Osho Rajneesh

Pure Awareness

The only quality that buddha has
is pure awareness
consciousness
witnessing

Witnessing is a key word for all meditators…
Witness that you are not the body…
Witness that you are not the mind…
Witness that you are only a witness

Osho

In Search of the Miraculous

You said at the Nargol meditation camp that the
meaning of ‘shaktipat’ – transmission of the
divine energy – is that the energy of the divine
descends into the meditator. Later on you said
that there is a difference between shaktipat and
grace. These two statements seem
contradictory. Please explain.

There is a slight difference between the two
and there is a little similarity between the two
also. Actually the field of each extends into the
other.

Shaktipat is the energy of the divine. In fact,
there is no other energy except the energy of
the divine. In shaktipat, however, a person
functions as a medium. Although ultimately the
person is also a part of the divine, in the initial
stage the individual functions as a medium.

It is just like the lightning that flashes across the
sky and the electric light that lights the house:
they are the same but the light that burns in the
house is brought about through a medium and
the hand of man is clearly evident behind it.

The lightning that flashes in the rain is the
same energy of the divine but it is not brought
about by man. If man becomes extinct the
lightning will still flash across the sky but the
electric bulb will no longer work.

Shaktipat is like the electric bulb in which man is
the medium; grace is the lightning in the sky
that comes without the help of a medium…

– Osho
In Search of the Miraculous, Vol. 2, ch. 1

The Zen Manifesto

The whole of the Western intelligentsia has
become immensely interested in Zen, but
their interest remains intellectual. They have
written great books, and we will be discussing
in this manifesto almost everyone who has
written books on Zen.

My effort is to make you really clear that all
these intellectuals may have written very
beautiful books… I appreciate their
scholarship, I appreciate their articulateness
of expression, but they are not men of Zen, to
say nothing of masters of Zen. Hence this
manifesto is absolutely needed to make the
whole world clear that Zen is not a mind affair.
It is a no-mind space.

I told you that all the religions are saying,
“Drop the ego.” Zen goes beyond the ego
and beyond the self. Except Zen, no religion
has come to the point of going beyond the
self, beyond the atman, beyond your spirit,
beyond your individuality. It is absolutely a
single man’s contribution to human
consciousness — Gautam the Buddha’s.

Zen is the ultimate flowering…

– Osho
The Zen Manifesto, ch. 1

I Celebrate Myself

The moment you utter the word `God’ you
immediately start thinking of him as a person, as
a creator.

No-mind is not a person; on the contrary, your
very personality disappears, only then does no-
mind start blossoming. No-mind is not a creator.
It has always been here, and will remain always
here; it is always now. No-mind is your eternity,
your very source of life.

God was just an excuse to exploit humanity and
to keep humanity in a very subtle and invisible
bondage. God has been your prison; no-mind is
your freedom. God has been in the hands of the
priests, and the priests are doing the ugliest job
in the world, because their whole business
depends on a lie.

No-mind has no priests, it is simply there inside
you…

– Osho
I Celebrate Myself:       God is No Where, Life Is Now Here, ch. 2

Here and Now

Be here and now, in this very moment, in a flame of awareness

Your mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living – at the minimum.
You don’t live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises – clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.

– Osho

Witnessing

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 deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.

– Osho

Awareness is Meditation

Remember one thing: meditation means awareness.

Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation.
Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action.

Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly.
Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly.
Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness.
Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful.

The whole point is: one should not move in sleep.
Then whatsoever you do is meditation.

– Osho