Be empty. Be silent. Let the Golden Wind blow. It will take away everything that is not you, and it will leave behind that which can never be taken away. That residue is your Buddha-nature. That is your gold.
“The Golden Wind” is a metaphor often used in Zen and by Osho to describe the sudden, invisible, and transformative movement of consciousness. It represents a force that arrives without warning, blowing away the dust of the past and the dry leaves of the ego, leaving only the essential.
In Zen, they say that when the autumn comes, the golden wind begins to blow. It is a strange wind. It does not bring new leaves; it takes away the old. It strips the tree bare until it stands in its utter purity, naked against the sky. This is the work of a Master, and this is the work of meditation. The Golden Wind OSHO RAJNEESH
Most of your life is spent gathering—gathering knowledge, gathering wealth, gathering respectable masks. You become heavy, like a tree laden with dust and dead weight. You have forgotten the sky because you are too burdened by the earth.
Do not seek to understand the wind; seek only to be available to it. Become like a hollow bamboo. When the Golden Wind passes through a hollow bamboo, it becomes a song. When it passes through a cluttered mind, it is only a noise. Be empty
The "Golden Wind" is not a breeze that blows through the trees of the forest; it is the fragrance of the beyond that blows through the heart of the seeker.
Here is a text written in the spirit and style of Osho’s discourses on this theme: The Golden Wind It will take away everything that is not
But remember: the wind cannot enter a house with closed windows. Your ego is a closed room. You are afraid that if you open the windows, the wind will disturb your neatly arranged illusions. And it will! It will create a chaos, but that chaos is the birth of a star.
