Perceive One Being as Knower and Known – Osho
Each thing is perceived through knowing. The Self shines in space through knowing. Perceive One Being as knower and known. Whenever you know something, it is known through knowing. The object comes to...
View ArticleAn Absence and a Presence – Osho
Is the witness a presence or simply an absence – The absence of identification with body and mind? Maneesha, it is a difficult question – difficult only because your mind never accepts contradictions,...
View ArticleUntil All Obstacles are Conquered – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: How does one attend to the unconscious? Maharaj: Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you are, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the...
View ArticleThis Consciousness Exists as Each Being – Osho
This consciousness exists as each being, and nothing else exists. Scientists used to say in the past that only matter existed, nothing else. Great systems of philosophy arose based on the concept that...
View ArticleAll Experiences are False – Osho
God is beyond all experience. You cannot experience God because he is not separate from you. You can live God, you can be God, but you cannot experience him. We can experience things only when they are...
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 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 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 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 ArticleThe Bell Tolls for Thee – Osho
What is the ego? It is a false entity. It is not. There are two great falsities in the world. One is ego and another is death. These two things exist not. And they are not separate, they are joined...
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 ArticleWhere Am I? – Osho
My God! Om Saraswati, you are not. You are nowhere. You have never been – and you will never be. Om Saraswati is just a name given to a nameless reality for utilitarian purposes. Otherwise, you are...
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...
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