A Cup of Tea

compilation book

by Osho

letters to friends   c. 1962-71
India

    I received your letter.
    How lovingly you insist on my writing something,
    and here am I, drowned in a deep silence!
    I speak, I work,
    but I am steeped in emptiness within.
    There, there is no movement.
    Thus I seem to be living two lives at one time.
    What a drama!
    But perhaps all of life is a drama
    and becoming aware of this opens the door
    to a unique freedom.

    That which is
    inaction in action
    stillness in motion
    eternity in change
    -- that is truth
    and that is existence.
    Real life lies in this eternity --
    everything else is just the stream of dreams.
    In truth the world is just a dream
    and the question is not whether to leave these
    dreams or not,
    one just has to be aware of them.

    With this awareness, everything changes.
    The centre moves.
    A shift takes place from body to soul.
    And what is THERE?
    It cannot be told.

    It has never been told
    and it never will be!
    There is no other way but to know it for oneself.
    Death is known only through dying
    and truth is known only through diving deep within
    oneself.
    May God drown you in this truth!

                                                       – Osho
                                              A Cup of Tea, #1
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    A Cup Of Tea　
    Yi Bei Cha
    一杯茶
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