”In the state of no-mind, all boundaries dissolve. Suddenly, you are everywhere; suddenly, you are everyone. Suddenly, you are in the tree and in the stone and in the sky and in the friend and in the enemy—suddenly, you are simply everywhere. The whole of existence has become a mere mirror, and everywhere you find yourself reflected.
This state is the state of bliss. Nothing can disturb your peace anymore, because there is nothing except you. Nothing can destroy you now; there is nothing except you. There is no death anymore, because you continue to exist even in death itself. Nothing stands opposed to you any longer. You alone exist.
This is what Mahavira called kaivalya—perfect aloneness. Why aloneness? Because everything has been included, absorbed, and has become you.
This state can be expressed in two ways. One can say: “Only I exist. Aham Brahmasmi—I am God, the Divine, the Whole. Everything has entered into me; all rivers have flowed into my ocean. I alone exist. Nothing else exists.” This is how the Sufi mystics express it, and orthodox Muslims could never understand how the Sufis could say such things. A Sufi says: “There is no God. I alone exist.” Or: “God? That is me!”
This is a positive way of expressing that there is no longer any division.Buddha expresses it negatively. He says: “I am no more. Nothing exists.” Both speak the truth. If everything is contained within me, it no longer makes sense to call myself “I.” The ’I’ always stands in opposition to a ’you’; ’I’ exists only in relation to something other than itself. If there is no such separation, if there is only the One, if you are everything, then the “I” becomes meaningless.
Therefore, Buddha says: ”There is no self; nothing exists.”
Both are true.
~ Osho
(The Book of Secrets)
