Showing posts with label Osho-Talks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osho-Talks. Show all posts

Thursday 10 April 2014

OSHO : Knowing Oneself Is The Whole Of Religion


First, search for those rare moments when you are in tune with existence. Seek the inner path so that you can know who you are. Knowing oneself is the whole of religion. Anything else is just a footnote.
The essential religion is simply expressed by Socrates in two words, "Know thyself." In fact, within these two words are included all the holy scriptures of the world and all the mystical experiences of people who have come to know themselves.

The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence; your consciousness, your bliss. And you have known the most beautiful, almost unbelievable experience -- what we were talking about this morning: om mani padme hum. You have come to experience something which can only be called the sound of silence, the diamond in the lotus -- an experience of a beauty which cannot be seen with open eyes, a sound of silence which cannot be heard by your outer ears. But at the very center it is already present; you just have to go there.

I teach you not to be bothered by any scriptures, not to be bothered by any churches, not to be bothered by any philosophical or theological systems.
Religion is a very simple and humble affair.
Just go within wards.

Know thyself; be thyself.

And all blessings will shower on you as if thousands of roses are showering. Only out of that experience will gratitude arise. Gratitude is not possible before experiencing something of the ultimate.

O S H O 

ON MANI PADME HUM 


Tuesday 8 April 2014

OSHO : Enlightenment Is Not an Experience



Enlightenment Is Not an Experience
 
"One of the most fundamental things to be remembered – not only by you but by everyone – is that whatever you come across in your inner journey, you are not it.
 
"You are the one who is witnessing it. It may be nothingness, it may be blissfulness, it may be silence, but one thing has to be remembered: however beautiful and however enchanting an experience you come across, you are not it. You are the one who is experiencing it. And if you go on and on and on, the ultimate in the journey is the point when there is no experience left – neither silence, nor blissfulness, nor nothingness. There is nothing as an object for you, but only your subjectivity.
 
"The mirror is empty; it is not reflecting anything. It is you.
 
"Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience."
 
Osho, The Hidden Splendor, Talk #10



OSHO : Rebellion Is Individual


Rebellion Is Individual
 
"I don't preach revolution. I am utterly against revolution. I say unto you that my word for the future, and for those who are intelligent enough in the present, is rebellion. What is the difference?
 
"Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis.
 
"And each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is only fighting with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed. What is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude. Surrounded by all these qualities you are born anew."
 
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Truth Godliness Beauty, Talk #26

Sunday 6 April 2014

OSHO: Creativity Comes From Heart

Creativity




Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are
doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at
things.... 

Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If
everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be
difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no
need. But everybody can be creative. 

Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if
your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If
you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you
growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more
divine as you become more creative. 

All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don't
know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more
creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity
comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in
God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative
have been closest to him. Love what you do.

Saturday 5 April 2014

Osho: Relaxation Is Only a Beginning





Relaxation Is Only a Beginning
 
"Relaxation is good, but it is only a beginning; it just prepares the ground for meditation. But meditation is a totally different affair. You have to become aware of your mind stuff. Whatever goes on in your mind you have to become a watcher, and the watcher has to be so deep-rooted that slowly, slowly your mind disappears and only the watcher remains. Then all possibilities of tension, anxiety, anguish, disappear and you will not find even the conflict."
 
Osho, The New Dawn, Talk #29


Osho Says "Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance"


A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance

 
"If you can become just your own self, if you can blossom into your intrinsic nature, then only you will have blissfulness – a peace which cannot be expressed in words, and a certain poetry to your being; a certain dance to your being, because you will be in tune with existence. To be in tune with yourself is the only way to be in tune with existence. Nobody needs personal guidance, because all personal guidance is a beautiful name for dependence on somebody and he is going to distort you."
 
"A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators. Because whatever goes on happening within us is not only within us, it affects people who are close by. In this communion people are at different stages of meditation. To meditate with these people, just to sit silently with these people, and you will be pulled more and more towards your own intrinsic potentiality."
 
Osho, The Invitation, Talk #12


Osho on Rebellious Spirit



Rebellion Is Individual


"I don't preach revolution. I am utterly against revolution. I say unto you that my word for the future, and for those who are intelligent enough in the present, is rebellion. What is the difference?
 
"Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis.
 
"And each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is only fighting with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed. What is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude. Surrounded by all these qualities you are born anew."
 
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Truth Godliness Beauty, Talk #26


Osho, The Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart




Your Heart Is Just a Blood Pumping Station

"Your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your sentiments, all are centered in your head. It is just a fallacy to think that your feelings are in the heart. Your heart is just a blood pumping station.

"When we are talking about the empty heart, we are really talking about the empty mind. Buddha has used the word heart instead of mind because mind has become associated with the idea that it is only the process of thinking, and the process of feeling is in the heart, and the heart is deeper.

"These ideas have been created by the poets. But the truth is, you can call it empty mind or you can call it empty heart; it is the same. Emptiness – you are just a watcher and all around there is nothing with which you are identified, there is nothing to which you are clinging. This non-clinging watchfulness is the empty mind, no-mind, or empty heart. These are simply words. The real thing is emptiness – of all thoughts, feelings, sentiments, emotions. Only a single point of witnessing remains."

Friday 4 April 2014

Osho on Fighting with Life


Fighting

One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are
here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how
much fuss we make! How much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict,
anger, hatred, just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train
in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting,
hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to
dominate - all that politics. And then the train comes and you are
gone forever.

Osho Take it Easy, Volume 1 Chapter 13

Osho Talking About Maturity


Maturity

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as
between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know
that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise.
Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals,
have come to a completion....

Certainly, to be full of spring yourself is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves. That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real
pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises,
the autumn dew starts evaporating....

This temporary beauty cannot be compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being.
Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to
shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

Osho No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity Chapter 5