And each person has to come back to the garden of Eden again‏

IF YOU SIT IN THIS WORLD, SILENTLY, if you live silently, as an alive nothingness, THE WORLD WILL BECOME A PARADISE, the wolves will disappear. There is no need to do anything else. Just the right state of your consciousness and everything is done.

There are two laws. One law is of the mind. WITH THE LAW OF THE MIND YOU GO ON CREATING HELL AROUND YOU. Even friends become foes, lovers prove enemies, flowers become thorns. Life becomes a burden. One simply suffers life. With the law of the mind, you live in hell wherever you live.

IF YOU SLIP OUT OF THE MIND, YOU HAVE SLIPPED OUT OF THAT LAW. Suddenly you live in a totally different world. That different world is nirvana, that different world is God. Then without doing, everything starts happening.

So let me say it in this way: IF YOU WANT TO DO, YOU WILL LIVE IN THE EGO, and the wolves will surround you, and you will be constantly in trouble.

IF YOU DROP THE EGO, if you drop the idea of being a doer, and you simply relax into life... If you are in a let-go, YOU ARE AGAIN BACK INTO THE WORLD OF GOD, back into the Garden of Eden -- Adam has come back home. Then things happen.

The Christian story says THERE WAS NO NEED FOR ADAM TO DO ANYTHING IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. Everything was just available. But then he fell from God's grace. He was thrown out. He became knowledgeable, he became an egoist. Since then humanity has been suffering.

AND EACH PERSON HAS TO COME BACK TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN AGAIN. The doors are not closed. 'Knock, and they shall be opened unto you. Ask, and it shall be given.' But one has to turn back.

THE PATH IS FROM DOING TOWARDS HAPPENING, from the ego towards no-ego, from mind towards no-mind. No-mind is what meditation is all about.

OSHO
Ancient Music in the Pines
Ch #7: The proper state of mind
am in Buddha Hall