The Zero Experience
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Mar. 1977
Pune, India
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    [ The new sannyasin says he is a farmer. ]

    That's very good... that's lovely, mm? anything
    that one can do in cooperation with nature is
    good, but do organic farming, otherwise one
    can be a farmer and still go on raping nature.

    Do organic farming -- cooperate with nature;
    don't be the enemy, don't exploit. Be in tune
    with nature and you will gain much... may not be
    much financially but much spiritually. Financially
    you can exploit nature more by mechanical,
    chemical means, but spiritually you lose.

    Exploiting nature is almost like incest -- raping
    your own mother -- because nature is your
    mother. and nature is always ready to give, but
    don't snatch! Persuade... lovingly persuade!
    Then a great experience arises by and by. You
    start falling in tune with nature, you start
    understanding the ways, the subtle ways of
    nature, the subtle changes that happen in
    nature. You start understanding the language,
    the nuances, the gestues of nature, and infinite
    is the happiness that arises out of that
    understanding.

    One can almost become a buddha by just really
    becoming a reader of the book of nature; then
    no other book is needed.

    So that's very good... and now you are a
    sannyasin -- you will be a real farmer. Nothing
    like it! You will never be a rich man but that is
    not needed at all. Mm? you will be a poor man
    but inside you will be tremendously enriched...

                                                       – Osho
                                    The Zero Experience, ch. 1
    The Zero Experience

    Chinese pinyin:
    Ling de jingyan

    Chinese traditional:　
    零的經驗

    Chinese simplified:
    零的经验
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