Prayer for all offended from osho. Prayer is a Consequence of Real Meditation

Osho what is prayer read

Eat well famous story about a peasant girl in love from Punjab. This girl once walked in thoughtfulness across the field where a religious man offered up his prayers. The law of religion does not allow crossing such a place. As the village girl walked back, the religious man told her:

How rude you acted, foolish girl, because it is a great sin to pass through the place where a person offers prayers to God!

The girl stopped and asked in great bewilderment:

What do you mean by prayers?

Prayers? he exclaimed. - Don't you know, silly girl, what prayers are? This is a conversation with God! To offer prayers means to think about God and talk to Him.

How strange! How did you manage to see me, if you thought about God and talk to Him? When I passed here, I thought about my beloved and talked to him to myself. Therefore, I did not notice you at all.

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A selection of quotes from Walsh's books "Conversations with God" and statements by other interesting authors - about the soul, love, God, and our relationship with Him, if any.

There is a way to get rid of wars, fears, worries and worries forever. This is a spiritual way. All life problems have a spiritual origin and a spiritual solution.

The highest feeling is oneness with All That Is. This is a great return to the Truth that the soul longs for. This is the feeling of perfect love.

Each heart that sincerely asks: "What is it, the path to God?" - the path is shown. Everyone is given the truth that can be perceived by the heart. Come to Me by the path of your heart, but not by the path of your mind. You can never find Me in your mind.

What is important for the soul? The highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the desire of the soul. This is its meaning and purpose. The soul needs feelings. Not knowledge, but feelings. She already has knowledge, but knowledge is concepts. Feelings are experiences. The soul wants to feel itself and, thus, to know itself through its own experience.

Very few of the value judgments that you accepted as your truth were based on your own experience. But you came here precisely for the sake of experience - and it was from your experience that you had to create yourself. You created yourself out of the experience of others.

Relationships constantly test what you are capable of, constantly urge you to create, express and experience more and more higher features of yourself, your even more elevated worldview, your even more wonderful ideas about yourself. Nowhere can you do it so directly, effectively and so clearly as in a relationship. In fact, you can't do it all outside of a relationship at all.

At critical moments in all human relationships, there is only one question: "How would love act now?"

Love is as natural a function as breathing.

True love is unity, the union of I and YOU in one whole, the absence of separation. Love is the desire to return to the One Whole, this is the desire to dissolve into the whole.

A man in love demands perfection from another, as if he owes him something. A woman, having fallen in love, demands perfection from a man, simply because she has fallen in love. A man, having fallen in love with a woman, also demands from her, as if she owes him something. This is egocentrism.

True love can only give without asking for anything in return; she shares unconditionally. Only greed asks and expects.

In true love, there is no and cannot be disappointment, because there are no expectations in it. As for fake love, it can never be satisfied, since its expectations are endless - it is always not enough for it. Therefore not true love only brings disappointment, and the real one is complete satisfaction.

True, Supreme love is deep spiritual experience, which has nothing to do with bodies and the opposite of the sexes.

A person turns to God with a request, and such a prayer is a means to an end, just a tool. For a person, the prayer itself is not important, he wants to get a result, therefore such a prayer cannot be called real.

Real prayer has no purpose, it is itself a goal - it is gratitude, thanksgiving to the Almighty for allowing us to be, to breathe in the scents of flowers, to see all this variety of life forms.

It is so wonderful to feel grateful to God that nothing can compare to this feeling. Osho says that prayer is the highest point of a person's happiness, and such prayer does not become a means to an end. The goal is gratitude, love for God, and when this goal is achieved, when you feel it, every moment becomes real prayer - a feeling of gratitude.

You exude this fragrance, share it, give it to others and to God - and there is no calculation, no deal, no expectations, no worries. This is gratitude at every moment (and for every moment) of being, this is love, real happiness. This is a harmonious flow of energy from soul to God and from God to soul. You are in constant prayer of gratitude, what could be better than this?

Quotes from new conversations with God

God is in everyone's heart and speaks to us in a whisper of love.

When we stop hearing, He manifests Himself as the Voice of a Loving Conscience.

