According to Osho, recognizing your own wondrous nature is awakening to your intrinsic divinity—nothing added, nothing achieved. The restless search ends; egoic inferiority and superiority drop. A quiet joy arises, spontaneity and love flow, and creativity blossoms. You live from awareness rather than conditioning, relating rather than competing, celebrating existence in each moment with gratitude and compassion.
When you realize you’re already whole and amazing, you relax into a quiet happiness and naturally share kindness.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
I am not saying to do anything. Meditation is not a doing at all, it is pure awareness. But a miracle happens, the greatest miracle in life. If you go on watching, tremendous and incredible things start happening. Your body becomes graceful, your body is no more restless, tense; your body starts becoming light, unburdened; you can see great weights, mountainous weights, falling from your body. Your body starts becoming pure of all kinds of toxins and poisons. You will see your mind is no more as active as before; its activity starts becoming less and less and gaps arise, gaps in which there are no thoughts. Those gaps are the most beautiful experiences because through those gaps you start seeing things as they are without any interference of the mind. Slowly slowly your moods start disappearing. You are no more very joyous and no more very sad.
Osho, after finding you a great transformation has happened within me; and yet it also feels as if nothing has happened. Please clarify this paradox.
It is natural. It will be so. Everyone will feel the same. Because the transformation we are striving for has something unique about it—understand this. Here the effort is to make you what you already are. The attempt here is not to make you into something else. The method is to bring you to your natural state. To give you exactly what is already yours. So when it is found, on the one hand it will feel like an extraordinary meeting, a revolution has occurred—wonder! And on the other hand it will also seem that what has been found is not something new. It feels familiar. It feels one’s own. As if it was always within, and only the remembrance had been lost. When Buddha became enlightened and the gods asked him, “What have you attained?” the story says Buddha laughed and said, “Nothing has been attained. I have only…
Osho, I feel that in the journey of life I have wandered very far from my true nature. Will the journey of returning—of retracing—back to my nature be just as long? Or is some shortcut possible?
But we manage to extract futility out of everything. So there are people “remembering God,” chanting “Ram-Ram, Ram-Ram.” They have turned their shawl into a “Ram shawl,” covered with Ram-Ram. Remembrance of the Lord means that what is hidden within me becomes evident to me. By repeating Ram-Ram awareness will not arise. Let my eyes, which have been wandering outward, turn within; let my ears, which listen outside, begin to listen within; let my mind, which thinks about the external, turn inward—let its lamp, its light, fall inside. This very moment you can be established in your nature, because in truth you already are. No one has ever been able to dislodge you from there, nor ever will. That is why, even after wandering for thousands of births, you never truly wander away. Your capacity to reclaim it is, at every instant, exactly what it has always been; not the…
Osho, I am seeking the Divine, but I cannot let go of the allure of nature. What should I do?
Remember, the insistence on a hut can be as strong as the insistence on a palace. Attachment does not care whether the object is big or small; even a loincloth can suffice. People leave the world and clutch at renunciation. When the world itself has been seen as false, then renunciation too is false. You were adding two and two and getting five; then a true master alerted you: two and two do not make five, they make four. You awoke and added correctly—two plus two is four. Will you now say, “I have renounced five—behold my renunciation!”? Will you beat drums and make proclamations, “See, I have given up five!”? If you do that, people will call you mad. Five never existed; it was your delusion, your arithmetic mistake. And even when you were adding to make five, your adding did not make five exist; it was only an…
Osho, when does the pivot point of “athato”—the “now”—arrive in the lives of us ordinary worldly people? Please explain.
One halts when one sees the futility of life—the lack of essence, the failure—nothing in the hand but pain, nothing in the heart but tears, life utterly dark, the boat on the verge of sinking. In such a moment, when one stops, love arises; desire drops. You no longer ask; you become eager to give. Love gives; desire asks. As long as there is asking, know it is desire. When giving begins… You used to ask hoping asking would increase your wealth and bring happiness. The one who halts begins to give: “I tried asking; it brought pain. Let’s try the opposite.” He starts giving—and finds faint breezes of happiness begin to blow; a veena begins to sound somewhere distant; very distant—but the notes appear; a new realm begins. That is the beginning for the one who has halted. He begins to give, to share—and as he shares, the notes…