What happens when I explore my inner journey?
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outcome
"The inner journey is a mirage; truth is not a path to be traveled but a state of being where all seeking ceases and awareness simply is."
According to Osho, the so‑called inner journey is mostly imagination, because ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ are mind-made divisions and any journey is outward. Truth is pathless: either you’re asleep (a buddhu) or awake (a Buddha); there are no stages. The real inner happens when all seeking stops, movement ceases, and awareness simply is—then imagination ends and light is within.
Trying to go inside is still going somewhere; when you stop going anywhere and just be, you wake up and find the inside was always here.
Why this matters practically
- It ends chasing imagined spiritual stages and returns you to simple presence now.
- Encourages stillness and witnessing instead of striving, which ripens awakening.
- Seeing inner and outer as one reduces separation, anxiety, and spiritual ego.
- Encourages stillness and witnessing instead of striving, which ripens awakening.
- Seeing inner and outer as one reduces separation, anxiety, and spiritual ego.
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