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The Path is Only a Reminder - Osho

If Zen is the path, and you are the gate, then who lives in the house? Prem Michael, Zen is the path, and I am the gate, and you live in the house. You have completely forgotten – that’s what makes the possibility of making a path, to remind you. The path is only a reminder. You have completely forgotten that you are in the house. You think you are out of the house; hence a gate is needed to…

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No Bigger Lie than Death - Osho

We become free from that which we have known. We also triumph over that which we have known. Our failure and defeat are only because of our ignorance. Defeat is because of darkness; when there is light, defeat is impossible — light itself will bring triumph. The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not…

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Emptiness from One Side, Fullness from Another - Osho

For a few moments the other morning, while watching you, I saw that nobody was there. I saw the emptiness, the hollow bamboo. Why did I find this spooky and awesome when you have been speaking of the beauty of emptiness for years? It is just because from your very childhood you have been told that the goal is not emptiness, but fullness. Emptiness symbolizes the beggar’s bowl. In the West…

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A Map from Mind to No-Mind

Recently I have been writing about my inquiry into the movement from mind to no-mind and I have posted some links below. But this morning I spent time investigating the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty of that movement. So first to recap: Our first responsibility on the road from mind to no-mind is to create the watcher. All meditation begins with this creation. We begin to pay attention to our…

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Watching and also Forgetting the Content

This last week’s meditation program, Program #05: Like the Empty Sky it has No Boundaries, inspired the latest posting on another koan. Osho speaks about both watching the mind and forgetting the content. The two together seem to be quite a paradox. If I watch the mind, how can I forget the content? And if I forget the content, how can I watch the mind? When I first try to put into practice both…

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The Bridegroom is Waiting for You - Osho

Now, try to understand these sutras of Patanjali. The seen which is composed of the elements and the sense organs is of the nature of stability, action, and inertia, and is for the purpose of providing experience and thus liberation to the seer.  The first thing to be understood is that the world exists for you to be liberated. Many a time the question has arisen in your mind: “Why does this…

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Meditation Involves all Three

  Osho often talks about the difference between concentration, contemplation and meditation or dhyana. Mostly, he is making a distinction in order to prod us on into real meditation or dhyana. But just this morning, and it is so obvious I am almost embarrassed to say that it was a realization, I did, in fact, realize that meditation involves all three. Many times, when I begin my sitting, I first…

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The 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 double-pointed arrow. After the awakening of the double-pointed arrow, meditation is about stabilization, and then with this stabilized awareness – the witness – the transformation occurs.     What is the…

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Remember that You are Not the Mind - Osho

We live enclosed in our own minds, and we carry that enclosure with us everywhere. So whatsoever we see, whatsoever we hear, whatsoever happens around us, it is never transmitted to the inner consciousness directly. The mind remains in between, always playing tricks. One must be aware that this is happening […] – to be aware of what your mind is doing to you. It is coming in between. Wherever you…

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A Rhythm of One - Osho

First try to understand the word ‘suchness’. Buddha depends on that word very much. In Buddha’s own language it is tathata – suchness. The whole Buddhist meditation consists of living in this word, living with this word, so deeply that the word disappears and you become the suchness. For example, you are ill. The attitude of suchness is: accept it – and say to yourself, “Such is the way of the…

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That Area is Meditation - Osho

Maneesha, Ryusui is pointing to a very fundamental question which Gautam Buddha raised for the first time in human history. The question is, is enlightenment something to be achieved, desired, longed for? If so, then there must be practices, disciplines, rituals, and the whole paraphernalia. And millions of people have gone astray in search of enlightenment. Buddha is the first human being who…

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Meditation through Biofeedback - Osho

Research over the past few years has suggested that certain states of consciousness brought about by meditation techniques appear to evoke specific brainwave patterns. These states are now being created by electronic and auditory stimulation of the brain, and the can be learned through biofeedback. The traditional ‘meditative state’ – sitting silently (or at least quietly alert) is composed of…

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Surrender vs Be a Light unto Oneself - Osho

Can I truly surrender and still be a light unto myself? That is the only way to be a light unto yourself to surrender. Life is paradoxical: day/night, birth/death, summer/winter, love/hate, and so on ad infinitum. If a person thoroughly understands this, he will agree and not worry. In other words, he knows when he loves that soon he will hate; therefore, he will laugh when he is going uphill,…

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Listening Intellectually is Not Listening at All - Osho

When I sit in front of you and listen to you speak, I feel as if a process of osmosis is happening. I find I don’t intellectually listen. Is this the right way or am I missing something? This is the right way. If you listen to me intellectually you miss, not something, but all. Intellectual listening is a kind of deafness. When I say something, you can listen to the word. You have a mind, a…

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Transcendence is True Therapy - Osho

You speak on the psychology of the buddhas, the psychology of transcendence, as the essence of transcendence, as the essence of the work happening here in the buddhafield. What is the uniqueness of this third psychology? Is there a psychology of transcendence? Amitabh, Sigmund Freud introduced psychoanalysis into the world. It is rooted in analyzing the mind. It is confined to the mind. It does…

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Body: The First Step for a Seeker - Osho

In this first meeting of the meditation camp, I would like to talk about the first step for a meditator, a seeker. What is the first step? A thinker or a lover follows certain paths, but a seeker has to travel on a totally different journey. For a seeker, what is the first step on the journey? The body is the first step for a seeker – but no attention or thought has been given to it. Not only at…

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The End of Heroes - Osho

You have said that you are the new man that the world needs, and that this commune is a preparation for the arrival of the new man. Do you see that other people here are going to become, like you, the new man, or are you talking about a preparation for future generations? I am never concerned about the future, neither about the past. My whole concern is the present. And when I say the New Man, I…