..., it can say only dead things. You can say something about sannyas, but it will not be true. How can you say anything about sannyas? It is an inner flowering, it is an inner freedom, it is an inner ecstasy, a benediction. You can share it of course, but the sharing will be through your being, through your very being - the way you walk, the way you sit, the way you look, your eyes, your body, your...

... person who cannot feel hunger is already dead. When hunger is there, hunger is in the present, but you start thinking about food. When food is there, you start thinking about some other food that you are going to get tomorrow. A sannyasin, a man who lives in the present, enjoys hunger when hunger is there. He is totally hungry, he becomes hunger. Every cell of the body waiting for food as if it has not...

... rained for many days and the earth is waiting for the rains. Every pore praying, waiting, inviting; the whole body waiting, inviting, enjoying the hunger. Then food is there. Then he enjoys the food and satisfaction comes to the whole being, spreads all over the body and mind and soul. He enjoys this contentment. One Zen master was asked: What is meditation? He said: When I am hungry, I am hungry, and...

..., and your mind can continue its inner chattering. There is no problem, your mind is not needed. This is what I mean by automatic. Now your body is a mechanism; it functions. You will be needed only in certain rare cases. If there is going to be an accident, suddenly you will be needed. Then your thinking process will have to stop. Suddenly there will be a shock, your whole body mechanism will shiver...

... bothered about it. Only individuals can pass through such an arduous path. Do everything consciously; by and by, your body-automatism will dissolve, you will become de-automatized. Then innocence will flower. A child is innocent because nothing is automatic yet. He has not learned anything, he is not conditioned yet. Sooner or later we will condition him. He will learn things, then more and more mind...

... Auditorium Archive Code: 8809085 Short Title: EMPTI01 Audio Available: Yes Video Available: Yes Length: 95 mins OUR BELOVED MASTER, BUKKO SAID: TAKING THINGS EASILY AND WITHOUT FORCING, AFTER SOME TIME THE RUSH OF THOUGHT, OUTWARD AND INWARD, SUBSIDES NATURALLY, AND THE TRUE FACE SHOWS ITSELF. ... NOW BODY AND MIND, FREE FROM ALL MOTIVATIONS, ALWAYS APPEAR AS VOID AND ABSOLUTE SAMENESS, SHINING LIKE THE...

... THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY MAKES THE VOICE ECHO; THE EMPTINESS OF THE HEART MAKES THE BUDDHA. WHEN YOU EMPTY THE HEART, THINGS APPEAR AS IN A MIRROR, SHINING THERE WITHOUT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM. LIFE AND DEATH AN ILLUSION, ALL THE BUDDHAS ARE ONE'S OWN BODY. ZEN IS NOT SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS; IT IS JUST HITTING AND PIERCING THROUGH. IF YOU CUT OFF ALL DOUBTS, THE COURSE OF LIFE-AND- DEATH IS CUT OFF...

... found an empty mind -- naturally. Everything outward and inward subsides and there is the tremendous silence which easiness brings. NOW BODY AND MIND, FREE FROM ALL MOTIVATIONS, ALWAYS APPEAR AS VOID AND ABSOLUTE SAMENESS. When you are in the state of no-mind, which is equivalent to thoughtlessness... when there is no thought cloud moving in your mind, you attain to the clarity of no-mind. Mind is...

... DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM. LIFE AND DEATH AN ILLUSION, ALL THE BUDDHAS ARE ONE'S OWN BODY. ZEN IS NOT SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS; IT IS JUST HITTING AND PIERCING THROUGH. I am reminded... A great industrialist had imported a totally new, sophisticated machine. It worked so beautifully, a hundred times more productive than the older one, but one day it stopped. Nobody knew what to do. The manufacturers were...

... hint," replies Stonehead. "So I went home!" Nivedano... (Gibberish) Nivedano... Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be frozen; gather all your life energy inwards and look in. Deeper and deeper. Find the center of your being. Finding the center of your being is the door that leads you beyond yourself, that makes you a buddha. Be well acquainted with this new space you are in...

... dissolved into an oceanic consciousness, you are at home, realizing that which you have carried since the very beginning, for thousands of lives, but have never looked into it... never searched for it, have taken it for granted. It is the most precious treasure in you. It is the whole universe falling in you. Nivedano, to make it clear... Relax, and just watch the body, the mind. You remain a watcher...

