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Osho Quotes
- Whatsoever you give to a buddha comes back
to you a thousandfold.
- The ego is never fulfilled.
- Paradise is where your real being flowers.
Hell is where you are crushed and something else is imposed on you.
- People go on living in the memories which
are only footprints left on the sand; or they project a life into
the future, which is also as non-existential as the past. One is no
more, the other is not yet, and between the two one loses the real,
the present, the now. Wholeness is of the now. If you can be simply
here, then this very moment the revelation! Then it is not gradual,
it is sudden, it is an explosion!
- Eat slowly, watchfully; each bite has to
be chewed, tasted. Smell, touch, feel the breeze and the sunrays.
Look at the moon and become just a silent pool of watchfulness, and
the moon will be reflected in you with tremendous beauty. Move in
life remaining continuously watchful.
- Man is a potential god -- a bodhisattva.
Man is meant to become a god. Less than that won't satisfy you, less
than that is of no use. You can have all the money in the world, all
the power, all the prestige possible, and still you will remain
empty -- unless your divine nature flowers, opens its buds, unless
you become a lotus, a one-thousand-petaled lotus, unless your
divinity is revealed to you, you can never be contented.
- No one is ever satisfied. Poor men wish
they were rich, rich men wish they were handsome, bachelors wish
they were married, and married men wish they were dead, and so on
and so forth, it goes and it goes.... Have you ever come across a
person who is really contented? If you come across a person who is
really contented, then be with him, then imbibe as much of the vibes
of his being as possible, because that is the only way to find your
inner beloved. The person who is contented must have found him.
- The moment you do something the mind
becomes powerful, because the mind is the doer. And the moment you
are a doer, the ego comes back. The ego is a doer. When you are in a
state of non-doing, the mind has to cease, the ego has to disappear.
Non-doing is the death of the mind and the ego: that is the meaning
of zazen.
- Consciousness brings light to your whole
being; you become full of luminosity. You cannot do anything that is
harmful to anybody. You cannot do anything that is harmful to your
own body. You become suddenly aware that you are one with this whole
universe. So your actions become good, beautiful, graceful; your
words start having a certain poetry, your silence becomes so deep,
so blissful, that your bliss starts overflowing to others.
- My whole effort here is to keep you as
non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all
kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness
will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a
meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness,
avoid it. It is not for you.
- Meditation is simply going beyond mind,
beyond the functioning of the mind, beyond all the fetters of the
mind, and just entering into this silence, unmoving, unwavering --
just a pure awareness, a silent flame, a great joy..
- Just get unidentified. Let the mind be
there, but remember, you are not it. Just this simple remembrance: I
am not the mind. Not that you have to repeat it -- because
repetition will be done by the mind, that is the problem. Just a
wordless awareness, I am not the mind... and no-mind will start
opening its doors to you. And that is the beginning of the
transformation.
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