Osho Rajneesh Book "Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing"

Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing

Neither this nor that
29 October 1974 am in Buddha Hall

IN THIS WORLD OF SUCHNESS THERE IS NEITHER SELF NOR OTHER-THAN-SELF.

TO COME DIRECTLY INTO HARMONY WITH THIS REALITY JUST SIMPLY SAY WHEN DOUBTS

ARISE, ”NOT TWO.”

IN THIS ”NOT TWO” NOTHING IS SEPARATE, NOTHING IS EXCLUDED.

NO MATTER WHEN OR WHERE, ENLIGHTENMENT MEANS ENTERING THIS TRUTH.

AND THIS TRUTH IS BEYOND EXTENSION OR DIMINUTION IN TIME OR SPACE; IN IT A SINGLE THOUGHT IS TEN THOUSAND YEARS.

FIRST TRY TO UNDERSTAND the word ’suchness’. Buddha depends on that word very much. In

Buddha’s own language it is TATHATA – suchness. The whole Buddhist meditation consists of living

in this word, living with this word, so deeply that the word disappears and you become the suchness.

For example, you are ill. The attitude of suchness is: accept it – and say to yourself, ”Such is the way

of the body,” or, ”Such are things.” Don’t create a fight, don’t start struggling. You have a headache

– accept it. Such is the nature of things. Suddenly there is a change, because when this attitude

comes in a change follows just like a shadow. If you can accept your headache, the headache

disappears.

You try it. If you accept an illness it starts dispersing. Why does it happen? It happens because

whenever you are fighting, your energy is divided: half the energy moving into illness, the headache,

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and half the energy fighting the headache – a rift, a gap and the fight. Really THIS fight is a deeper

headache.

Once you accept, once you don’t complain, once you don’t fight, the energy has become one within.

The rift is bridged. And so much energy is released because now there is no conflict – the release

of energy itself becomes a healing force. Healing doesn’t come from outside. All that medicines

can do is to help the body to bring its own healing force into action. All that a doctor can do is just

to help you to find your own healing power. Health cannot be forced from outside, it is your energy

flowering.

This word ’suchness’ can work so deeply that with physical illness, with mental illness and finally

with spiritual illness – this is a secret method – they all dissolve. But start from the body, because

that is the lowest layer. If you succeed there, then higher levels can be tried. If you fail there, then it

will be difficult for you to move higher.

Something is wrong in the body: relax and accept it, and simply say inside – not only in words but

feel it deeply – that such is the nature of things. A body is a compound, so many things combined

in it. The body is born, it is prone to death. And it is a mechanism, and complex; there is every

possibility of something or other going wrong.

Accept it, and don’t be identified. When you accept you remain above, you remain beyond. When

you fight you come to the same level. Acceptance is transcendence. When you accept, you are on

a hill, the body is left behind. You say, ”Yes, such is the nature. Things born will have to die. And if

things born have to die they will be ill sometimes. Nothing to be worried about too much” – as if it is

not happening to you, just happening in the world of the things.

This is the beauty: that when you are not fighting, you transcend. You are no more on the same

level. And this transcendence becomes a healing force. Suddenly the body starts changing. And

the same happens to mental worries, tensions, anxieties, anguish. You are worried about a certain

thing. What is the worry? You cannot accept the fact, that’s the worry. You would like it in some

way different from how it is happening. You are worried because you have some ideas to enforce on

nature.

For example, you are getting old. You are worried. You would like to remain young forever – this is

the worry. You love a wife, you depend on her and she is thinking to leave, or of moving with another

man, and you are worried – worried because what will happen to you? You depend on her so much,

you feel so much security with her. When she is gone there will be no security.

She has not only been a wife to you, she has been also a mother, a shelter; you can come and hide

against the whole world. You can rely on her, she will be there. Even if the whole world is against

you, she will not be against you, she is a consolation. Now she is leaving, what will happen to you?

Suddenly you are in a panic, worried.

What are you saying? What are you saying by your worry? You are saying you cannot accept this

happening, this should not be so. You expected it just the otherwise, just the contrary; you wanted

this wife to be yours forever and ever, and now she is leaving. But what can you do?

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