.... Just a watcher. Your body is born and dies. Your mind every moment changes. Only this watcher is your eternity. Remember it. Remind yourself of it. And slowly slowly make it your ordinary, simple life experience, just like breathing. You don't have to make any effort. When your buddha is that spontaneous, you have found the truth. Nivedano... Come back, and bring with you all the fragrance that you...

... long it takes. But when there is music and your whole body is thrilling, and when there is song, although you are sitting, in a subtle sense there is a dance in you. You cannot remain unconscious, you have to become more watchful. I want vipassana to be a warmer path; then it becomes a very short cut. I would like you to sing and dance and play on instruments - that will take you away from the...

... snoring. Question 4: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO: THE TRINITY OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY GHOST; AND THE BODY, THE MIND AND THE WITNESS. OR IS THE HOLY GHOST JUST ANOTHER OLD GHOST? There is no trinity the way Christians conceive it. The father, the son, the holy ghost - in fact, the whole idea is anti-feminine, it is against women. In the divine trinity there is no...

... reality - body, mind and the witness. Body is nature, body is part of the earth. Mind is part of the society, of the whole human heritage. And the watcher is your own individuality. This is a real trinity. There is no question of man or woman because the witness is neither man nor woman. The body will go back to nature as you become awakened, mind will disperse back to the society as you become awakened...

..., and the witness will go back to what I call the godliness that surrounds the whole existence. But the Christian trinity is ugly. You can create a trinity for meditators which is far more real and far more useful. The body has to be taken care of, has to be respected, has to be loved. It is your home. The mind has to be cleaned from any rubbish, from any dust that may have gathered during millions of...

... from the very beginning was clear to me: that there is no way for me to find God, because I don't know his address, I don't know his home. In this vast universe, where am I going to find him? All that I can do is create a longing, a thirst, in every cell of my body and being, and wait. If God wants to find me, he will find me. Only he can find me; I cannot find him. And now, I can say it with...

... a flood of energy comes, many of them will be washed away, broken. One day science is going to enter into this field. They have already begun work to discover why animals have not developed the brain. The reason is that the animal's body is horizontal to the earth, so the animal's energy flows all over his body in the same proportion. Those delicate brain cells cannot evolve. It was all due to man...

... standing on his two feet, because his brain is not so much affected by gravitation, and very little energy reaches there. It became the opportunity for the delicate cells to improve. And you can see it in your so-called yogis: you will never find a very sharp, intelligent man. They may be able to do many distortions of the body, but you will not see in their faces the aura of intelligence. They have not...

... easily can mean only one thing: in your past lives you must have worked. But the work has remained incomplete. This time, don't leave it incomplete. Let this life be your last life in the body. When the whole universe can become our body, why should we be confined to the small body? It is imprisonment. Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

...-four hours a day for nine months. It rarely happens that somebody dies consciously. It happens only to great meditators, who know well the path death will be coming on because in their meditations they have traveled on the path again and again -- it is the same path. As they go deep in their meditation the body is left far away, mind is left far away, the heart is left far away; only a beautiful...

... agreed -- that life is a continuity; death comes millions of times. Death is only a change of the body, a change of the house, and this process goes on -- unless you become totally enlightened. Then there is no need to enter another womb, because life was just a school, a training; you have completed it. Your enlightenment is the culmination of your education about existence. Now you need not enter...

... into another body. You can enter into the womb of the universe itself -- you are prepared for it. So whenever you are having glimpses, don't be satisfied with them. Your glimpses should create great discontent in you, not content. They should create a longing that what is seen far away you would like to come closer, and closer, and closer. You don't want just to see it, even from c closeness; you...

.... Without your meditations you cannot hit your master; to hit your master you have to know that the body is not you, so the master's body is also not the master. You are not hitting the master but just the body, and that's what I have done. I have cut only the body, not the cat. The cat is still alive, must be born somewhere else. But you have come a little late." There is another story about Lin Chi...

... teachings of the ages that he has been following. But he was an intelligent man, he understood. One full-moon evening, as the moon was rising, he could see the whole stupidity of what he has been doing for six years. Just by torturing your body, how you can become enlightened? What relationship exists between torturing your body, destroying your body, and Buddhahood? That evening he dropped torturing. He...

... out of your grave!" and Lazarus walked out. A similar story is told about Buddha, but with a totally different dimension to it. A woman's only son died; her husband has died before. Her name was Kissagautami. She went almost mad: husband is dead, she was living only for this child... and a beautiful child, suddenly died! She carried the body of the son to every physician, every doctor, to every...

