No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity ~~~ OSHO

 27 December 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium

BELOVED BUDDHA,

ON ONE OCCASION WHEN A MONK ASKED KYOZAN THE MEANING OF BODHIDHARMA

COMING FROM THE WEST, KYOZAN DREW A CIRCLE IN THE AIR AND PUT THE CHARACTER

FOR BUDDHA INSIDE IT. THIS LEFT THE MONK WITHOUT WORDS.

AT ANOTHER TIME, KYOZAN WAS LIVING IN SEKITEI TEMPLE IN KOSHU. A MONK CAME UP

TO HIM AND SAID, ”MASTER, DO YOU KNOW CHINESE CHARACTERS?”

”AS FAR AS BEFITS MY POSITION,” RESPONDED KYOZAN.

THE MONK THEN CIRCLED KYOZAN ONCE IN THE ANTI-CLOCKWISE DIRECTION AND

ASKED HIM, ”WHAT CHARACTER IS THIS?”

KYOZAN DREW THE CHARACTER FOR THE NUMBER TEN. THEN THE MONK WALKED

AROUND HIM IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION AND ASKED WHAT CHARACTER THAT WAS.

KYOZAN CHANGED THE FIGURE TEN (WHICH LOOKS LIKE A PLUS SIGN) INTO A SWASTIKA.

THE MONK THEN DREW A CIRCLE AND PRETENDED TO HOLD IT IN BOTH HIS HANDS

AND ASKED KYOZAN, ”WHAT CHARACTER IS THIS?” AT WHICH KYOZAN DREW A CIRCLE

AROUND THE SWASTIKA.

THE MONK THEN PRETENDED TO BE RUCIKA, THE LAST OF THE ONE THOUSAND

BUDDHAS OF THE PRESENT KALPA, AT WHICH KYOZAN COMMENTED, ”THAT IS RIGHT!

THAT IS WHAT ALL THE BUDDHAS HAVE KEPT – YOU ALSO, I ALSO. TAKE CARE OF IT!”

OSHO

But don't be impatient. Existence needs immense patience. The ultimate mysteries are opened only to those who have immense patience.

I am reminded...

In old Tibet it was customary, respectful, that every family should contribute to the great experiment of expanding consciousness. So the first child of each family was given to the monasteries to be trained in meditation. Perhaps no country has done such a vast experiment in consciousness.

The destruction of Tibet at the hands of communist China is one of the greatest calamities that could have happened to humanity. It is not only a question of a small country, it is a question of a great experiment that was going on for centuries in Tibet.

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Osho Satyam Shivam Sundram

OSHO

The moment you desire for happiness, you have moved away from the present, you have moved away from the existential, you have already moved into the future - which is nowhere, which has not come yet. You have moved in a dream.

Now, dreams can never be fulfilling. Your desire for happiness is a dream. The dream is unreal. Through the unreal, nobody has ever been able to reach to the real. You have taken a wrong train.

The desire for happiness simply shows that you are not happy right at this moment. The desire for happiness simply shows that you are a miserable being.

Happiness is WHERE you are; wherever you are, happiness is there. It surrounds you. It is a natural phenomenon. It is just like air, just like sky. Happiness is not to be sought: it is the very stuff the universe is made of. Joy is the very stuff the universe is made of. But you have to look direct, you have to look in the immediate. If you look sideways then you miss.

You miss because of you. You miss because you have a wrong approach.

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Osho The Discipline of Transcendence Volume 3

OSHO

I want inquirers. I am not here creating obedient followers. I want rebellious seekers, not people who are incapable of saying, “No!” — because to me unless you are able to say no, your yes is meaningless. Unless you can doubt, you cannot find authentic trust. It is only through doubt, and the dark night of doubt, that you reach to a state of finding something which is indubitable. Then trust arises.

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Discourse Series: The Rebel

Chapter #3

Chapter title: Enlightenment is not a device

2 June 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

OSHO

Language is created for day-to-day use, language is created for the mundane world. And as far as it goes, it is good. It is perfectly adequate for the marketplace, but as you start moving into deeper waters it becomes more and more inadequate–not only inadequate, it starts becoming utterly wrong.

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OSHO

OSHO

MIND GAMES

 Forget all about figuring out what it is. Rather, live it; rather, enjoy it! Don’t analyze it, celebrate it.

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OSHO

OSHO

IMMEDIATE AND ULTIMATE 

The greatest obsession that humanity suffers from is of “that which should be.” It is a kind of madness. The really healthy person has no concern with that which should be. His whole concern is the immediate, that which is. And you will be surprised: If you enter into the immediate, you will find the ultimate in it. If you move into that which is close by, you will find all the distant stars in it. If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

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OSHO

OSHO

What Happiness!

Shosha wrote:

To wake, alive, In this world. What happiness! Winter rain.

Just suddenly in winter, when it is not expected, comes a rain cloud, and showers create so many rainbows.

Shosha is saying, "To wake, alive, In this world, where everything is mortal - what happiness! Winter rain." Every morning when you wake up, remember it.

Excerpted from No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity,

OSHO

OSHO

I have never been expecting anything – so there is no question of surprise; everything is a surprise. And there is no question of disappointment; everything is an appointment. If it happens, good; if it does not happen, even better!

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OSHO

OSHO

The linguistic function of the mind is not the all and end all. You are behind it and existence is beyond it. Consciousness is behind the linguistic mechanism and existence is beyond the linguistic mechanism. And when consciousness and existence are in communion, that state I call meditation – consciousness and existence in communion.

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from The Psychology of the Esoteric by Osho

OSHO

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head. ~ Osho

OSHO

Happiness is not to be sought: it is the very stuff the universe is made of. Joy is the very stuff the universe is made of. But you have to look direct; you have to look in the immediate. ~ Osho

OSHO

Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation. ~ Osho

OSHO

“Truth is not a theory. Truth is not a word. Truth is an experience – an experience of one’s own infinite depths. To become one with “that which is” is the truth.” — Osho

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity

~~~~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not...

~~~ George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

~~~ George Ivanovich Gurdjieff