According to Osho, a Buddhafield is the radiant energy-field generated by an awakened being, whose very presence can stir the dormant kundalini in receptive seekers. Like a single light multiplied in countless mirrors, a master’s consciousness can be reflected by disciples, extending the field into a worldwide network. Not imitation but pure reflection allows many to be catalyzed toward awakening, regardless of distance or location.
It’s like standing near a bright sun: its light wakes up the same light in you, and many friends can reflect and spread that light together.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, what is a buddhafield? Just living together, running businesses, doesn't seem to be enough, it is not satisfying. It feels like something deeper -- something more challenging for the collective and the individual, in which both grow -- is needed.
He had seen so many women, but he settled for a blind woman. Although she was blind, she had something indescribable, something otherworldly. But to lose one's eyes to get that woman seems to be a very strange bargain, because in losing your eyes you will be also losing that woman; you will never be able to see her again. Then all women are equal. To a blind man what difference does it make that you have a homely woman or a Cleopatra? It doesn't matter. No, he could not manage to convince himself to lose his eyes, because his eyes were the source of the experience of the beauty. In the middle of the night he escaped from the valley. And this is not a story, it is a historical fact. So when we created communes, I was thinking humanity has progressed, has come a long way from the…
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…
Beloved Osho, the other day you were telling us the effects of radioactive matter on the body. But I am feeling and experiencing the radiation of a buddha -- an enormous energy radiating from you which not only rejuvenates body-mind continuously, but makes us laugh, dance and celebrate.
I have commented on hundreds of mystics, many of them Sufis who are in revolt against the orthodox Mohammedan structure. When Sufis heard about my commentaries on Sufism, at least two or three times a year I received beautiful printed copies of the KORAN, with letters saying, "You are the only person who can write a commentary, because you are not a Mohammedan. Mohammedans cannot do anything against you; they cannot expel you." But my problem was different. Many times, listening to their invitation, their love, I opened the KORAN, read a few pages. There is nothing to comment on. It is written by an illiterate Mohammed who could not even make his own signature. He has dictated it, and others have written it. It is such a childish thing. I have tried my best to find a few fragments here and there; then I will choose those fragments and…
Beloved master, if buddha did not really need to leave his wife and children in order to attain enlightenment, then can enlightenment happen anywhere? Why do I feel that I need to be in your buddhafield?
And man has the capacity to renew himself -- to die to the past and to be reborn. Man has the capacity for resurrection. But the earth is almost like a desert today and small oases are needed everywhere, so those who are thirsty cannot say, "What can we do? The water is not available. How can we quench our thirst?" We have to make God available to every possible seeker all over the world. Yes, even in countries like China, Soviet Russia, and other communist countries, my effort is to create small oases there too. They have started: they are underground there -- they have to be underground there. You will be surprised, but in one Russian town we have twenty-five sannyasins -- of course not in orange. They have made their own malas, and when they meet in some underground basement they wear orange clothes, listen to the…
Question: BELOVED OSHO, JOSHU STAYED WITH NANSEN FOR THIRTY YEARS. AFTER HIS ENLIGHTENMENT HE LIVED FOR THIRTY YEARS MORE IN THE KUAN-YIN TEMPLE. ONCE, HE SAID: "SMOKE FROM THE CHIMNEYS AROUND ME I SEE IN VAIN, NO BUN OR RICE CAKE SINCE LAST YEAR HAVE I EATEN. NOW THOUGHTS OF THEM MAKE MY MOUTH WATER. "NOT MINDFUL OF BUDDHISM, I OFTEN SIGH DEEP SIGHS. NONE OF THE PEOPLE OF ONE HUNDRED HOUSES ARE GOOD: EVERY VISITOR ONLY ASKS ME FOR A CUP OF TEA. IF NOT GIVEN ENOUGH, HE ANGRILY LEAVES ME." AT ANOTHER TIME JOSHU WAS ASKED: "A HAIR'S BREADTH OF DIFFERENCE -- AND WHAT HAPPENS?" THE MASTER ANSWERED, "HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FAR AWAY." THE MONK ASKED, "AND WHEN THERE IS NOT A HAIR'S BREADTH OF DIFFERENCE?" "HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE FAR AWAY," JOSHU REPLIED.