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25.01.2022 OM resembles the sound of Existence when you are silent. Slowly you become the sound.You simply watch. Watch more joyously, watch more lovingly, don’t watch in a dry way! Osho -- The New Dawn #27-q1

23.01.2022 WHY DOES ONE FEEL EMBARASSED?.....

23.01.2022 T I M E L E S S L O V E Q: Beloved Bhagwan, There are sannyasins living all over the world who feel a deep connection with you. However, on celebration days t...here is always that longing to be in your silent presence in Buddha Hall. Can you please send a message to the thousands of sannyasins who will be celebrating in many countries, but not in your physical presence? OSHO: Prem Vanya, remember one thing: that each of my sannyasins carries something of me, each of my sannyasins becomes a part of me, spiritually, physically, in every possible way. My sannyasins are not believers, my sannyasins are in a love affair. It is a mad phenomenon! So wherever my sannyasins meet, my presence will be felt. Wherever my sannyasins celebrate, my message is realized, because celebration is my message. Rejoice! Sing! Dance! Dance so totally that your egos melt and disappear. Dance so totally that the dancer is no longer there, but only the dance remains. Then you will find me wherever you are. And it has now to be a known and recognised fact that my buddhafield is not going to be confined to the small place where I will be living with a few thousand sannyasins. All the small communes, ashrams, centers, all over the world will become little buddhafields. We have to fill the whole earth with buddhafields! We have to create a chain of buddhafields. And it can be done: if you can take some of my joy and some of my love and some of my laughter with you wherever you go, you will be taking the fragrance of the buddhafield there. You will be taking seeds. Scientists say that in the beginning only one seed must have reached the earth by some coincidence maybe a collision of stars, the explosion of a star. One seed, and the whole earth slowly slowly became green. One seed is enough to transform the whole earth into a garden. The same is true on higher planes too. Just a single seed of love, awareness, joy, is enough to create the buddhafield. So wherever you go, wherever you are, never forget for a moment that you are not far away from me. Between a master and the disciple the question is not of physical distance at all. You can be sitting here physically, but you may not be in tune with me; then you are not here. You may be thousands of miles away, maybe on the moon, on Mars, it does not make any difference. But if your heart is beating with me, if you are attuned to me, if there is an inner connection, then you are in my physical presence. Neither time makes any difference nor space. The thing that makes the difference is love. Vanya, next time when you celebrate, celebrate with the full recognition that I am there amongst you. Just a recognition is needed and you will find me there. Jesus is reported to have said, ‘Wherever four of my disciples are gathered together, I will be there’. And he was not so fortunate as I am his disciples were very ordinary people. I am fortunate in many ways: my disciples are in many ways very creative, talented, very intelligent, exploding in love. So I can say to you that not even four are needed; just a single sannyasin is enough to make my presence felt by others. So next time you are celebrating, Vanya, make it a point that I am there, and you will feel it. It only needs a recognition. If the recognition is not there, and even if I suddenly reach your celebration, you will not recognise me at all. Remember, we take note only of things if we are consciously ready to take note. If you are not consciously ready to take note, somebody may pass by your side and you may not see him at all. Vanya, next time you are celebrating, make it a known fact to all the sannyasins that I am there. And those who are in tune with me, those who really love me, those who are surrendered, those who have known some trust, will immediately feel the presence. The presence can even be felt more there than here, because here you take it for granted that I am present; you need not make any effort. But there you will have to make a conscious effort to feel it. That very effort will make my presence more penetrating. O S H O, ‘Come, Come, Yet Again Come, Ch 14, Q 3’ OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 Jan 19 1990

22.01.2022 Es trágico y a la vez verdadero que muy poca gente posee su alma. Ellos poseen todo excepto a sí mismos, Y luego naturalmente ellos se vuelven una cosa Entre... las otras cosas. Los poseedores se vuelven los poseídos. Dice Emerson: Nada es más raro en un hombre que el acto de ser sí mismo. Pero esto es lo que puede ser esperado Pues nadie nadie se pertenece, Nadie es sí mismo. La mayoría de la gente son los otros. No están viviendo Sino simplemente actuando roles otorgados por los demás. Sus pensamientos son las opiniones de algún otro Y sus rostros son solamente máscaras. Ellos no tienen rostros. No tienen en absoluto un ser auténtico. Sus vidas - una imitación Y sus pasiones - palabras repetidas. Rompe este círculo vicioso, de otro modo nunca Serás. Rómpelo a través de la meditación- No puede ser roto de otro modo Pues no puede ser roto a través de la mente, Y excepto por la meditación, todo lo demás es mente. La mente es la prisión, La meditación es la puerta. La única puerta. OSHO, Una taza de Té. See more

