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Discourse 3
We Are the Pilgrims of the Unknowable
We Are the Pilgrims of the Unknowable
23 November 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU, I FEEL SOMETHING TREMENDOUS
IS HAPPENING TO ME, WHICH I DON’T UNDERSTAND AT ALL.
I FEEL SO THANKFUL, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHY AND FOR WHAT.
TEARS ARE COMING, BUT I CANNOT SEE ANY REASON. I LEAVE
DISCOURSE WITH UNSTEADY KNEES, AS IF I HAD DONE
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS’ HARD WORK.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED? IS IT A MATTER OF MY UNDEVELOPED
AWARENESS THAT I DON’T GRASP WHAT IS HAPPENING, OR
DOES MY MIND WANT AN ANSWER WHERE THERE IS NO
ANSWER?
Vimal Paro, it is one of the perennial questions that you have
asked. Every seeker on the path, one day or another stumbles on
the same question. It is the mind which wants to know everything,
because the knowing mind becomes powerful over what it knows.
Then that becomes its own territory.
But existence consists of three layers: one is that of knowledge –
that which has already been known. Mind is perfectly at ease with it.
The other is the territory of the unknown, which will become known
sooner or later: what is known today was unknown yesterday; what
is unknown today is bound to be known tomorrow. Mind is a little
uncomfortable with it, but not much. It knows
that, although it is still beyond its territory, it cannot remain beyond
its territory much longer.
The first territory belongs to all the religions of the world.
That’s why they are all past-oriented. They don’t have any
tomorrows, only yesterdays...
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
THE DEEPER AND DEEPER I GO INTO MEDITATION, THE
FATTER AND FATTER I AM GETTING. AM I IN DANGER OF
EXPLODING?
Dhyan Yogesh, first a small story: Once there was a Japanese
meditator called Wu, whose master lived in a little house on the
other side of the river. One morning, after a particularly ”good”
meditation, Wu felt so overjoyed that he dedicated a small poem to
his master.
He wrote: ”At the peak of the mountain, the sun is rising in the East.
Sitting here in my lotus posture, the three worldly evils cannot affect
me...”
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU, I FEEL SOMETHING TREMENDOUS
IS HAPPENING TO ME, WHICH I DON’T UNDERSTAND AT ALL.
I FEEL SO THANKFUL, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHY AND FOR WHAT.
TEARS ARE COMING, BUT I CANNOT SEE ANY REASON. I LEAVE
DISCOURSE WITH UNSTEADY KNEES, AS IF I HAD DONE
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS’ HARD WORK.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED? IS IT A MATTER OF MY UNDEVELOPED
AWARENESS THAT I DON’T GRASP WHAT IS HAPPENING, OR
DOES MY MIND WANT AN ANSWER WHERE THERE IS NO
ANSWER?
Vimal Paro, it is one of the perennial questions that you have
asked. Every seeker on the path, one day or another stumbles on
the same question. It is the mind which wants to know everything,
because the knowing mind becomes powerful over what it knows.
Then that becomes its own territory.
But existence consists of three layers: one is that of knowledge –
that which has already been known. Mind is perfectly at ease with it.
The other is the territory of the unknown, which will become known
sooner or later: what is known today was unknown yesterday; what
is unknown today is bound to be known tomorrow. Mind is a little
uncomfortable with it, but not much. It knows
that, although it is still beyond its territory, it cannot remain beyond
its territory much longer.
The first territory belongs to all the religions of the world.
That’s why they are all past-oriented. They don’t have any
tomorrows, only yesterdays...
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,
THE DEEPER AND DEEPER I GO INTO MEDITATION, THE
FATTER AND FATTER I AM GETTING. AM I IN DANGER OF
EXPLODING?
Dhyan Yogesh, first a small story: Once there was a Japanese
meditator called Wu, whose master lived in a little house on the
other side of the river. One morning, after a particularly ”good”
meditation, Wu felt so overjoyed that he dedicated a small poem to
his master.
He wrote: ”At the peak of the mountain, the sun is rising in the East.
Sitting here in my lotus posture, the three worldly evils cannot affect
me...”
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