Osho - Last in the Evening: 365 Relaxing Moments to Enter the Night Consciously

ISBN: 978-0-88050-620-5

Copyright 1991, 2015 OSHO International Foundation
www.osho.com/copyrights

Images and cover design OSHO International Foundation

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

Last in the Evening is also available as a print edition ISBN 978-1-938755-83-5

Previously published as A Must for Contemplation before Sleep

The text excerpts in this book are selected from various talks by Osho, given to a live audience. All of Osho's talks have been published in full as books, and are also available as original audio recordings. Audio recordings and the complete OSHO text archive can be found via the online OSHO Library at
www.osho.com/library

OSHO is a registered trademark of OSHO International Foundation
www.osho.com/trademarks

OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL
www.osho.com/oshointernational

Library of Congress Catalog-In-Publication Data is available

ISBN 978-0-88050-620-5

Introduction

The words on the following pages are extracted fromintimate meetings, where the contemporary mystic, Osho, talks with people fromall walks of life. It was at Osho's suggestion that this, and its companionvolume, First in the Morning, were compiled. The books have been plannedin such a way that each day has a particular theme, and the subject of themorning and evening complement each other.So, Last in the Evening canbe read alone, or in combination with the morning book.

The passages in this volume have been specially chosen for thenighttime reading one before sleep can provide the perfect way to endthe day. The book contains 365 passages which have been designed to be readchronologically, rather than randomly.

In this book, Osho sometimes refers to sannyas or sannyasins.As Osho uses this term, sannyas simply means making a decision to bringself-awareness into your life, a commitment to give time to the exploration andcelebration of the inner: We know much that is rubbish: we know everythingabout the moon and the sun and the earth and we know history and geography, butwe know nothing about ourselves. We know nothing about the knower and thatshould be the primary concern of any real education. Sannyas is the beginningof a real education. Fundamentally you have to become aware of yourself, of whoyou are. And only you can do that.

Reading the passages in this book is in itself a form ofcontemplation because, as Osho says, the words of a mystic are not part of anytheory to be accepted or refuted; the reader is not asked to be a follower or abeliever. In fact, it is not even the words themselves that are ofsignificance, but rather what the words convey.

[The mystic's] words carry a silence around them, his wordsare not noisy. His words have a melody, a rhythm, a music, and at the very coreof his words is utter silence. If you can penetrate his words you will comeacross infinite silence.

"But to penetrate the words of a buddha, the way is not analysis,the way is not argument, the way is not discussing. The way is falling inrapport with him, becoming attuned with him, being in synchronicity with himIn that attunement, in that at-onement, one enters the very core of themaster's words. And there you will not find any sound, any noise; there youwill find absolute silence. And to taste it is to understand the master.

"The meaning of the word is not important, remember, butthe silence of the word."

Osho,

The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Volume 3

Day 1

The world is suffering so much because for the first time in thehistory of human consciousness, man has lost track of godliness. Nobody hasever suffered like us. People have been poor in the past, very poor; peoplehave starved, but people have never been so poor spiritually. People have neverstarved spiritually as much as today. My whole work is to give you back aninsight into godliness. Unless man becomes rooted in godliness again, he has nofuture.

Day 2

Man has the potential of becoming a song of love, a dance oflove, but very few people, very rare people, transform their potential into theactual. People are born as seeds and almost all die as seeds; their livesremain nothing but a long experiment in futility. And the older they grow themore frustrated they become, naturally, because all their hopes are beingshattered, all their desires are bringing nothing but tears, agony, anguish. Astime passes, they become aware that whatever they have been doing with theirlives has been of no value. How can they sing? How can they dance? How can theyfeel grateful to existence? It is impossible.

My observation is that people go to temples and synagogues andchurches only out of fear, not out of love. And older people go more oftenbecause they have become more afraid of death. They dont go to church or to atemple because they have known something tremendously valuable in life, butbecause life is slipping out of their hands. The great darkness of death iscoming closer and they are afraid. They want someone to protect them.

Now they know that their money is not going to be with them,their friends are not going to be with them, their families will leave them.Out of desperation they start clinging to the idea of a God. But this is notout of love and it is not out of gratitude. And a God born out of fear is afalse God. A God born out of love is a true God.

My whole effort here is to make windows into God available sothat you dont go to God out of fear, so that you can go through the experienceof beauty, through the experience of creativity, through the experience oflove. And when a person goes through these experiences, the contact istremendous, transforming. A single living contact with godliness is enough you will never be the same again.

Day 3

When you start going in, mind is left behind. It cant go insidewith you, it can only go with you outside. It has only one possibility, it isone-dimensional. Mind makes a person a warrior, in the political sense.Meditation makes him a warrior in the religious sense.

So become an inner warrior much has to be conquered there.There is much darkness that has to be dispelled, much unconsciousness that hasto be transformed, much raw energy that has to be purified.

It is a great task, the greatest that life gives you to fulfill.The great challenge is to become a fully grown-up person, to come to thecrescendo of your potentiality, to reach the highest peak, the Everest of yourconsciousness. Then, for the first time, one really starts living.

Day 4

Love has to be just your quality. Become loving, and one day ithappens that you are simply love; not even loving but love. That is the day ofgreat revelation. In that very moment the dewdrop disappears into the ocean andbecomes the ocean.

In religious terminology, in religious jargon, it has been calledGod-realization. If one likes religious jargon one can use that word, otherwiseit is far more beautiful to say that one becomes oceanic; it is far morepoetic. Priests have contaminated the word God too much, quarrelingaround the word God for so many centuries that the very word immediatelyraises a thousand and one questions. It simply creates more and more argumentsand controversies. But the word in itself was beautiful when used for the firsttime; it simply represented the beyond, the vast beyond.