Osho: First, Learn the Preliminaries Chogyam Trungpa: First, Train in the Preliminaries Pema Chodron: First, Train in the Preliminaries Jamgon Kongtrul: First, Train in the Preliminaries Alan Wallace: First of All Train in the Preliminaries Rabten & Dhargyey: First Train in All the Preliminary Practices. Dilgo Khyentse: First, Study the Preliminaries THINK THAT ALL PHENOMENA ARE LIKE DREAMS  The Preliminaries   Osho

First, Learn the Preliminaries
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What are the preliminaries? These are the preliminaries. First: truth is. Truth is not something to be created, truth is not something that is far away. Truth is here now, truth surrounds you like the ocean surrounds the fish. The fish may not be aware - once the fish becomes aware of the ocean, the fish is enlightened. The fish is not aware, cannot be aware, because the fish is born in the ocean, has always lived in the ocean, is part of the ocean as any wave is part of the ocean. The fish is also a wave - a little more solid, but born out of the ocean, lives in the ocean and will one day disappear in the ocean. The fish may never come to know about the ocean. To know something, a little distance is needed. To know something, distance is needed. And the ocean is so close, that's why the fish may not be aware of it.

And so is the case with truth, or if you like you can use the word "God". So is the case with God. It is not that he is far away, and that's why we don't know about him: it is because he is NOT far away but very close by. Even to say that it is close by is not right, because you ARE it. He is within you and without; he is all and all.

From The Book of Wisdom : Discourses on Atisha`s Seven Points of Mind Training, by Osho
Used by kind permission of Osho Foundation International

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