一位桑雅士曾经问道：至爱的师父，对你来说，12月11日你生日的这一天和一年中其它每一天都一样吗？还是对你有某些特别之处？
OSHUN：
对我来说，时间已经不再存在。那就是为什么我必须不停地看表，因为我没有任何的时间感，要是不看表，我可能会说一整夜！对我来说每天都是一样的，每一个时刻都是一样的。但当我说每一个时刻都是一样的，我的意思是那是同样的喜乐，同样的狂喜，同样的喜悦，同样的宁静，同样的超越了解的安宁。我看不出两个片刻之间、两个日子之间有任何区别。于我而言，所有的分别都消失了，我活在绝对的寂静里。哪怕是在我对你说话的时候，不管你信不信，我依然如如不动。只有头脑这个装置在运转，但我的意识是归于中心的，那是恒常不动的寂静和美。
在普那庆祝他的生日，师父将这个信息送给他的桑雅士作为礼物
我至爱的人：我爱你们。爱就是我的信息——也让它成为你的信息。爱是我的颜色，我的气候，对我来说，爱是唯一的宗教。其它所有的一切都是垃圾，其它所有的一切无非就是头脑搅动的梦境。爱是生命中唯一真实的东西，其它所有都是幻像。让爱在你的内在成长，神将会自行成长。如果你错过爱，也会错过神，错过全部。除了爱没有其它办法找到神。神可以被忘记——如果爱被记住了，那个结果就是神。它的发生是一个结果，它是爱的芬芳，仅此而已。事实上，没有神，只有神性。
任何地方都没有一个像神一样的人。丢掉所有幼稚的想法，不要再寻找天父。神性存在，神不存在。当我说神性存在，我的意思是不管存在的是什么都充满了神。树的绿色，还有红色和金色——全都是神。乌鸦在叫，鸟儿在飞，孩子在咯咯笑，狗在汪汪叫——所有这一切都是神。没有其它的东西存在。
当你问“神在哪？”的时候，你就提了一个错误的问题。因为神无法在任何地方被指出来，他不在某个特定的方向，他不是某个特定的东西，他不是一种特殊的存在。神是遍在，无处不在。要问哪里没有神，那么你就提了一个正确的问题。但为了这个正确的问题，你必须准备好你心灵的土壤。那就是我说的爱的意思——准备好你心灵的土壤。如果你的心充满了爱，这个世界就会充满神。他们是平行的，是同一支乐曲的两个篇章。神是宇宙的回声。当你置身爱中，回声就会存在。如果你没有爱，回声如何存在？那以千百万种方式一再一再反射回来的只有你，是你一再一再地将自己丢回自己。如果你爱，神就存在。如果你没有爱，那么何谈神是否存在？——连你都是不存在的。
我一直在想今天应该给你们什么？因为今天是我的生日，在这一天我进入这个化身。在这一天我第一次看到绿色的树和蓝色的天空，在这一天我第一次睁开双眼看到周围无所不在的神。当然，“神”这个字在那一刻还不存在，但我所看到的都是神。我一直在想，今天我应该给你们什么？然后我想到了佛陀的一句话：法布施为无上布施。我的真理就是爱。“真理”这个字对我来说太过干瘪，就像沙漠一样。
我觉得“真理”这个词不是太适洽——它看起来太逻辑了，太头脑化。它给你一种哲学的感觉，而不是宗教。它使你觉得好像你得出了一个结论——那是一个结论，它背后有一个三段论，论证、逻辑、推理。
不，“真理”不是我的信息，“爱”才是我的信息。爱来自于心，真理是部分的，只有头脑参与了。在爱里你以一个整体来参与——你的身体、你的心、你的灵魂，全都参与。
爱使你成为一个整体——记住，不是一个联合体，而是一个整体。因为加入一个联合体的人还保持着各自分离。在一个整体中，他们融解了，成为一体，融入彼此。当爱使你成为一体的时刻就是我称之为真理的时刻。
首先，爱将你最深的内在进行整合。那么你就不再是一个身体、一个头脑、一个灵魂，你是一——不被命名、不被定义、不被划分。不再是确定的、可被定义的、可被了解的，而是一个奥秘、一个喜悦、一个惊喜、一个雀跃、一场盛大的欢庆。
首先，爱会使你的内在成为一体。当内在的一体发生了，第二件事会自行发生——你不必为它做任何事。你会与整体合一，那是超越你的。于是，水滴消失进入海洋，海洋消失进入水滴。在那一刻，在你与整体之间的高潮时刻，你成为一个佛。那一刻就是将佛性传递给你的时刻，或者，这样说更好，那就是佛性向你揭示的时刻，你一直都拥有它，只是没有意识到。
我的信息是爱。所以我说：我至爱的人，我爱你们。我希望你们让这个世界充满爱，让爱成为我们的宗教。
不是基督教，不是印度教，不是伊斯兰教，不是耆那教，不是佛教，而是爱，没有任何形容词的爱。不是基督教的爱——因为爱怎么能是基督教的？这是愚蠢的。爱怎么能是印度教的？这是荒谬的。爱就是爱。在爱里你可以成为一个基督，在爱里你可以成为一个佛——但没有佛教的爱，没有基督教的爱。在爱里你消失了，你的头脑消失了。
在爱里你无比放松，那就是我给你的教导，我教导爱。没有什么比爱更高。
我想，在这一天我应该给你一些美好的东西。于是我想到了Hakuin的《静心之歌》。非常短的一首歌，但却是一份伟大的礼物。Hakuin是最伟大的禅师之一，他的歌包含了全部：《圣经》的全部、《可兰经》的全部和《吠陀经》的全部。短短的一首歌只有几行，但它就像一颗种子——非常小，如果你允许它进入你的心灵，它将会变成参天大树。它会变成一棵菩提树——枝繁叶茂，遮荫蔽日，无数人可以坐在树下乘凉、休息。它的树枝粗壮有力，鸟儿可以在上面垒窝筑巢。看，我已经变成一棵树，你们就在我的树上筑巢。
