11th Dec: Osho’s Birthday
Osho was born on December 11, 1931, in Kuchwada, a small village in Madhya Pradesh, and his parents gave him the name Rajneesh Chandra Mohan.
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“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.”
Osho: “This Very Body the Buddha”
19th Jan: Never Born Never Died
Osho left his body on January 19, 1990, at Osho Commune International in Pune, where his ashes are preserved in his Samadhi at the Chuang Tzu Auditorium.
“I may be gone, but I am creating a certain ripple that will remain. You may be gone, but you loved somebody and that love created a ripple that will remain and remain and remain. It can never disappear, it will have its own repercussions…it will go on vibrating. You throw a small pebble in the lake and ripples arise. The pebble settles very soon at the bottom, but the ripples continue. They go on moving towards the shore—and there is no shore to this existence.” Osho
21st March: Osho’s Enlightenment Day
Enlightenment simply means an experience of your consciousness unclouded by thoughts, emotions, and sentiments. When the consciousness is totally empty, there is something like an explosion, an atomic explosion. Your whole insight becomes full of a light which has no source and no cause. And once it has happened, it remains. It never leaves you for a single moment; even when you are asleep, that light is inside. And after that moment you can see things in a totally different way. After that experience, there is no question in you.
I am reminded of the fateful day of twenty-first March, 1953. For many lives I had been working—working upon myself, struggling, doing whatsoever can be done—and nothing was happening.
Now I understand why nothing was happening. The very effort was the barrier, the very ladder was preventing, the very urge to seek was the obstacle. Not that one can reach without seeking. Seeking is needed, but then comes a point when seeking has to be dropped. The boat is needed to cross the river but then comes a moment when you have to get out of the boat and forget all about it and leave it behind. Effort is needed, without effort nothing is possible. And also only with effort, nothing is possible.
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Full moon night of July month: Guru Purnima Day
Guru Purnima Day is the day of all the Buddhas,
all those who have become aware.
In their remembrance, become aware.
The grove is here in front of you.
You can see that luminous light. It is here!
You can hear that celestial sound; that music is happening.
And you can be soaked into my fragrance.
It depends on you – how much you are ready to take,
how much you are willing to take,
how much you are going to be with me, how deeply.
You can come here just to hear my words;
then you will miss the real message.
You can come here full of your nonsense,
your argumentativeness;
then you will not be able to hear what I am trying to convey.
You can come here as Mohammedans, Hindus, Jains,
and you will miss me – but only you will be responsible,
nobody else.
Try to understand your responsibility towards yourself.
Enough you have been stumbling in darkness!
When light becomes available, don’t miss the opportunity.
Take the jump….
Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3, Ch 1