And when we no longer even hear the conscience, He is forced to shout into our mouthpiece of suffering.

For how else can He reach out to our hearts?

I will always protect you.

Will you call Allah, Buddha, Sabaoth, Christ or

Omnipresent Love, I will always come to your aid.

However, this help will be shown in different ways,

depending on who you call Me.

and their infinitely varied relationship of mutual love!

The energies of God, including individual souls,

differ from their Source

(otherwise their relationship could not have arisen)

and at the same time they are one with Him.

All events that take place take place in the Name of Love.

You are a tiny particle of this Love, and you exist

to take our place in this gigantic plan,

in this grandiose plan of Her movement, Her life,

Her self-continuation. This Love is I myself.

And one day you will return to Me.

You are always a servant of Great Love.

The question was never - to serve or not to serve God,

but your eternal choice is how to serve.

I want you to wake up because

there is a thousand times greater happiness.

And one day you will find it. Your sleep is not eternal.

fulfilling your desires,

allowing you to use Him,

without disturbing your lifestyle

that suits you ...

But what if God is a living person?

These are just a few quotes from the new book The Voice of a Loving Conscience. To understand God more as a Personality, you can read new conversations with God, which in many ways reveal Him personal qualities... The book is no less interesting and engaging than Walsh's early books on the subject. She gives answers to many indeed important questions life, helping to orient in their desires and to set priorities. God is always ready to help us if we sincerely turn to him - no matter what religion we are in, or whether we go to church at all. The book "Voice of a loving conscience" published on the site "Conversations with God" is a new, fresh look at yourself, your inner world, on their desires and relationship with God. The book can be read online or downloaded in any format convenient for you. Cognitive reading!

Music of the soul

Rajneesh Bhagwan Shri

To the begining
Go to

Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh (Osho)

When you are in the early morning

see the sun rise, watch

in silence and within you

sunrise also begins - this is prayer.

When a bird soars in the sky

and you soar in the sky. And you forgot

that you are apart is prayer.

Wherever division disappears

When you become one

with existence, with the universal whole, -

Prayer is the experience of resurrection, it is rebirth, it is the birth of a new vision ... it is a new dimension, it is a New Look on things, this is a new way of life. Not something that you do; but something that you become. This state of being has nothing to do with the words that you utter in a temple, mosque, church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.

This is attunement with the universal, with the whole ... to come into harmony with the whole is prayer. This experience is great and boundless, and no precision is possible in it. He is indefinable; any definition is disproportionately small. Any definition conveys some part, but only a part. Much remains unsaid.

The experience of prayer is so pervasive that it contains contradictions. Therefore, someone can say: "Prayer is silence" - and he will be right, absolutely right. Someone else may say: “Prayer is a dialogue” - and also be right, because prayer is a dialogue in silence. At first glance, "dialogue" and "silence" contradict each other. They speak in dialogue, listen in silence. They talk in dialogue, they just stay in silence: there is nothing to say.

What can you say? You can bow down. You can celebrate. And yet, your bow, your service, your celebration, your gratitude ... all these are still attempts to express. You are trying to express yourself without words, because words are so small, and your heart wants to express itself so fully. So this is a dialogue, albeit in silence. In a sense, it is a conversation in which you and the whole of existence participate - an existence that becomes your beloved, that becomes your “You”. And yet in prayer there is neither "I" nor "You" - one and the other disappears. Both merge into one, combine into one whole, an organic whole. Like a dewdrop in the ocean, you disappear. Nothing separates you and existence. What kind of dialogue can there be?

Both definitions are correct. Those who call prayer a dialogue - like Christians, like Jews, like Hindus - are right. But they speak only of a fraction of the greatest experience called prayer. Buddhists say there is no dialogue. Jainism says that there is no dialogue - because there is neither "I" nor "You". Only absolute silence. They are also right - but it is also true that it is definitely very difficult to approach prayer.

Unlike science, religion cannot be defined. If you ask science, everything is accurate in science. You ask: “What is water?” And science says: “H 2 0”. So simple! Exhaustively simple. "Н 2 0" - and that says it all, because water belongs to the objective world. The object is amenable to analysis.

