Satori Samadhi Nirvana

Osho – A man who is enlightened lives out of his consciousness.

Osho on an Enlightened Man

Question – What constitutes the behaviour of an enlightened man? Osho – An enlightened man is all emptiness. What constitutes an emptiness? It has no ‘constitutes’ in it; hence it is empty. A man who is enlightened has no character. Let me repeat it: an enlightened man has no character at all. He lives from [...]

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Osho – When I saw myself as enlightened, I saw the whole existence as enlightened

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – Beloved Osho, i can’t conceive of you ever being unenlightened. Did you really become enlightened only thirty-two years ago? Osho – Neither can I conceive it. This is one of the very fundamental things in the nature of enlightenment. Once you are enlightened, you are in a very strange situation – trying to [...]

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Osho – Meditation slowly, slowly turns into your enlightenment

Osho on Meditation and Enlightenment

Question – Beloved Osho, watching the mind, it seems to me there is an infinite ocean of thoughts. Meditation gives me more peace and grounding, but hearing you speak about enlightenment — it seems to me far, far away. can you give me some advice? Osho – Dhyan Jashan, enlightenment is as far away as [...]

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Osho – I’m in a hurry to become enlightened. What should i do?

Osho on hurry to get enlightened

Question – Beloved Osho, I’m in a hurry to become enlightened. What should i do? Osho – Chitten, first just listen carefully to this small story. The plane had just taken off and the captain was telling the passengers about the altitude of the plane, the cruising speed etcetera. But he forgot to switch off [...]

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Osho – If you are touching some altitude within your consciousness

Osho - If you are feeling high

Question – During my dancing meditation i kept having flashes about What you said concerning the society, drugs, etc. And Wondering that now that i am intoxicated by the ultimate drug, you, Osho, can anyone take that away from me? Bring me down from that eternal high? Osho – No one except you. You can [...]

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Osho – You are not part of the conditioning, You are the watcher

Osho on Conditioning

Question – Beloved osho, when i look inside myself, i catch a glimpse of what seems like centuries of conditioning. i feel that i certainly will not become enlightened, although others might. Is this attitude a natural mistrust? Is this attitude a habit i have to break? Osho, will this attitude prevent me from becoming [...]

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Osho – The buddha-consciousness is neither eastern nor western

Osho on buddha consciousness

Question – The west has given birth to aristotle, nietzsche, heidegger, camus, berdyaev, marcel and sartre. Is it going to give birth to buddhas by itself or is a communion with the eastern consciousness needed? Osho – CHINMAYA, THE BUDDHA-CONSCIOUSNESS is neither Eastern nor Western. It has nothing to do with geography or history, it [...]

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Osho – Remain alert while moving with people, while moving in the world

Osho on Remaining alert

Osho – Man ordinarily lives in these three states, sometimes waking, sometimes dreaming, sometimes fast asleep; this is the wheel man moves in. And because of these three states of mind many things have arisen into human consciousness and in human culture, civilization. The first kind of consciousness, waking, creates its own culture, its own [...]

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Osho on Drugs and Samadhi – Similarity between samadhi and drugs

Osho on Drugs and Samadhi

Question – I often take drugs. once when i was attending the discourse, i closed my eyes and suddenly felt the same as i feel on a drug trip. osho, is there any relation or similarity between samadhi and drugs? Osho – There is and there is not. There is because drugs create a false [...]

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Osho – Do positive thoughts bring happenings too? like wishing for enlightenment

Osho on positive thoughts

Question – Do positive thoughts bring happenings too? — like wishing for enlightenment. Osho – THAT IS TOO MUCH ASKING from positive thoughts because enlightenment is beyond duality: it is neither negative nor positive. When both the polarities are dropped, it happens. With positive thoughts many things are possible — not enlightenment. You can be [...]

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Osho – Is there an Intellectual path to Enlightenment?

Osho on path

Question – Is there an Intellectual path to Enlightenment? Osho – First, there is no path. The very idea of a path is fallacious. The path necessarily leads you away — the path necessarily takes you from this to that, from here to there, from now to then. There is no need for any path [...]

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Osho on Tandra – It is a midway point between waking and sleep and without dreams.

Osho on Tandra

Question – Two mornings ago i slept through the lecture and woke up at the end with the word ‘single-mindedness’ on my mind. so what to do? Osho – Be single-minded. The message is so clear; what is there to ask? Your being has given you a great message. Sometimes it happens after deep sleep [...]

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Osho on Sahasrar Chakra Opening – How does one feel after the Sahasrar begins to open?

Osho on Sahasrar Chakra Opening

Question – How does one feel after the Sahasrar begins to open? Osho – After the sahasrar opens, there should be no feeling but inner silence and void. The feeling will be acute in the beginning – when you feel it for the first time it will be very acute – but the more you [...]

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Osho – There are no degrees of enlightenment

Osho on enlightenment and Ignorance

Osho – There are no degrees of enlightenment. Once it is, it is there. It is just like jumping into an ocean of feeling. You jump, you become one with it, like a drop dropping into the ocean becomes one with it. But that doesn’t mean that you have known the whole ocean. The moment [...]

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Osho – An enlightened person cannot become unenlightened again

Osho - Enlightenment is your nature

Question – Does an enlightened person always remain enlightened or can he become unenlightened also? Osho – The question is from Deva Swarup Yogiraj. Even an unenlightened person remains enlightened. The only difference is that he does not know it. The enlightened person knows it, and there is no way to drop that which you [...]

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Osho – NIRVANA is not some goal somewhere, it is not the after-life; it is here-now

Osho Story on Nirvana

Question – What is Nirvana? Osho – This story is about NIRVANA… this ancient Buddhist story. An exceptionally beautiful young woman, Enyadatta, enjoyed nothing quite as much as gazing at herself in the mirror. She was a little crazy, as all human beings are. When she looked into her mirror one morning, the figure in [...]

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Osho on breakdown and meditation – Any breakdown is a possibility for a breakthrough

Osho on breakdown and meditation

[A sannyasin, recently returned after three years, says he went completely crazy and was put in hospital.] Osho – Yes, I know. That too is nothing to be worried about, mm? If it happens next time, think of the hospital as a resting place, as a place for meditation, and enjoy it! The word has [...]

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Osho – The greatest barrier to enlightenment is the longing for it

Osho on desire for enlightenment

Question – Since coming to you, living a meditative life has become an easier and more natural phenomenon. However, i have practically given up all hope for enlightenment. Are these tendencies contradictory? Osho – Not at all. To attain to enlightenment that is a must — that you should lose all hope and desire for [...]

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Osho – There is no gradual enlightenment; enlightenment is always sudden

Osho on Gradual and Sudden Enlightenment

Question – Am i right to feel that you have travelled the path of gradual enlightenment? Did you dance when the enlightenment happened? Osho – I am still dancing. If you have eyes you can see. If you don’t have eyes what can I do? And there is no gradual enlightenment; enlightenment is always sudden. [...]

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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 on Mastas – Spiritual Mad People

Osho on Mastas

Osho – A parable… Once in the garden of a Master there lived a monkey. And, as monkeys are curious people, he became very curious about the Master. He saw the Master sitting silently, doing nothing, and by and by he started coming close to him – what is this man doing? It was a [...]

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Osho – Nirvana simply means the understanding that all desires are futile

Osho on desire for nirvana

Osho – It is one of the most significant things to understand that the very desire for NIRVANA is the only hindrance. You can desire money, you can desire power, you can desire prestige, but you cannot desire nirvana; that is a contradiction in terms. NIRVANA simply means the understanding that all desires are futile [...]

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