... dead body of the child. She put the child's body in Buddha's feet and told him, "You can do everything - you are enlightened! Make my child live again. I cannot live without my child." Buddha did not do what Christ had done, Buddha did something far more significant. But to understand its significance one needs great clarity. This gentleman who says that my assertion that Vimalkirti has...

... only pure awareness and nothing else. You are not the body, nor the mind, nor the heart. You are the fourth, and the fourth is the miracle. Once you have tasted the fourth, then wherever you are - even in hell - but you will be in heaven. The second question: OSHO, I AM A MEMBER OF A GROUP IN HOLLAND CALLED "THE OPEN LOTUS", WHICH IS GATHERED AROUND A MEDIUM WHO CLAIMS TO TRANSFER MESSAGES...

... never changes. The body goes on changing from childhood to youth, from youth to middle age, from middle age to old age, from old age to death. The mind moves even faster. Every moment it is changing. In the morning it is one thing, in the evening it is something else. But behind mind and body there is some space which is absolutely eternal and remains the same whether your body is that of a child or...

... AND SLEEP NATURALLY AND EASILY. WHEN I MADE THE HUT, THE REEDS WERE NEW. WHEN THE HUT GETS TORN, I COVER IT WITH REEDS AGAIN. THE PERSON LIVING IN THE HUT IS ALWAYS THERE. He is talking about the body; the hut is only a symbol. The person living in there is always there. That will give you the clue that the hut is just a symbol, otherwise sometimes the person will have to go out to find food, to...

... find water. But the person remains there always. "HE DOES NOT BELONG TO INSIDE OR OUTSIDE" -- how can he belong to China or Japan? "I DO NOT LIVE WHERE ORDINARY PEOPLE LIVE ..." Where do ordinary people live? -- in the body, in the mind. Sekito is saying, "I DO NOT LIVE WHERE ORDINARY PEOPLE LIVE; I DO NOT LOVE WHAT ORDINARY PEOPLE LOVE." What is the love of ordinary...

... saying, "Whether this hut breaks down or not, does not matter." One who is living in it, the subject, your interiormost consciousness which is living in the body, is not affected whether the hut is breakable or unbreakable. Even in your death you never die. Even in your birth you are never born. You have always been here. Birth and death have happened many times, just small episodes in an...

... SOLUTIONS, ONLY KEEP YOU IN IGNORANCE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE IMMORTAL PERSON IN THE HUT, WHY DO YOU GO AWAY FROM THIS SKIN BAG? Your skin bag, your body, your hut, contains the buddha. If you really want to live without any problems and without any solutions, without any questions and without any answers -- just a pure innocent life, undisturbed by anything -- then don't go anywhere else. In this very...

... bag of skin, in this very body is the buddha, and in this very place is the lotus paradise. Sekito's statements are tremendously beautiful. It is absolutely right to call them Sekito's 'Song of the Grass Hut.' It is a song, and sung with great dignity and with great joy. Issa wrote: I HAVE NOTHING AT ALL -- BUT THIS TRANQUILITY! THIS COOLNESS! Perhaps he was writing for you. Just watch this...

... eyes, and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment. Everything is tranquil, a great coolness surrounds you. You can move inwards very easily. Gather all your energies, your total consciousness, and with an urgency as if this is going to be your last moment of life, rush towards your center of being. It is just exactly two inches below the navel inside you. Faster and faster...

... quality -- that of witnessing. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. And finally, witness that you are only a witness. This is the whole secret of meditation, the master key of Zen, which can open all the mysteries of existence, all the doors upon doors, skies upon skies. There is no end to it, only a beginning. Gautam Buddha is reported to have said, "Ignorance has...

... the infinite, into the eternal, into the ultimate, into the absolute. To make the witnessing more clear, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Relax ... but go on remembering that you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are only a witness. And as the witnessing will start becoming deeper and deeper, you will suddenly feel a great melting of consciousness, all boundaries disappearing. Gautama the Buddha...

