Quotes
From
OSHO
(Alpha to Omega – Vol.8)
OSHO’s Alpha to Omega – is by
far the most detailed exposition of Yoga I have come across. Anyone who loves Yoga
will automatically fall in love with OSHO – once he goes through his Alpha to
Omega. Like I did.
The added Benefit from OSHO
is – his eminently topical, beautiful, insightful QUOTYABLE QUOTES and his
numerous short stories. You will enjoy all of them. Right here, I ma giving
some of the quotes from the first 3 Chapters of Vol.8. Of Alpha to Omega. More
will follow in subsequent Posts. Enjoy these.
1) The whole of life is nothing but a learning about death,
a preparation for death.
2) Religion is the search of the deathless; but that
deathless is possible only through the door of death.
3) Each moment there is an opportunity to do something or
not to do something.
4) In the West freedom has a connotation of political freedom.
In India we don’t bother much about political freedom, because we say unless
one is spiritually free, it makes not much difference whether you are
politically free or not. The fundamental thing is to be spiritually free.
5) Bondage is created by the karmas.
6) Any action done in unawareness becomes a karma because
any action done in unawareness is not action at all; it is a reaction. When you
do something in full awareness it is not a reaction; it is an action,
spontaneous, total. It leaves no trace.
7) Dharana means concentration – fixing your whole
consciousness on one object, not allowing the object to disappear, bringing
again and again your consciousness on the object so that the unconscious habit
of the mind of continuous flux can be dropped;
8) Each moment there are millions of opportunities to see
God, but you are not there. He comes and knocks at your doors, but you are not
there. You are never found there. You go on roaming around the world. This
roaming has to be stopped; that’s what is the meaning of dharana.
9) When you become aware of the subconscious, another step
will become available to you. The more you grow, the more growth becomes
possible to you.
10)When you are really
aware, you are not aware of anything. You are only aware of awareness. That too
is not good to say, because then awareness looks like an object. No, you are
simply aware of nothing – just aware.
11)You create the world
you live in. You create the body also you live in; you create the mind also you
live in. You create with your ideas. Whatsoever you think sooner or later
becomes a reality. Every thought becomes a thing finally, eventually.
12)Buddha has said,
”The next time I come into the world, my name will be Maitreya, ’the friend.’”
13)Bring your samyama
to compassion, love, and friendliness; and they will grow. Not that you will
become friendly: you will become the friend. Not that you will become friendly:
you will become friendship, friendliness. Not that you will love: you will
become love, you will be the very quality of love.
14)All miracles are
possible; it depends on you. If you want to become so powerful like an
elephant, you can become. Just by keeping the idea as a seed inside you and
showering it with samyama, you will
become that.
15)All knowledge brings
power, and power can be used positively or negatively.
16)
Man
is in a subtle way a small universe, condensed into a small existence. The
existence, the whole existence, is nothing hut man expanded. This is yoga terminology:
microcosm and macrocosm. Whatsoever exists outside also exists
exactly inside man.
17)The whole world can
be divided between two types of people: the sun people and the moon people, or
you can call them yang and yin. The sun is the male; the moon is the female.
The sun is aggression, the positive; the moon is receptive, the passive. You
can divide the whole existence between sun and moon. And you can divide your
body also between sun and moon;
18)The idea to attain
is very worldly. Whether you want to attain prestige, power, wealth, or God or
nirvana does not make any difference. The desire to attain is worldly; it is
materialistic.
19)Spiritual revolution
happens only when you drop this greed, when you drop the very idea of becoming.
You are that. You are already that, so then don’t hanker for attainment. You
have never been anything else other than that which you are trying to attain.
20)Becoming is
dreaming; being is truth.
21)Not for a single
moment forget that you are gods and goddesses. Don’t think in terms of ladies
and gentlemen – forget all that nonsense.
22)Spirituality is not
an attainment; rather, it is a recognition – a remembrance. You have forgotten,
that’s all. You have misplaced it somewhere, that’s all, but it is there all
the same.
23)God never repeats.
His creativity is original – he does not believe in carbons. He never creates anybody
again. He does not believe in the common and the ordinary. He creates only the extraordinary
and the unique.
24)Everybody is born
exceptional. There is no need to prove it. And those who prove, they simply
prove that they are uncertain about their uniqueness.
25)Only inferior
people, who have an idea of deep inferiority, try to prove themselves to be
superior.
26)We are not separate.
We are one whole. We are members of each other. We are not like islands; we are
the vast continent of God.
27)Man and woman are
complementaries, not contradictions.
28)Valley is nothing
but mountain upside down; the mountain is nothing but the valley downside up.
29)Real life is like a
rainbow – the whole spectrum. Maybe on one side is white, on another side is
black, but in between there are millions of steps, all joined together. Life is
a spectrum. If you drop the mid-steps, then things look contradictory. It is
your vision which is not yet clear.
30)The whole art of
witnessing is to help you to feel separate from all that with which you are
clinging.
31)By losing all else
you will for the first time attain to your authentic being.
32)If you have fallen
in love, you know what it is; but if somebody asks what is love, you will get
puzzled.
33)Famous saying of
Augustine: ”I know what time is, but when somebody asks me, ’What is time?’
suddenly I don’t know.”
34)When the disciple is
ready – not only to transform himself, but to die – he becomes a devotee.
35)Everything is food
for something else.
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