VBT – Week’s Meditation 8
VBT – Week’s Meditation 8 Become Neutral Try this. In any way become neutral, indifferent – suddenly...
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Drop Motivation
Question to Osho: WHAT MOTIVATES A BUDDHA? The question is absurd, because a Buddha becomes a Buddha only when...
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VBT – Meditation 99.0
VBT – Meditation 99.0 FEEL YOURSELF AS PERVADING ALL DIRECTIONS, FAR, NEAR. Becoming Infinite Tantra and yoga both think...
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Baron And Chrysanthemums
Once there was a baron who was extremely fond of chrysanthemums. He had the whole rear garden of his...
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Trust Is God
When I tell you to trust me, I am simply saying that a certain climate has happened to me:...
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VBT – Week’s Meditation 98
VBT – Week’s Meditation 98 Remaining Centered This centering is the aim. Once you are centered you can move...
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Trust Is All-Inclusive
We will have a few questions from Yoga Sutra 49. Question To Osho – IN ONE OF YOUR LECTURES...
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VBT – Meditation 98.5
VBT – Meditation 98.5 Silent Center Life without is a cyclone – a constant conflict, turmoil, struggle. But it...
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Yoga Sutra 49 Balanced And Tranquil
Now the materialists – the communists, the Marxists, the scientists – have been trying the other way. They have...
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VBT – Meditation 98.4
VBT – Meditation 98.4 Life-Giving Source This technique is very easy and will not take much time if you...
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Hypotension And Homoeopathy
Low blood pressure (hypotension) might seem desirable, and for some people, it causes no problems. However, for many people,...
Bhagavad Gita Verse 1.29
Imperfection – In Gita Verse 1.29 My whole body is trembling, my hair is standing on end, my bow Gāṇḍīva is slipping from my hand, and my skin is burning. Arjuna is looking at himself with more alertness and intensity. He is now giving details of where and what...
VBT – Meditation 14.0
VBT – Meditation 14.0 PLACE YOUR WHOLE ATTENTION IN THE NERVE, DELICATE AS THE LOTUS THREAD, IN THE CENTER OF YOUR SPINAL COLUMN. IN SUCH BE TRANSFORMED. Put Your Awareness On Spine For this sutra, for this technique of meditation, one has to close his eyes...
VBT – Meditation 99.0
VBT – Meditation 99.0 FEEL YOURSELF AS PERVADING ALL DIRECTIONS, FAR, NEAR. Becoming Infinite Tantra and yoga both think that your narrowness is the problem. Because you have made yourself so narrow, so tightly narrow, you feel always in bondage. The bondage is not coming from anywhere else: the...
VBT – Week’s Meditation 98
VBT – Week’s Meditation 98 Remaining Centered This centering is the aim. Once you are centered you can move to the periphery but you will be totally different. The quality of your consciousness will have changed altogether. Then you can move to the periphery but you will never be...
VBT – Meditation 98.5
VBT – Meditation 98.5 Silent Center Life without is a cyclone – a constant conflict, turmoil, struggle. But it is only so on the surface – just as on the surface of the ocean are waves, maddening noise, constant struggle. But this is not all of life. Deep down...
VBT – Meditation 98.4
VBT – Meditation 98.4 Life-Giving Source This technique is very easy and will not take much time if you try it. With this technique it sometimes even happens that with the very first effort you will feel the beauty and the miracle of it. So try it. But if...
Yoga Sutra 25.1 Purity And Contentment
PURITY, CONTENTMENT, AUSTERITY, SELF-STUDY, AND SURRENDER TO GOD ARE THE LAWS TO BE OBSERVED. Each has to be understood...
Prayer
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart Prayer The Sufi mystic was a rebellious person. It happened this time that for three days they had no food, because every village they passed refused...
Old Man’s Answer
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein Old Man’s Answer A Sufi story. A man was sitting at the gate of a town, an old man. A rider stopped, a horse rider and asked him, ”what...
You Have Stolen My Heart
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer You Have Stolen My Heart 💓 Let me tell you a Zen anecdote about a burglar who entered the house of a Zen master to rob him....
