Earworms and Meditation
A few years ago sitting and chatting together after a Satsang Meditation one of the guests brought up the subject of earworms. I suggested that the earworms were asking for attention in order to be...
View ArticleNo-Mind, No Time – Osho
The other day I visited Sita Ma. I looked into her eyes and felt almost as if time had stopped and exploded. Completely overwhelmed and with much reluctance I came away, laughing and crying. Can you...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Subject – Jean Klein
You are looking for an experience, for God, for beauty. This means you see what you are looking for as an object. I would say: Simply inquire who is looking. When you really inquire, you will see that...
View ArticleThe Royal Process for Spirituality – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: May I ask: so consciousness comes into awareness. Maharaj: Of course, everything is in awareness. Q. Yeah, okay. First there was awareness, then consciousness. Translator: He wants you to...
View ArticleDis-identification
Dis-identification can still see identification but identification cannot see dis-identification. No-Mind can see mind but mind cannot see No-Mind. In identification one is not aware of being...
View ArticleZen: Twenty-four Carat Gold – Osho
Maneesha, perhaps Zen is the only path that has led thousands of people to the ultimate reality. And in a way, it is so simple. There have been arduous ways, there have been self-torturing systems of...
View ArticleBeing a Light Unto Myself – Dayanand Bharati
The alchemy of transcendence A lot of water has flown down the Ganga since that article about the addiction, How I Came to One-Mind. I had transcended alcohol addiction and sobriety then. It is not...
View ArticleLet Consciousness Be Your Master – Osho
You say: Go beyond the mind. Do not listen to its chatter. Discipline it and make it a servant. Do not be its slave. But how to know when the mind is being disciplined and when it is being repressed....
View ArticleSeeing This, No-Mind Arrives – Osho
Is it possible that the no-mind evolves quite naturally out of the mind without struggle and anguish, without exploding, hammering, cutting and such wild acts? Is the very idea of no-mind, which seems...
View ArticleDon’t Waste Time in Dreaming – Osho
I am desperate. I feel more and more energy and a deep let-go wanting to happen. In the last while I often have a feeling of letting myself fall into something like into the sea, or into the incredible...
View ArticleAfter Awakening Before Enlightenment
Back in 2011 the essay Awakening Before Enlightenment came gushing out onto the computer screen. I was very reluctant to edit it much at all because it didn’t feel like my writing. It just poured out....
View ArticleIs This Enlightenment – Osho
When the internal talking stops, is this enlightenment? Parivesh, when the internal talking stops, who cares? Who is there to care? Who is there to raise the question ‘Is this enlightenment’? If you...
View ArticleThe Root Problem – Osho
The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial,...
View ArticleThe Nature of Darkness – Osho
Let us first meditate a little on the nature of darkness. It is one of the most mysterious things in existence – and your life is so much involved in it, you cannot afford not to think about it. One...
View ArticleIn Two Steps the Whole Journey is Complete – Osho
So these are the three words: thinking, feeling, being. From thinking, nobody has ever been able to reach being. Nobody can bypass feeling; feeling is the bridge. The first step is from thinking to...
View ArticleTrust is the Purest Form of Doubt – Osho
The third is the astral body. This also has two dimensions. Primarily, the third body revolves around doubt and thinking. If these are transformed doubt becomes trust and thinking becomes vivek,...
View ArticleMind is the Unreal – Osho
It seems as if everything I perceive in or out of meditation is my own creation or projection. I can’t distinguish between what I see, feel or am creating. Osho, what is? There is no need to...
View ArticleBecome a Blissful Buddha – Osho
[A visitor is hesitant to take sannyas: I keep hearing you talk how your old self dies when you become a sannyasin…] But a new self is born! And the old you have known already, so what is the point of...
View ArticleLiving in Consciousness
Consciousness has been at the center of my life for almost 50 years, as it has been for so many of us. But, I am a practical sort of guy and so am not very interested in the conceptual “consciousness.”...
View ArticleMake Your Mind as Sharp as Possible – Osho
Since I have been a sannyasin, I have thought that I needed to use my mind less if I was to be in touch with my heart. Yet I heard you say the other day that we should train our minds to keep our...
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