Day 51
It would seem now dear reader that I am not only on a path of discovery on health and well being but now being led on a journey of spiritual discovery as well. Early as a young man I rejected the Christian church and its dogma. When they send soldiers to war they use music, a strong beat, the drum, bagpipe and bugle, the navy used to issue rum to make the sailors aggressive and either side were told that their god was on their side, go, be brave and kill in the name of god. Since then I have tried other forms of spiritual guidance and the one that made the most sense to me was Buddhism, the most passive of all. Now I have started reading the book on Tao I think I may have found the right guide for me on the path to contentment and right living, healing for the soul.
TAO Its history and teachings. By Osho. I will quote a few passages that relate to sickness.
Taoist masters only talk about “the way.” Tao means the way-they don’t talk about the goal at all. they say: The goal will take care of itself: you need not worry about the goal.
All technique is against nature, against Tao. Effort as such is against Tao. If you can leave everything to nature, then no technique is needed, because that is the ultimate technique. If you can leave everything to Tao, that is the deepest surrender possible. You are surrendering yourself, your future, your possibilities. You are surrendering time and all effort. This means infinite patience, awaiting.
Once you surrender everything to nature, there is no effort, you just float. You are in a deep let go. Things happen to you, but you are not making any effort for them- you are not seeking them. If they happen, it’s okay, if they don’t happen it is okay- you have no choice. Whatever happens, happens, you have no expectations and, of course, no frustrations.
Life flows by, you float in it. You have no goal to reach, because with a goal effort enters. You have nowhere to go, because if you have somewhere to go, because if you have somewhere to go, effort will come in, it is implied. You have nowhere to go, nowhere to reach, no goals, no ideals, nothing to be achieved-you surrender all. In this surrendering moment, in this very moment, all will happen to you.
Effort will take time, surrender will not take time. Technique will take time; surrender will not take time. That’s why I call surrender -the ultimate technique. It is non-technique. You can not practice surrender.
Then you are relying on yourself, then you are not totally helpless, then you are trying to do something-even if it is surrender, you are trying to do it. Then the technique will come in, and with technique time enters, future enters.
Surrender is non-temporal, it is beyond time if you surrender, this is the moment you are out of time, and all that can happen will happen. But then you are not searching for it, not seeking it, you are not greedy for it. You have no mind for it at all, whether it happens or not, it is all the same to you.
Tao means to surrender-surrender to nature.
Then you are not, Tantra and yoga are techniques through time they will reach a place of surrender, but it will be a long process. Ultimately after every technique you will have to surrender- but with techniques it will come in the end. With Tao, in Tao it comes in the beginning, if you can surrender right now, no technique is needed.
You have become deconditioned, if you are in Tao, then no technique is needed. If you are healthy, no medicine is needed. Every medicine is against health. But you are ill, medicine is needed. This medicine will kill your illness. It cannot give you health, but if the illness is removed, then health will happen to you. No medicine can give you health. Basically, every medicine is poison- but you have gathered poison, you need an antidote. It will balance, and health will be possible.
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