From Unconciousness to Consciousness- Osho

(16) Osho

In India Jawarharlal Nehru was the prime minister when the Dalai Lama came there. He welcomed him. That was his politics, because in India, Buddhism once was the religion of almost the whole country. But then after Buddha's death Hindus destroyed everything that was possible. So either the Buddhist monks had to escape -- that's how Tibet became Buddhist, Ceylon became Buddhist, Japan became Buddhist, China became Buddhist, Korea became Buddhist, Vietnam became Buddhist, Indo-China became Buddhist, Burma became Buddhist, the whole of Asia... except India, where Buddha was born and where he worked and where he transformed people.

In India Buddhism completely disappeared. Either the Buddhist monk had to leave India or he was killed, burned alive, or reduced to the lowest caste in India -- the untouchable, sudra. The chamars in India, the shoemakers in India, they are all Buddhists -- they were reduced, forced to make shoes only, and do nothing else. In a country like India where vegetarianism is thought to be one of the fundamentals of religion, who is going to kill animals and who is going to make shoes and other leather things? The Buddhists were forced..."If you want to be alive and you want to live here, then choose this profession." Everybody was happy; Hindus and Jainas all were happy that they had been put in their right place.

But what happened? After independence, one man, Doctor Ambedkar, started converting the chamars, the shoemakers, back to Buddhism. He converted thousands of people back to Buddhism. He created a great movement back to Buddhism, and there was a possibility that millions would turn. He died, but still he left a strong force of Buddhism behind him.

Now, Nehru wanted this force to be with him. The Dalai Lama was the perfectly right person, because all those Buddhists would listen

to the Dalai Lama. And the Dalai Lama had to listen to Jawaharlal, otherwise..."Go back, or go anywhere else you want to go." Jawaharlal gave him space against China. China raised the question: "This will be a surety that we are no more friends. You hand over the Dalai Lama to us."

They wanted the Dalai Lama in their hands because Panchen Lama is not so powerful. Although the Tibetans have accepted him, the Dalai Lama was their chosen leader. This has been imposed by the Chinese; reluctantly they have accepted. If the Dalai Lama had been given back to China, they would have forced him to be in Tibet, to be the Dalai Lama again... but instructions were received from Mao Zedong: "The country will be under us." Nehru refused to deliver the Dalai Lama to him.

You will be surprised, even a country like America.... Just four years ago, the Dalai Lama was invited by American Buddhists. Because there are a few Zen monasteries and a few American Buddhists, they had invited the Dalai Lama. The American government stopped him from entering the country because that would create enmity with China. And for America, the Dalai Lama has no meaning because these few Buddhists don't count.

What I am telling you is that these politicians and these priests have been constantly in conspiracy, working together hand in hand. The politician has the political power; the priest has the religious power. The politician protects the priest, the priest blesses the politician -- and the masses are exploited, sucked; their blood is sucked by both. Remove God and you remove the politicians, you remove the politics, you remove the priest, you remove the conspiracy between the priest and the politician. And with these two removed, fifty percent of your miseries will disappear.

The idea of God gives you dreams of a better life... after death, perhaps in paradise or in another incarnation. So there is not so much to be worried about -- this life, it is a small thing, what does it matter? In millions and millions of light years, what does it matter, seventy years? It does not count at all.

OSHO...☆☆☆

Book Name: From Unconciousness to Consciousness

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(15) Grow Wild - Ảnh từ bài viết của Grow Wild trong Osho

(15) Grow Wild - Ảnh từ bài viết của Grow Wild trong Osho

Gautam Buddha's third body has been hovering around the world to find someone to become a vehicle, so that whatever he said twenty-five centuries ago can be updated, resurrected, made fit for the modern man - for the new man who is going to be born.

In twenty-five centuries so much dust has gathered that unless something absolutely fresh begins...

There are millions of Buddhists, there are thousands of great Buddhist monks; it looks simply absurd that he should not choose a vehicle from these people. It will be just natural and logical to choose a Dalai Lama or a great Buddhist monk, learned.

