Ram Naam - OSHO Hindi Video

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Who are you -- the mind? -- the foreign dust? or -- ? -OSHO

Love.
One day Lin-chi was asked: What is the essence of meditation?
Lin-chi came right down from his seat
and taking hold of the questioner by the front of his robe,
slapped his face, then let him go.

The questioner, of course, stood there stupefied.

Then Lin-chi laughed and said to him: Why don't you bow?
This woke him from his reverie,
and when he was about to make a bow to the Master
he had his first taste of meditation!

Please read this again and again and again,
and if you do not have the same taste
then slap your face yourself
then laugh and bow down to yourself --
and then you will have the same taste, surely!

The sun is rising high in the sky.

Its light enters the house through an opening.

The dust is seen moving in the ray of light

but the empty space of the room is unmoving.

Now close your eyes and be silent.

Then ask yourself: Who am I --

the moving dust or the unmoving space of the room?

Do not answer intellectually,

because intellectual answers are not answers,

but wait and realize.

Hsu Yun says: The mind is nothing but the foreign dust.

Who are you -- the mind? -- the foreign dust? or -- ?

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea!

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Be Empty & You Will Know! - OSHO

Love.
Be empty and you will know.
Be empty and you will be the mirror.
Oh, only total nothingess is capable of knowing all!

I have heard that the nun Chiyono studied for years
and meditated for years on the ultimate questions of existence
but was unable to find the light.
The thinking was filling her so much
that she could not be a passage to the divine.
She was so much filled by herself
that she could not be a host to the divine guest,
and the more she longed for enlightenment
the more far off it was.
But one moonlit night she was carrying an old pail
filled with water
-- and the thing happened!
She was watching the full moon reflected in her pail water
when the bamboo drip that held the pail staves broke.
The pail fell all apart,
the water rushed out,
the moon's reflection disappeared --
and with it disappeared Chiyono herself.
She was not -- but the enlightenment was there!

She wrote this verse:
This way and that way
I tried to keep the pail together
hoping the weak bamboo
would never break.
But suddenly the bottom fell out:
no more water
no more moon in the water --
and emptiness in my hand!

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea!

Are You Really Aware Of What Anger Is? -OSHO

Love.
Are you really aware of what anger is?
Are you really aware of it when it is present?
I ask these questions
because man is never present in the present.
Man lives in the past
and only becomes aware of anything
when it has become a part of memory.

One becomes aware of anger and sadness
only when they are all over,
and then awareness is just pseudo-awareness;
it is not awareness but remembering
and remembering leads nowhere
because it is running in a circle.
Then one can fight with anger
but can never understand it,
and fighting with anger is anger --
of course more subtle
and therefore more strong and more poisonous.

So do not think about anger or sadness or happiness
and do not misunderstand remembering them as an awareness
but be aware when anger is present.
Be totally conscious of it,
live it consciously and do not escape from it
and then you will know what it is.
To understand it is to transcend it.
Then you will find a silence descending on you
which passes all understanding.

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea

Do Not Imitate Anyone - OSHO

Love.
Do not imitate anyone,
do not follow anyone,
otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence --
and that is worse than suicide.
BE YOURSELF --
and only then can you be responsible
and authentic
and real.
But ordinarily everyone is just secondhand and
borrowed,
and that makes everything ugly.

Mulla Nasrudin went to a mosque and sat down.
His shirt was rather short
and the man behind him pulled it lower,
thinking it looked unseemly.
Nasrudin immediately pulled the shirt of the man in front of him.
What are you doing? asked the man in front.
Don't ask me. Ask the man behind -- he started it,
said Nasrudin.

Life is a dream so enjoy it; but do not ask for more because..... -OSHO

Love.
Life is a dream so enjoy it;
but do not ask for more because
then you only disturb the dream
and get nothing except a disturbed night.
Be a witness to the dreaming mind
and then there is transcendence:
then you go beyond dreaming and beyond mind itself.

And know well that there is an awakening BELOW the dreaming mind
which is nothing but just a disturbed dream.
One can get to this below-dreaming state of awakening
through asking for more desiring more --
as ordinarily we all do.

In a dream Mulla Nasrudin saw himself being counted out coins
and when there were nine silver pieces in his hand
the invisible donor stopped giving them.
Nasrudin shouted: I MUST HAVE TEN! So loudly
that he woke himself up.
Finding that all the money had disappeared
he closed his eyes again and murmured,
All right then give them back --
I will take the nine.

There is also an awakening above the dreaming mind --
the real awakening
in comparison to which man ordinarily is asleep.
One can get to this awakening
through witnessing the dreaming mind --
and unless one gets to it one is not really alive.

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea