Find positive in negative

Let it become one of the fundamental rules of your life. Even if you come across a negative, find something positive in it. You will always be able to find something. And one day you become skillful at finding the positive in the negative, you will dance with joy. Try it, try the new visions of life. Think in terms of optimism, don't be a pessimist. The pessimist creates hell around himself and lives in it--you live in the world you create. Remember, there is not only one world, there are as many worlds as there are minds in the world. I live in my world, you live in your world. They are not only different, they never overlap. They are utterly different, they exist on different planes.

Osho: The book of wisdom

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

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

Dialectics

The deeper you enter into the dialectics...it is a miraculous experience. Without inaction there is no action; if you cannot relax, you cannot act. The more you can relax, the more perfection will be in your action. They appear to be opposites: they are not. The better you dissolve into sleep in the night, the sharper, the younger you will wake up in the morning. And everythere in life you will find the same dialectical process.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Life, love and laughter

There are three "L"s of my philosia: Life, Love and Laughter. Life is only a seed, love is a flower, laughter is fragrance. Just to be born is not enough, one has to learn the art of living, that is the A of meditation. Then one has to learn the art of loving, that is the B of meditation. And then one has to learn the art of laughing, that is the C of meditation. And meditation has only three letters: A, B, C...My whole approach is of celebration. Religion to me is nothing but the whole spectrum of celebration, the whole rainbow, all the colors of celebration. Make it a great opportunity for yourself, because in celebrating many of you can reach to greater heights, to new dimensions of being. These are the moments which should not be missed, these are the moments which should be used to its fullest capacity.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Laughter & dance

As far as I know, dancing and laughter are the best, natural, easily approachable doors. If you really dance, thinking stops. You go on and on, you whirl and whirl, and you become a whirlpool --- all bounadries, all divisions are lost. You don't even know where your body ends and where the existence begins. You melt into existence and the existence melts into you, there is an overlapping of boundaries. And if you are really dancing -- not managing it but allowing it to manage you, allowing it to possess you -- if you are possessed by dance, thinking stops. The same happens with laughter. If you are possessed by laughter, thinking stops. And if you know a few moments of no-mind, those glimpses will promise you many more rewards that are going to come. You just have to become more and more of the sort, of the quality, of no-mind. More and more, thinking has to be dropped. Laughter can be a beautiful introduction to a non-thinking state...Try it! Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious you are.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Too much concern

When your body is ill, it is as if someboy else's body is ill: do whatsoever as needed but don't be too concerned because that overmuch concern is a greater illness that the body's. If you have a fever go to the doctor, take the medicine, take care of the body, and that's all. Why be concerned too much? Why create another fever? --which no doctor can treat! The fever in the body can be treated, but if you become too concerned another fever is created, that fever is deeper, no doctor can help with it...Too much concern about yourself is the greatese disease possible. You cannot be happy, you canno enjoy yourself. How can you enjoy? So many problems inside! Problems and problems and problems and nothing else! -- and there seems no solutions! What to do? You go crazy. Everybody, inside, is crazy!

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Seeds of Wisdom

I too am a farmer and I sowed some seeds. They sprouted and now flowers have come to them. My whole life is filled with the fragrance of these flowers and because of this fragrance now I am in a different world. This fragrance has given me a new birth, and now I am no longer that which is seen by ordinary eyes.

The unseen and the unknown have flung open their closed doors, and I am seeing a world which is not seen through the eyes, and I am hearing music which ears are not capable of hearing. Whatsoever I have found and known is eager to flow just as the mountain waterfalls and springs flow and rush towards the ocean.

Remember, when the clouds are full of water they have to shower. And when the flowers are filled with fragrance they have to give off their fragrance freely to the winds. And when a lamp is lit, the light is bound to radiate from it.

Something like this has happened and the winds are carrying away some seeds of revolution from me. I have no idea in what fields they will land and who will tend them. I only know that it is from seeds like these that I have attained the flowers of life, immortality, and the divine. And in whatever field they land, the very soil there will turn into the flowers of immortality.

In death is hidden the immortal and in death is life -- just as flowers are inherent in the soil. But the potential of the soil can never become realized in the absence of seeds. The seeds make manifest that which was un-manifest and give expression to that which was latent.

