Avalokita is a name of Buddha - OSHO



Avalokita is a name of Buddha. Literally it means one who looks from above -- avalokita
-- one who looks from above, one who stands at the seventh center, sahasrar, the
transcendental, and looks from there. Naturally, whatsoever you see is contaminated by your
standpoint, is contaminated by the space you are in.
If a man who lives at the first rung -- the physical body -- looks at anything, he looks from
that standpoint. A man who lives at the physical only looks to your body when he looks at
you, he cannot look at more than that, he cannot see more than that. Your vision of things
depends on from where you are looking.
A man who is sexually disturbed, sexually involved in fantasies, only looks from that
standpoint. A man who is hungry looks from that standpoint. Watch in your own self. You
look at things, and each time you look at things they appear different because you are
different. In the morning the world looks a little more beautiful than in the evening. In the
morning you are fresh, and in the morning you have come from a depth of great sleep, the
deep sleep, the dreamless sleep. You have tasted something of the transcendental, although
unconsciously. So in the morning everything looks beautiful. People are more compassionate,
more loving; people are purer in the morning, people are more innocent in the morning. By
the time evening arrives these same people will become more corrupted, more cunning,
clever, manipulating, ugly, violent, deceiving. These are the same people, but in the morning
they were very close to the transcendental. By the evening they have lived in the mundane, in
the worldly, in the physical too much, and they have become focussed there.
The man of perfection is one who can move through all these seven chakras easily -- that
is the man of freedom -- who is not fixed at any point, who is like a dial: you can adjust it to
any vision. That is what is called a mukta, one who is really free. He can move in all the
dimensions and yet remain untouched by them. His purity is never lost, his purity remains of
the transcendental.

Buddha can come and touch your body and heal your body. He can become a body, but
that is his freedom. He can become a mind and he can talk to you and explain things to you,
but he is never the mind. He comes and stands behind the mind, uses it, just as you drive your
car -- you never become the car. He uses all these rungs, he is the whole ladder. But his
ultimate standpoint remains the transcendental. That is his nature.
'Avalokita' means one who looks from the beyond at the world.
AVALOKITA, THE HOLY LORD AND BODHISATTVA,
WAS MOVING IN THE DEEP COURSE OF THE WISDOM
WHICH HAS GONE BEYOND.
The sutra says this state of beyondness is not a static thing. It is a movement, it is a
process, riverlike. It is not a noun, it is a verb. It goes on unfolding. That's why Hindus call it
the one-thousand-petaled lotus: 'one thousand' simply means infinite, it is symbolic of infinity.
Petals upon petals, petals upon petals go on opening, to no end. The journey begins but never
ends. It is eternal pilgrimage.
Osho - The Heart Sutra

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