Whatsoever is needed at your stage of growth will be given to you

Beloved Osho,
    What is a natural Buddhist like me doing leading Sufi dancing? And a natural Sufi like Pradeepa doing leading vipassana and zazen?

Aneeta, 
  THIS IS A CRAZY PLACE TO BE, I KNOW IT! The day I talked about the natural Sufi and the natural Buddhist, I looked in Aneeta's eyes and the question was there. And I looked in Pradeepa's eyes too, and she was also bewildered.

    MEDITATION HAS TO GO BEYOND ALL FORM, Sufi or Buddhist. In the beginning, a form is needed. And it is good to move naturally, into whatsoever fits with your inborn qualities.

    BUT FINALLY ONE HAS TO GO BEYOND FORM -- otherwise the form itself becomes a bondage. At the ultimate point, one is not to be a Buddhist or a Sufi. At that point, one simply IS -- with no form, with no identity, a pure nothing.

    Knowingly, I have given Aneeta the work that she is doing here. She is a natural Buddhist, that's true. I am taking her out of her natural form. Doing Sufi work, SLOWLY SLOWLY SHE WILL SLIP OUT OF HER PAST. Her past has been Buddhist, it is easier for her to be a Buddhist.

    And so is the case with Pradeepa -- IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR HER TO BE IN SUFI WORK -- her past interest has been there. Her deepest involvement is with Sufi ideas, particularly Gurdjieff. And I have given her the Buddhist work -- to lead Vipassana and Zazen.

    This is just a device to bring you out of your routine forms -- A DEVICE TO HELP YOU TO GO INTO PURE MEDITATION. Pure meditation is simply meditation. How it can be Sufi? How it can be Buddhist?

    On the way, you may be Sufis, Buddhists, yogis, tantrikas -- BUT WHEN YOU HAVE ARRIVED, ALL PATHS DISAPPEAR. Then you are at the same place, in the same space -- THAT SPACE IS NIRVANA.

    BEING WITH ME, MANY THINGS WILL LOOK PUZZLING TO YOU -- because there are so many people at different stages of their growth. For one, I will suggest one thing; for another, I will suggest another.

    WHATSOEVER IS NEEDED AT YOUR STAGE OF GROWTH WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU -- and when the need is no more there, it will be taken away.

    THE LAST THING TO BE TAKEN AWAY IS THE FORM OF THE MEDITATION. Then one is simply meditative -- then it is no more an activity, but just a quality, a fragrance. The form of the meditation is still part of the mind.

    "A natural Buddhist" means the mind is still there -- because only the mind can be a natural Buddhist. Only a mind can be a Sufi or a Buddhist. Mind needs forms, mind needs occupations. THE MIND IS ALWAYS HANKERING FOR SOME OCCUPATION -- WITHOUT OCCUPATION THE MIND STARTS DYING. It needs perpetual work.

    FOR JUST THREE, FOUR DAYS I WAS NOT HERE -- and people had started disappearing. Just to sit here for one hour was difficult. Hearing that I was not coming, Big Prem immediately left, Rakesh left. Even Divya -- the day I came, Divya was not in her place; she was sitting far away. She was sitting there with the idea that if I didn't come she could slip out easily.

    JUST TO SIT FOR ONE HOUR SILENTLY DOING NOTHING BECOMES SO DIFFICULT. Mind is constantly hankering for some occupation. Sufism is one kind of occupation, Buddhism another, and there are millions.

    When I say "a born Sufi", I mean your mind is in tune with Sufism. But one has to go beyond the mind, Aneeta. And that's the work I have given to you. It is against your mind, it is just the polar opposite -- AND THE POLAR OPPOSITE WILL HELP TO DESTROY THE PATTERN. Once the pattern is destroyed then one is easily available, flexible, fluid. That fluidity is meditation.

    SO WHATSOEVER I SAY TO YOU, DO IT. Many times it may look contradictory to my other statements, but don't be worried about that. If I have said it, then there must be something in it.

    I MAY NOT HAVE MADE IT CLEAR TO YOU -- because sometimes it is absolutely necessary that the thing should not be made clear to you. If it is made clear, your mind starts taking grip of it. MANY THINGS HAVE TO BE LEFT UNCLEAR, VAGUE. Many things have to be simply done out of your trust and surrender -- not out of your intellectual comprehension of them.

    Naturally, Aneeta must have become puzzled -- why Sufi work has been given to her? And she is doing her work beautifully, and I am happy with her work. It is difficult for her, and sometimes the Buddhist mind creates trouble for her. But that Buddhist mind has to be dropped -- BECAUSE ALL MINDS HAVE TO BE DROPPED. A ladder has to be used in the beginning and finally renounced.

    NOW THE MOMENT HAS COME for Aneeta to renounce that ladder of Buddhism.

OSHO
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