osho on being porous
was Osho a porous woman, an egotistical guru or a prophet of enlightenment? When asked ‘who are you?’, he replied:
“Whomsoever you think, because it depends on you. If you look at me with total emptiness, I will be different. If you look at me with ideas, thsoe ideas will color me; if you come to me with a prejudice, then I will be different. I am just a mirror. Your own face will be reflected. There is a saying that if a monkey looks into the mirror he will not find an apostle looking at him through the mirror. Only a monkey will be looking through the mirror.
So it depends on the way you look at me. I have disappeared completely so I cannot impose on you who I am. I have nothing to impose. There is just a nothingnness, a mirror. Now you have complete freedom.
If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirros will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.”
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