Osho – You cannot seek the divine, it cannot be sought
after, because you can seek only that which you know already. Seeking means
desiring and you cannot seek something that is unknown. How can you seek
something that you have not known at all? The very urge to seek comes only after
you have tasted something, known something – even a glimpse. So the divine
cannot be sought. But when I say the divine cannot be sought, I do not mean that
it cannot be found. It cannot be sought, but it can be found.
The more you seek it, the less will be the possibility to find it. Seek, and
you will not find at all, because the very seeking, the very seeking, becomes
the barrier. So do not seek something that is not known to you; rather, go deep
into that which is known to you. Do not long for the unknown; go deep into the
known. And if you go deep into the known, you will stumble upon the doors to the
unknown, because the known is really the door to the unknown. So go deep.
For example, you cannot seek the divine, but if you have loved, then you have
known love; so go deep into love. And as you go deep into love, somewhere, the
lover and the beloved are not there and the divine appears. So rather than seek
the divine, it is better to go into that which is actual to you, that which is
known to you, near to you. Do not go far; begin from the near. We are so anxious
to go far that we never take the first step, which can be taken from the near.
We ask for the last step first, but you cannot take the last step in the
beginning. The first must be taken first; the first is here and now, but we are
concerned with there and then.
Seeking means seeking in time. Seeking is a postponement, a deep
postponement, because seeking is always in the future; it can never be in the
present. How can you seek here and now? There is no space. You can be here and
now, but you cannot seek. So the very mind that seeks creates time, because time
is needed; only then can you seek.
That is why those who are seeking moksha, liberation, absolute liberation,
have had to create the concept of transmigration. More time is needed. One life
is not enough, many lives are needed. Only then, within this expanse of time,
this space that time creates, can you move. If you have to find the absolute,
one moment is not enough; and of course, one life is also not enough.
Time is really a byproduct of desiring. The more you desire, the more time
you need. You can deal with this in two ways: one is to conceive of life after
life, time not ending at all. This is one way, the Eastern way, to create more
space for the desire. Another is the Western way: to be more conscious of time
and to do many things in the allotted time period. There is one life: there is
no possibility of further lives, this life is all, so you have to do many things
– many, many things. You have to accommodate so many desires in the allotted
period. And this is why the West has become so conscious of time; in fact, time
consciousness is one of the most common aspects of the Western mind.
But either way, whenever you desire, you create time. Time is a fourth
dimension of space, it is a sort of space. Without time your desires cannot
move, so any desire creates time and future; and then you can postpone the
present moment, which is not really time but existence. So it is better to go
deep into what is known to you, what is life to you. Go deep in it; whatever it
may be, go deep in it. Do not be on the surface, go into it to its ultimate
depth. And the moment you begin to go deep, fall deep, you come to a different
dimension. It is not a going into the future, it is going deep into the present,
into this very moment.
For example, you are hearing me. You can hear very superficially, then only
your ears are involved; that is the first layer of hearing. You can say, ”Of
course I am listening,” but only the ears are hearing, only the body mechanism;
your mind may be somewhere else. But if you can go deep, you can listen very
intently and the mind is also involved; then you are going deeper into this very
moment. But even if your mind is involved, your being may not be involved. If
you are thinking about what I am saying, the mind is involved, but there are
still deeper depths. Your being may not be here at all; there may be unconscious
currents because of which you are not here. You can go even deeper; that means
that the being is involved. Then you are just vacant, not even thinking about
it. Your mechanism is here, your mind is here, your being is here – all focused.
Then you go deep.
So whatever you are doing at the moment, go deep in it. The more deep you are
in it, the nearer you will be to the unknown. And the unknown is not something
opposite to the known; it is something hidden in the known. The known is just a
screen.
So do not go into the future; do not seek. Just be here – and be. In seeking
you spread yourself out, but in being you are intense, and that intensity, that
total intensity in the moment, brings you to a certain crystallization. In that
total, intense moment, you are. That being, that happening of being, becomes the
door; and you have found it without seeking; you can get it without even
seeking. So I say: Do not seek it, and find! All the devices and all the methods
I use are just to make you more and more intense here and now, to help you to
forget the past and the future. Any movement of your body or mind can be used as
a jumping board: the emphasis is that you jump in the here and now.
Even dancing can be used, but then be just the dancing, not the dancer. The
moment the dancer comes in, dancing is destroyed. The seeker has come in, the
time-oriented has come in; now the movement is divided, dancing has become
superficial, and you have gone far away.
When you are dancing, then be dancing, do not be the dancer, and the moment
comes when you are just the movement, when there is no division. This nondivided
consciousness is meditation. And you can use anything. If you are eating then
eating can become a meditation – if there is no eater. If you are walking then
walking can become a meditation – if there is no walker. If you are loving then
love can become a deep meditation – if there is no lover, the lover disappears.
Love with a lover becomes poisonous, but love without the lover becomes divine
and something of the unknown suddenly opens.
Source – Osho Book “Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy”
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