The Heart of Yoga. Osho

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СКАЧАТЬ it depends on you. If you want to postpone, Patanjali is perfect. If you want it here and now, you will have to listen to Zen and you will have to decide. Are you feeling the urgency? Haven’t you suffered enough? Or do you want to suffer more? Then Patanjali is perfect – follow Patanjali. And somewhere in the distant future you will attain bliss. But if you have suffered enough… And this is what maturity is: understanding that you have suffered enough.

      You call Heraclitus and Zen for children? Kindergarten? This is the only maturity, to have been realized: “I have suffered enough.” If you feel this, an urgency is created, a fire is created. Something has to be done right now! You cannot postpone it; there is no meaning in postponing. You have postponed it enough already. But if you want it in the future, if you would like to suffer a little more, if you have become addicted to the hell – to remain the same just one more day – or if you would like some modifications, follow Patanjali.

      That is what Patanjali says: “Do this and do that, slowly. Do one thing, and then another thing.” And millions of things have to be done and they cannot be done immediately, so you go on modifying yourself. Today you take a vow that you will be nonviolent, and tomorrow you will take another vow. The day after tomorrow you will become celibate… In this way it goes on and on. There are millions of things to leave behind: lying, violence, aggression, all have to be dropped; by and by anger, hate, jealousy, possessiveness – millions of things. Meanwhile, you remain the same.

      How can you drop anger if you have not dropped hate? How can you drop anger if you have not dropped jealousy? How can you drop anger if you have not dropped aggressiveness? They are interrelated.

      So you say that now you will no longer be angry. What are you talking about? Nonsense! You will remain hateful, you will remain aggressive. You would still like to dominate, you would still love to be at the top – and you are dropping anger? How you can drop it? They are interrelated.

      This is what Zen says: “If you want to drop it, understand the phenomenon that everything is related.” Either you drop it now or you never drop it. Don’t befool yourself. You can simply whitewash over it – a little here, a patch there, and the old house remains with all its oldness. While you go on working, painting the walls and filling the holes, this and that, you think you are creating a new life and meanwhile you continue in the same way. The more you continue, the more it becomes deep-rooted.

      Don’t deceive yourself. If you can understand, it is immediate. That is the message of Zen. If you cannot understand, something has to be done, and Patanjali will be good – so follow Patanjali. One day or other you will have to come to an understanding and you will see that this whole thing has been a trick – a trick of your mind to avoid the reality, to avoid and escape – and on that day, suddenly you will drop it.

      Patanjali is gradual, Zen is sudden. If you cannot be sudden, it is better to be gradual. Rather than being nothing, neither this nor that, it is better to be gradual. Patanjali will also bring you to the same situation, but he will give you a little space. It is more comfortable – difficult, but more comfortable. No immediate transformation is demanded. The mind can fit in with a gradual progress.

      You say: “Heraclitus, Christ, and Zen make the final step seem close; Patanjali makes even the first step seem almost impossible. It seems like we Westerners have hardly begun to realize the amount of work that has to be done.” It is up to you. If you want to do the work, you can do it. If you want to realize without doing the work, that too is possible. That too is possible! It is up to you to choose. If you want to do hard work, I will give you hard work. I can create even more steps. Patanjali can be stretched even longer. I can put the goal even farther away; I can give you impossible things to do. It is your choice. Or if you really want to realize, this can be done this very moment. It is up to you. Patanjali is a way of looking, Heraclitus is also a way of looking.

      Once it happened…

      I was walking along a street and saw a small child eating a very big watermelon. The melon was too big for him. I looked and watched and saw that he was finding it a little difficult to finish it. So I said to him, “It seems to be really too big, don’t you think?”

      The boy looked at me and said, “No! There is not enough me.”

      He is also right. Everything can be looked at from two standpoints. God is near and far. Now it is for you to decide where you would like to take the jump from – near or far. If you want to take the jump from far, then all the techniques come in because they will take you far – from there you will take the jump. It is just like you are standing on this shore of the ocean; the ocean is here, and also there at the other shore – which is completely invisible, very, very far away. You can take the jump from this shore because it is the same ocean, but if you decide to take the jump from the other shore, Patanjali gives you a boat.

      The whole of Yoga is a boat to go to the other shore to take the jump. It is up to you. You can enjoy the journey; there is nothing wrong in it. I am not saying it is wrong; it is up to you. You can take the boat and go to the other shore and take the jump from there. But the same ocean exists here. Why not take the jump from this shore? The jump will be the same, the ocean will be the same, and you will be the same. What difference does it make if you go to the other shore? There may be people on the other shore who may be trying to come here. And there are Patanjalis there who have also made boats. They are coming here to take the jump from the far away.

      It happened…

      A man was trying to cross a road. It was the rush hour, and it was difficult to cross. Cars were going so fast, and he was a very, very mild mannered man. He tried many times and came back. Then he saw an old acquaintance, Mulla Nasruddin, on the other side. He cried, “Nasruddin, how did you cross the road?”

      Nasruddin replied, “I never crossed it. I was born on this side.”

      There are people who are always thinking of the distant shore. The distant always looks beautiful; the distant has a magnetism of its own because it is covered in mist. But the ocean is the same. It is up to you to choose. Nothing is wrong in going on that ocean, but go for the right reasons. You may be simply avoiding the jump from this shore. And even if the boat leads you to the other shore, the moment you reach it you will start thinking of this shore because this will be the faraway point. Many times, in many lives, you have done this. You have changed the shore, but you have not taken the jump.

      I have seen you crossing the ocean from this side to that and from that side to this. This is the problem: that shore is far away because you are here. When you are there, this shore will be far away. You are in such a sleep you have completely forgotten that you have also been to that shore again and again. By the time you reach the other shore, you have forgotten the shore that you have left behind. By the time you reach it, oblivion takes over.

      You look to the distant shore and again somebody says, “Here is a boat, sir. You can go to the other shore and take the jump from there because God is very, very far away.” Again you start the preparation to leave this shore. Patanjali gives you a boat to go to the other shore, but when you have reached there, Zen will always give you the jump. The final jump is of Zen. Meanwhile you can do many things; that is not the point. Whenever you take the jump it will be a sudden jump, it cannot be gradual.

      All gradualness is in going from this shore to that – but nothing is wrong in it. If you enjoy the journey, it is beautiful because he is here, he is in the middle, and also at that shore. No need to reach to the other shore either. You can take the jump in the middle, just from the boat. The boat becomes the shore. Where ever you jump from is the shore. Every moment, where ever you can take the jump from becomes the shore. If you don’t take the jump, it is no longer the shore. It depends on you; remember this well.

      That’s why I am СКАЧАТЬ