But you have to remember - that is one of my basic emphases - that these people cannot be chosen, because they are still hanging on to the Buddha that was twenty-five centuries ago. To choose them as vehicles is just meaningless; they will be repeating the same.

I love Gautam Buddha as I have not loved any other master, but my love is not blind. I have criticized him as severely as possible. I have praised him when I have found him right - right for today, right for tomorrow, right for the new humanity to come. And I have criticized him severely whenever I have found that he is twenty-five centuries old, still carrying conditionings, rotten ideas which are of no use for the new man, but will be a great hindrance.

Govind Siddharth must have been puzzled seeing what he has seen, because I would appear to be the last man that Gautam Buddha would choose to be a vehicle.

But this is the beauty of Gautam Buddha: he understands that the message has to be for the present and for the future, that he needs an absolutely fresh being - unattached to any old tradition, his tradition included - a man absolutely untraditional, unorthodox. A man of today, as fresh as today's rose - even if the man goes many times against the teachings of the old Buddha.

I was not going to declare it for the simple reason that then it would become difficult for me to criticize the old man. So I was keeping completely aloof, so that my freedom and my independence are not in any way curtailed.

I have my own message.

If Gautam Buddha finds that my message has the essentials of his message too, then it is his choice.

It is not a burden on me. I will go on criticizing him whenever I find anything that is not right for human growth in the future.

But Govind Siddharth's difficulty was that he could not keep it a secret. One of the most difficult things in the world is to keep a secret - and such a secret!

But I will remain exactly the same as I am, no compromise. Gautam Buddha and all the masters of the past can choose me as their vehicles, but I will not allow any pollution. My message will remain my message.

Yes, they can... and Govind Siddharth says it rightly: The river can fall into the ocean; thousands of rivers can fall into the ocean - they don't make the ocean sweet. They themselves become salty.

Gautam Buddha has chosen me as his vehicle because it was difficult now to keep hanging around in his third body anymore. Twenty-five centuries have passed; in fact a few more years have passed.

He had to choose, but he has chosen a person who has his own message. It will surely be beautiful if it coincides with his essentials, but if it does not coincide, then I am going to be as hard on him as I have been before. It will not make any difference.

I am not going to be his voice, I am going to remain my voice.

But what Govind Siddharth has seen is a tremendous experience, a great realization.

There are two more persons present here - if they gather courage, then their questions will be coming. If they cannot gather courage, then they will always remain burdened with a secret. It is better to bring it in the open and be free of it - and anyway it is in the open, Govind Siddharth has done almost 99.9 percent of the work. Nothing is left for you.

Anybody who has been close to me has felt it many times, that I bring Gautam Buddha, his life, his stories, more than those of anybody else to illustrate some of my ideas. Gautam Buddha comes very close to me. The difference is not of twenty-five centuries - maybe only twenty-five centimeters - but the difference is there.

I am not a person who compromises.

I will not be compromising with Gautam Buddha either, but whatever is ultimate truth is nobody's possession, neither Gautam Buddha's nor mine. Only the non-essentials are different; the essential is always the same. And my effort is to cut all non-essentials and give you only the pure, essential message. Because only the essential religion is going to survive in the future. The non-essential rituals are all going to be dead.

With this century ending, there will be a religiousness in the world but no religions.

Perhaps he has chosen a right man.

And he has also chosen a right man in Govind Siddharth to declare the fact. I was not going to declare it, because declaration from my side brings a certain compromise, as if I have become a vehicle of somebody else's message.

I am nobody's vehicle. In fact, my message and Gautam Buddha's message are almost parallel - so parallel, so similar that it can be said that he was my vehicle or it can be said that I am his vehicle.

But it is not going to change my approach in any way. Now I will be even harder on Gautam Buddha, so that only the most essential and the purest part of him reaches to humanity in the future.

OSHO...☆☆☆

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-Osho The Rebel CHAPTER 19. THE PROMISE OF PARADISE (15) Osho

(15) Osho

Gautam Buddha used to tell his disciples, ”Before you become enlightened, imbibe the spirit of compassion.”

