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Osho Quotes
- If you cannot relax, how can you
surrender? Surrender is absolute relaxation. It is merging into the
universe so much that you don't feel 'you' are; you feel the
universe is, existence is. You are so relaxed that you don't feel
any boundary between you and the universe; there is no division
between you.
- The old sannyas was of renunciation; the
new sannyas I teach you is of rejoicing Rejoice in love, rejoice in
meditation! Rejoice in all kinds of things in life! God has given
you a great opportunity -- don't miss it. Missing it will be the
only sin.
- Meditation starts with catharsis and ends
with celebration. When your diseases are thrown, you can dance and
laugh, you can feel blissful. Only in this blissful state will there
be a meeting, a meeting with the universe. That meeting is divine.
- My religion consists only of one word:
meditativeness. It has no prayer, because there is nobody to whom
you can pray. You are here, a reality. Why not go in and find out
from where your life comes, the source of your life? the source of
your intelligence? the source of your love?
- Real renunciation means unconditioning the
mind. Real renunciation means you don't belong to any society, you
don't belong to any religion, you don't belong to any country -- you
don't BELONG, you are alone. You belong to the whole in your
aloneness. But that is possible only by tremendous understanding,
intelligence, awareness, not by playing this game of renunciation --
renouncing one thing, creating another, then renouncing that, still
creating another.
- Knowing that you don't know, you really
become a knower. That is wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge. Wisdom is
awareness.
- Nirvana is such a deep relaxation of your
being that you disappear in that relaxation. Tense, you are;
relaxed, you are not. Your ego can only exist if you are tense. If
you are relaxed, god is, you are not.
- Without the master, without someone who
has already reached his home and knows what kind of experiences
happen on the path, it is almost impossible to wake up on your own.
- The world is not the problem, the problem
is your unawareness. Renounce your unawareness, don't be bothered
with the world. What can the world do to you? You can live in a
palace, the palace cannot prevent your enlightenment. You can live
in absolute poverty, poverty cannot help your enlightenment. In
poverty or in richness, in a poor man's hut or in a palace, the
basic thing is your meditativeness, your awareness. Wherever it
happens, you will become enlightened.
- Love is possible only if there is no
possessiveness and no jealousy. That means love has attained to
renunciation. You love the person but you renounce possessiveness;
you love the person but you renounce jealousy; you love the person
but you don't want to make a slave out of him or out of her; you
love the person but you respect his or her freedom; you love the
person but your love does not become an imprisonment. You love, and
yet you remain unattached. You love, you love tremendously, but
still you don't cling: that is renunciation.
- First, learn the process of awareness
through breathing and then move to thinking. And you will be
surprised: the more you watch your thinking... again, either you can
watch or you can think. Both cannot be done simultaneously. If you
watch, thinking disappears. If thinking appears, watching
disappears. When you have become alert enough to watch your thoughts
and let them disappear through watching, then move to feeling --
which is even more subtle. And these are the three steps of
vipassana. First breathing, second thinking, third feeling. And when
all these three have disappeared, what is left is your being.
To know it is to know all. To conquer it is to conquer all.
- Existence is heavy, so loaded with
splendor it wants to share. It cannot share unless you are centered
in your being. It can share its secrets only with a buddha. And you
have every opportunity to become a buddha.
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