DEVICES FOR MEDITATION
you are feeling sad or angry
make it a meditation
don't fight it, don't try to distract your mind into something else
Don't try to repress your feeling
It is a great opportunity for meditation
watch from where [it] arises
go to the very roots from where [it] is coming
& the greatest surprise is that it doesn't have any roots
those afflictions, emotions, sentiments, feelings - none of them have any roots [... they] will disappear if you look for the roots
They are just clouds, without any roots, surrounding your mind
If your awareness goes that deep in search, then the emotion will be gone, & the sky of your inner being will be absolutely clear & clean
[Also, you can] just turn your awareness & focus it on the person who is becoming angry, instead of on the misery or anger [...] just the object changes [...] you will not find [them]
[Or] start looking at all the aspects of the anger
your whole attention is focused on the reality or unreality
the point is that the mind should come again & again to a state of utter silence & nothingness
The device creates a dislocation, a discontinuity, between you & the anger
anger cannot remain if you are looking at it from all around
This looking for anger's reality makes you present, alert, aware - & that's the end of the whole game
- OSHO on Ta Hui
EXPERIMENT, BE CREATIVE
You are a such a markplace [of feelings & experiences]
So it a great opportunity
use [different methods] for different things
& you can devise your own methods
the only thing to be remembered is that you should create a distance between the emotion, the feeling, & you
- OSHO
One nature, one reality
One nature perfect and pervading circulates in all natures
One reality, all comprehensive, contains within itself all realities
The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water
And all the moons in the waters are embraced within the one moon
The Dharma body [the Absolute] of all Buddhas enters into my own being
And my own being is found in union with theirs
The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame
Like space it knows no boundaries
Yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fullness
It is only when you hunt for it that you lose it
You cannot take hold of it, but equally you cannot get rid of it
And while you can do neither, it goes on its own way
You remain silent and it speaks, you speak and it is dumb
The great gate of charity is wide open, with no obstacles before it.
- Yung-Chia Ta-Shih
Drop the mind
You will not be needed. No effort is needed. Simply your whole being has to be available, your whole energy has to be available. Then the flower comes by itself.
- OSHO
DEHYPNOSIS
Interbe
to be is to interbe
(short) (in-depth)
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
Be wholly available
Meditation means wholeness. When the whole being is available, you have a beauty, a grace, a totally different quality of being. When you are divided, serious, tense, you are ugly. You may succeed, but your success will be ugly. You may prove to somebody that you are somebody but you are not proving anything, you are simply creating a false image. But when you are total, relax, whole, nobody may know about you, but you are. And this wholeness is the benediction, the beatitude, the blessing, that happens to a meditative mind, that happens in meditation.
- OSHO
Experiment with meditation
there is no technique [...] go withinward [...] to enter into [who you are, that which you are] is meditation: to go deeper into your own being. One day it happens: thoughts are not there. And suddenly when thoughts disappear, the body and you are separate - because thoughts are the bridge. Through thoughts you are joined with the body; it is the link. Suddenly the link disappears - you are there, the body is there and there is an infinite abyss between the two. Then you know that the body will die, but you cannot die [...] it is a [self-evident] experience. On that day, death disappears; on that day, doubt disappears, because now you are not always having to defend yourself. Nobody can destroy you, you are indestructible. Then trust arises, overflows. And to be in trust is to be in ecstasy; to be in trust is to be in 'God'; to be in trust is to be fulfilled.
- OSHO
Meditation should be fun, it should not be work
You should not do it like a religious man, you should do it like a gambler. Play for fun. You should be like a sportsman not a businessman. It should be fun, and then all the skill will be available, then it will flower by itself.
- OSHO
AWARENESS
allowing; effortless, relaxed, accepting
- OSHO
Witness / Mirror
A watcher has no prejudice, he has no judgment. He simply sees like a mirror.
