Everyone has their own center; if you find quiet and joy inside yourself, it naturally shines to others.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved master, the other day you were saying that scientists have yet to discover the center of the universe, away from which whole galaxies and stars are moving at incredible speeds. Master, are you not the very center of this infinite universe, where everything and nothing are happening with such awesome majesty?
Milarepa, I don't even know what is happening in Anando's room! Just the other day, Niskriya wanted to photograph the ghost. And ghosts are known not to like being photographed. So the ghost disappeared. He was searched for everywhere. In the morning, when Avesh was cleaning my Mercedes limousine, he suddenly felt a presence, so he looked back -- that gentleman was sitting reading his newspaper in the back seat. He almost fainted, because there is only one key -- by mistake the other key has not yet come from the company -- and that key is with Avesh. Finally he gathered courage. He informed Anando, "Please take your ghost back because I have to clean the car, and he has given me such a shock! I was thinking that the last moment of my life had come, and that now Anando will have two ghosts instead of one because…
And a friend has asked: Osho, this matter of meditation—is it, after all, auto-hypnosis, self-hypnosis?
There is a great deal of similarity to self-hypnosis; at the final point the path diverges. For a long stretch there is a connection with hypnosis. All three stages are of hypnosis; only the witnessing state is not. That which must remain in the background the whole time—the witnessing: that I know, I see that the breath has come and gone; I know, I see that the body is trembling, spinning. I know, I see—this very sense is not of hypnosis. That is the difference. And it is a very fundamental difference. The rest is all the process of hypnosis. The process of hypnosis is very precious: if it is joined to witnessing, it becomes meditation; if it is separated from witnessing, it becomes stupor. If you use only hypnosis, you will become unconscious; if you also use the witnessing, you will become awakened. The difference between the two is…
और एक मित्र ने इधर पूछा है कि ओशो, यह जो ध्यान की बात है, यह कहीं ऑटो-हिप्नोसिस, आत्म-सम्मोहन तो नहीं?
आत्म-सम्मोहन से बहुत दूर तक मेल है, आखिरी बिंदु पर रास्ता अलग हो जाता है। हिप्नोसिस से बहुत दूर तक संबंध है। सारे तीनों चरण हिप्नोसिस के हैं, सिर्फ साक्षी-भाव हिप्नोसिस का नहीं है। वह जो पीछे पूरे समय विटनेसिंग चाहिए--कि मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं कि श्वास आई और गई; मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं कि शरीर कंपित हो रहा है, घूम रहा है। मैं जान रहा हूं, देख रहा हूं--यह जो भाव है, वह सम्मोहन का नहीं है। वही फर्क है। और वह बहुत बुनियादी फर्क है। बाकी तो सारा सम्मोहन की प्रक्रिया है। सम्मोहन की प्रक्रिया बड़ी कीमती है, अगर वह साक्षी-भाव से जुड़ जाए तो ध्यान बन जाती है; और अगर साक्षी-भाव से अलग हो जाए तो मूर्च्छा बन जाती है। अगर सिर्फ हिप्नोसिस का उपयोग करें तो बेहोश हो जाएंगे; अगर साक्षी-भाव का भी साथ में उपयोग करें, तो जाग्रत हो जाएंगे। फर्क दोनों में बहुत है, लेकिन रास्ता बहुत दूर तक एक सा है, आखिरी बिंदु पर अलग हो जाता है।
Osho, you said that awareness created centering and crystallization, but I personally feel that awareness brings a feeling of deep void within me. Please explain the relationship between centering and inner void.
As man is, he is without a center -- without a real, authentic center. He has a center, so to speak, but the center is false. He only thinks he has a center. The ego is a false center. You feel that it is there, but it is not. If you go to find it, you will not find it at all. Bodhidharma reached China 1100 years after Buddha. He was a Buddha himself. The Emperor Wu came to receive Bodhidharma. When no one was there, he asked Bodhidharma, "I am very, very disturbed. My mind is never at ease. What can I do? Tell me. Make my mind at peace, at ease. I am in deep conflict; an inner struggle continues -- so do something." Bodhidharma said, "I can do something. Come early in the morning at four o'clock, but remember to bring your self." The Emperor felt: "Either…
A friend has asked: Osho, please repeat the instructions for the afternoon meditation.
In the afternoon meditation there is nothing to do. The afternoon meditation is a practice of absolute silence. I will sit among you; you will sit silently near me. In that silence, whatever happens, let it happen—dancing, shouting, crying, singing, the body swaying—whatever it is, let it happen. If someone feels that a longing has arisen within to come to me, then come and sit by me for two minutes and then get up and go. Come to me only if you feel it. Do not come because someone else is going. If the feeling arises within you, then come and then leave. Forget about others.
एक मित्र ने पूछा है कि ओशो, दोपहर की साधना के लिए आदेश दोहरा दें।
दोपहर की साधना में कुछ भी नहीं करना है। दोपहर की साधना परिपूर्ण मौन की साधना है। मैं आपके बीच बैठूंगा, आप मेरे पास मौन बैठेंगे। उस मौन में जो भी हो उसे होने देना है--नाचना, चिल्लाना, रोना, गाना, शरीर का डोलना--जो भी हो, होने देना है। किसी को लगे कि मेरे पास जाने की आकांक्षा भीतर पैदा हुई, तो वह मेरे पास दो मिनट आकर बैठ जाए और फिर उठ कर चला जाए। लगे तो ही मेरे पास आए। और कोई जा रहा है इसलिए आप न आएं। आपके भीतर आ जाए भाव तो आ जाएं और चले जाएं। दूसरे की फिक्र छोड़ दें।