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 Love. 

Freedom from becoming means freedom for being. 

Becoming is desiring, being is that which is. 

Becoming is longing for the future, being is to be in the present.

 Becoming is mental, being is existential.

That is why becoming must cease for the being to reveal itself. 

Becoming is just like the smoke around the flame, or just like the outer covering around the seed, so please let the smoke go for the flame to explode in its complete glory and splendour, and let the seed die to its outer shell so that it may be what it is in its innermost depth.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

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 Love. 

If one is aware of the present moment then one also becomes aware of the fact that there is no ME inside. 

The me is my past, the me is the dead past.

 The me is not my life because it is not living.

 The ego can exist only in the past or in the future – which is nothing but a projection of the past; that is why awareness, moment to moment awareness, leads to egolessness:

 because the ego cannot exist in the present and because awareness cannot exist except in the present. 

So they both cannot exist simultaneously. Ego is unawareness and awareness is egolessness.

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OSHO

A  CUP OF TEA

OSHO

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 Love.

 With thought the mind has boundaries but without thought the mind is just infinite space.

 That is why in thoughtless awareness one stops being a drop and becomes oceanic. 

And then there is great energy. 

This energy wipes out everything which is dead. 

It wipes out the whole karmic past – and with no effort at all. The greater absorbs the lesser and remains untouched.

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OSHO

A CUP OF TEA

OSHO

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 Love. 

I hope you will be moving in deep meditation. Breathe in it sleep in it live in it – let meditation be your very existence.

 Only then is the happening. 

Don’t do it, but be it – And my blessings are always with you. 

If you need any help from me just ask when you are thoughtLESS, and it will be given to you.

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OSHO

A cup of tea

OSHO

Intelligence is k n o w n only w h e n you encounter the u n k n o w n , about w h i c h you don't have any memory, any knowledge, any information beforehand. W h e n you encounter the u n k n o w n , that is the point which is decisive. H o w do you respond? Intelligence means the capability to respond to n e w situations. It comes from your being—the m i n d is only a vehicle—a kind of awareness of what the m i n d is, without belonging to it. Intelligence is the quality of the witness; it watches the m i n d and it gives direction to the mind.

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OSHO

Intelligence

The creative response to now 

OSHO

If you look d o w n the ages you will find thousands of geniuses with very bad m e m - ories and thousands of people w h o had tremendous memories with no intelligence at all—because m e m o r y and intelligence come from different sources. M e m o r y is part of the mind—intelligence is part of nomind. Intelligence is part of your consciousness, and m e m o r y is part of your brain. T h e brain can be trained—that's what the universities go on doing. All your examinations are tests for your memory, not for your intelligence. T h e universities give you the w r o n g impression—as if m e m o r y is intelligence. It is not.

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OSHO

Intelligence

The Creative response to now

OSHO

Don’t call it uncertainty—call it wonder

Don’t call it insecurity—call it freedom 

 I am not here to give you a dogma—a dogma makes one certain. I am not here to give you any promise for the future—any promise for the future makes one secure. I am here simply to make you alert and aware—that is, to be here now, with all the insecurity that life is, with all the uncertainty that life is, with all the danger that life is. 

I know you come here seeking some certainty, some creed, some “ism,” somewhere to belong to, someone to rely upon. You come here out of your fear. You are searching for a sort of beautiful imprisonment—so that you can live without any awareness. I would like to make you more insecure, more uncertain— because that’s how life is, that’s how God is. When there is more insecurity and more danger, the only way to respond to it is by awareness.

