Ishq-E-Hakiki | Philosia: The Art of seeing all
I wish to share a post on Medium titled “In every heart there lies a thirst…” which I found worth reading. I have made it a part of my this post on Ishq-E-Hakiki because from my experience as on date I can say that the way Osho extended it to another step in Zen is right.
In this post on Medium the author quoted instances of two different people Rumi and Amir Khusaro, whose life transformed after meeting a Sufi mystic, and that meeting turned into Love.
Osho talked on many poems of Rumi and a sannyason created a collection of such poems which is the basis of my post Rumi on love through Osho.
On May 10, 1980 morning session, in Buddha Hall, OIF, Pune. OSHO described it while answering a question raised by his sannyasin named Baula, as below:-
Jalaluddin says: A LOVER COMES TO HIS BELOVED’S HOME, KNOCKS ON THE DOOR. THE BELOVED ASKS, “WHO IS THERE?” AND THE LOVER SAYS, “I AM — YOUR LOVER.”
THE BELOVED SAYS, “THE HOUSE OF LOVE IS SO SMALL, IT CANNOT CONTAIN TWO, SO PLEASE GO BACK. WHEN YOU ARE NO MORE, THEN COME AGAIN. THE HOUSE OF LOVE CANNOT CONTAIN TWO, IT CAN ONLY CONTAIN ONE.”
So far so good!
The lover goes to the forest, he becomes an ascetic. He meditates, he prays to God. His prayer is only one: “Dissolve me!” Many moons come and go, months pass, years pass, and one day he comes back. He knocks again on the door, and the beloved asks the same question: “Who is there?”
And he says, “Now I am no more, only you are.”
And Rumi says: THE DOORS OPEN AND THE LOVER IS RECEIVED IN THE HOME OF LOVE.
There I don’t agree — it is too early!
(There is another level in Ishq-e-Hakiki which Osho described as below)
Osho says if lover is able to say ‘Only you are’, then who is the person who is saying “I am no more”?
Even to say that “I am no more,” you are needed.
It is as foolish as if you went and knocked at somebody’s house and he leaned out of the window and said, “I am not at home.”
That is self-contradictory; you cannot say that. To say it is to prove that you are.
Jalaluddin must have written this poem before he became enlightened. He should have corrected it. But these enlightened people are crazy people. He may have forgotten all about the poem, but it needs correction. I can do the correction.
I would like to say that the beloved says, “Go back again because you are still there. First you were positively there, now you are negatively there, but it makes no difference.”
The lover goes back. Now there is no point in praying because prayer has not helped.
In fact, prayer cannot help: in prayer the duality persists. You are praying to somebody; God becomes your “thou.” God cannot help.
Now he becomes a Zen monk — not a devotee but a real meditator. He simply goes deep within himself, searching and seeking. “Where is this’ I’?”
He tries to find out where it is. And anybody who goes in is bound not to find it because it is not there; it is non- existential, it is only a belief. So he searches and searches and finds it nowhere.
So he comes back, knocks on the door. The beloved asks the same question: “Who is there?”
And there is no answer because there is nobody to answer. Just silence.
She asks again, “Who is there?” but the silence deepens. She asks again, “Who is there?” but the silence is absolute.
She opens the door. Now the lover has come, but he is no more; there is nobody to answer. He has to be taken inside the home, taken by the hand. He is completely, utterly empty.
This is what Zen people call “ emptied suchness.”
VISION IS CLEAR. BUT THERE ARE NO OBJECTS TO SEE. THERE IS NO PERSON. THERE IS NO BUDDHA.
Everything has disappeared. Zen has achieved the ultimate peak of enlightenment; hence it can say that there is no enlightenment either because if the enlightened person goes on thinking, “I am enlightened,” he is not enlightened. If he claims enlightenment then he is not enlightened, because every claim is an ego claim. Enlightenment is not a claim, it is a silent presence.
Baula, don’t try to understand Zen. Go within yourself to find out who you are, where you are. You will not find anybody there, just pure emptiness. And then vision is clear. No person, no Buddha. All is silent, utterly silent. There is nothing to say. In that silence one becomes truth. Not only that one knows truth, one becomes truth. That is the only way to know it.
-Osho, From his book Walking In Zen. Sitting In Zen, Chapter #16 All The Moons In One Moon, Copyrights Osho International Foundation, Pune, India.
From my experience and using latest scientific evidence I can say:-
This is what Buddha says ‘Formless is form, and form is formless’. We as individual exists not, the whole exists as a form of that formless all around us. Still if we look within each things we find emptiness. Scientists say that electron or atom is just a lump of energy with nothing solid in it. We all are made up of such atoms.
The world in which we are living is a grand drama and we are also a part of it, and we just need to do our role without getting involved in it.
My suggestions:-
Awareness Meditation is the way worked for me and I tried it first during brushing my teeth in the morning after trying 8–10 meditations over period of 15 years! So there is no need to reinvent the circle for you. May be you too find it suitable otherwise with Dynamic meditation and/or Kundalini in the evening it is suitable for most of the people. There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho for contemporary people that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.
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My suggestions:-
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Originally published at https://philosia.in on February 22, 2025.
