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Osho – Enlightenment is true knowing, is divine knowing

Osho on knowledge enlightenment

Osho -Animals don’t know. Man knows but his knowing is only information, accumulation of facts, accumulation of theories, ideologies, philosophies — it is all borrowed. And the borrowed always becomes a burden. It never brings freedom. By ‘divine knowing’ I mean you have to know your own. You are not to become knowledgeable. Knowledgeability is [...]

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Osho – Even God is afraid of serious people

Osho on God and Enlightenment

[The sannyasin says: My tendency is to always be serious when it comes to the business of enlightenment.] Osho – Not even there! If you are serious anywhere else, it is not so dangerous. But if you are serious when it comes to enlightenment, then it is absolutely wrong. Anywhere you can be forgiven, but [...]

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Osho on Turiya – He who attains the fourth state attains all

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Osho – Through all three states – wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep – turiya, the fourth state, runs like a thread through the beads of a mala. Even while you sleep there is someone awake within. When you dream there is someone witnessing the dream. When you are awake during the day there is a [...]

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Osho – In samadhi you become part of God

Osho on Samadhi

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, [...]

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Osho – There is no easier path than merging with one’s own self

Question – You suggest that we become fully-merged, that we drown. How can we do this? Osho – I tell you from my own experience that there is no easier path than merging with one’s own self. The only thing one has to do is stop seeking for the support of anything on the surface [...]

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Osho – Beloved Master, What does Enlightenment feel like?

Osho on Enlightenment

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 [...]

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Osho – Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream?

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream? Osho – Not only possible — whenever it happens, it always happens in a dream. Whatsoever you think is your waking consciousness, that too is not waking; that too is dreaming. While sitting here in front of me, do you think you are awake? [...]

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Osho – She was my first enlightened sannyasin

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 [...]

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Osho – If even death cannot wake you up, then what is going to wake you up

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Osho – You have lost the night; you could not wake up in the night. But it can be forgiven: it was night and you slept. But you cannot be forgiven when death is coming closer — now it is time to wake up! And if even death cannot wake you up, then what is [...]

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Osho – Is it Possible for a Politician to be Enlightened

Question – Is it Possible for a Politician to be Enlightened? Osho – Never heard of it. It has never happened. There are intrinsic problems. The very dimension the politician moves in is against enlightenment. A few things have to be understood. Politics is a diametrically opposite phenomenon to religion. A scientist can easily become [...]

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Osho – It is a question of awakening here and now

Osho on awakening

Question – When does the boat reach the other Shore? Osho – Deva Vigyan, there is no other shore, this is the only shore there is. And it is not a question of reaching somewhere else, it is a question of awakening here and now. It is never there, it is always here; it is [...]

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Osho – In samadhi you become a creator because in samadhi you become part of God

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, [...]

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Osho – You want to be lost, that’s why you are lost

Question – How is it that I am still Lost? Osho – Nobody can answer that question for you. You are lost; you must be knowing. You must be playing hide-and-seek. I know that you know. You want to be lost, that’s why you are lost. The moment you decide not to be lost, nobody [...]

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Osho – Enlightenment is the transcendence of all dualities: pleasure, pain; love, hate, life, death — all oppositions

Osho on Enlightenment and Pleasure

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 [...]

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Osho – To me, That madness became meditation and the ultimate of that madness opened the door

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – If I could ask you a question about your past…. When you were looking for that door, You spent a year when you were Mad — in which you couldn’t formulate a sentence — and you lost your perspective. Is this correct? Is that the time that you were looking for that door? [...]

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Osho – How can I become a Light UnTo Myself?

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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 [...]

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Osho – Can a person become enlightened by accident?

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – Beloved Master, Can a person become enlightened by accident? Osho – This is something very significant to understand. Enlightenment is always accidental. That does not mean that you have not to try for it, but your trying is not going to bring it. Your effort is not going to achieve it. But making [...]

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Osho – When a person is absolutely in harmony with the universe he becomes enlightened

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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 [...]

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BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT?

Osho on beyond enlightenment

Question – BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT? Osho – Maneesha, beyond enlightenment is only beyondness. Enlightenment is the last host. Beyond it, all boundaries disappear, all experiences disappear. Experience comes to its utmost in enlightenment; it is the very peak of all that is beautiful, of all that is immortal, of all that is [...]

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Osho – Why Buddha gave the key to Mahakashyap

Osho on Buddha Mahakashyap

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 [...]

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Osho on Gertrude Stein Death, Gertrude Stein died enlightened

Osho – I have told you many times, but I love the incident so much, because in the contemporary world, and particularly in the West, nothing like it has ever happened …. In the East it has been happening to the Sufis, to the Zen monks, to the masters of meditation, but in the West [...]

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Osho on Buddhahood, Buddhahood simply means transcendence of duality

Osho on Buddhahood

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 [...]

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