你们也可以这样，每个人都应该这样——除非你能变成为这样，否则你会一直不圆满。除非你成为一棵大树，长出自己的树叶，开出自己的花朵，结出自己的果实——除非它实现了——否则你会一直不满足。痛苦会一直啃噬着你的心，焦虑会一直萦扰着你。喜乐将只是一个词，没有任何意义，神就只是胡言乱语。当你得以圆满，那么就会有恩典，就会有神。你内在的圆满使你能够认出存在的至福。
这是一首静心之歌。Hakuin称之为“歌”——是的，它是一首歌。没有歌的静心是做出来的，是有为法，失去了生机和灵气——没有心跳，没有呼吸。它是一首歌，也是一支舞，唱出它，舞出它，只是不要去思考它——那样你会错过它的信息，错过它的内容。只有当你唱出它舞出它的时候你才能找到它的旋律，它的意义。
当生命的乐曲
不知道它近在眼前
却向远方寻找
多么可怜！
就像是水中之鱼
哭喊着说口渴
就像是豪门之子
迷失在贫困中
他忘记了他的富有——可能已经变成了一个乞丐。你是富有的，无限地富有。你们全都是王者和女王，神和女神，只需认出这一点。不要要的太多——欲望制造乞丐。哪怕是像亚历山大这样的人也是一个乞丐，因为他有欲望。一个像拿破仑这样的人也是一个乞丐，只是因为欲望。去看世界上最有钱的人，你会发现只有乞丐，别无其他。但有时候你遇到一个乞丐，却发现那是一个国王坐在树下——一无所有，什么都不占有。
只是拥有你自己你就拥有了全部，做自己的主宰你就成为了一切的主宰。占有东西，你会一直是一个乞丐。人们一直在改变却没有真正地蜕变。你占有了一样东西，然后又开始占有另一样东西，然后又去占有第三样东西。
六道轮回始于无明。
无明复无明，
我等何时才能了脱生死？
什么是无明的黑暗之路？向外寻找。你走的越远就越黑暗，因为光在你的内在闪耀。到近处寻找，越近光越强。那就是为什么我们说一个佛是“enlightened”（进入光的人，得到光启的人）——他找到了也认出了他的光。那是永恒之光——没有任何燃料，却永不枯竭。日月星辰尚有枯竭之日，但闪耀在你内在的光，你的意识之光是永不枯竭的。它是永恒的。
那就是为什么佛陀一直在给你他的收获，一直在分享，因为那个美就在于分享。那就是为什么Hakuin唱出了这首歌，那就是为什么我在这里和你分享我的存在、我的喜悦、我的庆祝。有些东西必须要分享，这样才能保持它的鲜活。有些东西必须要给出去，你给的越多，你就拥有的越多。
在爱里、在对真理的了悟中，永远不要做一个吝啬鬼。去分享，你会拥有的越来越多。不要抓住不放，否则你会错过。有一天你会发现，它消失了，什么都没有，只有恶臭。没有芬芳，只有恶臭。和每一个人分享你的爱，没有任何条件。最好的分享方式就是分享你的了解，法布施。
这首歌就是Hakuin的法布施，他在分享他的佛性。他用这首歌颂扬他的领悟，使那些能够达成却尚未达成的人更为清晰。也许有人听了这首歌，他的心会被击中，会被穿透。这是一声狮吼，也许有人会从睡眠中惊醒。
A sannyasin once asked Oshbuddha – BELOVED OSHBuddha, AS FAR AS YOU ARE CONCERNED, IS YOUR BIRTHDAY JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DAY IN THE YEAR? OR IS IT IN SOME WAY SPECIAL FOR YOU? Oshbuddha replied – Time exists no more for me. That’s why I have to go on looking at my watch, because I don’t have any sense of time. If I don’t look at my watch, I may speak for the whole night! To me, every day is the same, every moment is the same. But when I say every moment is the same, it means it has the same blissfulness, the same ecstasy, the same joy, the same silence, the same peace that passeth understanding. I don’t see any difference between two points, between two days. As far as I am concerned, all differences have disappeared. I live in absolute silence. Even while I am speaking to you, believe it or not, I am silent. Only the mechanism of the mind is being used, but my consciousness is centered in absolute beauty and silence.
