Remembrance

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...

It is found that remembrance of "beloved' or "darling" is more spontaneous and easy than the remembrance of "god" or "supreme self." why is it so?

Rather than thinking of God as your father, it is better to think of God as your beloved; because a father is an authoritative figure, unnatural, social, formal. Once it never existed; sometime it may disappear again. It is better to think of God as your beloved; and it is better to move through the beloved towards the ultimate beloved. You will be moving naturally, spontaneously, and there will be no repression, and there will be no unnecessary harshness in your lifestyle -- you will not become a masochist. And if you can go to God laughing, why go weeping? If you can go to God dancing, then why not go dancing? I don't teach you a God who is against life and love. I teach you a God who is the very depth, the very ground of life and love. You can drop the word "God" if it creates…

Osho, I don’t see dreams in sleep, yet it feels as if I haven’t slept for many days. At the slightest disturbance the body wakes up, as if I had been awake all along. But I don’t feel tired, and the hours of sleep seem to slip away. Please tell me what this state is?

Good, auspicious; do not be afraid. Dreams will slowly disappear. When the witness is awake, dreams cannot be. If there is dreaming, there cannot be witnessing. Good. The dream has fallen away; a sense of wakefulness remains through the night. Gradually it will deepen and grow denser; swiftness and intensity will come. The witness becomes keen—like the edge of a sword. But in the beginning there will be difficulty. We believe that eight hours of sleep are necessary—this is a notion—and then what is this that is happening? The whole night seems to pass as if awake. And if you remain “as if awake” for eight hours, the night feels very long, as if it will never end. If you sleep, you forget; you do not know when the night began or ended. You sleep and it is morning. But now it feels as if all night it remained morning;…

Osho, what magic has drawn me here? Whether at home or in the marketplace, wherever I am I keep remembering you. Even in meditation, when the remembrance of you comes, tears begin to flow. There is no demand and nothing to ask... What should I do?

Your bond with me has happened. With this bond the first glimpse of bliss has begun to come. That is why you are amazed—you wonder what magic has happened! This is nothing; much more is yet to happen. Compared to what is to be, this is nothing. This is not even a drop; the ocean is yet to be! But the direction is right. Now refine this direction more and more. When remembrance of me arises, now join it with remembrance of the Divine. Gradually both remembrances will begin to come together. Then, when both begin to come together, let go of the remembrance of me. Hold only the remembrance of the Divine. And do not even by mistake think that in leaving me you have left me. If you cling to me, you may miss me; if you hold to the Divine, you will never be able to leave…