19.01.2022 OSHO turns into a Lion & mauled this reporter!

18.01.2022 TOZAN, A ZEN MASTER Just today I was reading about a zen master, Tozan - a very famous zen master. The story says that the gods wanted to see him, but they cou...ldn't because he was just an emptiness. They would enter into him from this side and that, they would pass through him, but he was nowhere to be found. He was a nowhere-ness, a nothingness... so empty of himself that they could not see him. They were very curious to see a man who had become empty, so they played a trick. They went to the kitchen as Tozan was coming from his morning walk and took a few handfuls of rice and wheat and threw it on his path. In a zen monastery that is almost a sin because it is very disrespectful to rice and wheat. Everything should be respected because everything is divine. It is a respect for everything. Everything that exists and has existed, is divine and should be respected. So in a zen monastery nothing is wasted; one should be careful, and alert. They played this trick and threw on his path a few hand-fuls of rice and wheat. When Tozan came he could not believe it - that any disciple could do that. Who could do it? Who could be so careless and disrespectful? This idea arose in him, and suddenly a self was there and the gods could see him. The emptiness was no more empty. Suddenly an idea had crystallised; an attitude, a mind had come. For a moment a cloud appeared in the blue sky and the gods could see this man, Tozan. Then the cloud disappeared because the idea disappeared. I like the story very much. Whenever there is an idea, you are, and then a cloud arises. And there is not only one cloud. There are so many ideas in you, millions of clouds which continuously haunt you, covering you in layers and layers of cloud. Your inner sky is completely hidden. You can't even have a glimpse of it. Even a small idea like 'Who has been so careless?' - it was nothing special, nothing much to worry about. It was just a curious 'Who has been so careless?' but it was enough! If you see the morning sun and you say 'How beautiful' - enough! It is just a small fragment but it creates an inner pressure in you, and that's why you immediately want to say to somebody 'Look, how beautiful the morning is!' That is a release. The pressure has been inside and when you talk it is catharted; you release it. You feel good, you have said it. If you cannot find anybody, it will haunt you more. If you can write a letter, then you are finished with it. Our mind is continuously overflooded with ideas, emotions, sentiments. By and by relax, be empty. Just go as an emptiness. Don't try to protect yourself in any way because that will make you closed. Fear is there - accept it. Relax and let it be there. Remain with it. Don't try to do anything against it because whatsoever you do out of fear will create more fear. Just accept it. Osho- Beloved of My Heart

16.01.2022 Meditation of the Golden Flower! Osho -- The Secret of Secrets Vol 2 Chapter 13

15.01.2022 NON-THINKING ALERTNESS (DHYANA, ) "Remember this: I emphasize non-thinking alertness because in non-thinking you may go to sleep if you are not alert. Th...en it is of no use. You are alert when you are thinking but that is of no use, because thinking creates the clouds. Or, you can be non-thinking and asleep. That too is of no use because the sky is there but you are asleep so you cannot see it. So two things are needed: non-thinking and alertness. No-thought consciousness. No-mind awareness. If you can create this phenomenon within you (no mind on the one hand and awareness on the other hand), this is what meditation is; this is what I call dhyana. In this situation, truth becomes revealed. And that truth is one, the most inner one. It is not yours. That center is the center of the whole existence. You exist only on the periphery, the circumference. The more inward you move, the less and less you become. When you reach to the innermost center, you are no more. In a sense, you are no more; the old man is dead. But in another sense, for the first time you are, because now the innermost reality is revealed to you, the eternal is revealed to you. Now you have reached that which never changes." O S H O, 'The New Alchemy To Turn You On, Ch 16' OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 Jan 19 1990

13.01.2022 #wounds #forgive #ego #relating #healing #camp #trauma #home #Judas #forme ||Suddenly there are No More Wounds Osho.|| ||You are going to be revengeful towa...rds me(Judas)|| Q:-Why is it so difficult to forgive, to stop clinging to hurts long since past? Osho : Anand Katyayani, the ego exists on misery the more misery the more nourishment for it. In blissful moments the ego totally disappears, and vice versa: if the ego disappears, bliss starts showering on you. If you want the ego, you cannot forgive, you cannot forget particularly the hurts, the wounds, the insults, the humiliations, the nightmares. Not only that you cannot forget, you will go on exaggerating them, you will emphasize them. You will tend to forget all that has been beautiful in your life, you will not remember joyous moments; they serve no purpose as far as the ego is concerned. Joy is like poison to the ego, and misery is like vitamins. You will have to understand the whole mechanism of the ego. If you try to forgive, that is not real forgiveness. With effort, you will only repress. You can forgive only when you understand the stupidity of the whole game that goes on within your mind. The total absurdity of it all has to be seen through and through, otherwise you will repress from one side and it will start coming from another side. You will repress in one form; it will assert in another form sometimes so subtle that it is almost impossible to recognize it, that it is the same old structure, so renovated, refurnished, redecorated, that it looks almost new. The ego lives on the negative, because the ego is basically a negative phenomenon; it exists on saying no. No is the soul of the ego. And how can you say no to bliss? You can say no to misery, you can say no to the agony of life. How can you say no to the flowers and the stars and the sunsets and all that is beautiful, divine? And the whole existence is full of it it is full of roses but you go on picking the thorns; you have a great investment in those thorns. On the one hand you go on saying, No, I don’t want this misery, and on the other hand you go on clinging to it. And for centuries you have been told to forgive. But the ego can live through forgiving, it can start having a new nourishment through the idea that, I have forgiven. I have even forgiven my enemies. I am no ordinary person. And, remember perfectly well, one of the fundamentals of life is that the ordinary person is one who thinks that he is not; the average person is one who thinks that he is not. The moment you accept your ordinariness, you become extraordinary. The moment you accept your ignorance, the first ray of light has entered in your being, the first flower has bloomed. The spring is not far away. Jesus says: Forgive your enemies, love your enemies. And he is right, because if you can forgive your enemies you will be free of them, otherwise they will go on haunting you. Enmity is a kind of relationship; it goes deeper than your so-called love. Savita has asked a question that, Osho, why a harmonious love affair seems to be dull and dying? For the simple reason because it is harmonious; it loses all attraction for the ego; it seems as if it is not. If it is absolutely harmonious you will completely forget about it. Some conflict is needed, some struggle is needed, some violence is needed, some hatred is needed. Love your so-called love does not go very deep; it is only skin-deep, or maybe not even so deep. But your hate goes very deep; it goes as deep as your ego. Jesus is right when he says, Forgive, but he has been misunderstood for centuries. Buddha says the same thing all the awakened ones are bound to say the same thing. Their languages can differ, naturally different ages, different times, different people they have to speak different languages, but the essential core cannot be different. If you cannot forgive, that means you will live with your enemies, with your hurts, with your pains. So on the one hand you want to forget and forgive, because the only way to forget is to forgive if you do not forgive you cannot forget but on the other hand there is a deeper involvement. Unless you see that involvement, Jesus and Buddha is not going to help. Their beautiful statements will be remembered by you, but they will not become part of your lifestyle, they will not circulate in your blood, in your bones, in your marrow. They will not be part of your spiritual climate; they will remain alien, something imposed from the outside; beautiful, at least it appeals intellectually, but existentially you will go on living the same old way. The first thing to remember is: ego is the most negative phenomenon in existence. It is like darkness. Darkness has no positive existence; it is simply absence of light. Light has a positive existence; that’s why you cannot do anything directly with darkness. If your room is full of darkness, you cannot put the darkness out of the room, you cannot throw it out, you cannot destroy it by any means directly. If you try to fight with it, you will be defeated. Darkness cannot be defeated by fighting. You may be a great wrestler but you will be surprised to know that you cannot defeat darkness. It is impossible, for the simple reason that darkness does not exist. If you want to do anything with darkness you will have to go via light. If you don’t want darkness, bring light in. If you want darkness, then put the light off. But do something with light; nothing can be done with darkness directly. The negative does not exist so is the ego. That’s why I don’t say to you: Forgive. I don’t say to you: Don’t hate; love. I don’t say to you that drop all your sins and become virtuous. Man has tried all that and it has failed completely. My work is totally different. I say: Bring light into your being. Don’t be bothered by all these fragments of darkness. And at the very center of darkness is ego. Ego is the center of darkness. You bring light the method is meditation you become more aware, you become more alert. Otherwise you will go on repressing, and whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again and again and again. And it is an exercise in futility, utter futility. It will start coming up from somewhere else. It will find some other, weaker point in you. I come across every day so many questions which show how negativity asserts, in how many subtle ways. Just the other day I was joking that Mukta has asked me: Can she bring a 1939 model Rolls Royce for me? I said, I am no more interested in anything old and rotten. You can call it a vintage car, you can call it antique, and you can call it beautiful names, but the truth is: for forty years so many rotten people have used it I don’t want to use it anymore. Yatra immediately wrote a question to me: Osho, don’t you have any taste? Old things also have their beauty. Yatra may not be knowing, may not be aware that this is a form of negativity. I was simply joking, otherwise why I should be speaking on Ko Hsuan? Twenty-five centuries old But immediately A chance cannot be missed. If you can say something against me, you will not miss the chance. Just today I have received another question from Atta, that You use so many times the word ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘my’, ‘my sannyasins’. You seem to be the greatest ego around. I can stop using I, me, my, my sannyasins that won’t help. These are just words, and perfectly utilitarian. I also use the word