On his 46th birthday celebration at Pune in 1977, Oshbuddha gave the gift of this Message to his sannyasins –
MY BELOVED ONES: I love you. Love is my message – let it be your message too. Love is my color and my climate. To me, love is the only religion. All else is just rubbish, all else is nothing but mind-churning dreams. Love is the only substantial thing in life, all else is illusion. Let love grow in you and God will be growing on its own accord. If you miss love you will miss God and all. There is no way to God without love. God can be forgotten – if love is remembered, God will happen as a consequence. It happens as a consequence. It is the fragrance of love and nothing else. In fact there is no God but only godliness.
There is no person like God anywhere. Drop all childish attitudes, don’t go on searching for a father. Divineness is, God is not. When I say divineness is, I mean whatsoever is, is full of God. The green of the trees, and the red and the golden – all is divine. This crow crying, and a bird on the wing. and a child giggling, and a dog barking – all is divine. Nothing else exists.
The moment you ask ‘Where is God?’ you have raised a wrong question. Because God cannot be indicated anywhere. He is not in a particular direction, He is not a particular thing, He is not a particular being. God is universality. Ask where God is not, then you have asked the right question. But for that right question you will have to prepare the soil of your heart. That’s what I mean by love – preparing the soil of your heart. If you are full of love, the world is full of God – they go parallel, they are part of one symphony. God is the echo from the universe. When you are in love, the echo is there. When you are not in love, how can there be an echo? It is only you who are reflected again and again in millions of ways, it is you who are thrown back to yourself again and again. If you are in love, God is. If you are not in love, then what to say about God? — even you are not.
I was thinking what should I give to you today? Because this is my birthday, I was incarnated into this body on this day. This is the day I saw for the first time the green of the trees and the blue of the skies. This was the day I for the first time opened my eyes and saw God all around. Of course the word ‘God’ didn’t exist at that moment, but what I saw was God. I was thinking what should I give to you today? Then I remembered a saying of Buddha: SABBA DANAM DHAMMA DANANA JNATI – the gift of truth excels all other gifts. And my truth is love. The word ‘truth’ looks to me a little too dry and desert-like.
I am not in much tune with the word ‘truth’ – it looks too logical, it looks too ‘heady’. It gives you the feeling of philosophy, not of religion. It gives you the idea as if you have concluded – that you have come to a conclusion, that there has been a syllogism behind it, argumentation and logic and reasoning.
No, ‘truth’ is not my word, ‘love’ is my word. Love is of the heart. Truth is partial, only your head is involved. In love you are involved as a totality – your body, your mind, your soul, all are involved.
Love makes you a unity – and not a union, remember, but a unity. Because in a union those who join together remain separate. In a unity they dissolve, they become one, they melt into each other. And that moment I call the moment of truth, when love has given you unity.
First, love gives you unity in your innermost core. Then you are no more a body, no more a mind, no more a soul. You are simply one – unnamed, undefined, unclassified. No more determinate, definable, no more comprehensible. A mystery, a joy, a surprise, a jubilation, a great celebration.
First, love gives you an inner unity. And when the inner unity has happened the second happens on its own – you are not to do anything for it. Then you start falling in unity with the whole beyond you. Then the drop disappears in the ocean and the ocean disappears into the drop. That moment, that moment of orgasm between you and the whole, is where you become a Buddha. That moment is the moment Buddhahood is imparted to you. Or, better, revealed to you – you have always been that, unaware.
My word is love. So I say: My beloved ones, I love you. and I would like you to fill the whole world with love. Let that be our religion.
