OSHO Morning Contempl. 12-18

[Wolfgang Doelz]

One can be calm and silent in two ways.
One way is very cheap but superficial too,
easy to achieve but not worth achieving.
That is, cultivating a certain quality of calmness around yourself
just on the surface,
making it an attribute of your character,
so even if there is turmoil within,
at least to the outside world, you can appear calm and quiet.
That's what people, as far as the majority is concerned, have been doing.

Society only wants you to be superficially calm.
It is not interested much in your real transformation
because it deals only with your outside,
it has nothing to do with your inner.
It has no interest in your inner world.

Real calmness, authentic calmness, arises out of meditation -
not out of cultivating a character
but out of awareness.

When nothing can disturb you,
when it becomes impossible to be disturbed,
when even if you want to be disturbed you become incapable of it,
only then something really valuable has happened.
It can happen only through awareness ...

Bring the light of awareness in
and love will grow, bliss will grow, calmness will grow
and for the first time your life will become authentic.
And to be authentic is to be religious.
To be true to your own self is to be religious.
That is the only real worship, the only real prayer.
That is the only offering we can make to god - our authenticity.
Except for that everything is just a ritual, empty, impotent.

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