What is not a head trip?

These are three concentric circles around the center. Of course the heart is closer to being, so it is better to be in the heart than to be in the mind. The mind is closer than the body; it is better to be in the mind than in the body. But the ultimate goal is to be just your being -- no action, no thought, no feeling, just pure witnessing. And then the satori happens and one becomes full of light, full of truth. Then to live is a blessing. Before it, it is just a drag; after it, it is a dance. (Really, meditation is a journey, Osho told Bhavan, from your head to your heart to your being.) Meditation is not-knowing, it is not like knowledge, It is far closer to feeling. It is not like logic, it is far more like love.

Osho, the journey so far has been hard, but with your hint and support I have passed through it. I feel blessed to have received what I had never even imagined! Whatever I experienced, I kept explaining to others as well. But the journey ahead seems not only difficult, it feels absolutely impossible. You say, “You are at the destination; drop the very idea of journey.” It seems somewhat understandable, yet the resolution doesn’t stay. Osho, why does this complaint arise? Am I expecting the impossible before its time? Is waiting an even harder practice than practice itself? Osho, what is this r

You get a glimpse that the teaching is right; but the ancient mind won’t let the glimpse stay. It protests, “How can this be right? What will happen to me? Where will I go? If you are already God, then what is the point of religion? What meaning has practice? If you are God, then who is saint and who sinner? Who is Ravana and who Rama?” The mind creates a thousand disturbances. “Then what difference between a drunkard and a devotee—if all are God?” It becomes hard to answer such questions. And the truth is: between saint and sinner there is no difference—only on the surface, in the mind; within, the same One resides. Between Rama and Ravana there is no difference. Have you ever gone behind the stage of a Ramlila? There the reality is revealed. The curtain lifts: Rama and Ravana stand with bows and arrows aimed,…

It is not a difficult process because the process of looking is the same, just the object changes: you start turning your consciousness upon yourself. You may have seen many pictures of snakes swallowing their own tails. Those pictures are very ancient symbols of mystery schools; they represent this inner transformation. When your consciousness starts turning upon itself you become a circle, and the moment you are a circle you are no more the same old person. Your life starts having a new grace, a new beauty, a new beatitude. You become golden, you become precious. For the first time you have a contact with god, and that contact is a magical transformation. It is sheer magic and a miracle. Enjoy the trip, don't be too fixated on the target, Osho said in conclusion. Bliss is not a pond, it is a river. It is not static.

Osho, time and again it feels as if there is nothing to attain, nowhere to go; there is life, to be lived. O Satguru, O Supreme Guru! Is this a trick of the mind or…? Protect your disciple at every step. Where I am today, as I am, is the fruit of your grace!

No, it is not a befooling by the mind. Not the mind’s trick. This is not coming from the mind. This is precisely my message. This has reached you from me. This is what I am saying to you, continuously—through a thousand ways, in a thousand styles, by a thousand devices—only this: there is nowhere to go; the Divine is here, right here, now. Do not postpone to tomorrow—It is today, this very moment. God is not a goal, God is a presence. Present now, in these trees, in the birds’ calls, in the movement of the wind. But for centuries you have been taught that God is up there in the heavens, to be found after death. And I tell you: what cannot be found in life will not be found after death. And what can be found after death can only be found in life—because life and death…

Osho: You think that simply sitting is something simple? (laughter) It is the most difficult thing! If you can simply sit then everything will come to you; then there is no question. COMMENTS: THAT'S AGAIN PROCESS .... Osho: In the word, in the expression -- because our whole language, our whole terminology is based on process, technique, method. So in words you cannot express a thing which has not been experienced -- in words, in thoughts. So when I say it, it looks like a process, but it is not a process. QUESTION: WHAT IS IT? Osho: It is the very stopping of the process. QUESTION: AGAIN THE PROCESS.... Osho: The word -- the word carries the meaning of the process. QUESTION: BECAUSE STOPPING SOMETHING MEANS, I THOUGHT.... Osho: Of course, in language. That is what you are saying. That's what you are understanding.