... BODY MOVES, BUT HIS HEART IS. NOT WILLING. BUT WHEN YOUR HEARTS ARE IN ACCORD WITH THE WAY, THERE IS NO NEED OF TROUBLING YOURSELVES ABOUT YOUR OUTWARD DEMEANOR. THOSE WHO PRACTISE THE WAY MIGHT WELL FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF AN OX THAT MARCHES THROUGH THE DEEP MIRE CARRYING A HEAVY LOAD. HE IS TIRED, BUT HIS STEADY GAZE, LOOKING FORWARD, WILL NEVER RELAX UNTIL HE COMES OUT OF THE MIRE, AND IT IS ONLY...

... you share your love, or you share your experience, your meditation, your money, your house, your clothes, your body; that is not the point. But sharing should become essential. Ordinarily hoarding is essential. A hoarder will remain clinging to this shore; he cannot go to the other shore - because a hoarder, in the first place, cannot leave this shore. All his hoarding belongs to this shore. See the...

... body into that posture. First it will be uncomfortable; by and by the body adjusts. The body has tremendous capacity to adjust to any situation. Then you can force your body to sit unmoving. And if you go on doing it, by and by, after a few months you will become like a Buddha-statue. But that will be violence, and there will be no grace in it. Deep down you will be boiling; deep down there will be...

... hell-fire; deep down, you have not changed. How can you change just by changing the body? The real phenomenon has to be just otherwise: the within has to change, then the outward thing follows. And THEN it has grace. It is not a question of forcing the periphery - because the center will not be affected at all by forcing the periphery. You can keep quiet; that does not mean you are quiet. But if you...

... are quiet that certainly means you can keep quiet. This difference has to be understood. This is one of the most vital distinctions in a person's religious life: the Way is not from out to in, the Way is from in to out. Don't force things from the outside, and don't think that by changing your body and your outward demeanor you can change your inner qualities. No, it doesn't happen that way. Change...

... sit, you have to have something to do. So if somebody says, "Say, 'Ram, Ram, Ram,'" you have some excuse to sit silently for twenty minutes because you are doing 'Ram, Ram, Ram.' Whatsoever results come - your blood pressure goes low, your breathing becomes more silent, there are changes in the oxygen content of your body, even your heart beats with a different rhythm, you feel very...

... THROUGHOUT; SO IS THE BUDDHA'S TEACHING. THE BUDDHA SAID: O MONKS, YOU MUST NOT WALK ON THE WAY AS THE OX THAT IS ATTACHED TO A WHEEL. HIS BODY MOVES, BUT HIS HEART IS NOT WILLING. If your heart is not willing then there is no need. Then the time has not come for you to move on the Way or to go in search for the truth. Then you still need to live in the world and get a little more mature. But don't go...

... against the heart, because that going is useless. If your heart goes with you into the search for truth, only then go. HIS BODY MOVES, BUT HIS HEART IS NOT WILLING. BUT WHEN YOUR HEART IS IN ACCORD WITH THE WAY, THERE IS NO NEED OF TROUBLING YOURSELVES ABOUT YOUR OUTWARD DEMEANOR. Buddha says: If your heart is ready, if you have experienced life and the pain of it, if you have suffered life and...

...: Yes Video Available: No Length: 108 mins III.9. SIL SANTOSH SADA SAMADRISHTI HE WHO IS MEEK AND CONTENTED, HE WHO HAS AN EQUAL VISION, WHOSE MIND IS FILLED WITH THE FULLNESS OF ACCEPTANCE AND OF REST; HE WHO HAS SEEN HIM AND TOUCHED HIM, HE IS FREED FROM ALL FEAR AND TROUBLE. TO HIM THE PERPETUAL THOUGHT OF GOD IS LIKE SANDAL PASTE SMEARED ON THE BODY, TO HIM NOTHING ELSE IS DELIGHT: HIS WORK AND...

... much with eating, you are just hanging around the first lesson of love -- electrons, protons, neutrons, attracted by each other; your body attracting other body-matter from the outside. Of course there is a certain satisfaction, because whenever there is oneness there is satisfaction, there is content -- but it is of the very lower, the lowest. One should learn to go beyond it. Hence all the...

... religions teach the significance of fasting. Fasting does not mean starving, fasting does not mean that you have to kill your body, that you have to be destructive, no. Fasting simply means: give only as much a is needed, not more than that, so that you can become available on the second plane: you can become available to the second center. If you are obsessed too much with food, you will be closed by...

... food; you will become just material. One should not get attached too much to food and one should not get attached too much to fasting either. Then the balance is achieved. And only through balance is growth. The second center is SVADHISTHAN. When the child is healthy, happy, his body is whole, he starts dominating. A desire to dominate arises in the child, the child becomes a politician. He starts...

