According to Osho, openness begins by surrendering into the unknown—into the 'zero experience' where mind, emotions, and desires fall silent and only pure awareness remains. First comes the abyss, then the peak. Practically, invoke trust—your inner 'Good Lord'—and stop trying to control. Empty yourself; let grace move you, and connection unfolds by itself.
Trust and let go of your thoughts and control—like saying 'Good Lord' inside—so you become empty and life connects you naturally.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
My mind thinks that it is anxious to receive your message, yet toward the end I find myself resisting and getting tired. I suspect that if I were open sexually I would allow myself to receive without any closing. Is there any connection between opening to a master and opening up in sex? My background gives a negative and passive meaning to surrender. I know I will not go deeper unless I am able to overcome this negativity that seems to be engraved in my psyche. Is surrender possible when the opposite is planted so deeply?
Only within these hundred years has psychology laid foundations for a world which will be tantric. But you nod your head with someone who is condemning sex because you also have the same experience. You know that nothing happens in it, and after sex you feel depressed. That is why there is so much condemnation. Everytime you move into it you feel depressed, later on you repent. Tantra, Wilhelm Reich, Freud and others who know, agree absolutely that if you achieve an orgasm in sex the glow will last for hours afterwards and you will feel absolutely different - without any worries, without any tensions. Euphoria will result, they say; ecstasy will be there. And that ecstasy happens only when there is really a let-go - when you are not holding yourself back, you are not fighting; you are just moving with the life energy. Life energy has two layers,…
Question: First question: Osho, how can the state of surrender be attained? In life, the most difficult, the most arduous inner state is surrender. The mind is built around the ego. It is easy for the mind to assume, “I am the center of the whole universe,” as if the earth, the sun, the stars all revolve around me, for me; the whole of life is a means, and I am the end. The ego-state means: I am the goal and everything else is a means. Everything exists for me; I exist for no one. I am the target; all that happens is for me. All is an arrangement to serve me. This is the ego-mood. Surrender is exactly the opposite: I am nothing. My being is like a void, and the center lies outside me.
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.…
Osho, what is being open?
Devena, BEING OPEN SIMPLY MEANS being without mind. If the mind is there you are closed. Mind is a wall surrounding you. It is a transparent wall, hence you can see through it and you can go on living behind it without ever becoming aware that you are living in a prison cell. Prisons should be made of glass, then very few people will suffer so much in prisons. They will be able to see the people walking on the road, talking; they will be able to see everything, and they will believe that they are free. If they are not going out and mixing with the people, that is simply their own decision that they don't want to mix with the crowds. They are "aristocrats," they are not ordinary people, they are "special" people. And these walls which cannot be seen will not be thought of as walls, they…
On the path of surrender, how does the seeker come to the right technique out of one hundred and twelve methods?
There are so many stories which have become meaningless for us because we do not know how they happened. Mahakashyap came to Buddha, and Buddha just touched his head with his hand, and the thing happened. And Mahakashyap began to dance. So Ananda asked Buddha, "What has happened to him? And I have been for forty years with you! Is he mad? Or is he just fooling others? What has happened to him? And I have touched your feet thousands and thousands of times." Of course, to Ananda, this Mahakashyap will either look like he is mad or as if he is just deceiving. He was with Buddha for forty years, but there was a problem. He was his elder brother, Buddha's elder brother; that was the problem. When Ananda came to Buddha forty years before, the first thing he said to Buddha was this: "I am your elder brother,…