The Witness and the Illusion How may one enter into that supreme truth, how may one know that supreme mystery which is so near and yet remains unknown; which is forever with us and yet is lost? How may we reach it, how has anyone ever reached it? In these sutras is the explanation of that s...

The only thing that has to be learned is watchfulness. Watch! Watch every act that you do. Watch every thought that passes in your mind. Watch every desire that takes possession of you. Watch even small gestures — walking, talking, eating, taking a bath. Go on watching everything. Let every...

Witnessing-The Right Button Meditation is a very simple process: all that you need to know is the right button. The Upanishads call it witnessing’ – the right button. Just witness your mind process, don’t do anything at all. Nothing needs to be done, just be a witness, an observer, a watche...

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 ...

The Watcher on the Hills Just be, and watch . Being is not doing, and watching is also not doing. You sit silently doing nothing, witnessing whatsoever is happening. Thoughts will be moving in your mind; your body may be feeling some tension somewhere, you may have a migraine. Just be a wit...

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...

Osho on Witnessing sadness and boredom Question 2 : Beloved Osho, For me it’s either high-energy excitement where life is wonderful and a joy To be alone; or very often these days there’s a quietness that’s dull and Boring. In the one there’s juice but no awareness, and in the other there’s...

Question : Osho, Does Witnessing always bring joy? The moments that I call Witnessing sometimes feel distant -- almost cold in their neutrality. Other times it is like sprouting wings and soaring in joy over the open sea. Deva Abhiyana,The State of Witnessing is neither Cold not Hot. It is ...

Question 2 Osho, For the last four days i have been taking part in the zazen group. when anger arises, it is so difficult for me to watch this feeling instead of throwing this anger on others. Osho, would you please speak about the art of watching? Everything that I have been saying to you ...

Question Beloved Osho, Please would you say something about the relationship between Let-Go and Witnessing? Prem Vijen, let-go is the atmosphere in which witnessing flowers. They are almost two sides of the same experience -- they are not different. One cannot allow let-go without witnessin...

Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inwards, with totality, with all your consciousness gathered as an arrow. Go deeper and deeper. Remember, every moment can be the last moment of your life. Hence the ur...

Question 5 Please explain how it is possible that just by looking, by witnessing the recordings in the brain cells, the sources of thought process can cease to be. They never cease to be, but just by witnessing identification is broken. Buddha lived in his body for forty years after his enl...

Watching the Thinking or Thinking of Watching Question 2 Osho, Is it possible that instead of watching the thinking, I am thinking of watching? Yogananda, it is not only possible, it is absolutely certain that instead of watching the thinking you are thinking of watching. But if you have be...

This is a very important sutra: “Union with the divine happens through self study.” One has to study oneself - that is the only way to reach the divine. Patanjali does not say, “Go to the temple.” He does not say, “Go to the church.” He does not say, “Do the rituals.” No, that is not the wa...

Question 2 : Osho, Is it possible that instead of watching the thinking, i am thinking of watching? Yogananda, it is not only possible, it is absolutely certain that instead of watching the thinking you are thinking of watching. But if you have become aware of it, the change is possible. If...

Witnessing is the Purest Consciousness Question 1 Osho, I have heard you say that if we lose consciousness -- through fear -- at the point of death we re-enter the circle of birth and death. Is witnessing all we can do at this crucial moment or is there any specific technique? Maneesha, the...

There is only one secret which is not part of the mind, and that is witnessing, watching. Thoughts are passing, desires are moving, memories are coming and going like clouds in the sky and you are sitting silently simply watching, not doing anything. If you do anything immediately the mind ...

Question 2 Osho, Does witnessing always bring joy? the moments that i call witnessing sometimes feel distant -- almost cold in their neutrality. other times it is like sprouting wings and soaring in joy over the open sea. The state of witnessing is neither cold nor hot. It is neither happin...

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...

Passion creates many things in you. It creates fever, it makes you more unconscious — more unconscious than you already are. It drags you deeper into the mud. And with passion come hatred, illusion and desire — and then you are distracted from your nature. Your nature is poisoned, your inno...

