You Are the Buddha – Just You Have Forgotten It

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Nivedano…

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Be silent.
Close your eyes…
Feel your body to be completely frozen.
Now look inwards, collecting your total consciousness
with a great urgency
as if this is going to be your last moment.
Penetrate into the center of your being.
The moment you reach the center
you are a buddha.
Suddenly, thousands of flowers
start showering on you.
The whole universe starts rejoicing.
At this moment only consciousness is there.
All divisions disappear…
just a witnessing…
and slowly, slowly the Buddha Auditorium
becomes a lake of consciousness.
Not ten thousand buddhas,
but one buddhahood –
just a lake without any ripples.
This is your original face.

The whole revolution of religion
is to bring the buddha
from the center to the circumference.
How blissful and how peaceful
the moment has become!
The evening was beautiful in itself
but the presence of ten thousand buddhas
has made it a majestic splendor.
To make the witnessing more clear,
Nivedano…

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Relax.
Just watch.
The body is not you,
the mind is not you,
you are only the witnessing.
This experience of witnessing
is the ultimate truth of your being.
This is what the upanishads have called
satyam, shivam, sundram –
truth, good, beauty.
In this space you are eternal.
You have never known any birth,
you have never known any death.
All that happens on the circumference.
At the center there is no death, no birth…
just a pure sky.

You are blessed to be here
in this tremendously valuable moment.
Gather as many flowers and fragrances…
persuade the buddha to come along with you.
Soon Nivedano will be calling you back.
Before that, witness the path that you have gone through.
You will be coming back through the same path.
This acquaintance with the path that leads
from the circumference to the center
is of uttermost importance,
because you will have to go
again and again and again
till your circumference and center become one.
When Nivedano calls you back,
remember that you are a buddha.
Come back with the same grace
and the beauty
and the joy
and the blissfulness.
Nivedano…

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Come back,
but come back as a buddha,
silently, peacefully,
with a great grace.
Sit for a few moments, just to recollect
and remember where you have been,
what path you have followed.
What you have experienced
has to become part of your daily life.
You have to express your buddha
in your actions, in your gestures,
in your words,
in your silences.
Slowly, slowly the old disappears
and the new is born.

This new man
is the only hope for the whole world.
We have to spread the message
to every human being around the earth,
“You are the buddha;
just you have forgotten it.”
Remember,
it is not something to be achieved,
but only remembered.
Hence it is very easy and very obvious.

Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.

Osho, Rinzai: Master of the Irrational, Ch 1