Many questions are before me. One friend has asked:
If the soul cannot be seen, then why is so much importance given to something invisible? Why do you also talk about this same unseen atman?
#Osho
The trees are visible, not so the roots that lie hidden in the ground beneath. That does not mean that they are of less significance. Rather, the visible tree is entirely dependent on the invisible roots for its existence.
If we tend the tree and neglect the roots, the tree is sure to die. No longer will it give out flowers and fruits, for its very life-breath lies hidden in the roots. Whatever is of consequence in life, is always hidden from view. What is manifest is the outer cover, what remains unmanifest is the soul within.
The body can be seen for it is the outer covering; that which is within the body, is not open to view. This does not decrease its value however. Its quest becomes all the more necessary because it is invisible.
May it not happen, that we go through life mistaking the apparent manifestations of life as the be-all and end-all of existence. May it not happen that we live through life taking the apparent world as real and of consequence.
That also exists which is imperceptible and invisible – in the sense that it cannot be seen with the ordinary eye. But he who develops his insight and cultivates his understanding and power of discretion, soon begins to see that which is…
There is a great scientist in Soviet Russia by the name of Fiodev. He carried out an experiment in telepathy over a distance of a thousand miles. Sitting in Moscow, he sent a wave of thought vibrations, without the help of any instruments, to a place called Tiflis, a thousand miles away.
A few men were stationed in a garden in Tiflis to keep watch over a bench that bore the number 10.
Soon a man came and sat down on this bench. Fiodev was informed that the seat was now occupied.
Sitting in Moscow, Fiodev began to concentrate on him and send him suggestions: “Go to sleep, go to sleep”…the man on bench number ten fell fast asleep in three minutes!
Fiodev was duly informed, but he was told to give more proof of his experiment. It could have been that the man was tired and had gone off to sleep. He was asked to wake him up in five minutes.
Fiodev sent a fresh wave of suggestion to the sleeping man: “Get up! Get up within five minutes…”
Within five minutes this man, a thousand miles away, awoke from his sleep, and to the astonishment of all the observers, he looked anxiously from side to side as if he were looking for someone.
They went up to him and asked him what had caused him to get up so startled.
“I am puzzled,” said the man. “I came and sat here, as I normally do every day. Then it seemed to me as if someone was coaxing me to go to sleep. I thought perhaps I was tired and it was my mind telling me to rest. So I went to sleep, but hardly five minutes had gone by when the same voice ordered me to get up. ‘Get up’ it said, ‘Get up within five minutes. I am so intrigued – who could it be?”
Fiodev has carried out very many experiments in telepathy and given proofs thereof. Thoughts cannot be seen, but they are very much there; the soul is even more invisible, but it is very much there.
Those who enter the depths of meditation are, in a manner of speaking, able to “see” the soul. The roots of the tree are hidden, but if we start digging around the base of the tree roots can be seen.
It is a similar action when one concentrates and tries to separate the living consciousness from the gross body. This leads to the seeing of the self within…
Osho
Excerpts from: The Beginning of the Beginning, Chap #5: From Emptiness toward Truth https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
Our whole LIFE is a FOOLING-AROUND.
Because you are not aware of how you waste time.
Only when DEATH comes to you, you may become aware, alert: WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH LIFE?
A great OPPORTUNITY has been LOST..I never reflected upon what I was doing.
🌼A bird onthewing
#OSHO 🪷
#Osho#AnahatNaad
There is a difference between remembering and remembrance. One kind of remembrance has to be done; the other simply happens. When a seeker begins, he begins with effort. He repeats a mantra. If he does not repeat it, the repetition will not happen. It is an act, a doing. Effort is needed; remembrance has to be maintained.
But slowly, as the inner strings begin to fall into harmony, the seeker no longer needs to repeat the mantra. Nanak called this state Ajapa Japa — the chant that goes on by itself. Then the repetition is no longer done by you; it happens on its own. The seeker becomes a witness — he simply watches. He is joyous, intoxicated, swaying in delight. Now he is no longer playing the flute; the flute is playing by itself.