Question 3 Beloved Osho, I have done so many therapy groups in order to deprogram myself; and above all i have the greatest fortune in existence to be so close to you. still, sometimes i feel like having moved miles from where i was stuck a few years ago, and sometimes i feel i haven't move...

You will have to start by becoming aware of your thoughts, be more and more alert. Whenever you are sitting, just close your eyes and watch with no judgement, with no evaluation: don’t say that this thought is good and this thought is bad. All thoughts are simply thoughts; there is no disti...

Question 1: Beloved Osho, What does it mean when you say, "Just be yourself"? How can I be myself when I don't know who I am? I know many of my preferences, likings, dislikings and tendencies, which seem to be the outcome of a programmed biocomputer called the mind. Does just being oneself ...

You can watch the mind because you are not the mind. That is the whole reason to watch it: To become aware that you are separate. Existentially, no problem arises because you cannot watch this watcher. You have come to the very end of the rope; in the very first step you have completed the ...

Osho on Confusion in Witnessing 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 a...

Remember this word ’witness’. This is one of the key words in the search for spirituality. If you can understand this word and practice it, you don’t need anything else. Even this one key will open all the doors of paradise. This is a master key. Any lock can be opened by it. What does it m...

Witnessing Has a Beauty 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 b...

Question 2 : Won't you speak to us of dreams? i have taken to dreaming i am dreaming, or to living through painful situations of the past or future and dealing with them differently. sometimes i wake in the dead of night or after a short sleep with such a sense of terror a vulnerability, i ...

Question 3: Osho, Is there a difference between Watching and Witnessing? There is a difference. You watch television, you don’t witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you are watching televisio...

The Only Meditation There Is: Watching NOT "KEEPING THE MIND STILL, "BUT MINDLESSNESS THOUGH YOU MAY NOT FULLY KNOW WHETHER THE TEACHERS OF THE VARIOUS LOCALITIES ARE WRONG OR RIGHT, IF YOUR OWN BASIS IS SOLID AND GENUINE, THE POISONS OF WRONG DOCTRINES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HARM YOU, "KEEPIN...

If you kill anger you will never be compassionate in your life, because it is anger, and the energy involved in anger, which becomes compassion. If you kill sex you will be simply impotent, that’s all; you will not attain to love. It is sex transformed that creates love energy. Love energy ...

Self-Remembering Vs. Witnessing The technique of self-remembering seems easier for me than witnessing. Do they both lead to the same goal? They both lead to the same goal, but the technique of self-remembering is harder, longer and dangerous. Only very few people in the whole history of man...

REMEMBER remain alert that you don t get too much attached to the accidental — and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation — all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is es...

Question 4: Please explain the difference between Witnessing and Tathata In witnessing, the duality is present. The witness finds himself separate from that which he experiences. If a thorn pricks his foot, the witnessing man says, "The thorn has not pricked me, it has pricked my body -- I ...

Question 4: Please explain the difference between witnessing and tathata. In witnessing, the duality is present. The witness finds himself separate from that which he experiences. If a thorn pricks his foot, the witnessing man says, “The thorn has not pricked me, it has pricked my body — I ...

Question 1: Osho, What is the transcendental? Deva Paro, the moment you start witnessing yourself, you will see three layers of existence within you. One is the outermost; anybody can observe it; it is objective; it is material; it is your body. The second layer behind it is your mind, your...

Osho on Art of Witnessing 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...

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...

My sannyasins have to do only one thing, that is, they have to become watchers of the mind, not controllers, just watchers. and then allow the process to take its own course. Whenever you have time, just sit silently and watch with no motive. Don’t wait for any result, don’t think that now ...

These are the sutras achieved by ultimate wisdom. They are deep and sometimes very complex, even contradictory, but they are the ultimate flowering of wisdom. When a Buddha becomes a Buddha or a Christ becomes a Christ, these sutras are revealed. If you can understand them, even understandi...

Question 1 : Beloved 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? Swami Anutosh Pradip, your question is hilarious – to say the least! Let them go on their way. Why s...

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...

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 ...

