Maturity by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-312-20561-4
Publisher: St. Martins Press

In a moment or meditation you suddenly see that you can move in two directions—either horizontal or vertical. The vertical consists of silences, blissfulness, ecstasies; the horizontal consists of hands, work, the world.

Once the vertical is discovered, one starts moving on the vertical line. That vertical line does not mean you have to renounce the world, but it certainly means that you are no more of the world, that the world becomes ephemeral, loses importance. It does not mean that you have to renounce the world and escape to the mountains and the monasteries. It simply means that you start—wherever you are—living an inner life that was not possible before.

Before you were an extrovert; now you become an introvert. As far as the body is concerned you can manage very easily, if the remembrance is there that you are not the body. But the body can be used in many ways to help you to move on the vertical line.

The penetration of the vertical line, just a ray of light coming into your darkness of horizontal life, is the beginning of enlightenment.

You will look the same but you will not be the same. Those who have a clarity of seeing, to them you will not look the same either—and at least for yourself, you will never look the same and you can never be the same. You will be in the world but the world will not be in you. Ambitions, desires, jealousies will start evaporating. No effort will be needed to drop them, just your movement on the vertical line and they start disappearing—because they cannot exist on the vertical line. They can exist only in the darkness of the horizontal where everybody is in competition, everybody is full of lust, full of will to power, a great desire to dominate, to become somebody special.

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