osho

live here now

Forget about yesterday. Forget about the way you were brought up, what happened to you, who hurt you. Don't concern yourself with the future. It makes no difference what is going on in your life at the present time, so just drop it. Leave it alone. Live in the moment. Be spontaneous. 

~ Robert Adams.

ego

The ego is never your friend.

The ego exists only to confuse you and confound you. 

That is why it appears to exist. 

But to whom does the ego exist? 

Only to the mind.

Destroy the mind by not thinking about it. 

If you do not think about the mind it becomes weaker and weaker 

and finally it's totally annihilated. 

For everything works by itself. 

It takes care of itself, in its own time and in its own place.

That is why I emphasize so much, turn into yourself. 

Never try to solve your problems. 

You cannot do it, 

rather know yourself, 

be yourself 

and see if any problems disturb you at all. 

If you would only turn within yourself and stop trying to 

change other people or 

change conditions or 

change behavior patterns. 

Leave these things alone. 

Be yourself ! 

Love yourself ! 

Worship yourself !

And then see what happens to you.

~Robert Adams

mooji

Nothing bad happen to you. Mooji

silence

Ramana Maharshi 

Silence is a powerful tool and Ramana Maharshi understood this concept well. 

He recognized that silence is truth, bliss, peace, and the Self. 

He understood that there is a deep importance in stillness

and that it can bring one closer to their sense of self-discovery and growth.

Silence can be a form of meditation, allowing 

one to connect with the innermost parts of themselves 

while connecting with the world around them. 

Silence helps to foster strong relationships with others, 

allowing each person to be heard without judgment or criticism. 

By embracing silence, one can learn about themselves and others, 

as well as develop a heightened sense of understanding. 

Ramana Maharshi's wise words remind us of the importance of stillness

and reflection and how it can help to transform our lives.

Silence is a powerful force that can bring about truth, bliss, peace, and even self-realization. 

This was realized by the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, 

who believed that Silence is the Self. 

He believed that by stilling the mind and engaging in silent meditation, 

one could experience the deepest levels of truth and peace.

By listening to the silence, it is possible to access higher states of consciousness

 and gain insight into the true nature of reality.

 It is by going beyond the chatter of the mind that 

we can connect with our true source of inner peace and wisdom. 

This simple yet powerful truth is espoused by Ramana Maharshi 

in his teachings on Silence as a way to find self-realization and spiritual enlightenment

intellect

Do not lend your intellect [buddhi] 

as a slave 

to the gymnastics of eloquence 

[in the form of speech and poetry] and 

to the jugglery of arguments. 

Know the truth, Self, 

by turning the pure sattvic mind within

and thereby 

destroying the illusion of otherness.

- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Guru Vachaka Kovai. Verse 526. The Practice of the Truth. Chapter 6. The Delusion of Arguments

I am truth

THE RIGHT SOLUTION

Q: How long does one stay in other worlds between birth and death?

M: The sense of time is relative. In a dream, you may live a whole day's events in a couple of hours. In the subtle body of the death-world, you may do the same and live what seems like a thousand years, although by our time it may be only a hundred years.

Q: They say that choice is offered to us to enjoy merits or demerits after our death. Is that right?

M: Why these questions relating to after death? Why ask, 'Was I born? Am I reaping the fruits of my past karma?' and so on. They will not be raised after you have been asleep for a while. Why? Are you different from the one in sleep?

You are just the same in sleep, in dream, and in the waking state. Sleep is a natural state of happiness; there is no misery. 

The sense of want, of pain etc, arises only in the waking state. What is the change that has taken place? You are the same in both but there is a difference in happiness. Why? Because the 'mind has now arisen. This mind arises after the I'-thought. 

The ‘I’-thought arises from Consciousness; if one abides in It, one will always be happy.

