Fast Asleep Even While Awake – Osho
Men are as forgetful and heedless in their waking moments of what is going on around them as they are during their sleep. Fools, although they hear, are like the deaf; to them the adage applies that...
View ArticleBe Quiet. Be Loving. Be Fearless.
A visit to the Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune, India To watch new people, especially older people, enter this beautiful bookshop and look at the books and audio CDs; to see them trying to...
View ArticleThe Touchstone of Awareness – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: My difficulty is this. As I can see, every experience is its own reality. It is there — experienced. The moment I question it and ask to whom it happens, who is the observer and so on, the...
View ArticleBecoming vs. Longing
It is important to know the difference between becoming and longing. Becoming has to come to a standstill but longing has to fully blossom. Becoming is moving away from our Self and longing is moving...
View ArticleBeyond the Capacity of the Mind – Osho
For the past few weeks, I have been able to sit and allow my mind to be quiet –sometimes for only a second, but sometimes for longer. Since this has been happening, I have experienced many beautiful...
View ArticleEarworms 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 ArticleAll Methods are Postponements – Osho
If the divine is right here and now, then what prevents us from seeing Him? Why do we cling to our dream life, even though it has become a misery for us? No, it has not become a misery for you yet;...
View ArticleDifficulties for Spiritual Seekers, Before and After Enlightenment – Baba...
Baba Purnanand Bharati Since the day of my enlightenment in 1979, my way of sharing with spiritual seekers has changed many times. I have been learning from Osho, but also from you, watching what...
View ArticleSuppose Your Passive Form to be an Empty Room – Osho
Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin – empty. Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin ... but inside, everything empty. This is one of the most...
View ArticleUnwind Your Mind – Osho
I am fifty, but I don’t yet feel really mature and fully grown up. What is the matter with me? Maybe you have not yet killed anybody. That’s a must. If you want to become mature, you have to become a...
View ArticleEgo and the Self – Osho
In the west I was trained as a social worker. I was taught that it is important that a person respects and loves himself and feels worthwhile. I was taught that it is important to give support to help...
View ArticleHow Many are Better than None?
Before there were any, there were none. Those who were none had the wisdom of all. Those who had the wisdom of all had nothing. Nothing makes for a wise choice and need not make sense. How many are...
View ArticleThe Mind is Not Your Friend – Robert Adams
Robert: Some of you look so serious. This is not a serious satsang, it’s a lot of fun, feel happy. Happiness is your real nature. You might as well get used to it, it’s going to overtake you whether...
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 Induction – Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Franklin Merrell-Wolff The following is transcribed from the tape of a talk given at the Briggs residence in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday 24 January 1970. Franklin Wolff spoke very slowly and with long...
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 ArticleNever Really Here – Jean Klein
Here is something which strikes me as being rather significant, and it happens every day, one does one thing while thinking about another. For instance I often happen to put my keys down somewhere, and...
View ArticleDoes the World Say that it Exists? – Ramana Maharshi
Dr. Bernhard Bey, an American Chemist who had interested himself in Vedanta for the last twenty years, now in India, came on a visit to the Master. He asked: “How is abhyasa to be made? I am trying...
View ArticleMeanwhile Back at the Ranch
Sumati and I finally arrived at the Ranch in Oregon in either late November or early December. We had started out from New Jersey on the first of September and crisscrossed the U.S. as well as driven...
View ArticleThe Biggest Surprise of All – Osho
What are we to do in this experiment? We will sit quietly, keeping the body relaxed and the spine erect. We will stop all movement of the body. We will breathe slowly and deeply and without any...
View Article