“Next time you chant Buddham Saranam Gacchami , do not send your words outward. Let them fall inward — like a pebble into still water. Let the sound dissolve the chanter. Let ‘Raghava’ disappear. Then you will see: there is no one going anywhere. There is only Buddham — the awakened quality — already here, already home. That is the refuge. Not a shelter from suffering, but the realization that the sufferer never existed.”
“Scholar-ji,” the ferryman said, “you chant Buddham Sharanam Gacchami — but tell me, who is going where?”
The ferryman stepped into the river. The water touched his ankles, then his knees. He turned and said:
One evening, Raghava sat by the river, frustrated. “I have taken refuge in the Buddha a million times,” he cried to the sky, “yet I remain the same! Where is the transformation Osho speaks of? Where is the buddha in me?”
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“Next time you chant Buddham Saranam Gacchami , do not send your words outward. Let them fall inward — like a pebble into still water. Let the sound dissolve the chanter. Let ‘Raghava’ disappear. Then you will see: there is no one going anywhere. There is only Buddham — the awakened quality — already here, already home. That is the refuge. Not a shelter from suffering, but the realization that the sufferer never existed.”
“Scholar-ji,” the ferryman said, “you chant Buddham Sharanam Gacchami — but tell me, who is going where?” buddham saranam gacchami osho
The ferryman stepped into the river. The water touched his ankles, then his knees. He turned and said: “Next time you chant Buddham Saranam Gacchami ,
One evening, Raghava sat by the river, frustrated. “I have taken refuge in the Buddha a million times,” he cried to the sky, “yet I remain the same! Where is the transformation Osho speaks of? Where is the buddha in me?” Let ‘Raghava’ disappear