Yes: stop waiting for tomorrow—God is something you can feel and enjoy right now, just by being fully alive.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, if one wants to enjoy being God, then become God this very moment—is this your teaching?
Make prayer into ecstasy. Better still: make ecstasy your prayer. Dance, sing. It can happen this very moment. God has been waiting for you so long. How long will you keep Him waiting? Certainly, this is my teaching: if you are to live God, then now. If you are not to live Him, then say plainly that you do not want to—why postpone it to tomorrow? At least be honest. Say only that you want no part in it; you do not want to be delighted, you do not want to be blissful; you want to be miserable. Be miserable consciously; at least you will be truthful. And one who suffers consciously cannot suffer long. Today or tomorrow he will recognize: “What am I doing? I have been given a great opportunity, and I am wasting it. Where lotuses could bloom, I am sowing thorns.” No, your trick is this:…Read the full discourse →
Osho, time and again it feels as if there is nothing to attain, nowhere to go; there is life, to be lived. O Satguru, O Supreme Guru! Is this a trick of the mind or…? Protect your disciple at every step. Where I am today, as I am, is the fruit of your grace!
No, it is not a befooling by the mind. Not the mind’s trick. This is not coming from the mind. This is precisely my message. This has reached you from me. This is what I am saying to you, continuously—through a thousand ways, in a thousand styles, by a thousand devices—only this: there is nowhere to go; the Divine is here, right here, now. Do not postpone to tomorrow—It is today, this very moment. God is not a goal, God is a presence. Present now, in these trees, in the birds’ calls, in the movement of the wind. But for centuries you have been taught that God is up there in the heavens, to be found after death. And I tell you: what cannot be found in life will not be found after death. And what can be found after death can only be found in life—because life and death…Read the full discourse →
Why is life so lovely? Every object, person, creation, manifested and unmanifested too! Color, sound, movement, taste -- strife too. Osho, in this remembrance the heart becomes full, tears flow, breath expands, talk stops, crying happens. I cannot say anything Osho. The eyes close and I sit down.
Become acquainted with god in all his infinite gestures. He has given such a vast temple whose canopy is the sky! He has given such a vast temple where every night there is Divali, a festival of lights. He has lit so many lamps! Scientists have not yet been able to count them. You can count the stars with the naked eyes but it will not be more than three thousand. Counting and counting the scientists have gotten tired of counting. Four billion stars have already been counted. But this is only the beginning. There are more stars, many more. The more scientists count it seems there are more ahead, more ahead... There doesn't seem to be any end. Every night there is Divali and such blind people, no one sees Divali! Every morning his spring Holi festival happens, so much red powder is flying, so many flowers are blooming,…Read the full discourse →
Osho, what is your essential message? The same as has always been the message of all the buddhas: Appa Deepo Bhava! Be your own lamp! Be your own helmsman! Do not lean on another’s shoulder. Only if you eat yourself will your hunger be satisfied. Only if you drink yourself will your thirst be quenched. Only when you know truth yourself—and only then—will the veena of contentment sound within you. The truth I have known is of no use to you.
I cannot give you truth. I can only kindle within you the longing to realize it. I cannot give you truth, but I can create in you such a fire for truth that you become a moth, ready to burn and be consumed in its flame. Who says my boat has no boatman? Today I myself am the boatman of this boat! I do not accept the ocean’s beguiling, cajoling, rainbow-hued waves’ invitation. Today I have accepted the ocean’s challenge—these countless, fierce, untamed waves! Today the oar rests in my steady hands. Let the waves fling the boat up to the sky, or drag it with them down to the abyss— they will not be able to swallow it! Their defeat is certain— the serpent-like, monstrous waves will be leashed by the cord of the heart’s faith! Bearing it upon their own heads, the waves themselves will carry this boat…Read the full discourse →
What is the difference between waiting for godot and waiting for god?
It is as if the sun has risen in the morning and you are sitting in your room with closed doors and windows, in darkness. Open the doors, you become available to the sun. The sun was already available -- just the meeting happens. You cannot wait for God. All waiting is for Godot. Godot means the one who never comes, who CANNOT come, whose arrival is impossible. And the only impossible thing is that which has already happened -- how can it happen again? You are alive, and you are waiting for life, Now, this is ridiculous. The real man of religion does not think in terms of God. He thinks in terms of life or, even better, of living -- because life can again become an abstract idea. Living, moment-to-moment living. In that very living, one knows what God is, because one knows who one is. Your idea…Read the full discourse →