The Shadow
of the Bamboo
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Apr. 1979
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    Anand Yuko. Anand means bliss, blissful, yuko
    means orange tree. Now you are really
    becoming an orange tree!

    Up to now it was just a name -- from today it is
    going to be a reality. Be blissful! And never
    make any requirements for and conditions on
    bliss: just be blissful for no reason at all.

    Just as one breathes one should be blissful.
    Misery is something that has to be earned. One
    has to make efforts for it because it is an
    unnatural state. But bliss is simply inner health,
    a harmony. It is the natural state; nothing is
    required. Once this is understood, life goes
    through a revolution. We have been told by the
    society that "You can be blissful only if you have
    this and you have that," Nobody has told us that
    you are, and that that is enough to be blissful.
    Bliss has nothing to do with what you possess:
    all that is needed is already there. You are, and
    that is more than enough. What else can be
    more precious than that?


    Prem Harendro. Prem means love, harendro
    means God of Gods, the great God -- the great
    God of love. All other gods are smaller gods;
    love is the ultimate. Beyond love there is no
    other peak: love is the very Everest of being.
    And sannyas is nothing but climbing the ultimate
    mountain.

    One has to be a Hillary so that one can reach to
    Everest. It is hazardous, it is dangerous, but
    that's its very ecstasy. And the path is very
    alone, because in those heights you will not
    meet the crowds. The higher you go, the more
    alone you will be. At the ultimate peak one is
    absolutely alone. So one has to learn how to be
    alone and how to be joyfully alone. That's what
    meditation is all about: an effort to be alone, to
    taste the beauty of aloneness...

                                                      – Osho
                         The Shadow of the Bamboo, ch. 1