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The difference between good and evil, between the "paradise" and "hell" is perceived as a child perceives the first moment of humanity ': Then if you can somehow know that this is' all there 'more' reaction but Being.
This story told by a tarot Osho explains very well the moment of understanding that is not ' another that leads to the fulfillment of its uniqueness'.

37. The Gates of Paradise


Transformation Tarot Card
The Gates of Paradise
The Pride of the Samurai

Heaven and hell are not geographical places, are psychological, match your psychological reality. Heaven and hell are at the end of your life, here and now. At any moment the doors open, in every moment you continue to oscillate between heaven and hell. It is a reality with which you have to compare every moment of your life. And it is something urgent knocking on the threshold of your consciousness: in one moment you can move from hell to heaven, from heaven to hell.

Hell and heaven are within you. The thresholds are very close between them, with his right hand he can open one, with the left you can open the other. Just a change in your mind and your being is transformed - from heaven to hell and from hell to heaven. Whenever you act in an unconscious manner, without any awareness, you're in hell, and every time you are aware, when your actions are governed by an attentive, you're in paradise.

Zen Master Hakuin is one of the rarest flowers never existed. A warrior came to him, was a samurai, a great soldier, and asked: "Is there a hell? Is there a heaven? And if there is a heaven and hell, where are the doors? Where do you enter? "

was a simple warrior. The warriors are always simple, otherwise they would not be such. They only know two things: life and death - their life is always in play, continuous play of chance. The man, in his simplicity, he went to Hakuin to learn a doctrine. He wanted to know where were those doors, to avoid hell and enter heaven. And Hakuin said the only way to understand a warrior.

He said: "Who are you?"
And the warrior said, "I am a samurai." In

Japan as a samurai's something that swells with pride. It means being a perfect warrior, a man who does not hesitate a moment to sacrifice their lives. For him, life and death are only a game.

Hakuin laughed and said, "You, a samurai? You sound like a beggar. "

The pride of the samurai was wounded and his ego reacted. In a moment he forgot why he went to Hakuin, drew his sword and was about to kill him. He forgot that he had come from this master to know where they were those of the gates of hell and heaven.

Hakuin laughed and said: "This is the gate of hell. With this sword, this anger, this ego, at this moment you open that door. " This is what a warrior can understand. And I understood immediately: this is the threshold. And put his sword in its sheath.

And Hakuin said, "This is the gate of heaven."

Hell and heaven are within you, both thresholds are within you. When you act in an unconscious way you face the door of hell, and when you are present and aware, here is the door of paradise.

What happened to that samurai? When he was about to kill Hakuin knew? He was aware of what was going to do? He was aware of why he had gone from him? Each consciousness was gone. When the ego takes over, can not be present and attentive. The ego is a drug, a drug that makes you completely unconscious. Act, but your actions are the result of the unconscious, do not come from your consciousness. And when any action is the result of the unconscious, so here you open the gates of hell. Whatever you do, if you're not aware, before you open the gates of hell. Hakuin's words triggered a state of alert.

Suddenly, when Hakuin said, "This is the door, you have already opened," the whole situation must have created a state of attention, very strong presence. In an instant, the head of Hakuin would fly away, in a moment would have been detached from the body with a clear shot. At that point, Hakuin said, "This is the gate of hell."

is not a philosophical answer, no Teacher replies in a philosophical way. The philosophy is only for the mediocre, for the minds without any lighting. The Teacher replies, but it is never of verbal responses, he is total. The fact that this man could kill him does not matter: "If you kill me, and it makes you aware, it's worth it." Hakuin played through.

And here's what must have happened in the warrior still, with his sword Hakuin and stopped in front of him ... Hakuin's eyes smiling, radiant face, and behold the gates of heaven were opened. Including the samurai and the sword back in its sheath. And while sheathe the sword, of course he was in an area of \u200b\u200bcomplete silence, was at peace. The anger was gone, the energy that flowed in anger for a moment before, now had become silent.

If you wake up suddenly in the midst of a state of anger, you will feel a peace that you've never heard before. The energy was flowing and suddenly stop, you will experience a silence, a silence immediately. You will fall in your inner being and the fall will be so sudden that you will become aware.

is not a slow fall, it is so sudden that you can not remain unconscious. You can stay only within a routine, things that happen gradually, so you move so slow that you can not hear any movement. That movement was sudden - the activity to inaction, from thought to no-thought, from mind to no mind. And while sheathe the sword, including the samurai and Hakuin said, "These are the gates of heaven."

Silence is the threshold. Inner peace is the threshold. Non-violence is the threshold. Love and compassion are the thresholds.


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