November 2008

Osho on Life – Consciousness is life; Sleep is a form of death

Osho - Consciousness is life

Osho : Consciousness is life; sleep is a form of death. Consciousness is the light of awareness that fills the heart; sleep is the darkness that is ridden with misery, pain and remorse. If this is how you feel, know well that you are in darkness. But you must understand that you are asleep, you [...]

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Osho on Gazing, Technique of Gazing at sky, Master Photo, Darkness

Osho on Gazing Technique

Question : WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAZING AT AN OPEN CLEAR SKY, GAZING AT AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER’S PHOTO, AND GAZING AT THE DARKNESS? Osho : The technique of gazing is not concerned really with the object; it is concerned with gazing itself. Because when you stare without blinking your eyes, you become focused, and [...]

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Osho – Can problem be solved through thinking, Mind

Osho on Problems and Thinking

Question : Can problems be solved through Thinking? Osho : Yes, certain problems can be solved through thinking – only those problems which are created by thinking can be solved by it. But no real problem can be solved by it, no lived problem can be solved by it. It is not created by it; [...]

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Osho on difference in Philosophy and Darshan

Osho on Philosophy Darshan

Osho : Philosophy is not darshan. Darshan is the eastern term. Darshan means perception, philosophy means thinking. Herman Hesse has coined a new word to translate darshan into western languages. He calls it ‘philosia’ – ‘sia’ from ‘to see’. Philosophy means to think, and darshan means to see. Both are basically different; not only different, [...]

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Osho on Effort in Meditation, Doing and Non doing in meditation

Question : ISN’T IT TRUE THAT ALL MEDITATION TECHNIQUES ARE REALLY DOINGS WHICH LEAD THE SEEKER TO HIS BEING? Osho : In a way, yes; and in a deeper way, no. Meditation techniques are doings, because you are advised to do something. Even to meditate is to do something, even to sit silently is to [...]

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Osho on Sky Mediation, To meditate on the sky is beautiful

Osho on Sky Mediation

Osho : Meditate on the sky; a summer sky with no clouds, endlessly empty and clear, nothing moving in it, in its total virginity. Contemplate on it, meditate on it, and enter this clarity. Become this clarity, this space-like clarity. If you meditate on open unclouded sky, suddenly you will feel that the mind is [...]

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Osho on Being aware, Awareness leads to awareness

Osho Awareness leads to awareness

Osho : When I say that awareness cannot be attained by mind, I mean that you cannot attain it by thinking about it. You can go on thinking about and about, but you will be moving in a circle. When I say that it cannot be attained by the mind, I mean that it cannot [...]

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Osho – Does an Enlightened person dream

Osho on Enlightened person dream

Osho : No, an enlightened person cannot dream. And if you like dreams very much, never become enlightened. Beware! Dreaming is part of sleep. The first thing is that for dreaming to happen you have to move into sleep. For ordinary dreams you have to move into sleep. In sleep you become unconscious. When you [...]

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Osho on Desires, Misery and From Desire to desirelessness

Osho on Desire to desirelessness

Osho : You must understand what desire means, and religions have confused you much about it. If you desire something of the world, they call it desire. If you desire something of the other world, they call it by a different name. This is absurd. Desire is desire! It makes no difference what the object [...]

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Osho on Trusting oneself and Stop doing Imitation

Osho on Trusting oneself

Osho : It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest! Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant. This sutra says ”… MOTHER PARTICULAR KNOWINGS.” Always try to know something in [...]

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Osho on Jokes and Laughter

Osho on Jokes and Laughter

Question : OSHO, I LAUGH SO MUCH AT YOUR JOKES. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK ONE QUESTION: WHY DOES A JOKE CREATE SO MUCH LAUGHTER? Osho : ONE THING: you have never been allowed to laugh; your laughter is repressed. It is like a repressed spring – any excuse is enough and it comes out. [...]

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Osho on addiction of Money, Politics, Power

Osho on addiction of Money

Osho : Sometimes through money he wants to become great – yes, money also gives you a feeling of expansion; it is a drug. When you have much money, you feel your boundaries are not so close to you – they are far away. You can have as many cars as you want; you are [...]

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Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt and Listening to Inner Voice

Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt

Osho : FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to distract it, not to take it in some other direction where it was not going on its own. To surrender to nature, to flow with [...]

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Osho on Tantra approach, Is Tantra a way of Indulgence

Osho on Tantra Indulgence

Question : Is n’t Tantra a way of Indulgence? Osho : IT IS NOT. It is the ONLY way to get out of indulgence. It is the only way to get out of sexuality. No other way has ever been helpful for man; all other ways have made man more and more sexual. Sex has [...]

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Osho on Saraha tantra Vision, Saraha is the founder of Tantra vision

Osho on Saraha tantra

Osho : GAUTAM THE BUDDHA IS THE GREATEST MASTER who has ever walked on the earth. Christ is a great Master, so is Krishna, so is Mahavir, so is Mohammed, and many more – but Buddha still remains the greatest Master. Not that his achievement of Enlightenment is greater than anybody else’s – Enlightenment is [...]

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Osho on Mind Mechanism, Mind Working, Mind tricks

Osho on Mind

Osho : The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will [...]

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Osho on being authentic, Natural, Loose

Osho on Being Authentic

Osho : Remember this – that beauty of truth, authenticity. Become more authentic and you will have a flowering. And the more authentic you become, by and by you will feel many things are falling away – of their own accord. You never made any effort to do it; they are falling of their own accord. [...]

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Osho on Mahamudra, Osho on Tilopa Songs of Mahamudra

Osho on Tilopa Mahamudra

Osho : Even in ordinary life you feel the futility of words. And if you don’t feel the futility of words, that shows that you have not been alive at all; that shows that you have lived very superficially. If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not [...]

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Osho on Mind Conditioning and Gradual – Sudden methods

Osho on Mind Conditioning

Osho : Mind asks, how can mind itself go beyond mind? How can any mental process help to achieve something which is not of the mind? It looks contradictory. How can your mind try, make an effort to create a state which is not of mind? Try to understand. When mind is, what is there? [...]

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Osho on Reaching Inner Center and Stopping Mind

Osho on Reaching Inner Center

Osho : If you can create a center outside – anywhere: in the mind, in the heart, or even outside on a wall – and if you concentrate totally on it and you bracket out the whole world, you forget the whole world and only one point remains in your consciousness, suddenly you will be [...]

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Osho on Weighlessness and Body levitation

Osho on Body levitation

Osho : When you are happy you always feel weightless; when you are sad you always feel more weight, as if something is pulling you down. The gravitation becomes much more. When you are sad, you are more weighty. When you are happy, you are light. You feel it. Why? Because when you are happy, [...]

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Osho on Mastery of Dreams, Osho on Dream Creation

Osho on Mastery of Dreams

Osho : If you can become aware of dreams, you can do two things. You can create dreams – one. Ordinarily you cannot create dreams. How impotent man is! You cannot even create dreams. If you want to dream a particular thing you cannot dream it; it is not in your hands. How powerless man [...]

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