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Question 1:

What is a Mystic?

 

 

I don't know, Purna, and nobody else knows either. That's why a mystic is called a mystic. Something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped, that cannot be comprehended. Not that it is something special -- it is very ordinary. That makes the mystery ten thousandfold.

 

A mystic is in a state of natural being. He is the most ordinary man, he has renounced all extraordinary desires. All desires are basically to become extraordinary, to become somebody. A mystic is one who IS and who has no desire to become anybody else. A mystic is a state of utter contentment, a state of no movement. He is not going anywhere, he has no goals, not motives. He simply is. He has stopped all desires to know; rather, he has started living.

 

There are people who go on searching for knowledge, They are anti-mystic; their whole effort is how to demystify life. That's what knowledge means. Knowledge means how to know each and everything -- so that life can be demystified, so that the wonder of life is killed and man can become absolutely a boss, a manipulator. So that man can control everything.

 

Knowledge is an effort to control, knowledge is power. All curiosity, all desire for knowledge, is desire for power.

 

Science is non-mystic. A scientist is just the anti-pole, the other extreme, of being a mystic. He is trying to poke his nose into reality, to find out its secrets. He is trying to undress reality. He is trying to see reality so that reality can be manipulated.

 

The mystic is one who has come to see the point that th ere is no way to know the reality, because we are part of it -- and how can the knower know itself? There is no possibility. It is an impossible search, it is doomed to fail.

 

A mystic is one who has become mature enough to be able to live without knowledge, to be able to live in ignorance, to be ready to live. He is not worried about knowing. He does not make it a condition that "First I have to know, then I will live. How can I live without knowing? If I am to love, first I have to know what love is -- only then can I be loving. If I am to enjoy, first I have to know what enjoyment is, otherwise how can I enjoy?"

 

He makes questions out of simple phenomena. He goes on creating questions, he transforms everything into a problem. That is the state of the non-mystic.

 

The mystic is one who has relaxed, who says, "There is no need to know what love is -- still you can love." Knowledge in no way helps -- on the contrary, it hinders. If you know everything about love you will never be able to love. It is a blessing that you are not capable of knowing what love is. It is a blessing that God has made it an utter mystery, otherwise nobody will ever love. Once you know, love will disappear. Awe will disappear from life; your eyes will not know that quality of wondering. You will become smug, you will become satisfied with your knowledge, You will become dull -- knowledge makes people dull. The more knowledgeable a person is, the more dull he is, the more insensitive he is.

 

The mystic has come to see the point that knowledge is not possible. That the life, existence, God, or whatever you call it, is basically not only unknown but unknowable. All effort to know is futile. Relax and live.

 

The mystic lives, the non-mystic thinks. The non-mystic thinks, "How to live? How to love? How to be?" The mystic simply is. He is so much occupied with living that he has no energy for knowing. And the paradox: because he does not bother about knowing, he comes to know in a deeper way. It is not knowledge, it is experience,

 

And the man who tries to know, never comes to know. His very effort is egoistic. The seeker after knowledge is a rapist; he is violent, aggressive.

 

The mystic loves life, and in that love mysteries are opened, veils upon veils are removed. But the mystery deepens; it is not finished. One door opens, and you see another door. That opens, and you see another door. Deeper and deeper you move, but there is no end to depth.

 

I was reading:

 

A Yugoslav peasant who, reading the newspapers, came more and more often upon the word 'dialectics' wanted to know what the word meant, but nobody could tell him...

 

Communists talk too much about dialectics -- dialectical materialism, dialectical evolution. Hegelians also talk about dialectics -- that life moves through thesis, antithesis, synthesis; that everything moves through struggle, conflict with the opposite. And each synthesis becomes a thesis again, and it goes on and on....

 

So this peasant went to the priest who said, "It is simple and I'll explain it to you -- in a concrete example. Two men, one clean and one dirty, are walking towards the river. Which one will take a bath?"

 

"The dirty one," said the peasant.

 

"No, why should he? He is already used to his dirt. It is the clean one who will want to remain clean. Let us see it one more time. Two men, one dirty, one clean, are walking towards the river. Which one will take a bath?"

