Preparation,Purification And Perfection......Osho........

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

Preparation, Purification, Perfection - the whole alchemy of human transformation
These three P's -- Purification, Preparation, Perfection -- come from the Buddhist sources of wisdom. Of course, Pythagoras made them more logical -- he had a Greek mind -- made them more systematic. But
those words are really significant.

Preparation does not mean preparing for a verbal examination or a written examination.

Preparation means preparing for an existential examination; it means going deeper into meditation.
Unless you were meditative you could not enter those universities. And they had
big campuses: Takshila had ten thousand scholars in it, Nalanda had twelve
thousand scholars in it. Even today the greatest universities don't have more
than that number, but their quality is very ordinary; students have simply
passed the school examinations and they are ready to enter. No existential
preparation is needed.
Preparation means that you drop all your conditionings, you drop your prejudices, you drop what you think you know and
you do not know: you get as innocent as possible.
Your innocence will be the preparation -- that will allow you to enter into the university
campus.

Then purification... In preparation you drop the conditionings which were given by the society, prejudices which were given to you or caught by
you from the surroundings; it was borrowed knowledge in some way or other. You
go like a child -- but even the child is not pure. That is something very
significant to understand, because people take it for granted that the child is
pure.
He is certainly innocent, but his innocence is equivalent to ignorance, and behind his innocence are all his feelings: anger, hatred, greed, jealousy.
You can see, children are very jealous. If one child has a doll, the other
becomes so jealous that they will start fighting. If some child has something,
then the other child also wants to have it. They are very competitive. Even in
the family children have a hierarchy, and they are constantly fighting to be
higher than others. Whatever is needed to be done... if obedience makes them the
most loved in the family, they will follow obedience. But they are not following
obedience; they are really trying a power strategy.

So preparation simply takes away the layers that society has put on your mind. But you have brought
with nature, with your birth, so many ugly instincts, that a purification is
needed.

You have to understand that competition is meaningless. You have to meditate deeply and recognize that you are not like anybody else. And
competition can be only among similar people -- and everybody is dissimilar,
unique.
Once the competitive mind disappears, many things change in you; then you are not jealous. If somebody has a beautiful face and somebody has more
money, and somebody has a more powerful body, you simply accept the fact that a
few trees are tall and a few trees are small. But existence accepts them
all.

The disappearance of competitiveness will also help you to get rid of greed. People go on accumulating -- they want to be in a better position than
you, with more money than you, with everything better than you. And their whole
life is wasted in that.

Purification is almost going through a fire of understanding in which all that is instinctive and ugly burns down. And it is a
great experience that only the ugly burns. That which is beautiful blossoms. In
purification you lose all trace of hate, and instead, suddenly a spring of love
bursts forth -- as if the rock of hate was preventing the spring.
Once the cruelty... and children are very cruel. The idea that they are angels is just
stupid.

They are very cruel; they will beat dogs, they will beat cats. A small insect passing by -- and a child will simply kill it for no reason, he
just enjoys destruction. There is a destructiveness in him. Once that is gone,
creativity arises.

So purification is a deeper meditation than preparation. Preparation was very simple, but purification is going deeper into
meditation -- the deepest possible -- so everything that is not worthy of human
beings is transformed. Everything has energy in it -- hate, jealousy, greed --
and when these things change, their energy becomes available to you in its
purified form. And they can turn: greed can turn into compassion, sharing; hate
can turn into love. Everything will turn into something which makes your heart a
garden.

And when the purification is complete, utterly complete, not a corner of your being remains in the dark, everything is light and fragrant,
fresh... What we have called the awakened man, the enlightened man, Pythagoras
calls perfection. It is simply a different name: the perfect man...

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Osho

[viracocha patchacutie pachacamac]

beautiful

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

Dear Viracocha,
Thanks with welcome !
Sohiniben.

[Arleem]

Thank you Dear SohiniBen!
Natasa

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

Dear Natasha,
Thanks.....
Sohiniben.

[Kathryn Curtis]

Lovely ~ Simple ~ Pure ~ Thank you!

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

Dear Param,
We like simple things always......
why to complicate ?
Sohiniben.