One Bubble to the Other Thank You So Much
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". Neither Jesus, Krishna, nor Buddha have written their autobiographies. 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 lifefacts like his date of birth, events, all dissolve. They cease to have meaning. The awakening of a soul is so cataclysmic that after it occurs, when you open your eyes you find that everything is lost. Once you know your soul, an autobiography is only a dreamlike version of oneself, like writing an account of your dreams: Such writing has no more value than a fantasy, a fairy tale. So it is difficult for an awakened person to write. On becoming awakened and aware, he finds that there is nothing worth writing. It was all a dream. The experience of becoming aware remains, but what is known through the experience cannot bewritten down. 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 and silent, 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". One day Lin Chi ordered the removal of all Buddha idols. When asked why, he said: "As long as I was thinking that I am, I believed that Buddha was. But when I myself am not there, when I am only an air bubble, then I know that someone like Buddha also could not have been there". In the evening Lin Chi was again worshipping Buddha idols. When asked why, he said: "I was helped in my own nonbeing by Buddha's non-being. That is why I have been giving thanks. It was a thanksgiving from one bubble to another, nothing more". Autobiography does not survive. Deeply speaking, the soul itself does not survive. So far we understand only that the ego does not survive. For thousands of years, we have been told that the ego does not survive when one attains self-knowledge. But to put it correctly, the soul itself does not survive. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? 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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One Bubble to the Other Thank You So Much
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". Neither Jesus, Krishna, nor Buddha have written their autobiographies. 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 lifefacts like his date of birth, events, all dissolve. They cease to have meaning. The awakening of a soul is so cataclysmic that after it occurs, when you open your eyes you find that everything is lost. Once you know your soul, an autobiography is only a dreamlike version of oneself, like writing an account of your dreams: Such writing has no more value than a fantasy, a fairy tale. So it is difficult for an awakened person to write. On becoming awakened and aware, he finds that there is nothing worth writing. It was all a dream. The experience of becoming aware remains, but what is known through the experience cannot bewritten down. 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 and silent, 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". One day Lin Chi ordered the removal of all Buddha idols. When asked why, he said: "As long as I was thinking that I am, I believed that Buddha was. But when I myself am not there, when I am only an air bubble, then I know that someone like Buddha also could not have been there". In the evening Lin Chi was again worshipping Buddha idols. When asked why, he said: "I was helped in my own nonbeing by Buddha's non-being. That is why I have been giving thanks. It was a thanksgiving from one bubble to another, nothing more". Autobiography does not survive. Deeply speaking, the soul itself does not survive. So far we understand only that the ego does not survive. For thousands of years, we have been told that the ego does not survive when one attains self-knowledge. But to put it correctly, the soul itself does not survive. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? Buddha was right. Everything is like a dream sequence, like the rainbow colours formed on a bubble. The colours die when the bubble bursts. Buddha said, "The soul also does not survive; we become non-soul". Mahavira talked only of the death of the ego; that much could be understood. It is not that Mahavira did not know that even the soul does not survive. but he had in mind our limited understanding. Therefore, he spoke only of giving up the ego, knowing that the soul would automatically dissolve. The idea of the soul is a projection of the ego. But Buddha revealed the secret which had been closely guarded for so long. That created difficulties. If the soul does not survive either, they said, then everything is useless. Where arewe? 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 SWAMI CHAITANYA KEERTI 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.
Courtesy: SWAMI CHAITANYA KEERTI and Speaking Tree,Times of India