According to Osho, remembrance is the immediate, living awareness that ‘you are here’—not in some future ‘there will be.’ Practices include moment-to-moment self-remembering, attentive breathing, watching thoughts and sensations without drifting, and repeatedly returning to the present witness. This continual recollection dissolves postponement and anchors consciousness in the here-now, where transformation and clarity arise.
Keep reminding yourself, “I am here now,” by noticing your breath, body, and thoughts without getting lost.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
"in which way can the practice of self-remembering transform the human mind?"
You can know many things without knowing anything. You can know much about love without knowing love. Then it is an accumulation. If you know love, then it is growth. You can know much about love with the false center; you can love only with the real center. Real centers can mature. The false can only get bigger and bigger without any growth, without any maturity. The false is just a cancerous growth, an accumulation, burdening you like a disease. But you can do one thing: you can change your focus totally. From the false, you can move your eyes to the real. This is what is meant by self-remembering: whatsoever you are doing, remember yourself -- that you are. Don't forget it. The very remembering will give an authentic reality to whatsoever you are doing. If you are loving, first remember that you are; otherwise you will be loving…
Osho, you have said that on Krishna’s path there is no sadhana, only self-remembering, punar-ātma-smaran. But you also speak of the practice of the seven bodies. So, in reference to the seven bodies, what would the framework of Krishna’s “practice” be? Please clarify.
In Krishna’s vision and philosophy there is simply no place for sadhana. Therefore there is no method for the seven bodies either. The milestones that appear on the path of sadhana are not found on the path of upasana. Sadhana divides a human being in a way that upasana does not. Sadhana builds stairs, and so it breaks a person’s personality into seven parts and arranges for climbing one step at a time. Upasana does not break the personality at all; it makes no fragments. It dissolves the whole, undivided being of a person into devotion. Hence seekers have created many steps, planted many milestones, and made many divisions—some have divided the human personality into seven bodies, some into seven chakras, some into three parts. Different seekers have apportioned the personality into different ladders and practiced accordingly. But in the world of upasana there is no division. There, as a…
Osho, is one to keep this remembrance at all times? At all times. For twenty-four hours, waking and sleeping; that is, even at the time of sleep—when one goes to bed—should one go to sleep carrying this feeling that the body is sleeping, I am alert, I remain awake; what is there for me to sleep? This attitude, in every action, for twenty-four hours...
At all times. For twenty-four hours, sleeping or waking—that is, even while asleep. When you go to bed, go with this very feeling: the body is going to sleep; I remain alert, I am awake—what is sleep to me? Let this feeling be there twenty-four hours a day, in every act...
Osho, why do I go on forgetting myself?
A little intelligence is needed. Otherwise rather than the so-called religious people becoming religious, they become simply guilt-ridden, they become repentant, they start feeling about themselves as if they are condemned, as if they are not the chosen ones; as if God has thrown them into the dark night and has forgotten them; as if it may have happened to a Buddha or a Kabir or a Krishna or a Zarathustra, but it is not going to happen to them. "They were special people; that's why it happened to them. They were already born enlightened; that's why it happened to them: it can't happen to me, I am an ordinary person." Just to avoid remembering, people have created all kinds of theories. Hindus say Krishna is an incarnation of God. Christians say Jesus is the only-begotten son of God -- mind you, the only-begotten. And all others are bastards? The…
Osho, when a seeker receives a ray of light, what should be done to keep it continuous?
So if this morning you felt good in meditation, then remembering it five or ten times during the day will be very important. In this way, that memory will deepen; and by remembering it again and again, it will begin to become part of the mind’s enduring nature. If this question is approached experimentally in this way, there will be benefit—and it should be done. Often man’s mistake is that he remembers what is wrong and does not remember what is auspicious. One of man’s basic errors is to remember what is negative and to forget what is constructive. Rarely do you recall the moments when you were filled with love; rarely the moments when you felt some wondrous sense of well‑being; rarely the moments when you became very quiet. But what you recall daily are the times you were angry, you were restless; when someone insulted you, or when…