Osho, the Philosopher's Stone, Meister Eckhart, Swamiji Shyam, and love

In agreement on the inevitability of Life's inherent, effortless perfection, which cannot be beseeched nor striven for, Osho offers, "There is no difficulty about it; there is no difficulty at all. Nobody need do anything; it will happen on its own."(Kundalini, p152)^{^[8]}

And Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj offers, "You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go of your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own… [There is] no need to know. It operates by itself."(I AM THAT, p3, 136). And all this miraculous 'inevitability' is summed up in Marcus Aurelius' wonderfully terse axiom, "It loved to happen."

In moments of this divine ambivalence, we can affirm Lao Tzu's phrase that "The sage does nothing, and yet everything is done." It is this paradoxical recognition (paradoxical, at least, to those who have not experienced the still point of Creation within themselves) that in fact everything is actually done without doing anything; that the 'form'- which is to say, the play of the manifest- continues to return to us, over and over again, 'writhing at our feet', as it were.

Apathy is the welcome-mat of the Spirit. As Meister Eckhart declares, "You may be sure that perfect quiet and idleness is the best you can do." (sermon 4, p121) For, "There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness", comments Sri Aurobindo.

This, again, is the 'one thing needful'. In the emptiness of this ignorance and indifference, when we are finished with all the vanities under the sun, perhaps we shall finally admit how foolhardy all our efforts and understandings have been.

The 'peace of mind' which comes from empty-minded apathy is the temple in which the Spirit builds its home. For it is the 'lilies in the field' which are looked after, though they think not, worry not, and do nothing but 'be'.

You have not to worry, you have not to plan, and "You have not to ask what to do", for "It will take care of you.", admonishes Swamiji Shyam.

And Maitreya Ishawara corroborates, "The more you trust, the more the whole takes care."

Which is to say, we must simply accept that WE DO NOT KNOW, but that IT knows us, and that in knowing us, we are taken care of. We need not seek it, we need only take it as it comes.

[8] Speaking of this attainment as the philosopher's stone, or the lapis lazuli of the east, Stepan Stulginsky demands, "Reach not for the Stone... It will come of Itself if thou knowest to await it."(Cosmic Legends of the East)