- Conscious Immortality

shakti

From ~~~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 115

THE SHAKTI THAT IS, IS ONE

Bhagavan.:

A Jnani may do anything according to his

prarabdha (fate) but he remains unattached and maintains

a dignified aloofness. His shakti works in many ways but he

does not feel happy or unhappy over the success or failure

of his efforts. That is because he sees the world as full of

Brahman and so nothing appears to him to be happy or

unhappy. How can he have feelings of gratification or

sorrow when he does not feel that he is in this body, that he

is in this man or that this is the world? Accordingly it is

said: ‘dristim jnanamayeem kritva pasyeth Brahmamayam jagath’,

when a person gains the outlook of a Jnani that very moment

everything appears to be full of Brahman. Where then is

room for the feeling ‘I am doing?’ They will then realize

that everything is going on through the force of some shakti.

~~~~~~~

who i am

So what is the purpose of everything? 

Why do you exist? 

To die? Find out. 

Find out for yourself. 

Find the truth for  yourself, for no one can really give it to you. 

You are the power. 

You are the glory. 

You are the universe. 

You are not what you appear to be, but will you not find out? 

Ask yourself. 

When you truly ask yourself, 

“Who am  I?" 

the answer will eventually come. 

You will know. 

But yet most of you are concerned with your material life, and this is what keeps you back from finding yourself. You are concerned with your humanhood. You're concerned with the clothes you are going to wear. You're concerned with the people in your life. You're concerned with your job. 

You're concerned with the world situation. You're concerned with politics, and I could go on, and on and on. 

It is written in the scriptures, “Take no thought of what ye shall eat, what ye shall wear, or anything at all, but think  ye first of the kingdom of God, and all of these things shall be added unto you." 

That is a very wise statement. 

First find yourself. 

First awaken to yourself. 

Then see if you'll be concerned with your body. When you understand who  you are you will see if you'll be concerned with politics, or with the universe, or with anything else. 

Find out who you are first. 

Find yourself. 

Do not go around trying to straighten out your life. You can never straighten your life out, for that's the way life is. 

All of the things that are happening in the world today, have happened before, and before that, and before that, for millions of years. There have been many civilizations on this earth. They came and they went. And now you are here believing that you can make a difference. 

You hear that so much on TV. "I can make a difference.” What about you can make a difference? You are dust in the wind. We like to attach so much importance to ourselves. Our ego is so enlarged. We want to think we're somebody. Remember, after you die, within twenty years or so everybody will forget everything about you. You won't even be remembered. Your children will have children and they will have children, and you will not even be a 

memory. 

Therefore I ask you to find out, 

“Who am I? 

Who am I, really? 

What is my real nature? 

I couldn't possibly be this  body that changes, changes, changes all the time, and then dies. And if I look at the world, the same thing is  happening to the world. It keeps changing, changing, changing, never the same." And we go along with it. Never 

realizing what is happening, we become befuddled, confused. We're trying to make some kind of sense out of  livingness, but it has no sense, for you are not whom you appear to be. 

Consequently, you have to find out who you are by following the I-thought to the source. You have to inquire within 

yourself, 

“To whom do all the thoughts come? 

To whom does the world come? 

To whom does my ego come? 

To  whom does the universe come? 

To whom does God come? 

To whom does everything in this whole universe come?"

And you will realize very soon, 

“It comes to me. I feel it. I think it. I perceive it. I enjoy it sometimes. I fear it. But I  see and feel and think all these things." 

This now gives you an idea of what is going on. You begin to understand that the I is experiencing this world. Not you, but the I. You are not going through these experiences, but the I is. 

Who is this elusive I? 

Where did this I come from? 

Who gave it birth? 

How did it arrive? 

You ponder all these questions, and you finally ask, “But who am I? 

Where did the I come from?" 

Yet you never answer that question. You sit in the silence inquiring, “Where did the I 

come from?" And as thoughts keep coming to you, you inquire, “To whom do they come? Who is thinking these  thoughts? 

I am? Who am I?" This is really the highest way to remove all doubt and set you free. 

