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Yoga is the Cessation of Mind – Osho
Now the discipline of yoga. Yoga is the cessation of mind. Then the witness is established in itself. In the other states there is identification with the modifications of the mind. Yoga is pure...
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Practice and Desirelessness – Osho
The first state of vairagya, desirelessness – cessation from self-indulgence in the thirst for sensuous pleasures, with conscious effort. The last state of vairagya, desireless – cessation of all...
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Cultivating Right Attitudes – Osho
The mind becomes tranquil by cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the miserable, joy towards the virtuous and indifference towards the evil. The mind also becomes...
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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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My Empty Chair – Osho
Another new thing, I will not be there; only my empty chair will be there. But don’t miss me because in a sense I will be there, and in a sense there has always been an empty chair before you. Right...
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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 Opening of Sahasrar and Three Questions – Osho
Meditation is going inward. And the journey is endless, endless in the sense that the door opens and goes on opening until the door itself becomes the universe. Meditation flowers, and it goes on...
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Start Remembering Yourself – Osho
In which way can the practice of self-remembering transform the human mind?” Man is not centered in himself. He is born centered, but the society, the family, the education, the culture, they push him...
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Tantra Believes in You – Osho
Man can be considered in three ways: in terms of the normal, the abnormal and the supernormal. Western psychology is basically concerned with the abnormal, the pathological, with the man who has fallen...
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Consider Your Essence as Light Rays Rising – Osho
Consider Your Essence as Light Rays Rising from Center to Center up the Vertebrae, and so Rises ‘Livingness’ in you. The first technique: Many yoga methods are based on this. First understand what it...
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How can You Feel Awareness Without Being Aware – Osho
Daily in each of your talks, you speak of awareness – total awareness, uninterrupted awareness, etcetera. You also said that it cannot be achieved by the mind, by repeating a thought – that it is to be...
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If One Sees Nought – Osho
Now try to understand Tilopa’s sutra: If one sees nought when staring into space, if with the mind one then observes the mind, one destroys distinctions and reaches buddhahood. If one sees nought when...
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Freedom is Responsibility – Osho
On the one hand you are giving ultimate freedom to do whatsoever we want to do, and on the other hand you are giving responsibility. With responsibility, I cannot use the word “freedom” as I want,...
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Witnessing is a Revolution – Osho
You spoke in several recent discourses on the no-problem, the nonexistence of our problems. Having been brought up in a repressive Catholic family, and having spent twenty-one years in an equally crazy...
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Let the Mind have its Speed – Osho
During the meditations, my mind still goes five hundred miles per hour. I never experience silence, and whatever witnessing happens is very short, like flashes. Am I wasting my time? Your mind is...
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Then Logic Becomes a Steppingstone to Love – Osho
Osho, as well as being someone like you, Pythagoras was also a great mathematician. How is this possible? Bruno, Man is not only the outer, and he is not only the inner either — he is both. And more:...
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Unimagined Ecstasy, Unimagined Pain – Osho
Beloved Master, unimagined ecstasy, unimagined pain. Yoga Sudha, it is natural. Ecstasy and great pain happen together because it is a new birth: the joy of being born, the joy of entering into the...
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