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The Complexity of Life – Vimala Thakar
Life is a complex phenomenon. I would like to go into the issue of this complexity this morning as it seems that you would prefer to have a talk. Man is born in the midst of duality, duality that seems...
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Sakshi Means the Witness – Osho
That which is aware of the creation and dissolution of the knower, the known and the knowable, but is itself beyond creation and dissolution is called the sakshi or the witnessing self. That which...
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Meditation is Objectless – Osho
By meditating upon the lord Parameshwar, consorted by mother Uma, the highest lord, the all-powerful, the three-eyed, and the ever silent, the meditator reaches Him who is the source of all...
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Know 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...
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This Oneness is That Art Thou – Osho
The enquiry about the oneness of the soul and the brahman to the great saying like “That Art Thou” is known as the right listening. And thinking in the right way on the meaning of what has been...
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It 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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Samyak Smriti, Right Remembering – Osho
Prarbdhakarma fulfills itself only when one identifies the self with the body, but it is no good identifying with the body. Who wants to sever this identification and free himself of prarbdhakarma,...
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The Jivanmukta Lives in this Silence – Osho
One who does not ever discriminate through intellect between the individual self and the supreme self on the one hand, and between the supreme and the universe on the other, is called a jivanmukta. One...
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Here Ends this Upanishad – Osho
By listening to these above teachings, the disciple attained knowledge and he exclaimed, “Whither has that world gone? Whither has gone that world I have just seen? Who did it take away? And in what...
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A Direct Apperception – Jean Klein
Presence, the now, refers to our eternity. We can never think of it, represent it, because we are it. It is an instantaneous apperception that it refers to our totality. Every step undertaken to find...
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A Still Mind: The Door to the Divine – Osho
Nishal-gyanam asanam. Non-wavering knowing is asana – the posture. Man is neither a body, nor a mind alone – he is both. Even to say that he is both is wrong in a way because body and mind are separate...
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Neo-Advaita Meets Dzogchen: The Unraveling of a Pseudo-Enlightenment
The following is an excerpt from Sam Harris’s book Waking Up. I must confess that I have not read Sam’s book, but I find the excerpt below to be an incredibly insightful exposé on the deficiencies of...
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Make Haste to Become the Fourth – Osho
Gurdjieff used to say that there are seven types of men. Let me explain those seven types to you. The first three types are very ordinary. You will find them everywhere, within and without. The first,...
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We Only Meet Ourselves – Jean Klein
We all meet here together, but in reality, we only meet ourselves. In a meeting of people, there is only demand, a desire to overcome the feeling of loneliness and insecurity where the ego is...
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Yoga Means the Growth of Consciousness – Osho
The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension...
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Continuous Attentiveness Will Come with Long Practice – Annamalai Swami
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. If you remain in the source, the Self, you can easily catch each thought as it rises. If you don’t catch the thoughts as...
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Let the Mind Go Wherever it Wants to Go – Annamalai Swami
Questioner: I think that I am now beginning to grasp what the ‘I am’ is. It seems that this is something behind the body, behind the mind, and behind the awareness of the body. I think that we don’t...
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Practice Until Stillness is Permanent – Annamalai Swami
I first met Annamalai Swami in June 1993, during my initial visit to Arunachala and the Sri Ramanashramam. As I explained earlier, I was eager to meet with disciples of Papaji’s guru, Sri Ramana...
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You have to Work for the Fulfillment of Your Destiny – Dada Gavand
I first met Dadaji in Pune in the fall of 1993, shortly after my return from Germany where, for a few weeks, I had tried in vain to become a “normal” citizen again. I had been feeling stuck and...
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Only Knowing Remains – Osho
The first stage, to which contentment and bliss impart sweetness, springs from the innermost recesses of the seeker’s heart, as if nectar has issued forth from the heart of the Earth. At the inception...
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