When you bring something in front of a mirror it reflects, simply reflects. There is no judgment that the man is ugly, that the man is beautiful [...] the mirror has nothing to say. It's nature is to mirror; it mirrors. This is what I call meditation: you simply mirror everything within or without.
- OSHO
Ma Tzu: The Empty Mirror
remove your mask
just be, simply reflect
mirror, clean, without any prejudices or judgment
Meet, mingle, melt, merge
If you are detached you cannot know beauty. Beauty is known only when you fall en rapport, when the observer becomes the observed, when there is no wall between, when every wall has been transformed into a bridge. When there is a kind of melting, when you become the flower and the flower becomes you, then there is a totally different kind of knowing - the way a poet knows. He will know beauty; he will not know the chemicals. He will not know the objective flower; he will know something far deeper. He will know the spirituality of the flower, the spirit of the flower. And the mystic, his knowing is the highest form of poetic knowing, the ultimate form of poetic knowing. The poet is only there for moments. Sometimes he is a poet, he meets, he mingles, merges into the flower; sometimes he becomes a detached observer. Hence poetry is a kind of mixture of both types of knowledge. The scientific knowledge is purely objective, the mystic knowing is purely subjective, the poetic knowing is a between the two. But basic knowing can be divided in two, the scientific and the mystic. Now it depends on you, in what way you want to know me.
When the seeker becomes the sought
[Drop seeking outside]
The witnesser, the witnessing/ed
The experiencer, the experience
[Drop seeking experiences]
The knower, the known
[Drop knowing & seeking the known/to know the known]
- OSHO
trust, imbibe, know
Trust & you will know[...] mystic knowing cannot happen without trust.
Watch [...] Feelings say, "Fall in love, and then you will know." Thoughts say, "Doubt, inquire, make certain. When everything is absolutely proved and you are convinced, rationally convinced then you can trust." And the logic appears very, very clean, there seems to be no trick in it. There is! The trick is that through scientific knowing you cannot know the mystery that is confronting you, you cannot know the poetry that is showering on you. You cannot see the beauty and the grace that is available to you.
it is not a question of gathering information here, it is a question of imbibing the spirit; the only way is to trust. It is only through trust that knowing happens.
it begins in trust, in love; then a totally different kind of knowing happens.
Love, only love, is capable of knowing the spiritual presence. You fall in love not with the physical body; you fall in love with the spiritual presence of a person. But that is available only in trust.
if you have come to be transformed, not only to be informed, then you will have to understand that there is a different door. And that door is trust. Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, going far deeper - but to logic it is blind.
Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
if you have come to be transformed, then fall in love. Then forget the head, then let there be a contact heart-to-heart, spirit-to-spirit. Then there is no need to be too much concerned with what you see, your whole concern should be with what you feel. Then you should not be too much concerned in collecting information, but being in celebration with me.
- OSHO
aloneness & togetherness
the capacity to be alone is the capacity to love [...] paradoxical, but it is an existential truth. Only those who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person, without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, [without] reducing the other into a thing, and without becoming addicted with the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other. [Being together] is no longer a need, it is a luxury. They enjoy sharing. They have so much joy that they would like to pour into somebody. They know how to play their life as a solo instrument [...] they know how to enjoy alone and together
- OSHO
Awareness
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Witnessing
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Consciousness
Silently watch yourself, simply witness
& freedom, the ultimate freedom, truth, liberation is attained
In awareness you lose the witness and only witnessing remains: you lose the doer, you lose the subjectivity, you lose the egocentric consciousness. Then consciousness remains, without the ego. The circumference remains without the center.
This circumference without the center is awareness.
Consciousness without any center, without any source, without any motivation, without any source from which it comes – a ‘no source’ consciousness – is awareness.
