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The most important Sutra in Buddhist literature is the Prajnaparmita Hridyam Sutra of Gautam Buddha. It is central to the Buddha8217;s teachings. It begins with the mantra: Homage to the perfection of wisdom/ The lovely, the holy/Avalokita, the holy Lord and Bodhisatva/ Was moving in the deep course of the wisdom which has gone beyond/ He looked down from from on high/ He beheld but five heaps/ And he saw that in their own being they were empty.
In his meditation, Buddha reached the highest state of Samadhi, the ultimate consciousness, Param Chaitanya, that8217;s why he is known as Avalokita. In Hindu yoga system, one attains to this state of consciousness when one reaches the seventh center, Sahasrar.
Meditation is an inner journey of transformation 8212; from the first rung of the ladder to the last rung 8212; from the Mooladhar chakra to Sahasrar. Most of us live only on the first two-three charkas and rarely somebody like the Buddha attains to the seventh chakra. We call such people the Enlightened Ones when the being of the meditator becomes fully illumined. The person of such luminosity can also be addressed Avalokita. Osho explains the most basic teaching of Buddha has three parts. Buddha calls the first part Dhyana, meditation, and the second part Prajna, wisdom attainment. Through meditation you reach to prajna. These are your inward phenomena, two parts: you meditated, now you have attained. Now to balance it with the outer 8212; because a man of enlightenment is always balanced. Outside, when there was no meditation inside, there was desire. Now there is wisdom inside, there should be compassion. The outer energies should become compassion; the inner energies have become wisdom, enlightenment. Enlightenment inside, compassion outside. The perfect man is always balanced.
8216;8216;Rooted in meditation you will have wings of compassion. That8217;s why I say that I would like to give you two things: Roots into this earth and wings into that heaven. Meditation is this earth, it is here and now; the very moment you can spread your roots, do it. And once roots are there your wings will reach to the highest sky possible. Compassion is the sky, meditation is the earth, and when meditation and compassion meet a Buddha is born.
8216;8216;Go deeper and deeper into meditation so you can go higher and higher in compassion. The deeper the roots of a tree reach the higher the peak. You can see the tree, you cannot see the roots, but they are always in proportion. If the tree is reaching to the sky the roots must be reaching to the very end of the earth. The proportion is the same. As deep as your meditation is, the same depth will be achieved in compassion. So compassion is the criterion. If you think you are meditative and there is no compassion, then you are deceiving ourself. Compassion must happen, because that is the flowering of the tree. Meditation is just a means towards compassion; compassion is the goal.8217;8217;
Osho tells a story that Buddha reached the doors of the ultimate, nirvana. The angels were dancing and singing 8212; it rarely happens in millions of years that a human being becomes a Buddha. But Buddha did not enter the door. He said, 8216;8216;Unless all others who are coming behind me enter, I am not going to enter. I will keep myself outside, because once I come in then I disappear. Then I will not be of any help to these people. I see millions of people stumbling in the dark. I have myself been groping the same way for millions of lives. I would like to give them my hand. Please close the door. When everybody has come I myself will knock, then you can receive me.8217;8217;
