Be Still and Know汇总.doc

Be Still and Know Responses to Disciples Questions Talks given from 01/09/79 am to 10/09/79 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters Year published: 1981 Be Still and Know Chapter #1 Chapter title: Always on the Rocks 1 September 1979 am in Buddha Hall Archive code: 7909010 ShortTitle: BESTIL01 Audio: Yes Video: Yes Length: 0 mins The first question Question 1 OSHO, MEDITATIVENESS AND SCIENCE ARE DIFFICULT TO RECONCILE. YET PAINTING A PICTURE, WRITING A POEM, AND SOLVING A SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM ALL BRING THE SAME JOY. THE SAME JOY! WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO BE MEDITATIVE AND A SCIENTIST? WHY HAS THERE NEVER BEEN A SOCIETY IN WHICH THE INNER AND THE OUTER SCIENCES, THE SCIENCE OF GENTLENESS AND LOVE AND THE SCIENCE OF AGGRESSION AND DEATH, LIVE IN HARMONY? Ananda Prabhu, THE VERY EFFORT TO RECONCILE THE POLAR opposites is wrong -- you will never succeed in it. It is like trying to reconcile day and night, it is like trying to reconcile life and death. You need not reconcile them, you have only to see that they ARE reconciled. Day and night are moving perfectly in rhythm; life and death are like two wings of existence. Once you see that the polar opposites cant exist separately, once you have seen that reconciliation is not needed at all, that they are already reconciled, that awareness will help you to move from one pole to another without any problem. They are totally different phenomena -- polar opposites, but all polar opposites are also complementaries. Science is concentration: it is mind, it is effort. Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go -- it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness. So how can you reconcile them? How do you reconcile work and rest? But you work hard in the day, and at night the rest comes of its own accord. You have earned it; your hard work brings rest. Philosophically reconciliation is not possible: work cannot be rest, rest cannot be work. If you try