Gee You Are You, The Book
Krishna Prem here. I am thrilled to
announce the birth of my book, Gee You Are You, my
journey from here to here. Below is a taste of my
‘righting’. I trust it will make you hungry for more. If
I am right, please order my whole meal. It’s fat free,
organic and full of vitamins O, S, H & O.
Gee You Are You, In The Beginning
Sitting together with Osho in ’74 in his Woodlands
apartment in Bombay on our one-year anniversary, I asked
him how it is that he reads me like an open book. He
smiled as he hinted that when he found out who he is, he
also met me and that in reality we are not two. Almost
giggling by now, he said that we are both buddhas, that
he is a waking buddha and I am a sleeping buddha. “Not
much difference, eh?” No one had ever called me a buddha
before, so that felt fine, but a sleeping buddha… my
young spiritual ego took a hit. Osho asked me how my
meditation was coming along. He had asked me to do the
Dynamic Meditation for twenty-one mornings before our
meeting. What rolled off my lips is what Groucho Marx
famously said, “Close, but no cigar.” Osho’s giggle
turned into a hearty laugh. I went on to explain that it
was not so much as getting out of my mind, but it was
more like I was moving furniture (thoughts) around in my
home (mind).
He looked at me sternly as he said, “Do not decorate
your prison.”
I have come to know that our minds are prisons until we
are free, until we can watch our minds work for us
instead of the other way around. Until we become the
witness. Becoming the witness is the key to unlocking
the mystery of this little book. Quite simply the
witness is who you are as you watch what you do and
think and feel. The witness is who you are. To remember
that you are the witness requires that you become
intimate with yourself. You can no longer treat yourself
like a perfect stranger... what you need now is love
plus a touch of awareness. Please don’t get depressed
that you have wasted your entire life up to now. You can
know. Your life is a journey and quite simply the
journey is the goal. Trust yourself. The present is a
present, so let’s start now, and when I say you, I am
talking to myself as well. I am you and you are me and
we are all together. You will need to quiet your mind to
witness yourself as your character (your personality)
running around in circles chasing your tail. As the
waking Buddha reminds, “Be still and know.”
In the West, when I ask my friends, “Tell me who you
are?” I often get an answer back, “I am a doctor, a
lawyer, an Indian chief.” I get the answer of the doer.
In the East, I often hear the sound of silence to that
exact same question… an answer from your very being.
The question is, when are we becoming human beings
instead of human doers? A human being also is a human
doer, but he moves from his center, always remaining a
witness when he moves into the cyclone of the
marketplace.
From this very moment go back into your prison, into
your mind. Now open the windows and the doors and your
skylight. Let misery blow through you. Don’t grab onto
it. Let bliss tickle you. This too will pass. Misery and
bliss are both experiences. I wonder which experience
you prefer. Do not choose. Life comes, life goes, and
you are also not here to decorate your prison. Make a
clean break. Freedom is the highest value, even higher
than love. Freedom is you watching your mind without
reacting. Freedom is responding to whatever life throws
at you. In the East, this is known as No-Mind. In the
West we doers call this the zone. In reality where there
is no such thing as East or West, there is only life
living, death dying while you remain the witness of this
eternal play.
You are cordially invited to be a human being once and
for all while your human doer gets involved in all sorts
of dramas. You will know you are enlightened when your
dramas unfold without touching you. For me right now the
most important word in the English language is and; not
Krishna Prem or you, but Krishna Prem and you. This book
is not about meditating in the East or working downtown.
It’s about movement… moving from your center (your inner
world) into the marketplace (your outer world) and back
again. According to Osho, quite simply, “God is
Movement.”
Osho called this meeting of East and West Zorba the
Buddha. You are aware of your Zorba. You know what it is
to have fun in the world. Can you remain alert after one
too many glasses of bubbly? At the same time, can you
meditate while you sip? Again, for me, it’s not Zorba or
the Buddha, its Zorba and the Buddha. I’ll drink to that
if you are willing to close your eyes for twenty minutes
and watch your breath before you dress for work today.
Yes, it is not your work to become someone in the
future, but simply your play to remember who you are
right now. Once and for all, life is not in your future,
you are already alive and perfect. Wake up and disturb
me. And I’ll do the same for you.
Love is, Krishna Prem
“Enlightenment is not something to be achieved, it is just to be lived.
When I say that I achieved enlightenment, I simply mean that I decided
to live it. Enough is enough! And since then I have lived it. It is a
decision that now you are not interested in creating problems – that's
all. It is a decision that now you are finished with all this nonsense
of creating problems and finding solutions. All this nonsense is a game
you are playing with yourself: you yourself are hiding and you yourself
are seeking, you are both the parties. And you know it! That's why when
I say it you smile, you laugh. I am not talking about anything
ridiculous – you understand it. You are laughing at yourself. Just watch
yourself laughing, just look at your own smile – you understand it. It
has to be so because it is your own game: you are hiding and waiting for
yourself to be able to seek and find yourself.”
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