Dont Just Do Something, Sit There - osho奧修神秘玫瑰.doc

Dont Just Do Something, Sit There Talks given from 1/9/77 to 30/9/77 Darshan Diary 28 Chapters Year published: 1980 Dont Just Do Something, Sit There Chapter #1 Chapter title: None 1 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 7709015 ShortTitle: JUSTDO01 Audio: No Video: No Prem means love and patanga is a special moth that is very much attracted to fire, flame, and whenever there is flame the moth will come and jump into it. Its only love is fire. And hence the name patanga has become a metaphor in the east -- a metaphor for the lover. A lover has to be like the moth -- ready to jump into fire, ready to die, ready to disappear. God is the flame and the seeker has to be the moth.... [The new sannyasin says: I have been dancing since I was nine years old, but I never felt so much energy as here. When I danced here it was incredible!] Thats true! Here the whole energy is of dance. And now your quality of dance will change: you will get more into it. It will not be just a profession; it will become a vocation. And when one can do something with great love, devotion, then each thing in life becomes meditation. And dance is such a beautiful phenomenon. There is nothing like dance as far as meditation is concerned. So you have one of the most blessed vocations available to humanity. Your very work can become your meditation. So now dance with the idea that it has to be not just technically correct -- thats okay; technically it has to be correct. But it has to be meditative. Bring a quality of silence into it. And while you are dancing, rather than manipulating yourself, relax; relax into it, let things happen. Rather than making them happen, rather than creating them, let them happen. Be more innocent in it. And then you will be surprised that not only are you enjoying it, others will enjoy more. Wherever there is innocence, the door to the divine opens... and a dancer can do immense work. Now you will be my sannyasin, so dance as a sannyasin shoul