Snap Your Fingers,
Slap Your Face,
and Wake Up!
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   June 1979
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    Satyo Dorothee. Satyo means truth; Dorothee
    means a gift of God.

    Truth is never an achievement; one cannot
    seek and search it. Seeking is a sure way of not
    finding it. Search and you will miss, because the
    very idea of searching, seeking, is rooted in
    desire, and desire is the barrier.

    Truth happens when there is no desire in the
    mind. When the mind is utterly desireless, then
    truth comes. It visits only when desire has left it.
    Not only the worldly desires but the desire for
    truth also should leave. Not only desires for
    money, power and prestige, but desire for God
    also is a barrier. The object of desire is
    irrelevant; desire itself is the problem.

    Truth is a gift for those who have dropped
    desiring. In those rare moments when the mind
    is without desire there is such silence, such
    receptivity, that one cannot imagine it, one
    cannot dream about it. It is utter silence,
    because all noise consists of desires. In that
    silence is benediction. That silence is truth.


    Deva Wolfgang. Deva means divine; Wolfgang
    means the walk of the wolf. But because each
    thing is divine, even the walk of the wolf is
    divine; because each being is divine, even the
    wolf is divine. The animal has not to be
    destroyed; the animal has to be raised to the
    divine.

    And we have all wolves within us. We come from
    the world of the animals. Charles Darwin is
    perfectly right, that man is an evolved form of
    animals...

                                                       – Osho
                    Snap Your Fingers, Slap Your Face,
                    and Wake Up!, ch. 1
    Snap Your Fingers, Slap Your Face
    and Wake Up!

    Chinese pinyin:
    Yao shouzhi, da erguang, xing guolai!

    Chinese traditional:　
    咬手指，打耳光，醒過來！

    Chinese simplified:
    咬手指，打耳光，醒过来！