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Path of Will or Path of Surrender? – Osho
Osho, last night you spoke about witnessing as a method; other times I have heard you speak about becoming a thing totally, being totally involved in any given situation. Usually I am at a loss as to...
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The Door to Sankhya is Open – Osho
There are two things in this sutra: the cave of the heart opens for one who knows, or, one whose heart opens will know. We will enter deeply into both. How to know the divine? How can this knowing...
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Spontaneously Ejected from Time and Space – Jean Klein
What inspired you to go to India? An inner need, an urge to find peace, to find the center where you are simply yourself—free from all stimulation. All that I’d read about traditional India, especially...
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The Last Barrier to Realization – Jean Klein
I have often heard it said that without the help of Yoga, metaphysical realization can be very difficult. What do you think about it? To begin with Yoga is a harmonization of the body, to prevent it...
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The Vertical Ascendance of a Sadhaka – Vimala Thakar
The following dialog took place between Vimala Thakar and Yoga teachers from all over the world in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India on the 11th of September, 2000. Question: What are the most difficult...
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Samyama: A Synthesis of Consciousness – Osho
What is samyama? That has to be understood. Samyama is the greatest synthesis of human consciousness, the synthesis of three: dharana, dhyan, samadhi. Ordinarily, your mind is continuously jumping from...
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You Are the Abode of the Ultimate – Osho
Patanjali says, “Kaivalya is the state of enlightenment that follows the remergence of the gunas, due to their becoming devoid of the object of the Purusa. In this state the Purusa is established in...
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Love and Meditation, Yoga and Tantra – Osho
The ultimate search is individual, but can you explain the integral part of the beloved in tantra and the search for our inner self? A very intricate, complex thing has to be understood: If you are not...
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Self-consciousness is Not Consciousness of the Self – Osho
For years I am most of the time witnessing and I feel like it is a disease. So is it that there are two kinds of witnessing and mine is wrong? Tell me. It must be wrong; otherwise it cannot be felt...
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Master of Your Own Mind – Osho
Those who have purified the mind by the practice of sannyas and yoga, and those who have come to understand the exact meaning of the spiritual science indicated in the Upanishad’s Vedant, they in the...
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A Still Mind: The Door to the Divine – Osho
Nishal-gyanam asanam. Non-wavering knowing is asana – the posture. Man is neither a body, nor a mind alone – he is both. Even to say that he is both is wrong in a way because body and mind are separate...
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Yoga Means the Growth of Consciousness – Osho
The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension...
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Yoga is the Cessation of Mind – Osho
Now the discipline of yoga. Yoga is the cessation of mind. Then the witness is established in itself. In the other states there is identification with the modifications of the mind. –Patanjali’s Yoga...
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Practice and Desirelessness – Osho
The first state of vairagya, desirelessness – cessation from self-indulgence in the thirst for sensuous pleasures, with conscious effort. The last state of vairagya, desireless – cessation of all...
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Cultivating Right Attitudes – Osho
The mind becomes tranquil by cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the miserable, joy towards the virtuous and indifference towards the evil. The mind also becomes...
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The Lotus Remains Untouched – Osho
When the activity of the mind is under control, the mind becomes like pure crystal, reflecting equally, without distortion, the perceiver, the perception and the perceived. Savitarka samadhi is the...
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The Thought of No-Thought – Osho
These samadhis that result from meditation on an object are samadhis with seed, and do not give freedom from the cycle of rebirth. On attaining the utmost purity of the nirvichara stage of samadhi,...
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Seedless Samadhi – Osho
In the state of nirvichara samadhi, an object is experienced in its full perspective, because in this state knowledge is gained direct, without the use of the senses. The perception gained in...
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The Eight Limbs of Yoga – Osho
By practicing the different steps of yoga for the destruction of impurity, there arises spiritual illumination which develops into awareness of reality. The eight steps of yoga are: self-restraint,...
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Consider Your Essence as Light Rays Rising – Osho
Consider Your Essence as Light Rays Rising from Center to Center up the Vertebrae, and so Rises ‘Livingness’ in you. The first technique: Many yoga methods are based on this. First understand what it...
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