बुद्धा

OSHO

One of Gautam Buddha's disciples, Manjushri, became
enlightened. He had been meditating for almost twenty
years, and those who had already become enlightened
immediately recognized him.
 
Sariputra told him, "Why don't you go and tell the master?"

Manjushri laughed. He said, "Do I have to go to the master
for recognition?
  I know that whenever he comes across me, he will see it. I
don't have to say it." And that's how it happened.

The next morning, when Gautam Buddha was going for a
morning walk, he came by the side of the tree where
Manjushri used to meditate.
 
He stopped, he looked around, and he said, "Manjushri,
you should have come and announced your
enlightenment. Do you think you can hide fire? All around
you there are flames declaring your enlightenment.

All around you flowers have blossomed, which may not be
visible to the ignorant, but anybody who is enlightened will
recognize you whether you say it or not."

Manjushri touched Gautam Buddha's feet and he said,
"This was the reason that I did not come to you. If it is
authentic, if I am not in a hallucination, if I am not
imagining that I have become enlightened, then it is better
that Gautam Buddha himself recognizes it, rather than my
going to him.
 
He knows hundreds of people who have become
enlightened under him. If he passes by me without
recognizing it, that simply means my time has not come
yet, I am simply imagining."

And that was not the only incident -- because under
Gautam Buddha more people became enlightened than under any man in history. Ten thousand monks
continuously followed
him, and all they were doing the whole day was simply
meditating, just witnessing their minds. In time, in season,
the right climate, the right moment... one by one they 
started exploding.

My experience is that it is very much a triggering process.
If one person becomes enlightened and you are sitting
close by him, something may trigger in you. Just his
changed energy can give a push to your own energy.

Our enlightenment is not something of a kind that has to
be achieved; it is already there, it is our very nature. It is
the simplest thing in the world, and that has made it the
most difficult.

Going within yourself just needs a small push, and that
push need not be physical. It is not physical; it is more
something like magnetic energy, or something more like
electricity.
 
You don't see it, but it can travel from one person to
another person, if the other person is ready enough. He
will be surprised by the explosion. 

Gautam Buddha allowed ten thousand people to be
always with him simply to create an energy field. ❄
 
Somebody is a step ahead of you, somebody is two steps
ahead of you, somebody is very close to the  
explosion. 
 
If he explodes, 
 
he can create a chain reaction
 
and those who are just behind him may catch the fire.