Whatever I have, whatever I am, I want to give away as seeds of divine consciousness. What is attained in knowledge -- knowing -- love gives away in abundance.

In knowing one knows God; in love one BECOMES God. Knowledge is the spiritual discipline, love is the fulfilment.

Osho: Seeds of Wisdom

God & science

God is not a necessity in this world. Scientific laws are a necessity--without them the world cannot be. God is not a necessity that way. Without him the world can be, but it will be worthless. Without him you can exist, but your existence will be just a vegetable existence. Without him you can vegetate, you cannot be really alive. God is not a necessity--you can be there, but your being there will not be of any meaning, it will not carry any meaning at all. It will have no poetry, it will have no song, it will have no dance to it, it will not be a mystery. It may be an arithmetic, it may be a business, but it cannot be a love affair. Without God all that is beautiful disappeares, because the beautiful comes only as an overflowing--it is a luxury...And I tell you that God is the most luxurious thing in the world. God is not necessary--you can live without him, you can live very well, but you will miss something, you will feel an emptiness in the heart. You will be more like a wound than an alive force, you will suffer, there cannot be any ecstasy in your life.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Solitariness

Solitariness has a healing effect, it is a healing force. Whenever you feel that you are getting messed up, don't try to solve it there. Move away from society for a few days, for at least three weeks, and just remain silent, just watching yourself, and you will have a tremendous force available which heals. Hence, in the East, many people have moved to the mountains, to the forests, somewhere alone, somewhere where there is nobody else to be bothered with. Only oneself...so one can feel oneself directly, and you can see what is happening within... So you need not throw your problems on others, you need not throw your diseases on others--you simply move alone, suffer them in silence, watch them. Just sit by the bank of the river of your mind. Things settle! When things settle you have a clarity, a perception. Then move back into the world--if you feel like it. That too is not necessary, that too should not be an obsession. Nothing should be an obsession, neither the world nor the mountain. Whatsoever you feel is natural, whatsoever you feel is good and heals you, whatsoever you feel you are whole in, not divided--that is the path. The montain is crossed, you have reached the path--now follow it, now follow into it.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Yoga

That is the whole effort of Yoga: to make your body alive, sensitive, young again, to give your senses their maximum functioning. Then one functions with no taboos around, then lucidity, grace, beauty flow. Warmth arises again, openness -- and growth happens. One is constantly new, young, and is always on the adventure. The body becomes orgasmic. Joy surrounds you. Through joy the first corruption disappears, hence my insistence to be joyous, to be celebrating, to enjoy life, to accept the body. Not only to accept it, but to feel grateful that God has given you such a beautiful body, such a sensitive body, with so many doors to relate to reality: eyes and ears and nose and touch. Open all theses windows and let life's breezes flow in, let life's sun shine in. Learn to be more sensitive. Use every opportunity to be sensitive so that your first filter is dropped...When you are sitting on the grass, close your eyes, become the grass--be grassy. Feel that you are the grass, feel the greenness of the grass, feel the wetness of the grass. Feel the subtle smell that goes on being released by the grass. Feel the dewdrops on the grass--that they are on you. Feel the sun rays playing on the grass. For a moment be lost in it, and you will have new sense of your body. And do it in all kinds of situations: in a river, in a swimming pool, lying on a beach in the sunrays, looking at the moon in the night, lying down with closed eyes on the sand and feeling the sand. Millions of opprotunities are there to make your body alive again. And only you can do it. Society has done its work of corruption, you will have to undo it. And once you start hearing, seeing, touching, smelling through joy, then you hear the reality, then you see the reality, then you smell the reality.


Osho: From meditation to meditation

Witness

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 perfect, 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 witness...