That is why the mystics have called it Anahata Nada — the unstruck sound. It arises of its own accord. There is no veena there, no drum there, no musician there — and yet the music is. An infinite music, a boundless sound, a sound with no shore and no end.
When you begin, naturally you will start by chanting, “Om… Om… Om…” That chanting will be yours. If you continue, and if the chant deepens, it passes through many stages.
First it is on the lips. Then it moves into the voice. Soon the lips are no longer needed; it remains in the throat and echoes within the mind. Then a moment comes when it is no longer in the mind, no longer in the throat. You discover it arising from some profound depth within your own being.
So there is one chant that you do, and there is another chant that one day you simply witness. The first is your effort. The second is existence singing within you.
Osho
Translated from Hindi -
Kahe Kabir Main Pura Paya
Discourse #6 https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp
जहां न सुख है,
न दुख,
दोनों के बीच में ठहर गये,
वहीं छुटकारा है,
वहीं मुक्ति है।
अन्यथा मन नये—नये खेल रच लेता है।
धन पाना, ध्यान पाना,
संसार में सफलता पानी,
कि धर्म में सफलता पानी।
लेकिन जब तक सफलता का मन है और सुख की खोज है तब तक दुख पाते ही रहोगे।
🌼अष्टावक्र महागीता
#ओशो 🪷
This is my TRINITY:
MATHEMATICS,
MUSIC,
MEDITATION.
Remember three Ⓜ️'s.
The first M is MATHEMATICS; Ⓜ️athematics is the purest science.
The second M is MUSIC;
Ⓜ️usic is pure art.
The third M is MEDITATION;
Ⓜ️editation is pure religion.
🌼Dhammapada
#OSHO 🪷
सुख है, दुख है।
जीवन है, मृत्यु है।
मित्र हैं, शत्रु हैं।
दिन है, रात है।
सबका अधिकार बराबर।
न तुम मांगो सुख हो, न तुम मांगो कि दुख न हो।
तुम मांगो ही मत।
जो आ जाए, तुम समरस साक्षी रहो।
धन्य है वही दशा जो सब भावों में एकरस है;
जो निष्कंप है।
🌼 अष्टावक्र महागीता
#ओशो 🪷
#Osho#ConsciousMeditation
If you have become
absorbed in meditation,
fully committed and surrendered, you are
bound to reach the truth.
This is an eternal law.
No step taken toward
god is ever wasted.
Osho
A Cup of Tea
MAN is as if ASLEEP.
Man’s mind is very dull.
MIND is dullness.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises — clean, clear, alive.
That is what AWARENESS is.
🌼A Sudden Clash of Thunder
#OSHO 🪷
Deep Down Into Yourself
These one hundred and twelve methods are not really for developing the navel center; they are for uncovering it. That is why instantly sometimes one becomes a buddha, because there is no question of creating something. If you can look at yourself, if you can go deep down into yourself, all that you need is already there. It is already the case, so the only question is how to be thrown to that point where you are already a buddha. Meditation doesn't help you to be a buddha, it only helps you to become aware of your buddhahood.
Osho: Vigyan Bhairav Tantra v1.10
ये जो चेहरे हैं, मुखौटे हैं —
बुद्धिमानी के, पांडित्य के, शास्त्रीयता के
इनके पीछे कब तक छुपे रहोगे?
ये जो विचारों की परतें हैं,
इनके पीछे कब तक छुपे रहोगे?
इन्हें हटाओ!
🌻 भीतर के शुद्ध चैतन्य को जगाओ।
द्रष्टा की तरह देखो, विचारक की तरह नहीं।
🌼 अष्टावक्र: महागीता
#ओशो 🪷
🔸Action is beautiful, Reaction is ugly.
Only a man of awareness ACTS, the man of unawareness REACTS.
ACTION liberates.
REACTION goes on creating the same chains, goes on making them thicker and stronger.
🍁Live a life of response and not of reaction.
🌼 Unio Mystica
#OSHO 🪷
People are very much attracted by mystical nonsense, by occult stupidity, by esoteric gibberish.
Just start talking with people about chakras, centers of energy, and kundalini, and they are all-attentive.
People have strange ideas, sleepy people.
🌼The Dhammapada
#OSHO 🪷