The Final Reality...

The first thing to remember is that when I say witness, in the beginning you witness things of the
body, of the mind, of the heart, emotions, thoughts... layer upon layer you go on witnessing. And
finally, you find just a pure mirror, the witness itself. I call it a pure mirror because it is witnessing
nothing. This nothingness is your very nature.

Out of this nothingness arises everything, and into this nothingness dissolves everything. And if you
are ready to be nothing – even while you are alive – your life will have a flavor of peace, silence, and
grace.

All your educational systems and all your cultural beliefs, force you to be ambitious, to be somebody.
But to be somebody means creating anxieties in a silent pool, ripples and waves. The greater the
ambition, the more tidal is the wave of anxiety. You can become almost insane desiring. Trying to
be somebody, you are trying the impossible, because basically you are nobody.

Zen has an absolutely unique perception into the nothingness of everyone. It does not teach you
any ambition, it does not teach you to be someone else. It simply wants you to know that in the
deepest part of your being you are still nothing, you are still carrying the original purity which is not
even contaminated by an idea of ”I.”

So while you are witnessing, you say, ”I have experienced nothing.” If you have experienced nothing,
you should not be there. Experiencing nothing means you are not, nothing is – simply waves in the
water, coming and going.

It is not that you witness nothing. You are creating another small ”I,” but it contains the whole world
of ambitions. Experiencing nothing simply means you are not. And there comes a tremendous joy,
because the whole energy that was involved in anxieties and desires and tensions, is released in a
dance, in a blissfulness, in a silence, in a tremendous insight, but it does not belong to any ”I” – a
pure white cloud without any roots, floating in freedom, without any reason and without any direction.
The whole existence has become its home. It no longer separates itself. This inseparation is the
ultimate blossoming of buddhahood. To know that you are not is the greatest knowing.

You ask in your question if there is no one who perceives all this. That no one is not yet no one if
it perceives anything. When there is nothing left, there is no perceiver, everything is dissolved into
existence.

Zen is the only existential religion in the world. Every religion thrives on your desire to be separate,
to be individual, to be special, to be self-realized, to be a saint. Those are all cowardly desires.

Zen is a brave step.

It cannot be transcended by anything more courageous.

A quantum leap into nothing and silence....

Osho