Written 6/25/2025.
If you follow my posts, you may remember me talking about a book I’ve been slowly reading. Like, since August of 2023. Almost 2 years and less than halfway through.
It’s entitled “The Book of Secrets” by Osho. A little 1302-page tome of wisdom. What I was reading today concerned sansara and moksha. Sansara is the world, moksha is the transcendent everything. Our mind always divides the world into bits because that’s what we do and what has made us as a human species progress technologically and create a better quality of life for most on this planet.
Religion is really good at this division. This duality. There is the world and then the divine. This is easy for us to understand because we thrive on breaking things down into pieces. It also makes it harder for religious people to reach moksha.
Here’s where it gets interesting though. Tantra says that the world is already the divine. It is our blindness that separates it into the world (that which we know - sansara) and divine (that which we don’t know but is the ultimate - moksha).
If the world is divine, then nothing needs to be condemned (e.g. no sin). It is our belief in this duality/sin/condemnation that causes us stress and trauma.
“Unless you accept the world totally, you cannot be at ease within.” (page 475)
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Leaving criminals/murderers, etc aside, let’s lean into this because I think it will change the how you relate to life.
Say, “I accept the world totally, exactly as it is.”
How do you feel? Dis-ease or a little more relaxed?
Tantra says there is actually no difference between sansara and moksha ultimately. There is only one divine.
If you accepted the world EXACTLY as it is, meaning you are exactly where you are supposed to be, how would that change your world?
Would you actually live in the present moment instead of looking forward to a future that never comes (the future, by definition, never comes - we can only live in the present moment).
Would you accept the aspects of yourself you don’t like because it’s part of the divine? Similar to shadow work.
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Here’s another interpretation that I say fairly often. “Life is perfect, even if you don’t like it.”
This does NOT mean that you have to stop doing what you are doing to achieve your vision in the future. It just means that you totally accept life and the world as it is. That is the only way you’ll be able to do something about it - without psychological tension. You cannot change what you cannot see the reality of.
So many people have major angst over what’s happening in the United States. What if life was perfect? Then it may be that your interpretation is off.
This doesn’t mean to stop protesting if you feel called to protest, just to realize that life is divine regardless of what is happening in the world (sansara). Touch this feeling of moksha and physical afflictions will ease and perhaps go away.
That’s pretty cool.
Let me know your thoughts on this post (both good and bad). I’m sure I’ve struck a chord with more than just a few of you.
Remember too, that I love you. Always.
Robert