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Breath & emotion

The breathing continuously changes with your emotions. When you are angry, your breathing is unrhythmic, asymmetrical. When you are in sexual lust, your breathing is almost insane. When you are calm and quiet, joyful, your breathing is almost a song. When you are feeling at home in existence, when you have no desires and feeling contented, suddenly breathing almost stops. When you are in a state of awe, wonder, breathing stops for a moment. And these are the greatest moments of life, because slowly in those moments when breathing almost stops are you in utter tune with existence, you are in God and God is in you. Your experience of breathing has to be more and more profound, scrutinized, observed, watched, analyzed. See how your breathing changes with your emotions, and vise versa, how your breathing change your breathing.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Become a watcher

Unless you become a watcher, unless you become a witness to your own mental states--this is what I call meditation. And these are the great opportunities--when you are feeling sad, just watch it. It is chemistry--you are consciousness. Don't get mixed with chemistry, it is biology--you are consciousness, a watcher. Slowly, slowly, even when your whole chemistry is going berserk, you will remain centered, grounded, unaffected--and this is true for both, man and woman.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Growth

Growth is facing the reality, encountering the fact, whatsoever it is. And let me repeat: Pain is simply pain, there is no suffering in it. Suffering comes from your desire that the pain should not be there, and there is something wrong in pain. Watch, witness, and you will be surprised. You have a headache, the pain is there but suffering is not there. Suffering is a secondary phenomenon, pain is primary. The headache is there, the pain is there, it is simply a fact. There is no judgement about it. You cannot call it good or bad, you don't give it any value, it is just a fact...You simply take note of it...Remember, only one thing is going to help you: awareness--nothing else. Growth will remain painful if you don't accept life in all its ups and downs. The summer has to be accepted and the winter too. This is what I call meditation. Meditation is when you you emptied of all that is old and told and done to death. Then you see, or rather, then there is seeing: The Birth of the New.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Awareness

The witnessing self is never felt. We always feel some indentity, we always feel some identification. And the witnessing consciousness is the reality. ..."I am pain; I am in pain, I am aware of pain" -- these are three different, very different states. The rishi says, "I am aware of the pain". This much can be allowed, because then you transcend pain, and there is a deep separation. Really, there has never been any relation, the relation begins to appear only because of the nearness, because of the intimate nearness of your consciousness and all that happened around...To be free of pain the pain has to be accepted, inevitably and naturally. Pain is pain -- a simple painful fact -- but suffering is only and always the refusal of pain, the clame that life should not be painful. It is the rejection of a fact, the denial of life and of the nature of things. Death is the mind and mind is dying. Where there is no fear of death, who is there to die.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Psychoanalysis

In the East nothing like psychoanalysis has ever happened for the simple reason that there were thousands of masters, deep in meditattion, and anybody who came to them...just their love, their sympathy, the way they looked into the eyes of the patient was enough. People were cured. It was not that without psychoanalysis...In the East, what happened to neurotics, to psychotics, was that they were instantly changed. All that they needed was an immense love which asks nothing -- a man of peace and silence, whose very presence is medicine. A man who has meditated for a long time becomes an inmmense source. He radiates something that is invisible to the eyes, but the heart catches it. Something reaches to your inner-most being and changes you. Problems are simple, solutions are simple. Just one has to get out of the mind to see the simplicity. And then whatsoever is done by a man in silence, in peace, in joy, will be medicinal, will be distributing health. It will be a healing force.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Accept yourself as you are

Everybody is training everybody else in how to be--and nobody seems to be satisfactory, never. If one wants to live, one should learn one thing: to accept things as they are, and to accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start training for a life sometime in the future. All the misery in the world is created because you have completely forgotten to live, you have became engaged in an activity which has nothing to do with life.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Drop the ideas!

Drop the ideas! There is nothing that you have to improve, you are perfectly beautiful as you are. And start living! Rather than thinking that you will live in the future when you are perfect, when you are like this, like that, you will live when you have attained a certain standard according to your mind...But life is herenow and slipping out of your hands. Tomorrow there is death--only today there is life...it is always today...Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witness is the miracle--the whole mystery of life.

Osho: From meditation to meditation

Live fully

Learn how to live the moment joyously. Don't look for the result, there are none. Life is not going anywhere, it has no ends. Life is not a means to any end, life is just herenow. Live it. Live it totally, live it consciously, live it joyously--and you will be fulfilled. Fulfillment should not be postponed, othewise you will never fulfilled. Fulfillment has to be now--now or never... A religious person is one who is balanced, in whatever he is doing, he is always in the middle. He never goes to the extreme because all extremes will create tensions, anxities...A religious person is one who knows where to stop, and that should come out of your awareness, not out of a certain teaching.

Osho: From meditation to meditation