All Moons in the One Moon
I cannot understand the philosophy of Zen. What should I do to understand it? Baula, Zen is not a philosophy at all. To approach Zen as if it were a philosophy is to start in a wrong way from the very...
View ArticleMy Abiding Place Has No Pillars – Osho
Zen has no teaching; Zen has no doctrine. Zen gives no guidance, because it says there is no goal. It says you are not to move into a certain direction. It says you are already there, so the more you...
View ArticleThe Emptiness of the Heart – Osho
Maneesha, Bukko has come to the ultimate expression of the experience of one’s own being. Very rarely has a master succeeded to such a point as Bukko has in his statements. Listen carefully, because...
View ArticleRipe Plum – Osho
Maneesha, one of the most important things to be remembered all along is that the Zen master is not a philosopher. He is not rational. Basically he is very irrational and absurd, but miraculously he...
View ArticleThe Ocean is Always Waiting – Osho
The other night I heard you say there is no reincarnation, no soul, no spirit after death, only pure consciousness, pure silence. Is it then so, that part of us, of our own consciousness, is aware of...
View ArticleAll You Can do is Drop Your Mind – Osho
Maneesha, the way of Zen requires certain conditions to be fulfilled. They are not the conditions that other religions require; they are the conditions of receptivity, of awareness, of listening, of an...
View ArticleNeo-Advaita Meets Dzogchen: The Unraveling of a Pseudo-Enlightenment
The following is an excerpt from Sam Harris’s book Waking Up. I must confess that I have not read Sam’s book, but I find the excerpt below to be an incredibly insightful exposé on the deficiencies of...
View ArticlePsychology Cannot Take You Beyond Mind – Osho
I am a psychologist. I was hoping that studying psychology would help to change my life, but nothing like that has happened. What should I do now? Psychology is still a very, very immature science. It...
View ArticleA Course in Witnessing Blossoms
Covid changed the entire landscape. Out of the garden of our in-person meditation gatherings, A Course in Witnessing grew. We did not have any intention to create it. But covid changed everything. We...
View ArticleI Have a Confession to Make
On this day, December 11th, in which Osho came into this world, I have a confession to make. Even though Osho spoke continuously about the need for meditation and introduced us to the 112 meditation...
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