Prayer refers to the world of subjectivity. It is not an analytic object. Strictly speaking, prayer cannot be shown to anyone. If someone insists: “For some reason, I don’t see any prayer in you,” you cannot show him your prayer, you cannot even prove its existence. Prayer is like love — more like love than the H2O of water. Love is just as indefinable.

Always remember: there are things that are under you, and there are things that are above you. In those things that are under you, accuracy is possible. But in those things that are above you, you cannot be precise. They are bigger than you. If prayer exists, prayer does not exist in you - on the contrary: you exist in prayer. Prayer is above you. You just vibrate in this immense dimension, in this super abundance.

Sense is a subtle phenomenon. It is like the scent of a flower. You cannot catch it, touch it with your hands, but it exists - can you catch it or not, can you put its safe or not. It still exists!

If we develop this question further ... then what is poetry? Just a set of words in a specific order? No. It is something that happens when words are in a certain order — but more than a certain word order. This is not grammar, this is not language - it is something transcendental; something brought to life by words. Words give a reason for poetry to happen.

And it's the same with music. Instruments, notes, sounds serve to bring about silence - which is music. Music is between two sounds, poetry is between two words; everything that is alive and meaningful is between the lines ... Never in the lines themselves - always between the lines; one must learn to read in between, in gaps, in pauses.

But still something can be said about prayer ... - although nothing can be said for sure, so I cannot fulfill your desire. The very nature of prayer prevents this, and it would be blasphemous to go against its nature.

So, the first thing I can say about prayer is a feeling of immeasurable gratitude, gratitude. You have the opportunity to be here in this world, in all its beauty, with all its trees and rivers, mountains and stars. You live in this amazing beauty, you pulsate with life. You didn't deserve this opportunity. You received it as a gift. Prayer gives thanks for this gift of life. Just breathing is such a joy. just open your eyes - and see the green leaves. - or the chirping of birds, or the sounds of running water, or the silence of the night in its velvet darkness ... Or sunset, or dawn ... we did not deserve this! We received all this as a gift, but did not even express gratitude.

Whether God exists or not, we owe gratitude. People think, "If God exists, we will thank him." I tell you exactly the opposite: "You will find God if you give thanks." There is no other way. You will find God if you become grateful, because God only happens in this dimension of gratitude. You do not look with your ears and you do not listen with your eyes: your eyes can only see, your ears can only hear - just like that, only gratitude can find God, only gratitude can feel God.

And secondly, prayer is a way of life. It is not a specific set of actions performed as some kind of morning ritual. If prayer is performed as a ritual, it loses all meaning. If prayer is performed as a ritual, it will not bring you religiosity - it will make you a Hindu, it will make you a Muslim, but it will not bring religiosity. Let prayer be something completely informal: something from the very heart ... not a ritual, but hastily performed in the morning, because "it is necessary"; because you were taught that way; because you are doing your duty. Not completing the ritual makes you feel a little guilty; having performed the ritual, you do not receive a drop of joy from it. When the ritual is not perfect, there is only guilt. To avoid feeling guilty, you perform a ritual. This is not a prayer.

Prayer is a way of life.

What I mean? The man of prayer is in prayer twenty-four hours a day. He sleeps in prayer; his dream itself is a kind of prayer. In a dream, he is so relaxed, as if sleeping in the arms of the universe. Falling asleep, he sleeps in divinity. When he wakes up, he wakes up in divinity. He opens his eyes, and gratitude, infinite gratitude, enters first into his heart and into his being. He eats divinity, he drinks divinity. He steps into divinity. He breathes in divinity, he breathes in divinity. Throughout his twenty-four hours, prayer continues unceasingly. Like background music at the edge of the ear, prayer sounds continuously. Whatever he does, it doesn't matter: the prayer goes on.

I am not saying that you repeat "Rama, Rama, Rama" or "Alla, Alla, Alla." Repetition will do nothing. If you start repeating "Ram, Ram, Ram," it will disrupt the normal course of life. Driving - you will not be able to drive the car normally, because the mind will be split. You cannot fully invest yourself in any work. So there is no need to repeat anything. Words and repetition have nothing to do with it; prayer is a kind of feeling, a kind of presence. You can imagine a mother sleeping: at night she sleeps, her child sleeps next to her ... maybe in the rainy season, when there are clouds and thunder in the sky. Thunderclaps won't wake her. But as soon as the child moves a little in a dream, cries, and she immediately wakes up. The thunder could not wake her, but the child ... Even in her sleep, some part of her being remembers the child. So is prayer.