One of his disciples, Sariputta, asked him, ”Why this insistence? – because we have heard you say many times that ‘enlightenment brings compassion,’ so what is the need to imbibe the state of compassion before enlightenment? This seems to be contradictory.”

Gautam Buddha said, ”It seems to be contradictory, but the purposes are different. The compassion that comes to you after enlightenment... you will not be able to share it if you have not practiced, disciplined yourself before enlightenment for this tremendous experience to happen – to remain alive just for the sake of those who are still groping their way in the dark alleys of life.”

Hence, there are two kinds of enlightened people: one is called the arhata, and the other is called the bodhisattva. The arhata is one who has not disciplined himself in the art of compassion; so when he becomes enlightened, his work is finished. He has no need to linger on this shore of life, his boat is ready to go to the further shore.

The bodhisattva has the same experience of enlightenment, but he has disciplined himself in compassion; so when enlightenment comes to him – that tremendous treasure of knowing oneself, one’s love, one’s truth, one’s beauty, one’s joy, one’s blissfulness – he’s so disciplined in compassion that, although his boat has arrived, he will try to linger on this shore as long as he can, to share.

He has come to a completion as far as he is concerned. But what about others? – they are millions, and they are suffering in the same way he has suffered. Their misery is great, their blindness has remained with them for centuries; but now he knows it is curable, now he knows he can give them a helping hand to find the way out, to open their eyes, to look at themselves.

His presence may trigger the same experience in others, it is contagious. The question is just that it is very difficult for him to linger on because the captain of his boat goes on calling, ”Your time is up, and I have to go to the further shore – you enter into the boat.”

Gautam Buddha used to say, ”Don’t die as an arhat – it is a perfect death, you have come home.

Die as a bodhisattva – not only have you come home, but you have put thousands of others afire.”

His own story, when he died, is tremendously beautiful. It is just a story, but it carries his essential teaching: that when you have, share. When you have, then see that it is not possessed only by you – keep alert that it does not become a possession to you. Let it become the possession of all.

When he himself died, after forty-two years of lingering on this shore keeping his boat waiting, the story is that he reached the doors of paradise. Those doors rarely open, only once in a while, in centuries – visitors don’t come every day. And whenever someone comes to those doors, the whole of paradise celebrates it; one more consciousness has attained to flowering, and existence is far more rich than it has ever been before.

-Osho
The Rebel
CHAPTER 19. THE PROMISE OF PARADISE

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TANTRA FAILED FOR TWO REASONS- Osho

(14) Osho

TANTRA FAILED FOR TWO REASONS:

Meditation should be the most primary thing.

Osho what are the shortcomings of Tantra?

It is not a complete system.There is a basic fallacy that human beings fall into:They find a small truth, a part of the truth,And rather than discover the whole, the remaining part,They imagine to fill up the gap.Because they have part of the truth, they can argue and they can manage to make a system,But the remaining part is simply their invention.

All the systems have done that.

Rather than discovering the whole truth,
It is the human tendency to say: "Why bother?We have found a small piece, which is enough for the showcase,Which is enough to silence any enemy who raises any question."And the remaining is just invention.

For example, Tantra is right that sexual energy is the basic energy,So this energy should be transformed into higher forms.
It is a truth.But what happened is that they never went very deep into meditation;
Meditation remained just secondary.

And man's sexuality shows itself so powerful,That in the name of Tantra,
It became simply sexual orgy.

Without meditation that was going to happen.

Meditation should have been the most primary thing,Because that is going to transform the energy,But that became secondary.

And many people who were sexually perverted, sexually repressed,
Joined the Tantra School.

These were the people who brought all their perversions,All their repression.They were not interested in any transformation,
They were interested only in getting rid of their repression;Their interest was basically sexual.

So, although Tantra has a piece of truth, it could not be used rightly.

Unless that piece of truth is put in second place,And meditation moves into first place,
it will always happen that in Tantra,
People will be doing all kinds of perversions.

And with a great name, they will not feel
That they are doing anything wrong;
They will feel that they are doing something religious,Something spiritual.

T A N T R A failed for two reasons.

