Enjoying this Living Death – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitor: The will to live is strong. To drop this identification with the body is like dying in a sense. Is it possible to do it voluntarily? Maharaj: What you call the body is this food, which is the...
View ArticleSunyawad, The Philosophy of Emptiness – Osho
These techniques are concerned with emptiness – they are the most delicate, the most subtle. Even to conceive of emptiness seems impossible. Buddha used all these four techniques for his disciples and...
View ArticleExplore the Body-Mind – Jean Klein
When there is teaching, you must follow the line free from expectation and anticipation — as in the same way when you trace the route on the map it brings you to your destination. It is very deeply...
View ArticleSelf-consciousness is Not Consciousness of the Self – Osho
For years I am most of the time witnessing and I feel like it is a disease. So is it that there are two kinds of witnessing and mine is wrong? Tell me. It must be wrong; otherwise it cannot be felt...
View ArticleThe Eternal Present – Jean Klein
The “eternal present”, our theme in these meetings, lies within the depth of ourselves. It is the eternal awareness of the self. Seen from the Ultimate, the world projected by the mind appears and...
View ArticleThis Witness is Our Truth – Osho
A few days ago, I heard you say that the voice speaking inside of us is always the mind, so I wonder who in me is hearing this voice. When I try to find the answer, I only find silence. Chidvilas, the...
View ArticleWithout any Breaks – Annamalai Swami
Q: Are there no breaks at all in the jnani’s awareness of the Self? For example, if he is engrossed in reading a good book, will his full attention ‘be always on the book? Will he simultaneously be...
View ArticleFor Such a Mind, Self-inquiry will Become Easy – Ramana Maharshi
11. What is the means for constantly holding on to the thought ‘Who am I?’ R.M. When other thoughts arise, one should not pursue them, but should inquire: ‘To whom do they arise?’ It does not matter...
View ArticleExistence Is Advaita – Osho
The nature of consciousness is to be just a mirror. The mirror has no choice of its own. Whatsoever comes in front of it is reflected – good or bad, beautiful or ugly – whatsoever. The mirror does not...
View ArticleBuddha’s Inner Orgasm – Osho
We have always heard that tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the...
View ArticleBeyond Duality – Osho
You said that existence is a wholeness, that everything is related, that things are melting into each other, that the tree cannot be without the sun and the sun also cannot exist without the tree. In...
View ArticleNegative Projection, a Technique of Visualization – Osho
Mind itself means projection, so unless you transcend the mind, whatever you come to experience is projection. Mind is the projecting mechanism. If you experience any visions of light, of bliss, even...
View ArticleNot Twoness
One summer day when I was Junior High School age, I must have been 13 or 14, I was sitting across the street from the house of two brothers who were friends of mine. They were eating lunch and I was...
View ArticleBy Itself Nothing has Existence – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: As I listen to you, I find that it is useless to ask you questions. Whatever the question, you invariably turn it upon itself and bring me to the basic fact that I am living in an illusion...
View ArticleThe Unity of Emptiness – Osho
The world is there because of you – you create it, you are a creator. Every single being creates a world around himself, it depends on his mind. The mind may be illusory, but it is creative – it...
View ArticleAll Moons in the One Moon
I cannot understand the philosophy of Zen. What should I do to understand it? Baula, Zen is not a philosophy at all. To approach Zen as if it were a philosophy is to start in a wrong way from the very...
View ArticleAn Experimental Approach – Douglas Harding
Good evening to you and welcome to Discovery. My name is Barbara O’Shuller, and my guest is Douglas Harding, an Englishman who is here in this area to speak among other things about the fine art of...
View ArticleKnow it as the State of Vairagya – Osho
When desires do not arise even in the face of the objects of enjoyment, know it as the state of vairagya – non-attachment, desireless ness. And when the ego ceases to rise, know it as the highest state...
View ArticleThen Only You will be Able to Know – Osho
At the time of this samadhi, the moods of the mind take the form of the soul, and therefore they are not apparent. But after the meditator had come back from his samadhi, those moods which had...
View ArticleIt Remains in its Suchness – Osho
The yogi, being alone and indifferent like the sky, does not even in the least attach himself with the future. Even as the ether inside a wine jar remains untouched by the smell of wine, so the self,...
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