God is when you are not

Love.
God is when you are not.
When you are IT IS not
because YOU are nothing but a blindness.
The ego cannot see,
the ego cannot be aware,
the ego exists only as a by-product of unconscious living.
One goes on living as if in sleep.
In this sleep the part begins to dream itself as
the whole,
and this dreaming becomes a barrier to knowing the whole.

Begin to be aware,
aware of your actions, thoughts and emotions,
just aware.
Because if you condemn or appreciate
you will not be aware –
in any choice the awareness is contaminated
and the darkness of unawareness comes in,
so just be aware without any choice;
then awareness is pure and innocent,
and then awareness is a mirror.
In this mirror-like awareness one never finds oneself
but one finds THAT-WHICH-IS.
And that is God.

But it is only when you are not
because you are the dust which makes the mirror blind.
Because you are the blindness.

Osho, A Cup of Tea, letter 168

Photo: Osho in Manali, by Dibubhai