The Last Game – Dropping Enlightenment

“The way to understand me is to always remember that I am insisting – from every corner, in every possible way – only on a single target, and that is your innermost being. Whatever I may have said… never be too much concerned with what is said. Be concerned about what it indicates.

I want you to drop all games – worldly games, spiritual games, games that the whole of humanity has played up to now.

“These games keep you retarded. These games hinder you from growing into consciousness, into your own ultimate flowering. I want to cut away all this rubbish that prevents you.
“I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody’s help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you.

Left alone – utterly alone – you are bound to find your innermost center.

There is no way, nowhere to go, no advisor, no teacher, no master.

“It seems hard, it seems harsh, but I am doing it because I love you, and the people who have not done it have not loved you at all. They loved themselves and they loved to have a big crowd around themselves – the bigger the crowd, the more they feel nourished in their egos.

That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better.

Why not just simply be?

“Why unnecessarily hurry here and there?

You are what existence wants you to be.

Just relax.

“Farmer Giles is worried about the performance of his prize bull; he doesn’t seem to be interested in the cows. So he goes to the vet who prescribes a course of pills for the bull.
“A few weeks later, a friend comes by and asks Farmer Giles how the bull is getting on.
“’Just great!’ says Giles. ‘The vet gave me these pills for the bull and from the first day the old fellow has been unstoppable! In fact, I am making a fortune; the local farmers can’t get their cows ‘round here fast enough!’
“‘Great!’” says his friend. ‘And what are these pills then?’
“‘Well,’ says Farmer Giles, ‘they are great big green ones – and they taste just like peppermints.’”

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Excerpted from:
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum – The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus, Talk #9 – The Authentic Drug Is within You

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