Quotes

Die to time
so that you are resurrected into
eternity.

Die to mind
so you become alive in
consciousness.

Die to thinking
so that you are born into
awareness.

~ Osho

Here now

Advaita (Nonduality, Oneness, One Love)

Question: WHAT IS HERENOW?

OSHO: Thought is the capacity of not being here -- so thought cannot exist in the herenow, it cannot be part of it. That is impossible. Thought can only be either of the past or of the future. Thought can never be of the present. In the VERY process of thinking, that is implied; it is intrinsic to it.

The moment you think, either you think of the past or you think of the future. It may be the immediate past, but it is still past ­ it is never the present, it cannot be the present.

Thought needs space. And the present moment has no space in it. Thought creates the past and the future to live in. The bigger the past, the more easily thought can move; the bigger the future, again, the more easily thought can move. The present is not capable of giving that space for thought to move.

The present moment is a moment of no-mind.

Use the mind, but never get identified with it. The mind is a good slave, but a very bad master.

Now, if any mind answer is given to you, that won't be the right answer -- because anything that the mind can say as a definition of herenow will be wrong; anything whatsoever, it will be wrong. Mind knows nothing of herenow! How can it define it? Just be silent; for a moment, just be... and it is there.

THIS is herenow! I will not give you a definition, because definitions come from the mind, and definitions will be taken by the mind, and herenow is an existential experience... these trees, this bird calling, and the traffic noise, and the train, and the sun and the trees... and you, and me... and this silence, this presence....

Feel it! Experience it! That's what we are doing here! What is meditation? -- getting into here... now. What is love? -- getting into herenow. What is celebration? -- getting into herenow. But no definition is possible.

~ Osho

Self

You realize, in the truth of your being, that you are the totality itself, but you have no interest whatsoever in doing anything with that knowledge, with using that knowledge.

Finally, you realize that you really don’t want to change anybody, not because you shouldn’t want to change them, because you just don’t. You might not want to be around everyone, but still you don’t want to change them.

None of this is an ideal—it’s the end of ideals. None of this is holiness; it’s the end of holiness. It’s the beginning of wholeness. None of this is something to achieve, because it’s not achievable. It’s simply what is in the truth of your being. It’s just what is. You can’t attain what’s naturally so. And nobody anywhere can ever tell you when or why, or to what degree you’ll let go of untruth; you will let go when you let go, usually when nothing else works.

When you’re living in the awakened way, in the awakened being that you are, you’re alone, and you’re finally comfortable with it. You’re alone, but you’re not lonely at all, because the only one who was ever supposed to meet you where you are—the only one who ever could meet you where you are one hundred percent—was you. 

- Adyashanti

Self

To know the Self is but to be the Self, 
For It is non-dual.
In such knowledge 
One abides as That.

('The Essence of Instruction' ('Upadesa Saram'), v. 26)

Mind

Oh mind, why struggle? Fall into the heart, drown in the ocean of your own bliss! Let what happens happen, yours is none of this!

~ Advahut Gita

Mind

Ramana Hridayam

“Once you have recognize the empty nature of mind, to allow love to rise for someone who is harming you becomes easy. 

But without that recognition, it is very hard to stop anger from arising instead, is it not? 

Look into it, and you will see that mind is what does positive actions, and mind is what makes circumstances negative.” 

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Self

Q: Having heard this truth, why does not one remain content? 

Sri Ramana Maharshi : 

Because samskaras [innate mental tendencies] 
have not been destroyed. 

Unless the samskaras cease to exist, 
there will always be doubt and confusion. 

All efforts are directed to destroying doubt and confusion. 
To do so their roots must be cut.
Their roots are the samskaras. 

These are rendered ineffective by practice as prescribed 
by the Guru. 
The Guru leaves it to the seeker to do this much so that
he might himself find out that there is no ignorance. 

Hearing the truth [sravana] is the first stage. 
If the understanding is not firm one has to practise reflection [manana] and uninterrupted contemplation [nididhyasana] on it. 

These two processes scorch the seeds of samskaras 
so that they are rendered ineffective. 

Some extraordinary people get unshakable jnana after hearing the truth only once. 

These are the advanced seekers. 
Beginners take longer to gain it.

~ From Be as you are book