The 99 Names
of Nothingness
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   May 1978
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    Khabira. It is a Sufi name, a name of God.
    Literally it means: one who sees all, the
    cognizant one, the seer of all.

    And that is hidden in everybody -- the witness.
    What we see may be true, may not be true, but
    the seer is always true. The seen may be, may
    not be. In the night you see a dream, in the
    morning you find it was not true, but the one who
    saw the dream is still true. In the morning, in the
    night, all the time he is true. You see a rope and
    you think, in the darkness of the evening, that it
    is a snake. But when you come close you know
    that it is false, it is not so.

    But the seer was not false. Even in seeing
    something hallucinatory, the seer remains true;
    the seer is never false.

    'Khabira' means: the one who sees, the witness
    inside. Sufis have beautiful names for God; in all
    they have ninety-nine names for God. One
    wonders why not one hundred? It looks so
    incomplete. For a certain, subtle reason, the
    hundredth name has been kept silent.

    That is the true name of God which cannot be
    uttered. The tao that can be uttered is not the
    true Tao and the God that can be spoken of is
    not the true God, because the word 'God'
    falsifies the reality of God.

    So the hundredth name is the true name -- what
    Hindus call 'satnam', the true name -- but it can't
    be uttered. It will lose its beauty if it is uttered. It
    remains unuttered, at the deepest core of the
    heart.

    But ninety-nine names can be uttered just as a
    help to reach the hundredth...

                                                      – Osho
                     The 99 Names of Nothingness, ch. 1
    The 99 Names of Nothingness

    Chinese pinyin:
    Kong wu de jiushi jiu ge mingzi

    Chinese traditional:　
    空無的九十九個名字

    Chinese simplified:
    空无的九十九个名字