Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Osho was asked why he didn’t write his autobiography. Osho replied: “All autobiographies are ego-biographies. It is not the story of the soul. As long as you do not know what soul is, whatever you write is ego-biography.”
Writing or speaking about oneself has not been possible for those who have known themselves, because after knowing, the person changes into something so formless that what we call the facts of his life — facts like his date of birth, events, — all dissolve.
They cease to have meaning. Once you know your soul, an autobiography is only a dreamlike version of oneself, like writing an account of your dreams. So it is difficult for an awakened person to write.
Reducing such an experience to words makes it seem insipid and absurd.
A dying Buddha was asked: “Where will you go after death?” He said, “I have been nowhere, so where can I go after death?” The meaning of Buddhahood is nowhereness.
One is nowhere, so the question of being somewhere does not arise.
If you can be quiet, only breathing remains like the air inside a bubble. When there are no thoughts there is nothing but breathing. So Buddha says, “I was only a bubble.
Where was I? A bubble has burst and you are asking where it has gone”. Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts
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Courtesy: Economic Times: Speaking Tree: Feb20,2019
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Osho was asked why he didn’t write his autobiography. Osho replied: “All autobiographies are ego-biographies. It is not the story of the soul. As long as you do not know what soul is, whatever you write is ego-biography.”
Writing or speaking about oneself has not been possible for those who have known themselves, because after knowing, the person changes into something so formless that what we call the facts of his life — facts like his date of birth, events, — all dissolve.
They cease to have meaning. Once you know your soul, an autobiography is only a dreamlike version of oneself, like writing an account of your dreams. So it is difficult for an awakened person to write.
Reducing such an experience to words makes it seem insipid and absurd.
A dying Buddha was asked: “Where will you go after death?” He said, “I have been nowhere, so where can I go after death?” The meaning of Buddhahood is nowhereness.
One is nowhere, so the question of being somewhere does not arise.
If you can be quiet, only breathing remains like the air inside a bubble. When there are no thoughts there is nothing but breathing. So Buddha says, “I was only a bubble.
Where was I? A bubble has burst and you are asking where it has gone”. Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts
DISCLAIMER
The views expressed in the Article above are Author’s personal views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing."
Courtesy: Economic Times: Speaking Tree: Feb20,2019