.... When for the first time you fall in love with a woman or with a man, there may be nothing of sex. Sooner or later, sex enters. When first you look at a beautiful woman, there may be reverence, a great awe -- as if you have seen God's face in her face. When you look into the eyes of a woman, suddenly a door opens to the mysterious. You are not thinking in terms of sex and body and the physical; you...

... eye: that becomes the third eye. Right now you have two eyes, two beings. Then you will have one eye. There is a saying of Jesus of tremendous import. Listen to it, meditate over it. Says Jesus: "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." He is talking about the third eye: If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. One eye is connected...

... TROUBLE. And fear will only leave you when you have touched him, when you have touched the deathless. Man is mortal: the body is mortal, the mind is mortal. As man we are going to die, so as man we can never be free of fear and trouble. Only when we recognize ourselves as gods, fear disappears and trouble disappears. People come to me every day. One of the basic problems is fear, and they say, "How...

... God. One day you were not: how can you trust that one day you will not disappear again -- how can you trust? You cannot remember yourself before birth -- how can you trust that after death you will be? The fear cannot leave. Get rid of yourself and fear disappears. TO HIM THE PERPETUAL THOUGHT OF GOD IS LIKE SANDAL PASTE SMEARED ON THE BODY, TO HIM NOTHING ELSE IS DELIGHT... And once you have...

... BODY, TO HIM NOTHING ELSE IS DELIGHT... And to one who has known this delight of being in God, then nothing else is delight. Then all pleasures disappear. Then there is only one delight, one joy: the joy of being in God, the joy of being part of him, the joy of being a drop in his ocean, a wave in his infinity. HIS WORK AND HIS REST ARE FILLED WITH MUSIC... And Kabir says: Only such a man is a real...

... of the spiritual urge in them. It is something physical, or something mental - which is the same, because your mind and body are not two things. They are two poles of the same phenomenon. And even if you are cured, nothing is cured in you. Even if you have a healthy body it makes no difference to your inner growth. Maybe, as you are health may not prove a blessing. It may even prove a curse to you...

... at Jesus and said, "You don't recognize me, my lord, but I recognize you - how can I forget you? I was blind and you touched my eyes, and now I can see. But what better can I do with my eyes than be charmed by a beautiful body? What more can I do with my eyes than cherish the beauty of form! What else is there to see? And I was blind, my lord, and you are so great, you blessed me. Now I can...

... else can one do with the body? I am enjoying! Eat, drink and be merry! I am following that rule. And now I am healthy because of you. You are so great!" Jesus became very sad. He had never imagined that health could be turned into a curse. He turned back. He was so sad that he didn't want to go into the town. When he was coming out of the town he saw a man who was trying to hang himself from a...

... picture was there. He made the headlines, front-page coverage. He wanted attention. People become criminals, people become antisocials, people become rebels, but it is attention that is needed. As I have been observing, ninety percent of hippies are not really in rebellion. Now this is a new way to attract attention: the way you grow your hair, the dirt and dirtiness that you collect on the body, the...

... what you call your heart is as much in your head as your head. You can become emotional very easily. You can cry and weep with tears falling down, big pearl-like tears - but nothing spiritual. Tears are as physical as anything else. The eyes are part of the body, and emotions are a disturbance in the physical energy. You cry and weep - of course you will feel relieved, you will feel relaxed after you...

... arising. They have jerks in the body and they think they have become very very spiritual. There is nothing spiritual in kundalini; it is a physical force. Don't be befooled by it. Then people come - they are seeing light. When they close their eyes they are seeing light... nothing but imagination. Good, you will have a good sleep if you can see light, because your mind is getting more concentrated. But...

... experience. You cannot experience it. If YOU experience it, it is something of the mind, something of the body - because how can you experience yourSELF? Your being cannot be reduced to an object. You remain the subject. You are subjectivity. Everything else that you can see will not be you. You are the seer. Spirituality is not an experience. It is not an object; you cannot watch and see it. YOU ARE IT...

... has a beauty of its own. That is the hidden splendor. That is the spiritual. Before that, everything is a game. There are games of the body - sex is the game of the body. There are games of the mind - love is the game of the mind. Spirituality is not a game. Everything finished, all games dropped, one comes back home, alone... sits in the home, no experience. All experiences are disturbances. When...