Fw: The way of non-seeking. An ancient parable: How to find God?

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Subject: [OshoNetwork] The way of non-seeking. An ancient parable: How to find God?
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Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 10:49 AM










   
           


 



SEEKING
IS NOT THE WAY TO FIND GOD. If you want to find him, stop seeking,
and find. Stop seeking, and he is found immediately,
instantly -- not even a single moment is lost. Why? Because in the
very effort of seeking him you are forgetting one thing, that he is already in
you. The sought is in the seeker -- but the seeker cannot see it, he is
engrossed too much in his seeking. He is running after it, he is searching for
it -- his search keeps him so occupied, so engaged, that he cannot look inside
and see who is there.

GOD IS ALREADY IN
YOU, God is already the case. Just stop seeking. And that is
the greatest message of Zen: Stop seeking. "Sitting silently, doing nothing, the
spring comes and the grass grows by itself." Zen does not give you any seeking,
it takes all seeking away from you. Seekers are the losers! -- because in their
very search they go on looking at distant lands. They go on looking at stars --
they don't look within themselves.

And do you know? There is an ancient
parable:
IN THE
BEGINNING, when God created the world, he used to live on the empty
road. But then he became tired because people were continuously nagging him. In
the middle of the night the phone will start ringing, and complaints: "And why
you have not done this? And why you have done that? What is the reason of
it?"

Naturally, he got tired.

So he asked his counselors, "Help
me. I would like to go somewhere and hide from people." He confessed that in
creating man, "I have created my greatest mistake."

Do you know that
since then he has not created anything else? He is still repenting. That was his
last creation. He became so afraid of man that he stopped being a
creator.

They suggested, "You can go to the Himalayas, nobody will come
there." He said, "You don't know. Just within few seconds..." -- and millions of
light-years are just few seconds for God. To one who lives in eternity, a
different time scale exists, and millions of light-years are just moments. He
said, "A man will reach there and another, and they will reach on the Everest
and they will find me, and once they have found me people will start coming...
so that won't help."

Somebody suggested, "Then why don't you go to the
moon?" He said, "Just not even few seconds more and people will reach there.
They are going to reach everywhere!"

Then an old adviser came close to
him, whispered something in his ear. And he was very happy and he said, "This is
the right thing to do!" The man had whispered, "My suggestion is: WHY DON'T YOU HIDE IN MAN HIMSELF? THERE HE WILL NEVER GO! He
will go to the mountains, he will go to the Everest, he will go to the moon and
to the Mars, he will go to the planets and stars, he will go everywhere. One
thing that he will never suspect is that you will be hiding in his own
soul." God agreed, and since then he has been hiding in you!

And you
have been searching for him on the Everest, on the moon, on the stars, in the
scriptures, in the temples, in the mosques, in the churches.

GO ON SEARCHING AND YOU WILL NOT FIND HIM. A seeker never finds. Seeking is a sure way of
missing. Then who finds him? One who relaxes, one who drops all seeking,
just dives deep into one's own being -- sits there silently, starts moving
towards the bottom, to the very ground of one's own being. Sitting in your
deepest core, you find him. There is no need to go
anywhere.

He is not out there. HE IS YOUR
INNERMOST CORE. He is the beat of your heart and the vitality of your
breath and the redness of your blood. He is the pulsation of your
being!

I teach you THE WAY OF
NON-SEEKING. I teach you to relax. I teach you to forget all about
God and just be yourself. And one day, suddenly, like a great surprise, the
BENEDICTION.

OSHO
Take It Easy
Vol 2, Ch
#4: The Flight of the Alone to the Alone
am in Buddha Hall