Darkness and Light

Osho in essence left only his words. I would like to say that he left only his wisdom. A lingering scent of a powerful presence fades with time. The force-field that emanates from a sages body is the only true blessing.

How can one expect to share his vision and plot the path that only a visionary can envisage? Osho was as deeply misunderstood by those intimate with him as those polarised by him.

No doubt a few catch phrases and perhaps a mad jig are offered by many in his name. However it is convenient to adopt something seemingly remarkable or insightful. The adopter becomes special and can share their newly acclaimed superiority.

Yet in spite of those who are lost in delusions of love and hate, a great light leaves lesser flames, upon their departure. The vision remains in part in the melting of the people whose hearts have been set on fire. The vision also remains when his words of wisdom unlock the doorway to our own understanding. In this way humanity uses a treasure to find more treasures. A ship is not sunk and no treasure is lost.

There are those that plot a course into darkness in the name of religion. There is a saying that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Look at the modern concept of democracy for example. It stems from the simple understanding that the average citizen can see that even a great leader can easily be blinded by their own delusions of grandeur – and further that given enough time, this outcome is very likely.

People accumulate self or vested interest and then repeat words of wisdom to propagate their deluded self-interest. The truth is repeated to propagate a lie. In this way truth becomes tainted (or at least appears to be so). Any deluded leader can be seen in that their inner world crumbles at the same rate as the world around them. The end result is that in the name of high ideals great suffering is created. However this is not done for fools to learn their lesson. It happens because light has lost a little ground to darkness. At any moment the tide can turn; and it is ironically that it is in any moment that light can surface anywhere (and everywhere). The tide can turn or the sun may rise. It is not right that wrongs happen. Though neither is it wrong that wrongs happen. It simply is that wrong has latent potential and sometimes manifests. Wrongs simply sometimes happen.

A sages words are living wisdom. Truth cannot be distorted nor contaminated. Any one at any time can drink from the well of wisdom and shall always be refreshed and shall never be poisoned. May the light of truth shine not just the way forward for sincere travellers, but also backwards into inhumanity so that they can see themselves for what they are, and others can see them in their rear-view mirror.