Nothing Is Found – Osho
I was brought up in the teachings of Rudolph Steiner, but I could not yet break through my barriers towards him. Although I believe him to be right in the way he shows that for the West, the...
View ArticleThis Identification is Ego – Osho
The Self or soul is both God and Living Being. But the body, which is not the soul, gets infected with a sense of ego, and that is what is called living being’s bondage. The cessation of this ego is...
View ArticleThis Fourth is the Being – Osho
The state in which the soul, with the help of the energies of the sun and other gods, and through the instrumentality of these fourteen: mind, intellect, mind stuff, ego and the ten sense organs –...
View ArticleThis Host is Your Being in its Purity – Osho
I am never born as a body. I am not the ten senses. And I am neither intellect, nor mind nor everlasting ego. I am eternally pure self-nature without vital breath and mind. I am the witness without...
View ArticleWitnessing Has a Beauty – Osho
How do I come to know when I am really witnessing my body, feelings and thoughts, or when it is only my mind pretending to be a witness? The question is only intellectual; you have not even tried to...
View ArticleWhat Does “I” Mean – Osho
Please, in the question “Who am I?” What does “I” mean? Does it mean the essence of life? “Who am I?” is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a...
View ArticleThis Witnessing is the Buddha – Osho
When there is nothing to perceive – No input from the body or the mind and so one has nothing by which to define oneself – Is what is left witnessing? There does not even seem to be a witness, but just...
View ArticleHe Remains in the Subjective Mood – Osho
The appreciation of objects and subjects is the same for an enlightened as for an unenlighted person. The former has one greatness: he remains in the subjective mood, not lost in things. There is a...
View ArticleThree Steps of Awareness – Osho
There are three steps of awareness. First, become aware of your body – walking, chopping wood or carrying water from the well. Be watchful; be alert, aware, conscious. Don’t go on doing things like a...
View ArticleThe Watcher is Not Amused – Osho
Is the watcher amused? The watcher cannot do anything except watch. If it is amused, it has lost its watching. There may be amusement but that will be part of the mind. The watcher will watch it, too....
View ArticleTo Be One Again – Osho
Man is not an island; nothing is. All is interrelated, all is interdependent. Independence – the very word – is false, so is dependence. The reality is interdependence. Everything is so deeply...
View ArticleHow I Came to One-Mind – Swami Dayanand Bharati
This is the story of how I came to “One-Mind.” 8 years ago I had to face that I was habitually getting slightly drunk every evening for the past 10 years , nobody would notice it was my private gig...
View ArticleSomething That I Cannot Look At – Osho
Inside, there is something that I cannot look at, I can only be it. And then I am at the center of experiencing my mind, my body, and what comes to my senses. This feels ecstatic, yet is very subtle,...
View ArticleFlowers and Thorns – Osho
Love. I am one with all things – in beauty, in ugliness, for whatsoever is – there I am. Not only in virtue but in sin too I am a partner, and not only heaven but hell too is mine. Buddha, Jesus, Lao...
View ArticleJean Klein: Master of Listening
The last time I saw Jean Klein was in 1996 in Santa Barbara, California. Amido and I had gone with him and his wife, Emma, to see the parade downtown. We had spent the weekend helping to care for Jean...
View ArticleSaradamma’s Realization
The next morning she [Saradamma] came out of samadhi with a strong awareness that her ‘I’-thought was still existing. She remembered the peace of the previous day and night when she had been in...
View ArticleExistential Doubts – Osho
I remember. I let go. I forget. I let go. My love affair with life keeps deepening. Still, I am not without doubts. But the plunge forward! A dance unpredictable. And I allow all around… Dissolve in...
View ArticleWill, Witnessing and Suchness – Osho
You have talked about how the subtle body can be separated from the physical body using one’s willpower. Can the subtle body of a seeker who follows the discipline of witnessing, or that of a seeker...
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 ArticleBe Aware of the Golden Light – Osho
The threshold of reality is veiled by golden light. Now the Isa Upanishad reminds the seeker that: be aware. When you enter into the world of absolute reality you will come across a golden veil, very...
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