Watcher

 

 

Meditation means becoming detached from the mind, becoming a witness of the mind, looking at the mind as separate from you. that's what actually it is.

 

You can see thoughts passing by, you can see desires passing by.

 

You can see the whole traffic that goes on in the mind, the memories, the fantasies, the past, the future, all kinds of things are passing

 

You can just stand by the side of the road and you can see the whole traffic--you are not it

 

You are the watcher, you are the witness and the witness is beyond.

The seer is never the seen. the observer is never the observed.

 

This very experience is transcendence and once you know that you are not the mind, The fear of death simply disappears as if it has never been there in the first place. Suddenly you are in the world of the deathless, the eternal.

 

There is no anxiety any more. one is at ease with existence in a deep let-go, a tremendous relaxation. that relaxation is the ultimate goal of sannyas.

 

To know it is to know all, to miss it is to miss all

 

-Osho, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping, #23”

 

 

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But remember, every technique can only give you an experience; I want to give you the experiencer, not the experience. Experience comes and goes; don't rely on it. Unless you have found the experiencer... Who is feeling joy? Who is feeling pain? Who is feeling well-being? Who is feeling sad?

 

Who is this consciousness?

 

Every effort should be to reach to this innermost center of the cyclone. Your whole life is a cyclone of change, of changing scenes, changing colors, but just in the middle of the cyclone there is a silent center. That is you. My effort is to help you to find yourself.

 

- Osho, “Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries, #17”