HAIKU

Lonely is my way!
No one passes here but I,
late this autumn day.

Basho

Just visualize the late autumn day: soon the sunset, soon there will be multi-colors, psychedelic colors, on the horizon — a beautiful autumn day.

No one passes here but I. He is talking about his inside. No one passes here but I — lonely is my way.

Lonely is everybody’s way.

The master can only indicate, can point his finger to the moon, but you should look at the moon, not at the finger.

If you look at the finger, you miss the moon; you miss the master, his indication.

That’s what has happened to all so-called religions.

They are holding fingers: somebody the finger of Jesus, somebody the finger of Krishna, somebody the finger of Mohammed.

Nobody is looking at the moon.

And because these people themselves don’t understand, they are very joyful — “My finger is being caught by six hundred million Catholics!”

The pope is immensely happy: “Six hundred million Catholics holding my finger?”

But the question is not the finger; the question is the moon.

And the path is alone.

It is the moon within you.

The master can indicate.... I am doing it every day, indicating where to go, how to go, how much energy is needed to reach there, what kind of experiences will be happening on the path and what kind of experiences will be happening when you have reached the center of your being. I can only indicate, but you have to go.

If you don’t go, I am helpless.

Osho