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Listen to the Song of Life – Osho
The fourth sutra: Listen to the song of life. Look for it and listen to it first in your own heart. At first you may say it is not there; when I search, I find only discord. Look deeper. If again you...
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In the Gap Descends the Witness – Osho
You describe witnessing as a knack. Often, late at night, which I am in a very relaxed state, witnessing happens. At other times, though, it just seems to be mind watching mind watching mind. Please...
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A Still Mind: The Door to the Divine – Osho
Nishal-gyanam asanam. Non-wavering knowing is asana – the posture. Man is neither a body, nor a mind alone – he is both. Even to say that he is both is wrong in a way because body and mind are separate...
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Encountering the Unconscious – Osho
Considering the example of sensual instinct, kindly explain what are the practical ways to encounter the unconscious mind, and how can one know that one has become free from it? The unconscious is not...
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You have to Go Beyond Colors – Osho
When one experiences different forms of light and colors in meditation – such as red, yellow, blue, ochre, etc. – how can one know to which layers of being they belong? Is there any gradual sequence of...
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Total Listening – Osho
So before we enter this mystery, some points have to be understood; otherwise, there will be no entrance. One is how to listen, because there are different dimensions of listening. You can listen with...
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Become the Listening – Osho
Yesterday you explained about three types of listening: first, listening through the intellect, second, through emotion, sympathy and love; and third, through the whole being, through faith....
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Neo-Advaita Meets Dzogchen: The Unraveling of a Pseudo-Enlightenment
The following is an excerpt from Sam Harris’s book Waking Up. I must confess that I have not read Sam’s book, but I find the excerpt below to be an incredibly insightful exposé on the deficiencies of...
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No Water, No Moon – Osho
Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. “Shall I lead you on?” Ikkyu asked. Ninakawa replied, “I came here alone, and I go alone. What help could you be to me?” Ikkyu...
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Seeing 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...
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That is Your Pure Gold – Osho
Is it useful for those of us with you to try to understand what is happening in our meditation and growth, and to be able to articulate it? Or do we just need to watch? Maneesha, you just need to...
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Psychology Cannot Take You Beyond Mind – Osho
I am a psychologist. I was hoping that studying psychology would help to change my life, but nothing like that has happened. What should I do now? Psychology is still a very, very immature science. It...
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Continuous Attentiveness Will Come with Long Practice – Annamalai Swami
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. If you remain in the source, the Self, you can easily catch each thought as it rises. If you don’t catch the thoughts as...
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Let the Mind Go Wherever it Wants to Go – Annamalai Swami
Questioner: I think that I am now beginning to grasp what the ‘I am’ is. It seems that this is something behind the body, behind the mind, and behind the awareness of the body. I think that we don’t...
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The Unwavering Mind – Osho
After this the seeker enters the third stage of yoga which is known as non-attachment. He fixes his mind unwaveringly on the meaning of scriptural words. He lives in the monasteries, ashrams, of saints...
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Beyond 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....
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Yoga is the Cessation of Mind – Osho
Now the discipline of yoga. Yoga is the cessation of mind. Then the witness is established in itself. In the other states there is identification with the modifications of the mind. Yoga is pure...
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The Lotus Remains Untouched – Osho
When the activity of the mind is under control, the mind becomes like pure crystal, reflecting equally, without distortion, the perceiver, the perception and the perceived. Savitarka samadhi is the...
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How can You Feel Awareness Without Being Aware – Osho
Daily in each of your talks, you speak of awareness – total awareness, uninterrupted awareness, etcetera. You also said that it cannot be achieved by the mind, by repeating a thought – that it is to be...
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Seeing 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...
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