Stop waiting for something holy to come to you—be very quiet, look inside, and you’ll find it is already there as your own being.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Please, Osho, what is receptivity?
RECEPTIVITY is a state of no-mind. When you are utterly empty of all thought, when consciousness has no content, when the mirror reflects nothing, it is receptivity. Receptivity is the door to the divine. Drop the mind and be. In the mind, you are miles away from being. The more you think, the less you are. The less you think, the more you are. And if you don't think at all, those are the moments when being asserts itself in its totality. Receptivity simply means dropping the garbage that you go on carrying in your head. And much garbage is there, utterly useless. The mind means the past. Now the past is no more of any use; it has happened, and it is never going to happen again, because in reality nothing ever repeats. Even when you think, feel, that this is the same situation, it is never the same…
Osho, you are continuously pouring out the Lord’s prasad; a rain of divine grace is falling, yet we go on missing. How can worthiness—receptivity—become possible?
Someone once asked Mulla Nasruddin, “What is the secret of your success?” “Working on right decisions,” Mulla replied. “But how are right decisions made?” the man asked. “On the basis of experience,” said Mulla. “And how is experience obtained?” the man asked again. Mulla thought for a moment and then said, “By working on wrong decisions.” I’m telling you something: don’t wait for the day when you’ll first have the right decision and then you’ll act. Drop the worry about right and wrong for now. If you wait to decide first and only then do, decision will never arrive. Do something—and out of doing, decision is born. Don’t just keep listening to me. Whatever delights you—do it quickly. Bring it into your life. Even if I were to pour an ocean into you, it would be of no use; if you can bring a single drop into use, it will…
Some friends have asked: Osho, for the realization of non-duality (Advaita), how should the mind be oriented? In what way, on which path, should life be set in motion? How can Advaita bear fruit?
Join these three to what I said earlier, and it will be clear how to take step by step on the path of Advaita. In truth, only the first steps need be told. Take one, and the second becomes visible; take the second, and the third appears. Only those fail who never take the first step. Those who do—win. The first step, and half the journey is done—because with it comes a freshness and joy that pulls your feet onward, and onward. Over these three days I have said a few things about this journey. Even saying “I have said” is not quite right. As I said this morning: “Because there is the sun, a blade of grass flowers”—but I also say, “Perhaps because the blade flowers, the sun is.” Such is the interrelatedness. I could not have said what I did had even one of you not been present.…
How should one approach you, how should one sit, what rhythm should the breath have, and should the eyes be open or closed? Sometimes it seems that an obstacle arises in receiving the invisible waves coming from you, and those waves remain outside. How can one make oneself capable of receiving them? Kindly instruct us in this regard. Samadhi has asked. The question is important; it concerns everyone.
If you get into this calculation, you will have wasted your time. This is satsang—there is no debate going on here; discussion is only on the surface. Some people are here to hear the discussion; fine, they will hear it and go. They have collected rubbish; they carry away the trivial. Others are here for satsang. For them it does not matter whether what I say is right or wrong—they are simply listening. If you can listen so thoughtlessly, so impartially, without becoming a judge, suddenly you will find: what is true appears as true; what is not true appears as not true. It becomes so clear in that luminous state, in that bright state of mind where you are not thinking—where there is no smoke of thought—that truth is seen directly as truth. You do not have to think whether it is true or not. How will you think,…
Beloved Osho, what is it to give and what is it to receive? I understand now that I am only just beginning to glimpse these. Receptiveness feels like dying to me, and automatically everything inside goes on red alert! Help! Existence seems so huge.
You don't know anything about existence; you don't know anything about yourself -- which is the closest point of existence to you. Unless you start from your own being, you will never know existence. That is the starting point, and everything has to begin from the very beginning. Knowing yourself, you will know your existence. But the taste and the fragrance of your existence will give you courage to go a little deeper into the existence of others. If your own existence has made you so blissful... it is a natural longing to enter into other mysteries that surround you: human mysteries, mysteries of the animals, mysteries of the trees, mysteries of the stars. And once you have known your existence you are no longer afraid of death. Death is a fiction; it does not happen, it only appears... It appears from the outside. Have you ever seen your own…