Religionless Religion! - OSHO

I have been constantly inconsistent so that you will never be able to make a dogma out of me. You will simply go nuts if you try. I am leaving something terrible for the scholars; they will not be able to make any sense out of it. They will go nuts --- and they deserve it, they should go nuts! But nobody can create an orthodoxy out of me, it is impossible. From my words you can get burned, but you will not be able to find any kind of theology, dogmatism.

You can find a way to live but not a dogma to preach. You can find a rebellious quality to be imbibed, but you will not find a revolutionary theme to be organized. My words are not only on fire, I am putting gunpowder also here and there, which will go on exploding for centuries. I am putting more than needed --- I never take any chances. Almost each sentence is going to create trouble for anybody who wants to organize a religion around me.

Yes you can have a loose community, a commune. Remember the word loose: everybody independent, everybody free to live his own way, to interpret me in his own way, to find whatsoever he wants to find. He can find the way he wants to live --- and everybody unto himself.

There is no need for somebody to decide what my religion is. I am leaving it open-ended. You can work out of a definition for yourself - but it is only for yourself, and that too you will have to continuously change. As you understand me more and more, you will have to change it. You cannot go on holding it like a dead thing in your hand. You will have to change it, and it will go on changing you simultaneously.

-OSHO

Knowledge Is Through Experiencing, Mere Information Is Not Knowledge! -OSHO

Love.
Knowledge is through experiencing.
Mere information is not knowledge,
on the contrary it cannot give the clarity
which knowledge gives to the mind
and may confuse one more
because a confused mind is still more burdened with it.

Two men had played chess regularly together for
several years.
They were quite evenly matched
and there was keen rivalry between them.
Then one man began to beat his rival nearly every
time they played
and the other man was completely at a loss
to understand this phenomenon.
On the contrary, he was expecting his game to improve
because he was reading a four-volume set
on HOW TO PLAY CHESS!
After much thought he came up with an idea.
He sent the books to his friend as a gift --
and it was not long before they were evenly matched
again!

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea

Live atomically -- moment to moment, and then your life will have a totally different quality.. -OSHO

Love.

If the present is just continuous with the past

then it is not present at all.

To be present,

the present must be discontinuous with the past,

only then is it young, fresh and new --

and then it is not a part of time

but is eternity itself.

The now is eternal

but we live in the past or in the future --

which is nothing but a faint echo of the past itself.

our whole activity springs from the past

or for the future --

which is the same thing.

Then the present is false and dead:

and if the present is false then we cannot be real,

and if the present is dead then we cannot be alive.

That is why I insist on living in the present

and dying each moment to the past.

Live atomically -- moment to moment,

and then your life will have a totally different quality --

the quality of the divine.

-OSHO, A Cup of Tea!

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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!