While answering a disciple’s question, Osho addresses two issues; not being able to sleep after meditation, and hate. “It happens to every meditator…that sleep in the night becomes difficult.” “Hate sucks your energy, leaves you empty, spent. Love fills you with energy.”
“It’s perhaps the boldest statement ever made by any human being in any age in any part of the world, and I don’t think it can be improved upon in the future, ever.”
“I am teaching you the way of transcendence. All dualities have to be dropped: the duality of mind and heart, the duality of matter and mind…”
“This unconscious meditation time can actually move into a more relaxed way of living in everything else that I do – including being truly aware!” writes Subhan
A Cup of Tea (162). “When you are hungry you eat, when you are thirsty you drink, and when you meet a friend you greet him.”
Instrumental for this outcome were the yearlong efforts by Swami Arun from Osho Tapoban in Nepal, and friends.
“It is an appeal to the individual soul: You take responsibility in your own hands. Don’t be contented, because there is so much more potential in you.”
A handwritten note from Osho where he replies to the question, “What is meditation, and what is the method to do it?”
Osho replies in writing to the question: ‘Can one meditate on a formless entity? And if so, will the formless remain formless?’
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “You cannot achieve it directly. You have to grow rose bushes; when the roses arrive there will be fragrance automatically. Bliss is a fragrance of meditation.”
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
“There are no concepts that can depict it, and, above all, there is no entity separated from the presence that experiences it. I’m not there.” An excerpt from Avikal’s book, Who is in? Beyond Self-image.
“At the moment of sandhya kal you are nearest to God; therefore the Hindus have made use of this time for prayer.”
“That’s why so many people used to go to the Himalayas: not for the mountains – for the altitude,” says Osho in darshan.
Marion Atmo’s insights on meditation and illness; “I discovered that so many activities and responsibilities I thought were essential, were not.”
Deva Veena recollects her path to sannyas and years staying at Osho’s ashram in India. Published in Travel Awaits, December 8, 2021.
Osho states, “In science, in archery, in other arts, concentration may be of great use – but it is not meditation.”
Bhagawati reviews Purushottama’s book, From Lemurs to Lamas. “I heartily recommend this book to all travellers on the outer and the inner paths.”
Rico explains his choice between quality of end-of-life peace at home over high-end medical care in the ICU.
“Prayer is just your effort to persuade God to do things according to you… I am against prayer. I am for meditation,” says Osho.
John Butler, 84-year-old YouTuber, helps people cope with anxieties. Published on BBC, June 15, 2021.
“It is absolutely urgent because we don’t have much time before somebody goes crazy. Any moment the destruction of the earth is imminent,” states Osho.
Osho says, “You have to remember that wherever you are it is a holy land and whatever you are doing it is divine.”
In part 2 of her article, Veena explains the connections between kungfu and XinYiBa, and XinYiBa and the Gulun Kungfu Heritage.
Bodhicitta made available two short videos with “the essence of what I have learned in my 85 years on this planet this time. Please see if it is of some use to you!”
Osho says, “Your mind is just… a TV screen or a drama stage. You are not supposed to act. You are not supposed to do anything.”
Osho comments on the last stanzas of Desiderata: ‘Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.’