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manigma
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 Posted - Apr 07 2011 : 07:31:33 AM
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Buddha had a disciple named Subhuti.
Buddha was a very fortunate Master: he had TREMENDOUSLY potential disciples. A few of them were really rare beings. Subhuti was one of the MOST silent of Buddha's disciples. He was so silent that the scriptures say that he had almost become absent. He would come and nobody would take note of him. He would pass and nobody would become aware that he had passed. He was a very silent breeze...
Ordinarily you want to be noticed. If you are not noticed, you feel hurt. You want attention. Attention is the requirement of the ego, the ego feeds on it. So if attention is not given to you -- you will feel wounded. You will start thinking, "So, I am thought to be a nobody, and I will show these people who I am."
The ego always hankers for attention.
Subhuti was so silent, his desire for attention had disappeared. And the moment desire for attention disappears, all politics disappears from your being. Then you are religious. Then you are perfectly at home. Then you live a totally different life. You live so silently that you don't make any fuss, you don't make any ripples. He was, and yet he was not...
The people who are so contented with their being; who cares whether anybody takes note or not? They are so much to themselves, enough unto themselves.
Subhuti existed as an absence...
And only in absence does real presence arise; the person disappears but presence arises.
And when that happens, when that miracle happens, the very absence becomes a radiant presence.
... Subhuti was sitting under a tree, not even meditating. Others were meditating, he was simply sitting there doing nothing. That is the HIGHEST form of meditation...
To DO meditation is to be just a beginner. The beginner has to DO the meditation. But one who has understood meditation cannot even think in terms of doing, because the moment you DO something you are stirred, you are tense, the ego enters again from the back door -- because with the doing comes the doer. Meditation is a state of non-doing. Certainly in the beginning one has to do, but slowly slowly as meditation deepens, understanding arises, doing disappears. Then meditation is being, not doing.
... So he just sitting and doing nothing. And then suddenly, flowers began to fall around him. And those were not ordinary flowers, not of this world, not earthly. They were not falling from the trees, they were falling from the sky, from nowhere, out of the blue. And then he heard the gods whispering to him, "We are praising you for your discourse on emptiness...." Now he was really puzzled. "Discourse on emptiness? But I have not spoken of emptiness," said Subhuti.
"You have not spoken of emptiness, we have not heard emptiness," responded the gods. "This is true emptiness."
And blossoms showered upon Subhuti like rain.
The Secret of Secrets Vol. 2
http://www.oshoworld.com/e-books/se...search_title
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mr_anderson
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Posted - Apr 07 2011 : 2:51:03 PM
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beautiful  |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Apr 08 2011 : 02:30:20 AM
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