Music of the soul

When you see the sunrise in the early morning, you watch in silence and the sunrise begins within you too, that is prayer. When the bird is soaring in the sky and you are soaring in the sky. And you forgot that you are separate - that is prayer.

Wherever division disappears, prayer arises. When you become one with existence, with the universal whole, that is prayer.

Prayer - The Song of Silence

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What is prayer? What is its exact definition?

Prayer is an experience of resurrection, it is rebirth, it is the birth of a new vision ... it is a new dimension, it is a new way of looking at things, it is a new way of life. Not something that you do; but something like you you become... This state of being has nothing to do with the words that you utter in a temple, mosque, church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.

This is attunement with the universal, with the whole ... to come into harmony with the whole is prayer. This experience is great and limitless, and no accuracy in it is impossible. He is indefinable; any definition is disproportionately small. Any definition conveys some part, but only a part. Much remains unsaid.

Both definitions are correct. Those who call prayer a dialogue - like Christians, like Jews, like Hindus - are right. But they speak only of a fraction of the greatest experience called prayer.

Prayer should remain vague, elusive, without clear lines. Prayer must remain incomprehensible. You see it only in passing, like a fleeting glimpse, but you cannot catch it entirely, touch it with your hands. It does not boil down to a simple definition.

Unlike science, religion cannot be defined. If you ask science, everything is accurate in science. You ask: "What is water?" And science says: "H2O". So simple! Exhaustively simple. “H2O” - and that says it all, because water belongs to the objective world. The object is amenable to analysis.

Prayer refers to the world of subjectivity. It is not an analytic object. Strictly speaking, prayer cannot be shown to anyone. If someone insists: “For some reason, I don’t see any prayer in you,” you cannot show him your prayer, you cannot even prove its existence. Prayer is like love - more like love than H2O of water. Love is just as indefinable.

Always remember: there are things that are under you, and there are things that are above you. Accuracy is possible in those things that are under you. But in those things that are above you, you cannot be precise. They are bigger than you. If prayer exists, prayer does not exist in you - on the contrary: you exist in prayer. Prayer is above you. You just vibrate in this immense dimension, in this super abundance.

But we have been taught, especially in this age of science, to be precise in everything. And this stubborn pursuit of accuracy destroyed much that was beautiful and valuable in life. If something doesn't lend itself precise definition, the mind tries to deny its existence.

Divinity cannot be precisely defined, and the mind says, "So divinity cannot exist." Love cannot be precisely defined; then the mind says: "Love has only dreamed of us, no more." Beauty cannot be precisely defined; then the mind says, “We just invented the beauty. There is nothing in it but our fantasies. " But what then remains? Does this mean that there is no more beauty in the world, no love, no good? So the world has lost all meaning? No, the world itself has remained the same and has not lost its meaning; it is only your maddened desire for precision that makes it meaningless.

Sense is a subtle phenomenon. It is like the scent of a flower. You can't catch it, touch it with your hands, but it exists - can you catch it or not, can you put its safe or not. It still exists!

How do you identify music? If you start defining it, it will be destroyed. Then there will be only an organized set of sounds, no more ... A certain kind of noise, organized in such a way that it no longer seems like noise. Soothing noise, pleasant to the ear. Is that all? Is there really nothing else in music? No, there is more to music than notes; more than a complete collection of notes.

If we develop this question further ... then what is poetry? Just a set of words in a specific order? No. It is something that happens when words are in a certain order - but more than a certain word order. This is not grammar, this is not language - it is something transcendental; something brought to life by words. Words give a reason for poetry to happen.

And it's the same with music. Instruments, notes, sounds serve to bring about silence - which is music. Music is between two sounds, poetry is between two words; everything that is alive and meaningful is between the lines ... Never in the lines themselves - always between lines; one must learn to read in between, in gaps, in pauses.

