Reading Osho's Zen The Path of Paradox (Chapter 1 : Empty Sky)

Reading this book a second time. It is a treasure to hold and read.

Chapter 1 : Empty Sky
Like the empty sky it has no boundaries, yet it is right in this place, ever profound and clear. When you seek to know it, you cannot see it.
You cannot take hold of it, but you cannot lose it.
In not being able to get it you get it.
When you are silent it speaks; when you speak, it is silent.
The great gate is wide open to bestow alms, and no crowd is blocking the way.

God is everywhere, in everything and everyone. So be more alert, more aware. Start living in a totally different way. Be more watchful. Be a witness.

Zen brings holiness to ordinary life. Zen transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. It transforms the profane into the sacred. It drops the division between the world and the divine.

Zen looks at humanity with undivided vision - it does not divide. Everything is divine - a tree, a rock, a man, a woman, a child.

The word God is not God. God has to be eaten, God has to be tasted, God has to be lived - not argued about.

Go beyond words and concepts. Get into existence.

Zen is non-conceptual, non-intellectual. It preaches immediacy, moment-to-moment immediacy - to be present in the moment; no pass, no future.

Zen says : Be empty. Look without any idea, prejudice, presupposition. Don't be preoccupied. Let go the past and all of life's conditioning.

You simply sit. If you can sit silently, if you can fall into a tremendous restfulness, if you can relax yourself, if you can drop all tensions and become a silent pool of energy, going nowhere, searching nothing, God starts pouring into you. From everywhere God rushes towards you.

In Zen, the door is always open!