"In your total aloneness, who are you?
A sinner or a saint , a very very famous person or just a nobody?
You are neither. You are neither a very very important person nor a nobody... because for both the other is a must.
The eyes of others are needed to reflect your personality.
You are neither this nor that. You are, but you are in your reality;
you are not created by others.
You are as you are..."
(OSHO)
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........What Is The Answer............
One
great woman of this century, a poet of the highest rank, Gertrude
Stein, was dying. And her friends had gathered because the doctors had
said it was only a question of a few hours. Around her bed they were
sitting in deep silence, tears in their eyes... Suddenly Stein opened her
eyes, looked all around and said, ”What is the answer?”
This was so strange. People ask the question first: the question had not been asked and she is asking for the answer. Perhaps she is perfectly aware that there is not much time to ask the question – her whole life has gone by and she has not asked the question. At least before she leaves, she can listen to the answer. What is the answer? And all those who were present were puzzled, because they didn’t know what her question was, so how to give the answer? To argue with a dying woman, whom they all loved and respected, would be very disrespectful, but still, she was waiting for something else to be said
This was so strange. People ask the question first: the question had not been asked and she is asking for the answer. Perhaps she is perfectly aware that there is not much time to ask the question – her whole life has gone by and she has not asked the question. At least before she leaves, she can listen to the answer. What is the answer? And all those who were present were puzzled, because they didn’t know what her question was, so how to give the answer? To argue with a dying woman, whom they all loved and respected, would be very disrespectful, but still, she was waiting for something else to be said
So one friend said, ”Stein, you have forgotten to ask the
question – how can we answer?”
She smiled, and said,”Okay, then what is the question?” And that was her last word. She died with these words on her lips.
She smiled, and said,”Okay, then what is the question?” And that was her last word. She died with these words on her lips.
This
small incident has profound meaning. Neither do we know the question,
nor do we know the answer, and yet we go on dragging ourselves – not
knowing from where we come, not knowing where we are going, not knowing
what we are doing here. It is a very strange situation.
The Blessed One is one who has become a door to the beyond, to the unknown secrets and mysteries. And unless you become a seeker, you will go on breathing, vegetating, and you will die without even becoming aware of what this life was all about.
~OSH0~~
The Blessed One is one who has become a door to the beyond, to the unknown secrets and mysteries. And unless you become a seeker, you will go on breathing, vegetating, and you will die without even becoming aware of what this life was all about.
~OSH0~~
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Zen student: ”So, master, is the soul immortal or not? Do we survive our
bodily death or do we get annihilated? Do we really reincarnate? Does
our soul split up into component parts
which get recycled, or do we as a single unit enter the body of a
biological organism? And do we retain our memories or not? Or is the
doctrine of reincarnation false? Is perhaps the Christian notion of
survival more Correct? And if so, do we get bodily resurrected, or does
our soul enter a purely Platonic spiritual realm?”
Master: ”Your breakfast is getting cold.”
That’s the way of Zen: to bring you here now. The breakfast is far more important than any paradise. The breakfast is far more important than any concept of God. The breakfast is more important than any theory of reincarnation, soul, rebirth, and all that nonsense. Because the breakfast is here now. For Zen, the immediate is the ultimate, and the imminent is the transcendental. THIS moment is eternity... you have to be awakened to this moment.
So Zen is not a teaching but a device – a device to disturb your dreaming mind, a device somehow to create such a state that you become alarmed, that you have to get up and see, to create such strain around you that you cannot remain comfortably asleep.
And this is the beauty of Zen and the revolution that Zen brings to the world. Zen tries to awake you; it has no consolation at all. It does not talk about great things. Not that those great things are not there, but talking about them is not going to help.
Zen is not a belief system. It is a way of awakening.
~OSHO~
Master: ”Your breakfast is getting cold.”
That’s the way of Zen: to bring you here now. The breakfast is far more important than any paradise. The breakfast is far more important than any concept of God. The breakfast is more important than any theory of reincarnation, soul, rebirth, and all that nonsense. Because the breakfast is here now. For Zen, the immediate is the ultimate, and the imminent is the transcendental. THIS moment is eternity... you have to be awakened to this moment.
So Zen is not a teaching but a device – a device to disturb your dreaming mind, a device somehow to create such a state that you become alarmed, that you have to get up and see, to create such strain around you that you cannot remain comfortably asleep.
And this is the beauty of Zen and the revolution that Zen brings to the world. Zen tries to awake you; it has no consolation at all. It does not talk about great things. Not that those great things are not there, but talking about them is not going to help.
Zen is not a belief system. It is a way of awakening.
~OSHO~
"Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering.
When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,
then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you
to drag those burdens around you. You'll see that no
one else other than you were responsible.
When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go,
then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you
to drag those burdens around you. You'll see that no
one else other than you were responsible.
The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival."
(~Osho~ )
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The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don´t leave any footmarks. That´s what Buddha says, that the man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footmarks. He is without wounds and without scars; he never looks back — there is no point.
He has lived that moment so totally that what is the need of looking back again and again?
He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment......
(OSHO)
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Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny - he or she has something to fulfill.
Some message that has to be delivered, some work that has to be completed.
You are not here accidentally - you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you.
The WHOLE intends to do something through you........OSHO
Peace of Mind: The Truth Beyond Success and Failure
It does not matter to a man of awareness whether he is successful or unsuccessful, well-known or absolutely unknown, powerful or just a nobody. To a man of awareness, these dualities don't matter at all, because awareness is the greatest treasure. When you have it, you don't want anything else. You don't want to become the president or prime minister of a country.
Those who pursue power suffer even in success - they live in the eternal fear that they might lose it. At first they suffered because they were not successful; now after being successful, too, they are suffering because of a feeling of insecurity.
Moreover, they have no private space; everyone wants to meet with them and there are some who are engaged in the task of "overthrowing" them.The life of a successful man is not a life of peace. But in failure, too, there is no peace.
For an aware person, it is all the same. Success comes and goes, and so does failure. He remains untouched and aloof. ..
This is the experience of an awakened man. He lives in the darkest of nights in the same silence, in the same peace, as he lives in the brightest day. He remains above divisions. "Such is his power, that actions can't hold him....According to the Bodhi-dharma, a Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune or adverse circumstances.
Those who pursue power suffer even in success - they live in the eternal fear that they might lose it. At first they suffered because they were not successful; now after being successful, too, they are suffering because of a feeling of insecurity.
Moreover, they have no private space; everyone wants to meet with them and there are some who are engaged in the task of "overthrowing" them.The life of a successful man is not a life of peace. But in failure, too, there is no peace.
For an aware person, it is all the same. Success comes and goes, and so does failure. He remains untouched and aloof. ..
This is the experience of an awakened man. He lives in the darkest of nights in the same silence, in the same peace, as he lives in the brightest day. He remains above divisions. "Such is his power, that actions can't hold him....According to the Bodhi-dharma, a Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune or adverse circumstances.
Misery comes to him and he finds in it something blissful; sadness comes to him and he finds something immensely beautiful and silent in it. Death comes to him but he finds only immortality in it. And that is the greatest power in the world - not power over anybody, but simply your intrinsic power.
g g g
(Source: Osho)
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