Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Mystery School

	"I want to create a great Buddha - field. It is possible. It was not possible before, only now is it possible. Never before was the search so acute, so intense, because never before was man in such an anguish as he is today. The search always comes out of anguish. Whenever there is great anguish, the anguish becomes a challenge, one has to search for something which is so meaningful that the anguish can be dissolved through it. When the darkness is very very deep, only then does one search for light."







	"The wheel that Buddha moved has stopped. The wheel has to be moved again. And it is going to be my and your life work--that wheel has to be moved again. Once it starts revolving it will have again twenty-five centuries life. Once it starts moving it goes on moving for twenty five centuries atleast. And it has to be done again and again and again because everything loses momentum, everything functions under the laws of nature-- entropy..."








	"And I know, here are people who understand the truth. Slowly slowly the morning is happening, the dark night is disappearing. Slowly slowly the seed is gaining ground, entering in your heart."







	"For even that time, Subhuti, there will be Bodhisattvas,"







	There are many here who are going to become Bodhisattvas. Just a little work more, just a little play more, just a little more effort into meditativeness, just a little more pouring of energy, just a little more concentration of energy, avoiding of distractions, and it is going to happen. And it is going to happen to many. And you are the fortunate ones.







	... Buddha has a great future, because science will come closer and closer to Buddha every day. Science is going to in the same language as Buddha. Science says there is energy but no matter. That's what Buddha is saying about the inner world: There is energy, movement, processes, but no entity, no ego... When you disappear completely, whatsoever is left behind-- that cleanliness, that purity, that innocence, that nobodiness, that nothingness, that shunya-- that is immortal. It has no beginning and no end, no birth and no death...







	The most secret teaching that I want to give my sannyasins is how to create the possibility of meeting the inner woman and man. When the inner woman and man meet you attain to an orgasm which never ends. The moment one comes to know oneself as divine. In that bliss, one knows one's dignity.







	Whenever you want to be close to me, first have a picture of me, look at it for one minute and then close your eyes and allow the movement, allow whatsoever happens... just sit silently in the room, naked, raise your hands and start communicating with me with your energy. Soon you will know the language. It is in-built. It is like swimming: nobody really learns swimming yet everybody knows it. ... So just raise your hands and let the energy say something. Don't interfere and don't even understand what you are saying. Let the energy have its own say and soon you will see that you have poured your heart out; soon you will understand what you have said. And in the third stage you will know that the answer has been received also. This is the real way to commune with the Master.

A mystery school simply helps you, because somebody is ahead of you,
somebody is behind you, somebody is already reached. If others are moving towards, why not you? `

If they are not losing anything, then aloneness is not dangerous. In fact, they are becoming more and more radiant, more and more loving, more and more compassionate."

. . . MYSTERY This is the profoundest truth: that life in its totality, in its organic wholeness is absolutely a mystery. It is not a problem that can be solved, it is not a question that can be answered. No amount of knowledge is going to demystify it; it will remain mysterious. Mysteriousness is not something accidental to it; you can take it away from it. It is its very soul. And whatsoever we know is just superficial, very superficial. Whatsoever we know is only befooling ourselves.

That was Buddha's way of answering; his word was tathata. Tathata can be translated approximately as suchness. A thousand and one times he was asked, Why is there death?; And he would say, Tathata--such is nature of thing. It is not answer, remember. What kind of answer is this: Such is nature of things that the water flows downward and the fire rises upwards. Such is the nature of things?

In fact, the word dhamma used by Buddha, which is ordinarily translated as religion means exactly suchness, the suchness of things, the dhamma of things. Ais dhammo sanantano, such is the ultimate nature of thing -- nothing more can be said about it

MYSTICISM is the experience that life is not logic, that life is poetry; that life is not syllogism, that life is a song. Mysticism is the declaration that life can never really be known; it is essentially unknowable.

It was happening again and again, with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, with Jesus, in different ways. this is what is happening here.

But why is it called "secret"? It is not secret in the sense that we are hiding somewhere in a cave, It is secret because it is available only when you are related to the Master in deep love.

Mysticism means you have seen something, you have experienced something, but you cannot express it. Mysticism means you have come across a truth which makes you dumb. It is so big, so huge, so enormous that it cannot be contained in any word.

Those who have experienced, they become dumb. Not that they stop speaking, but they speak about the methods, they speak about the way. They don't speak about the truth. They say how to attain it, they say how to avoid the pitfalls on the path, they say how not to go astray, they say This is the way, this is the direction, they give you a few maps, road maps, they make you aware of a few signs that you will come across on the road so that you can be certain that you are moving in the right direction-- that 's all they can do-- but about the truth, or God, they can't say a single word...
Mysticism is the very soul of religion.

Deja vu in itself is a reality, because you are not here for the first time; nobody is here for the first time. all are eternal pilgrims, journeying, journeying from one life to another. And all that you have experienced, you have experienced many times; it can't be new. Existence moves in a circle, not in a line.

