A Subtle "Not" Operator to Sense God
Inspired from Osho
God is a guest who comes without informing you. The Hindi word for guest is atithi. It means “one who comes without giving you any date beforehand.” Boolean algebra is a branch of mathematics focused on logical values—true and false—instead of numerical values. It uses logical operators like AND, OR, and NOT, rather than arithmetic operations.
In Boolean algebra, true and false are typically represented as 1 and 0, respectively. These two values, 1 and 0, are the only possible values in this system.
We can express the operator's result as a truth table. This is a table that shows the output value X for each input value A:
I came across this operator for situations that feel like, "Now this is going to happen." But when you wait, nothing happens—because you're already present in the act of waiting.
Things happen unexpectedly. Things happen when you are not even waiting for them. God is seen sometimes only when you are not looking for him because when you are looking you are tense. God happens in such mundane and trivial moments that you could not have expected. Whenever you are expecting, you are there; and God cannot be there because you are there. When you are not expecting, just swimming in a river, just enjoying the moment, the absolute presence of the trees and the birds and the sunlight, and you are completely lost – and of course, nobody waits for God to happen at that moment – suddenly he is there.
Don’t think about “I experience” and talk about the future. Be here now. This moment is the only moment there is. Enjoy this moment in total absorption. Whatsoever you are doing, do it totally, be lost in it. If you are lost in it, it becomes worship, it becomes prayer. God is available – just don’t stand in the way. Don’t stand in the way of God, that’s all. And then he is in the flower, and in the bird on the wing; then he is in the breeze passing through the trees. When you are not there to distort, you will find him everywhere – because he is everything. It is a miracle how we go on missing him. The wave cannot be made permanent. The only way is to freeze it so it becomes ice. But then it is not a wave, it is just a piece of ice. Then it is no longer a wave because it cannot wave. The aliveness has gone; the dynamism has gone. You fall in love with a woman and you want to make the love permanent? Then you are in danger – you are trying to make a wave permanent.
Look into your own being. “Can sannyas be a permanent change?” Again you go on using a word, permanent. Sannyas is both the wave and the ocean. It depends on you. If you simply see the wave, it is impermanent; if you look deep into it and you can find the ocean, it is eternal. The eternal is not permanent; the eternal is beyond time. Permanent means staying longer in time. But what does it matter whether you are a sannyasin for one day or one year or one thousand years – how does it matter? Seek something which is beyond time. Then once it is there, you know it has always been there and it will be there always. The eternal is your innermost nature: स्वभाव.