Don’t try to see special lights—stop craving experiences and quietly watch your own awareness, where the real truth is.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
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…
Osho, even after seeing you again and again it still feels as if I have not seen! How can I see so that the image truly descends?
And you will find that same irritation in every human being. Everyone is irritated. Look closely; there often aren’t even clear reasons for the irritation! Even on a day when there is no obvious cause for sorrow in your life, still there is a vexation. It feels as if something is missing. Something was to happen that is not happening. You cannot grasp it clearly; the cause slips from your fist—why am I annoyed, why am I irritated? It seems unreasonable. And since we cannot tolerate the unreasonable, we find some pretext. The husband snaps at the wife—why is the bread burnt today? Why isn’t the water cool? The wife snaps at the children—why did you come late from school? Children tear their books. Irritation passes from one to another. And the real cause is only this: even if there were no cause for sorrow in your life, you would…
Osho, the one who sees all and dwells within everyone—why does he still not come to be known? How does that Seer and Witness of all come to be known? Please explain.
Only such a light, subtle sensing will be there—a faint intimation. But you will not be able to see it. You cannot hold it in your hand. It is inexorably the Seer and cannot become the seen. So what to do? Then what to do? Only one thing can be done: bid farewell to the seen. Whatever is seen, let it be dismissed. Let no scene remain upon the screen. Have you ever noticed? You go to the cinema to watch a film. It begins—the play of light and shadow starts upon a blank white screen—and you become absorbed. When you are completely absorbed in watching, when the story grips your very life, you lose awareness of yourself—you forget that you are the watcher. The seen becomes everything; the Seer becomes null. The Seer is forgotten; the scenes become all in all. If the scene is tragic, tears stream from…
Bhante! On 7 July 1977, at midday, for the first time I came to know that one can see even without eyes. My eyes were closed; I was aware, in complete relaxation. I saw that suddenly there was only a wondrous light everywhere, and in that light even the things behind my back were visible. At that time I did not raise any argument about what was happening; I was simply a witness to whatever was happening. In kaivalya, does the witness also merge with the light?
Asked by Shubhakaran Pungaliya. Auspicious, Shubhakaran! True it is. And this feeling, this question that has arisen in the mind—whether in kaivalya even the witness merges into the light—is precious. In that final moment, duality does not remain. Who is the witness? Witness of whom? In that final moment, devotee and God do not remain. Who is the devotee? Who is God? What is the seen? Who is the seer? There only one remains. Neither the seen remains nor the seer; only seeing remains. Neither the knower nor the known remains; only the energy of knowing remains. Only light remains; the witness does not. As long as the witness is, however deep the experience, the final experience has not happened. As long as the one who sees is present, what you see is separate from you, other than you. That is not self-experience. You are the seer and something is…
The mind becomes tranquil by cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the miserable, joy towards the virtuous and indifference towards the evil. The mind also becomes tranquil by alternately expelling and retaining the breath.
WHEN MEDITATION PRODUCES EXTRAORDINARY SENSE PERCEPTIONS, THE MIND GAINS CONFIDENCE AND THIS HELPS PERSEVERANCE. ALSO, MEDITATE ON THE INNER LIGHT WHICH IS SERENE AND BEYOND ALL SORROW. ALSO MEDITATE ON ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED DESIRELESSNESS. THE MIND BECOMES TRANQUIL BY CULTIVATING ATTITUDES OF FRIENDLINESS TOWARDS THE HAPPY, COMPASSION TOWARDS THE MISERABLE, JOY TOWARDS THE VIRTUOUS AND INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS THE EVIL. You have been outside for millions of lives. When for the first time you come in, nothing is there except darkness, emptiness. But wait It will take few days -- even few months, but just wait, close the eyes and look down in the heart. Suddenly, one day it happens: you see a light, a flame. Then concentrate on that flame. Nothing is more blissful than that. Nothing is more dancing, singing, musical, harmonious like that inner blue light within your heart. And the more you concentrate, the more you…