It means we care about the real you inside, not the busy stuff you do or the roles you play.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
"o son, long have you been caught in the noose of body-consciousness. Cut this noose with the sword of knowing 'I am awareness' and be happy. That which is born, remains, increases, changes, deteriorates and perishes: you are not that. You are alone, void of action, self-illuminated and innocent. Your bondage is this: that you practice samadhi.
"THIS UNIVERSE IS PERMEATED BY YOU, IT IS STRUNG ON THE THREAD OF YOU. IN REALITY YOU ARE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS BY NATURE, DO NOT BECOME SMALL-MINDED. YOU ARE UNCONCERNED, UNCHANGING, VOID OF FORM, OF COOL DISPOSITION, FATHOMLESS INTELLIGENCE, UNPERTURBED. THUS HAVE FAITH ONLY IN CONSCIOUSNESS. "KNOW THAT WHICH HAS FORM IS FALSE, AND KNOW THE FORMLESS AS UNCHANGEABLE AND EVERLASTING. FROM THIS TEACHING OF THE TRUTH IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE BORN IN THE WORLD AGAIN. JUST AS A MIRROR IS THE SAME INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE IMAGE REFLECTED IN IT, GOD IS THE SAME INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THIS BODY. JUST AS THE ONE ALL-PERVADING SKY IS THE SAME INSIDE AND OUTSIDE A POT, THE ETERNAL EVERLASTING BRAHMA IS THE SAME IN ALL THINGS." Yoga and Ashtavakra's vision are opposite. Hence I say if you want to understand Ashtavakra, you should try to understand Krishnamurti -- Krishnamurti is a…
Osho, in this verse people have given many meanings to “chitta vritti nirodha.” What meaning do you give it? Please clarify this as well.
But our whole setup is reversed. We begin repression in small children: “Don’t be angry. Suppress anger; anger is very bad.” The child sees the father angry, the mother angry—everything going on as usual. The father lectures, “Don’t be angry; anger is bad.” If the child doesn’t obey, the father gets angry on the spot! The child sees, “What fun! What a game!” Children are acute observers. Their capacity to observe is still pure. They see very clearly the sheer dishonesty. The father says, “Don’t be angry,” and if we get angry, he himself gets angry! We enforce repression. The child never gets to know what anger is; he only gets to know “Anger is bad,” and he experiences only tepid, lukewarm spurts—bursts in between. Recognition never happens with lukewarm anger. You will never understand from dipping your hand in tepid water that hot water burns; once you put your…
Beloved Osho, in our body there are some twenty billion cells, and chemical reactions go on continuously. When you or ashtavakra say, "be a witness," who are you addressing? If you are addressing the brain cells, it is meaningless, because mind is transient. If you are trying to wake up the soul then it is meaningless, as the soul is already awake. It is foolish to awaken it and say "know thyself." aren't you throwing people into illusion? And if people cease responding to pleasure and pain, won't they become like plants and animals?
Who is it that is saying there are twenty billion cells in the body? Certainly it is not the cells. One cell cannot keep track of all the other cells -- there are billions of cells in the body. Who is saying this? Who asks this? Who found this out? There is definitely someone inside you quite separate from the cells, who counts and says there are twenty billion cells. "In our body there are some twenty billion cells, and chemical reactions go on continuously. When you or Ashtavakra say, "Be a witness," who are you addressing?" That one, who says there are twenty billion cells. "If you are addressing the brain cells, it is meaningless, because mind is transient." No, we are not addressing the brain cells, we are talking to you. Ashtavakra is addressing you. He is not such an idiot as to address your brain cells, it…
Feel the consciousness of each person as your own consciousness. So, leaving aside concern for self, become each being.
THIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS AS EACH BEING, AND NOTHING ELSE EXISTS. THIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE SPIRIT OF GUIDANCE OF EACH ONE. BE THIS ONE. Zen masters have used the sword as a technique for meditation, and they say in Japan that if two Zen masters, two meditative persons, are fighting with those swords, there can be no conclusion. No one can be defeated and no one is going to win, because both are not thinking.. The swords are just not in their hands, they are in the hands of their inner guide, the non-thinking inner guide, and before the other attacks, the guide knows and defends. You cannot think about it because there is no time. The other is aiming at your heart. In a flash of a moment the sword will penetrate to the heart. There is no time to think about it, about what to do. When the thought,…
I am not the doer. I am not the consumer. I am simply the witness of nature. And just because of my nearness, the body, et cetera, have the feeling of being conscious, and they act accordingly. Beyond a shade of doubt, I am still, eternal, everlasting bliss -- everknowing pure self or soul.
AND I PERVADE ALL BEINGS AS THE WITNESSING SOUL. What is the basic element that remains always the same in you? Only be that, and disidentify yourself from all that comes and goes. But we become identified with the guest. Really the host is so occupied with the guest, he forgets. Mulla Nasruddin has given a party for some friends and some strangers. The party is very boring, and half the night is just lost and it goes on. So one stranger, not knowing that Mulla is the host, says to him, "I have never seen such a party, such nonsense. It seems never-ending, and I am so bored that I would like to leave." Mulla says, "You have said what I was going to say to you. I myself have never seen such a boring and nonsense party before, but I was not so courageous as you are. I…