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From: subhutiii
To: RiverIIOsho@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:06 PM
Subject: [RiverIIOsho] THE RIVER IS GOING TO THE SEA, SO WHY FIGHT?




TANTRA IS THE NATURAL WAY, the loose and the natural is the goal. You need
not fight with the current; simply move with it, float with it. THE RIVER IS
GOING TO THE SEA, SO WHY FIGHT? Move with the river, become one with the river,
surrender. "Surrender" is the keyword for tantra, "will" is the keyword for
yoga. Yoga is the path of will, tantra is the path of surrender.

THAT'S WHY TANTRA IS THE PATH OF LOVE -- love is surrender. This is the
first thing to understand, then Tilopa's words will become very very
crystal-clear. The different dimension of tantra has to be understood -- THE
VERTICAL DIMENSION, the dimension of surrender, OF NOT FIGHTING, of being loose
and natural, relaxed -- what Chuang Tzu says, "Easy is right." With yoga,
difficult is right; with tantra, easy is right.

RELAX AND BE AT EASE, there is no hurry. The whole itself is taking you on
its own accord, you need not make an individual striving. You are not asked to
reach before your time, you will reach when the time is ripe -- YOU SIMPLY WAIT.
The whole is moving -- why you are in a hurry? Why you want to reach before
others?

There is a beautiful story about BUDDHA:
HE REACHED THE GATE OF HEAVEN. Of course, the people there were waiting. They
opened the door, they welcomed him. But he turned his back towards the door,
looked at the samsara -- the world -- millions of souls on the same path,
struggling, in misery, in anguish, striving to reach this gate of heaven and
bliss. The door-keeper said, "YOU COME IN PLEASE! We have been waiting for you."

And Buddha said, "HOW I CAN COME WHEN OTHERS HAVE NOT REACHED? It doesn't
seem to be the right time. How I can enter when the whole has not entered into
it? I will have to wait. It is just like my hand has reached into the door, and
my feet have not reached yet. I will have to wait. Just the hand cannot enter
alone."

This is one of the most profound insights of tantra. Tantra says NOBODY CAN,
IN FACT, BECOME ENLIGHTENED ALONE. We are parts of each other, we are members of
each other. We are a whole! One person may become the peak, may become a very
great wave -- but the great wave remains connected with the small waves all
around. It is not alone, it remains one with the ocean, and all the waves there.
How a wave can become enlightened alone?

IT IS SAID IN THIS BEAUTIFUL STORY THAT BUDDHA IS STILL WAITING. He has to
wait. Nobody is an island -- we make a continent, we are together. I may have
stepped a little further than you, but I cannot be separate.

And now I know it deeply, now it is not a story for me -- I AM WAITING FOR
YOU. Now it is not just a parable. Now I know that THERE IS NO INDIVIDUAL
ENLIGHTENMENT. Individuals can step a little ahead, that's all -- but they
remain joined together with the whole.

And if an Enlightened person is not aware that he is part of others, one
with the others, then who will know this? WE MOVE AS ONE BEING, and Tantra says,
"So don't be in a hurry, and don't try, and don't push others, and don't try to
be first in the queue -- BE LOOSE AND NATURAL. EVERYTHING IS GOING TOWARDS
ENLIGHTENMENT, it is going to happen. You don't create an anguish about it." If
you can understand this, already you are near it -- one relaxes. Otherwise,
religious people become very very tense. Even ordinary worldly people are not as
tense as religious people become tense.

ORDINARY WORLDLY PEOPLE ARE FOR WORLDLY GOALS. Of course they are tense, but
not so much as religious people -- because they are tense for the other world.
And their world is very far away, invisible; and they are always in doubt
whether it is there or not. And then a new misery arises: maybe they are losing
this world and the other doesn't exist. They are always in anguish, mentally
very much disturbed. DON'T BECOME THAT TYPE OF RELIGIOUS MAN.

TO ME A RELIGIOUS MAN IS LOOSE AND NATURAL. He's not worried about this
world or the other world. He is not worried at all, he simply lives and enjoys.
THIS MOMENT IS THE ONLY MOMENT FOR HIM, the next moment will take care of
itself. When the next moment comes, he will receive it also enjoying, blissful.
A religious man is NOT goal-oriented. To be goal-oriented is to be worldly.

OSHO
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
Ch #6: The Great Teaching
am in Buddha Hall



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