Beginner Meditation Guide

Osho – Self-consciousness is ill-consciousness

Osho on Self-consciousness

Question – Through doing your meditations, the body is getting stronger and healthier, and awareness less than ever. The more i jump and dance, the louder i snore. Why is this” Osho – Nothing is wrong in snoring; it is as holy as anything else. And nothing is wrong in the body. Never think in [...]

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Osho on reality and desire – Reality is here and now

Osho on reality and desire

Osho – If the mind is filled with dreams you cannot see rightly. If the heart is filled with desires you cannot feel rightly. Desires, dreams and hopes – the future disturbs you and divides you. But whatsoever is, is in the present. Desire leads you into the future, and life is here and now. [...]

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Osho – Don’t try to escape in any way from anything – work or family

Osho on Work and Meditation

[Another indian sannyasin who is involved in film-making, said that he always felt like escaping from whatsoever he was doing to meditate, and when he was meditating he wanted to lie down instead. Osho said that this urge should be resisted, and that the resistance itself could become a meditation. Osho said it was natural [...]

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Osho on Laziness and Meditation

Osho on Laziness and Meditation

[A new sannyasin said she couldn’t get into the Dynamic meditation mainly because she was lazy....] Osho – If it is just laziness, then it is good to continue meditating. It is good if laziness disappears – laziness makes one toneless. The sharpness of consciousness is lost, and one becomes blurred. Nothing else is wrong [...]

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Osho – Meditation is a disidentification with the body

Osho Meditation and Disidentification

Osho – Meditation brings rebellion in life — rebellion against all traditions, conventions, dogmas, creeds, rebellion against the whole past, because unless you are completely clean of the past you cannot be totally herenow. And unless you are totally herenow you will never know what the truth is. Truth is never in the past, never [...]

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Osho on inner exploration – The very idea to have enough is of the mind

Osho on inner exploration

Osho – The inner exploration is such that one can never have enough. The more you have, the more you will have the feeling that you don’t have anything the more you have it, the more your thirst grows. It is a non-ending journey – and it is good that it is non-ending. It is [...]

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Osho – You don’t have one mind; you are multi-psychic

osho on multi-psychic mind

Osho – YOU HAVE MANY MINDS but you have only one heart. Have you observed this fact? You don’t have one mind; you are multi-psychic, you have many minds. They constantly change — every moment your mind changes. One moment it is full of doubt, another moment it is full of belief, and another moment [...]

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Osho on Meditation Meditation is a state of No-Mind

Osho on Meditation

Question – What is Meditation? Osho – MEDITATION is A STATE OF NO-MIND Meditation is a state of pure consciousness with no content. Ordinarily, your consciousness is too much full of rubbish, just like a mirror covered with dust. The mind is a constant traffic: thoughts are moving, desires are moving, memories are moving, ambitions [...]

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Buddha Purnima Day

Buddha Purnima Day

Today’s full moon is known as Buddha Purnima. Purnima means full moon and this month full moon is dedicated to Gautam Buddha. As 2500 years ago buddha got enlightened on this day. Osho on Full Moon – The buddha, the awakened, the enlightened one shines both in the night and in the day; there is [...]

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Osho – Let the flavour of meditation spread all over your life

Osho – Drop the ego, howsoever bitter it is, howsoever painful it is, and you will be tremendously rewarded. Meditation sharpens your brilliance. Ordinarily your sword is rusty. You have never cared about it, you have not even taken it out of its sheath. And it needs constant sharpening, otherwise it is not even useful [...]

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Osho – Meditation needs not Followers but Friends

Osho – Meditation needs not followers but friends. The follower is stupid; he follows out of his stupidity: because he cannot depend on himself he starts depending on somebody else, but he is a slave, a psychological slave, and psychological slavery is a deeper slavery than all other slaveries. It is very subtle, you cannot [...]

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Osho on Beginninglessness – Slip out of the mind, and you will know what it is: the beginningless, the endless

Osho on Beginninglessness

Question – My mind has difficulty understanding the Existence of Beginninglessness. Would you please talk about it? Osho – Prem Viraj, reality is indefinable. Reality simply is; there is no way to say what it is. It is not a “what,” it is not even a “that,” it is this. It is this-ness: you can [...]

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Osho – The deep problem is: how to become aware, how not to be unconscious

Patanjali Yog Sutra – Desires arise from these three-fold karmas when circumstances are favorable for their . Osho on above Sutra – If you do a pure karma, a good act, a saintly act, then desires will arise, of course, to do more good. If you do an impure act, desires will arise to do [...]

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Osho – Meditation means: alertness, awareness, mindfulness

Osho on Meditation

Osho – You will have to understand what I mean by meditation. Meditation means: alertness, awareness, mindfulness. So whatever you are doing, just do it consciously, don’t do it mechanically. I can move my hand mechanically. I can move it very consciously, fully alert. And there is a difference of quality. When you move it [...]

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Osho on Self Remembering and Self – Forgetfullness

Osho on self remembering

Question – Osho, Why Do I go on Forgetting myself? Osho – Gyan Deva, IT IS an ancient habit; for many, many lives you have practised it. You have put so much energy into it, into forgetting yourself. You remember money, you remember others, you remember the world. To remember all these things — all these [...]

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Osho – You should find a place which enhances Meditation

Osho on Meditation Place

Osho – You should find a place which enhances meditation. For example, sitting under a tree will help, rather than going and sitting in front of a movie house or going to the railway station and sitting on the platform; going to nature, to the mountains, to the trees, to the rivers where Tao is still flowing, vibrating, pulsating, streaming all around.

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Osho – Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation

Osho on Meditation is Awareness

Question: Beloved Osho, For me the most beautiful meditation is to sit in a corner and watch the Children playing around the ashram. But i’m in trouble: is this a meditation At all? Osho: Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can watch [...]

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Osho Discourse for Meditators – Meditation needs tremendous effort

Osho – You have been doing the Meditations very Courageously here. Back home, you may feel alone. But don’t feel it as a loneliness. If you are ready, I can help you there also. Just remember me, feel my presence, and then meditate. Space, distance, is meaningless if there is love. You may be sitting [...]

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Osho on Meditation – Watching is meditation

Osho on Watching is Meditation

Osho  - Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can watch the clouds, you can watch children playing around. Watching is meditation. What you watch is not the point; the object is not the point. The quality of observation, the quality of being [...]

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Osho – the only way to get rid of this mess, this chaos, is to be aware

Osho – All kinds of things are going on inside the mind. One day just sit down and write whatsoever is coming into the mind. And don’t cheat, just write exactly whatsoever comes in and you will be surprised that this is your mind, this is where you have been living your life from. You [...]

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Osho – Sanity happens only when you become so totally silent that all inner chattering disappears

Osho on Sanity

Osho – This whole mind of communicating with people in an attempt to be verified by them simply shows a deep darkness inside; otherwise, there is no need. And I am not saying that when a man becomes full of light he stops communication — no. Only he can communicate, because he has something to [...]

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Osho – No sexual experience can give you that beauty that will come if you watch your lust and through watchfulness the lust disappears

Osho on Sex and meditation

Osho – Passion creates many things in you. It creates fever, it makes you more unconscious — more unconscious than you already are. It drags you deeper into the mud. And with passion come hatred, illusion and desire — and then you are distracted from your nature. Your nature is poisoned, your innocence is poisoned. [...]

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