BOOK an Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
1 I I Zen monks say Buddha never uttered a single word, and Buddha spoke for forty-five years continuously. If anybody can surpass him, that is me; nobody else can surpass him. And I say to you that I have also not uttered a single word. Zen people are right. I agree with them with my own ex- perience. I go on saying things to you and yet deep inside me there is absolute silence, not disturbed by what I say. When I am saying, the silence is there; not even a ripple arises in it. I am here, in a way utterly present, in another way abso- lutely absent, because there is nothing arising in me which says "I". Not that I don't use the word; the word has to be used, it is utilitarian —but it connotes to no reality. It is just a utility, a convenience, a strategy of language; it corresponds to no reality. When I say "I", I am simply using a word to indicate towards me, but if you look into me you will not find any "I" there. I have not found. I have been looking and looking and looking. The more I have looked in, the more the "I" has evaporated. The "I" exists only when you don't look in- wards. It can exist only when you don't look. The moment you look, the "I" disappears. It is just like when you bring light in a dark room, darkness disappears. Your look inwards is a light, a flame.
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