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OSHO

COURAGE

Joy of living dangerously

OSHO

TH E P O E T R Y O F T H E H E A R T 

T h e intelligence of the head is not intelligence at all; it is knowledgeabillty. T h e intelligence of the heart is the intelligence, the only intelligence there is. T h e head is simply an accumulator. It is always old, it is never  new, it is never original. It is good for certain purposes: For filing it is perfecdy good! A n d in life one needs this—many things have to be remembered. T h e mind, the head, is a biocomputer. You can go on accumulating knowledge in it and whenever you need it you can take it out. It is good for mathematics, good for calculation, good for the day-to-day life, the marketplace. But if you think this is your whole life then you will remain stupid. You will never k n o w the beauty of feeling and you will never k n o w the blessings of the heart. You will never k n o w the grace that descends only through the heart, the godliness that enters only through the heart. You will never k n o w prayer, you will never k

 n o w poetry, you will never k n o w love

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OSHO

intelligence

creative response to now

OSHO

Now let me tell you a paradox: every child who is innocent is mature. Maturity has nothing to do with age because it has nothing to do with experience; maturity has something to do with responsiveness, freshness, virginity, innocence. So when I use the word ‘mature’ I don’t mean that when you become more experienced you will be more mature. That’s what people usually mean when they use the word — I don’t mean that. The more you gather knowledge, the more your mind will become immature; and by the time you are seventy or eighty, you will be completely immature because you will have a stale past to function through. Watch a small child…knowing nothing, having no experience, he functions here and now.

~ Øsho

“Ancient Music in the Pines

OSHO

I am not in favor of stopping the mind. I am in favor of watching it. It stops of its own accord -- and then it is beautiful when something happens without any violence it has a beauty of its own, it has a natural growth. You can force a flower and open it by force; you can pull the petals of a bud and open it by force -- but you have destroyed the beauty of the flower. Now it is almost dead. It cannot stand your violence. The petals will be hanging loose, limp, dying. When the bud opens by its own energy, when it opens of its own accord, then those petals are alive.

The mind is your flowering -- don't force it in any way. I am against all force and against all violence, and particularly violence that is directed towards yourself. Just watch – in deep prayer, love, and reverence. And see what happens! Miracles happen of their own accord. There is no need to pull and push.

You ask: How to stop thinking? I say: Just watch, be alert. And drop this idea of stopping, otherwise it will stop the natural transformation of the mind. Drop this idea of stopping! Who are you to stop? At the most, enjoy.

And nothing is wrong -- even if immoral thoughts, so-called immoral thoughts, pass through your mind, let them pass; nothing is wrong. You remain detached. No harm is being done. It is just fiction; you are seeing an inner movie. Allow it its own way and it will lead you, by and by, to the state of no-mind. Watching ultimately culminates in no mind. No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind. No-mind does not come by killing and destroying the mind: no-mind comes when you have understood the mind so totally that thinking is no longer needed -- your understanding has replaced it.

OSHO: A Sudden Clash of Thunder

Talks on Zen Stories

Chapter_2: When you are Not, God is

OSHO

INSIGHT 

All the great scientists say that whenever they have discovered something, they have discovered it not by thinking but when the thinking had stopped and there was an interval, a gap. In that gap was the insight – the intuitive flash like lightning. When thought stops, your thinking is pure. It will look paradoxical. When thought stops – let me repeat – your thinking is pure, your capacity to reflect reality is pure.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.

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OSHO

OSHO

WAITING

 Waiting is simply waiting; not waiting for somebody, not waiting for something to happen. How can you wait for something you don’t know? And all that you will think should happen will be wrong, because it will come out of your past, and your past has been nothing but darkness, your past has been nothing but ignorance. Negative thinking cannot do anything – not even think about what is going to happen. This state, this silence, this utter purity, is the death and the resurrection.  

Waiting has no object, and that’s what meditation is. Let me define meditation: meditation is waiting without prospect, waiting for waiting’s sake. And truth is always there, pulsating at the core of being. Waiting allows it to bloom. Waiting helps you to melt. Waiting helps the innermost to express itself. Waiting releases the song that you are, the celebration that you are.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

VOWS

Life is never changed by vows, life is changed by awareness. Never take a vow; the vow simply means that you are forcing something upon yourself. Try to understand. When there is understanding there is no need to take a vow; your understanding is enough. 

