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Osho Quotes
- Science is concentration.
Religion is meditation.
- Man is unconscious. You go on doing
things, not knowing why. You go on doing things you could not do if
you were even a little conscious.
- Ordinarily people think that they have to
seek god. The truth is just the opposite -- god is seeking you, but
you are never found.
- To be in a love affair with a master is to
be in a love affair with existence itself; the master is only an
arrow pointing towards the unknowable, the miraculous, the
mysterious.
- The goal is created by the mind, the means
are created by the mind, and the mind leads you. How can you reach
with the mind to no-mind?
- The moment you are in a hurry you are
never here; you are looking far ahead. You are running. And for
enlightenment you have to be still and silent and in this moment --
utterly still, because this whole pilgrimage is from here to here.
- Ego is all that you go on accumulating
through education, manners, civilization, culture, schools,
colleges, universities.... You go accumulating it. It is your
effort, you have made it, and you have made it so big that you have
completely forgotten your real self.
- The man of Zen is always overflowing with
joy. You can share it. He is a giver: he gives delight, he gives
joy, he gives beauty, he gives truth. He radiates truth, he radiates
God, but so silently... without any declaration. He goes on pouring
his blessings into existence. He is a blessing to the world.
- The true master creates discontent in you
-- and such a discontent that nothing of this world can ever satisfy
it. He creates such a longing in you, that unless you attain to the
ultimate you will remain aflame, afire. He creates pain in your
heart, he creates anguish...because life is slipping by every
moment, and each moment gone is gone forever, and you have not
attained to God yet, and one day is over.
- You have to be a little more aware. And
then the very earth you move on becomes sacred. Then trees are gods.
Then birds are buddhas. Then each person you meet is a potential
buddha. How can you hurt anybody? How can you be destructive to
anybody, disrespectful to anybody? Impossible! Then it is not
etiquette; then it is simple, natural understanding. But people are
so unaware that it is difficult for them to see the greatest thing
that surrounds them within and without.
- This is what heaven means: where you are
not expected to do anything, where you don't try to earn bliss --
where bliss is natural, where it showers on you. This can happen
here and now. It has happened to Sosan, it has happened to me, it
can happen to you. If it can happen to one, it can happen to all.
- You don't have any control over your mind.
It goes on in its own way, filled with dreams and thoughts and
emotions and feelings and reactions, sadnesses, happinesses -- there
is no way to empty it. How are you going to empty it? From one side
you will be emptying it, and from the other side a great flow will
go on coming in. The only way to empty it is to go beyond it -- to
become awareness. Watch the mind, and the mind disappears.
- This discovery of awareness has been such
a miracle: the traffic simply disappears, just by your stepping out
of it. You don't have to examine, you don't have to control, you
don't have to dispel anything. You don't have to do anything at all
-- just pure awareness is enough to kill the mind.
- Being aware is simply being aloof, but
alert. Whatever the mind is doing, let it do; whatever is going on
in the mind, let it be. You simply be out of it. You should not be a
participant -- that's all that is needed, and mind dies its own
death.
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