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Osho Books—Darshan Diaries
Just the Tip
of the Iceberg
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Sept. 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in print book form.

    ...Hence the need of disciplehood, the need for
    sannyas: it is simply a way to hear ordinary
    words with a new vision, with sympathy, with
    love.

    Sannyas means falling in tune with the master,
    becoming harmonious with the master, then that
    which is lacking in words can also be
    transmitted. The Zen people call it transmission
    of truth beyond words, beyond scriptures.

    Even when it is transmitted between the master
    and the disciple, the disciple comes to know of
    just the tip of the iceberg.

    But that is more than enough to transform one.
    Then one can move on one's own journey. The
    master has triggered the process; then it is a
    chain phenomenon.

    Two sailors were sitting on the beach. One was
    an old man and the other was a very young
    man. The young man had come for the first time
    to join up as a sailor. He told the old man "This
    is the most water that I have ever seen in my
    life." The old man said "You ain't seen nothin'
    yet. That's just the top of it!"

    The master can only show you just the top of it.
    But to see the top of it is enough. Then you can
    dive deep, then you can go into the infinite
    depths of existence.

    My sannyas begins in bliss and ends in wisdom.
    Purity is just a small consequence of being
    blissful. So don't strive to be pure. Try to
    understand what has happened, what is
    happening every moment, and feel the bliss of
    it. And then you are in for a great surprise...

                                               – Osho
                    Just the Tip of the Iceberg, ch. 1