According to Osho, the mind must turn from concepts to direct, living experience: become silently receptive, wordless, and open, especially in the presence of nature. Let the sky, trees, and vastness enter your very breath until the felt boundary between 'you' and 'it' dissolves. Drop doctrines, open inner windows, and meet reality nakedly—these meditative moments birth the first taste of non-duality.
Be quietly present in nature without thinking, and feel so open that the sky and trees seem to be you.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Some friends have asked: Osho, for the realization of non-duality (Advaita), how should the mind be oriented? In what way, on which path, should life be set in motion? How can Advaita bear fruit?
Join these three to what I said earlier, and it will be clear how to take step by step on the path of Advaita. In truth, only the first steps need be told. Take one, and the second becomes visible; take the second, and the third appears. Only those fail who never take the first step. Those who do—win. The first step, and half the journey is done—because with it comes a freshness and joy that pulls your feet onward, and onward. Over these three days I have said a few things about this journey. Even saying “I have said” is not quite right. As I said this morning: “Because there is the sun, a blade of grass flowers”—but I also say, “Perhaps because the blade flowers, the sun is.” Such is the interrelatedness. I could not have said what I did had even one of you not been present.…
The appearance of things has only been imposed upon oneself. By eliminating it, the self becomes absolute brahman, who is the whole, one without a second and without action. The appearance of the self in the form of the world of division is false, because one that is without change, form, and organs cannot have any divisions.
THE CONSCIOUS SELF IS FREE FROM THE FEELING OF THE OBSERVER, THE OBSERVATION, AND THE OBSERVED. IT IS INNOCENT AND FULL LIKE THE SEA OF THE ULTIMATE FLOOD, WHICH DESTROYS THE WHOLE EXISTENCE. AS DARKNESS DISSOLVES IN THE LIGHT, SO THE CAUSE OF ILLUSION DISSOLVES IN THE SUPREME WHO IS WITHOUT A SECOND. AND THAT SUPREME BEING WITHOUT ORGANS... HOW COULD THAT SUPREME HAVE DIVISIONS? THE SUPREME REALITY BEING ONE, HOW COULD THERE BE DIVISIONS IN IT? IN THE STATE OF DREAMLESS DEEP SLEEP, sushupti, THERE REMAINS ONLY BLISSFULNESS. SO HOW COULD THERE BE DIVISIONS IN IT? This UPANISHAD is basically against mind, and not only this UPANISHAD, upanishadic teaching as such is against mind. Really, religion is against mind, because mind creates all illusions, all dreams. Mind creates everything that we call the world. Mind IS the world; try to understand this. This is one of the basic truths.…
My mind has difficulty understanding the existence of beginninglessness. Would you please talk about it?
Slowly slowly, learn the art of contacting reality without the mind interfering. Sometimes when the sun is setting, just sit there looking at the sun, not thinking about it -- watching, not evaluating, not even saying, "How beautiful it is!" The moment you say something, the mind has come in. The mind consists of language. Don't use language. Can't you just see the sunset and its beauty? Can't you be overwhelmed by its beauty? Can't you be possessed by its grandeur? What is the point of bringing language in? Nobody is asking you to say anything. The sun does not understand your language, the clouds that have become so beautiful and luminous in the setting sun are unable to understand your language. Why bring it in? Put it aside; be in direct contact, be thrilled. If tears come to your eyes, good. If you start dancing, good. Or if you…
Beloved Osho, to be open and to be witnessing are two different things. Is it so, or is this a duality created by my mind?
Mind always creates duality; otherwise, to be open or to be witnessing are not two things. If you are open, you will be witnessing. Without being a witness, you cannot be open; or if you are a witness, you will be open -- because being a witness and yet remaining closed is impossible. So those are only two words. You can either start with witnessing -- then opening will come on its own accord; or you can start by opening your heart, all windows, all doors -- then witnessing will be found, coming on its own. But if you are simply thinking, without doing anything, then they look separate. Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. Oneness is the experience of silence. For example, day and night are very clear dualities, but they are not two. There are animals who see…
Osho, is there any practical process for being in the realm of existence beyond thoughts, in the void?
The way to thin them out is non-cooperation. Right now we are their makers—that is, we are the ones maintaining them. When we sit idle, some thought or other is running, because without our cooperation they cannot run. Withdraw your cooperation from whatever thoughts are running, and do nothing else; regard just this as samayik, as meditation. If all thoughts dissolve, you will feel no ego and no person within. You will know only being—only being will be known, in which the distinction “I am an individual” or “I am the whole” will not be felt. Only pure being will remain—pure existence. In truth, because of the thoughts accumulated upon that pure existence, we appear to be a person. This sense that I am “A,” you are “B,” you are “C”—the A, B, C we have pasted on—is our thought-power. We commonly say, “I will become liberated”—this is not quite…