darkness, although it does not exist. It has never existed, it cannot exist. Just by using the word darkness, darkness does not start existing. But Atta must be waiting for some opportunity to say something aggressive to me, to be in some way violent to me. This is natural, because sannyas means surrender, and when you surrender then more often than not you are repressing your ego. It will find its way from somewhere to assert. It is not just a coincidence that Buddha’s own brother, Devadatta, tried many times to kill him. His own cousin-brother Why? Why he was so antagonistic to him? And he was also his disciple. But they were contemporaries, of the same age. They were brought up in the same palace, educated by the same teachers in the same academy, played together. And then Buddha became enlightened, and there was deep jealousy in Devadatta. First he tried on his own to become enlightened; he could not. So, unwillingly, reluctantly, he surrendered to Buddha. He must have said with deep resistance, Buddham Sharanam Gachchhami; I take shelter into the Buddha, into your feet. But deep down somewhere he must be thinking that, We belong to the same royal family, the same blood, the same education. We have played together. So why I should surrender to this man? And then, once he started going a little into meditation, just a little, few experiences of meditation, and he started gathering a following around himself He started to spread the rumor that he has also become enlightened. Buddha called him, that You WILL become enlightened; there is no problem about it. But right now you are just on the way. Don’t miss this opportunity. This offended him very much. Immediately all repressed resistance asserted he revolted. He took away few people those who had become his friends and followers, away from Buddha. And their whole effort was: How to kill this man? Judas was the cause of Jesus’ death, and Judas was the most intellectual disciple of Jesus. Remember it. Never forget it, that he was the most sophisticated disciple of Jesus. All others were very unsophisticated, simple people, almost primitive people: villagers, fishermen, carpenters, potters, weavers; except Judas nobody was educated. Judas was really far more educated than Jesus himself, far more informed. And he was waiting that sooner or later, he will be the head. Once Jesus is removed from the scene, he will be the head of the whole commune. And there seemed to be no possibility of Jesus ever dying before him. Finally he decided that it is time that this man should be removed forcibly. Judas was the culprit, the real murderer. He sold Jesus only in thirty silver coins. He was thinking that this is the only way to remove Jesus from the scene, then he can take over the leadership of the group, of the commune. There must have been deep down a hurt ego. It has always happened that way. Mahavira’s own disciple, Makkhali Ghosal, revolted against him and he started spreading the rumor that Mahavira is not the true enlightened person, I am the true enlightened person. When Mahavira heard it he laughed. When Mahavira came to the place where Ghosal was staying, he went to see him and he said, Makkhali Ghosal, have you gone mad? What are you doing? And the man must have been immensely cunning. He said, I am not your disciple, remember; the man who used to be your disciple is dead. The body is of Makkhali Ghosal, but a great spirit has entered into the body. The spirit of Makkhali Ghosal has left. I am a totally different person, can’t you see? Mahavira laughed and he said, I can see perfectly well. You are the same stupid fellow, and you are still doing stupid things. Don’t waste time! Put your energies in becoming enlightened yourself. Why be worried about me whether I am truly enlightened or not. If you are not my disciple, Makkhali Ghosal, if you are a totally different spirit who has entered, I accept. If you say, I accept it. But then why you are concerned with me? Twenty-four hours you are speaking against me. That simply shows that you are still carrying some grudge against me. It is very essential to understand because you are all disciples here, and you all will be carrying some grudge or other against me, for the simple reason because I am trying to destroy your ego. That I have to do; that’s the function of the Master, to destroy your ego. And you can become very revengeful, and you can carry deep wounds through it. Katyayani, you ask me: Why is it so difficult to forgive, to stop clinging to hurts long since past? For the simple reason that they are all that you have got. And you go on playing with your old wounds so that they keep fresh in your memory. You never allow them to heal. A man was sitting in a compartment in a train. Across from him was sitting a Catholic priest who had a picnic basket beside him. The man had nothing else to do so he just watched the priest. After a while the priest opened the picnic basket and took out a small cloth which he placed carefully on his knees. Then he took out a glass bowl and placed it on the cloth. Then he took out a knife and an apple, peeled the apple, cut it up, put the pieces of apple in the bowl. Then he picked up the bowl, leaned over and tipped the apple out of the window. Then he took out a banana, peeled it, cut it up, put it in the bowl, and tipped it out of the window. The same with a pear and a little tin of cherries and a pineapple, and a pot of cream he tipped them all out of the window after carefully preparing them. Then he cleaned the bowl dusted off the cloth, and put them back in the picnic basket. The man who had been watching the priest in amazement, finally asked, Excuse me, Father, but what are you doing there? To which the priest replied coolly, making fruit salad. But you are tipping it all out of the window, said the man. Yes, said the priest. I hate fruit salad. People go on carrying things that they hate. They live in their hatred. They go on fingering their wounds so they don’t heal; they don’t ALLOW them to heal their whole life depends on their past. Unless you start living in the present, you will not be able, Katyayani, to forget and forgive the past. I don’t say to you: Forget and forgive all that has happened in the past; that is not my approach. I say: Live in the present that is the positive way to approach existence. Live in the present. That is another way of saying: Be more meditative, more aware, more alert, because when you are alert, aware, you are in the present. Awareness cannot be in the past and cannot be in the future. Awareness knows only the present. Awareness knows no past, no future; it has only one tense, the present. Be aware, and as you will start enjoying the present more and more, as you will feel the bliss of being in the present, you will stop doing this stupid thing that everybody goes on doing. You will stop going into the past. You will not have to forget and forgive, it will simply disappear on its own accord. You will be surprised where it has gone? And once the past is no more there, future also disappears because future is only a projection of the past. To be free from past and future is to taste freedom for the first time, is to taste God. And in that experience one becomes whole, healthy; all wounds are healed. Suddenly there are no more any wounds; you start feeling a deep well-being arising in you. That well-being is the beginning of transformation. *Osho* From Tao: The Golden Gate, V.1, Chapter Two