You see something is wrong and it drops.  Seeing is enough, understanding is enough; no other discipline is ever needed. Whenever you need some other discipline it means your understanding is lacking, something is missing in your understanding.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

UNDERSTANDING 

Understanding is totally different from knowledge. Knowledge is borrowed, understanding is one’s own. Knowledge comes from without, understanding wells up within. Knowledge is ugly, because it is secondhand. And knowledge can never become part of your being. It will remain alien, it will remain foreign, it cannot get roots into you. Understanding grows out of you, it is your own flowering. It is authentically yours, hence it has beauty, and it liberates.

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OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

SPONTANEITY 

Spontaneity simply means now there is nothing to hinder your self-nature from expressing itself. All the rocks have been removed, all the doors have been opened. Now your self-nature can sing its song, it can dance its dance…  

Spontaneity has not to be created; if it is created it is not spontaneity. Then there is a contradiction: if it is cultivated then it is not spontaneous, obviously. A cultivated spontaneity cannot be true; it will be false, phony, pseudo, it will be only a mask. You may be simply acting, you will not be really spontaneous. And it cannot go very deep; it will remain only something painted from the outside. Just scratch the so-called cultivated, spontaneous person, and all his spontaneity will be gone. He was only acting, he was not really spontaneous.  

Realize spontaneity comes from the center; it is uncultivated, that’s why we call it spontaneity. There is no way to cultivate it, no way to create it, no need either. But if you want to become an actor, if you want to act, then it is a totally different matter – but remember: any real situation will immediately provoke your mind. It will come rushing towards the surface; all spontaneity will disappear…

  So I will say the first thing to remember is: spontaneity has to be discovered – or, it will be better to say, rediscovered, because when you were a child you were spontaneous. You have lost it because so much has been cultivated – so many disciplines, so many moralities, virtues, characters. You have learnt to play so many roles, that’s why you have forgotten the language of being just yourself.

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OSHO 

The ABC of Enlightenment: a spiritual dictionary

OSHO

I have seen people trying to relax. I have seen a book with the title, You Must Relax! "Must" will not allow you to relax! Relaxation is not something that you do, it is simply the absence of all your doings. In that absence is the greatest experience of life, and all great values will grow on their own accord.

OSHO

SERMONS ON STONE

OSHO

ONE DAY, KYOZAN WAS LOOKING AT THE MOON TOGETHER WITH SEKISHITSU AND ASKEDHIM,

”WHERE DOES THE ROUNDNESS OF THE MOON GO WHEN IT BECOMES SHARP,CRESCENT?”

SEKISHITSU SAID, ”WHEN IT IS SHARP, THE ROUNDNESS IS STILL THERE.”

When it is round it is still sharp.

Nothing goes anywhere.Sometimes it is manifest, sometimes it is unmanifest, but it is alwayshere – just like the moon.On the full-moon night you see its roundness, and then slowly slowlythat roundness is no more round.Something starts disappearing from your vision which is notdisappearing in the moon itself.

OSHO zen the solitary bird cuckoo of the forest

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 I sought many kinds of wealth, but I found them all, in the end, to be a loss. Then I searched for the wealth within myself. What I found was godliness. Then I realized that losing godliness is truly a loss, and finding it is the only wealth.  Somebody once praised an emperor with many words. He sang many beautiful songs to the emperor’s glory, expecting to receive something in return.

 The emperor laughed at all the praises heaped on him, and then presented the man with a lot of gold coins. When he looked at the coins, the man’s eyes filled with an extraordinary shine and he looked up toward the sky. Something was written on those coins. He threw them away and started dancing; his state had changed dramatically. An amazing inner revolution had happened from reading what was on the coins.

 After many years, somebody asked him what was written on the coins. He replied, “On the gold coins it said: ‘God is enough.’” Truly, God is enough. Those who know all agree with this truth.  What did I see? I saw that people who have everything are poor; I saw very wealthy people who actually have nothing. Then I stumbled upon this key – that those who want to attain everything have to let go of everything. Those who dare to let go of everything become worthy of godliness.

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OSHO 

LIFE IS A SOAP BUBBLE