The word is sammasati --“It means "right remembering."

by: f-Sandy Heera

Gautam Buddha emphasized one single word continually for forty-two years, morning and evening; the word is sammasati --
“It means "right remembering."

You remember many things -- you can become an ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA; your mind is capable of remembering all the libraries of the world -- but that is not the right remembering.

There is only one right remembering -- the moment you remember yourself.

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Gautam Buddha used to say, "The master's function is to help you remember who you are."

You are not part of this mundane world; your home is the home of the divine.

You are lost in forgetfulness; you have forgotten that inside you God is hidden.

You never look inside -- because everybody looks outside, you also go on looking outside.

To be alone is a great opportunity, a blessing, because in your aloneness you are bound to stumble upon yourself and for the first time remember who you are.

To know that you are part of the divine existence is to be free from death, free from misery, free from anxiety; free from all that has been a nightmare to you for many many lives.

Amiyo, it was good that you became aware of a deep aloneness -- don't lose track of it; become more centered in your deep aloneness.

That's what meditation is: becoming centered in one's own aloneness.

The aloneness has to be so pure that not even a thought, not even a feeling, disturbs it. The moment your aloneness is complete, your experience of it will become your enlightenment.

Enlightenment is not something that comes from outside; it is something that grows within you.

To forget your self is the only sin. And to remember your self, in its utter beauty, is the only virtue, the only religion.

You need not be a Hindu, you need not be a Mohammedan, you need not be a Christian -- all that you need to be religious is to be yourself.

It has been immensely good that your whole being resounded with these words: "Remember: each single moment, remember that you are alone."

You are also asking, "My beloved Master, after our death will you still be, in some mysterious way, with our wandering consciousness?"

We are not separate, even now -- nobody is separate; the whole existence is one organic unity. The idea of separation is because of our forgetfulness.

It is almost as if every leaf of the tree started thinking it is separate, separate from other leaves... but deep down they are nourished by the same roots. It is one tree; the leaves may be many. It is one existence; the manifestations may be many.

I am with you right now. I have been with you forever, and I will be with you for eternity -- there is no other way.

Knowing oneself, one thing becomes absolutely clear: no man is an island -- we are a continent, a vast continent, an infinite existence without any boundaries.

The same life runs through all, the same love fills every heart, the same joy dances in every being.

Just because of our misunderstanding, we think we are separate.

The idea of separation is our illusion.

The idea of oneness will be our experience of the ultimate truth.

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Just a little more intelligence is needed and you can come out of the gloom, the misery, the hell in which the whole humanity is living.

The secret of coming out of this hell is to remember yourself. And this remembrance will become possible if you understand the idea that you are alone.

You may have lived with your wife or with your husband for fifty years; still, you are two.

Your wife is alone, you are alone. You have been trying to create a facade that "We are not alone," that "We are a family," that "We are a society," that "We are a civilization," that "We are a culture," that "We are an organized religion," that "We are an organized political party."

But all these illusions are not going to help.

You have to recognize, howsoever painful it appears in the beginning, that "I am alone and in a strange land." This recognition, for the first time, is painful. It takes away all our illusions -- which were great consolations.

But once you have dared to accept the reality, the pain disappears. And just hidden behind the pain is the greatest blessing of the world: You come to know yourself.

You are the intelligence of existence; you are the consciousness of existence; you are the soul of existence.

You are part of this immense godliness that manifests in thousands of forms: in the trees, in the birds, in the animals, in human beings... but it is the same consciousness in different stages of evolution.

And the man who recognizes himself and feels that the god he was searching and looking for all over the world resides within his own heart, comes to the highest point of evolution. There is nothing higher than that.

It makes your life for the first time meaningful, significant, religious.

But you will not be a Hindu, and you will not be a Christian, and you will not be a Jew; you will be simply religious.

By being a Hindu, or a Mohammedan, or a Christian, or a Jaina, or a Buddhist, you are destroying the purity of religiousness -- it needs no adjectives.

Love is love -- have you ever heard about Hindu love? Mohammedan love?

Consciousness is consciousness -- have you ever thought about Indian consciousness or Chinese consciousness?

Enlightenment is enlightenment: whether it happens in the white body or in the black body, whether it happens in the young man or in the old man, whether it happens in a man or in a woman, it does not make any difference. It is the same experience, the same taste, the same sweetness, the same fragrance.

The only person who is not intelligent is one who is running around all over the world in search of something, not knowing exactly what; sometimes thinking perhaps it is money, sometimes thinking perhaps it is power, sometimes thinking perhaps it is prestige, sometimes thinking perhaps it is respectability.

The intelligent man first searches his own being before he starts a journey in the outer world. That seems to be simple and logical -- at least first look inside your own house before you go searching all over the world.

And those who have looked within themselves have found it, without any exception.

Gautam Buddha is not a Buddhist. The word buddha simply means the awakened one, who has come out of sleep.

Mahavira, the Jaina, is not a Jaina. The word jaina simply means one who has conquered -- conquered himself.

The world needs a great revolution where each individual finds his religion within himself.

The moment religions become organized, they become dangerous; they become really politics with a false face of religion.

That's why all the religions of the world go on trying to convert more and more people to their religion. It is the politics of numbers; whoever has more numbers will be more powerful.

But nobody seems to be interested in bringing millions of individuals to their own selves.

My work here consists of taking you out of any kind of organized effort -- because truth can never be organized.

You have to go alone on the pilgrimage, because the pilgrimage is going to be inside.

You cannot take anybody with you.

And you have to drop everything that you have learned from others, because all those prejudices will distort your vision -- you will not be able to see the naked reality of your being. The naked reality of your being is the only hope of finding God.

God is your naked reality -- undecorated, without any adjective.

It is not confined by your body, not confined by your birth, not confined by your color, not confined by your sex, not confined by your country. It is simply not confined by anything.

And it is available, so close: Just one step inside and you have arrived.

You have been told for thousands of years that the journey to God is very long. The journey is not long, God is not far away.

God is in your breath, God is in your heartbeat, God is in your blood, in your bones, in your marrow -- just a single step of closing your eyes and entering within yourself.

It may take a little time because old habits die hard: even if you close your eyes, thoughts will go on crowding you.

Those thoughts are from the outside, and the simple method which has been followed by all the great seers of the world is just to watch your thoughts, just to be a witness.

Don't condemn them, don't justify them, don't rationalize them. Remain aloof, remain indifferent, let them pass -- they will be gone.

And the day your mind is absolutely silent, with no disturbance, you have taken the first step that takes you to the temple of God.

The temple of God is made of your consciousness.

You cannot go there with your friends, with your children, with your wife, with your parents.

Everybody has to go there alone.

Amiyo, don't forget the experience that has happened to you -- the feeling of deep aloneness and a voice inside saying to you, "Remember: each single moment, remember that you are alone." The day of your glory will not be far away.

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Osho,
The Hidden Splendor
Chapter #18.
Inside you god is hidden

f-Sandy Heera

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