12.01.2022 OSHO turns into a Lion When he sits in his chair! OSHO mauled him.

09.01.2022 BE CONSCIOUS AND A ZEN STORY

09.01.2022 Surreder a sufi story ! - Osho:

08.01.2022 I was worried about MY MOTHER when my father died. I could not believe that she would be able to survive. They had loved each other so much, they had almost bec...ome one. She survived only because she also loves me. I have been continuously worried about her. I wanted her to be near me, just so that she can die in utter fulfillment. Now I know. I have seen her, I have seen into her, and I can say to you -- and through you it will one day reach the world -- she has become enlightened. I was her last attachment. Now there is nothing left for her to be attached to. She is an enlightened woman -- uneducated, simple, not even knowing what enlightenment is. That's the beauty! One can be enlightened without knowing what enlightenment is, and vice versa: one can know everything about enlightenment and remain unenlightened. ~ OSHO, Glimpses Of A Golden Childhood, Session # 2

08.01.2022 If a Master cannot teach his disciples FEARLESSNESS, then that master is simply fake. I TEACH YOU in every possible way TO BE FEARLESS, DARING, COURAGEOUS, risk...ing, taking every challenge of life --because this is the whole science of how to create a steel spine in you... which will be needed! FIRST LEARN TO DROP SMALL FEARS; then slowly slowly bigger fears; then finally, your whole energy which was involved in all kinds of fears, worries, tensions, anxieties, is released. The energy that is released is so much that it makes you dance, that it makes you laugh, that it makes you sing. SUDDENLY A DEEP FEELING THAT YOU HAVE ARRIVED -- arrived to the place which you have never left. It is just that you have gone astray into your mind, far away, traveling all over the world. You simply needed a good hit. OSHO Om Mani Padme Hum Ch #25: Nowhere to fall to pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium [ via Shree Amitabha Subhuti ]

06.01.2022 P R A Y E R Love. What is sought totally is always attained. thoughts, when concentrated, ... become things. As the river finds the ocean, thirsty souls find the temple of God. But the thirst must be intense and the work tireless and the waiting without end and the calling with the whole heart. And all this thirst, work, waiting, calling - are contained in one small word and that word is PRAYER. But praying cannot be performed, it is not an act, you can only be in it. It is a feeling, it is the soul, it is the surrender of oneself without words or demands. Leave yourself to the unknown and accept whatever comes. Whatever God makes of you - accept it, and if he breaks you, accept that too. O S H O, ‘A Cup of Tea, Letter 107’ OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 Jan 19 1990