- OSHO
be(come) pure awareness
drop self-(un)consciousness
The ego exists through self-consciousness; it cannot exist otherwise. But remember, self-consciousness is not the consciousness of the self: self-consciousness is not self-remembering, self-consciousness is in fact not consciousness at all. It is an unconscious state. When you are self-conscious you are not alert, you are not aware; you don't know that you are self-conscious. If you become aware, self-consciousness disappears. If you become a witness, then it is not found there [...] whatsoever disappears through awareness is illusory, and whatsoever remains through awareness, not only remains, but becomes more crystallized - is real [...] consciousness is the touchstone. In a dream if you become aware that you are dreaming, then the dream disappears immediately. Not even a split second it can remain there. The moment become aware that it is a dream, it is no more there because the very nature of a dream is illusory - it exists because you are not. When you are, it disappears. It exists only when you are unconscious. If you take this as your touchstone and touch all that happens to you through it, there will be so much happening within you, such a great transformation is possible through it, that you cannot imagine it beforehand. Anger is there; if you become aware, it disappears. Love is there; if you become aware, it becomes crystallized. Then love is part of Existence, and anger is part of dreaming. If you are unaware, then you exist; if you become aware, you simply dissolve, you are no longer there - then 'God' exists. And you both cannot exist together - either you or 'God'. There is no choice and there is no compromise. You cannot say: Fifty-fifty [...] that's not possible. You are simply not found, and 'God' is. ---- self-consciousness is not a right word, because consciousness is used in it, and it is a very unconscious state. It will be better [...] to call self-consciousness self-unconsciousness. Whenever you feel you are, someting is ill. If the shoe fits, the feet are forgotten. It is because of the headache that you become aware of the head. If the headache disappears, where is the head? Along with the headache, the head also disappears. When something is wrong it becomes like a wound. When you are ill, then this so-called self-consciousness exists. When everything fits, is a harmony, and there is no discord, the shoe is not pinching, everything is absolutely okay; you are not self-conscious. Then you are. In fact, for the first time you are, but you are not self-conscious [...] in this state, there is no division between the state and the knower. You are one with it. It is not that you feel well-being, you are well-being, so who will be conscious of it? There is no division, so who will know about it? Only in dis[-]ease does the division come in [...] In meditation, you are one with your consciousness, so it doesn't function and exist in the mind. You are one - there is no division. When there is no division and unity comes in, all self-consciousness disappears [...] It is not that the self disappears, just the self-consciousness disappears [...] you will not be in a state of unconsciousness; you will be perfectly aware, but not self-conscious. You will be perfectly aware, fully aware, but there will be only awareness, no division who is aware of whom - no subject, no object, simply a complete, a total state - a circle of awareness. That awareness in which self-consciousness is not is egoless. And that awareness has a grace, a beauty, a beauty that doesn't belong to this world. Even a ugly person will become beautiful in that state; ugly as far as the criterions of this world go, but suffused, immulinated with something from the Beyond.
[Don’t depend on anything, simply live your whole life unself-consciously]
Then beauty arises, then grace happens, then something from the Beyond starts pouring in
- OSHO
From self-consciousness to self-awareness
self-consciousness is a disease, it is sickness. Self-awareness is health – it is wholeness [...] Self-consciousness simply means ego consciousness and self-awareness means soul consciousness [...] Such compassion comes out of self-awareness. And self-awareness does not depend on anything outside you, it depends only on you. The soul is there; you have just to wake it up. It is an awakening.
Avoid self-consciousness – that is sickness of the soul; and go deeper into self-awareness – that is your authentic reality.
But the ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable.
Self-awareness is awareness of your inner world, the kingdom of God. As you become aware of the tremendous beauty of your own being – its joy, its light, its eternal life, its richness, its overflowing love – you feel so blessed that you can bless the whole world without any discrimination.
Kill the ego, because that is hiding your authentic soul. And discover your soul; that will be your self-awareness.
Self-awareness is the way to your kingdom, which is also the kingdom of ‘God’.
It is within you.
You are not to go anywhere; you have to come back home.
- OSHO
WATCHFULNESS
& the nonverbal answer to the question
who^what am I?
- OSHO
