Osho - Christian cross (horizontal and vertical)

Mar 6 eve

Just now Shoonya I went in deep. Did a longer session of breathing followed by Samyama. It took me around one hour and fifteen minutes.

Just had a tot of Y. I remind myself there is an abundance of right partner for me. Let him go. Learn to be not negative. Learn to have faith. I was brought so far, I will not be forsaken.

Maturity
The Christian cross is an ancient, Eastern, Aryan symbol - the swastika. A swastika is nothing between two lines crossing. It represents the vertical, the horizontal. Christ's hands are horizontal; his head and his being are pointing in different direction.
In moment of meditation u suddenly see that u can move in two directions - ether horizontal or vertical. The vertical consists of silences, blissfulness, ecstasies; the horizontal consists of hands, work, the world.
Once a man has known himself as a crossroad he cannot be uninterested, he cannot be unintrigued about the vertical. The horizontal he knows, but the vertical opens a door to eternity where death does not exist, where one simply becomes more and more part of the cosmic whole - where one loses all bondages, even the bondage of the body

The vertical does not mean that u have to renounce the world, but it certainly means that u are no more of the world, that the world becomes ephemeral, loses importance. The penetration of the vertical line, just a ray of light coming into ur darkness of horizontal life.

Soul
Amen.

Maturity
On the horizontal line only beggars exist, because they are all rushing for more and the more cannot be fulfilled - not that u can't get the position u want, but the moment u get it, there are higher positions. For a moment maybe a flicker of happiness and the next moment the same despair and the same race for more. U cannot fulfil the idea of more. It is intrinsically unfulfillable. And this is the horizontal line of more and more.

And what is the vertical line? Of being less and less and less, to the point of utter emptiness, to the point of being nobody. To being immensely happy in being a nobody. Only emptiness can be pure - only nothingness can be in tune with the universe.

Soul
Amen.
That's how I feel.

Kabir
I was seeking and searching myself. Rather than finding myself I have found the whole world, the whole universe.
The dewdrop has not disappeared in the ocean but the ocean disappeared into the dewdrop.

Soul
Amen.