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Enlightenment on path of Surrender - Zen Master Hui-Hai
Enlightenment
Osho :
Hui-Hai was a Zen Master. When he had come to his
Teacher, the Teacher said, ”Choose! Would you like
methods of will? Then I will suggest something to you.
Or, are you ready to surrender? If you choose the path
of will, then you will have to do something. I can only
be a guide.”
On the path of will, there are only guides. There are
not really Gurus, Masters. There are simply guides. They
instruct you; you have to do everything. They cannot do.
So the Teacher said, ”If you want to proceed on the path
of will, then I will be your guide. I will give you
instructions and techniques; then you will have to do
everything. If you choose surrender, then you have not
to do anything. I will do it all. Then you have just to
be a shadow to me, just follow me. Then no doubts, no
questioning; then no inquiry. Whatsoever I say you do.”
Hui-Hai chose the path of surrender.
He surrendered
himself to his Teacher. Three yeas passed. He would sit
by his Teacher’s side. Sometimes the Teacher would look
at him and would go on looking at him, continuously
looking at him. The look was so penetrating and so deep
that it would haunt Hui-Hai. When he was not even with
his Teacher, the look would follow him. He would sleep,
but the eyes would be with him, the Teacher would be
looking at him. He couldn’t even dream because the
Teacher was there.
For three years continuously he would sit by his
Teacher’s side, and suddenly the Teacher would look at
him and penetrate, and his eyes would go deep. Those
eyes became a part of his being. He could not be angry,
he could not be sexual – those eyes would be present
there. He would be haunted. The Guru was there. He was
always in his presence. Then after three years, the
Guru, for the first time, laughed. He looked at him and
laughed, and then a new haunting began.
Then he would hear the laughter. And even in sleep,
suddenly he would hear the laughter and he would begin
to tremble. For the three years again, the Guru would
suddenly look at him and laugh, and that was all. This
continued for three years, that is for six years
altogether. Then suddenly one day, after six years the
Guru touched his hand. He would look in his eyes, take
his hand in his hands, and Hui-Hai would feel the Guru’s
energy flowing in him. He became just a vehicle, a
vessel.
He would feel the warmth, the energy, the electricity,
everything flowing in him. It was impossible to sleep
because the Teacher was there. And every time, every
moment, something was flowing. Then, after another three
years – that is, after nine years altogether – the Guru
embraced him. And Hui-Hai has written that with that day
the haunting ceased. There was no Hui-Hai: there was
only the Teacher. That’s why the haunting ceased. Three
more years passed – that is, twelve years – and one day
the Teacher touched Hui-Hai’s feet.
That day the Teacher also disappeared, but Hui-0Hai
became an Enlightened man. many would ask him later on,
”How did you gain it?” He would say, ”I cannot say. I
only surrendered. Then everything was done by him, and I
do not know what happened!”
When you surrender yourself, you can surrender only the
conscious mind, not the unconscious. You don’t know
about it, so how can you surrender it? If I tell you to
surrender your money, you can only surrender that money
which you know you have. How can you surrender that
money that is hidden in a treasure which you don’t know
that you have? So only the conscious part of the mind
can be surrendered, and the conscious mind is the
barrier.
If I say something to you, the conscious mind begins to
think whether it is right or wrong, true or false. And
even if it is true, it begins to wonder, ”What is the
purpose of this man saying it? What does he want from
me?” Many things, many questions, many doubts will come,
and the conscious mind creates a resistance. If you know
anything about hypnosis, then you must have come to know
and feel that in hypnosis the person who is hypnotized
will do anything if ordered – anything, any absurd
thing.
Why? In the hypnotic state the conscious mind is asleep.
Only the unconscious is there. The barrier has been
broken. In hypnosis your conscious mind has gone to
sleep it is not there. So in hypnosis, if you are a man
and I say, ”You are a woman,” you will behave like a
woman. You will walk like a woman; you will be shy; your
movement will become more graceful, more womanly; your
voice will change.
What happens? The conscious mind which can create doubt
– which will say, ”What nonsense you are telling me! I
am a man, not a woman” – is asleep. And the unconscious
has no doubts. The unconscious is absolutely faithful.
It has absolute faith, trust. There is no logic in the
unconscious. It cannot resist, so whatsoever is said is
believed. There is no problem. That’s why so much
emphasis is placed on faith – shraddha. Faith is of the
path of surrender; it belongs to the path of surrender.
Whatsoever is said is believed on the path of surrender.
It is day, and the Teacher says it is night – believe
it!
Why? Because this believing will break the habit of
questioning, resistance. Ultimately it will destroy the
so-called barrier of your conscious mind. And when the
conscious mind is not there, the Teacher and you become
one. Then you can work – not before that. Then it is a
telepathic relationship. You are in a deep communion. So
whatsoever the Guru thinks becomes a part of you. Now,
whatsoever he wants to do, he can do it. You have become
just totally receptive to him.
Now there is not a fight between the Teacher and the
disciple; otherwise it is a fight. There is a communion,
a deep meeting. So Hui-Hai said, ”I do not know. I
simply surrendered; that is what I did. The only thing I
did was this. I said to myself that I have tried and I
have struggled, and I have not found any bliss. It may
be that I am the cause of all my misery. If I choose the
path of will, again I will be choosing, again I will be
practising, again I will be there. Whatsoever the result
may be, I will be present in it.
And if I am the misery – and I have tried everywhere and
I have done everything – it is better to drop myself and
see what happens. So I told my Teacher that I would
surrender, and after that I simply waited for
twelve years. I don’t know what he was doing, but many
things were happening. I was transforming – I was being
transformed and changed.”
Source: from book "The Ultimate Alchemy, Volume 1" by
Osho
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