Does becoming aware mean that something has dropped?

Does becoming aware mean it has dropped?

The difficulty is: are they even trying to wake up to this very “coming to know”? Or are they, as with sex, moving in a stupor—every morning trudging to the temple in a daze, never once waking up to ask, “I’ve been going to the temple for forty years—what has come of it?” If this question itself is never asked, they will go on observing vows for lives on end. If it is asked, the vow will break this very moment. If a vow-observer understands what I am saying, he will grasp it quicker than you—because he also has the experience of the futility of vows. But he doesn’t want to look at that experience; like a trance, he just goes on. He says, “If not today, tomorrow; if not tomorrow, the day after—something is happening.” People come to me and say, “I’ve been reciting the Namokar mantra for so…

Osho, awakening regarding bad actions makes them drop away. Then what happens if one becomes aware even of good actions like love, devotion, etc.? Please clarify.

Ramchhavi Prasad! There are three steps of awakening. The first step—primary awakening—the bad comes to an end and the good grows. The unwholesome departs; the wholesome deepens. The second stage—the wholesome begins to melt away; emptiness deepens. And the third stage—even emptiness departs. Then what remains is the natural… then what remains is the natural state, the pure consciousness, sheer awareness—that is Buddhahood, that is nirvana. Begin to awaken, and first you will find—what is wrong starts dropping. Try smoking a cigarette with awareness, you won’t be able to. Not because smoking is a sin. What sin can there be in smoking? A person takes smoke out, brings it in; out and in. What sin is there in that? Whom is he harming? Smoking is not a sin. It is certainly stupidity, but not a sin. Foolishness, yes—but not a sin. Foolishness because you could have taken in clean air…

and then the tree goes on becoming bigger, gathering greater foliage it can become a big tree almost whispering with the clouds it can blossom, it can become flowers, fruits and only then one is fulfilled that is the state of buddhahood the awakened state of consciousness awareness is a method a means to attain consciousness one has to become aware of the outer world when you are watching something be alert don't just behave like a zombie that's how people are behaving they are looking at a thing and not looking at all because their mind is somewhere else their eyes are empty, there is no attention they are hearing something but they are not listening their awareness is not there behind their ears so this is the first thing to be done become aware of the outside world this noise of the train or an aeroplane passing by…

Osho, I have heard that enlightenment, or the natural state of man, is something acausal -- it just happens. And all our endeavours to bring about awareness, to be aware, are actually taking us away from this state since they are all mind games, and these activities for self-awareness are just a "holy business". I cannot imagine what my life would be if I gave up the search since it has permeated my life as long as I can remember. If there is no way to integrate, nothing one can do, why all this activity? Why bother? Yet what else is there to do? Please comment.

It happens only to those who are not holding anything back, when you have put all that you have at stake, when nothing is left behind, when you are utterly empty, you have emptied yourself totally, and it is not happening, then the understanding arises, "My efforts are futile. My efforts are ego efforts -- the ego is futile. My efforts are my own mind games. The mind itself is the barrier." But this has to become your own experience, Samadhi. It is not going to help if you have heard it. You can hear great truths, but unless they arise in your own being they are not true. A heard truth is a lie: only an experienced truth is a truth. And only the experienced truth liberates. How will you experience it? You would like to have it without any efforts. You would like it to happen as it…

Osho, today you spoke of awareness and consciousness and it seemed as though this was all that was needed to guide one s actions. Does this mean then that murder, rape and theft are only wrong in so far as they are done without awareness, without consciousness?

A young farm boy from Arkansas was sent to New York by his father to learn the undertaking business under the tutelage of the great Frank E. Campbell. Some months later, the father visited his son in the big city. "Tell me," he said, "have you learnt much?" "Oh sure, Dad," said the son. "I have learnt a lot. And it has been very interesting." "What was the most interesting thing you learnt?" The son thought for a moment and then said, "Well, we did have one wild experience that taught me a lesson." "What was that?" "Well," said the son, "one day we got this phone call from the Taft Hotel. It seems that the housekeeper had checked one of the rooms and she discovered that a man and woman had died in their sleep on the bed and completely naked." "Wow!" said the father. "What did Mr. Campbell…