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Osho Books—Darshan Diaries
No Man Is
an Island
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   May 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in print book form.

    This is your name: Ma Veet Silke.

    Veet means going beyond. Silke means
    blind. Man is blind, not because he has no
    eyes but only because has his eyes are
    covered with much dust.

    That dust has to be removed and with the
    dust blindness disappears. Man is like a
    mirror and it is but natural to collect dust. All
    that is needed is a constant cleaning of the
    mirror. That's what meditation is all about,
    the art of cleaning your inner mirror of
    consciousness.

    Meditation has to become just like eating,
    drinking, taking your bath, sleeping: a natural
    part of your life, of your ordinary life --
    nothing special, nothing spiritual, nothing to
    brag about. Then only slowly slowly
    blindness disappears; one becomes able to
    see.

    People ask, "Where is god?" They should
    simply ask, "Where are our eyes?" God is
    everywhere, it is unquestionably everywhere,
    only god is, but we are blind. We are like a
    blind man asking, "Where is light?"

    No argument can given convince him, no
    proof can be given to him. All that he needs
    is a physician who can cure his eyes...

                                         – Osho
                         No Man Is an Island, ch. 1