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Two Types of Freedom – Osho
You said last night that to have an upward flow of the mind one has to make a constant effort against past animal habits. Please explain what the difference is between effort against habits, and...
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The Purity of the Path – Osho
Seeing the dialectical facts of life, can one practice the path of relaxation and the path of effort simultaneously? No, it is not possible! You cannot practice both simultaneously because both are...
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No Need to Reconcile – Osho
I feel very joyous after your morning talk and Sufi dancing, but I cannot reconcile it with the misery of the people I see when I step out of the ashram. What to do? It is there, the misery is there....
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The Inner Illumination – Osho
Sadaadeeptih apaar amrit vrittih snaanam. To be centered constantly in the inner illumination and in the infinite inner nectar is the preparatory bath for the worship. Light is the most mysterious...
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You have to Go Beyond Colors – Osho
When one experiences different forms of light and colors in meditation – such as red, yellow, blue, ochre, etc. – how can one know to which layers of being they belong? Is there any gradual sequence of...
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You Are Responsible – Osho
What are the physical and psychic factors that are necessary for the encounter of the inner light in meditation? And how can one grow in them? Three things to be remembered: one, you must be...
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Total Listening – Osho
So before we enter this mystery, some points have to be understood; otherwise, there will be no entrance. One is how to listen, because there are different dimensions of listening. You can listen with...
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The Fragrance of Awareness – Osho
Sarvatra bhavana gandhah. The feeling of That everywhere is gandha – the only fragrance. The Indian metaphysics divides Existence into two realms. One is “this” – that which can be pointed out; and...
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Become the Listening – Osho
Yesterday you explained about three types of listening: first, listening through the intellect, second, through emotion, sympathy and love; and third, through the whole being, through faith....
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The Light of Awareness – Osho
We feel that to penetrate and transform the deeper layers of the unconscious only through awareness is difficult and not enough. What else should one do other than the practice of awareness? Please...
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Awareness is the Technique for Centering Oneself – Osho
Chidagni swaroopam dhoopah. To create the fire of awareness in oneself is dhoop – the incense. For philosophy, many are the problems – infinite. But for religion there is only one problem, and that...
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The Deep Pit of Liberation – Osho
Do not immediately settle down in peaceful stillness. In the teachings this is called “The deep pit of liberation.” “The deep pit of liberation” – there is a danger for all seekers, for all people of...
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The Inner Alchemy – Osho
Paripoorn chandra amrit rasaiki karanam naivedyam. Accumulation of the nectar of the inner full moon is naivedya, the food offering. You must have heard about the Taoist concept of yin and yang – the...
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Toward the Silence of the Innermost Center – Osho
Nischalatwam pradakshinam. Stillness is pradakshina, the movement around That for worship. Silence is meditation and silence is basic for any religious experience. What is silence? You can create it,...
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Blissfulness Beyond Ignorance – Osho
You said one night that awareness brings knowledge and knowledge makes man aware of many problems and sufferings within himself. But isn’t it true that awareness and knowledge give more richness,...
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Make Haste to Become the Fourth – Osho
Gurdjieff used to say that there are seven types of men. Let me explain those seven types to you. The first three types are very ordinary. You will find them everywhere, within and without. The first,...
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Contentment: The Dispersion of Desires – Osho
Sarva santosho visarjanamiti ya aevam veda. Total contentment is visarjan, the dispersion of the worship ritual. One who understands so is an enlightened one. Total contentment is wisdom. Three things...
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Realization is a Deep Communion – Osho
Sarva niramaya paripoornohamasmiti mumukshunam mokshaik siddhirbhawati. I am that absolutely pure brahman: to realize this is the attainment of liberation. Existence is divided into two. Existence, as...
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In that Dancing, Death Becomes a Fiction – Osho
Basho wrote the haiku: Only the shell Of the cicada left? Did it sing itself out of existence? An old cicada tree, almost dead, no foliage left – and Basho is saying, “Only the shell . . .” The inner...
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By the Merit of a Single Sitting – Osho
By the merit of a single sitting, he destroys innumerable sins. Hakuin says: Don’t be worried about sins and your past karma. In a single sitting of meditation, all that can be burnt. The fire of...
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