The Search by Osho Osho International Foundation

Author:Osho, Osho International Foundation [Osho, Osho International Foundation]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Osho Media International
Published: 2014-03-23T14:00:00+00:00

A fakir was invited to a dinner. The fakir was seated next to a man and during the evening he asked the man, “What are you living for?”

“I am a pharmacist,” replied the man.

“Yes,” said the fakir. “That’s what you are doing to make a living – but what are you living for?”

There was a moment’s hesitation. “Well, sir, I really have not thought about that,” replied the pharmacist.

In the West, and particularly for the modern mind whether in the East or in the West, doing has become more important. And when doing becomes more important, you lose all contact with your being, you lose all contact with the source of life. Then you go on doing a thousand and one things – except the most essential. The most essential is to know oneself, and you cannot know yourself unless you shift your whole consciousness from doing to being.

Whenever somebody asks who you are, you say: I am a doctor, or, I am an engineer, or an architect, or something like that. These answers are wrong. This is what you are doing – this is not your being. When I ask you: Who are you? I am not asking you whether you are a doctor or an engineer. That’s what you do. That is not your being. That’s how you earn your living – that’s not your life.

Who are you?

If you drop the ideas of being a doctor, engineer, a professor, then suddenly you will become aware of a certain emptiness within you. You don’t know who you are. What type of life is this in which you are not even aware of who you are?

One goes on avoiding this emptiness within oneself. One goes on fixing patches all around oneself, so from nowhere can you see this inner void. One goes on clinging to actions, and actions are no more than dreams – both good and bad. Good actions, good dreams; bad actions, nightmares. But both are dreams. The whole effort in the East has been this: to know the dreamer.

Who is this dreamer? Who is this consciousness on which dreams come, flow and go?

Through delusion, one makes everything untrue. Delusion is not caused by objectivity; it is the result of subjectivity. The world is not causing it: you are causing it. So never blame the world. Don’t say, as people are prone to say, that the world is illusory, the world is maya. The world is not maya, the world is not illusory. It is your mind, it is your own subjectivity which goes on creating maya – illusion – all around you.

For example: you are walking, you have gone for a morning walk and beside the road you see a diamond, a beautiful diamond, shining. It is valuable for you; the value is given by your mind – otherwise it is a stone like any other stone. If you ask other stones beside the road, they will simply laugh at you: “Maybe a shining stone, but what difference does it make? A stone is a stone.

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