1 Dig deep

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Dig deep 1 November 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, ONE NIGHT ISAN WAS IN ATTENDANCE ON HYAKUJO, SITTING TILL LATE IN THE QUIETNESS OF THE MOUNTAIN TEMPLE. “WHO ARE YOU?” HYAKUJO ASKED. “REIYU,” REPLIED ISAN. “RAKE IN THE FIREPLACE,” INSTRUCTED HYAKUJO. ISAN DID AS HE WAS TOLD AND SAID, “I FIND NO EMBERS LEFT.” HYAKUJO TOOK UP THE TONGS AND, RAKING DEEP DOWN, BROUGHT UP A TINY BURNING EMBER, WHICH HE SHOWED TO ISAN, AND SAID, “JUST THIS, YOU SEE!...

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1 Don\'t Just Listen, Do

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Don’t Just Listen, Do 13 October 1972 pm in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India [NOTE: This is a translation of the Hindi series ADHYATMA UPANISHAD. This version is the final edit pending publication.] INVOCATION OM, MAY THE SUN GOD GIVE US HIS BENEDICTION. MAY VARUNA, THE GOD OF WATER, GIVE US HIS BENEDICTION. MAY ARYAMA, INDRA, BRAHASPATI AND VISHNU GIVE US THEIR BENEDICTION....

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1 Dropping out of the wheel

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Dropping out of the wheel 1 March 1975 am in Buddha Hall ALSO, MEDITATE ON KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES DURING SLEEP. ALSO, MEDITATE ON ANYTHING THAT APPEALS TO YOU. THUS, THE YOGI BECOMES MASTER OF ALL, FROM THE INFINITESIMAL TO THE INFINITE. MAN SLEEPS almost one-third of his life, twenty years approximately. But sleep has been neglected, terribly neglected. Nobody thinks about it, nobody meditates on it....

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1 Dropping the artificial mind

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Dropping the artificial mind 1 May 1976 am in Buddha Hall NOW BEGINS THE LAST SECTION OF PATANJALI’S SUTRAS, KAIVALYA PADA. 1. THE POWERS ARE REVEALED AT BIRTH, OR ACQUIRED THROUGH DRUGS, REPEATING SACRED WORDS, AUSTERITIES, OR SAMADHI 2. THE TRANSFORMATION FROM ONE CLASS, SPECIES, OR KIND, INTO ANOTHER, IS BY THE OVERFLOW OF NATURAL TENDENCIES OF POTENTIALITIES. 3. THE INCIDENTAL CAUSE DOES NOT STIR THE NATURAL TENDENCIES INTO ACTIVITY; IT MERELY REMOVES THE OBSTACELS – LIKE A FARMER IRRIGATING A FIELD: HE REMOVES THE OBSTACLES, AND THEN THE WATER FLOWS FREELY BY ITSELF....

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1 Emptiness no holiness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Emptiness no holiness 22 April 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, EMPEROR WU OF LIANG ASKED BODHIDHARMA, “WHAT IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE HOLY TEACHINGS?” BODHIDHARMA SAID, “EMPTINESS, NO HOLINESS.” “WHO IS THIS STANDING BEFORE ME?” “NO KNOWING.” THE EMPEROR DID NOT GRASP HIS MEANING. THEREUPON BODHIDHARMA CROSSED THE RIVER AND WENT TO THE LAND OF WEI....

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1 Everybody can be a mystic

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Everybody can be a mystic 22 November 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IS THERE ANY DEFINITION OF THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE OTHER THAN SATYAM-SHIVAM- SUNDRAM – “TRUTH, GODLINESS AND BEAUTY”? The experience of the ultimate, Maneesha, is always the same. But the expression can be different. The expression depends on the mystic; the experience does not depend on him....

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1 Fear Is A Beggar

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Fear Is A Beggar 1 December 1974 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium THERE IS NO END TO HIS VIRTUES, NOR TO THEIR NARRATION. THERE IS NO END TO HIS WORKS AND HIS BOUNTY, AND ENDLESS WHAT HE SEES AND HEARS. THERE IS NO KNOWING THE SECRETS OF HIS MIND; THERE IS NO BEGINNING OR END TO IT. SO MANY STRUGGLE TO KNOW HIS DEPTH, BUT NONE HAS EVER ACHIEVED IT....

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1 Flight of the alone to the alone

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Flight of the alone to the alone 16 August 1970 pm Question 1 PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY YOGA, THE YOGI, AND MEDITATION. The first thing to be remembered about meditation is that it is not something that can be done. Throughout the world people have the notion that meditation means doing something. It is not a doing, it is not an act, it is something that happens....

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1 Fly Without Wings

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Fly Without Wings 1 January 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WHAT EXACTLY, IN SIMPLE WORDS, ARE YOU TRYING TO TEACH? WHAT IS YOUR EXACT MESSAGE TO HUMANITY AT LARGE? – AGAIN IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND. WALK WITHOUT FEET FLY WITHOUT WINGS AND THINK WITHOUT MIND THAT’S MY TEACHING. It cannot be made more exact than that....

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1 From Dependence Towards Truth

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 From Dependence Towards Truth 25 February 1969 pm in Enchanted by the song of a bird singing happily on the branch of a tree, a king had it caught and kept in a cage. Even singing is wrong in the presence of wrong people. The poor bird could not have imagined that his song would get him behind bars! The bird that flew in abandon in the free skies and flitted from one branch to another as he wished, now found himself in a golden cage, inlaid with precious stones to one who has tasted the freedom of the skies?...

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