Meditation Experiences

Osho – How can a meditator know that he is going higher and deeper

Osho on Meditation

Question – How can a meditator know that he is going higher and deeper, or if he is stuck somewhere? Osho – It is very simple. First, there are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know, in which you [...]

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Osho – Everybody has his own way of being in love. Never compare it

osho on being in love

Question – Having never had the opportunity to truly fall in love, to know that surrender, is that keeping me from truly falling in love with you, being in that mad state of love? Is it enough just to feel quiet love, respect — though not necessarily that odd form of insanity? Osho – Don’t [...]

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Osho – If we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life

osho on achieving consciousness in this life

Question – Beloved Osho, When you said that if we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life, we will have to start from the very beginning again, and go through the whole evolution of mankind one more time, I was very touched. Is it possible that we will totally lose these few glimpses of light, [...]

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Osho – When your consciousness starts growing, you need more meditation

Osho on Consciousness and Meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, In rhese days I feel a little plant growing inside of me, which is still very delicate and fragile. I feel like I have to take immense care of this little flower just starting to open, not to water it too much, nor too little. Nor to expose it too much [...]

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A sannyasin says: My mouth opens when I’m meditating; I feel energy there

[A sannyasin says: My mouth opens when I’m meditating; I feel energy there. I don’t know what I should do about it.] Osho – No problem at all. When the mouth opens, just allow it. Don’t close the mouth when it wants to open. It is nothing of a problem. It is perfectly good. The [...]

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Osho – Let full moon night become your particular night for meditation

[A sannyasin describes an experience he had at a full-moon party when his mind became clear and he saw that people are in difficulty. He wanted to make himself useful, but he closed up again.] Osho – No, you cannot do anything about it. You cannot retain it… you cannot bring it. Whenever it comes [...]

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Osho on effortless Meditation Experience – I am not my body alone

[A sannyasin says: The other night I got very frightened. I was in my room lying on my bed, and for some reason I started thinking that I am not my body alone. The room stood out very strongly, everything in the room stood out strongly, but it wasn’t warm, it was cold.] Osho – [...]

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Osho – Meditation leads you deep into yourself. Beyond a certain point it is felt like drowning, sinking, suffocating

[An Indian sannyasin had come before darshan to talk to Osho about a frightening experience he had had recently while meditating. As people arrived for the darshan Osho was saying:] Osho – One gets really scared. Really, it came too early and you weren’t yet ready. It can happen that suddenly a key fits, and [...]

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