Witnessing Awareness

Osho – Witnessing is not of the mind; mind can never be a witness

Osho on Witnessing and Heart

Question – Osho, Would you please speak a little on Witnessing and The Heart. Can they be experienced simultaneously? Osho – Deva Darshan, WITNESSING AND THE HEART ARE ONE AND THE same thing. Witnessing is not of the mind; mind can never be a witness. When you start witnessing, mind becomes the witnessed not the witness, [...]

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Osho – Life is a curse if you are not aware

Osho on Life

Osho – Life is a curse if you are not aware. Then it is nothing but misery. It is only thorns, not a single rose. From the cradle to the grave there are hopes and man goes on living because of those hopes, but they are never fulfilled. In the end there is only despair, [...]

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Osho – Unconsciousness creates all kinds of ugliness in life

Osho on Unconsciousness

Osho – Unconsciousness creates all kinds of ugliness in life; so whenever you find anything ugly in you, just look for the cause; somewhere in the roots will be unconsciousness. If there is ambition the person becomes ugly. Politicians are bound to be ugly, so much ambition, so much desire to dominate others, by any [...]

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Osho – The watcher cannot do anything except watch

Question – Beloved Osho, Is the Watcher amused? Osho – The watcher cannot do anything except watch. If it is amused, it has lost its watching. There may be amusement but that will be part of the mind. The watcher will watch it, too. The watcher cannot do anything else but be a watcher. The [...]

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Osho on Consciousness, Meditation is the whole science of bringing more and more consciousness out of darkness

Osho on Consciousness

Question – Beloved Osho, When I was a student at a Japenese Buddhist University, I heard the word Consciousness. Beloved Osho, What does it mean? Osho – Kranti Satbodha, consciousness you already have, but only in a very small proportion. It is just like an iceberg — one tenth is above water and the rest [...]

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Osho – The only thing that has to be learned is Watchfulness

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Osho – The only thing that has to be learned is watchfulness. Watch! Watch every act that you do. Watch every thought that passes in your mind. Watch every desire that takes possession of you. Watch even small gestures — walking, talking, eating, taking a bath. Go on watching everything. Let everything become an opportunity [...]

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Osho – To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious

Question – Beloved Master, Any marks for Choiceless UnAwareness? Osho – Anand Buddha, even if you are aware of that, that will do. Are you aware of choiceless unawareness? That will destroy that choiceless unawareness. Make it an object of awareness and it will disappear, evaporate. And no marks can be given for it, because [...]

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Osho – While aware enjoy awareness, and while unaware enjoy unawareness

Question – Sometimes I feel aware and sometimes not. Awareness seems to pulsate. Does this pulsating slowly disappear or does it go suddenly Osho – In life everything is a rhythm. You are happy and then follows unhappiness. Night and day, summer and winter; life is a rhythm between two opposites. When you try to [...]

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Osho – Witnessing is a knack

Question – Beloved Osho, You describe Witnessing as a knack. often, late at night, when i am in a very relaxed state, witnessing happens. at other times, though, it just seems to be mind watching mind watching mind. please comment on this knack.a Osho – The moment I say that witnessing is a knack, it [...]

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Osho – What is the difference between looking and seeing?

Osho on looking and seeing

Question – What is the difference between looking and seeing? Osho – There is a great difference. Looking means you are looking for something; you have already some idea to look for. You come here and you say, “I am looking for Teertha” — then you have an idea. Then you look all around for [...]

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Osho – To be in the Mind, to be identified with the mind, is Unawareness

Osho on Unawareness

Question – Beloved Master, What is Unawareness? Osho – Dinkar, to be in the mind, to be identified with the mind, is unawareness. To think that “I am the mind,” is unawareness. To know that mind is only a mechanism just as the body is, to know that the mind is separate…. The night comes, [...]

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Osho – Witnessing means that when sex arises, stand aside and look at it

Osho – Remember this word ’witness’. This is one of the key words in the search for spirituality. If you can understand this word and practice it, you don’t need anything else. Even this one key will open all the doors of paradise. This is a master key. Any lock can be opened by it. [...]

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Osho: The moment I say that witnessing is a knack, it implies that there is no way to explain it

Question: Beloved Osho, you describe witnessing as a knack. Often, late at night, when I am in a very relaxed state, witnessing happens. At other times, though, it just seems to be mind watching mind watching mind. Please comment on this knack. Osho: The moment I say that witnessing is a knack, it implies that [...]

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Osho – You are simply a watcher, different from all that surrounds you

Osho – As you become a witness, as you become aware, you simply come to know that you are not the body, not the mind, not even the heart. You are simply a watcher, different from all that surrounds you. The body is your outermost boundary; the mind a little more inner, the heart still [...]

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Osho – Just remain silently watchful, neither for nor against

Osho – Passion creates many things in you. It creates fever, it makes you more unconscious — more unconscious than you already are. It drags you deeper into the mud. And with passion come hatred, illusion and desire — and then you are distracted from your nature. Your nature is poisoned, your innocence is poisoned. [...]

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Osho – Misery is symbolic of Unawareness; bliss is symbolic of Awareness

Osho – The devotee — the real follower — is constantly watching what he is doing, how he is doing, why he is doing. Even in small matters he de-automatizes himself. Walking, he does not just walk; he walks with meditative awareness. He knows that he is walking. Eating, he knows he is eating. You [...]

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Osho – Whenever you are Thinking something, you are Broadcasting it in a subtle way

[A sannyasin says: It started two or three years ago after a very strong experience I had, that I had the feeling all my thoughts could be heard by everyone around me. And it’s not just my feeling: many times I think something and people talk about the same thing or react immediately. Sometimes I [...]

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Osho – Consciousness and Bliss are two aspects of one phenomenon

Osho – Consciousness and bliss are two aspects of one phenomenon: from one side it is consciousness, from the other side it is bliss. And exactly in the same way unconsciousness and misery are related, they are aspects of one phenomenon – from one side unconsciousness, from another side, misery. It is impossible to be [...]

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Osho – A thought is a thought is a thought; it has nothing to do with good and bad

Osho – You will have to start by becoming aware of your thoughts, be more and more alert. Whenever you are sitting, just close your eyes and watch with no judgement, with no evaluation: don’t say that this thought is good and this thought is bad. All thoughts are simply thoughts; there is no distinction [...]

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Osho – Do the meditations, but do them more as a play, not as a great work

[A sannyasin said she had been trying hard to witness, and although it gave her a headache, shewas addicted to it.] Osho – Awareness will come, witnessing will come, but you are not to do it. When you do it, you miss the whole point of it, because when you do witnessing it becomes more [...]

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OSHO: Awareness-Being in the Moment

This is an excerpt (part 2 of 4) from a video “Stress Free Living-Meditation For Busy Women”. Part 1 is titled OSHO: Everyday Meditation.Maneesha James presents strategies to avoid and reduce stress, and meditative methods to unwind, based on ‘The Book of Secrets’, by Osho. Usually we think of the body and mind as being [...]

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Osho – How do I find when I am the Witness

[A sannyasin, leaving, asks: How do I find when I am the witness?] Osho – It is something self-evident: when you are, you know it; no extemal proof is needed. If the question arises that means that you are not, otherwise the question does not arise at all. It is like having a headache: nobody [...]

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