 

"It is simple," the peasant said. "The clean one, for he will want to continue in cleanliness."

 

"No," the priest said. "Why should he, since he is already clean? It is the dirty one who will want to become clean. Let us see it one more time. Two men are walking towards the river. Which one will take a bath?"

 

"Both," the peasant said -- confident he has finally caught up with 'dialectics'.

 

"Neither," the priest said. "For why should they? The clean one is already clean and the dirty is used to dirt."

 

And so on and so on....

 

That is how the man who is looking for knowledge moves -- this way, that; that way, this way... he goes on zigzag. He goes on arguing for, and then he starts arguing against, then he starts arguing for -- because each for leads to against, and each against leads to for.

 

Atheists become theists, theists become atheists, Christians become Hindus, Hindus become Christians... and this goes on, this search for knowledge. The West comes to the East, the East goes to the West -- see the absurdity of it. The Eastern seeker of knowledge goes to the Western universities. He hankers to go to Oxford, to Cambridge, to Harvard. And Western seekers of knowledge are coming to the East, to the Himalayas.

 

What is this nonsense all about? Thesis becomes antithesis. Everyone changes and turns into one's opposite sooner or later, because you get tired of OnE position and then you start thinking of the opposite position. The opposite seems alluring, new, unfamiliar, seems like an adventure. Then you get tired of that and you start moving again. By that time you have forgotten that you have been in the first position before. That's how people go on moving.

 

This has been my observation, that if you are a man in this life there is every possibility that you were a woman in your past life. If you are a woman, there is every possibility that you were a man in the past life. A man becomes tired of being a man and starts thinking that there must be some joy which is not available to him but which is available to women. And a woman becomes tired of being a woman and people go on changing.

 

Now science is making it available; even in one life you can change. Sooner or later, by the end of this century, people won't wait that long for another life -- why bother ? Three years you have been a man, enough is enough. Now why not try being a woman? And it is chemically possible now, physiologically possible; you can be changed. Then you can try the woman. Then within a few years you will be tired and you will start thinking again of being a man. That's how things go.

 

People get tired of heterosexuality, they become homosexual. Homosexuals become tired of homosexuality, they become heterosexual. Thesis, antithesis. And there is synthesis too -- bisexuals.

 

In every possible way, man goes on moving from one extreme to another. And sometimes he gets tired of both, then tries some synthesis.

 

A mystic is one who has dropped the whole search, the whole project. He does not look for any truth. He simply enjoys the simple things of life. The breakfast in the morning, the shower, the morning walk, a child giggling on the street, a dog, a crow crowing -- he enjoys these small things. He is not concerned about the distant: his whole concern is immediate.

 

And that is the whole approach of Zen. Understanding Zen, you will become a mystic. Then each moment is such joy, such glory, such splendour. And each moment is so precious. Once the hankering for knowledge is dropped, everything takes on a grandeur. Just a pebble on the beach is so beautiful...

 

Look at the lilies of the field, how beautiful they are. Not even Solomon was attired, in all his glory, like one of these.

 

Then THIS moment is all. A mystic is one who knows no time; time has disappeared from his mind. He lives in this moment and in eternity. He is not worried about birth, he is not worried about death, he is not worried about becoming. It is becoming that keeps you away from yourself -- he has dropped ALL ideas of becoming. He is not trying to become. He simply is. And when becoming disappears, being is revealed. That revelation of being is the state of being a mystic.

 

People are trying the impossible. Becoming is the most impossible thing. You ARE -- how can you become? How can you become that which you are not? And what is the need to become that which you are?Just see the impossibility of it. You can't become that which you are not; you need not become that which you are. A is A, and A cannot become B. And, of course, A has no need to become A; it is already A. This simple understanding is mysticism.

 

I have heard:

 

There was once a man who owned a beautiful garden. One day he trapped a hummingbird who was eating his finest fruits. The bird promised him three wise teachings as the price of his release. The man agreed.