[The soldier says: I'd just like to ask what exactly it means to be watchful. As far as my profession's concerned, when I go about doing my duty, do I watch everything as a separate entity, being aware that I'm not the person doing it?] Yes, exactly that. You just think of yourself as a wat...

Question : Are Witnessing and Sensitivity two sides of the same coin? They are not two sides of the same coin -- witnessing and sensitivity. But sensitivity is one of the qualities that develops in you with witnessing. Other qualities also develop. With witnessing you become almost a garden...

Question 1: Osho, I want to concentrate my efforts. Be sincere with me. Is to be a witness of myself the only thing, or is there something else? I am not interested in intellectual questions. First, be a witness to yourself, then ask. You want me to be sincere with you; please just be since...

Question 5 : Osho, What do you mean when you say, "meditate over it"? please explain it in relation to my problem of jealousy? WHEN I say meditate over it, I don't mean think it over, I don't mean concentrate on it, I don't mean contemplate it. When I say meditate over it, I mean watch, be ...

Question 2 What is the difference between introspection and self-remembering? A lot of difference. Introspection is thinking about yourself. Self-remembering is not thinking at all: it is becoming aware about yourself. The difference is subtle, but very great. The Western psychology insists...

The witness, the observer, divides the world into subject and object, into the witness and the witnessed. Therefore as long as there is a witness, duality will continue. Witnessing is the last frontier of the dual world, after which the non-dual begins. But one cannot reach the non-dual wit...

Witnessing is Enough Question 3: Beloved Osho, I have always heard you say, “Stop doing; watch.” Several times lately I’ve heard you say that the mind should be the servant instead of our master. It feels that there is nothing to do except watch. But the question still arises: Is there anyt...

Question: Beloved Osho, You describe witnessing as a knack. Often, late at night, when I am in a very relaxed state, witnessing happens. At other times, though, it just seems to be mind watching mind watching mind. Please comment on this knack. The moment I say that witnessing is a knack, i...

Question 2: Beloved Osho, In the last few days i heard you speak about watching the clouds of moods passing by. The other day i heard you saying: be total, go totally into it. I like to watch the clouds of anger, sadness, jealousy, etc. Passing by, but not moods like happiness and joy. I li...

[A sannyasin said she had been trying hard to witness, and although it gave her a headache, she was addicted to it.] Awareness will come, witnessing will come, but you are not to do it. When you do it, you miss the whole point of it, because when you do witnessing it becomes more like atten...

A while ago I realized that it is not situations but rather people that I can react to – Because if someone I feel good about does something, it doesn’t bother me, but if someone I don’t like does the same thing, I may think, “What an awful thing to do.” Intellectually I have come to unders...

Start Witnessing Question 1 Our Beloved Osho, Last night I saw for the first time that the mind need not be inimical to meditation. Does what you said about the mind accepting enlightenment also apply to its acceptance before enlightenment, of, for example, witnessing? Can the mind acknowle...

Witnessing is Not a Mental Activity Question 1 Osho, Last night you said that the mind cannot do two things together—that is, thinking and witnessing. It seems then that witnessing is a mental faculty and an act of the mind. Is it so? Please explain. Is there anything like partial witnessin...

There is no need to say, "I am sad." The fact is that you are a witness that a cloud of sadness is passing over you. There is anger - you can simply be a witness. There is no need to say, "I am angry." You are never angry - there is no way for you to be angry - you are always a witness. The...

Witnessing is the Beginning, No-Mind is the Fulfillment Question : How does watching lead to no-mind? I am more and more able to watch my body, my thoughts and feelings and this feels beautiful. But moments of no thoughts are few and far between. When I hear you saying “Meditation is witnes...

Question 3: Osho, How can I tell the difference between one part of the mind observing another part of the mind, and the watcher? Can the watcher watch itself? One time I thought I had got it and then the same day I heard you say in a discourse, “If you think you’ve got the watcher, you’ve ...

on Watching and Watchfulness The phenomenon of witnessing has no ABC or XYZ. It is a simple phenomenon; it is a single step. It is one process. You can watch the body; the watching is the same. You can watch the mind - the object has changed, but the watching is the same. You can watch the ...

