11/21/2023 0 Comments Osho tao the pathless path![]() It is not ready-made, available you cannot just decide to walk on it, you will have to find it. Now is the only time, and here is the only place. Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 1 Chapter 1 Chapter title: Voluntary death 11 February 1977 am in Buddha Hall Archive code: 7702110 ShortTitle: TAO101 Audio: Yes. Tao knows only one time which is now and only one place which is here. Preparation means that you are preparing for the future. Even if you want to throw it out you cannot that is real knowledge. In fact, Tao will say that Tantra has a wrong attitude in this way because you have to prepare for it. There is no need to hold it, it is simply there. Another is that which you don′t remember but is simply there – is there not as a memory but as part of your being. One is that which you have to remember but you go on forgetting again and again. "Watch in life – and you will find two categories, different categories. Even if you make an effort to forget it you will fail you cannot forget it. That which I call know-ledge is that which cannot be forgotten. All that is real becomes part of you it remains available forever and ever. ![]() You may not have been to a river for fifty years but you cannot forget it because it has never been remembered, it has gone into your being, it has become part of you. For the man of Tao, all women are one woman because he looks at the energy and not at the form. "There are a few things you cannot forget for example, swimming. The first thing: for the man of Tao there is not many and one. That which is remembered will be forgotten: that which is not remembered cannot be forgotten, there is no way to forget it. But real knowledge is never forgotten because real knowledge is never remembered. Even the professors who teach in the universities will all fail if they are examined again because the examination was just a momentary effort. "Can’t you observe it in your own life? How much do you remember of that which you crammed in your university days how much? If you are examined again you will all fail. Once the examination is finished he will lose that hold and things will disappear. He was keeping it, holding it, for the examination. Somehow it was just managed, with very great tension and strain. "When a student goes to an examination he remembers a thousand and one things, but after three months, if you ask him, ninety-nine per cent of it has gone down the drain. If Patanjali and Lao Tzu met, they would not be able to understand each other impossible Patanjali would talk about discipline. Tao is just the diametrically opposite viewpoint to Yoga. There is no discipline in Tao Tao is not Yoga. The unreal knowledge is that which you have crammed and has not become a part of you. To go to nature against nurture: that’s what the message of Tao is. In fact that which becomes part of you is real knowledge and you need not cram it. Once you have vibrated with it, something of it will have penetrated into your being, will become part of you. You should not be worried about whether you will be able to remember it or not – that is not the point at all. I am singing a song to you, let this song reach and vibrate in you. So when I say 'listen' the first step – it means: simply be relaxed, open, available. In a tense mind meditation is not possible. The real man is born only when your inner monkey completely disappears, utterly disappears."When I say 'listen' I don′t mean concentrate, because if you concentrate you will become very tense. Charles Darwin says that man has evolved only on the surface – deep down man is as restless as other monkeys. If God comes through silence then God is not for me and I am not for God.' It is against my nature, it would drive me crazy. I am a monkey, I have the potentiality, I can also do it – but sitting silently, doing nothing? Sir, that is impossible. ![]() If you told me to fetch the moon I could bring it if you told me to remove the Himalayas I could do it if you told me to force the Ganges to run up-current I could do it – because in the old ancient days other monkeys like Hanuman have been known to do it. I thought that if there was something I could do I would do it, but this is impossible. He enters through the door of silence – but that is possible only when you are not a doer. ![]() When the mind is a quiet surface, when everything is silent and calm, God enters. And when your mind is wavy God cannot enter. Anything done on your part is a disturbance, creates ripples, creates waves. When the right moment comes, suddenly you are full of tremendous joy and peace and God. Sitting silently, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. "The master looked at the monkey, felt great compassion for him, and said, 'I don't do anything. "One day he said to the master, 'What do you do? Please tell me also. "Whenever he could find the time and whenever the master was sitting in the garden, he would come close and sit by his side. ![]()
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