“Reaction is out of the past. If you react, out of old habits, out of mind, then you are not responding. To be responsive is to be totally alive in this moment, here-now.”

Part 2 of 5 of Shanti’s ‘A portrait of human dignity’.

“If you cannot reach, don’t try to console yourself!”

“One day or other you will come to the wide river where… all is taken… and you are left totally alone, with no possessions.”

In ‘A portrait of human dignity’ Shanti reports on his present understanding of what it means to be human (Part 1 of 5).

“A promise is possible only if tomorrow is certain. But who knows anything about tomorrow?”

“All talk is to prepare you for silence, and only in silence can the truth be given.”

“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”

“This moment life is there – live it!”

“We are greedy. We live through greed…”

“Whenever the union is found, God is found.”

“What can you ask for? [God] has already given all that can ever be received by you.”

Osho comments on a Zen story: “This is the way of Zen. It is the most unique phenomenon in the whole world of religions.”

“My definition of ‘being holy’ is nothing but to be whole – capacity to come into the world and yet remain above it, beyond it; capacity to use the mind but yet remain centered in your being.”

“A real painting is not just the sum total of the colors, it is more – and that “more” is the meaning,” says Osho.

“Mastership arises only when you learn slowly, slowly to dissolve into existence,” states Osho.

“Hearing Zen, reading Zen is not going to give you Zen. Zen is a quality that you have to attain to.”

Shanti, excited about the prospect of having an observatory for gravitational waves built right under his mobile home, explains the implications of it.

“In the search for the first principle silence is the door – the only door,” comments Osho on this sutra.

“Two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful.”

“You are Buddhas, pretending not to be, pretending to be somebody else.”

“To be alive is the way, to be conscious is the way.”

“If it is the bus terminus, why should you worry? How can you miss it? There is no way of missing it!”

Angulimala “had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people, not less than that, because the society had not treated him well.”

“One of the most famous Zen stories about the great Zen Master Hakuin…” as told by Osho.

“The ‘noosphere’ consists of human consciousness and mental activity,” writes Shanti.

“Buddha’s miracles are so different that you will be surprised!” states Osho.

“If we see changes in the situation we change immediately, as if we have no integrated soul, no crystallized soul.”

An essay by Shanti on “a fascinating man’s life.”

“Clouds gather and go, they disappear, they are accidental, but the sky remains. You are the sky.”

“The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary.”

Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’

“Love is a law unto itself; it needs no other law,” states Osho.

Osho comments: “If there is such test, such totality of trust, time is not needed. If there is no trust, then even three lives are not enough.”

“Even an unenlightened Master, with deep trust, can revolutionize your life. And the reverse is also true: even an enlightened Master may not be of any help. It depends on you…” says Osho.

“If there is no death, there will be no life either,” says Osho.

“Remember, wherever you pay your attention, that becomes your reality,” states Osho.

Another Sufi story featuring Akbar: “That girl’s love was far deeper. She was closer to God than I was…”

A Sufi story told be Osho.

“Your mind is nothing but a teaspoon and with it you are trying to exhaust the oceanic existence.”

“This is the man of individuality, who does not care for his life, for his body, who has no fear. He accepted death with joy.”

“The golden gate is open for those who are simple, who are humble, who are almost nobodies…” adds Osho.

Osho states, “When you are seeing a sunset and you are overwhelmed by its beauty, in that moment there is knowing.”

Osho states, “You cannot enter into the same river even once!”

In part two of his essay, Shanti concludes after his deliberations with Procrustes that “Everyone of us is a unique expression of ‘Existence’.”

“The presence of the master, his charisma, his energy is missing in the written word,” states Osho.

In this two-part essay, Shanti explores the path from the mind to living from the heart.

“Intellectuals are profound archers – first they shoot the arrow and then they draw the target!” explains Osho.

“Whatever you have, you don’t recognize its value unless you lose it,” says Osho.

Osho states, “In science, in archery, in other arts, concentration may be of great use – but it is not meditation.”

Osho states: “There is no need to have boundaries of nations, because the earth has no boundaries.”

Osho says, “Freedom means tremendous responsibility; you are on your own and alone.”

Osho states, “All your work is concerned with shifting your focus from the object to the subject.”

Bodhidharma: “No action is holy, because every action arises out of the ego…”

“Your mind is hell. Going beyond your mind is heaven,” states Osho.

“What kind of home is this where people go on changing? It is a caravanserai. It is just an overnight stay, and then one has to go.”

“You have to catch hold of your inner light with your own awareness. Other than that there is no way,” says Osho.

“The answer comes in a moment of relaxation,” states Osho.

“Just sit by the stream of your mind. Don’t do anything; nothing is expected from you.”

Osho states, “Life has to be lived without questions and without answers…”