According to Osho, the cosmic is achieved not by reaching anywhere but by dissolving the mind that fragments experience. Become aware of your concepts, labels, likes and dislikes; see without past or projection. In such innocent, choiceless awareness, the subject–object barrier drops: the flower and the seer are one process. Then existence knows itself through you.
When you stop naming and judging and just see, you and what's in front of you are the same living moment.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
How can the cosmic be achieved?
By becoming aware of your fragmented mind, of your conceptions, your attitudes, your prejudices. By becoming aware of the mind that feels, hears, chooses. When you see a flower, it is not only that the flower is there. Between you and the flower, a particular mind exists, a particular attitude about the flower exists. Otherwise there would be no barrier between you and the flower. You would be one. You and the flower are two extremes of one existence, two ends of one single moment. If your mind is not there, your consciousness and the flowering of the flower are two extreme points of one process. But if your mind is there (as it is always there), you are not just seeing the flower. Your seeing has a projection behind it, you are seeing in terms of your own conceptions, your own likes and dislikes. You say, "This is a…
I am smaller than the smallest; I am also the most vast. I am the marvelous cosmos.
I AM THE ANCIENT ONE, PURUSHA -- THE BASE OF ALL. I AM HIRANYAMAYA, THE EFFULGENT ONE, THE EVER- Science is bound to come -- reducing everything to its atomic existence -- to the minutest part. Then the whole world becomes a chaos; there is no inter-relatedness. Really, with science there is no universe. Universe means one. Science has created multi-verses. The very word universe means one -- "uni" means one. Science has created multi-verses. Every science has its own universe, and no two sciences are in any way related. Every science goes into its own specialization, more to the part, and then the whole is lost. You can know a part, but a part is always dead. Life exists in the relatedness of the total. Life is always of the whole. That's why life is holy. Both the words mean the same thing. Holy means of the whole, belonging…
By understanding, by understanding this fragmentary attitude, by understanding this fragmentary mind, by understanding this divided (inaudible), by understanding and knowing and becoming aware of the part which you have taken as your mind -- it would be better to say this is not mind, these are minds -- we are not a mind, we are minds. The Mind must come as you become more aware of these minds. The more you become aware of your minds, the Mind is being born. The mind comes in. That awareness will ultimately become your Mind. These minds will lose by and by their existence, their separateness and they will dissolve in the awareness, then you will be just aware. Without any mind, you will be a Mind. We are with mind, that's why we cannot be a Mind with a capital M. We are always of a particular mind.
Osho, how to see what is?
Function from the state of not knowing, and it will bring you immense, ecstatic experiences, because the person who is without knowledge is capable of wondering. The person who is without knowledge is capable of awe. He can dance seeing a rose flower, he can sing because the sky is full of stars. He can be in tune with existence. Seeing a sunset, he can go into wild ecstasy -- because he knows nothing. Life is a mystery to him. Knowledge demystifies life. Because he knows nothing, everything, the most ordinary too, becomes absolutely extraordinary, luminous, because everything is mysterious. Everything Is mysterious! Your knowledge simply hides your ignorance and destroys your capacity to be mystified. Knowledge is destructive of mysticism. Hence all the mystics of all the ages have been saying one single thing: Drop knowledge -- all knowledge is rubbish. Be in a state of not knowing; function…
Question: OSHO, HOW DOES ONE EXPLORE THE HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS? He throws a rock into the well and runs away. Certainly, the rock falling in the well makes a big noise, and all the people who are following him stop near the well -- they think that the man has jumped into the well. So now some arrangement has to be made: more light has to be brought, somebody has to go down and find out who this man is, whether he is alive or dead. Now their whole mind is diverted. He reaches his home, really angry, almost ready to kill the father. And the father is sound asleep, covered with his blanket... it was a cold night. He pulls off his blanket, and he says, "Is this the way to teach your own son?" He said, "Are you back? That's enough; you have learned the art.