The Atomic Moment – Osho
Remember two words which will be very important to understand this strange but immensely valuable book, The Secret of the Golden Flower: one word is “essence,” the other word is “personality.”...
View ArticlePodcast Episode: Be a Light unto Yourself
Pip: Sat Sangha Salon — where the beach walk leads somewhere you didn’t expect. Mara: Today we’re following a single insight from Purushottama: what it means to stop seeking attention from the outside...
View ArticlePodcast Episode: Meditation Involves all Three
Pip: Sat Sangha Salon — where the questions are ancient and the answers keep arriving fresh, usually before breakfast. Mara: Today we’re working through a piece by Purushottama on what meditation...
View ArticleRight Listening – Osho
Right listening means you have put aside your mind. It does not mean that you become gullible, that you start believing whatsoever is said to you. It has nothing to do with belief or disbelief. Right...
View ArticleThe Mysterious One – Osho
Rinzai said: If you want to be comfortable independent, free from birth and death and free to go or stay, you should recognize the one who is here now listening to my expounding of the dharma. This one...
View ArticleSamyak Shravan – Right Listening – Osho
To discipline ourselves in learning is called hearing. And Buddhists call the first step of learning, of knowing, hearing; right hearing – ‘samyak shravan’. […] Because the truth happens when you are...
View ArticleThe Awakening of the Double-Pointed Arrow
It seems to me that the awakening of the double-pointed arrow is the fulcrum point, the nexus, of meditation. Before the awakening, all meditation is an exercise in creating and realizing the...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleSeeing 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 ArticleWe Only Meet Ourselves – Jean Klein
We all meet here together, but in reality, we only meet ourselves. In a meeting of people, there is only demand, a desire to overcome the feeling of loneliness and insecurity where the ego is...
View ArticleMake Haste to Become the Fourth – Osho
Gurdjieff used to say that there are seven types of men. Let me explain those seven types to you. The first three types are very ordinary. You will find them everywhere, within and without. The first,...
View ArticleThe Light of Awareness – Osho
We feel that to penetrate and transform the deeper layers of the unconscious only through awareness is difficult and not enough. What else should one do other than the practice of awareness? Please...
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