Meditation Is Encountering

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Osho

Date:

Fri, 25 Feb 1971 00:00:00 GMT

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Osho - The Gateless Gate

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Yourself In Total Nakedness Beloved Bhakti, Love. Everything has happened, as it should happen.

And I was surprised not because you ran away from here, but because I never thought that you could be so predictable!

It is not from here that you have escaped; it is only a vain effort to escape from yourself.

Which is impossible.

How can one escape from oneself?

But, in meditation a moment comes necessarily when the mind tries the impossible - for the mind this is the last defensive act.

Meditation is ultimately suicidal to the mind.

And, of course, the mind must be given a chance!

And, you have given it!

Meditation is encountering yourself - directly and in your total nakedness.

This creates fear and the futile effort to escape.

The effort is futile because whatsoever is known once - it is known for ever and you cannot be the old ignorant again.

There is no way to go back.

And there is no bridge.

This escape too will make you more mature; and you will come back strengthened through it and because of it.

NOW - RELAX there under the sky and besides the sea - and I will be there.

Whenever you are relaxed you will feel my presence.

And, when you feel like coming - come back.

And soon you will feel.

I will be waiting here for you as ever.

COME and recontinue the arduousjourney towards your self.

Convey my love and blessings to Anand Prema.

25- 2-1971

(To, Ma Yoga Bhakti, C/o. Mrs. Wellington, 1015, Old Post Road, Mamarneck, New York, 10543, U.S.A.)

In San Francisco, Rabbi Michael Lerner has endured death threats
and vicious harassment from right-wing Jews because he gives voice
to Palestinian views on his website and in the magazine Tikkun.

"An Israeli web site called 'self-hate' has identified me as one
of the five enemies of the Jewish people, and printed my home
address and driving instructions on how to get to my home,"
wrote Lerner in a May 13 e-mail.

"We reported this to the police, the Israeli consulate, and to the
Anti Defamation league. The ADL said it wasn't their concern because
this was not a 'hate crime."

Here's a typical letter that Lerner said Tikkun received: "You subhuman
leftist animals. You should all be exterminated. You are the lowest of
the low life" (David Raziel in Hebron).

If anyone other than a Jew had written this, you can be sure that
the ADL and any other Jewish lobby groups would have gone into full
attack mode.

In other words, when non-Jews slander and threaten Jews, it's
called "anti-Semitism" and "hate crime'; when Zionists slander
and threaten Jews, nobody is supposed to notice.

-- Greg Felton,
Israel: A monument to anti-Semitism

[Zionism, chabad, Nazi, ZioNazi, Judeo-Nazi, racism, fascism,
Illuminati, Freemason, NWO, lucifer, satan]