Osho Meditation Insights

Osho on creating a protective aura – After meditation one has to create a protective aura

Osho on creating a protective Aura

[A sannyasin returning to the west says: It doesn’t happen here, but at home by the end of the week I feel very tired. Sometimes I can’t even stand.] Osho – I understand. Do one thing. Every night before you go to sleep, just sit in the bed and imagine an aura around your body, [...]

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Osho – The more aware you become, the more things will become superficial

Osho - everything becomes superficial

[A group member says: All the emotional things, catharting things, seemed to be superficial on the one side, yet on the other seemed to be true, as I feel them. I don’t know if it is because of my knowing it or.... It’s not acting or theatre, because I feel it. Perhaps it’s because I’m [...]

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Osho – How to become utterly present in the present

Osho on utterly present in the present

Osho – Prem means love, vatayana means now, the present moment – love now. And my whole emphasis is on this moment, because this moment contains all. Now is the only reality – all else is either memory or imagination. And even for the past to exist as memory, now is needed. It doesn’t exist [...]

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Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough

Osho - One has to go inward

[A sannyasin says: I’m feeling a bit more inward these days and meditations are feeling good to me.] Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough – it is time to go inward! Have the taste of the inner now. And once you have tasted the inner then there [...]

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Osho – Consciousness without thinking: that’s what awareness is.

Osho - Consciousness without thinking

Osho – If you can live this moment, if you can be here this moment, then everything takes care of itself. Then you need not be anxious. Then there is no need to ask — before you ask, the answer is delivered. The answer has been always there, but we are not aware. So the [...]

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Osho – If we can transform our ugly instincts into beautiful flowers

Osho on Instincts

Osho – Man can live in constant conflict or in constant music. It is the game energy that become conflict or that becomes music. The whole thing is to learn the art of creating harmony within your being — and the whole conditioning of humanity is to create conflict. They tell you not to be [...]

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Osho on divine rebellion – moving from identification to witnessing

Osho on divine rebellion

Osho – Revolution is concerned with outer things: the economic structure of the society, the political structure, the state. Rebellion is inner: it is concerned with the state of consciousness. Revolution is political, rebellion is spiritual. And a true rebellion transforms you into divinity; it reveals your godhood to you. It makes you aware that [...]

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Osho – The present is the only time to live and to be

Osho on Present Moment

Osho – Ananda means bliss, ida means now. Bliss is never then; it is always now. Bliss is never there; it is always here. Bliss knows only one space: the space that is created around the here, and knows only one time: that is created around now. If you think in terms of then and [...]

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Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering

Osho on Mind

Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering. It is constantly crowded with many thoughts, desires. It goes on dreaming and dreaming. It is never still even for a single moment. And we have become identified with the mind, we think that we are our mind. That is creating the whole misery. Get [...]

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Osho on Watching Moods – Don’t become the mood, remain a watcher

Osho on Watching Moods

Question – Whenever a certain feeling of opening comes and a certain peace, always a strong anxiety and a depression follow and make me very tired. It seems to be a vicious circle. What is the attitude to take? Osho – It always happens, it is natural, not vicious. Whenever you are happy, very happy, [...]

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Osho – Meditation is silence, not an enforced silence

Osho on Meditation and Silence

Osho – Meditation means no-thought, no-mind, no words. They have all been left behind; one has come to an immense, infinite silence. But that silence is not dead, it is a singing silence. It is throbbing, pulsating with life. It has a dancing quality to it. You cannot see the dance, you can only feel [...]

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Osho – You have to drop everything that you can possess

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Osho – It is very difficult to be in the world, but it is even more difficult to be nonattached when the spiritual world opens its doors. The difficulty of the second is a millionfold because the worldly powers are not real powers. They are impotent; and they never satisfy you, they never make you [...]

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Osho – How do I find when I am the witness?

osho on witness

[A sannyasin, leaving, asks: How do I find when I am the witness?] Osho – It is something self-evident: when you are, you know it; no extemal proof is needed. If the question arises that means that you are not, otherwise the question does not arise at all. It is like having a headache: nobody [...]

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Osho – God is in the pause between two words, two thoughts, two desires

Osho on God and Pause

Osho – Deva means God, Viramo means interval, pause, period. God is in the interval, in the pause between two words, two thoughts, two desires, two emotions, two feelings – wherever there is a pause: between sleep and waking or between waking and sleep, in the pause; between body and soul, in the interval. When [...]

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Osho – Meditation needs infinite patience

Osho on Meditation and patience

Osho – Ma Dhyan Agni. Dhyan means meditation, Agni means fire. Meditation is a fire. It does two things: it burns your past totally, it consumes your mind absolutely without even leaving a trace behind it, and your past contains everything — your religion, your politics, your nationality, your race, and all that. It contains [...]

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Osho – if you can love, you will not be afraid of death

Osho on love death and meditation

Osho – If you can love, meditation will be very easy. The world will be more religious if love is accepted, helped along, and love becomes a natural milieu around you. Then meditation will be very easy because you will know a taste through love of what it means to be dissolved, even if only [...]

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Osho – To identify with happiness is to invite unhappiness

Osho on identification with happiness

Osho – Unhappiness can only touch the one who seeks happiness. To identify with happiness is to invite unhappiness. And you are all so eager to catch hold of happiness, although it is always the unhappiness that comes into your grasp. You never think that whenever you embrace happiness it turns into unhappiness even as [...]

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Osho on Fear, You can use fear for meditation

Osho on Fear

Question – When moments of Fear come, What to do? Osho – Why should you ask to do anything?When there is fear — be afraid! Why create a duality? When moments of fear come — be fearful, tremble with fear, allow fear to take possession. Why this constant enquiry: WHAT TO DO? Can’t you allow [...]

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Osho – Become more and more of a witness

Osho on Meditation

Osho – Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in the now — no past, no future. This moment is all there is and just this moment is god. Everything else is just the mind [...]

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Osho – A thought arises only because one wants to do something

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Osho – When the inner sky becomes one with the outer sky, when the inner emptiness merges with the outer emptiness, everything becomes desireless and actionless. Desires cannot arise without a thought: thought is disturbance of mind. Remember, a thought arises only because one wants to do something. People come to me and tell me [...]

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Osho on Zen swordsmanship as an Meditation method

Osho on Zen swordsmanship meditation

Osho – In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction between ordinary life and religious life; rather, they have bridged them both. And they have used very ordinary skills as UPAYA, as methods for meditation. That is something of tremendous import. Because if you [...]

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Osho – Only meditation is not a mind trip; everything else is a mind trip

Osho on Mind Trip

Question – ANYTHING I SEE HAPPENING IN MYSELF IS FALSE, ILLUSORY, AND A MIND TRIP, RIGHT? AND MY RECOGNITION OF THE MIND TRIP IS A MIND TRIP TOO? Osho – RIGHT. As far as thoughts go, everything is a mind trip. When thoughts cease and you see without any thoughts crowding in your mind, when you [...]

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