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1、Beyond EnlightenmentTalks given from 03/10/86 pm to 04/11/86 pmEnglish Discourse series32 ChaptersYear published: 1980Beyond EnlightenmentChapter #1Chapter title: Beyond Enlightenment is only beyondness3 October 1986 pm inArchive code: 8610035ShortTitle: ENLIGH01Audio: YesVideo: YesLength: 123 minsQ
2、uestion 1BELOVED OSHO,WHAT IS BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT? Maneesha, beyond enlightenment is only beyondness. Enlightenment is the last host. Beyond it, all boundaries disappear, all experiences disappear. Experience comes to its utmost in enlightenment; it is the very peak of all that is beautiful, of all
3、 that is immortal, of all that is blissful - but it is an experience. Beyond enlightenment there is no experience at all, because the experiencer has disappeared. Enlightenment is not only the peak of experience, it is also the finest definition of your being. Beyond it, there is only nothingness; y
4、ou will not come again to a point which has to be transcended.Experience, the experiencer, enlightenment - all have been left behind. You are part of the tremendous nothingness that is infinite. This is the nothingness out of which the whole existence comes, the womb; and this is the nothingness in
5、which all the existence disappears.Science has something parallel; there is bound to be something parallel. The spiritual experience is of the interior world, and science is the exploration of the exterior. But both are wings of the same existence - the inwardness and the outwardness - they always h
6、ave similar points.Scientists have come to a strange conclusion in this century, that a few stars suddenly disappear. and stars are not small things; they are not so small as they look to you. They look small because they are so far away, millions of light years away, but they are huge.Our sun is a
7、star, but of a mediocre size, medium size. In comparison to the earth it is vast, but in comparison to other stars it is a small, medium-sized star. There are stars which are a thousand times bigger than the sun.And in this century, for the first time we had the instruments of observation and we wer
8、e very much puzzled: suddenly a star disappears, not even leaving a trace behind of where it has gone. Such a huge phenomenon, and not even footprints - in what direction has it gone? It has just moved simply into nothingness. This was happening continually.It took almost twenty years to figure out
9、this new phenomenon: that in existence there are black holes. You cannot see them, but they have tremendous gravitation. Even the biggest star, if it comes within their radius of magnetism, will be pulled in. And once it is pulled into a black hole, it disappears. It is the ultimate death. We can on
10、ly see the effect; we cannot see the black hole, we only see that one star is disappearing.After the black hole was almost an established theory, scientists started thinking that there must be something like a white hole - there has to be. If it is possible that in a certain gravitation, magnetic fo
11、rce, a big star simply disappears out of existence. We have been aware that every day stars are born. From where are they coming? - nobody has asked it before.In fact, birth we always take for granted; nobody asks from where the babies are coming.Death we never accept, because we are so much afraid
12、of it.There is not a single philosophy in the whole history of man which thinks about where the babies come from, but there are philosophies and philosophies thinking about what is dead, where people go on disappearing to, what happens after death.In my whole life I have come across millions of peop
13、le, and not a single person has asked what happens before birth - and thousands have asked what happens after death. I have always been thinking, why is birth taken without any question? Why is death not taken in the same way?We were aware for centuries, almost three centuries, that stars are being
14、born every day - big stars, huge stars - and nobody raised the question, From where are these stars coming? But when we came to know about the black holes and we saw the stars disappearing, then the second question became almost an absolute necessity. If black holes can take stars into nothingness,
15、then there must be something like white holes where things. stars come out of nothingness.I am reminded. Mulla Nasruddin had applied for a post on a ship. He was interviewed. The captain and the high officials of the ship were sitting in a room. Mulla entered. The captain asked, If the seas are in a
16、 turmoil, winds are strong, waves are huge and mountainous, what are you going to do to save the ship? It is tossed from here to there.Mulla Nasruddin said, It is not much of a problem: I will just drop a huge anchor to keep the ship stable against the winds, against the waves. It is not much of a p
