Satori Samadhi Nirvana

Question – Beloved Master, What does Enlightenment feel Like? Osho – Prem Geetam, enlightenment is not a thought nor a feeling. In fact, enlightenment is not an experience at all. When all experiences have disappeared and the mirror of consciousness is left without any content, utterly empty; no object to see, to think about, to [...]

Osho – The first thing I did after my enlightenment, at the age of twenty-one, was to rush to the village where my grandmother was, my father’s village. She never left that place where her husband had been burned. That very place became her home. She forgot all the luxuries that she had been accustomed [...]

Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia. The Greek word means quiet, calm, of deep inner contentment. That is the meaning of samadhi so contented, so deeply contented, that nothing disturbs now, [...]

Question: So, We start from the idea of Pleasure. Can Enlightenment be the top most pleasure, as a definition? Osho : It is not pleasure. Pleasure is always something opposed to pain. It is never separate from pain. So pain can become pleasure. That’s why there are masochists in the world who torture themselves and [...]

Question – Osho, How can I become a Light UnTo Myself? Osho – Shraddho Yannis, THESE WERE THE LAST WORDS of Gautam the Buddha, his parting message to his disciples: ”Be a light unto yourself.” But when he says, ”Be a light unto yourself,” he does not mean become a light unto yourself. There is [...]

Question – OSHO, YOU SAID TODAY THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A ‘GROUP SOUL’, BUT I HAVE BEEN STRONGLY FEELING SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THE COMMUNE. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS FEELING OF A COLLECTIVE SOUL IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE INTENSE AND ATTUNED DAY BY DAY. IT IS SOMETHING NEW FOR ME, AND VERY [...]

Question – BELOVED OSHO, BUDDHA HAD MANY ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE AROUND HIM, YET HE FELT SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR THIS ONE ENLIGHTENED PERSON. IS THERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN ENLIGHTENMENTS? Osho – Yes, Buddha, had many enlightened persons around, but the key can be given only to such a person who can become a master in his own [...]

Question – Does a Buddha also need something as a Complementary? Who is complementary to a Buddha? Osho – Buddha or Buddhahood is not any polarity. It is not opposite to anything. It is beyond the duality. Night is against day. Life is against death. Love is against hate. Buddhahood is not against anything. It [...]