"Your teaching seems to be different: to engage in the world while the transformation is occurring. If this is so, how do I avoid the distraction of maya before I clearly see the reality?"
THERE IS NO NEED TO AVOID ANYTHING. All effort to avoid is out of fear. Live it; don't avoid it. Live the maya, and you will come to know reality, because this maya is also a hidden reality. The appearance is also of the reality. Let me repeat it: the appearance is also of the reality. Don't avoid it; otherwise reality will be avoided in it. Go deeply into it. Live it, enjoy it, penetrate it. Hindus have called maya the shroud of Brahma, his clothing: don't avoid it. If you avoid my clothes and escape, you will be escaping from me also. You will have to accept my clothes, you will have to come closer and closer; only then can you know me, who is hidden in the clothes.
GOD IS HIDDEN IN HIS MAYA. Maya means his magic. God is hidden in his magic. The word 'magic' comes from maya. God is hidden in these flowers, in these trees, in these rocks; in you, in me. From every eye he is looking out, from every flower it is his fragrance that is coming out.
THIS IS THE WAY HE IS; THIS IS HIS APPEARANCE. Avoid it, and you will avoid him; enter into it, enter into the fragrance of the flower, and you will find the fragrance of God hidden. Enter any human being in deep love, compassion, humbleness, and behind the body you will find him embodied, and behind the eyes you will find him looking at you. Look into somebody's eyes, and go deeper and deeper and deeper; and suddenly he is there, in his absolute beauty and purity.
I don't say avoid; that word is dirty for me. I say enter the maya of the temple of God. ENTER INTO IT: THE WORLD IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD. The body is the temple of God: enter into it. Find as many ways as you can find to enter into it. Try to find God from everywhere and through everything, and you will find him everywhere and in everything. Says Jesus, "Underneath every stone I am hidden. Dig the rock up and you will find me there. Break wood and you will find me there." Everywhere he is. He is the very existence itself, the very is-ness.
DON'T TRY TO AVOID. Escape, avoid, renunciation, isolation, are wrong words: don't use them. Let them not be part of the vocabulary, your vocabulary; drop them out. Find out positive terms, find out positive words: involvement, commitment, enjoyment, celebration, delight, ecstasy -- and you will be on the right path.
THE REALITY AND THE ILLUSION ARE NOT OPPOSITES. The God and his world are not opposites. The God is hidden in the world, and the reality is hiding behind the appearance; and the appearance is also beautiful.
The appearance is also beautiful. NOT ONLY IS THE SOUL BEAUTIFUL, THE BODY ALSO IS BEAUTIFUL. And it has to be so, because the soul is hidden behind it. The soul goes on being expressed from the body in millions of ways. The body is just like a glass. Behind it is the name, and the flame goes on spreading its rays outside the glass. Whenever you see a beautiful person, it simply hints, it simply gives you an indication, that behind it there is some unknown beauty hiding.
THAT'S WHY A BEAUTIFUL BODY ATTRACTS -- it is natural; a beautiful flower attracts -- it is natural; because it is simply an indication, a natural indication, an invitation, that something beautiful is hidden behind. Come, investigate me. Come. The beautiful body attracts because of the beautiful soul: you attain to a beautiful body if you attain to a beautiful soul -- it is not just coincidence; it is not chance. THE MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU BECOME INSIDE, THE MORE BEAUTIFUL YOU BECOME ON THE OUTSIDE ALSO. If a very ugly body becomes more and more deeply involved in meditation, you will suddenly see the ugliness changing, and behind the ugliness, beauty being expressed more and more. Once the innermost core becomes beautiful, the outer periphery follows it.
OSHO
Come Follow To You
Vol 3, Ch #8: I bring the greatest synthesis that is
Buddha Hall
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