Osho's perspective on Being
When Osho Spoke About Being
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
How can the energy of thinking be transformed into being?
How can an ambitious man be connected to the kingdom of god? He has made his connection with hell. Then after a whole life in the rat race, after drinking the dirty water of who knows how many streams, after getting covered by the dust of who knows how many roads, when the sun of life starts to set and when it feels you have nothing in your hands, just as empty as ever. You have run much, but reached nowhere -- then repentance engulfs you. Now the mind thinks how to attain samadhi, how to attain god. And again the mind has deceived you. This same language of attaining... Now you will have new ambitions. The form of this ambition will be religious, its flavor will be religious, but its soul is the same as ever. Whether you want money or religion, power or god, as long as there…
Beloved master, experiencing headache, I discovered my male nature. Experiencing heartache, I discovered my female nature. Beloved master, is there also going to be a being-ache?
It is a hilarious world. Everything is going so unconsciously. The only thing worth remembering is not to lose the opportunity that you have to develop your consciousness to the point where you have the same vision, the same clarity, the same intuition, the same understanding as a Gautam Buddha. Unless you become that much awakened, your life is going to repeat again and again the same mistakes. An unconscious man cannot be expected to change his life's course. It is only consciousness, growing consciousness, that is going to change your lifestyle. And once you are fully awakened, enlightened, you need not come back again into another womb. The enlightened being disappears into the womb of the universe itself. Not that you are no more, but in fact you are for the first time -- as vast, as infinite as this universe is, with no boundaries, and expanding continuously. All…
Osho, four years ago where I was living there was in the outhouse a poster. On it was a beautiful picture of the ocean and these words which have remained with me: 'I am moving and not moving at all. I am like the moon beneath the waves that ever go rolling.' during discourse yesterday,for the first time, I saw where that unmoving place is in me. Will you speak about it more?
YOGA DIVYA, IT IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT. And don't think about it -- just feel it. If you start thinking about it you will lose track again. It is a feeling space within you; it has nothing to do with thought. Thought will be a disturbance. Feel it! Sit silently, feel it, rejoice in it, laugh with it, cry and weep with it, but don't think about it. The moment you think about it you have gone farthest from it, the farthest possible. Because thinking always takes you away from things. A rose flower is there and you start thinking about it... then miles and miles of distance between you and the rose flower. Thinking is a kind of distance. Thinking creates distance. If you really want to be with the rose flower, forget thinking. Be with the rose flower! Cry with it, sing with it, dance…
Osho, how does the energy of thought transform into feeling?
Therefore I am not teaching you religious thoughts. I am initiating you into no-thought. Generally, what goes on in temples and mosques is just this: people full of worldly thoughts are stuffed instead with spiritual thoughts—nothing more. But what difference does it make? You have given the disease a pious, pretty name; what changes? So long as you want to be anything, so long as you harbor the ambition to become something in the future, so long as you are eager for tomorrow, you will remain unquiet. The stream of thought will keep flowing. And as long as the stream of thought flows, you will remain cut off from God. I am telling you that religious thoughts are just as great an obstacle between you and God as worldly thoughts. Thought is the barrier; no-thought is union. Gorakh has said: See the Unseen, ponder what is seen, seat the Invisible…
"When desire ceases, the mind's waves subside, and in that stillness, the silent lake of being reveals itself. Accept yourself fully, for in contentment, joy naturally blossoms."
"True love begins with being; only then does doing transform into a sacred act, turning every action into a prayer of ecstasy."
"Being is wholeness and health; the ache belongs only to the mind and the ego. When you transcend these barriers, you dissolve into the ocean of your true nature, where freedom and unity reign."
What does it mean to be a human being?
definition"To be a human being is to rest in your unchanging essence, growing into the unique flower you are meant to be, unburdened by borrowed roles and masks. Embrace your authenticity, for therein lies your dignity, blessings, and ecstasy."
"Live from the silent, changeless center within, where eternity rests, even as the wheel of life turns and the waves of time and emotion roll around you."
"To meet a man on a higher level of being is to encounter a consciousness that transcends your understanding, inviting you to rise in awareness and embrace trust over judgment."
What is the essence of being?
definition"Being is the silent, wordless presence that exists in the gaps between thoughts, where true essence is revealed in the resonance of silence."
"The void and the being are not opposites; they are two faces of the same profound reality, where all differences dissolve into the silence of meditation."
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