it (1)

LIKE THE EMPTY SKY 

IT HAS NO BOUNDARIES

YET, IT IS RIGHT IN THIS PLACE

EVER PROFOUND AND CLEAR

Replace 'it' by 'God'... 

and you will immediately understand.

But Zen people don't use the word 'God'. 

They say 'it'.

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LIKE THE EMPTY SKY

IT HAS NO BOUNDARIES

YET, IT IS RIGHT IN THIS PLACE

EVER PROFOUND AND CLEAR

If you start looking for the sky... you will never find it. 

If you start searching, & you become very serious, you will never find the sky. Where will you find the sky? The sky is not somewhere, it is éverywhere. And that which is everywhere... 

cannot be searched for.

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You cannot locate it. 

You cannot say it is in the north, you cannot say it is in the south. 

You cannot say it is thére - because it is everywhere. 

That which is everywhere cannot be found somewhere. And where will you search? You will be rushing into the sky itself, here and there. And it is all sky. God is like the sky. Like the empty sky.

It has no boundaries. 

So it cannot be defined. 

You cannot say where it begins and where it ends. It is eternal, it is infinite - yet it is right in this place, just in front of you. 

If you are relaxed, it is there. 

If you become tense... 

it disappears.

~osho~

zen path of paradox (i)

(1977) - chapter 1