 

Safely out of reach, the bird said, "Do not regret the irrevocable. Do not believe the impossible. Do not seek the unattainable," and burst into laughter. "If you had not let me go, you would have found inside of me a pearl the size of a lemon."

 

Enraged, the man climbed up the tree after the bird. As he came closer, the bird flew higher. With the man in frenzied pursuit, the bird flew to the highest branch of all and walked to its very tip. The man came scrambling after; the branch snapped, the bird flew off, the man dropped to the ground with a thud.

 

Bruised, he picked himself up and gazed ruefully at his tormentor. "Wisdom is for the wise," the bird admonished. "I told you not to regret the irrevocable, but no sooner did you let me go than you came after me again. I told you not to believe the impossible, yet you believed that a bird my size could contain a pearl the size of a lemon. And I told you not to seek the unattainable, yet you climbed a tree to catch a bird. You are a fool!"

 

The mystic is a wise man. He is wisdom incarnate. Not knowledge, remember -- wisdom. Knowledge is a search after the impossible. Wisdom comes out of relaxing into your being. A mystic is a relaxed person, he is in a let-go. Immense is the joy, unexpressible is the bliss.

 

Relax and see. Be and see....

 

- Osho, "Take It Easy, Vol 1, #14, Q1"

 

 


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    The Ultimate Polarity: Meditation and Love

    The Ultimate Polarity: Meditation and Love These are two polarities in life: meditation and love. This is the ultimate polarity. The whole of life consists of polarities: the positive and the negative, birth and death, man and woman, day and night, summer and winter. The whole of life consi...
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    Is spontaneity compatible with watching?

    "Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself." ------------------------------------------------------------- Question: We are constantly drilled with the aphorism, "Don't just stand there – do something! Yet, Buddha would say, "Don't just do something – s...
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    What is your way of meditation?

    Question: What is your way of meditation? My way of meditation is very simple. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation. Out of all of those I have chosen the most simple - the most easily done. I call it witnessing. The moment you witness something you become separate from it...
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    Is an enlightened person self-sufficient in the world?

    Question 1 Can one live and function in the world in a state of enlightenment or no-mind? is an enlightened person self-sufficient in the world? THE STATE OF ENLIGHTENMENT is not the state of individuality. There is no person in it. One who is enlightened is enlightened only because he is n...
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    Is there really no difference between an ordinary person and one who is enlightened?

    Question 4: Osho, Is there really no difference between an ordinary person and one who is enlightened? Narendra, everyone is born enlightened. Everyone is born absolutely innocent, absolutely pure, absolutely empty. But that innocence, that purity, that emptiness, is bound to be lost becaus...
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    The path of meditation is for the pursuers of knowledge; the path of prayer is for the lovers, for the devotees.

    There are two ways to reach the destination. One way is that of meditation; the other, that of prayer. The path of meditation is for the pursuers of knowledge; the path of prayer is for the lovers, for the devotees. On the path of meditation there is a danger that the ego, the "I," may not ...
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    Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant.

    Question 3: Osho, For me the most beautiful meditation is to sit in a corner and watch the children playing around the ashram. but i'm in trouble: is this a meditation at all? Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river, you can wat...
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    God can be attained through two ways: either prayer or meditation.

    God can be attained through two ways: either prayer or meditation. They are different ways, diametrically opposite but, strangely leading to the same experience. If you look at the ways they look antagonistic, and if one thinks logically one will think, how can these contrary thoughts lead ...
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    The new does not arise out of you, it comes from the beyond.

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, What has gone wrong? Why is it that people meet everything new reluctantly, and with fear, rather than with eager joy? The new does not arise out of you, it comes from the beyond. It is not part of you. Your whole past is at stake. The new is discontinuous with you,...
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    Find out where you are. : Before you enter any path, first find out whether this I exists or not. Only then will your path be spiritual.

    Buddha has said, “Unless you cease to be, you cannot be still. You are the problem, you are the noise, you are the movement. So unless you cease completely you cannot attain perfect stillness. Because of this, Buddha is known as anatmawadi — one who believes in no-self. We go on thinking th...
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    Will you please explain in detail about those factors which indicate the meditator's constant progress?

