{"id":3326,"date":"2018-02-22T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:21:41","slug":"zen-not-teaching-device-awaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/zen-not-teaching-device-awaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen is not a teaching but a device to awaken you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span6  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-image-obj motopress-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruquote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Osho.jpg?fit=350%2C500&ssl=1\" title=\"Osho\" alt=\"Zen wants everybody to be a glory unto himself. It is not an achievement, it is not competition; it is simply originality. And the originality is already there, you have just to throw away all the rubbish that you have been collecting from others. However valuable it may be, it is destroying your original being, covering it with dust; and you will never be happy unless you find your original being. The very finding of your original being is such a dance, such a joy, that you can bless the whole world yet you will remain overflowing.\" class=\"motopress-image-obj-basic mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right mpce-dsbl-margin-top mpce-dsbl-margin-bottom\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span6  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<p>Zen, in the first place, is not a teaching but a device to awaken you. It is not information, it is not knowledge. It is a method to shake you up, to wake you up. Teaching means you are fast asleep and somebody goes on talking about what awakening is \u2014 and you go on snoring and he goes on talking. 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