Not Christianity, not Hinduism, not Islam, not Jainism, not Buddhism, but love. Love without any adjective to it. Not Christian love – because how can love be Christian? It is so stupid. How can love be Hindu? It is ridiculous. Love is simply love. In love you can be a Christ, in love you can be a Buddha – but there is no Buddhist love and there is no Christian love. In love you disappear, your mind disappears.
In love you come to an utter relaxation. That’s my teaching to you, I teach love. And there is nothing higher than love.
Then I thought I should give you something beautiful on this day. And I remembered Hakuin’s Song of Meditation. It is a very small song, but a great gift. Hakuin is one of the greatest Zen masters. His song contains all: all the Bibles and all the Korans and all the Vedas. A small song of few lines, but it is like a seed – very small, but if you allow passage to it to your heart, it can become a great tree. It can become a Bodhi tree – it will have great foliage and much shade and thousands of people can sit and rest underneath it. It will have big branches and many birds can come and have their nests on it. See I have become a tree. You are the people who have come to make their nests on my tree. You can also become this. Everybody SHOULD become this – because unless you become this you will go on missing your fulfillment. Unless you become a great tree, which has come to its foliage, flowers and fruits – which is fulfilled – you will remain in discontent. Anguish will go on gnawing in your heart, misery will linger around you. Bliss will be only a word, signifying nothing. God will be just gibberish. When you have fulfillment then there is grace and then there is God. In your fulfillment you come to realize the benediction of existence.
This is a song of meditation. Hakuin has called it ‘song’ – yes, it is a song. If meditation is without a song it is do and dead – it does not beat it does not breathe. It is a song and a dance: sing it and dance it. Just don’t think upon it – then you will miss the messages you will miss its content. You will find this song and its meaning only when you are singing and dancing. When the music of life has overtaken you, has possessed you.
Then I thought I should give you something beautiful on this day. And I remembered Hakuin’s Song of Meditation. It is a very small song, but a great gift. Hakuin is one of the greatest Zen masters. His song contains all: all the Bibles and all the Korans and all the Vedas. A small song of few lines, but it is like a seed – very small, but if you allow passage to it to your heart, it can become a great tree.
Not knowing it is near,
they seek it afar.
What a pity!
It is like one in the water
who cries out for thirst;
It is like the child of a rich house
who has strayed away among the poor.
And has forgotten that he is rich – may have become a beggar. You are rich, infinitely rich. You are all emperors and empresses, gods and godesses. Just recognize. Don’t get too much into begging – and desire creates the beggar. Even a man like Alexander is a beggar, because the desire is there. A man like Napoleon is a beggar, because the desire is there. See the richest people of this earth and you will see just beggars and nothing else. And sometimes it happens, you come across a beggar and you see the emperor sitting there under the tree – having nothing, trot possessing anything.
Just possess yourself and you have possessed all. Be the master of yourself and you have become the master of all. Possessing things, you will remain a beggar. And people go on changing but not really transforming. You possess one thing, then you start possessing another thing, then you possess a third thing.
The cause of our circling through the six worlds
Is that we are on the dark paths of ignorance.
Dark path upon dark path treading,
When shall we escape from birth-and-death?
What is the dark path of ignorance? Looking outward. The farther you look, the more darkness. Because the light burns inside you. Looking closer and closer, and there is more light. That’s why we call a Buddha ‘enlightened’ – he has come to know and realize his light. It is a perpetual light – without any fuel it is there, it cannot be exhausted. Suns will be exhausted and the moons will be exhausted and the stars will be exhausted. But the light that burns inside you as consciousness is inexhaustible. It is eternal.
That’s why Buddhas go on giving you whatsoever they have attained, go on sharing. Because the beauty of it is in sharing. That’s why Hakuin has sung this song. That’s why I am here, sharing my being with you, my joy with you, my celebration with you. It is something that has to be shared to keep it alive. It is something that has to be given. The more you give it, the more you have of it.
Never be a miser in your love and in your understanding. Share it. And you will have more and more of it. Don’t hoard it, otherwise you will miss it. One day you will find it has disappeared and there is nothing but stink left. Instead of fragrance there will be stinking. Share your love with everybody and anybody. Don’t make conditions to your love. And the best way to share is to share your understanding.
Hakuin is doing that in this song. He’s sharing his Buddhahood. What he has known, he is singing about it, he is praising it. He is making it clear to people who have not yet attained but can attain. Maybe somebody hears the song, somebody is struck by it, stabbed in the very heart by it. It is a lion’s roar: somebody may be awakened out of his sleep.Very Body the Buddha
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