One was an inner reason.That meditation was not made the central point.
And second,Tantra had no special methodologyFor the perverted and the repressed,So that first their repression and perversions are settledAnd they become normal.

And once they become normal,
Then they are introduced to meditation.
Only after deep meditation should they be allowedIn Tantra experiments.

It was a wrong arrangement,So the whole thing became,In the name of a great system,
Just an exploitation of sex.

First people should be introduced to meditation, and then they should be introduced to Tantra methods.

This is not T A N T R A.

Tantra methods are totally different.
These people who are doing Tantra,
they don't know anything about Tantra.

For example Ramakrishna meditated deeply,
and whenever he felt any sexual urge disturbing his meditation,he would ask his wife Sharda - who was a beautiful woman -
to sit on a high stool, naked, and he would sit in front of her, just looking at her,
meditating on her till that sexual urge subsided.

Then he would touch the feet of Sharda, his own wife,and he would thank her, saying:
"You have been helping me immensely;
otherwise, where would I have gone?
The urge needed some expression,
and just watching you was enough."

The temple of Khajuraho has beautiful statues in all sexual postures.

It was a Tantra School, that made the temple and those statues.

And the first thing the student had to do,
was to meditate on each statue.
And they are arranged in such a way, that from one corneryou go around the temple in a circle.

It may take six months, but you have to watch each statue,
until you can see it just as a statue,
with no sexuality in it -
and it is in a sexual posture.

But in your watching it, seeing it for months,
it becomes a pure piece of art;all
pornography disappears.

Then you move to another.And all the perversions of human mind have been put into the statues.

And when you have circled the whole temple,only then will th Master allow you inside the temple.Those six months are of immense meditation and of tremendous release,all repression gone;you ar feeling absolutely light.Then the Master allows you in.And inside the temple there is no sexual statue;inside the temple there is nothing - emptiness.

Then the Master teaches you how to go deeper into your meditation,which has arisen in the six months, and now you can go very deep,because there is no hindrance, no problem, no sexuality.

And this going deep into meditation with no sexual disturbance means,the sexual energy is moving with th meditation,not against it

That is how it is transformed and takes higher forms.

OSHO...☆☆☆

From: "The Path of the Mystic"

Osho's talks in Uruguay

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(14) Sonu Os - Ảnh từ bài viết của Sonu Os trong Osho

(14) Sonu Os - Ảnh từ bài viết của Sonu Os trong Osho



I have been leading a revolution, not of gradualness – so once in a while be fearless. And remember, with me there is no danger. 

I have nothing to lose, I have lost everything. I have nothing more to lose because now I have only that which cannot be lost – ever.

The Upanishads sing, "Take us beyond the deathless....” Who can do it for you? ...



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''Osho,Above All, Don’t Wobble, Talk #22''

(13) Osho

Body Wisdom :- '' Living With the Mystery ''

One of the basic problems facing the modern mind: we try to understand everything...and life is basically a mystery.
I’m never quiet inside.

There is still some anger inside me that I don’t understand yet. Something says to be quiet, to shut up but I have a hard time listening to that voice inside saying to be quiet. I’m afraid of it.

Just don’t repress the anger anymore. Whatsoever is left has to be brought out, because that is the only way to be really quiet.

You can forcibly still yourself but the stillness is and sooner or later it will be...

disturbed because just underneath it the anger is boiling and waiting for its moment and the opportunity. Then one goes on sitting on a volcano. Everything seems quiet when the volcano is not erupting, is not active, but it is preparing inside. Some anger has come out, some is still there – and the anger that has come out was superficial.

Throw the anger that needs to come out is deeper – that’s why it is difficult to understand it.
One part of the anger is understandable because it is related to people, to situations.

You can understand why you are angry; the why is clear. But when this layer, this superficial layer of anger is thrown away, then suddenly you come on a source of anger that is not related to the outside at all, which is simply part of you. Nobody has insulted you, in fact there is no excuse to be angry – and then it is there. It becomes very difficult to understand because you cannot throw the responsibility on anybody else.

