Minor Explosions – Osho
All your meditation, and all my stress and emphasis on meditation, is just to make you open. Any moment you will be open and there will be transmission. Minor explosions happen daily. They are only the...
View ArticleAwakening before Enlightenment
We hear the term ‘awakening’ thrown about today like a rag doll. And as is the case with almost all spiritual terminology, there seems to be levels and levels of meaning for the word ‘awakening.’ It is...
View ArticleEnlightenment is a Rebellion Against All Traditions – Osho
Enlightenment is certainly the key, but almost all the traditions are against it — and there is a reason why they are against it. The most fundamental reason is that if enlightenment is a reality, God...
View ArticleThe Three Steps of Enlightenment – Osho
Enlightenment has no polar opposite to it. Unenlightenment is not the polar opposite of enlightenment; it is only the absence of enlightenment. It is just like darkness and light. You ordinarily think...
View ArticleGod is the Guest – Osho
Does one attain to meditation through God’s grace? It will be useful to understand this thing, because it has led to lots of misunderstandings and mistakes. A good number of people have thought that if...
View ArticleThe Explosion – Dada Gavand
Dada Gavand The Explosion Shattering The Ego-Mind: A New Energy Flow My days and nights passed in this intense, watchful, attentive state, in an almost unbroken momentum of awareness. At times I...
View ArticleAnnihilation of the Mind – Meher Baba
The following is an excerpt from Meher Baba’s Discourse on Manonash Mind is never transformed. Ego is transformed once only. “Ego” means Astitva, which means your very Being as the Real “I.” The...
View ArticleThe State of Sublime – Ilie Cioara
Ilie Cioara’s description of his enlightenment. I was 55 years old. One morning, waking up from my sleep, I noticed that, psychologically, I was functioning differently from the night before. The...
View ArticleThe Explosion Within Your Being – Osho
What is the relationship between enlightenment and the spring of life? Is enlightenment the spring of life? One basic thing has always to be remembered: not to get involved in questions of intellect....
View ArticleLife is Aware of Itself – U.G. Krishnamurti
The following is a conversation between U. G. Krishnamurti and David Bohm, recorded in Saanen, Switzerland in 1968. Also present were Mrs. Bohm, David Barry and Valentine. U.G.: From quite a young age...
View ArticleGradual or Sudden Enlightenment – Osho
Do wisdom and understanding increase gradually or do they come as explosions? Understanding never comes, neither as a sudden phenomenon nor as a gradual one, because it is always there. You have it...
View ArticleSaradamma’s Realization
The next morning she [Saradamma] came out of samadhi with a strong awareness that her ‘I’-thought was still existing. She remembered the peace of the previous day and night when she had been in...
View ArticleThe Mind is the Watched – Osho
I have come to a dead end. I see the impotence of the mind and feel all action useless. Does the mind totally die only in samadhi? Please say something about mind and action in witnessing. Vinod...
View ArticleJust Around the Corner – Osho
Enlightenment is not a device. All devices are for enlightenment, but enlightenment itself is an absolute reality. You think it is now miles away while before it used to be just around the corner. That...
View ArticleMeditate for Forty-eight – Osho
Can a person meditating an hour a day gain enlightenment in this life? It has been found by all the great meditators of the world that just forty-eight minutes, exactly forty-eight minutes, are enough...
View ArticleThe Three Entanglements – Osho
I loved the introduction about the psychological universe that you gave me yesterday. And yet I would like to repeat the question. You say that you were studying us in order to find out which are the...
View ArticleWithout Ripples – Osho
Anything I see happening in myself is false, illusory, and a mind trip, right? And my recognition of the mind trip is a mind trip too? RIGHT. As far as thoughts go, everything is a mind trip. When...
View ArticleSamadhi Without Seeds – Osho
In yesterday’s sutra, Buddha says ‘someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that “I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing...
View ArticleWhat is Satori – Osho
What is satori and how to attain it? Pratima, satori is exactly your ordinary nature; it is not anything special. Hence there is no question of attaining it – it is already the case. You are in it, you...
View ArticleIs This Enlightenment – Osho
When the internal talking stops, is this enlightenment? Parivesh, when the internal talking stops, who cares? Who is there to care? Who is there to raise the question ‘Is this enlightenment’? If you...
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