Appearance is the Reason behind inner trembling. | Philosia: The Art of seeing all

On July 15, 1980 pm Gautam the Buddha Hall, Pune, India Osho was conveying his personal message to the new sannyasin who has taken sannyas that day.

Osho:- From the outside man appears to be a very small dewdrop. But that is only an appearance — don’t be deceived by the appearance. And it is from the outside that he appears like a dewdrop; if you look from within your being, from the inside, the whole vision changes. The moment you stand at your very inner centre and see yourself from there, you are in for a great surprise: you appear to be oceanic, as vast as you can imagine. In fact, vaster than the whole space outside, bigger than the sky.

But because we know ourselves only from the outside we go on believing in our smallness. And because of this feeling of smallness an inferiority complex arises, and that creates millions of troubles — not one or two, but millions.

Everybody, almost everybody, suffers from an inferiority complex. And if you stop suffering from an inferiority complex, then you start suffering from a superiority complex — which is the same! All that you are doing is standing on your head. It is the same problem in reverse order.

First you were starting, from ABC, now you are starting from Z and going backwards. It is the same thing whether you start from A or from Z; it is the same line, the same logic. If you fail in your life you suffer from inferiority. If you succeed you become a president or a prime minister, you start suffering from a superiority complex. But the problem is the same.

Why does it arise at all?

It arises because we don’t know who we are.

We are oceanic: neither small nor big, just infinite with no beginning, no end. That is our godliness.

When we say, ‘Man is a god’, that’s precisely what is meant — that man is neither small nor big; man is infinite.

You cannot conceive anything about him through these words ‘small’ and ‘big’. You can conceive only if you drop all these words totally. (Appearance matters not!)

But that is possible only through meditation, because you don’t know how to stand at your centre, how to be the centre of the cyclone.

Meditation is the secret, the only secret, and the greatest secret that man has discovered up to now. The theory of atomic energy is not the greatest secret, neither the theory of gravitation, nor the theory of Einsteinian relativity. These are nothing compared to the insight that man has discovered through meditation.

Buddha, Christ, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu — all these people have come to know only one thing: a simple art of going to your very centre and seeing the world from there… Because the perspective is totally different.

Your whole world becomes different, it is no more the same world. In one sense everything remains the same and in another sense nothing is the same. It becomes such a beautiful experience, such an ecstasy that words are not adequate to express it, even poetry falls short, even music falls short, even dancing cannot become a real indication of it. There is no way to make a gesture about it.

Each one has to know it. The only way to know it is to know it.

-Osho, The Golden Wind, #15 Copyright Osho International Foundation, Pune, India

My suggestions:-

Awareness Meditation is the way worked for me and I tried it first during brushing my teeth in the morning after trying 8–10 meditations over period of 15 years! So there is no need to reinvent the circle for you. May be you too find it suitable otherwise with Dynamic meditation and/or Kundalini in the evening it is suitable for most of the people. There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho for contemporary people that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.

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My suggestions:-

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Originally published at https://philosia.in on March 10, 2025.