    Question 1: Osho, On the path of meditation many seekers find it difficult to know clearly whether they are making any progress or whether they are just suspended on one plane, simply moving in repetitions. will you please explain in detail about those factors which indicate the meditator's...
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    Suffering is created by you because you resist continuously, you don't allow it to happen.

    Question 4 Osho, Does the seeker have to suffer inevitably on the way? It all depends. Growth in itself has no suffering in it; suffering comes from your resistance towards growth. Suffering is created by you because you resist continuously, you don't allow it to happen. You are afraid to g...
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    Meditation is not concentration but relaxation

    Try to understand what meditation is. Compassion can become a criterion as to whether the meditation was right or not. If the meditation has been right, compassion is bound to come -- it is natural; it follows like a shadow. If the meditation has been wrong then compassion will not follow. ...
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    Accept Yourself – Tension Blocks Totality

    Question 1: Osho, You tell us to be aware of everything -- which means to be a witness to everything, every act. when i decide to be aware in work, i forget about awareness, and when i become aware that i was not aware. i feel guilty; i feel that i have made a mistake. could you please expl...
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    The Observer is not the Witness

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, Where is the witness when the observer and the observed become one? The observer and the observed are two aspects of the witness. When they disappear into each other, when they melt into each other, when they are one, the witness for the first time arises in its tot...
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    Will you say something more about relaxation?

    Question 2 Osho, Will you say something more about relaxation? i am aware of a tension deep at the core of me and suspect that i have probably never been totally relaxed. When you said the other day that to relax is one of the most complex phenomena possible, i glimpsed a rich tapestry in w...
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     Everyone considers himself extraordinary. This is Ego. 

    Everyone considers himself extraordinary. This is Ego. Question 6 Can the common man acquire the capability of egolessness? From his question it seems it is not possible for an ordinary person, whereas the fact is, it is very difficult for an un-ordinary person to attain egolessness. The ve...
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    The Difference between Satori and Samadhi

    Question 1: What is the difference in experience between satori – in Zen, a glimpse of enlightenment – and samadhi, cosmic consciousness? Samadhi begins as a gap, but it never ends. A gap always begins and ends - it has boundaries: a beginning and an end - but samadhi begins as a gap and th...
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    Tension and Relaxation

    Tension and Relaxation Question 2 Osho, Please talk to us of tension and relaxation. usually, when i sit in front of you i relax all through myself. i lose any alertness i may have. when i am alert, there is a subtle tension which i need to maintain this wakefulness. it winds me up like a s...
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    Go like an arrow

    Hakuin said to his disciples: THE STUDY OF ZEN IS LIKE DRILLING WOOD TO GET FIRE. An old, ancient method. THE WISEST COURSE IS TO FORGE STRAIGHT AHEAD WITHOUT STOPPING. IF YOU REST AT THE FIRST SIGN OF HEAT AND THEN AGAIN AS SOON AS THE FIRST WISP OF SMOKE ARISES, EVEN THOUGH YOU DRILL FOR ...
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    The only thing to be learned is not to do anything, but just be.

    The only thing to be learned is not to do anything, but just be. Doing moves you. Doing, in the beginning at least, may take you away from witnessing; you may forget to witness. So in the beginning, just be -- silent, utterly immobile, as if dead, so that you can experience being in its pur...
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    You See Only That Which You Are

    Question 1 Are you the only enlightened person in this ashram? If yes, is it impossible to enlighten or to be enlightened near an enlightened person? Since I became enlightened I have never come across a person who is not enlightened. You see only that which you are. Before I became enlight...
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    Sex, Love, Prayer - Tantric, Baul, Sufi

    Question 2 What really is the difference between a baul, a tantrika, a bhakta, and a sufi? do they all belong to the path of love? they seem to be intermingled. please enlighten. THE boundaries are overlapping. They are all on the path of love, but still there are subtle distinctions. Even ...
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    Three steps of Awareness- Body, Mind and Heart

    Question 4: Osho, Is Maturation an ongoing process? How is maturation related to awareness? Please explain. Yes. Maturation is an ongoing process. There is no full stop, not even a semicolon anywhere... it goes on and on. The universe is infinite. So is the possibility of your maturing. You...
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    We might have already passed through millions of years and lives and yet are not enlightened. why?