Now it is something that is within you, that belongs to you. We have been taught that anger comes only in a certain tense situation. That’s not true.

We are born with anger, it is part of us.

In certain situations it comes up; in certain other situations it is inactive, but it is there. So one first has to throw the anger that is related, and then one comes on the deeper source of anger that is unrelated to anybody else – that you are born with. It is unaddressed, and that’s the trouble in understanding it. But there is no need to understand it. Just throw it, not on anybody, but on a pillow, on the sky, on God, on me! Just throwing is the point.

And because it is unrelated it has to be absurd. You don’t know where to throw it, how to throw it, on whom to pour it. If you pour it on someone you will feel very guilty, because the other has not deserved it at all. That’s the mystery of it, and it makes one feel very disturbed.

This is going to happen with every emotion. There is a part of love that is related to someone. Then if you go deeper, one day you will come to the source of love that is unaddressed. It is not moving towards anybody; it is simply there, there inside. And the same is true of everything you feel. Everything has two sides.

One, the unconscious, the deeper side, is simply with you, and the superficial is the functioning of this deeper layer in relationship. People who remain superficial always completely forget their own inner treasures. When you throw out the inner anger, you come face to face with inner love, inner compassion. The rubbish has to be thrown out so that you can come to the purest gold within you.

So make it a point – don’t try to understand it.

That is one of the basic problems facing the whole West, the modern mind: we try to understand everything…and life is basically a mystery.

You can live it, but you cannot understand it. And if you insist that you have to understand, then you will remain superficial.

Intellect goes only on the surface, only to a certain extent, then it cannot go deeper. The depth is not the dimension of the intellect; length is the dimension of the intellect. So if you want to know details, the intellect can give you many and many and many, but it cannot move in any depth;

it cannot dig any fact in the dimension of depth, vertically. So forget about it.

There is no need to understand.
Anger is there; that’s enough to know.

And it has to be thrown out, because if anger remains in you, you will never feel quiet and still; it will go on burning like a fire inside. It will go on finding excuses outside, and if you don’t throw it without any excuse, you will throw it with some excuse – and then the trouble is more complicated. 
You throw it on the wife, the children, the friend, somebody. 
Then you are creating more complexities for yourself because you have missed the point. So this is a good insight. Use it now.

''Osho,Above All, Don’t Wobble, Talk #22''

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3 Signs You Reincarnated Into This Life | Spirit Science and Metaphysics

3 Signs You Reincarnated Into This Life | Spirit Science and Metaphysics

3 Signs You Reincarnated Into This Life

 BY STEVEN BANCARZJANUARY 25, 2015SELF DISCOVERY, SELF HELP, SPIRITUALITY

By Steven Bancarz| Reincarnation is spoken of a lot as something that is a possible outcome for us when our physical bodies die.  But rarely do we look at our current lives and wonder in we are a reincarnate.

I recently wrote an article titled “4 signs that this isn’t your first life on earth“, and it seemed to resonate with a lot of people.  I was amazed at how many people ended up messaging me saying it made so much sense to them.  It’s not a coincidence that you happen to feel as though you have lived here before while simultaneously holding an interest for spirituality.  At some point, we have to look within ourselves and wonder if we are currently living as a reincarnate.

Most people don’t read articles like this.  They don’t believe in the existence of a soul, let alone reincarnation.  Chances are, you are not just another number in the human population.  You have special qualities that make you feel different from other people.

I believe this is because you are part of a special group of people that reincarnated here on purpose.  Maybe you came here to help others evolve, to alleviate karma, or to develop as a soul.  Whatever the reason may be, here are 3 signs that you have reincarnated into this life:

1) Your life is full of lessons

From an early age, your life has been full of lessons.  Either you have been through a lot of things emotionally, or you are very reflective by nature and extract lessons from any instance you can.   From a young age, you have constantly had experiences which cause to to reflect and evolve.  Other people seem to cruise through life on autopilot, but you have experienced a thing or two.  And because of this, you have lots of wisdom you can offer to other people.