Wood Cutting
Relaxation means you don’t have any shoulds. You are simply living moment to moment, not according to some future idea of yourself, but according to your reality that is herenow. – Osho Wood Cutting A Zen story. A very curious king, wanting to know about what these...
The Eight Limbs Of Yoga
The Eight Limbs Of Yoga And he said, “It came to pass that many times I tried my grandfather’s...
I Am The Fire!
I Am The Fire! The secret of joy is that if you can get absorbed in every activity that...
Drop Motivation
Question to Osho: WHAT MOTIVATES A BUDDHA? The question is absurd, because a Buddha becomes a Buddha only when...
The Philosophy Of Emptiness
The Philosophy Of Emptiness It is possible soon. Space can be pulled out and then it can be again forced in, and the engine will take its shape again. Then big things can be carried without much problem. The weight will remain the same but the shape, the form,...
There Is Nothing Like Lust
There Is Nothing Like Lust Just as when a river comes to the ocean she must be hesitating for a moment before she loses herself into the ocean, she must be looking backwards with nostalgia: the beautiful mountains, the snow-peaked mountains, the forests, the valleys, the song of the...
Dying Wish
Buddha was once threatened with death by a bandit called Angulimal. “Then be good enough to fulfill my dying wish,” said Buddha. “Cut off the branch of that tree.” One slash of the sword, and it was done! “What now?” asked the bandit. “Put it back again,” said Buddha....
Sainthood on Top of a Pole
Opportunity knocks only once: We must make the best use of an opportunity when it comes our way. We may not get a second chance. So we have to be alert and identify an opportunity, grasp it as it comes along and make the best use of it. When...
Catalyst
Catalyst Osho, Will you be my catalyst towards God-realization? My approach is that the more you forget about God, the better. Leave him alone. Realize yourself. This is again an escape from your problems. God-realization, nirvana, moksha: these are avoiding your real problems, these are ways you start going...
Thin Silver Layer
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. -Buddha Thin Silver Layer I have heard: A rich Jew went to a Hassid mystic and said, “I want to pray, but however much I try my desires don’t leave me alone. I want...
The Art Of Living
The Art Of Living The best swimmer simply floats. The ultimate swimmer just goes like a dead body with the current, wherever the river leads – it always leads to the ocean. Every river leads to the ocean, so you need not be worried whether you are in a...
Music Will Remind You Of Me
Music Will Remind You Of Me Osho, Why do I allow habit to dominate consciousness? Almost everybody does it, unless one becomes enlightened. The habit is the easier way to do a thing. The whole mechanism of a habit is that you need not be conscious about it. It...
The Greater The Sinner, The Greater The Saint
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. – George Soros The Greater The Sinner, The Greater The Saint It is reported that one Hassid, a rabbi, Baal Shem, was visited by a...
The Brash Student
The Brash Student When Yamaoka was a brash student he visited the master Dokuon. Wanting to impress the master he said: “There is no mind, there is nobody, there is no buddha. There is no better, there is no worse. There is no master, there is no student. There...
Catalyst
Catalyst Osho, Will you be my catalyst towards God-realization? My approach is that the more you forget about God, the better. Leave him alone. Realize yourself. This is again an escape from your problems. God-realization, nirvana, moksha: these are avoiding your real problems, these are ways you start going...
Be Real To Life, Not To Logic
When you are deeply in love your mind cease to be. There is no past; only the present moment becomes everything. – Osho. Be Real To Life, Not To Logic I have heard that once it happened that a very great Zen mystic and master died. His disciple...
The Mystery Of Meditation
The Mystery Of Meditation Now as far as words and thoughts are concerned, you are a witness, separate, and words are the other. But when there are no words, you are the gap, and still conscious that you are the gap – because now between you and the gap,...
Life: Uncharted And Unknown Possibilities
Life: Uncharted And Unknown Possibilities So there are three things to be understood. The first is that we do not have a single mind; we have many minds. Secondly, these minds are our past experiences. And thirdly, we cling to these multi-minds because of our fear of the unknown,...
