I. mediteer -1

Our physical body is just an outer wrapping.

The consciousness of life is inner.

The awakening of the spirit is from inside. We perish, because we mistake the superficial outer shell for the seed itself. And so the seed never has the chance to sprout, never has the chance to break through into the light. But when his seed is allowed to crack through its shell, a man can grow into a fully developed tree.

Until that happens man is just a seed, just a potentiality. But when that does happen, when man experiences the light of spiritual awakening, his seedling rises upward like a tree, and man becomes a solid reality.

Some call this reality the Soul.

Some call it God.

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Man is the seed of God.

But how can a seed know the fullness of its realized potential?

Only the tree can feel the complete, total experience of full development. Only the tree can know the immense joy of that fulfillment. The seed can never know that tender green leaves will adorn it as a tree. It can never know that the rays of the rising sun will dance on its lea-ves & that the gentle breezes will sing through its branches. It can never understand how the soul of the tree will swell with the ecstasy of life.

How can the seed know?

That flowers will grace the tree's branches, surpassing even the beauty of the stars that twinkle in the sky? How can the seed understand the joy of birds nesting in the tree's bran-ches, singing their songs of happiness? And the peaceful shade the tree will give to weary travelers?

The séed can never know.

The séed is unconscious of all this joy.

Of all this satisfaction.

It cannot even dream of these delights.

These are only possible when the seed

B E C Ó M E S  a tree.

~osho~
the long the short...
(1967?) - ch.5