Celebrate the ten thousand buddhas gathering here‏

BE SILENT... close your eyes... no movement of the body. Gather your consciousness inwards. Deeper and deeper... just like an arrow cutting all the layers of garbage, ENTER INTO YOUR CENTER.

In this moment of silence, in this moment of innocence, you are no more your shadow --

YOU ARE YOURSELF. This being yourself is called "the arising of the moon," or "arising of the Buddha."

EACH ONE IN HIS NATURE IS THE BUDDHA... THE ENLIGHTENED ONE, THE AWAKENED ONE. Every man is just a seed... he only needs to find the right soil in which to disappear, disperse his personality, his knowledge, his mind...

And suddenly the moon is reflected in the lake. And suddenly the pine on the hilltop is touching the moon. AND SUDDENLY OUT OF NOWHERE ARISES YOUR BUDDHAHOOD.

REMEMBER THIS -- TWENTY-FOUR HOURS -- not as a thought, but as a heartache, so that it becomes an undercurrent. Whatever you are doing becomes different because you are different. Your touch has a grace now, your smile has a sincerity, your eyes become just silent lakes. Your action reflects your heart, your being, your joy, your dance.

THERE IS NO OTHER GOD. There is no other temple. Except you -- awakened to your full glory, to your  full splendor -- there is no religion....

RELAX... LET GO... JUST DIE... to the body, to the mind, to everything of this world. What remains is just a pure sky, utterly blissful, immensely ecstatic. This is your forgotten language.

ONLY THIS KIND OF SILENCE -- A DEEPENING INTO YOURSELF--  CAN CONNECT YOU WITH EXISTENCE. And being connected with the existence, the whole life becomes a festival, a ceremony. Not only life, but death also -- because there is no death. There is only life and life and life, and higher peaks and deeper valleys.

FROM BEGINNINGLESS TO ENDLESS EXISTENCE, YOU ARE SPREAD. Everything is somehow within you. The sun rises within you and the moon hangs within you, and the stars are part of your inner sky. Remember that the inner sky is vaster than the

outer.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE TASTED THIS INNER JUICE OF PURE EXISTENCE....

Come back ... but don't leave the experience behind. SIT DOWN AND COLLECT THE EXPERIENCE -- THE JOY OF IT, THE BENEDICTION OF IT. And remember not to forget. It has to become a constant breathing, a heartbeat. Only then you will feel fulfilled. Only then you will feel you are not meaningless. Only then your life is a grandeur.

THIS GRANDEUR IS ALREADY THERE, JUST YOU HAVE TO DISCOVER IT. Just few layers of dust -- remove them.

WE MEDITATE EVERY EVENING simply so that you go on deepening more and more, so that the wine becomes older and older, so that your Buddhahood becomes an absolute certainty. It is not an argument, it is an experience.

CAN WE CELEBRATE THE TEN THOUSAND BUDDHAS GATHERING HERE?

//Collective Response://
    Yes, Beloved Master.

OSHO
Dogen, the Zen Master: A Search and a Fulfillment
Ch #5: The moon never breaks the water
pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium

posted by Subhuti