Living in Present Moment

Osho – Be in the moment. Bring your total being in the moment

Osho - Be in the moment

Osho – The mind is always either in the past or in the future. It cannot be in the present, it is absolutely impossible for the mind to be in the present. When you are in the present, the mind is there no more because mind means thinking. How can you think in the present? [...]

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Osho – Everybody is expecting permanence and Permanence is not the nature of things

Osho on Permanence

Osho – The river will never be the same again. And you also will never be the same again. That’s why each moment is unique, incomparable. It has been never before and will never be again. This is beautiful! It is not a repetition, it is absolutely fresh. You will miss this freshness if you [...]

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Osho – Never repent about the past because that is again wasting the present

Osho on Repenting about Missing Past

Question – Beloved Osho, my mind, the monster, distracts me even when i’m sitting in discourse. It simply takes over and thinks all sorts of silly thoughts and by the time discourse is over i get the feeling i missed another golden opportunity to be with you, drink from you, tune in with you. This [...]

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Osho – Knowledge, awareness, will awaken you, here and now, to this very moment

Osho on Knowledge

Osho on Sutra “WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS DESTROYED THE DREAM IS SEEN” Osho – If knowledge of the soul does not penetrate you, and if the flame within does not get its fuel, then dreams arise in your life; then desires arise, and your life loses its way and staggers there in the darkness. Then you [...]

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Osho – Desires, dreams and hopes – the future disturbs you and divides you

Osho on desire and reality

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 – When you act in the moment and it has no reference to your past, the action has a beauty

Osho - When you act in the moment

Osho – Divine purity reduced to practical life means spontaneity. The spontaneous person is innocent. He has a quality that only children have, and that is the meaning of purity, innocence. He has the quality that animals have and the trees have and which man has lost. To be spontaneous means not to act out [...]

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Osho – All desires are insane! The only sanity is to be desireless.

Osho - All desires are insane

Question – Beloved Osho, Are all desires insane? Osho – Narayano, yes, all desires are insane. Desire as such is insane because desire means living in the future, and the future does not exist at all. What exists is the present. To live in the present is the only sanity there is, but to live [...]

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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 on Money and Enjoyment – Whatsoever you have, start enjoying right now

Osho on Money and Enjoyment

[A sannyasin says he feels disturbed because he wants more money to enjoy himself more.] Osho – For what do you want to have money? Because money in itself is neither good nor bad. It depends on what you want it for…. But have you seen any person who has money and can enjoy life [...]

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Osho – Desire means you are not herenow and Nirvana is always herenow

Osho - Nirvana is always herenow

Osho – This is a paradox, but of tremendous import – that enlightenment becomes possible only when you forget about it. When the desire for enlightenment disappears, only then does it become possible You desire money or you desire meditation – it makes no difference – the desire is the same… the nature of the [...]

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Osho – here and now is the only life, the only reality

Osho - here and now

Osho – Man lives like a robot, almost like a machine. He goes through so many actions but mechanically. He may go for a morning walk but he will not listen to the birds, he will not see the trees, he will not look at the sunrise, he will not be aware of the beautiful [...]

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Osho – You are functioning out of memories, out of the past

Osho on Past and Memories

Osho – Try to see that whatsoever action is there, it is not arising out of you but rather arising out of the chain of actions you have done in the past. Try to understand this distinction clearly. Whenever you do something – if somebody insults you, you think that the reaction is arising from [...]

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Osho – A sannyasin has to learn to live life moment to moment with total intensity

Osho on Sannyasin Living Life Intensely

Osho – Religion has been dominated by ill and pathological people for centuries… My approach to religion is totally different. It is rooted in celebration, in wholeness, in health. I am not against life, I am in absolute love with life because to me life is god. There is no god other than life. One [...]

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Osho – When Joy is without any reason it is Divine

Osho on Joy and Divine

Osho – A few things about sannyas…. It is an initiation into the formless. It is not an initiation into some rigid form, it is not giving you a certain discipline — on the contrary it is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos. The old concept of sannyas all over the world [...]

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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 – Paradise is herenow! This very body is the Buddha

Osho on Paradise Buddha

Osho – Life basically is an expression of love. Love is the fragrance of the flower of life. They are two sides of the same coin. The person who avoids love is simultaneously avoiding life too; hence the people who have been life-negative have also been love-negative. In fact escaping from the world was really [...]

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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 – I am trying to wake you up herenow

Osho

Question – you spoke of the three ways: beauty, grandeur and power. which is your way? or is it all three? Osho – It is neither. I have no way, because I am not leading you anywhere. I am trying to wake you up herenow. You are already wandering all over the earth. My effort [...]

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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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