Osho Meditation Talks

Osho – Conversion does not mean a change of religion; it means a change of consciousness

Osho on Conversion

Osho – Meditation means a state of no-mind — where all the functioning of the mind has ceased. The moment the functioning of the mind ceases you have a profound silence such that you have never known before, such clarity, such transparency — because all the clouds are gone, all the smoke is gone, there [...]

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Osho on meditation and passion – Only the passionate ones have become great meditators

Osho on meditation and passion

Question – Beloved Osho, The more i am able to absorb you, the more thirsty i become. please talk about meditation and passion. Osho – There is no harm in becoming more thirsty for truth. There is no harm in becoming more thirsty for new spaces of experience, new challenges, voyages to new stars in [...]

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Osho – Once the energy becomes vertical you are joined to god

Osho on Vertical energy

Osho – Meditation means becoming absolutely silent, still, serene, as if nothing moves inside, everything stops — the mind, time. There comes a full stop to all movement. In that full stop, when the ordinary movement of the mind stops, you start moving into a now dimension. The ordinary movement of the mind is horizontal. [...]

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Osho on Empty Mind – Meditation means making the mind empty, empty of all thoughts

Osho on Empty Mind and Meditation

Osho – Without meditation one is bound to live in misery. One can cover it up, one can find a few consolations, one has to find a few consolations otherwise life would be intolerable. One has to remain occupied so that one does not feel the inner emptiness. And people find a thousand and one [...]

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Osho – Meditation is not for the weaklings; It is not for the cowards

Osho - Meditation is not for the weaklings

Osho – Meditation is not for the weaklings; It is not for the cowards It is not for those who are full of fear, Because it is the ultimate adventure. It is going into the uncharted – No maps exist, no guidelines either. The master can only create a thirst in you, A tremendous thirst [...]

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Osho – Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone

Osho - Each individual is unique

Osho – The greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it is going deeper into your aloneness. And man is caught up in such a way that he becomes accustomed to company, to people, to family. [...]

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Osho – To be object-less, to be thought-less and conscious is the goal

Osho on being thought-less

Osho – Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious [...]

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Osho on Rest and Relaxation – Never go against rest and relaxation

Osho on Rest and Relaxation

Osho – Meditation is rest, absolute rest, a full stop to all activity — physical, mental, emotional. When you are in such a deep rest that nothing stirs in you, when all action as such ceases, as if you are fast asleep yet awake, you come to know who you are. Suddenly the window opens. [...]

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Osho on Truth – It is a quantum leap, a jump from mind to no-mind

osho on quantum leap

Osho – Man can come to truth only through meditation. Truth is not something that mind can know. Mind can theorise about it, but ‘about’ means around — and mind goes about and about, around and around. It moves in a circle, it never reaches the centre. Its very nature is not to reach to [...]

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Osho – With meditation, whatsoever is attained remains with you

Osho on Meditation and Being

Osho – Once you have come to a point in your being, it can never be lost unless it was simply a dream. Only a dream can be lost. Drugs cannot give you reality. They can only give you very beautiful dreams. Or even horrible dreams – it depends on you, the dreamer. You can [...]

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Osho on Intelligence and Intellect, Intelligence is certainly creative

Osho on Intelligence and Intellect

Osho – Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconscious phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other. It is bound to be so, it is doomed to be wrong, because it is a [...]

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Beloved Osho, Can one Meditate too much

Question – Beloved Osho, Can one Meditate too much? Osho – Shanti Animisha, there are things which you can never do too much. For example, you cannot love too much; more is always possible, and there is no limitation anywhere. I am taking the example of love because that will be easily understood. The same [...]

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Osho – The roots make you an individual, and the wings give you the freedom

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Question – Beloved Osho, What are the roots and what are the winds of a meditators? Osho – Meditation is a way of settling in oneself, at the innermost core of your being. Once you have found the center of your existence, you will have found both the roots and the wings. The roots are [...]

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Osho – Beloved Osho, What is orgasm in reference to meditation and higher levels of consciousness

Osho on Orgasm

Question – Beloved Osho, What is orgasm in reference to meditation and higher levels of consciousness? Isn’t feeling orgasmic in a deep state of meditation totally nonsexual? Osho – The experience of orgasm itself is always nonsexual. Even though you have achieved it through sex, it itself has no sexuality in it. You can reach [...]

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Osho – The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence

Osho – If you are too much engaged with your intellect you will not find time to be engaged with your total being. If you are too much in your head you will miss much that is available. The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence. It cannot be understood from [...]

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Osho – When you are repeating a mantra you are using the Mind

Osho on Repeating a Mantra

[A visitor says he has been meditating here but prefers passive meditations – like TM that he has been doing for some time. He wonders if he should keep using a mantra or just watch his breath: I feel just as good not using a mantra – to do it with my breath is just [...]

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Osho – I dont want to do Meditation, It is too Much of an Effort

[A sannyasin says she is not doing the meditations because: It feels too much of an effort. I enjoy just sitting and walking, and being with friends.] Osho – Then don’t create problems! – because that sitting and enjoying you have been doing your whole life. That has not changed you. Your problems are there. [...]

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Osho – To miss Meditation meant to undo months of Work

Osho on missing Meditation

[To a sannyasin returning to Germany, Osho suggested that it would be very helpful to make meditation a regular part of her routine. He said sometimes it was permissible to miss a meal – could even be beneficial – but to miss meditation meant to undo months of work.] Osho – It is very delicate [...]

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Osho on How to Introduce one’s parents to Sannyas and Meditation

Osho on Sannyas and Meditation for Parents

[To two resident sannyasins returning for a brief visit to the States to see their parents, Osho spoke about how one could introduce one’s parents to sannyas, meditation, and Osho, in a way that would be acceptable. He said one should not try to argue, but simply let one’s being, one’s happiness, be evidence of [...]

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Osho – Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear

Osho on dropping thoughts

Osho – The moment one starts functioning as a pure mirror, god is revealed immediately. God is already here: we are just not a mirror to him. One need not search for god, because he is not far away: he is very close, he is closer to you than you are to yourself. All that [...]

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Osho – Vipassana Meditation becomes isolation if you are suppressing something

Osho on Vipassana Meditation and Suppression

[Another participant says: I feel more attracted to the deeper silent meditations, but I always have the uncertainty about whether there’s something I’m suppressing and should go into. There’s always a doubt.] Osho – I think an Encounter group will be helpful. There is not much there, but even if a little is there, it [...]

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Osho on Difference Between Witnessing and Tathata

Osho on Witnessing and Tathata

Question – PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WITNESSING AND TATHATA. Osho – In witnessing, the duality is present. The witness finds himself separate from that which he experiences. If a thorn pricks his foot, the witnessing man says, “The thorn has not pricked me, it has pricked my body — I am only the knower [...]

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