| | | Many people have become enlightened at the time of death, although their enlightenment remains unknown, because after it they simply die. Their enlightenment never helps anybody else because there is no time, but still it is great — at least they have managed it for themselves. - Osho | | 13. | | The moment anything becomes past, cut yourself away from it. | | 14. An innocent mind | | If you can die just like an innocent child, then your death will be just like a birth: no past, an innocent mind. | | 15. A greater life… | | The right death is not an ending of life, but a beginning of a greater life — of a life which will not be encased in the body, but will be spread all over existence. | | 16. | | The mind always thinks of doing something. When you are doing something, mind is nourished. When you are not doing anything, mind starts dying. | | 17. Who are you? | | Who are you? Do you know yourself as distinct from the mind? If you know yourself as distinct from the mind, the mind is cleared away. | | 18. | | The mind is there because you are not there; you are fast asleep, you are not alert. The darkness is there because you have not brought even a single candle… | | 19. Your inner light… | | It is only through meditation that your inner light, which is dormant, becomes suddenly active and alive. An eternal source of light it is. | | 20. | | Once the light is there, darkness is automatically dispelled. Even to say dispelled is wrong, because darkness does not exist; it is only the absence of the light. | | 21. | | Darkness is simply an absence of light — and so is the state of our mind. Mind is your absence. The moment you are present, there is no mind. | | 22. Come to consciousness | | Come to consciousness, become a presence, and there will be no place for the mind and all its ingredients — greed, anger, delusion, ambitions, the whole lot. | | 23. | | Energy is neutral: that which can destroy, can also create; we just have to discover how it destroys and how it creates. | | 24. | | The power that comes out of meditation does not come as power. It comes as if flowers are showering on you; it comes as fragrance, it comes as love, it comes as compassion. | | | | You have kidneys, you have hands, you have legs; if your hand is cut off, that does not mean that you are destroyed. You are more than the total sum of your parts — that is the meaning of no-mind. You are not an arithmetical entity, you are a spiritual being. I would like to repeat so that you remember it: You are more than the sum total of your parts, and that which is more than the sum total of your parts is your real being. A machine is not more than the sum total; a machine is exactly equal to the sum total of its parts. It is only life which is more than its sum total. And when life becomes conscious, it is even more. And when consciousness becomes absolute illumination, it is tremendously more. The sum total of your parts remains far behind, a very small, tiny thing. You become as vast as the sky itself. - Osho | | 25. All the great values of life | | Meditation brings all the great qualities and all the great values of life suddenly to their blossoming. It is the spring of your consciousness. | | 26. Spiritual growth | | Spiritual growth is hindered more by doubt than anything else, but gain trust how can you? Doubt is natural to the mind; trust is not part of the mind. Come to trust how can you? | | 27. | | You have to come in contact with a man who lives as a no-mind, who lives as silence. His silence is luminous. Contagious it is. | | 28. | | Doubt is a beautiful instrument as far as science is concerned, but doubt is not of any help to go beyond the mind. To go beyond the mind you need trust… | | 29. | | Intellect is nothing but another name of doubt. Doubt is the name of going astray. Trust is another name of the path. | | 30. The most precious treasure… | | Truth is a very delicate flower but also the most precious treasure in life, because it brings liberation, it brings freedom, it brings to you your own immortality. | | 31. Alive with a beating heart | | Truth has to be your own. Only then is it alive, with a beating heart. | | 32. | | Religion is not about attaining something. That which you want to attain you already have, so any effort to attain it is simply stupid. | | 33. Ready to explode… | | You have got your illumination within, you have got your enlightenment ready to explode at any moment… | | 34. | | The constant urge in the mind is for more and more, that's why it is never at rest. At rest it cannot be; it has to achieve more. | | 35. Incomplete desire | | Mind means dissatisfaction, mind means complaints, mind means unfulfilled greed, mind means incomplete desire. Mind is by its very nature a beggar. | | 36. The trap | | If you remain in the mind, you cannot get out of the trap of "more and more." The only way to get out of the trap of more and more is to get out of the mind. | | | | Diogenes asked Alexander, "Are you satisfied with conquering so many lands?" He said, "No, unless I conquer the whole world I will not be satisfied." Diogenes said, "Remember my words. Even if you conquer the whole world, the mind will ask for more, and there is no other world to conquer. Remember... you have conquered the world that is, and there is no other world to conquer — and mind is asking for more. You will be in such a frustration that you cannot conceive of it right now." The day Alexander died, he remembered Diogenes. He had conquered the whole known world, and he was dying in utter frustration because the mind was not content. - Osho | | 37. | | Become aware of why there is nothing to attain — because you already have it! | | 38. A thin layer of unconsciousness | | Just a thin layer of unconsciousness is covering your treasures. | | 39. | | Wisdom is not a faculty; intelligence is a faculty. Wisdom is your whole being. Wisdom is you. | | 40. The universal will | | A man of enlightenment has no will. The universal will is enough, there is no need of having an individual will. | | 41. | | Eyes don't have to think. Eyes simply know, spontaneously know that light is. The same is true when you have gone beyond the mind. | | 42. Be at rest | | All that is needed is for you to relax, be at rest, and accept the reality as it is — a total "yes," holding nothing back. | | 43. This whole circle of events… | | This life, this birth, this death, this whole circle of events — in which we go on and on moving from one life into another — is only because we are spiritually asleep. Meditation wakes you up. | | 44. Truly awakened | | When you are truly awakened, your whole being conscious, there is no question of getting out of birth and death. Out of it you are. Now even if you want to get into it, possible it is not. | | 45. | | The most impossible thing in the world is: once you are awake, you cannot go back to your unconsciousness. Just no way there is. | | 46. | | Awareness is not a gradual phenomenon. It does not come slowly, slowly, in installments. An explosion it is, always sudden; it comes to you in its totality. | | 47. | | Meditation is a method, and the method is for a particular purpose. When the purpose is fulfilled, of no use the method is. | | 48. Life is eternal | | Dualities have to be dropped, not oneness. Birth and death have to be dropped, not life. Life is eternal, it is beyond birth and beyond death. | | | | Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, wanted somehow to release Jesus because he could see he was innocent, he had not done any harm to anybody. He said things which hurt the traditional people — but that was their problem. And they were not able to convince him... that would have been the human way. If you disagree with me, it is perfectly okay. Disagreeing does not mean that you have to crucify me; that is not an argument, and that does not prove you right. In fact, on the contrary, it proves you wrong! Because you could not answer the man, you became angry — so angry, so bloodthirsty, that you killed the man. By crucifying Jesus, his contemporaries sealed his truth, recognized his truth. Crucifixion is a recognition that they accepted their defeat. But before it happened, Pontius Pilate tried to talk to Jesus... and Jesus answered everything. Finally Pontius Pilate asked, "What is truth?" Jesus looked into his eyes and remained silent. Pontius Pilate asked again, "What is truth?" — exactly three times. And Jesus went on looking into his eyes, but not saying a word. Those who don't understand may think Jesus does not know the truth; otherwise why is he silent? But the reality is: he is silent because that is the only language in which truth can be expressed. - Osho | | |