04.01.2022 Drop Immediately Not By Postponement

04.01.2022 Q: What exactly do you do in the bathroom for three hours a day? Or should we not discuss that on videotape? Just I enjoy sitting under the shower, lying down i...n my tub. I change from hot, extreme hot, to extreme cold, freezing water. That is immensely healthful to the body. One and a half hours is not long. It goes so fast because I enjoy it so much. So three hours go into the bathroom. Two hours, or two and a half hours in the morning, I talk to my disciples. Then in the night, two hours, just the way I am talking to you, I talk to some journalist, some author. So four or five hours I am talking. Then I enjoy my food. I don’t like to talk even, because whatever I am doing, I want to do it totally. When I am eating, then I just want to eat and relish every bite to the fullest. So one hour or one and a half hours because I take two meals, lunch and supper and then I take, before I go to sleep in the night, my whole life I have taken some special sweets which are made only in Bengal, India. So in all, one and a half hours goes to my food. Two hours I sleep in the day. I have napped as long as I can remember, and I love to sleep because to me sleep is just meditation, as pure and as simple and as relaxing. And whatever time remains in the night, I go to bed at about ten or eleven, it depends on the interview. I wake up at six in the morning. I love sleeping on a king size bed I love big things! ~ Osho, The Last Testament Vol. 1, Ch 8, Excerpt from an Interview with Denise Kovacevic, KATU TV, Channel 2, Portland, Oregon

03.01.2022 S H A R I N G Q: Beloved Osho, the other day, Sarito asked about writing beautiful words about you that she felt she had no right to say, and you encouraged us... to express ourselves in the world. Beloved Master, I am not a speaker or writer of beautiful words, still, many times I have experienced sharing myself with people in the world, sharing you, sharing your vision. For that moment of sharing, I become what I am expressing. For that moment I radiate your light flowing through me, as if each time I myself am experiencing you newly and fresh. Beloved Osho, can you please talk about the magic of sharing? OSHO: Prem Komal, there is only one magic in the world, and that is the magic of sharing. All else in the name of magic is simply trickery; but sharing belongs to the ultimate truth. Sharing is possible only if you have experienced - in absolute depth - love, blissfulness, ecstasy, and these are not just words to you but your very heartbeat, your very breathing. Then the magic happens. There is no magician, just the magic. You don't do it, it simply overwhelms you. If there is somebody to receive, open and vulnerable, thirsty and longing, then something invisible starts flowing between the two. You cannot see it, but you can feel that a connection has happened which is beyond the reach of the mind. Neither can anybody else see it, but if people of understanding are around you, they can see the effects of it. The person who becomes overwhelmed is immediately no longer a person but only a presence, no longer a flower but only a fragrance, no longer a dancer but only a dance. You cannot catch hold of him, but you can enjoy to the fullest. And the person who has become connected starts melting and merging. There are no longer two persons; there are two bodies and one soul. In fact, without our knowing there is only one soul of the whole universe. The trees and the birds and the animals, and all that is living, has a universal soul. We are simply parts of it, and our ignorance consists of our thinking of ourselves as separate. That"s what is called the ego. The idea of separation is ego. The moment that false idea disappears, your whole life becomes a continuous experience of mysteries, miracles, and magic. And without your knowing, those who are thirsty start coming towards you, those who are searching suddenly start feeling a magnetic pull, a charisma, irresistibly. They may not even like to come, but they have to come; it is beyond their capacity to prevent themselves. Once they have felt something of the beyond, then they have no power to go against the flow; then they have to be just part of the flow and allow it to take them wherever it is going. In a gathering like this, that magic happens every day. You may not give it the name ‘magic’ . . . because that word has become very contaminated by wrong usage; otherwise it is one of the most beautiful words. There are thousands of eyes here, but suddenly one seeing; thousands of hearts, but suddenly one beating . . . one harmony, and a silence as if there is nobody. This is the only magic there