In fact, you may even begin to look at hardships as opportunities to evolve and will start welcoming them into your reality.  This is because you reincarnated here on purpose to evolve as a soul.  You have a tendency to come across challenges in life that force you to grow and evolve, and this is all part of the plan.  Your life is more full of reflection and spiritual growth than the average person, because you came here with the mindset of treating this life as a schoolhouse for your soul.  You didn’t just come here to build a cozy nest for yourself and then die. You came here with a mission to evolve.

2) You aren’t easily fooled

You aren’t socially naive.  You have been through here before, so you have a natural ability to decipher the psychological states of other individuals.  You aren’t as susceptible to brainwashing as other people, which is why you have a hard time taking the “news” seriously.  You know flakiness when you see it, and subliminal messages stick out like a soar thumb for you.

You can see through people and into their real intentions, which is why people have a hard time pulling a quick one on you.  Not everybody has the gift of having an awesome bullsh*t detector, and this is not just because you have a different genetic code than other people.  From a young age, you have been able to get a really good read on people. This is because you’ve been through here a few times and are familiar with different psychological games people like to play.  You recognize signs when you see them.

3) You have a longing to go back home

You may not know where “home” is right now, but you know it’s not here.  You KNOW, somewhere deep in your soul, that planet earth is not your final destination.  Because you know earth is not really your home, you feel a deep unease at times and start to miss where you existed prior to coming here.  We may call it Heaven or the Spirit World, but regardless of what we call it, you know within your soul that your real home is located in a realm beyond the physical.

Not everybody has this homesickness.  Some people may think “what are you talking about, of course this place is home.”  But for you, you have came to earth and went back to the Spirit World enough times to know where you truly belong.  You may not be able to put your finger on why it is you feel that way, and your mind may not understand it, but your soul is longing for the comfort of home.  This homesickness may also be caused by the fact that you may have family members up there who you were with prior to coming here, who are waiting for you to return after you complete your mission in this life.

If you are reading this right now, take a moment reflect on your life and the way in which you interact with it.  Do you believe this to be your first time coming through here? Has anyone ever called you an old soul before?  Treat this life as your mission.  You came here on purpose.  You’re special. Don’t forget to look for the signs the universe is sending you each day.

About the Author: My name is Steven Bancarz, and I am the creator of ‘Spirit Science and Metaphysics’.  Thank you for reading this article! Within the next month, I plan to have my first YouTube video out called “How To Meditate”, and I am also currently building an online conscious forum to bring truth-seekers together to connect and share advice with one another.  If you are interested in staying connected, feel free to subscribe to my newsletter HERE.

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S I G N A T U R E- Osho

(12) Swami Neelamber - Ảnh từ bài viết của Swami Neelamber trong Osho

S I G N A T U R E
"I can be your master only if I am not. If I am, then I cannot be a real master; then I can only be an egoist exploiting people.
I am only a guest. That means you cannot take me for granted. Today I am here, tomorrow I may not be here. Today I am available, tomorrow I may not be available. Today I am speaking, tomorrow I may stop speaking. I am not predictable. In that sense I am only a guest.
The Indian word for "guest" is very beautiful; the Indian word is atithi. Tithi means "date" and atithi means one who comes without giving a date, and who leaves without giving a date. He comes suddenly and he leaves suddenly. His coming and going is not controllable. His coming and going is just like a breeze: it comes, and you feel the coolness of it, and then it goes. You cannot prevent it. If you close all the doors and the windows so that it cannot go out, there will not be any breeze; there will be only stale air.
The master is as free as the breeze.
And the master is absent as far as his personality is concerned. He is just a vehicle — a flute, a hollow bamboo — to allow existence to reach to you. His function is not to do anything; his function is not to obstruct existence reaching to you. So he is a non-doer: he cannot take the credit for anything. He is just an instrument in the hands of existence. Whatever song, whatever music existence wants to play on it, it plays. The master has no objection, no obstruction.
So you are right: you can say your master lives upstairs. And the master always lives upstairs. But I cannot say I am a master; I can only say I am a hollow bamboo. You can make a flute of me; existence can sing a song through me. My quality is only that I will not be in the way. I will allow existence in its purity to touch your heart.
Everything that I will do or say will not be mine.
You have seen my signature. Thousands of times people have asked me, "What does this signature mean? Which is the language you are signing in?" It means nothing! It is no language. I have replied in different ways, but in fact I cannot sign — I am not here. So I have simply created a symbol.
My signature says nothing; it is just symbolic. It indicates something but it says nothing, it means nothing. It is not my name.
It is the greatest benediction in the world to be in this state where you can say 'I am not, only existence is.' "
— OSHO, The Path of the Mystic, Chapter #4 - 6 May 1986, am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Osho's Signature Art: — http://on.fb.me/1dASnoM
OSHO
Never Born
Never Died
Only Visited this
Planet Earth between
December 11 1931 ― January 19 1990
S I G N A T U R E