Let me remind you again. Do not try to change your thoughts, or to change your life style, or to work on your bad  habits, or to try to remove fear, and the rest of it. Rather you lift your vision high, to the highest, by following the I- thought to its source. And one day you will discover something interesting. Your body will appear to melt, to  dissolve. The world, the universe will appear to dissolve. Your God will appear to dissolve. Everything you stood up  for, everything you have believed in, all of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, will dissolve. And you will 

find yourself as omnipresence, all-pervading consciousness. You will discover that you've always been the ultimate  reality, ultimate oneness. You are the I am. You are free. 

You will appear the same. You will look the same. You will not be able to explain this to your friends or family, but  you will become one of the few that have transcended the world. There will no longer be an ego or mind or a thinker  left. You will know and experience unalloyed happiness, total bliss. No thing will ever disturb you again. 

Yet you will not sit still. The body will appear to move and do things. Yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that 

you are not the body. You have awakened. You have become free. 

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1

self

DIALOGUE ON SELF-INQUIRY 

The following conversation comes from the diary of a devotee called Sri Yalamanchili who met Bhagavan in 1928 and had a discussion with him on self-inquiry. It was published in Arunachala Ramana in February 1982:

Question: How to realize the Atman?

Bhagavan: Whose Atman?

Question: Mine.

Bhagavan: Then you yourself have to do it.

Question: I am unable to do and know it.

Bhagavan: To whom is it not known?

Question: To myself.

Bhagavan: Try to know who is that ‘myself’.

Question: That is what you have to tell.

Bhagavan: [Smiling] It seems you have come here to test me. Will it really benefit you if I tell you what you are? Will you be satisfied if I just tell you? Ask yourself ‘Who am I?’ After questioning you will get the answer within yourself, and that will satisfy you.

Question: I have been doing sadhana for a long time but in vain.

Bhagavan: You will have to search for ‘I’ [aham]. Then, the apparent ‘I’ will vanish.

Question: Please give me the details of the process.

Bhagavan: Mind is, in reality, a bundle of thoughts. And every thought springs from the ‘I’. So, it is the first thought. Instead of dwelling on the secondary thoughts, the seeker has to concentrate on the primary thought, which is this ‘I’.

Question: What is the difference between a thought and the ‘I’?

Bhagavan: Thoughts are not independent. They have a standing only when they are associated with the ‘I’. But the ‘I’ can stand by itself. Actually, this ‘I’ is also not independent. In its turn, it is supported by the Atman.

Again and again, it rises from the Self and sinks there. It subsides in deep sleep and it comes out again in waking. We have to find out the place of its birth with an introverted vision.

Question: I have been questioning in this way but getting no answer.

Bhagavan: If you ask this question with zeal and proceed inward, the false ‘I’ disappears, and the real ‘I’ emerges.

Question: What is the real ‘I’?

Bhagavan: This is what we call ‘soul’ or ‘God’.

Question: When I start the inquiry numerous thoughts come in the way and obstruct me. When I eliminate one, another appears in its place. It seems there is no end.

Bhagavan: I am not telling you to grapple with the thoughts. There will be no end if you do it that way. Here lies the secret: there is the ‘I’, the source of all thoughts, and we have to catch it and see from where it arises. This is absolutely necessary. As a dog traces his master by following the track of his smell, you have to follow the inner development of the ‘I’ to reach its source, which is the [true] soul.

Question: From this, I understand that one can reach the source by one’s own effort.

Bhagavan: It is by the grace of God that you come to desire to know yourself. This desire to know yourself is itself a clear sign of the Atman’s grace. So, there is grace already working as the source of your effort. Grace is not an external quality of the Self but its very nature. It abides in your Heart, pulling you inward into itself. The only task you must do is turn your attention inward and search for the source of ‘I’. This is the only personal effort we have to put in. That is why [one can say that] where there is no grace, there is no desire at all for the quest for the Self.

Question: Is there no need for a Guru then?

Bhagavan: When it is necessary the Self itself will take the form of an external Guru and initiate you into the process. He will push you in and hand you over to the inner Guru who is already there. Finally, the Atman, which abides in the Heart, embraces you there.

Question: Now, may I know sir, what is the distinguishing feature of this method?

Bhagavan: The sense of ‘I’ is always present in us. So, it is relatively easy to find the Self through this ‘I’, which is an emanation of the Self. Further, if, before the ‘I’ ramifies into many forms, we put our attention via this method on the parent form of the ‘I’, this makes for the direct dissolution of the ‘I’ in its source.

