As if a Tree Starts Running (Talks on the Songs of Yaari)

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"We are all running, but all this running around is taking us away from ourselves, taking us away from our source. It is as if a tree starts running. That's when the misfortune begins. The tree will be uprooted; all connec tions to the source of its life- to water, to the soil that provides food-will cease. If a tree goes against its nature and becomes a wanderer, becomes a nomad, how will it live?"

Humanity's constant running after satisfaction in the outside world has resulted in our being uprooted from the very source of life.

In this rare series of talks, Osho intertwines sutras of eighteenth- century mystic Yaari with quotes from Bengali poets, and he responds to diverse questions from his audience. It is, in the most poetic of language, a commentary on the human condition. And it reveals how to reconnect with our inner roots and immerse ourselves in the very essence of life that we are missing.

osho's unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. Mystic and scientist, a rebellious spirit whose sole interest is to alert humanity to the urgent need to discover a new way of living. To continue as before is to invite threats to our very survival on this unique and beautiful planet.

His essential point is that only by changing ourselves, one individual at a time, can the outcome of all our "selves" - our societies, our cultures, our beliefs, our world - also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.

Osho the scientist has experimented and scrutinized all the approaches of the past and examined their effects on the modern human being and responded to their shortcomings by creating a new starting point for the hyperactive 21" Century mind: OSHO Active Meditations.

Once the agitation of a modern lifetime has started to settle, "activity" can melt into "passivity," a key starting point of real meditation. To support this next step, Osho has transformed the ancient "art of listening" into a subtle contemporary method- ology: the OSHO Talks. Here words become music, the listener discovers who is listening, and the awareness moves from what is being heard to the individual doing the listening. Magically, as silence arises, what needs to be heard is understood directly, free from the distraction of a mind that can only interrupt and interfere with this delicate process.

Godliness is everywhere. Once we have realized this truth, everything becomes a temple. Then it's difficult to distinguish between a temple and a non-temple. Then wherever we a stand, that will be a temple; whatever we look at, that will be a temple; wherever we sit, that will be a temple. Then there will no longer be particular sacred places of pilgrimage - the entire world will be a holy place. Then it will be meaningless to create separate idols because whatever is, is the image of godliness.

I am not advocating that you should get involved in doing away with temples, or that you should dissuade people from going to temples. I have never said that godliness is not present in the temple. What I am simply saying is that one who sees godliness only in a temple and nowhere else has no knowledge whatever of godliness. One who has realized godliness will feel godliness every- wherein a temple as well as in a place that is not a temple. Then how will he distinguish between what is a temple and what is not a temple? We identify a temple as a place that has the presence of godliness, but if one feels godliness everywhere then every place is a temple. Then there will no longer be any need to build separate temples, or, by the same token, to do away with temples either.

Those who see God in temples and those who destroy temples - both are wrong. One who only sees God in the temple is mistaken. His mistake is: What does he see outside the temple? Obviously, his mistake is that he does not see godliness except in the temple.

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