According to Osho, the urge for something deeper isn't driven by any cause or motivation; it arises causelessly as grace when the mind stops asking 'why.' Approaching a master or life without using it as a means, simply meeting and celebrating this very moment, lets the innate treasure already within reveal itself. Presence, not purpose, opens depth.
You don’t need a reason to seek deeper—stop overthinking and fully enjoy this moment, and what you’re seeking reveals itself from within.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
I don't know how it happened, but I am here with you. What pushed me towards you -- a search for something? But I don't know that either. Is that idealistic? Any expectation hidden under that?
Don't be worried. There is no need for some cause to be there. There is no need for some motivation to be there. It can just happen for no cause at all. And when it just happens, it is tremendously beautiful. Then it has a grace of its own. If you have come to me in search of something, then you will be using me. Then I will be a means to some other end. There you will miss me. If you have come for some motivation, that very motivation will be a barrier between me and you. Why be worried? You are here, I am here. That's enough. Let us meet and merge. Let us be in such a togetherness that you can taste of something which is present in front of you... so that you can eat a little of me, drink a little of me. There is…
Osho, what is the definition of God?
Words are very small. If you say God is light, then what of darkness? The scriptures have said that God is light. Suppose we accept this as a definition—then what about darkness? Where will darkness go? Darkness is too; in fact it is far more than light. Light sometimes is and sometimes is not; darkness is always, eternal. Where will you place darkness? If you say God is light, darkness is left out. If you say God is darkness, then light is left out. If you say God is both darkness and light, a contradiction arises: they cannot be together. Try to have both darkness and light in the same room. If you bring in light, darkness disappears; if you preserve darkness, you cannot have light. Then how can both be together? That becomes an impossibility. So you cannot say “both” either. Then the fourth device is to say: it…
Question: Second question: Osho, without any particular purpose I came here with my husband. I had intended to travel through South India from here. But after listening to your discourses I went so crazy that I even took sannyas. And now I have begun to feel something I had never felt before. The shore on which I had been standing till now has vanished from my sight; and now you have become my Krishna, the one I used to worship. And I go back with the trust that the meditation I received here will remain. And that when I call, you will always come. ‘For me there is only Osho, none other.’ Triveni has asked. A new woman, it is her first coming. But like someone parched for many days who reaches water and drinks with an open heart, that is how she has drunk.
Osho, what is the relationship between meditation and patience?
If you sit to meditate to remove mental restlessness, you will keep looking back again and again: “Has it gone yet?” And the irony is that when you begin to meditate, restlessness will increase. Because what has been repressed will start surfacing; catharsis will begin. The rubbish you have kept hidden within and never allowed to express—meditation will break open those doors too. It will clean the house. Dust piled up for years, for births, will rise again; there will be gusts and storms. For a while even the little peace you had will be lost. Then you will panic: “I came for peace, and even what I had is gone.” Without patience, you could even become unhinged, because meditation brings such a great storm. The disease is not from a day or two; it’s from lifetimes. Meditation will break through all the layers to reach your innermost core. In…
Osho, what is the definition of God?
Words are very small. If you say God is light, then what of darkness? The scriptures have said that God is light. Suppose we accept this as a definition—then what about darkness? Where will darkness go? Darkness is too; in fact it is far more than light. Light sometimes is and sometimes is not; darkness is always, eternal. Where will you place darkness? If you say God is light, darkness is left out. If you say God is darkness, then light is left out. If you say God is both darkness and light, a contradiction arises: they cannot be together. Try to have both darkness and light in the same room. If you bring in light, darkness disappears; if you preserve darkness, you cannot have light. Then how can both be together? That becomes an impossibility. So you cannot say “both” either. Then the fourth device is to say: it…