    Question 2: In the natural course, after millions of years and lives, one will be enlightened. But we might have already passed through millions of years and lives and yet are not enlightened. Why? You cannot ask why. You can ask why only if you are doing something. If nature is dong someth...
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    Choicelessness is Bliss

    Question 1 Is it that there are only two alternatives before man - a life of abiding sorrow and suffering or one of divinity and bliss - and this choice lies with him? How is it that most have chosen the path of sorrow and suffering? It is a very significant question, but very delicate also...
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    Mind can go on playing tricks unless you learn how not to associate with it

    [A sannyasin had written to Osho about feeling guilty about recurrent sickness, and wondering if, in her involvement with a love relationship, she was diverting energy formerly invested in Osho. Osho checks her energy.] Nothing is wrong with your energy, mm? just your mind goes on playing t...
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    There are two types of religions in the world

    TRUTH IS ONE, but it can be approached in many ways. Truth is one, but it can be expressed in many ways. Two ways are very essential; all the ways can be divided into two categories. It will be good to understand that basic polarity. Either you approach truth through the mind or you approac...
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    The whole existence exists in enlightenment

    Question 3 Since your program began, what results have there been with your sannyasins? Has anyone become enlightened? They are all enlightened people. I don't deal with unenlightened people at all. I have never come across any unenlightened person. Since I became enlightened I have been co...
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    There are two ways to reach the destination.

    Let us try to understand this a bit more deeply. There are two ways to reach the destination. One way is that of meditation; the other, that of prayer. The path of meditation is for the pursuers of knowledge; the path of prayer is for the lovers, for the devotees. On the path of meditation ...
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    Witnessing Is Not An Experience

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, I find that the true moments of joy and peace in my life come when I am the witness. Witnessing seems to come easier when I make some effort for it, such as now, in Vipassana group. You talked recently about the futility of will, but for me, it seems some effort or ...
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    Man is a beautiful machine

    One of the most important things to be understood about man is that man is asleep. Even while he thinks he is awake, he is not. His wakefulness is very fragile; his wakefulness is so tiny it doesn't matter at all. His wakefulness is only a beautiful name, but utterly empty. You sleep in the...
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    Techniques are shortcuts, revolutions, but are not these against Tao, Swabhav, The Nature?

    Question 1: Techniques are shortcuts, revolutions, but are not these against Tao, Swabhav, The Nature? They are. They are against tao, they are against swabhav. Any effort is against shabhav, tao; effort as such is against tao. If you can leave everything to swabhav, tao, nature, then no te...
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    Don't trust in the content - watch it, and let it pass.

    "Spiritual or otherwise, wise or otherwise -- whenever you have some experience, remember, you are not it. It is a content in consciousness -- and all contents have to be dropped. Only then does the mind disappear. The mind is nothing but all the contents together; the accumulation of conte...
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    Seeking : Do not seek it, and find!

    I do not believe in fixed methods. I use methods just to push you into a very chaotic consciousness, because the first thing to be done with you, as you are, is to disturb your whole pattern. You have become solid, rigid; you must become more and more liquid and flowing. And unless you beco...
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    Choiceless Awareness

    Observation, the constant observation of oneself, of the mind′s unconscious tendencies, awakens the consciousness and allows it to penetrate into the unconscious mind. The unconscious enters the conscious through the door of stupor, ignorance, intoxication and carelessness, and is able to d...
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    Constantly remember the host.

