• I am not a messiah, and I am not a missionary. And I am not here to establish a church or to give a doctrine to the world, a new religion, no. My effort is totally different: a new consciousness not a new religion, a new consciousness not a new doctrine. Enough of doctrines and enough of religions! Man needs a new consciousness. And the only way to bring consciousness is to go on hammering from all the sides so that slowly slowly chunks of your mind go on dropping. The statue of a buddha is hidden in you. Right now you are a rock. If I go on hammering, cutting chunks out of you, slowly slowly the buddha will emerge. It takes time.
    - Osho

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Immortality : The truth is that we were never born and we will never die.

 

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The secret of immortality is not such a secret that it cannot be discovered. In fact it is an open secret: Just a little bit of digging inside yourself and you can discover it. Just a few layers of garbage have to be removed; we call that garbage the mind. Thoughts and desires and memories are crowding inside, and because of the crowd we cannot see our own truth.

 

Once we are able to create a little gap, a little space, the truth is discovered. The truth is that we are immortal. The truth is that we were never born and we will never die. That birth and death are episodes in our eternal life. Thousands of times we have taken birth, and thousands of times we have left the body. It is because of this mind that we go on coming back again and again. It is because of the mind that the wheel of birth and death goes on moving.

 

If we drop out of the mind the wheel stops. And that’s the whole art of meditation: how to drop out of this mind and how to enter the space called no- mind.

 

-Osho, "Eighty Four Thousand Poems, #28“

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

List of Articles
No. Category Subject
42 I Ideals : It is ideals that have made this whole earth a big madhouse.
41 I Ideals and Perfection : To decorate your ego to its uttermost.
40 I Identification : Identification is a state of unconsciousness
39 I Idol Worship : The idol is just a peg - worship is the main purpose.
38 I Idol Worship : Too much concentration on idols; idols became too significant for them.
37 I Ifs And Buts : Never get hooked by 'ifs' and 'buts'. Make life simple
36 I Ignorance : Ignorance is the state which exists before knowledge, innocence is the state which exists after knowledge.
35 I Illegitimate Parents : No illegitimate children, there are only illegitimate parents.
34 I Illness : The harmony is no longer there; some trouble has arisen
33 I Imitation : Imitation means you will not live according to your own spontaneity, you will live according to somebody else as your image
32 I Imitation : Make you very stupid, unintelligent
31 I Immaturity : Their bodies become older but their minds remain retarded.
» I Immortality : The truth is that we were never born and we will never die.
29 I Imperfection : Perfectionism is the root cause of all neurosis.
28 I Indecisiveness : Those who live in indecisiveness are not really men yet.
27 I India : It is vibrating with certain energy fields which no other country can claim.
26 I Individuality : Once individuality is gone, the soul is gone; then man is a mechanism.
25 I Individuality and Personality : Individuality means your original face. Personality means the mask
24 I Individuality and Personality : When the ego is gone, the whole individuality arises in its crystal purity
23 I Infallibility : Perfectionism is a neurotic idea.
22 I Inner Sense : Meditation is nothing but the discovery of the inner sense.
21 I Inner Voice : Don't believe in any voice. Just remain aloof, just watch. And watching, they will disappear
20 I Inner Voice : Find out the inner voice, and then everything will follow.
19 I Innocent : It is your being. It has only to be discovered or rediscovered.
18 I Insecurity : Life is basically insecure. That’s its intrinsic quality
17 I Insecurity : One can be secure only in illusions
16 I Insight : A real intelligence is without preoccupation with thoughts.
15 I Insincerity : If you know that you are insincere, it will drop
14 I Integration : Witness more and more will make you integrated
13 I Intellect : Intellect collects information: it is a memory system.
12 I Intelligence : Intelligence is of the soul. Intellect is of the mind.
11 I Intelligence : Intelligence is of the soul. Intellect is of the mind.
10 I Intelligence : Intelligence simply means ability to respond, because life is a flux.
9 I Intensity : Creating a center in yourself.
8 I Intensity : It is only at one hundred degrees intensity that one evaporates from the material into the spiritual
7 I Interdependence : life is a deep interdependence.
6 I Interdependence : Life is interdependence. Nobody is independent
5 I Interdependence and Freedom
4 I Intimacy : Intimacy means exposing yourself before a stranger.
3 I Intimacy : Just to be sexually related to somebody is not intimacy
2 I Intuition : Don't be success-oriented.
1 I Isness : That has been the business of all the buddhas
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