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One Step At a Time*

My Beloved Ones,

<…> Tonight, at this moment of farewell, I will say a few more things to you. The first is that if the longing to experience the divine has become a flame within you, quickly put that longing into action. Someone who postpones to do something good will miss, and someone who hurries to do something bad will also miss. Someone who postpones doing good misses, and someone who hurries to do bad also misses.

This is one of life’s keys: stop and postpone when you are about to do something bad, but don’t stop and postpone when you are about to do something good.

If a good thought comes to your mind, it is helpful to start acting on it immediately because tomorrow is uncertain; the next moment is uncertain. Whether or not we will be, it is not possible to say. Before death takes us we have to prove conclusively that death alone was not meant to be our destiny. Before death, we have to learn how to experience something which is beyond death. And death can come at any time, it can come at any moment. I am talking now, and it can come this moment. So I need to be ready for it all the time; I have to be ready every moment. So don’t postpone until tomorrow. If you feel something is right, act on it immediately.

Last night when we were sitting at the lake I told you about a lama in Tibet. Somebody had gone to see him and to ask him about truth. There was a tradition in Tibet that you circle around a lama three times, bow down at his feet and then ask your question. This young man went, but he did not circle around the lama or bow down at his feet. He just went to him and said, “I have a question! Give me an answer!”

The lama said, “First complete the formal rites.”

The young man said, “You are demanding the ritual three rounds. I can walk around you three thousand times, but if I die during these three rounds before I have known truth, then whose responsibility will it be, mine or yours? So first answer my question and then I will complete the rounds.” He said, “Who knows, I may die in the middle of the rounds.”

  

So the most significant realization for the meditator is to be aware of the reality of death.

<..> So don’t postpone anything beautiful until tomorrow. And postpone anything bad as much as you can – death may come in between, and you will have been saved from doing something bad. If you get the idea to do something bad, postpone it for as long as you can. Death is not very far away – if you can just postpone some of your bad actions for ten or twenty years, your life could become divine. Death is not very far away, if someone is able to postpone his evil acts for a few years, his life can become pure. Death is not far away – and someone who postpones to do something good for too long will not experience any bliss in life.

So I want to remind you that there is an urgency to do something good. And if you are feeling something good, then just begin with that. Don’t think and postpone it until tomorrow. A person who thinks about doing something tomorrow does not really want to do it. “I’ll do it tomorrow” is a way of postponing. If you don’t want to do something, you should be clear that you don’t want to do it; that is another matter. But to postpone until tomorrow is dangerous. The person who postpones something until tomorrow has in a way postponed it forever. Someone who leaves something until tomorrow has in a way dropped it forever.

If something in life feels right, then the moment it feels right is also the moment to act on it. You have to begin right in that moment.

<…> There is great light in the world, great brilliance and tremendous beauty, if only we have the eyes to see it and a heart to receive it. And the eyes to see and the heart to receive can be born in you. And this is the only reason that I have shared all these things with you during these last three days.

In a sense, there are not many points – in fact there are only a few. I have spoken about only two points: that life should be pure and consciousness should be empty. I have said only these two things – that life should be pure and consciousness should be empty. In fact, I have said only one thing – that consciousness should be empty. The purification of life is only a foundation for this.

When consciousness is empty, that emptiness gives you the capacity to see and unveil the hidden secret of existence. Then you don’t see leaves as leaves…the life within the leaves starts becoming visible to you. And in the waves of the ocean you don’t see the waves; you start seeing that which makes the waves. And then you don’t see the bodies of people, you start feeling the life which is throbbing in their bodies. There is no way to describe the wonder, the miracle you start feeling.

 

* - excerpt from OSHO. The Path of Meditation.

Updated on 20-10-2015







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