Otherwise, if you begin the inquiry when the ‘I’ has already taken many forms, you will be swept away by its illusive power and never reach its source.

Question: The Self is nameless and formless. How then can we find it by the questioning of this ‘I’ that has a name and a form?

Bhagavan: The false ‘I’ or ego stands between the soul and the body, and connects them. Now, soul is conscious while the body is inert. The false ‘I’ binds them together. So, it is also called the knot between matter and spirit [chit-jada-granthi].

From this, we see that it has its feet in the Self and its head in the body. Therefore, by enquiring into the origin of the ego, we can easily proceed and reach the formless Self.

buddha

When Gautam Buddha was alive, he used to always sleep in the same posture; and the whole night, he would not move from side to side, he would not change his posture, not even an inch. Just nearby, in the Ajanta caves, in the last cave there is a sculpture of Gautam Buddha sleeping. That pose has become known as the ‘Lion’s pose’ because the lion also sleeps on its side without moving.

Ananda was very much troubled because every night he could see – sometimes in the middle of the night he would wake up – that Buddha was absolutely still, just as he had always been. One night, he could not resist the temptation.

He said, ”It is not good to disturb you in the night, because the whole day you have been walking and teaching, but I cannot resist. For twenty years I have been watching. You can understand how long I have waited, but now I have to ask it anyway. How do you manage to remain in the same posture that you go to sleep in, the same posture for the whole night? Do you sleep or do you simply go on keeping the posture? – because I have to move continuously.”

Gautam Buddha said, ”I have found the right posture. Now there is no need to change it. And I am as awake as anyone, even while my body is asleep. I have found the right posture for the body ... you are still searching for it. It is not simply a question of tossing and turning the body, it is because your mind is tossing and turning. I have gone beyond – there is no mind. The body simply lies down like a corpse. Have you ever seen any corpse changing its posture?”

It is your mind. Once your mind is at rest, once it disappears, your body can remain asleep but your inner eye, your inner sensitivity, your awareness, can remain burning like a small flame – not only watching your body, but also watching the silent mind, and the stillness surrounding you. The enlightened man cannot sleep in the same way that the unenlightened one sleeps. When the unenlightened man sleeps, he is simply unconscious. The enlightened man sleeps but he is not unconscious.

OSHO

happiness

HAPPINESS IS A FUNCTION OF ACCEPTING WHAT IS. If you accept what is, there is no possibility of your being unhappy.

I have been observing thousands of people, seekers, non-seekers, this-worldly, that-worldly, and every day I come across the phenomenon that I don’t see that people are really interested in being happy. Nobody seems to be interested in being happy because they are ready to sacrifice happiness for any nonsense: for jealousy, for possessiveness, for anger, for hate – for any nonsense they are ready to sacrifice happiness. But they are not ready to sacrifice anger, possessiveness, and jealousy, for happiness.                                       OSHO 

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Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 2

Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching .

CHAPTER 8: In existence there is no question.

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THE RIGHT SOLUTION

Q: How long does one stay in other worlds between birth and death?

M: The sense of time is relative. In a dream, you may live a whole day's events in a couple of hours. In the subtle body of the death-world, you may do the same and live what seems like a thousand years, although by our time it may be only a hundred years.

Q: They say that choice is offered to us to enjoy merits or demerits after our death. Is that right?

M: Why these questions relating to after death? Why ask, 'Was I born? Am I reaping the fruits of my past karma?' and so on. They will not be raised after you have been asleep for a while. Why? Are you different from the one in sleep?

You are just the same in sleep, in dream, and in the waking state. Sleep is a natural state of happiness; there is no misery. 

The sense of want, of pain etc, arises only in the waking state. What is the change that has taken place? You are the same in both but there is a difference in happiness. Why? Because the 'mind has now arisen. This mind arises after the I'-thought. 

The ‘I’-thought arises from Consciousness; if one abides in It, one will always be happy.

- Conscious Immortality