who will be the second to you? That is the most important thing in our heads. Please say something about it; otherwise, once you are gone it will be impossible for us to decide and we will be quarreling and fighting over it."
Now, this is jealousy. Now, what kind of disciples has Jesus? As far as my observation goes, Jesus was not very fortunate about his disciples. Buddha was far more fortunate. Never in the whole life of Buddha has a disciple asked such a stupid question.
Remember, if greed is dropped about money, immediately it will take another object, it will become focused on something else.
Take responsibility, and then things start changing.
If you take the responsibility, if you think, "I am responsible, nobody else," you will not be angry with the wife. You will not be fighting and nagging, you will not be nasty with her. You will start looking deeper and deeper. And in that very search you will become aware. That's what awareness is, that's how one becomes aware.
And when you are fully aware of your jealousy you will be surprised, you are in for a surprise: when you are fully aware of it, it disappears. It simply disappears, not leaving even a trace behind it.
Bring a little light inside. Meditate a little bit. Sit silently, doing nothing, looking inwards. In that stillness you will become aware of yourself and of the whole that surrounds you. That state is samadhi, and to know it is to know all, to be it is to be all.
Contributed by Swami Chaitanya Keerti, editor: Osho World monthly magazine.
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the occasion of 70th Birthday of Our Beloved Master Dept. of Posts.
Govt. of India launched a Special Day Cover at a special function
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