Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Witnessing

The right method to deal with all that you feel you are surrounded with is to be just a witness--not to fight, not to judge, not to condemn. Just remain silent and still, purely witnessing whatever is there... The day your witnessing will be prefect, you will find there has been no wall, nothing is surrounding you, the whole sky is available to you. Rather than fighting with thoughts, fighting against wrong conditionings, just become a pure witness. Fighting, you cannot win. Without fighting, victory is yours. Victory belongs only to those who can witness...

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Being in the world and not of the world

To leave everything and just sit under a tree and feel happy is not difficult--anybody will feel that way. Nothing to do, you can be detached; everything to do, you become attached. But when you do everything and yet remain unattached, when you move with the crowd, in the world and yet alone, then something real is happening... And remember, and always keep it in your heart: truth, love, life, meditation, ecstasy, bliss, all that is true and beautiful and good, always exists as a paradox: in the world and not of it. With people, yet alone; doing everything, and being inactive; moving and not moving; living an ordinary life, and yet not being identified with it: working as everybody else is working, yet remaining aloof deep down. Being in the world and not of the world, that is the paradox. And when you attain this paradox, the greatest peak happens to you: the peak experience.

Osho: From meditation to meditation