Beginner Meditation Guide

Osho – Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God

Osho - Vertical is God

Osho – While you are here with me, be here with me; be totally here with me so that you can learn a new mode of movement, so that you can move into eternity, not in time. Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God. Both meet at [...]

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Osho – The test of whether your meditation is succeeding or not is in life

Osho on Meditation and Escapism

Question – I have been doing all the five meditations every day regularly for three years and because of these meditations i cannot do anything else. i am feeling very happy but my family is worried. what should i do? Osho – You are overdoing it, sir. You have to choose one meditation. One is [...]

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Osho – Unlearning the mind is learning meditation

Osho on Learning Meditation

Question – Can meditation be learned, or is it, like love, a state of being that comes as a present? Osho – Prem Prabhati, meditation cannot be learned in a positive way, but it can be learned in a negative way. This is very important to understand: the basic method of meditation is negative. What [...]

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Osho – Discipline never becomes meditation; meditation certainly becomes a discipline

Osho on Discipline and Meditation

Question – When does Discipline become Meditation? Osho – Never. Discipline never becomes meditation; meditation certainly becomes-a discipline. Don’t start with discipline otherwise you will never arrive at meditation. Start with meditation and you will arrive at a discipline, and the discipline will not be imposed from the outside. It will be an inner overflow; [...]

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Osho – Would you talk about meditating on pain while pain is happening?

Osho on Meditating on Physical Pain

Question – In meditation the distraction is often physical pain. Would you talk about meditating on pain while pain is happening? Osho – This is what I was talking about. If you feel pain, be attentive to it, don’t do anything. Attention is the great sword — it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to [...]

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Osho – Commit, involve! Involve yourself with life, get committed to life

osho get committed to life

Osho – Mind is vacillation, mind is either/or, mind is always in that space of “to be or not to be.” If you really want to grow, mature, if you really want to know what this life is all about, don’t vacillate. Commit, involve! Involve yourself with life, get committed to life, don’t remain a [...]

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Osho – The basic problem before a spiritual seeker is not how to know, but how to be

Osho on spiritual seeker

Osho – The basic problem before a spiritual seeker is not how to know, but how to be. Knowing is not the problem, it is easy. The real problem is how to be, how the being should be strengthened. Knowing can grow easily; knowing has its own ways of growing. But knowing is a parasitic [...]

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Osho on psychotherapy and meditation – Meditation has nothing to do with psychotherapy

Osho on psychotherapy and meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, does psychological therapy help to go beyond the mind? Osho – Vijen, psychological therapy can help you to understand the mind, but it cannot lead you beyond the mind. Only one thing leads you beyond the mind and that is meditation. Meditation has nothing to do with psychotherapy, but psychotherapy can [...]

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Osho on Meditation – A consciousness without mind, A consciousness without thoughts

Osho on Meditation and Consciousness

Osho – Don’t be in a hurry to find any answer, otherwise some rubbish will kill the answer. Don’t allow your mind to kill the question. And the way of the mind to kill the question is to supply answers, unlived, unexperienced. You are truth! But it can happen only in utter silence, when not [...]

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Osho on Mind – Mind’s nature is to move from one extreme to another

Osho on Mind

Osho – The most difficult thing, the almost impossible thing for the mind, is to remain in the middle, is to remain balanced. And to move from one thing to its opposite is the easiest. To move from one polarity to the opposite polarity is the nature of the mind. This has to be understood [...]

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Osho on Baking as Meditation – If you can change your work into Meditation

Osho on Baking as Meditation

[A sannyasin who bakes said that because of his work he was unable to do the meditations, and should he do anything else. Osho said that when he had time he could meditate alone... ] Osho – Baking is a good meditation. Put your love into it, your whole awareness into it. Just don’t do [...]

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Osho – there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world

osho - every mind lives in his own world

Osho – How you look at things depends on you, not on things. Unless you come to a point where you drop the interpreting mind and look direct, look immediate, mind is your mediator. It brings you things distorted, it brings you things mixed with interpretations. They are not pure. So the only way to [...]

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Osho – To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace

Osho - Mind belongs to the marketplace

Osho – Meditation is the door to the divine. To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace; in fact it is prepared for the market-place — for competition, for ego trips, for politics, for money, power, prestige. From the kindergarten, school to the university we create the [...]

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Osho on Non Doing – While you can do something, nondoing is not possible

Osho on Non Doing

Question – If one experiences or understands inwardly the deep feeling of becoming as a dry leaf to be moved only by the existence itself, then how can one push oneself to breathe or jump or do anything at all but lie flat on the earth and dissolve? Osho – First, to experience and to [...]

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Osho on Thinking – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies

Osho on Thinking and Dichotomies

Osho – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies. They cannot think without dividing. Whenever we go to think about something, we dissect it, we divide it into two. That is the methodology of the mind. Mind cannot think in terms of Unity, in terms of synthesis. Mind thinks in terms of analysis so [...]

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Osho – Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness

Osho on Meditation and Mind

Osho – Mind is just a disturbance. Mind is just a disturbance in consciousness. It is not your nature; it is just a disturbance. The moment there is no disturbance, there is no mind. And this state of no-mindedness is the state of consciousness – the expansion of consciousness. You drop into yourself: not into [...]

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Osho – the second birth becomes possible only through meditation

osho on meditation and second birth

Osho – Man is a potentiality, a possibility. We can miss it millions miss it, and the reason why we miss is very simple: we think that we have already attained life. We make birth synonymous with life — that is our fundamental misunderstanding. Birth is only an opportunity to be alive, it is not [...]

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Osho – meditation doesn’t belong to the act; it belongs to the quality you bring to the act

Osho - meditation doesn't belong to the act

Osho – Sri Aurobindo says somewhere that the whole life is yoga — and it is so. Everything can become a meditation. And unless everything becomes a meditation, meditation has not happened to you. Meditation cannot be a part, a fragment. Either it is — and when it is you are wholly in it — [...]

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Osho – Don’t sacrifice the essential for the non-essential

Osho on essential things

Osho – A person who wastes his life in accumulating things that can be purchased is simply being stupid, because those are not the things which can give meaning to your life. They don’t have any real value; they have a price but no value. So this is one of the most significant criterions to [...]

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connect to him (osho) on the road…on the street…in the rain

swami rajneesh on meditation

swami rajneesh: you meditate everyday in a one nice room ahaa…you yourself and the room everything is perfect nobody is there to disturb to you and you are connecting to your master osho perfect… but here we are…moving…travelling… learn to connect to him in the bus… connect to him on the road…on the street…in the [...]

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Osho – Attain to thoughtless moments, to contentless consciousness

Osho on contentless consciousness

Osho – A warrior can be of two types: one is engaged in external war, war with others; the other is interior war, war with one’s own sleep, unconsciousness, war with one’s own stupidity, lethargy. Don’t be a warrior in the external sense of the word, that is violence; but certainly be a warrior in [...]

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Osho – A Master simply teaches you how to be alert

osho on real master

Osho – The real Master is not technical, he is simple — because there is no technique to achieve God. God is not somewhere at the end of a technique, no. God is already available to you. You are in God;you just have to shake yourself a little so that you can become a little [...]

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