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Jesus’ Three Stages of Enlightenment – Osho
This question has been hovering in me for years. A few times you have talked around it, but this has mystified me more, so please enlighten. When and where did enlightenment happen to Jesus? Was he...
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An Extraordinary Intoxication – Osho
It feels to me that my body is like a cage or bottle, in which a very powerful lion is imprisoned and he has been sleeping there for many lives, but now he has been awakened by your harassment. He is...
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Death is There and yet I am Still Here – Osho
What I wish to say is that it is essential to see death, to understand it, to recognize it. But this is possible only when we die; one can only see it while dying. Then what is the way now? And if one...
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Man is an Opportunity – Osho
Man is not a meaning but an opportunity. The meaning is possible, but is not given. The meaning can be created, but it is not already there. It is a task not a gift. Life is a gift, but life is open...
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Four Types of Samadhis – Osho
In which body is that obtained which you refer to as samadhi? Actually there are many types of samadhi. One samadhi will take place between the fourth and the fifth body. Remember, samadhi is not a...
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Sudden Enlightenment and its Obstacles – Osho
You said that either one sees the world or the Brahman and that no gradually increasing perception of the Brahman is possible. But in experience we feel that as we become aware and more silent and...
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Consciousness Minus Thinking is Samadhi – Osho
In the search for the first principle, silence is the door – the only door. And except it there is no way to approach the first principle. The first principle can be known only when you move to the...
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Go Like an Arrow – Osho
Maneesha, Hakuin is one of the most respected Zen masters. His respect is because of his ability to express the inexpressible, to create devices that somehow can manage to give you a glimpse of the...
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Then Only You will be Able to Know – Osho
At the time of this samadhi, the moods of the mind take the form of the soul, and therefore they are not apparent. But after the meditator had come back from his samadhi, those moods which had...
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Desiring the Unattainable – Osho
Desire only that which is within you. It looks absurd, paradoxical, illogical: Desire only that which is within you. Desire is basically for that which is not within you. Desire means the desire for...
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Sowing Seed – Osho
Maneesha, a great master on his own authority, Nangaku, is working on a greater master, Ma Tzu, who is just a seed right now, but contains a great buddha. You are also seeds. It is up to you if you...
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Mediation, Satori and Samadhi – Osho
Question 1: What is the difference in experience between satori – in Zen, a glimpse of enlightenment – and samadhi, cosmic consciousness? Samadhi begins as a gap, but it never ends. A gap always begins...
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The Thought of No-Thought – Osho
These samadhis that result from meditation on an object are samadhis with seed, and do not give freedom from the cycle of rebirth. On attaining the utmost purity of the nirvichara stage of samadhi,...
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The Light of Higher Consciousness – Osho
Dharana, concentration, is confining the mind to the object being mediated upon. Dhyan, contemplation, is the uninterrupted flow of the mind to the object. Samadhi is when the mind becomes one with the...
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The Inside of the Inside – Osho
Samyama is to be employed in stages. These three — dharana, dhyan, and samadhi — are internal compared to the five that preceded them. But the three are external compared to seedless samadhi. Nirodh...
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Piling Up the Zeros of Being – Osho
Samadhi parinam, the inner transformation, is the gradual settling of distractions and the simultaneous rising of one-pointedness. Ekagrata parinam, one-pointed transformation, is the condition of the...
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Consciousness Minus Thinking is Samadhi – Osho
In the search for the first principle, silence is the door – the only door. And except it there is no way to approach the first principle. The first principle can be known only when you move to the...
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Go Like an Arrow – Osho
Maneesha, Hakuin is one of the most respected Zen masters. His respect is because of his ability to express the inexpressible, to create devices that somehow can manage to give you a glimpse of the...
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Then Only You will be Able to Know – Osho
At the time of this samadhi, the moods of the mind take the form of the soul, and therefore they are not apparent. But after the meditator had come back from his samadhi, those moods which had...
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Desiring the Unattainable – Osho
Desire only that which is within you. It looks absurd, paradoxical, illogical: Desire only that which is within you. Desire is basically for that which is not within you. Desire means the desire for...
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