Osho sannyasin of any one of Jain, Hindu and Bauddh follows all. | Philosia: The Art of seeing all
Osho sannyasin of any one religion among Jaina, Hindu and Bauddh follows all.
THE BUDDHA SAID.
THOSE WHO PRACTISE THE WAY MIGHT WELL FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF AN OX THAT MARCHES THROUGH THE DEEP MIRE CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD. HE’S TIRED, BUT HIS STEADY GAZE, LOOKING FORWARD,
WILL NEVER RELAX UNTIL HE COMES OUT OF THE MIRE, AND IT IS ONLY THEN THAT HE TAKES A RESPITE. O MONKS, REMEMBER THAT PASSIONS AND SINS ARE MORE THAN THE FILTHY MIRE, AND THAT YOU CAN ESCAPE MISERY ONLY BY EARNESTLY AND STEADILY THINKING OF THE WAY.
Buddha says: First, great effort is needed, and then great surrender too. That is the meaning of the Zen people saying that ‘effortless effort’ is needed.
A great harmony is needed of effort and no-effort. If you rely on your effort, you will never reach; if you rely only on God’s grace, you will never reach. The possibility to reach arises only when you have done all that you can do. Only at that moment does the universe shower on you, not before it. Then you can relax.
So Buddha says: First do each thing that you can do. Never ask for help before that. Don’t be lazy, don’t be lethargic; bring all your energy into action. Become totally involved in the spiritual work. Of course, remember also that this is not going to give you the ultimate. A moment will come when you will have to surrender. But… you can surrender only when you have done all that you can do.
God helps those who help themselves.
There are two types of people. The first type says, “If it is going to happen by His grace, it will happen. When He needs, or when He wants, it will happen. I will have to wait.”
Their waiting is impotent, their waiting is not of worth. They have
not earned it, they have not taken even a step towards God. It is not going to happen.
Then there are egoistic people; they say, “It is going to happen by our effort. There is no God, there is no grace, there is no possibility of the universe helping us; the universe is absolutely indifferent to human beings. We have to do all that we can do, and it is going to happen only by our effort.”
Buddha says: These people also will never reach. They are too egoistic.
The first type is too lethargic, the second type is too active, and the reality is just in the middle: be active and yet ready to surrender.
These are the differences among the three religions in India.
Hinduism is of the first type,
Jainism is of the second type,
Buddhism is of the third type.
Hinduism believes it will happen by God’s grace; that whenever He wills, it will happen: Nothing can happen without His will. Not that what they say is wrong, ,but they don’t earn it.
Jainism says: It will happen by our will, our power. There is no grace, no help coming from the universe, so we have to fight and struggle. So Jainism becomes a very egoistic trip,
Buddha says: You have to do all that you can do. Be a Jaina first, and then be a Hindu. That is the greatest synthesis ever brought to the world: be a Jaina first, and then be a Hindu.
In Buddha the whole east came to a synthesis.
Buddha’s contribution to the world is unique.
And that’s my teaching too: be a Jaina first, and then be a Hindu.
First make all the effort that you can, go to the very end that you can, and then relax. Then you have earned; now the grace will be coming.
Effort plus surrender, struggle plus surrender, brings one home.
-Osho, The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 4, #9 Provisions for the journey.
My comments:-
Osho is not only a Tirthankar of Jaina, but attained similar peaks of Hinduism and Buddhism too.
Every Osho Sannyasin who have discovered reality is also a true Jaina, true Hindu as well as true Buddhist. All three steps they have taken correctly, their awakening is the proof of it.
My suggestions:-
Awareness Meditation is the way worked for me and after reading about it in a book of Osho, I tried it first during brushing my teeth in the morning. I have already tryied 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 August 17, 2024.
