Osho Meditation Insights

Osho – If you can watch your breath then you can start watching other things too

Osho – If you can watch your breath then you can start watching other things too. Walking you can watch that you are walking, eating you can watch that you are eating, and ultimately, finally, you can watch that you are sleeping. The day you can watch that you are sleeping you are transported into [...]

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Osho – Meditation is an understanding that desires don’t lead anywhere

Osho - Meditation is an understanding

Osho – Meditation is the tree that grows without a seed: that is the miracle of meditation, the magic, the mystery. Concentration has a seed in it: you concentrate for a certain purpose, there is motive, it is motivated. Meditation has no motive. Then why should one meditate if there is no motive?Meditation comes into [...]

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Osho – Meditation is just a situation; silence is not going to be the consequence of it

Osho on Meditation Silence

Osho – Meditation is just a situation; silence is not going to be the consequence of it. No, meditation is just creating the soil, the surrounding, preparing the ground. The seed is there, it is always there; you need not put in the seed, the seed has always been with you. That seed is Brahma; [...]

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Osho – Remember, meditation can never be result-oriented

Osho on Meditation and Result

Osho – Remember, meditation can never be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that’s all. Everything happens but it will not be a result. If you are seeking the result nothing will happen; meditation will be useless.When you seek a result, it is the mind; when you don’t seek a result, it is meditation. Kick the pot [...]

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Don't play with your Desire and Pleasure in your imagination; that is strengthening them

Osho – If you allow desire and pleasure and lust and greed and anger and jealousy and possessiveness and violence and all these rushing streams towards you, they will sweep you away. Don’t play with them in your imagination; that is strengthening them, that is getting under their sway. And the miracle is that everybody [...]

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Osho – Seeing this game of happiness and unhappiness, the watcher, the meditator becomes unidentified with both

Osho – Seeing this game of happiness and unhappiness, the watcher, the meditator becomes unidentified with both. When happiness comes he knows that unhappiness will be coming, so why get excited? When unhappiness comes he is not at all disturbed because he knows happiness will be coming just around the corner, so why become disturbed? [...]

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Osho – Before one can become Natural one has to drop many Unnatural Things

[A sannyasin, leaving for the West, asks about meditation. Should she still keep trying or is it time to let go and drop effort, she wonders. Osho checks her energy. ] Osho – My feeling is that for a few months more you should continue doing things. Right now, it will not be possible for [...]

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Osho – Whenever it is possible, get up early in the morning and meditate on the early Dawn

Osho - meditate on the early Dawn

Osho – Deva means divine, and aruna means early morning, dawn… the sun is just going to rise, just before sunrise. Mm? the East becomes red but the sun is not yet on the horizon – it is coming; it is very imminent, just within a second it will be there but it is not [...]

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Osho – Meditation is not Concentration, Meditation is relaxed Awareness

Osho - Meditation is not Concentration

Osho – Meditation is not concentrating on anything. In fact, it is a relaxing, not narrowing. In concentration there is an object. In meditation there is no object at all. You are simply lost in an objectless consciousness, a diffusion of consciousness. Concentration is exclusive to something, and everything else is excluded from it. It [...]

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Osho discourse on effort and non-effort and how they relate to Witnessing?

Osho on effort and non-effort

Question - Beloved Osho, to break our habitual ways of acting, feeling and thinking, and to start witnessing instead, some effort seems to be required. But ultimately all effort, including the effort towards Enlightenment, has to be dropped. Can you please speak on effort and non-effort, and how they relate to Witnessing? Osho – Don’t be [...]

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Osho Meditation Sutras – Osho Meditation Quotes

Osho Meditation Sutras

Osho – Remember this: whatsoever you are doing, do it so alertly, with full awareness, that your consciousness is there; it is not allowed to move. Then only will you come to know what Awareness is. Moment to moment, move in the present. Don’t go away from the present or you will have gone into [...]

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Osho Meditation Sutra for Inner transformation

Osho on Inner transformation

Osho – Mind thinks in Terms of Separateness, division analysis. Through mind, life is divided into fragments. Life itself is not divided; life itself is a unity. Life itself remains undivided, but the mind thinks in terms of fragments so whatsoever the mind says is bound to be false. The tree over there, the sky [...]

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Osho meditation Sutra – Kill out Desire of Comfort

Osho Kill out Desire of Comfort

Osho – Desire for happiness. Kill it out. It appears very gloomy, sad, life-negating. It is not. The more you desire comfort, the more discomfort will be felt. The more you desire comfort, the more discomfort you are creating for yourself, because discomfort is relative to the desire for comfort. The more you ask for [...]

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Osho on when you desire life you miss it, Dont desire

Osho on Desires

Osho : Kill out Desire of Life. Life’s laws are very paradoxical. If you desire life, you will miss it. That is the surest way to miss it. If you desire life, you will miss it; but if you don’t desire it, abundant life will happen to you. Through desire, you move against life. It [...]

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Osho on Search for Enlightenment a selfish search

Osho on Enlightenment Search

Question : IS NOT THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT A SELFISH SEARCH? Osho : Yes, it is. And the most selfish. There is nothing like it, it is incomparably selfish. And one has to be selfish, there is no other way to be. And all the teachings that go on telling you not to be selfish [...]

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Osho on LSD, LSD as aid to Meditation, Danger of LSD

Osho on LSD

QUESTION: CAN LSD BE USED AS A HELP IN MEDITATION? Osho : LSD can be used as a help, but the help is very dangerous; it is not so easy. If you use a mantra, even that can become difficult to throw, but if you use acid, LSD it will be even more difficult to [...]

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Osho – Non doing as Meditation, doing through non doing

Osho on Non-doing is meditation

Osho : Non-doing is meditation, but when I say non-doing is meditation I do not mean that you need not do anything. Even to achieve this non-doing, one has to do much. But this doing is not meditation. It is only a stepping stone, only a jumping board. All ”doing” is just a jumping board, [...]

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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 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 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 Living in this moment and time

Osho on Living in this present moment

Osho : What is psychological time? Mind is psychological time. Mind is time. If you don’t have any mind and you are simply silent with no thought moving within, there is no time for you, not psychological time. The clock will go on moving, but for you the inner clock stops – time stops, the [...]

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Osho on Silence – A forced silence will not give you the right taste of silence

Osho on Silence

Question : Many people are in Silence now. Do you recommend this? What is the purpose? Can it be helpful? Osho – I don’t recommend, but they understand. I don’t recommend anything in particular – except understanding. But if you understand, you would love silence. I don’t say: ’Be silent,’ because then it would become [...]

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