S I G N A T U R E- Osho

(12) Swami Neelamber - Ảnh từ bài viết của Swami Neelamber trong Osho

S I G N A T U R E
"I can be your master only if I am not. If I am, then I cannot be a real master; then I can only be an egoist exploiting people.
I am only a guest. That means you cannot take me for granted. Today I am here, tomorrow I may not be here. Today I am available, tomorrow I may not be available. Today I am speaking, tomorrow I may stop speaking. I am not predictable. In that sense I am only a guest.
The Indian word for "guest" is very beautiful; the Indian word is atithi. Tithi means "date" and atithi means one who comes without giving a date, and who leaves without giving a date. He comes suddenly and he leaves suddenly. His coming and going is not controllable. His coming and going is just like a breeze: it comes, and you feel the coolness of it, and then it goes. You cannot prevent it. If you close all the doors and the windows so that it cannot go out, there will not be any breeze; there will be only stale air.
The master is as free as the breeze.
And the master is absent as far as his personality is concerned. He is just a vehicle — a flute, a hollow bamboo — to allow existence to reach to you. His function is not to do anything; his function is not to obstruct existence reaching to you. So he is a non-doer: he cannot take the credit for anything. He is just an instrument in the hands of existence. Whatever song, whatever music existence wants to play on it, it plays. The master has no objection, no obstruction.
So you are right: you can say your master lives upstairs. And the master always lives upstairs. But I cannot say I am a master; I can only say I am a hollow bamboo. You can make a flute of me; existence can sing a song through me. My quality is only that I will not be in the way. I will allow existence in its purity to touch your heart.
Everything that I will do or say will not be mine.
You have seen my signature. Thousands of times people have asked me, "What does this signature mean? Which is the language you are signing in?" It means nothing! It is no language. I have replied in different ways, but in fact I cannot sign — I am not here. So I have simply created a symbol.
My signature says nothing; it is just symbolic. It indicates something but it says nothing, it means nothing. It is not my name.
It is the greatest benediction in the world to be in this state where you can say 'I am not, only existence is.' "
— OSHO, The Path of the Mystic, Chapter #4 - 6 May 1986, am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Osho's Signature Art: — http://on.fb.me/1dASnoM
OSHO
Never Born
Never Died
Only Visited this
Planet Earth between
December 11 1931 ― January 19 1990
S I G N A T U R E

"I can be your master only if I am not. If I am, then I cannot be a real master; then I can only be an egoist exploiting people.

I am only a guest. That means you cannot take me for granted. Today I am here, tomorrow I may not be here. Today I am available, tomorrow I may not be available. Today I am speaking, tomorrow I may stop speaking. I am not predictable. In that sense I am only a guest.

The Indian word for "guest" is very beautiful; the Indian word is atithi. Tithi means "date" and atithi means one who comes without giving a date, and who leaves without giving a date. He comes suddenly and he leaves suddenly. His coming and going is not controllable. His coming and going is just like a breeze: it comes, and you feel the coolness of it, and then it goes. You cannot prevent it. If you close all the doors and the windows so that it cannot go out, there will not be any breeze; there will be only stale air.

The master is as free as the breeze.

And the master is absent as far as his personality is concerned. He is just a vehicle — a flute, a hollow bamboo — to allow existence to reach to you. His function is not to do anything; his function is not to obstruct existence reaching to you. So he is a non-doer: he cannot take the credit for anything. He is just an instrument in the hands of existence. Whatever song, whatever music existence wants to play on it, it plays. The master has no objection, no obstruction.

So you are right: you can say your master lives upstairs. And the master always lives upstairs. But I cannot say I am a master; I can only say I am a hollow bamboo. You can make a flute of me; existence can sing a song through me. My quality is only that I will not be in the way. I will allow existence in its purity to touch your heart.

Everything that I will do or say will not be mine.

You have seen my signature. Thousands of times people have asked me, "What does this signature mean? Which is the language you are signing in?" It means nothing! It is no language. I have replied in different ways, but in fact I cannot sign — I am not here. So I have simply created a symbol.

My signature says nothing; it is just symbolic. It indicates something but it says nothing, it means nothing. It is not my name.

It is the greatest benediction in the world to be in this state where you can say 'I am not, only existence is.' "

— OSHO, The Path of the Mystic, Chapter #4 - 6 May 1986, am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay

Osho's Signature Art: — http://on.fb.me/1dASnoM

OSHO
Never Born
Never Died
Only Visited this
Planet Earth between
December 11 1931 ― January 19 1990