experience

ENLIGHTENMENT (3 stages of)
Osho in I say unto you, vol.1

Mini-Satori: This is when the first glimpse happens. When, for the first time, for a single moment mind is not functioning, there is a gap -- no thought between you and existence---and the meeting, merging, the communion... but for a moment. And from that moment the seed will be in your heart and growing.

Satori is what I call the second stage. It is when you have become capable of retaining this gap as long as you want. For hours together, days, you can remain in this interval, in this utter aloneness, in God, with God, as God. But a little effort is still needed on your part. Whenever you want you can create that milieu in you which brings it. You can relax, if it comes in relaxation; you can dance if it comes in dance. You can go under the sky if it comes there. You can watch a rose flower if it happens there. You can go and float in a river if it happens there. That's how all the methods have been discovered. They have been discovered by people when they found out that in a certain situation it happens. It is almost like your radio or like your TV: it is always there, sounds are always passing; you just have to tune the radio to a certain station -- and the song, and the news. But still, effort is needed to tune. You are not continuously tuned on your own, you have to work it out. Some days it is easy, some days it is hard. If you are in a negative mood it is hard, if you are angry, it is hard. If you are loving it is easier. In the early morning it is easier, in the evening it is more difficult. Alone on a mountain it is easier, in the market-place it is more difficult.

Samadhi: When you become so capable of finding it that any moment, whenever you want it -- not a single moment is lost -- you immediately can pinpoint it, then the third thing happens. It becomes a natural quality.

Self

We go round and round in search of atma [Self] saying, 

`Where is atma? 

Where is it ? 

till at last the dawn of jnana drishti [vision of knowledge] is reached, and we say, 

`This is atma this is me.' 

We should acquire that vision. 

When once that vision is reached, there will be no attachments even if one mixes with the world and moves about in it. 

When once you put on shoes your feet do not feel the pain of walking on any number of stones or thorns on the way. You walk about without fear or care, even if there are mountains on the way. 

In the same way, everything will be natural to those who have attained jnana drishti. 

WHAT IS THERE APART FROM ONE'S OWN SELF ? 

 Q: The natural state can be known only after all this worldly vision Subsides. But how is it to subside ? 

 A: If the mind subsides, the whole world subsides. Mind is the cause of all this. If that subsides, the natural state presents itself. 

The Self proclaims itself at all times as `I, I'. 

It is self- luminous. 

It is here. 

All this is that. 

We are in that only. 

Being in it, why search for it ? 

The ancients say: 

`Making the vision absorbed in jnana one sees the world as Brahman.`

~ Be as you are. The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi edited by David Godman.

who i am

 When you have time and you're not concentrating on your work, 

ask yourself again 

“Who works? 

I do. 

Who am I?" 

You do this all day long. 

When you go home, 

you're eating supper, you ask yourself 

“Who eats supper? 

I do? 

Who am I?" 

As you’re going to sleep, you ask yourself “Who’s going to sleep? 

I am? 

Who am I?" 

By the way, if you've got insomnia this is the best thing you can ever do for yourself. It’ll make you fall asleep right away. 

As you practice this way, something very interesting is going to transpire. As the days pass, as the weeks pass, you 

will notice that you're asking the question less and less. 

You're saying “Who am I?" and now five minutes pass, ten minutes pass, and there are no thoughts. 

In the effortless no-thought stage there is total happiness. 

You find you're just happy for no reason at all. 

You can be going through the worst calamity physically, but yet you have a happiness you've never felt before. And your work is being done more efficiently. You're no longer reacting to  person, place or thing. 

You just feel good. 

How long does it take before you become awakened and liberated? 

This is determined by the effort you put into it. 

If you inquire only in the morning, you've got a long way to go. 

If you inquire all day long, you can never tell what's  going to happen, but I can assure you that your life will change drastically. 

It has to. You know why? 

Because you  have no time to think of your problems. You have no time to think of the world. 

When your mind is not thinking of 

your problems or the world, it becomes weaker and weaker, and your problems become less and less important. You 

become a blissful, beautiful person. 

You have to do it. 

I can lead you to the goldmine, but you have to do the digging. I can share these things with you, 

but unless you do it yourself, you will never know that your real state of mind is consciousness. 

Your mind is really consciousness. 

You are pure awareness, absolute reality. You are sat-chit-ananda. 

You were never born, you can never die. You will live for ever, just as you are now, as the self. 

Prove this to yourself. 

Find out for yourself. 

Do not believe what I say. 

Do the practice and see what happens. 

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1

# Absolute Nothingness