Seeing Directly What We Are – J. Krishnamurti
One is aware, and naturally so, of the danger of physical insecurity – not having enough money, proper health, clothes and shelter, and so on – but we are hardly aware of our inner psychological...
View ArticleOnly Knowing Remains – Osho
The first stage, to which contentment and bliss impart sweetness, springs from the innermost recesses of the seeker’s heart, as if nectar has issued forth from the heart of the Earth. At the inception...
View ArticleThe Secret of this Place: An Interview with Lucy Cornelssen
I’m a professional writer, always have been. I lived in Berlin much but was born in the country. I was interested from the beginning in Eastern wisdom. About thirty years ago someone brought me the...
View ArticleBeyond the Gateless Gate: Transcending the Seven Bodies, Part 2 – Osho
Raja yoga begins with the fourth body. Only hatha yoga begins with the first body; other yogas begin from somewhere else. Theosophy begins from the second body, and other systems begin from the third....
View ArticleFrom the Many to the One: Transcending the Seven Bodies, Part 1 – Osho
You said we have seven bodies: an etheric body, a mental body and so on. Sometimes it is difficult to adjust the Indian language to the terms of Western psychology. We have no theory for this in the...
View ArticleMy Empty Chair – Osho
Another new thing, I will not be there; only my empty chair will be there. But don’t miss me because in a sense I will be there, and in a sense there has always been an empty chair before you. Right...
View ArticleStart Remembering Yourself – Osho
In which way can the practice of self-remembering transform the human mind? Man is not centered in himself. He is born centered, but the society, the family, the education, the culture, they push him...
View ArticleWhat is Herenow? – Osho
What is Herenow? Does ‘thought’ form part of it? If so, then all-time and all-things are now. Or . . . is herenow only in no-mind? Divya, thought is the capacity of not being here – so thought cannot...
View ArticleLet Your Emptiness Become a Dance – Osho
I am often able to achieve the state – or what seems like the state – which you call ‘being a hollow bamboo’ – silent, watching, empty. The only problem is that there is no bliss in that emptiness. It...
View ArticleMy Beloved Bodhisattvas – Osho
My beloved bodhisattvas . . . Yes, that’s how I look at you. That’s how you have to start looking at yourselves. Bodhisattva means a buddha in essence, a buddha in seed, a buddha asleep, but with all...
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