    I AM NOT THE DOER. I AM NOT THE CONSUMER. I AM SIMPLY THE WITNESS OF NATURE. AND JUST BECAUSE OF MY NEARNESS, THE BODY, ET CETERA, HAVE THE FEELING OF BEING CONSCIOUS, AND THEY ACT ACCORDINGLY. BEYOND A SHADE OF DOUBT, I AM STILL, ETERNAL, EVERLASTING BLISS -- EVERKNOWING PURE SELF OR SOUL....
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    Satori and Enlightenment : Preparedness is needed not for enlightenment

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, I heard you say that someone who is not yet prepared for enlightenment might die from the experience. i believe it is also possible that the experience remains a short satori and the person comes back to his normal state. this is my own experience. i was in a state ...
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    The Joke of Enlightenment

    (In 1984, an announcement was made in Rajneeshpuram of three categories of enlightened sannyasins: Siddhas, Arihantas and Acharyas. At the same time, Osho spoke several times of three committees that would continue his work after his death, composed of Mahasattvas, Sambuddhas and Bodhisattv...
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    The Fear of Awareness

    The fear is part of the mind. The mind is a coward, and has to be a coward because it doesn't have any substance -- it is empty and hollow, and it is afraid of everything. And basically it is afraid that one day you may become aware. That will be really the end of the world! Not the end of ...
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    The Ocean is not Far Away

    The Ocean is not Far Away Enjoy, live, love. But when things change, let them change; when things move, don't stop their movement. Always remain with the changing flux of existence, never be against it, and then nobody can create misery for you. Then whatsoever is, brings bliss, because you...
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    Why has there never been a single woman enlightened master?

    Question 4: Why has there never been a single woman enlightened master? A woman cannot be a Master - it is not possible. When a woman arrives she becomes a Mistress, not a Master. The fulfilment of a woman is love. The flowering of a woman is love. Mastery is not the goal of the feminine mi...
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    To be aware of the mind is being a witness of the mind.

    To be aware of the mind is being a witness of the mind. As the witnessing grows stronger, you already start feeling yourself beyond the mind. Slowly, slowly the distance grows. Your witness reaches to a sunlit peak and the mind is left in the dark valleys, far away. You can still hear the e...
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    Waiting : Meditation is waiting without prospect, waiting for waiting's sake.

    Waiting Enlightenment has not to be sought actively, to be brought about, because it is already there. Waiting is all that is needed: waiting, just waiting, TADA, with no object. If you are waiting for something, you are not waiting; then positive thinking has come in. If you are waiting fo...
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    A contented pig, a discontented Socrates

    Question 4: What is the difference between a contented pig, a discontented Socrates, and a natural man of Zen? You will have to understand these five categories. First, the contented pig. It has nothing to do with pigs, remember: all these categories are of human beings. The contented pig i...
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    Witnessing: A Simple Phenomenon

    Question 2 Beloved Osho, I am a first grade student in the subject of witnessing. Whenever I am listening to you talking about watching, witnessing, something in me feels so thrilled, excited, joyful, and a big "Ah!" comes up. Recently I have heard you talk about watching the witness, yet I...
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    You will have to relax from the circumference.

    Question 2 Osho, Will you say something more about relaxation? i am aware of a tension deep at the core of me and suspect that i have probably never been totally relaxed. When you said the other day that to relax is one of the most complex phenomena possible, i glimpsed a rich tapestry in w...
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    Awareness is Contagious

    I would like you all to be deeply, intensely, passionately in life, with one condition only: alertness, watchfulness, witnessing. And I know the difficulty arises, because you will be living with millions of sleepy people. And sleep is contagious, just as awareness is. Awareness, too, is co...
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    Find out the inner voice, and then everything will follow.

    Find out the witness and then obey him. First find the witness and then obey him, because to find the witness means to find one's own innermost core. We live on two layers, two levels. One is the periphery: the world of action. The other is the inner being, the world of no-action: the world...
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    Once you learn, Witnessing it is so easy

    Question 2 Beloved Osho, How do I come to know when I am really witnessing my body, feelings and thoughts, or when it is only my mind pretending to be a witness? The question is only intellectual; you have not even tried to pretend. When you are witnessing and you start feeling that it may ...
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    Is it always good to follow the heart or once in a while should a clear mind decide what is to be done?

    Remaining a Witness Question1 : Osho, Is it always good to follow the heart or once in a while should a clear mind decide what is to be done? And what to do when they want to go in opposite directions? Your question is hilarious - to say the least! Let them go on their way. Why should you b...
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