The Buddha is the only man who said, ‘If there is no God and there is no ego, the self is also arbitrary, artificial.’ As you go deeper in your interiority, you suddenly find yourself disappearing into the
consciousness…. You no longer are, only existence is.Hence, I call Zen essentially freedom from oneself. You have heard about other freedoms, but freedom from oneself is the ultimate freedom — not to be, and allow the existence to express itself. But it is existence, not you, not me. It is life itself dancing, not you, not me. That is the Zen Manifesto: freedom from oneself.
As you go beyond the mind, even the idea of ‘I am’ disappears. When the ‘I’ also disappears and you start feeling a deep involvement in existence, with no boundaries, only then has Zen blossomed in you.
To make it clear to you, Socrates says, ‘Know thyself.’ Gautam Buddha says, ‘Know — just know, and you will not find thyself.’ Perhaps that is the reason why none of the religions except Zen have tried meditation — because meditation will destroy God, the ego, and the self. It will leave you in absolute nothingness. It is just the mind that makes you afraid of nothingness.
Abridged from The Zen Manifesto: Freedom from Oneself, Talk #1, Osho Times International, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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