17、roblem.The captain again said, Suppose another mountainous wave comes and the ship is going to be drowned; what are you going to do?He said, Nothing - another huge anchor.The captain looked at him and asked a third time, Suppose it is a great typhoon and it is impossible to save the ship. What are y
18、ou going to do?He said, Nothing, the same - a huge anchor.The captain said, From where are you getting these huge anchors?He said, From the same place. From where are you getting these great, mountainous waves, strong winds? - from the same place. You go on getting them, I will go on getting bigger
19、and bigger anchors.If there are holes in existence where things simply disappear into non-existence, then there must be holes from where things appear from nothingness - and just a little imagination is needed. Scientists have not worked on it yet.My suggestion is that a black hole is like a door: f
20、rom one side it is a black door, a black hole - things go into it and disappear into nothingness. And from the other side of the tunnel - it is the same door, just from the other side - it is a white hole; things are born again, renewed. It is the same womb.Beyond enlightenment you enter into nothin
21、gness.Experience disappears, experiencer disappears.Just pure nothingness remains, utter silence.Perhaps this is the destiny of every human being, sooner or later to be achieved.We dont know yet whether there is a white hole or not - there must be.Just as you enter beyond enlightenment into nothingn
22、ess, there must be a possibility of coming out of nothingness back into form, back into existence - renewed, refreshed, luminous - on a totally different plane. Because nothing is destroyed, things can only go into a dormant state; things can go only into deep sleep. Then in the morning they wake up
23、 again. This is how the existence goes on.In the West, this idea has never happened in the two thousand years history of philosophy. They only think of this creation: Who created this? and they get into troubles because whatever the answer is, it is going to create more questions.In the East we have
24、 a conception of circles of existence and non-existence, just like day and night. Creation is followed by de-creation, everything goes into nothingness, just as day is followed by night and everything goes into darkness. And the period is going to be the same: as long as the creation is, so is the r
25、esting period going to be; and again there will be a creation of a higher order.And this will go on from eternity to eternity - creation, de-creation, creation, again de-creation - but each time the morning is more beautiful. Each dawn is more colorful, more alive; the birds are singing better, the
26、flowers are bigger, with more fragrance.And the East has a tremendous courage of accepting the idea that this will go on forever and forever. There has never been any beginning, and there will be no end.After enlightenment, you have to disappear. The world is left behind, the body is left behind, th
27、e mind is left behind; just your consciousness, as individuality, is still there.To go beyond enlightenment is to go beyond individuality and to become universal. This way, each individual will go on moving into nothingness. And one day, the whole existence moves into nothingness and a great peace,
28、a great night, a deep, dark womb, a great awaiting for the dawn. And it has been happening always, and each time you are always born on a higher level of consciousness.Enlightenment is the goal of human beings. But those who are enlightened cannot remain static; they will have to move, they will hav
29、e to change. And now they have only one thing to lose - themselves.They have enjoyed everything. They have enjoyed the purity of individuality; now they have to enjoy the disappearing of individuality. They have seen the beauty of individuality; now they have to see the disappearance and its beauty,
30、 and the silence that follows, that abysmal serenity that follows.Question 2BELOVED OSHO,THE OTHER NIGHT WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE EGO AND HOW, WITH AWARENESS, ONE CAN SEE THAT IT DOES NOT EXIST, I REALIZED THAT I NEVER PUT MUCH EMPHASIS ON AWARENESS. FOR ME, BEING WITH YOU ALWAYS MEANT LOVING YOU A
31、S MUCH AS I CAN, LONGING FOR YOU AND TRYING TO BE AS CLOSE TO YOU AS POSSIBLE.BELOVED OSHO, CAN YOU PLEASE SHOW THE WAY FOR A FEMALE GERMAN LOVER TO BECOME MORE AWARE?Latifa, love is enough unto itself.If your love is not the ordinary, biological instinctive love, if it is not part of your ego, if i
32、t is not a power trip to dominate someone; if your love is just a pure joy, rejoicing in the being of the other for no reason at all, a sheer joy, awareness will follow this pure love just like a shadow. You need not worry about awareness.There are only two ways: either you become aware, then love f
33、ollows as a shadow; or you become so loving that awareness comes on its own accord. They are two sides of the same coin. You need not bother about the other side; just keep one side, the other side cannot escape. The other side is bound to come.And the path of love is easier, rosier, innocent, simpl
