A great astrologer saw Buddha. He could not believe his eyes — that body, that golden aura around the body, those beautiful eyes, as silent as any lake can be, and as deep and as pure as any lake can be, that crystal-clarity, that walking grace. He fell at Buddha's feet and he said, "I have studied astrology, palmistry. My whole life I have been studying types of men, but I have never come across a man like you! To what type do you belong? Are you a god who has descended on the earth? — because you don't seem to belong to this earth. I can't see any heaviness in you. You are absolutely light, weightless. I am wondering how you are walking on the earth, because I don't see any gravitation functioning on you. Are you a god who has descended from heaven just to have a look at what is happening on the earth? a messenger from God? a prophet? Who are you?"
And Buddha said, "I am not a god."
The astrologer asked, "Then are you what in Indian mythology is called a YAKSHA?" — a little bit lower than the gods.
And Buddha said, "No, I am not a YAKSHA either."
"Then who are you? What kind of man, what category to put you in?"
And Buddha said, "I am not a man or a woman."
Now the astrologer was very much puzzled, and he said, "What do you mean? Do you mean you are an animal, an animal spirit, or the spirit of a tree, or the spirit of a mountain or the spirit of a river?" — because Indian mythology is pantheistic, it believes in all kinds of spirits. "So who are you, the spirit of a rosebush? You look so beautiful, so innocent."
And Buddha said, "No, I am not an animal, nor the spirit of a tree, nor the spirit of a mountain."
"Then who are you?" The astrologer was puzzled very much.
And Buddha said, "I am awareness and nothing else. You cannot categorize me, because all categories are applicable to dreams."
Somebody is dreaming he is a man, somebody else is dreaming she is a woman, and so on and so forth. Categories belong to the world of dreams. When one becomes awakened one is simply that principle of awakenedness, awareness. One is just a witness and nothing else, a pure witness. All clouds have disappeared: the cloud of a man or a woman, animal, god, trees — all clouds, all forms have disappeared. One is just a formless awareness, the pure sky, endless, infinite, vast. This awareness is empty of clouds but full of the sky. This is positive emptiness, this is NIRVANA.
OSHO