A white cloud is not a conqueror, and still it hovers over everything. And if the whole is purposeless and you are with purpose you are going to be defeated.Ī white cloud drifts wherever the wind leads - it doesn't resist, it doesn't fight. It is impossible to conceive how an individual unit can conquer the whole. Your existence is so tiny - you cannot fight, you cannot conquer. The whole is not moving anywhere there is no goal to it, no purpose.Īnd once you have a purpose, you are against the whole - remember this - then you will get frustrated. And the whole exists without any destiny. The more goal-oriented a mind is, the more anguish, anxiety and frustration there will be, because once you have a goal you are moving with a fixed destination. If you have a goal you are bound to get frustrated. You cannot frustrate a white cloud because wherever it reaches is the goal.
It has nowhere to reach, no destination, no destiny to be fulfilled, no end. It exists as a mystery.Ī white cloud really has no way of its own. The whole of existence is like a white cloud: without any roots, without any causality, without any ultimate cause, it exists. It is an unrooted phenomenon, grounded nowhere or grounded in the nowhere. That's the first reason why I call my way The Way of the White Clouds.īut there are many reasons, and it is good to ponder, to meditate upon them.
Where have they gone? From where do they come? How do they evolve, and how do they dissolve again? A white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going, the very being of it. This very morning there were white clouds in the sky. Buddha is reported to have said: Just like a white cloud disappearing. Just before Buddha died somebody asked him: When a buddha dies where does he go? Does he survive or simply disappear into nothingness? This is not a new question, it is one of the oldest, many times repeated and asked. Beloved osho, why is your way called the way of the white clouds?
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