34、e.The path of awareness is a little arduous.Those who cannot love, for them I suggest the path of awareness. There are people who cannot love - their hearts have become stones. Their upbringing, their culture, their society has killed the very capacity to love - because this whole world is not run b
35、y love, it is run by cunningness. To succeed in this world you dont need love, you need a hard heart and a sharp mind. In fact, you dont need the heart at all.I have heard about one great politician who was in the hospital and who had some great complications with his heart. So they put him on a pla
36、stic heart and took out his real heart, because it was going to take hours to clean it. And certainly a politicians heart - even if you can clean it in hours, it is too soon. The surgeons were working in the other room - it was a disgusting job - and the politician was lying down.A man came into the
37、 room and shook the politician; he opened his eyes and the man said, What are you doing here? You have been chosen the prime minister of the country.He jumped out of the bed. The doctors looked from the other room, What is happening? The politician was going out. They said, Wait! Your heart, we are
38、cleaning it.The politician said, Now, at least for five years I wont need it. You can clean it as much as you want. Take your time. What does a prime minister need a heart for? But keep it safe in case something goes wrong; then I will come back. But if things go well, I may perhaps never need it.In
39、 this world the heart is not needed. The people of the heart are crushed, exploited, oppressed. This world is run by the cunning, by the clever, by the heartless and the cruel. So the whole society is managed in such a way that every child starts losing his heart, and his energy starts moving direct
40、ly towards the head. The heart is ignored.I have heard an ancient parable from Tibet, that in the beginning of time the heart used to be exactly in the middle part of the body. But because of continuously being pushed aside, out of the way, now it is no more in the middle of the body. The poor fello
41、w waits by the side of the road: If some day you need, I am here - but it gets no nourishment, no encouragement. It gets all kinds of condemnation.If you do something and you say, I did it because I felt like doing it, everybody is going to laugh: Felt? Have you lost your head? Give your reason, log
42、ic. Feeling is no logic.Even if you fall in love, you have to find reasons why you have fallen in love - because the womans nose is very beautiful, her eyes have such depth, her body is so proportionate. These are not the reasons. You have never calculated all these reasons on your calculator and th
43、en found that this woman seems to be worthy of falling in love with: Fall in love with this woman - exactly the right length of nose, the right kind of hair, the right color, the right proportion of the body. What more do you want?But this is not the way that anybody ever falls in love. You fall in
44、love. Then just to satisfy the idiots around you that you are not a fool, you have calculated everything and only then you have taken the step. It is a reasonable, rational, logical step.Nobody hears the heart.And the mind is so chattering, so continuously chattering - yakkety-yak, yakkety-yak - tha
45、t even if the heart sometimes says something, it never reaches to you. It cannot reach. The bazaar in your head is buzzing so much that it is impossible, absolutely impossible for the heart.Slowly slowly, the heart stops saying anything. Not heard again and again, ignored again and again, it falls s
46、ilent.The head runs the show in the society; otherwise, we would have lived in a totally different world - more loving, less hate, less war, no possibility of nuclear weapons. The heart will never give support for any destructive methods to be evolved. The heart will never be in the service of death
47、. It is life - it throbs for life, it beats for life.Because of the whole conditioning of the society, the method of awareness has to be chosen, because awareness appears to be very logical, rational.But if you can love, then there is no need to go on a long, arduous route unnecessarily.Love is the
48、most shortcut way, the most natural - so easy that it is possible even for a small child. It needs no training. You are born with the quality of it, if it is not corrupted by others.But love should be pure. It should not be impure.You will be surprised to know that the English word love comes from a
49、 very ugly root in Sanskrit. It comes from lobh. Lobh means greed.And as far as ordinary love is concerned, it is a kind of greed.Thats why there are people who love money, there are people who love houses, there are people who love this, who love that. Even if they love a woman or a man, it is simply their gre
