Why does osho not blink

Up to Einstein nobody had been able to split the atom, so it was thought to be the last division of matter that we could make. It was impossible to cut the atom in two parts; the atom was a solid entity. But Albert Einstein managed to split the atom, and found that by splitting it, a tremendous energy which is hiding in it explodes.

Nobody had ever conceived that in such a particle, which is not even visible to the eye, so much energy is contained that it can destroy a big city like Hiroshima or Nagasaki within three minutes.

It consumed both cities leaving behind only traces, ruins, skeletons I have been sent by a friend a picture of a small girl, who must have been going up the stairs to the first floor of her house, carrying her books to do some homework. She was just half way up the stairs when the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima and everything was burned within three minutes.

He has sent me the picture of the girl. She was burned with her books, and her image remained imprinted on the wall -- just the shape of her body, and the small bag in which she was carrying her homework. Just as the atom was once unknown Now we are able not only to divide the atom, we can divide the divisions of the atom. Those divisions of the atom carry even bigger power sources, condensed.

The same is true about the moment of time. It contains all past and all future So the man who is meditating forgets all the past, drops all longings for the future. It is enough to know the present. By knowing it, by entering into its complexities, you will know the whole universe.

And when you reach to your life source But it has to be connected with the universe in some way; otherwise you cannot live. So once you find your life source, you have found the way. Just in the blink of an eye, you are on the other shore. You have entered into the universal existence. All is hidden in the looking, in the watching; in seeing so fiercely that your whole energy is concentrated.

Then existence cannot remain a mystery to you. In that concentration you become ripe, and you deserve that all the mysteries be open to you. Once you have reached your life source, then it is only a question of a moment, the blink of an eye, and you have found the union with existence. Knowing the source of your life, and taking a quantum leap in the blink of an eye to the other shore, is the union with the whole, the cosmos.

After this union you behave like a buddha. You cannot do otherwise. Your actions, your gestures, your words or your silences, your movement or your no-movement, will have the same quality as that of any buddha. All buddhas participate in the same cosmic source. Zen is not in search of any God. Its search can be said to be union -- the union with the whole. And the union makes you all that is, has been, will be. Nothing is left out of the whole, and you become one with it.

The first missionaries who had come to Japan to convert people to Christianity were amazed by the Zen masters. When they came across a Zen master You just transform a certain Zen master whom I have loved, and if he changes to Christianity, even if he goes to hell I am ready to go with him. But don't bother with me. You just change that Zen master.

The Zen masters laughed; they said, "You don't understand religion at all and you are converting people into religion. You don't have the taste yourself.

One missionary was very angry. He opened the Bible and read the Sermon on the Mount. It is a beautiful sermon and he was thinking, "Now, let us see what this fellow says.

After three or four lines the Zen master said, "Shut up! I can say only this much, that this guy, whoever has written these lines, will become a buddha sometime in the future. He is on the path. This much I can certainly say, that some day he will become a buddha.

But don't take it seriously, because you will also become a buddha one day. And remember, for becoming a buddha, Buddhism is not necessary. That was the great approach, that for becoming a buddha, Buddhism is not necessary. Nothing is necessary; the buddha is already asleep in you, just some situation is needed in which he can be awakened.

All Zen monasteries were doing only one thing -- creating situations so that the buddha is awake. It is not something to which you are converted, it is your own nature. The Christian missionaries were at a loss, because these Zen masters never talked about God.

They said, "What is the point? You don't even know yourself and you are talking about God. Who has seen God? And what will you do even if you meet him? God standing before you I have told you the story of Rabindranath Tagore. In one of his best poems he wrote, "I have seen God many times but he was always far away beside a star. I followed but by the time I reached there he had moved to some other place, far away. It had been going on and on for many lives. Finally I reached the place, the house where it was written on the door: Here lives the Lord of the World, Father God.

He was just going to knock and became suddenly aware: "Just think twice -- what am I going to do if I meet him? I am not prepared at all.

After meeting him there is nothing to do. Your whole life has been structured in searching for God. You know how to search, you know how to fast, you know how to pray, but you don't know When you have met God, there is no point in fasting and there is no point in searching and there is no point in prayer.

What are you going to do? You will be suffocated! Seeing the situation, he took his shoes in his hands, out of fear that when he went back down the steps God might hear the sound of the shoes. He might open the door and say, "Where are you going?

The poem has a tremendous beauty. It says, "Since then I am again searching. I know where God is, so I avoid only that place! But I go on searching because in searching there is so much joy, and I am thought to be a great saint.

I am enjoying the great adventure of searching for God. There is only one thing I have to remember -- not to go to that place again! But the whole world is available to search, except that house. Zen has never bothered about God; neither has it said anything against God. That is a very strange situation to understand, because people either believe in God or not. But Zen is simply unconcerned.

There is no question of belief or disbelief; it simply puts God out of the way. It is unnecessary luggage. Zen has taken only the essential point, and that is the source of your life. Changing the Direction of Energy Seeing the Past as a Dream Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness Several Stop Techniques Remaining with the Facts Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha Three Looking Techniques Unblocking the Third Eye Several More Looking Methods From Words to Pure Sounds to Being Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness Meditation: An Unburdening of Repressions Methods for the Dropping of Mind Accept Life in Its Totality From Sound to Inner Silence The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act Cosmic Orgasm through Tantra Turning Inward toward the Real From Maya Illusion to Reality Techniques to Witness the Flux-like Film of Life Toward the Authentic Being From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles Tantric Methods for Awareness and Non-Judgment Alertness through Tantra Finding the Changeless through the Changing Secrets of Love and Liberation Remaining with the Real The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires Tantric Meditation Using Light The Potentiality of the Seed Conscious Doing Moving to the Roots Coming Back to Existence Entering This Moment From Death to Deathlessness The Fire of Awareness Only the Unreal Dissolves Discovering Emptiness Eyes cannot think.

When the whole consciousness is centered in the eyes, the mind has no energy left for thinking. There is no mind -- only the eyes exist -- so there is no thinking. The moments when your eyes want to blink are the moments to watch out for. The mind is trying to get energy back to think; it is trying to divert consciousness away from the eyes and back to the mind. That is why constant staring, fixed staring, is needed. Even a single movement of the eyes gives energy to the mind, so do not move the eyes at all.

Your gaze must remain absolutely fixed. When you are staring with no movement of the eyes, the mind is also fixed; the mind moves with the eyes. Eyes are the doors: doors that belong to the inside mind and also to the outside world.