"I can be your master only if I am not. If I am, then I cannot be a real master; then I can only be an egoist exploiting people.

I am only a guest. That means you cannot take me for granted. Today I am here, tomorrow I may not be here. Today I am available, tomorrow I may not be available. Today I am speaking, tomorrow I may stop speaking. I am not predictable. In that sense I am only a guest.

The Indian word for "guest" is very beautiful; the Indian word is atithi. Tithi means "date" and atithi means one who comes without giving a date, and who leaves without giving a date. He comes suddenly and he leaves suddenly. His coming and going is not controllable. His coming and going is just like a breeze: it comes, and you feel the coolness of it, and then it goes. You cannot prevent it. If you close all the doors and the windows so that it cannot go out, there will not be any breeze; there will be only stale air.

The master is as free as the breeze.

And the master is absent as far as his personality is concerned. He is just a vehicle — a flute, a hollow bamboo — to allow existence to reach to you. His function is not to do anything; his function is not to obstruct existence reaching to you. So he is a non-doer: he cannot take the credit for anything. He is just an instrument in the hands of existence. Whatever song, whatever music existence wants to play on it, it plays. The master has no objection, no obstruction.

So you are right: you can say your master lives upstairs. And the master always lives upstairs. But I cannot say I am a master; I can only say I am a hollow bamboo. You can make a flute of me; existence can sing a song through me. My quality is only that I will not be in the way. I will allow existence in its purity to touch your heart.

Everything that I will do or say will not be mine.

You have seen my signature. Thousands of times people have asked me, "What does this signature mean? Which is the language you are signing in?" It means nothing! It is no language. I have replied in different ways, but in fact I cannot sign — I am not here. So I have simply created a symbol.

My signature says nothing; it is just symbolic. It indicates something but it says nothing, it means nothing. It is not my name.

It is the greatest benediction in the world to be in this state where you can say 'I am not, only existence is.' "

— OSHO, The Path of the Mystic, Chapter #4 - 6 May 1986, am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay

Osho's Signature Art: — http://on.fb.me/1dASnoM

OSHO
Never Born
Never Died
Only Visited this
Planet Earth between
December 11 1931 ― January 19 1990

*** OSHO **" Meditation: the Art of Ecstasy”

(12) Ảnh từ bài viết của Yaddanapudi Sri... - Yaddanapudi Sri Pandarinath

Yaddanapudi Sri Pandarinath‎OSHO and Celebration of Life

Q: Is it helpful to visualize and know what is happening during meditation – for example, the movement of kundalini and the opening of the chakras?

OSHO says: -

"There are chakras, but the number differs with each individual. One may have seven, one may have nine; one may have more, one may have less. That is the reason why so many different traditions have developed. Buddhists talk of nine chakras, Hindus talk of seven, Tibetans talk of four and they are all right!

The root of kundalini, the passage through which kundalini passes, is also different with each individual. The more you go in, the more individual you are. For instance, in your body your face is the most individual part, and in the face the eyes are even more individual. Everything changes, but the eyes remain the same. Eyes are expressive of the inner world. But kundalini is still deeper.

No theoretical knowledge is helpful. When you have some theoretical knowledge, you begin to impose it on yourself. You begin to visualize things to be the way you have been taught, but they may not correspond to your individual situation. Then much confusion is created.