Whether God exists or not, we owe gratitude. People think, "If God exists, we will thank him." I tell you exactly the opposite: "You will find God if you begin to thank." There is no other way. You will find God if you become grateful, because God only happens in this dimension of gratitude. You do not look with your ears and you do not listen with your eyes: your eyes can only see, your ears can only hear - just like that, only gratitude can find God, only gratitude can feel God.

Prayer is a way of life.

What I mean? The man of prayer is in prayer twenty-four hours a day. He sleeps in prayer; his dream itself is a kind of prayer. In a dream, he is so relaxed, as if sleeping in the arms of the universe. Falling asleep, he sleeps in divinity. When he wakes up, he wakes up in divinity. He opens his eyes, and gratitude, infinite gratitude, enters first into his heart and into his being. He eats divinity, he drinks divinity. He steps into divinity. He breathes in divinity, he breathes in divinity. Throughout his twenty-four hours, prayer continues unceasingly. Like background music at the edge of the ear, prayer is played continuously. Whatever he does, it doesn't matter: the prayer goes on.

I am not saying that you repeat "Rama, Rama, Rama" or "Alla, Alla, Alla." Repetition will do nothing. If you start chanting "Ram, Ram, Ram," it will disrupt the normal course of life. Driving - you will not be able to drive the car normally, because the mind will be split. You cannot fully invest yourself in any work. So there is no need to repeat anything. Words and repetition have nothing to do with it; prayer is a kind of feeling, a kind of presence. You can imagine a mother sleeping: at night she sleeps, her child sleeps next to her ... maybe in the rainy season, when there are clouds in the sky and thunder is thundering. Thunderclaps won't wake her. But as soon as the child moves a little in a dream, cries, and she immediately wakes up. The thunder could not wake her, but the child ... Even in her sleep, some part of her being remembers the child. So is prayer.

You live everyday life, you do ordinary actions, you work, but deep inside, in the holy of holies of your being, you keep an unceasing bow to existence - prayer continues, gratitude continues. Sometimes, at some moment of silence, prayer will come to the surface; at ordinary times it continues internally, latently.

In prayer live; in prayer do not require… In prayer you entrust yourself to the silence and uncertainty of existence.

We are so small; existence is so immense ... we were here only for a few moments; existence has always been and always will be. We are just small waves in this vast ocean. We can ask, but we have no right to demand. We can ask because we are not alien to existence; we are not outsiders in it. We are akin to him. We are involved in it. Existence has populated its universe with us. By the will of existence, we exist. We can ask. But the request does not contain a note of the requirement. We are grateful if the request is fulfilled. We are grateful if the request is not fulfilled. Remember this. This is the beauty of prayer.

If the request is fulfilled, we are grateful - obviously. If the request is not fulfilled, we are still grateful. Why are we grateful even when the request is not fulfilled? Because a person who knows what prayer is, who lives by prayer, also knows that sometimes we ask for what is not good for us. Existence knows better. If the request is useful to us, it will be fulfilled. If the request is not helpful, it will not be fulfilled.

The little girl's favorite doll fell and shattered. Sobbing over the fragments, the girl said to her brother:

- I will pray to God that he will collect the fragments and make the doll whole.

- And you think God will answer your prayer?

- Will answer. You'll see.

Two hours later, the brother returned and asked his sister:

- Well, how? Has God already answered?

“I answered,” she said, and pointed to the shards. - He said no.

This is prayer. You have the right to ask, but you have no right to demand. No means no. Ultimately, God makes the decision. The requirement implies that you have already decided everything. Requirement means: you want existence to fulfill your will. Request means only: “I put my desire at your feet, but your will is on everything - your will be done; Thy kingdom come ... ”These last words of Jesus on the cross - that's what prayer is!

Osterhus says: "No one can pray without words, because no one exists outside of language, and everything is a dialogue." Buddha says prayer is silence. And both are right. Osterhus is right - in a sense this is true: no one can pray without words, because no one exists outside of language. Language is to us almost the same as the ocean to fish. Language is our ocean.