A False Laughter
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves. – Osho A False Laughter Look at people’s faces. They carry life as a burden — boring, with no meaning. It seems that everything is just a nightmare, a very cruel joke, that somebody...
The Risk Is Worth Taking
The Risk Is Worth Taking Buddha has said, “When I became enlightened, the whole universe rejoiced. That moment I felt that the whole universe was helping me, waiting for me to become enlightened.” The story is beautiful. Don’t take it literally. It is symbolic, it is a metaphor. When...
Osho's Preaching
Lie Down And Witness I am not a Zen adept simply means I have dissolved myself into the existence....
A Buddha Is A Nobody But the young man said, “But every religion says be egoless, and I want...
The Golden Flower Is Opening You see a beautiful flower and you suddenly say something: “It is beautiful.” Watch...
Happy People Are Dangerous In the beginning was the word, or the logos. The same cannot be said about...
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. – Pablo...
Selling Water By The River Withdrawal brings a peace that is suicide. Yes, you go to the Himalayas, you...
Grace Is Bring Herenow When it really happens, there is no claimant left. One simply is it. Not that...
Once I have asked myself what is the biggest gift I have received from the universe? I feel that...
Once, a jester worked in a royal court. The king who ruled the kingdom respected the jester a lot....
Wisdom accepts everything and transforms it; only ignorance rejects. Only ignorance rejects – wisdom accepts everything. Even a poison...
The man of science is a poor philosopher. – Albert Einstein Frog The Philosopher Chuang Tzu talks about a...
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. –...
I will tell you a story from the Upanishads… A rishi is sitting with his wife and son. A...
A wild boar was rubbing his tusks against a tree. A fox passing by asked him what he was...
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a...
On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a...
Whose education is governed/guided by his wit and his wit by education, and who does not disobeys elderly/educated people...
The Court barber nursed his hatred for Birbal and plotted against him daily. One day he struck upon a...
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. – Muhammad Iqbal Cow...
The lion king was busy appointing various animals at different posts. The cheetah had been made the army commander...
Drop Motivation
Question to Osho: WHAT MOTIVATES A BUDDHA? The question is absurd, because a Buddha becomes a Buddha only when all motivation has left, when all desires have disappeared. A Buddha becomes a Buddha only because he now has nothing to do, nothing to desire, nowhere to go, no achievement....
Trust Is God
When I tell you to trust me, I am simply saying that a certain climate has happened to me: have a glimpse of it. Come, let that climate surround you also. Let me vibrate in your heart; let me pulsate around you; let me throb in the deepest core...
Trust Is All-Inclusive
We will have a few questions from Yoga Sutra 49. Question To Osho – IN ONE OF YOUR LECTURES SOMETHING HAS HIT ME HARD. IT IS THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN TRUSTING MYSELF AND TRUSTING YOU. THERE IS A PART OF ME THAT SAYS: IF I TRUST MY OWN SELF AND...
Yoga Sutra 49 Balanced And Tranquil
Now the materialists – the communists, the Marxists, the scientists – have been trying the other way. They have been trying to pull the other leg. They say that there is nothing like consciousness; there is no self. It is just a combination of physical and chemical things that...
Drop Motivation
Question to Osho: WHAT MOTIVATES A BUDDHA? The question is absurd, because a Buddha becomes a Buddha only when all motivation has left, when all desires have disappeared. A Buddha becomes a Buddha only because he now has nothing to do, nothing to desire, nowhere to go, no achievement....
Trust Is God
When I tell you to trust me, I am simply saying that a certain climate has happened to me: have a glimpse of it. Come, let that climate surround you also. Let me vibrate in your heart; let me pulsate around you; let me throb in the deepest core...
Trust Is All-Inclusive
We will have a few questions from Yoga Sutra 49. Question To Osho – IN ONE OF YOUR LECTURES SOMETHING HAS HIT ME HARD. IT IS THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN TRUSTING MYSELF AND TRUSTING YOU. THERE IS A PART OF ME THAT SAYS: IF I TRUST MY OWN SELF AND...