It is like the rotating wheel of seasons: you have seen many springs and again the spring comes. Again you hear the sound of the birds and it reminds you of other springs. You see flowers blooming and it reminds you of other blooming. And they were almost alike. I say ;almost;-- I don't say that it is an exact repetition; nothing is ever repetition exactly. But it is so approximately alike that it is very difficult to make a distinction--hence deja vu. You again see the clouds floating in the sky and the sun and the birds and the trees. The spring has come again with all its joy . . . and you have seen those springs many times!

So somewhere deep in your unconscious you are carrying all the memories of all the past lives. It is very possible that again and again you will come to situations which are alike and suddenly you feel as it has happened before. And it has happened before! May be the actors were different, but how can they be very much different? Human beings are human beings after all.

For example, just listening to me, you can be surrounded by a sense of deja vu -- you can start feeling you have listened to me before, the same way. I may not have been with you before but you may have listened to some other Master. And they have all the same look in the eyes, the same scent to their being, the same song to sing. Words differ but the rhythm, the constantly running underground rhythm is the same. So right now you can be caught in a deja vu.

You have listened to many more people before. It is not possible that you have come for the first time to a Master. . . How is it possible? For millennia you have been searching. It is impossible not to have come across . . . You may have come across a Jesus or a Buddha or a Krishna or a Rinzai or a Bodhidarma. Down the ages in so many lives how can you avoid not coming across a Buddha? It is not possible!

You may not have met me before -- that's possible; that's not a problem--but someone very much like me. you may have looked with the same love at some other Master, with the same trust, with the same open heart, and again it is happening! You may have drunk from some other Master in the same way with such sensitivity and receptivity. . . and again it is happening! It can bring to your memory the floating fragrances of past lives, the nostalgia . . .

Deja vu happens to everybody but how strong it can be depends--the strength depends on what type of barrier exists between this life and the past lives and other lives. If it is a China wall. very thick, it is very difficult for things to cross over. And even if they cross, they become distorted. The wall distorts them and by the time they reach you the moment is lost . . .

And it can be very very weird sometime because when you go into it you can start feeling as if you are in a dream. You can start feeling as if you are living a fantasy, not reality . . . as if those people around here not there; may be it is just a memory. And that makes for a kind of weirdness.It can be scary too, it can frighten to; it depends on your interpretation . . .

No, deja vu is a reality, because we have lived so many lives and we have loved in so many ways. We have been angry in so many ways with so many people. We have been friends and enemies, and all that is happening to you now has happened many many times before.

-- Osho 'Don't Just Do Something, Sit There'

The experience termed as deja vu has a reality of its own because you are not in life for the first time, you have seen many lives, many deaths. And naturally in thousands of lives it's simply impossible not to come to same places to meet the same faces to see a certain tree and feel that you have seen exactly this tree. The feeling is absolutely certain, without any doubt: you are not imagining it; you have seen a certain person before, or you have been in the whole situation before, in every smallest detail.

If people become aware that they have lived the same kind of life thousands of times... and this was the use that the theory on reincarnation was put to. To create a great boredom and fed-upness because you have done all these things before and you have not learned anything, you are again... For thousands of lives you have been running for power, for money and you are still doing that, it seems every life experience is being erased and you start from ABC again! If it becomes scientifically supported, you will have great difficulty repeating the same stupid games. You have played enough -- it is time to change, it is time to raise your consciousness: it is time to go beyond the vicious circle of moving from one life to another, again and again like a wheel.

I have a few secrets to impart to you, and I would not like to die before I have imparted them to you -- because I do not know anybody else now alive in the world who can do that work. I have secrets from Taoism, secrets from Tantra, secrets from yoga, secrets from Sufis, secrets from Zen people... I have lived in almost all traditions of the world; I have been a wanderer in many lives. I have gathered much honey from many flowers.

And now the time, sooner or later, will come when I will have to depart - - and I will not be able to enter again in this body. This is going to be my last life.

All the honey that I have gathered I would like to share with you, so that you can share it with others, so that it does not disappear from the earth.

This is going to be a secret work. Hence, I cannot speak about it. I think I have already spoken too much. I should not have said even this.

The work will be only for those who are utterly devoted. Right now, we have a big press office to make as many people as possible aware of the phenomenon that is happening here. But in the new commune the real work will simply disappear from the world's eyes. The press office will function -- it will function for other purposes. People will go on coming, because from the visitors we have to choose, we have to invite people who can be participants, who can dissolve in the commune. But the real work is going to be absolutely secret. It is going to be between me and you.

And there will not be much talk between me and you either. More and more I will become silent, because the real communion is through energy, not through words. As you will be getting ready to receive the energy in silence, I will become more and more silent. But I am keeping a great treasure for you. Be receptive...

And as my work goes underground and becomes more secret and more mysterious, more and more rumors and gossips about it are bound to spread all over the world.

But do not be worried about it. It is going to be a mystery school -- such school existed when Zarathustra was alive; he created such a school. Many such schools existed in Egypt, India, Tibet. When Pythagoras came and visited this country he noted the fact of the mystery schools. He was initiated into many mystery schools in Egypt and in India. Jesus was trained by the Essences, a very secret mystery school.

All that is beautiful and all that is great in human history has happened only through a few people who put their energies together for the inner exploration.

My commune is going to be a mystery school for the inner exploration. It is the greatest adventure there is, and the greatest dance too.

--Osho "The Book Of The Books, Vol. II"