Remain transcendental : Be in the world, but not of it !
YOU HAVE BEEN MOVING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL CONTINUOUSLY.
And wherever you are you get identified -- that is the problem. You have suffered. You have seen the downs, the blues, but you get identified; you say, "I am suffering." You become one with the valley and the
darkness. AND THEN, SOMEDAY SUDDENLY, A WOMAN LAUGHS, SMILES AT YOU, and you are high and the doors of heaven are open. Again you get identified. You are in love, not walking on the earth. In fact not walking, flying -- no gravitation exists for you. You have completely forgotten the valley, the darkness, that existed just a minute before.
It has moved into the background. The gestalt changed and the woman is not laughing now. She has turned her face away. She is looking at somebody else. And the doors of the garden are closed, you are expelled, weeping, bitterly weeping and crying. The valley, the darkness -- you are again identified with it. Pain comes, pleasure comes -- but you go on missing the thing. You should not get identified, YOU SHOULD REMAIN TRANSCENDENTAL. In the valley, yes -- but you are not the valley. At the peak, yes -- but you are not the peak.
The peak is the situation around you. YOU ARE IN IT, BUT NOT OF IT. In the world? Okay, move in the world -- but you are in the world, the world is not in you. Go to the Himalayas -- nothing wrong in it -- but you are in the Himalayas, Himalayas are not in you. REMAIN TRANSCENDENTAL. Pain and pleasure, suffering and bliss, day and night, summer and winter -- remain unidentified.
UNIDENTIFICATION, REMAINING UNIDENTIFIED, IS THE WAY OF TRANSCENDENCE. Then you remain always far away -- in, and yet away. Then life becomes a beautiful game. Hindus call it "lila", a game, a play. THEN YOU NEITHER SUFFER NOR YOU BECOME BLISSFUL. You simply move through all the shades and nuances -- and millions are the shades and millions are the nuances. God has taken thousands of names and thousands of forms. Everywhere is his mark. IF YOU ARE TRANSCENDENTAL, EVEN IN THE VALLEY YOU ARE IN HIM. Then you never lose contact with him. Because God means: that which transcends duality yet lives in it, yet surrounds it, yet enjoys it. God is the greatest paradox, the mystery. ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THE ART OF NON-IDENTIFICATION you have learned all that Sufis can teach you.
Gurdjieff introduced Sufi essentials into the West. He was the man who brought to the West the secrets of the Sufis, and his whole teaching depends on one word and this is: non-identification. Don't get identified with anything because consciousness is always transcendental. It cannot be reduced to any thing.
SEASONS COME AND GO, CONSCIOUSNESS REMAINS. Childhood comes and goes, youth comes and goes, health and disease; consciousness remains. That which remains always is God; that which passes is the world. THAT WHICH COMES AND GOES IS NOT YOU. You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. WITNESSING IS THE ART OF NON-IDENTIFICATION. And non-identification is all. Non-identification is all that there is to meditation; it is the whole of meditation.
OSHO
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