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The Virtues of Selfishness

The Virtues of Selfishness If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember. If you are not selfish you will not be unselfish, remember. Only a very deeply selfish person can be unselfish. But this has to be understood because it looks like a paradox. What...

What Is Meditation?

And what is meditation? It does not mean meditating upon something; the English word is misleading. In English there is no word adequate enough to translate Buddha's word samasati. It has been translated as meditation, as right mindfulness, as awareness, as...

In Deep Contact With a Master

The only hope for you is to be in deep contact with somebody who is awakened. The awakened one is called the master - satguru. If you can find a master, don't miss the opportunity - surrender, relax into his being, imbibe his awareness, let his fragrance surround you....

Projections

Learn! Learn through life -- and the greatest lesson is that you don't see reality as it is. You project on it, and when you project, you are bound to become frustrated sooner or later, because the reality cannot adjust to your projection. How can the reality adjust...

Learn to Become a Void

By and by you will see that the mind is coming closer and closer to the heart because now the mind will feel unnourished, unfed, starved. Once the mind understands -- and it understands very well that the situation has changed, the heart has become the centre so it...

Nothing goes right without meditation

Pankaja, there are many things in your question. First, you ask, "When someone like Nietzsche or Gertrude Stein dies -- a genius who would probably have become enlightened if they had met a master -- what sort of consciousness do they carry into the next life? The...

Inertia of Habit

OUR BELOVED MASTER, ON ONE OCCASION, A MONK ASKED ISAN ABOUT THE NEED FOR CULTIVATION OF ONE'S SPIRITUAL LIFE AFTER ENLIGHTENMENT. ISAN RESPONDED THAT IT WAS NEEDED BECAUSE OF THE "INERTIA OF HABIT." HE THEN WENT ON TO SAY: "WHAT YOU HEAR MUST FIRST BE ACCEPTED BY...

Pure consciousness has never gone mad

BELOVED OSHO, I FEEL EMOTIONALLY TOTALLY EXHAUSTED. SOMETHING IS RIPPING ME APART, BUT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT. IN THE LAST FEW DAYS I'VE BEEN THROUGH INTENSE SPELLS OF HATING MYSELF. IT FEELS LIKE AN ATTACK, AND IT LOOKS IMPOSSIBLE TO LOVE SUCH A CREATURE. ON ANOTHER...

To Create a Balance

WHAT IS NEUROSIS AND WHAT IS THE CURE FOR IT? Neurosis has never been so epidemic in the past as it is now. It is almost becoming a normal state of human mind. It has to be understood. The past was spiritually more healthy, and the reason was that mind was not fed so...

Footprints in the sky

BELOVED OSHO, A FRIEND WROTE TO ME THAT TWO DAYS AFTER HER FATHER DIED, SITTING BY THE CORPSE SHE FELT AN INCREDIBLE RISE OF ENERGY IN HER. WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND A DEAD PERSON, AND HOW SHOULD WE LOOK AFTER THE BODY OF A PERSON WHO HAS DIED? The moment a person dies...