DON'T TRY TO CEMENT YOUR RELATIONSHIP

MEDITATION SIMPLY MEANS becoming ATTUNED TO THE UNMANIFEST. The body is there, you can see it; the mind is there, you can see it too. If you close your eyes you will see the mind with all its activity, with all its working. Thoughts are passing, desires are arising, memories surfacing, and the whole activity of the mind will be there; you can watch it.

One thing is certain: THE WATCHER IS NOT THE MIND. The one who is conscious of the activities of the mind is not part of the mind. The watcher is separate, the witness is separate. TO BECOME AWARE OF THIS WITNESS is to have found the essential, the central, the absolute, the unchanging.

THE BODY CHANGES: once you were a child, then a young man or a young woman, then old age... One day you were in the mother’s womb, then you were born, then one day again you die and disappear into the womb of existence. The body goes on changing, continuously changing.

THE MIND GOES ON CHANGING. In the morning you are happy, in the afternoon you are angry, in the evening you are sad. Moods, emotions, feelings, go on changing; thoughts go on changing. The wheel goes on moving around you. This is the cyclone; THE PHENOMENAL WORLD IS THE CYCLONE. It is never the same, not even for two consecutive moments.

BUT SOMETHING IS ALWAYS THE SAME, always, never changes -- it is THE WITNESS. To find that witness is to find God.

—OSHO—
I Am That
Ch #1: Beyond the changing
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AWARENESS CANNOT EXIST WITH DUALITY, and mind cannot exist without duality. Awareness is non-dual, and mind is dual. So just watch.

I don't teach you any solutions, I teach you THE solution: JUST GET BACK A LITTLE AND WATCH. Create a distance between you and your mind.

—OSHO—
Beyond Psychology
Ch #19: Step aside, let the mind pass
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Desire is alcoholic, DESIRE IS THE GREATEST DRUG POSSIBLE. Marijuana is nothing, LSD is nothing. Desire is the greatest LSD possible -- the ultimate in drugs.

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF DESIRE? When you desire, what happens? When you desire, you are creating an illusion in the mind; when you desire, you have already moved from here. Now you are not here, you are absent from here, because the mind is creating a dream. This absentness is your drunkenness. Be present!

THIS VERY MOMENT THE DOORS OF HEAVEN ARE OPEN. There is no need even to knock because you are not outside heaven, you are already inside. Just be alert and look around without eyes filled with desire, and you will have a belly laugh. You will laugh at the whole joke, at what has been happening....

You create a space -- and desire is the way to create the space. The greater the desire, the more space is created. A desire may be fulfilled in one year, then you have one year's space. You can move in it, and you will have to encounter many reptiles, many dragons. This space which is created by desire, you call time.

IF THERE IS NO DESIRE, THERE IS NO NEED FOR TIME. A single moment exists -- not even two moments, because the second is needed only by desire, it is not needed by your existence. Existence is completely fulfilled, total, in one moment.

—OSHO—
The Empty Boat
Ch #6: The need to win
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SO WHENEVER FEAR COMES TO YOU, don't suppress it, don't repress it, don't avoid it, don't get occupied in something so that you can forget about it. No! WHEN FEAR COMES, WATCH IT. Be face to face with it. Encounter it. Look deep into it. Gaze into the valley of fear.

Of course you will perspire, and you will tremble, and it will be like a death, and you will have to live it many times. But by and by, the more your eyes become clear, the more your awareness becomes alert, the more your focus is there on the fear, THE FEAR WILL DISAPPEAR LIKE A MIST. And once fear disappears, sometimes -- even for only a moment -- SUDDENLY YOU ARE DEATHLESS. There is no death.

DEATH IS THE GREATEST ILLUSION THERE IS, the greatest myth -- a lie. For even a single moment, if you can see that YOU are deathless, then no meditation is needed. Then live that experience, then act out of that experience, and THE DOORS OF ETERNAL LIFE ARE OPEN FOR YOU. Much is being missed because of fear.

We are too attached to the body and we go on creating more and more fear because of that attachment. THE BODY IS GOING TO DIE, the body is part of death, the body is death -- but you are beyond the body. You are not the body; YOU ARE THE BODILESS. Remember it. Realize it. Awaken yourself to this truth -- that you are beyond the body. You are the witness, the seer.

Then death disappears and fear disappears, and there arises the tremendously glorious life -- what Jesus calls “life abundant,” or “the kingdom of God.” THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.

—OSHO—
From Ancient Music in the Pines
Ch #5: The ultimate secrets of swordsmanship
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You cannot stop that which you have not started. Don't try it, otherwise you will simply be wasting time, energy, life. YOU CANNOT STOP THE MIND BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT STARTED IT. You can simply watch, and in watching it stops. Not that you stop it: IN WATCHING, IT STOPS. The stopping is a function of watching, it is a consequence of watching.

It is not that you stop it; there is no way to stop the mind. If you try to stop it, it will go faster; if you try to stop it, it will fight with you and create a thousand and one troubles for you. NEVER TRY TO STOP IT.

This is the truth: you have not started it, so who are you to stop it? It has come through your unawareness; IT WILL GO THROUGH YOUR AWARENESS. You have to do nothing to stop it except become more and more alert.

—OSHO—
Come Follow Yourself
Vol 1, Ch #4: Mirroring Christ
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IF PEOPLE BECOME ECSTATIC, the whole society will have to change -- because this society is based on misery. IF PEOPLE ARE BLISSFUL YOU CANNOT LEAD THEM TO WAR -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: 'This is nonsense!'

—OSHO—
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Ch #3: To be miserable or ecstatic...?
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The truth is that YOU COME TO HAVE WHAT YOU DESERVE. If you go to the ocean for water, it will give you only as much as your container can hold. The ocean is vast, but how much water you have depends on the size of your container. And the ocean does not refuse, everyone can take according to his capacity.

—OSHO—
Krishna - The Man and His Philosophy
Ch #11

A MAN OF REAL TRUTH HAS NO NEED TO BE HUMBLE. He is neither egoist nor humble -- because those are the same things in different quantities.

ONLY THE EGOIST CAN BECOME HUMBLE. I cannot say I am a humble man. I cannot say that I am a simple man -- because simplicity is only a lesser form of complexity, and humbleness is on a lower strata, the same as ego. They are not different; the degrees are different.

I AM NEITHER HUMBLE NOR EGOIST. I am simply just the way I am.

—OSHO—
From Here to Here The Great Pilgrimage
Ch #7: First have your cup of tea
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AT THE DEEPEST CORE OF YOUR BEING you are part of eternity, you are not part of time. YOU EXIST IN TIME, BUT YOU BELONG TO ETERNITY. You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time. You are deathless, living in a body of death. Your consciousness knows no death, no birth. It is only your body that is born and dies. But you are not aware of your consciousness; you are not conscious of your consciousness.

And that is THE WHOLE ART OF MEDITATION: BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF. The moment you know who is residing in the body, who you are, in that very revelation you have transcended death and the world of death. You have transcended all that is momentary.

—OSHO—
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, 
Vol 2, Ch #3: And travel on
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