According to Osho, yes—by invoking a Master’s emptiness in meditation you can imbibe his total being through silent, nonverbal transmission. But you must pass the deathlike gap where your ego vanishes. Don’t retreat; accept this inner “death.” Then rebirth happens: the deathless, pure consciousness—your own true nature—flowers. The Master is both cross and resurrection.
If you meditate by feeling the Master’s emptiness, you can absorb it—just allow your small self to disappear so your real self is born.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
The Discipline Of Transcendence Vol 4 · Discourse 10
1976-11-09 · Buddha Hall · English
Osho, you are my favorite meditation. Do buddhas mind being gazed on for more than three seconds at a time?
The question is from Maneesha. It is tremendously important to understand. JESUS was taking his leave from his disciples. The last night, when he was going to be arrested, breaking the bread he said, "This is my flesh, this is my meat; you eat it." Pouring the wine he said to his disciples, "This is my blood; you drink it." What he is saying looks very crude, but the meaning is very significant: a disciple has to become a cannibal. He has to eat his Master, his Master's vibes. The very presence of the Master has to be swallowed, chewed, digested. A Buddha exists only for that: so that you can eat him. Of course, it depends on you what will happen after you have eaten a certain vibe. The transformation will happen within you; you will have to be very careful. There are people who eat food, the best…Read the full discourse →
Ram Duware Jo Mare · Discourse 2
1974-05-26 · Pune · Hindi · English translation
Osho! You were just here, you were just here. The fragrance of your breath is in these breezes. The whisper of your lovely footsteps is in the air. The earth and sky that beheld you… you were just here, you were just here. When I saw you, my breath simply stopped, my Master! These eyes would not lower. The moment I came to my senses, where did you hide? You were just here, you were just here.
Meera! If you want to know the divine, to attain it, you must sustain a very paradoxical kind of awareness. Paradoxical because from one side it is awareness, and from the other it is a kind of unawareness too—an ecstasy, a divine drunkenness that is not stupor but awakening; in which within, a lamp of meditation is lit, a flame of alertness burns. Love knows this art of paradox. Love is the key that opens the lock on that door. Love knows how to sway and yet remain centered within. Love knows how to close the eyes and still come to vision. Love knows how to move not even an inch, and yet complete a journey of a thousand miles. Reason will not grasp it. For thought it is inaccessible. But for love it is natural and easy. What is needed is an awareness colored by ecstasy; and an ecstasy…Read the full discourse →
Hari Om Tat Sat · Discourse 27
1988-02-24 · Gautam the Buddha Auditorium · English
Beloved master, you once said, "the moment is rare when eternity penetrates time." can you speak more on this?
Vadan, the question seems to be simple but the answer is very complex. And the complexity becomes multidimensional, because the answer can come only from your own experience, not from outside. Just as the question is arising in you, the answer has to also be part of your interiority. But I will go into a little detail, to explain what I mean when I say that the moment is rare when eternity penetrates time. Time is that in which we live -- it is horizontal. It is from A to B to C to D; it is in a line. Eternity is vertical. It is not from A to B and from B to C. It is from A to more A to still more A. It goes on upwards. The moment is rare because it happens only when meditation has reached ripening, maturity, when you have touched your innermost…Read the full discourse →
Yoga The Alpha And The Omega Vol 2 · Discourse 5
1975-01-05 · Buddha Hall · English
Being beyond the limits of time he is the master of masters. He is known as aum.
REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. Remember this -- desire and need -- these two words. Desire is of the mind; need is of the body. Desire and need, then you are a clock with hands. Only need, no desire, then you are a clock without hands, and when need also drops, you have gone beyond time. This is eternity; beyond time is eternity. For example: if I don't look at the watch -- and I have to look continuously the whole day -- if I don't look at the watch, I don't know what is the time. Even if I have seen it five minutes before, again I have to look because I don't know exactly, because now -- no time inside -- only the body is ticking. Consciousness has no…Read the full discourse →
Take It Easy Vol 2 · Discourse 6
1978-04-30 · Buddha Hall · English
I want to be a master. The idea of just sitting there and doing nothing appeals to me very much. What do you say about it?
GREAT IDEA! SOME IDEA! But it is very difficult to just sit. You are so restless. If you can just sit, you ARE a master! But think of just sitting, doing nothing -- can you allow that much rest to yourself even for a single moment? That's what I go on telling you: Sit silently, passively, doing nothing, just being. And you look at me with bewildered eyes: "Just sitting, doing nothing?" People ask me, "Can't we chant a mantra? Please give us a mantra, so we can at least chant a mantra when we are sitting." That mantra is for nothing but your restlessness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation has appeal in America because America is so restless. People can't sit silently; they have to do something or other. If there is nothing to do then they have to repeat Rama-Rama-Rama or Coca-Cola-Coca-Cola-Coca-Cola -- but something. Coca Cola is…Read the full discourse →