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Prajna or Samadhi? – Osho
Beloved Osho, Once, when Obaku was sitting in Nansen’s reception room, Nansen asked him, “It is said that the Buddha Nature can be clearly seen by those who study both samadhi and prajna equally. What...
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The Four Spheres of Teilhard de Chardin and The Heart Sutra – Osho
Teilhard de Chardin divides human evolution into four stages. The first he calls geosphere, the second, biosphere, the third, noosphere, and the fourth, christosphere. These four stages are immensely...
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Go Beyond Through Experiencing – Osho
Is the quality and expression of one’s enlightenment richer, deeper and more creative if one allows oneself to complete one’s worldly trips, rather than dropping them in the name of spirituality?...
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Hara, the Third Eye and Zen – Osho
I heard you say that the center of our Buddhahood is at the hara point inside the body. Is there also a sleeping buddha energy in our hearts and in the third eye? Do we all have the same potential of...
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The Centre is the Master
One friend asks how a person should find the internal centre that is mentioned by Lao Tzu and develop its hunger. Sit with your eyes closed and think, “Where is the centre of my body?” We live through...
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You Are the Abode of the Ultimate – Osho
Patanjali says, “Kaivalya is the state of enlightenment that follows the remergence of the gunas, due to their becoming devoid of the object of the Purusa. In this state the Purusa is established in...
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The Virtuous Circle – Osho
Visesa-darsinaatma-bhava-bhavanavinivrttih. When one has seen this distinction, there is a cessation of desire for dwelling in the atma, the self. Buddha has called the ultimate state of consciousness...
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The Cloud Which Showers Virtue – Osho
One who is able to maintain a constant state of desirelessness, even towards the most exalted states of enlightenment, and is able to exercise the highest kind of discrimination, enters the state known...
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Self-consciousness is Not Consciousness of the Self – Osho
For years I am most of the time witnessing and I feel like it is a disease. So is it that there are two kinds of witnessing and mine is wrong? Tell me. It must be wrong; otherwise it cannot be felt...
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Surrendering to Nobody – Osho
You say that religion is total freedom or moksha, and you also stress the importance of surrender in religion. But are not freedom and surrender contradictory in terms? They appear contradictory but...
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The Lotus Remains Untouched – Osho
When the activity of the mind is under control, the mind becomes like pure crystal, reflecting equally, without distortion, the perceiver, the perception and the perceived. Savitarka samadhi is the...
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The Pure Look – Osho
Nirvitarka samadhi is attained when the memory is purified, and the mind is able to see the true nature of things without obstruction. The explanations given for the samadhis of savitarka and...
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The Thought of No-Thought – Osho
These samadhis that result from meditation on an object are samadhis with seed, and do not give freedom from the cycle of rebirth. On attaining the utmost purity of the nirvichara stage of samadhi,...
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Seedless Samadhi – Osho
In the state of nirvichara samadhi, an object is experienced in its full perspective, because in this state knowledge is gained direct, without the use of the senses. The perception gained in...
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The Eight Limbs of Yoga – Osho
By practicing the different steps of yoga for the destruction of impurity, there arises spiritual illumination which develops into awareness of reality. The eight steps of yoga are: self-restraint,...
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The Body is a Great Organic Unity – Osho
Austerities destroy impurities, and with the ensuing perfection in the body and sense organs, physical and mental powers awaken. Union with the divine happens through self-study. Total illumination can...
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Death to the Limited – Osho
Posture should be steady and comfortable. Posture is mastered by relaxation of effort and meditation on the unlimited. When posture is mastered, there is a cessation of the disturbances caused by...
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Returning to the Source – Osho
Then comes the dispersion of the cover that hides the light. And then the mind becomes fit for concentration. The fifth constituent of yoga, pratyahar — returning to the source — is the restoration of...
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The Light of Higher Consciousness – Osho
Dharana, concentration, is confining the mind to the object being mediated upon. Dhyan, contemplation, is the uninterrupted flow of the mind to the object. Samadhi is when the mind becomes one with the...
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The Inside of the Inside – Osho
Samyama is to be employed in stages. These three — dharana, dhyan, and samadhi — are internal compared to the five that preceded them. But the three are external compared to seedless samadhi. Nirodh...
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