Osho's Garden



Osho's Garden
In April Osho gives eight discourses on the Geeta darshan, and a mass shaktipat. He talks of returning to Bombay, but at the end of the month announces he will stay in Poona. He begins to take walks in the garden.
I live in Lao Tzu House and my garden is a forest. Mukta, my gardener, was very reluctant to make it that way--obviously, she is a Greek and thinks logically, and this is very illogical. No symmetry, no pruning is allowed. She prunes, though, when I am not looking! She tries to make something out of the mess.
Vivek hates the whole forest around the house. She says it has destroyed all perspective; you cannot see. You cannot see the vastness of the sky; you cannot see anything from the room--it is so covered! In fact, I don't need to see anything--I have seen everything! But for poor Vivek it is difficult--she still needs to see a few things. I can understand her difficulty.
A desert you can go on and on seeing; it ends nowhere. All the horizons are available. Its vastness and its profound silence have their own song, unheard, unspoken. The same is true about the path of silence. guida04
Yes, if you are meditative then a beautiful house will have a totally different quality. A beautiful garden, a pond in your garden....
Mukta has just made a pond by the side of my room, a really beautiful pond with a small waterfall. If you are meditative, then it is a tremendously beautiful experience just to see water dancing on the rocks, just to see the rocks, just to feel the texture of the rocks, the moss that will start gathering on them. Then everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness; otherwise everything is ugly.
It is not that a meditative person enters into heaven--no, heaven enters into a meditative person. Paradise is not a geographical place, it is a psychological experience. A meditative person can enjoy everything--only he can enjoy. He is not a renunciate. Only he knows how to taste the beauty of things, how to experience the tremendous presence of existence all around. Because he is, he knows how to love, how to live. dh0702
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