Start enjoying the thought process. Just see the nuances of thoughts: how they take turns, how one thing leads to another, how they get hooked with each other. It is really a miracle to watch. Just a small thought can take you to the farthest end, and if you look you don’t see any connectio...

"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...

You think, you imagine, but you never watch. Watching is a totally different process. It means you don’t have any likes, any dislikes. You don’t condemn anything, you don’t appreciate either. You simply see and you are aware and you are alert — not dead like a mirror. You are aware. You are...

This Witnessing is the Buddha When there is nothing to perceive – No input from the body or the mind and so one has nothing by which to define oneself – Is what is left witnessing? There does not even seem to be a witness, but just the awareness that there is no one there. That’s exactly ri...

Witnessing is not a Thought Question 1 Osho, it feels that to be a witness is also a kind of thought. So what is the difference between the witness and a thought of the witness? WITNESSING IS NOT A THOUGHT but you can start thinking about witnessing, you can make it a thought. The moment yo...

Remember this word ’witness’. This is one of the key words in the search for spirituality. If you can understand this word and practice it, you don’t need anything else. Even this one key will open all the doors of paradise. This is a master key. Any lock can be opened by it. What does it m...

Witnessing: The Base of All Techniques WITNESSING is the technique for centering. We discussed centering. A man can live in two ways: he can live from his periphery or he can live from his center. The periphery belongs to the ego and the center belongs to the being. If you live from the ego...

Question 3 Beloved osho, I have always heard you say, "Stop doing, watch." Several times lately I′ve heard you say that the mind should be the servant instead of our master. It feels that there is nothing to do except watch. But the question still arises: is there anything to do with this u...

Witnessing is not a technique, it is your nature. Question 1 Osho, You spoke the other morning about rising through the different levels of consciousness and bringing light to their respective counterparts in the unconscious. are special techniques needed for this, or will watchfulness of t...

Witnessing and the Heart Question 1 Osho, Would you please speak a little on Witnessing and The Heart. Can they be experienced simultaneously? Deva Darshan, WITNESSING AND THE HEART ARE ONE AND THE same thing. Witnessing is not of the mind; mind can never be a witness. When you start witnes...

Question 2 Osho, Being with you I feel so blissful and liberated, and there seems to be no end to it. You must have tricked me. What is your secret? I am a simple man without any secret. I am just an open book, and a book in which nothing is written. If you like to call it a secret it is yo...

Osho on Witnessing “Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. Finally, eventually, one day, you bec...

The only meditation there is: Watching Not "keeping the mind still," but mindlessness. Though you may not fully know whether the teachers of the various localities are wrong or right, if your own basis is solid and genuine, the poisons of wrong doctrines will not be able to harm you, "keepi...

Watchfullness Not Concentration Question 1: Osho, Please explain how I can meditate over something without using my mind. Meditation has nothing to do with mind; meditation simply means a state of no-mind. The functioning of the mind is the only disturbance in meditation. If you are trying ...

"Judgment comes from the past, and witnessing is a present consciousness" Question 2 Beloved Osho, You talk so much about the Witness, But what is the Witness and What is the Judge? How can we tell which is which -- The Witness or the Judge? Deva Bhumika, it is very simple; the distinction ...

Q: What is witnessing? A: Whatever you are doing.... For example, right now you are writing. You can write in two ways. The ordinary way that you always write.... You can try another method: you can write it and you can also inside witness that you are writing it. Q: Does that mean some kin...

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality, witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepe...

Witnessdogs Question 3 : Beloved Osho, Is there a difference between watching and witnessing? There is a difference. You watch television, you don’t witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you a...

Meditation is a very simple process: all that you need to know is the right button. The Upanishads call it’witnessing’ — the right button. Just witness your mind process, don’t do anything at all. Nothing needs to be done, just be a witness, an observer, a watcher, looking at the traffic of...

Does Witnessing Always Bring Joy? Question 1 Osho, Does witnessing always bring joy? The moments that I call witnessing sometimes feel distant—almost cold in their neutrality. Other times it is like sprouting wings and soaring in joy over the open sea. The state of witnessing is neither col...