is. Prem Komal, you don't have to learn it; it is not an art. It is not within your capacity to learn it. What is within your capacity is to allow existence to flow through you. You should not stand in the way, that is the only art; you should not block the radiation. You should simply stand aside and let the universal consciousness flow through you, and reach as far as there are people who can receive it. When we are meeting here - and not just meeting in the ordinary sense but actually meeting, heart to heart, being to being - this overwhelming experience goes around the earth, to all the sannyasins wherever they may be. They may not understand what is happening, why suddenly they have become silent, why suddenly they have started singing or playing on the flute, why suddenly a deep urge has arisen in them to dance. They may not be aware of what is happening. So this gathering is not only the gathering of those few who are actually present here, it is a gathering of all those who have loved me and who have received my love. Wherever they may be, dead or alive, they are part of this gathering, and they will rejoice and sing and dance, and feel grateful to existence. A great Zen master was getting on in years. Finally, one day a few of his disciples gathered around him, and with long faces asked, ‘Master, your death is approaching - you have told us that. Now we must ask, where would you like us to bury you?’ The old man looked up, and with a twinkle in his eye said, ‘Surprise me!’ These are the real people, the real magicians. Even death cannot make them sad. They can make fun even of death. What a beautiful man this old Zen master must have been, who could say, "Surprise me. Let me see what you do when I die. I am not leaving any instructions, I will wait and see. Do something that has never been done. Surprise me - just don't be repetitive." I don't know what happened later on, because I cannot think myself how to surprise. Whatever you do must have been done thousands of times. The old man has left his disciples in a state of koan - that was his whole life’s teaching. These people are so strange that even when they are dying they cannot forget their teaching. That was his teaching: giving koans to the disciples. Koans are puzzles which cannot be solved, whatever you do; it doesn’t matter. It is not a question of intelligence, it simply is not possible to solve them. The moment you realize it, that all your efforts have failed and now you cannot see anything else that is possible, a great silence descends on you. In that silence you are no more. The puzzle remains, but you are solved. And that’s the whole purpose of a koan. The puzzle will always remain - that’s why the same koan goes on being used for thousands of years, because no koan can ever be solved. But it solves the person. All his problems and doubts and questions and everything disappear. In that utter failure of his mind to solve a small puzzle, the mind stops. It has tried every way; there is no way out. And the moment the mind fails, you encounter yourself . . . beyond mind, beyond words. That old man has again given them a koan. He will be gone and they will be sitting there trying to solve the puzzle. How to surprise the old man? Whatever you can think of must have been done before. Millions of people have died and thousands of masters have died. Everything must have been tried; surprise is almost impossible. That was the meaning of the twinkle in his eye - he knows that he is putting you in trouble. Perhaps you will not be able to surprise him, but in the very effort to find a way out, you may find a way in, you may come to know yourself. His death may become a resurrection for you. In his death you may come to know the eternal, the immortal. This is the only magic I know of: to have a taste of the eternal and to allow people to share the taste. Those who are ready and ripe, those who are mature and of age, they will immediately start growing. And those who are not yet ripe will have to wait a little. There is no harm in waiting a little, because time is without any beginning and without any end. It does not matter whether you become enlightened on Monday . . . because there are only seven days - you can choose any day. These seven days have been chosen because of the seven colors of the rainbow. These are the seven colors of the rays of the sun. These seven days are named after light and color. Enlightenment is the most psychedelic experience. More colorful than enlightenment there is nothing else. More full of light and more full of delight there is nothing else. O S H O, ‘The New Dawn, Ch 25, Q 1’ OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 Jan 19 1990