One has to feel the chakras, not know about them. You have to feel; you have to send feelers inside yourself. Only when you feel your chakras, and your kundalini and its passage, is it helpful; otherwise, it is not helpful. In fact, knowledge has been very destructive as far as the inner world is concerned. The more knowledge gained, the less the possibility of feeling the real, the authentic, things.

All that is within is not necessarily real or true, because imagination is also within, dreams are also within.

The mind has a faculty – a very powerful faculty – to dream, to create illusions, to project. That is why it is good to proceed in meditation completely unaware of kundalini, of chakras. If you stumble upon them, then it is good. You may come to feel something; only then, ask. You may begin to feel a chakra working, but let the feeling come first. You may feel energy rising up, but let the feeling come first. Do not imagine, do not think about it, do not make any intellectual effort to understand beforehand. No pre-notion is needed; not only is it not needed, it is positively harmful.

One thing more: it is not necessary to pass through chakras. It is not necessary; one can just bypass them. It is also not necessary that you will feel kundalini before enlightenment. The phenomenon is very different from what you may think. Kundalini is not felt because it is rising; kundalini is only felt if you do not have a very clear passage. If the passage is completely clear-cut, then the energy flows but you cannot feel it. You feel it when there is something there that resists the flow. If the energy flows upward and you have blocks in the passage, only then do you feel it. So the person who feels more kundalini is really blocked: there are many blocks in the passage, so the kundalini cannot flow.

When there is resistance, then the kundalini is felt. You cannot feel energy directly unless there is resistance. If kundalini moves and there are no blocks, then you will never feel any chakras. That is why someone may feel nine chakras, someone else may feel ten chakras, and someone else may feel only three or four, or one, or none. It depends. In actual fact, there are infinite chakras and at every movement, every step of the kundalini, a chakra is by the side to help. If the help is needed, it can be given.

Meditation as such is not really concerned with kundalini at all.

One has to go into meditation, then the energy begins to move. The part that is to be done by you is meditation. If you are deep in it, then the inner energy begins to move upward, and you will feel the change of flow. It will be felt in so many ways: even physiologically the change can be known.

So be concerned with meditation and not with kundalini. And when you are aware, things will begin to happen in you. For the first time you will become aware of an inner world that is greater, vaster, more extensive than the universe; energies unknown, completely unknown, will begin to flow in you. Phenomena never heard of, never imagined or dreamed of, will begin to happen. But with each person they differ, so it is good not to talk about them.

Only meditation is to be taught and to be listened to and to be understood. Then, everything else will just follow.

The Dynamic Meditation method that I am using is concerned with kundalini.

It is easier to work with kundalini because it is the second body that you are concerned with. The more deeply you go – to the third or the fourth body – the more difficult it becomes. The second body is the nearest one to your physical body, and there are corresponding points in your physical body, so it is easier.

If you work with the third body, the corresponding points are in the second body. If you work with the fourth, the corresponding points are in the third. Then your physical body is not concerned; you cannot feel anything at all in your physical body. But with kundalini you can feel each step accurately, and you know where you are. Then you are more confident. With the other methods you will have to learn techniques that will help you to feel the corresponding points in the second body or in the third body, and that takes its own time.

If you are concerned with any method, be concerned with it totally. Don't be involved in any other method, don't even think about any other method, because then it will become confusing. And the passage of kundalini is so subtle and so unknown that confusion will be harmful.

My method of Dynamic Meditation is concerned with kundalini. Even if you just go on watching your breath, it will be helpful to kundalini because breath, accompanied by prana, the life energy, is concerned with the etheric body, the second body. It, too, is not concerned with your physical body. It is being taken from your physical body, it is being drawn from your physical body, but your physical body is just the door.

My whole method is concerned with kundalini. Once the method has been grasped, everything can be done by it. Now, nothing more is needed.

Any method should channel the whole energy into one dimension. That is what my method of Dynamic Meditation does, and that is why it begins with ten minutes of deep, fast breathing.

*** OSHO **" Meditation: the Art of Ecstasy”