From Lemurs to Lamas: Confessions of a Bodhisattva
I have just completed a collection of stories and essays from along the way. Some of the material has already been posted on Sat Sangha Salon but most of it is new. You are free to download and...
View ArticleJust Being is Zazen – Osho
When energy goes inward it turns into thoughts, feelings, emotions, and when energy goes outward it turns into relationships with beings and nature. But when energy does not move inward or outward, it...
View ArticleThe Ultimate in Meditation – Osho
We are to stand and let the waters settle on their own, why all the active meditations? If you can sit, there is no need for meditations. In Japan, for meditation they have the word zazen. It means...
View ArticleA State of Clarity, Not a State of Mind – Osho
What is meditation? Is it a technique that can be practiced? Is it an effort that you have to do? Is it something which the mind can achieve? It is not. All that the mind can do, cannot be meditation —...
View ArticleA Revolution in Religion – Osho
When I first heard you say, “Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself,” my Western mind thought this was a metaphor, and sought to find the meaning. Then I...
View ArticleWhat Is, Is, What Ain’t, Ain’t – Osho
Veet Kalpu means – and it has to be remembered by and by – that you start dropping your imagination. What is, is, what ain’t, ain’t. Let that be your mantra. Do all meditations that are available here,...
View ArticleGo on Digging – Osho
The word ‘zazen’ has to be understood before I can start discussing the sutras that you have brought. Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part...
View ArticleThe Sky of Completion – Osho
I heard you say that we sometimes carry other people’s wounds. What does this mean? Is another person’s wound simply their thought pattern that we adopt? If we can so easily accept someone else’s wound...
View ArticleInscape – The Ultimate Annihilation – Osho
Apparently sex was used by some Zen masters – for example, Ikkyu – as a way to transform energy. However, in no translation to date does evidence of this appear. It seems disciples excluded from their...
View Article