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 ...
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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 ...
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. This has happened because man has paid too much attention to the conscious mind. Mind has three dimensions. Just as matter has three dimensions, mind also has three dimensions. Only one dimension is conscious, another dimension is unconscious, and still another dimension is there which is superconscious. These three dimensions are of the mind -- just like the matter, because deep down mind is also matter. Or, you can say it otherwise, that matter is also mind. It has to be so, because only one exists. Mind is subtle matter; matter is gross mind. ...
Someone asked Buddha, “How shall we meditate?”
Buddha replied, "Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment -- this is meditation." Meditation is not a separate process. Meditation is simply the name for life lived with awareness. Meditation is not an hour-a-day affair where you sit for one hour and then it is over till tomorrow. No, if twenty-three ...
Meditation is not a method but a process
meditation is not a technique but an understanding. It cannot be taught; it can only be indicated. You cannot be informed about it because no information is really information. It is from the outside, and meditation comes from your own inner depths. So search, be a seeker, and do not be a disciple. Then you will not be a disciple of some guru, but a disciple of the total life. Then you will not just be learning words. Spiritual learning cannot come from words but from the gaps, the silences that are always surrounding you. They are there even in the ...
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The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment
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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...
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The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment
The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment 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... [Read more of this review]
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. Seeds of Wisdom The unseen and the... [Read more of this review]
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... [Read more of this review]
Kundalini: The Awakening of the Life Force
Beloved OSHO 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... [Read more of this review]
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... [Read more of this review]
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.... [Read more of this review]
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... [Read more of this review]
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. This has happened because man has paid too much attention to the conscious mind. Mind has three dimensions. Just as matter has three dimensions, mind also has three dimensions. Only one dimension is conscious, another dimension is unconscious, and still another dimension is there which is superconscious.... [Read more of this review]
Someone asked Buddha, “How shall we meditate?”
Buddha replied, “Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the... [Read more of this review]
Meditation is not a method but a process
meditation is not a technique but an understanding. It cannot be taught; it can only be indicated. You cannot be informed about it because no information is really information. It is from the outside, and meditation comes from your own inner depths. So search, be a seeker, and do not be a disciple. Then you will not be a disciple of some guru, but a... [Read more of this review]
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