Eyes can Lead You to the Source – Osho
Tonight’s techniques are concerned with the practice of looking. Before we enter these techniques, something has to be understood about the eyes, because all these seven techniques depend on that. The...
View ArticleSelf-consciousness is Not Consciousness of the Self – Osho
For years I am most of the time witnessing and I feel like it is a disease. So is it that there are two kinds of witnessing and mine is wrong? Tell me. It must be wrong; otherwise it cannot be felt...
View ArticleThis Witness is Our Truth – Osho
A few days ago, I heard you say that the voice speaking inside of us is always the mind, so I wonder who in me is hearing this voice. When I try to find the answer, I only find silence. Chidvilas, the...
View ArticleOnly the Real Remains – Osho
If the ego is unreal, then does it not mean that the unconscious mind, the accumulation of memories in the brain cells, and the process of transformation that is the subject matter of spirituality, is...
View ArticleBe Thoroughgoing – Osho
The problem with every awakened soul has always been the same: before awakening it is the very fact of awakening that is his problem. After awakening, it is again the awakening that comes as a problem...
View ArticleExistence Is Advaita – Osho
The nature of consciousness is to be just a mirror. The mirror has no choice of its own. Whatsoever comes in front of it is reflected – good or bad, beautiful or ugly – whatsoever. The mirror does not...
View ArticleZen is just Zen – Osho
Zen is just Zen. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique—unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It...
View ArticleNot Twoness
One summer day when I was Junior High School age, I must have been 13 or 14, I was sitting across the street from the house of two brothers who were friends of mine. They were eating lunch and I was...
View ArticleAll Beings are from the Very Beginning Buddhas – Osho
I was thinking what should I give to you today? Because this is my birthday, I was incarnated into this body on this day. This is the day I saw for the first time the green of the trees and the blue of...
View ArticleThis Very Place the Lotus Paradise – Osho
Man lives in illusion. Man lives through illusion. Man lives for illusion. In short, man lives because of illusion. Hence the fear of truth. Nobody wants truth, although everybody goes on seeking for...
View ArticleThe Discontented Socrates – Osho
What is the difference between a contented pig, a discontented Socrates, and a natural man of Zen? You will have to understand these five categories. First, the contented pig. It has nothing to do with...
View ArticleThe Emptiness of the Heart – Osho
Maneesha, Bukko has come to the ultimate expression of the experience of one’s own being. Very rarely has a master succeeded to such a point as Bukko has in his statements. Listen carefully, because...
View ArticleCentering is the Method, Not the Result – Osho
If enlightenment and samadhi mean total consciousness, cosmic consciousness, all-pervading consciousness, then it seems very strange to call this state of cosmic consciousness centering, as the word...
View ArticleRipe Plum – Osho
Maneesha, one of the most important things to be remembered all along is that the Zen master is not a philosopher. He is not rational. Basically he is very irrational and absurd, but miraculously he...
View ArticleGo on Digging – Osho
The word ‘zazen’ has to be understood before I can start discussing the sutras that you have brought. Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part...
View ArticleGo Beyond Emptiness – Osho
Sekiso has a poem: For six years sitting alone Still as a snake In a stalk of bamboo, With no family but the ice On the snow mountain . . . Last night, seeing the empty sky Fly into pieces, He shook...
View ArticleDive a Little Deep – Osho
Dogen said: In the practice of the highest supreme wisdom, it is most difficult to meet prominent masters. Whether men or women, they must be those who have realized something indescribable . . . This...
View ArticleDreaming has to be Transcended – Osho
The state in which the soul, with the help of the energies of the sun and other gods, and through the instrumentality of these fourteen: mind, intellect, mind stuff, ego, and the ten sense organs –...
View ArticleThe Fifth Body is Known as the Bliss Body – Osho
When the self – living inside the food body – and the vital body thinks through the instrumentality of the fourteen organs like mind, et cetera, about objects like sound, smell, touch et cetera it is...
View ArticleSakshi Means the Witness – Osho
That which is aware of the creation and dissolution of the knower, the known and the knowable, but is itself beyond creation and dissolution is called the sakshi or the witnessing self. That which...
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