Yoga: the Growth of Consciousness
The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension where there is no object and only consciousness remains. Yoga is the method of evolving toward pure consciousness; not being conscious of something, but being consciousness itself. When you are conscious of something, you are not conscious of being conscious. Your consciousness has become focused on something; your attention is not at the source of consciousness itself. In yoga the effort is to become conscious of both ...
ALONE AT LAST!
Confronting oneself in aloneness is fearful and it is painful, and one has to suffer it. Nothing should be done to avoid it, nothing should be done to divert the mind and nothing should be done to escape from it. One has to suffer it and go through it. This suffering and this pain is just a good sign that you are near a new birth, because every birth is preceded by pain. It cannot be avoided and it should not be avoided because it is part of your growth. But why is this pain there? This should be understood because understanding ...
Children, as they are, are never focused; their consciousness is open from all sides.
Concentration is a choice. It excludes all except its object of concentration; it is a narrowing. If you are walking on the street, you will have to narrow your consciousness in order to walk. You cannot ordinarily be aware of all that is happening because if you are aware of everything that is happening you will become unfocused. So concentration is a need. Concentration of the mind is a need in order to live--to survive and exist. That is why every culture, in its own way, tries to narrow the mind of the child. Children, as they are, are never focused; ...
The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="570" caption="The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment"][/caption] Do at least one meditation every day. Choose any meditation, but persist with one method; don't go on changing. Whether results come or not, go on persisting in it. Results certainly come; all that is needed is patience. Methods don't work. What really works is patience. Methods are devices to help you to remain patient and open. If a person simply sits in his room for one hour every day doing nothing -- no method, no technique, just sitting there -- if he sits long enough it is going to happen. All meditations ...
Seeds of Wisdom
I too am a farmer and I sowed some seeds. They sprouted and now flowers have come to them. My whole life is filled with the fragrance of these flowers and because of this fragrance now I am in a different world. This fragrance has given me a new birth, and now I am no longer that which is seen by ordinary eyes. [caption id="attachment_403" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Seeds of Wisdom"][/caption] The unseen and the unknown have flung open their closed doors, and I am seeing a world which is not seen through the eyes, and I am ...
CAN PROBLEMS BE SOLVED THROUGH THINKING?
Yes, certain problems can be solved through thinking -- only those problems which are created by thinking can be solved by it. But no real problem can be solved by it, no lived problem can be solved by it. It is not created by it; it is there in life itself. Thinking will not be of much help. Only in one way can thinking help you, and that is that through thinking and thinking and thinking, you will stumble upon the truth that thinking is futile. And the moment you realize that thinking is futile for existential problems, it has ...
Kundalini: The Awakening of the Life Force
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="328" caption="Beloved OSHO"][/caption] One reason is that any knowledge about kundalini or about esoteric paths of bioenergy -- the inner paths of elan vital -- is generalized. It differs from individual to individual; the root is not going to be the same. With A it will be different, with B it will be different, with C it will be different. Your inner life has an individuality, so when you acquire something through theoretical knowledge it is not going to help -- it may hinder -- because it is not about you. It cannot be about you. You will ...
The Emperor Wu of China asked Bodhidharma, ‘My mind remainS very tense, in anxiety. I am always feeling restless, uneasy. I never find any peace of mind. Help me, sir.’
Bodhidharma looked into his eyes. And that was not an ordinary look -- Bodhidharma was a very ferocious Master. The king was a very brave man, had fought in many battles and won, but he started trembling when Bodhidharma looked into his eyes. And he said, 'Okay, come tomorrow, early in the morning at four o'clock, and bring your mind to me and I will put it at ease forever.' When the king was going down the steps, Bodhidharma shouted again, 'Listen, don't forget to bring your mind! Come at four o'clock and bring your mind. And I am going to put ...
Ninety-nine percent of people start meditating because meditation is talked about
Question NO EFFORT IS REQUIRED TO BE BORN. NO EFFORT IS REQUIRED TO DIE. NO EFFORT IS REQUIRED TO FALL IN LOVE WHY IS SUCH EFFORT REQUIRED TO KNOW GOD (THROUGH MEDITATION) WHEN THIS SEEMS TO BE THE MOST NATURAL THING? IS GOD TRYING TO TEST US IN SOME WAY? First thing: no effort is required in meditation either. Meditation also comes on its own accord. Through effort it never comes. To whom has meditation happened through effort? It will be almost like making an effort to love somebody. How can you make any effort to love somebody? The more effort you make, the more the love ...
The first thing to be remembered about meditation is that it is not something that can be done…
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. It is not that YOU go to it; it comes to you and penetrates you. It destroys you in one way and recreates you in another. It is something so vital and so infinite that it cannot be a part of your doing. Ordinarily we are like prisons: we are closed up within ourselves with no ...
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Share The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension where there is no object and only consciousness remains. Yoga is the method of evolving toward pure consciousness; not being conscious of something,... [Read more of this review]
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