02.01.2022 I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU I am waiting for you, and I will continue to wait for you, either in the body or out of the body. The people I have loved, the people... who have opened their hearts to me, the people who have risked the dangerous path of devotion, who have been walking on the razor's edge, certainly for them I will be waiting for eternity. The mystics who disappear immediately after their enlightenment miss a great opportunity of knowing that enlightenment can also be shared; and the more you share it, the more bright, the more juicy, the more blissful it becomes. In that way the mystics are poor compared to the masters. They thought they had found the treasure, and that is true, they have found it but distributing that treasure increases it, makes it more abundant. Waiting is not a futile exercise; waiting is a rejoicing. And as people you are waiting for go on becoming aflame with love and truth and light... it is not only that they become enlightened, the master goes on becoming more and more enlightened with each of his disciples. It is again and again a fresh experience. With each disciple becoming enlightened, the master becomes again enlightened. His enlightenment is constantly renewing itself, it never becomes stale. That is a totally different story which mystics miss. I will be waiting for you Osho, The Rebel #27 http://premendra.art/dreams

01.01.2022 MAKE IT A POINT THAT YOU DON'T MISS NOW Q: When I hear you talk about past lives I get scared. I have never had any remembrance, just a vague feeling, and somew...here I know that I don’t want to know . . . Unless it’s a remembrance of you. And about future lives, I get so sad Just the idea of starting all over again, the family, the school, the fight for survival, and, above all you won’t be there. How will I remember you, how will I not forget this tremendous gift that you are? I would like this moment to stretch into eternity . . . And forget about anything else. Is there any great magical surgery possible? I want to heal . . . OSHO: Kavisho, I am exactly doing the magical surgery you are asking about. Do you think my work consists only of communicating words, concepts, and philosophies to you? You are lying down on my surgical table. There is no need for you to remember the past. Whenever I have talked about the past, it is just to make you aware that you have missed many opportunities before. Make it a point that you don’t miss now. Thousands of lives have passed, and you have been moving in a wheel, in a routine. This time, come out of the circle. And if you can come out of the circle this time, there will be no future life for you eternity will be yours. And that’s what you are asking me: Is there any possibility to stretch this moment into eternity? This is the opportunity: this silence, this dance, this blissfulness can help you to come out of the vicious circle, and you will never enter another womb again. You will remain here not embodied, but just as pure consciousness, spread all over existence. My whole effort is to persuade you to take a jump from being a dewdrop and become the ocean. And the surgery is not very difficult; it is one of the simplest things possible: just get out of your mind. Become a witness to the mind; watch all its traffic pass by. Don’t be part of the traffic; stand by the side of the road because you are not the mind. Once this statement becomes your experience that you are not the mind then there is no question of being born into another stupid routine. It is the mind and the identity with the mind which is the cause of continuously moving in a circle. Disidentify. You are neither the body nor the mind. You are simply the pure watcher. It is a simple method the simplest possible method for the greatest experience the most shortcut way. Whenever you have time lying down on your bed, no special posture is needed, or standing under your shower just remain a watcher: of the body, of the freshness of the water, of the coolness, and of the thoughts that are passing in the mind. Just by watching, mind disappears. One day, you suddenly find an absolute silence within you no traffic . . . the road is empty. The surgery is complete. You will not be born again in another body, although you will remain as part of eternal life. And don’t be worried I will be there. I am already there just calling you all to the sunlit peaks of consciousness from your dark valleys. Start climbing. You can miss me only in one way, and that is: if you choose your mind, then you cannot choose me. If you choose me, you will have to drop your mind. In the eternity of life, we all will be meeting of course, without our old photographs, without our old faces. But nobody loses his individuality of consciousness even in the universal. He becomes part of the universal, and yet that universality does not destroy his individuality but enhances it. So not only me, but all the souls that have moved into time and gone beyond time, are still here now. There is a beautiful story in the life of Mahavira. The followers of Mahavira have not been able to explain the mystery of the story. The story is certainly not historical; it is a parable, poetry, an indirect way of saying the truth. It says that Mahavira never spoke. The historical fact is that for forty years, he spoke continuously. But the story is that Mahavira never spoke. He was always silent, and in the audience there were three categories: one was of those who had left their bodies and had not entered in bodies again. They were all around only visible to Mahavira, not visible to anybody else. In the second category were human beings seekers and searchers who had come to him, pulled by his great magnetic, charismatic personality. And there was a third group, of his most intimate disciples eleven disciples. They were also human beings, but they have to be put into a separate category because they had come to such communion with the master that they could understand his silence. He never spoke but those eleven disciples, called ganadharas, spoke to the people who could not understand silence. They said to people what Mahavira had communicated to them in his silence. And there were two pieces of evidence whether they had heard rightly or not. One was that all the eleven had their own disciples: there were eleven branches of the disciples; if they all spoke the same message, that was one evidence that nobody had heard wrongly, that nobody was trying to make up the message himself. And the second piece of evidence was that whenever those ganadharas, those eleven disciples spoke, the unembodied souls showered flowers, because they were able to understand the silence directly. And they were rejoicing because if these eleven people had not been there, Mahavira’s message would have been lost. Those unembodied people could not communicate with human beings. The flowers were showered on the eleven ganadharas as a proof to all human beings that souls which had become enlightened before were still supporting and giving evidence that what these people were saying was exactly what had arisen out of Mahavira’s silence. It is very difficult to give historical proofs for it. But my own experience is that it may have some basis in reality, because I have come to know a few disciples of my own who can understand when I am not speaking. And whatever they understand is exactly what I wanted to convey, but kept it within myself. Here, also, many of you not only understand my words, but also my silences. The day the electricity went off many times, I received many letters saying that it was such a great experience to sit silently for those few moments. In any other gathering in the world that would have been a disturbance; but in this gathering it was a tremendous experience people loved those gaps. Perhaps those electricity failures were managed; but those people must have come to know that we enjoyed it and since that day, those electricity failures have stopped. Kavisho, do not think of the past and do not think of the future. I am here with you and I know your heart. You are here with me, and there is no need to fear that you will miss the opportunity. You are coming closer and closer to the fulfillment to the ultimate contentment. You are going to be one of my most blessed disciples. O S H O, 'The Rebellious Spirit Ch 13' OSHO Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 Jan 19 1990

01.01.2022 The Joy of silence! -- Osho: