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2 months ago

#Osho #ConsciousAwakening #TheFourthState And the process of awareness is this: whatever activity is happening, I am separate from it. Whether that activity is in a shop, at work, in prayer or worship, it makes no difference: the action is separate from me – it is part of the world and I am the watcher. Don’t become so engrossed in the activity that only the activity remains and the witness is lost. Right now, this is what is happening to you… First start with the waking state, because that is the closest to the fourth. It has a slight ray of awareness in it, a little consciousness. Make use of that ray. As far as the state of deep sleep is concerned, how can you become aware in it all of a sudden? How can you become aware in the dreaming state directly? So begin with the waking state. Your waking state has one percent consciousness in it and ninety-nine percent unconsciousness. Make use of this one percent and nurture it. Whenever there is an opportunity during the day, shake yourself awake. Again and again you will lose it, again and again you will forget it, but each time give yourself a shake and wake yourself up. It is like when a person goes shopping in the market: he ties a knot in his handkerchief to remember an essential item, so that he doesn’t forget it. In the same way, in order not to forget about the watcher, tie a knot of self-remembering in your awareness. Each time, in every situation, no matter what you may be doing, remind yourself that “I am not the doer, I am just a watcher.” The moment you remember this, you will notice that all your tension has disappeared. All tension is of the doer, of the ego. The moment you remember that you are the watcher, all your tension will disappear. If it disappears even for a moment, you will have a glimpse, and waves of the inner ocean will start pulsating. Again and again this state will be lost because for lifetimes you have cultivated unconsciousness, so it will take time to overcome this. But if you nurture it often and if even a dozen or two dozen times in the day you manage to remain aware for a short while – walking on the road you suddenly stop and become a witness; eating your meal you suddenly alert yourself and become a witness; sitting in the shop talking to a customer, you are about to lose yourself in unawareness and you suddenly stop yourself – then slowly, slowly you will find that it becomes easier each day. You will start getting glimpses of the fourth state while you are awake in the day. When the fourth has become easy during the day, then you will also be able to take it into your dreams. Then at night, when you are about to fall asleep, stay with only this remembrance inside: I am the watcher. As sleep begins to take you over, let only one feeling resonate in you: I am the witness, I am the witness, I am the witness… Fall asleep repeating this up to the point where you don’t even know when you fell asleep and the current of feeling was broken. But if you go on nurturing it, an undercurrent of this feeling will continue even in your sleep because the current of feeling is in you, and it is only the body that sleeps. If this process continues, then one day suddenly you will experience that you are the watcher even when you are dreaming. As you experience this, a unique thing will happen: the dream will instantly be broken. The moment you remember in a dream that you are the watcher, the dream will stop. The dreaming happens only because of your unconsciousness. Osho Excerpts from: Bliss, Chap #8: The Mysterious Fourth State https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp

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And the process of awareness is this: whatever activity is happening, I am separate from it. Whether that activity is in a shop, at work, in prayer or worship, it makes no difference: the action is separate from me – it is part of the world and I am the watcher. Don’t become so engrossed in the activity that only the activity remains and the witness is lost. Right now, this is what is happening to you…

First start with the waking state, because that is the closest to the fourth. It has a slight ray of awareness in it, a little consciousness. Make use of that ray. As far as the state of deep sleep is concerned, how can you become aware in it all of a sudden? How can you become aware in the dreaming state directly? So begin with the waking state.

Your waking state has one percent consciousness in it and ninety-nine percent unconsciousness. Make use of this one percent and nurture it. Whenever there is an opportunity during the day, shake yourself awake.

Again and again you will lose it, again and again you will forget it, but each time give yourself a shake and wake yourself up. It is like when a person goes shopping in the market: he ties a knot in his handkerchief to remember an essential item, so that he doesn’t forget it. In the same way, in order not to forget about the watcher, tie a knot of self-remembering in your awareness.

Each time, in every situation, no matter what you may be doing, remind yourself that “I am not the doer, I am just a watcher.”

The moment you remember this, you will notice that all your tension has disappeared. All tension is of the doer, of the ego. The moment you remember that you are the watcher, all your tension will disappear. If it disappears even for a moment, you will have a glimpse, and waves of the inner ocean will start pulsating.

Again and again this state will be lost because for lifetimes you have cultivated unconsciousness, so it will take time to overcome this. But if you nurture it often and if even a dozen or two dozen times in the day you manage to remain aware for a short while – walking on the road you suddenly stop and become a witness; eating your meal you suddenly alert yourself and become a witness; sitting in the shop talking to a customer, you are about to lose yourself in unawareness and you suddenly stop yourself – then slowly, slowly you will find that it becomes easier each day. You will start getting glimpses of the fourth state while you are awake in the day.

When the fourth has become easy during the day, then you will also be able to take it into your dreams. Then at night, when you are about to fall asleep, stay with only this remembrance inside: I am the watcher.

As sleep begins to take you over, let only one feeling resonate in you: I am the witness, I am the witness, I am the witness… Fall asleep repeating this up to the point where you don’t even know when you fell asleep and the current of feeling was broken.

But if you go on nurturing it, an undercurrent of this feeling will continue even in your sleep because the current of feeling is in you, and it is only the body that sleeps.

If this process continues, then one day suddenly you will experience that you are the watcher even when you are dreaming. As you experience this, a unique thing will happen: the dream will instantly be broken. The moment you remember in a dream that you are the watcher, the dream will stop.

The dreaming happens only because of your unconsciousness.

Osho
Excerpts from: Bliss, Chap #8: The Mysterious Fourth State https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp

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Krishnadev Satyarthi

@KrisBhattarai

2 months ago

#Osho #BeingConscious #TheFourthState There is only one success: to have known the deathless. Consider whatever can be destroyed by death to be failure, make it the definition of failure. Do you have anything that death will not be able to take away from you? Keep reflecting over it: “Do I have a single thing that death cannot take away from me?” And if you find that there is nothing, then don’t waste time. If you find that all that you have will be taken away by death, don’t waste any more time. It is time to wake up… These three – what you call the waking state of your day; the dream state of your night, and your deep sleep state where even dreams disappear – all three will be extinguished in death. These three states have nothing to do with you. It is like when clouds surround the sun, in the same way, these three states have surrounded your sun. If you have spent your whole life in only these three states, at the moment of death you will find that you are dying in misery and helplessness. But if you are able to catch a glimpse of even a single ray of sun, even one ray, then the sun itself is not far away. Then you will soon be facing the sun and the clouds will be left behind… In all three states, whether you are awake, dreaming or in deep sleep, you should keep the remembrance of the fourth state alive. Your attention should be on the fourth. Whatever may be happening on the periphery, your attention should be on the center. Sitting or standing, keep your awareness. Eating, going to your shop, going home, keep your awareness. Always remember one thing: I am the watcher, I am not the doer. Don’t take life to be anything more than acting. Don’t become too identified with the acting. Whether you are a wife or a husband, a shopkeeper or a customer, don’t get too lost in the role. Your being a wife or a husband, a shopkeeper or a customer, is part of the acting. Inside, you remain out of it. Go to the shop, it is necessary. And the play is enjoyable – there is no need to renounce anything – but it is enjoyable as a play, it is fatal if you take it to be life. It is fine; fulfill the role that life has given you. Don’t be an escapist; there is no need to run away in middle of the play… But if you cannot become aware in your shop, then how will you become aware in the mountains? The process of being aware is one and the same, it has nothing to do with where you are. It also has nothing to do with what you are doing, that is irrelevant. The process of awareness is one. Whether you become aware sitting in your shop or you become aware sitting in a temple, whether you become aware sitting on a velvet cushion or sitting under a tree, the process of awareness is one. Osho Excerpts from: Bliss, Chap #8: The Mysterious Fourth State https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp

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There is only one success: to have known the deathless. Consider whatever can be destroyed by death to be failure, make it the definition of failure. Do you have anything that death will not be able to take away from you? Keep reflecting over it: “Do I have a single thing that death cannot take away from me?” And if you find that there is nothing, then don’t waste time. If you find that all that you have will be taken away by death, don’t waste any more time. It is time to wake up…

These three – what you call the waking state of your day; the dream state of your night, and your deep sleep state where even dreams disappear – all three will be extinguished in death. These three states have nothing to do with you. It is like when clouds surround the sun, in the same way, these three states have surrounded your sun.

If you have spent your whole life in only these three states, at the moment of death you will find that you are dying in misery and helplessness. But if you are able to catch a glimpse of even a single ray of sun, even one ray, then the sun itself is not far away. Then you will soon be facing the sun and the clouds will be left behind…

In all three states, whether you are awake, dreaming or in deep sleep, you should keep the remembrance of the fourth state alive. Your attention should be on the fourth. Whatever may be happening on the periphery, your attention should be on the center. Sitting or standing, keep your awareness. Eating, going to your shop, going home, keep your awareness.

Always remember one thing: I am the watcher, I am not the doer. Don’t take life to be anything more than acting. Don’t become too identified with the acting. Whether you are a wife or a husband, a shopkeeper or a customer, don’t get too lost in the role.

Your being a wife or a husband, a shopkeeper or a customer, is part of the acting. Inside, you remain out of it. Go to the shop, it is necessary. And the play is enjoyable – there is no need to renounce anything – but it is enjoyable as a play, it is fatal if you take it to be life. It is fine; fulfill the role that life has given you. Don’t be an escapist; there is no need to run away in middle of the play…

But if you cannot become aware in your shop, then how will you become aware in the mountains? The process of being aware is one and the same, it has nothing to do with where you are. It also has nothing to do with what you are doing, that is irrelevant.

The process of awareness is one. Whether you become aware sitting in your shop or you become aware sitting in a temple, whether you become aware sitting on a velvet cushion or sitting under a tree, the process of awareness is one.

Osho
Excerpts from: Bliss, Chap #8: The Mysterious Fourth State https://t.co/YW98RqjHkp

Adolescent Fusion! @MultiverseAcc

9 months ago

“SHENRON,HEAR MY WISH!! I WISH TO EVOLVE BEYOND THE SUPER SAIYAN“ ”Your Wish Has Been Granted” #TheFourthState #Skygrounds3

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Lobo @FragginMainMan

9 months ago

YARRRR!! THIS BE IT...FOXY THE PIRATE AT HIS PEAK! THE FASTEST, FIERCEST AN' FINEST TO EVER ROAM THE SEAS!

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Shan💚💛🦆 @americangirl194

about 2 years ago

@atrupar Where you heading? I work in Salem and live in Eugene, I would be honored to buy you a cup of coffee or beer for all the good work you do as a journalist and keeping #TheFourthState intact.