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"For centuries emptiness has been condemned.
"Emptiness is beautiful.
"And the foolish people have been telling you. "The
empty mind is the devil's workshop." The empty mind is
God's workshop! The occupied mind is the devil's workshop.
"But one has to be truly empty. Just being lazy does not mean
that you are empty; not doing anything does not mean that
you are empty. Thousands of thoughts are clamoring inside.
You may be lazy on the outside, but inside much work is
going on. Many walls are being created, new prisons are
being prepared, so that when you get fed up with the old you
can enter into the new. Old chains may break any time so you
are creating new chains in case the old chains break; then
you will feel very empty.
"Once in a while it happens naturally – because it is your
very nature to be free. So once in a while, in spite of
you... seeing a sunset, suddenly you forget all your
desires. You forget all lust, all hankering for pleasure.
The sunset is so beautiful so overwhelming, that you forget
the past and the future; only the present remains. You are
so one with the moment, there is no observer and no
observed. The observer becomes the observed. You are not
separate from the sunset.
"You are bridged; in such a communion you come into a
clearing, and because of the clearing you feel joyous . But
again you are back into the black hole for the simple reason
that coming out into the clearing you need courage to remain
in the empty sky.
"That's what I call sannyas.
"This courage I call sannyas – not escaping but coming into
the clearing, seeing the sky unclouded, listening to the
songs of the birds without distorting. And then again and
again you are becoming more and more attuned with the
emptiness and the joy of being empty. Slowly slowly, you see
that emptiness is not just emptiness; it is fullness, but a
fullness of which you have never been aware, a fullness of
which you have never tasted.
"So in the beginning it looks empty; in the end it is full,
totally full, overflowingly full. It is full of peace, it is
full of silence, it is full of light."
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10, Talk #1
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