So Osterhus is right. And he fully understands the importance of language, because he is a poet. Only a poet fully understands the importance of language - not a linguist, not a grammar. The grammar knows only the body of the tongue; the poet knows his heart, his soul, his spirit, his invisible dimension. Osterhus is right: no one exists outside of language, and everything is a dialogue.

Yes, prayer is a kind of dialogue. The part speaks to the whole. The part refers to the whole. And you will need to learn this dialogue.

It has never happened to you that you suddenly wanted to speak to trees. - although you know perfectly well that they will not answer you? Have you ever said hello to a rose blooming on a branch? Maybe you didn’t say anything out loud, because it would look so ridiculous, but didn’t you have such a desire? Haven't you wanted to talk to the stars sometimes? If not, you have lost the ability to feel. You have ever touched a stone - with love, with tenderness. feeling its surface. Have you ever wanted to say something to all the invisible that surrounds you? This is prayer, this is dialogue.

But you have to be brave. Yes, it takes real courage - only then can prayer happen. It’s very easy to go to church and pray, because it’s the way people do it. Nobody will call you crazy. On the contrary, you will be considered a highly religious person, a worthy person, a good Christian - or a Catholic or a Hindu. You will only receive universal respect. But if you start talking to trees ... Just think: you can talk in church with a crucifix, that is, with a piece of dead wood, but you cannot talk with a tree, with a living tree! But if you can't talk to a living tree, how can you talk to a crucifix?

Start talking to existence, to nature. Be a little crazy. Free yourself someday from the prison of your so-called sane mind. It just leads to madness, this so-called sane mind. Every day, thousands of people go crazy. Every day thousands of people around the world commit suicide. And millions continue to live a gray and colorless life - and not for any reason, but for one and only one: they do not know prayer. They have not learned to talk to existence. They failed to pour out their heart. Do you know why in modern world has psychoanalysis acquired such importance? Because people have forgotten how to pray.

The psychoanalyst is now replacing the priest, and for one and only reason: before, people poured out their hearts to nature, but now they do not find whom to pour out their hearts to. They go to a psychoanalyst, they pay money. The psychoanalyst listens - they pour out their hearts. It's completely pointless. You can just as well sit in your garden. Besides, as psychoanalysts, trees are much better: they listen so attentively, so sensitively. Talk to the stones. You can say anything to them, they will not be offended by anything. You will be able to pour out your heart - and all your load, all your tension will subside.

In the past, human life was so free from heaviness, so free from tension. And the reason is that everyone knew how to enter into prayer. Prayer happened naturally. Man went out to the mountains and rivers, to the sun and to the moon, and he talked to them ... all these are the faces of God. - manifestations of the divine. Trembling with life, pulsating in this moment, now.

So when I tell you to start talking to trees, I am giving you the first lesson in prayer. Churches are man-made. Avoid everything that is created by man, because everything created by man carries within it all of human neurosis. Wouldn't it be better to turn to something created by God? If you want to feel God, turn to what was created by God - go where you will find his seal.

Churches were created by man - both temples and mosques. In them you will find only a person, a person with his own politics. In them you will find only a man, a man with all his stupidity. Trees are not that stupid; the stars are not so stupid. Go to them, open your heart to them - enter into a dialogue with nature. And one day a miracle will happen, when suddenly you see that the tree has responded. Then you will know what prayer is; then you will understand Osterhus, who says that prayer is a dialogue. Yes, one day the tree responds - you just need to wait, you just need to have enough patience. You just need to convince the tree that yes, you are really talking to him or her, talking to him or her - that's all. This will take a little time.

Man treated trees so cruelly that they became isolated and distrustful. Let the tree understand, let the tree feel that you are not crazy, that there is no violence in you, there is no aggressiveness - that you came to him with love, with the greatest love.

So, prayer should begin with a dialogue - but with whom? I propose a dialogue with nature. Even an atheist can enter into such a dialogue. I don't bring God into it. First, enter into a dialogue with nature - this is the basics of prayer. And then, along with nature, little by little, begin to move into silence. Sitting next to blooming rose, walk with her into silence without thought and word: you and the rose, together without words, and between you - only the pulse of silence ... waves of silence.

In dialogue, you cognize the divine in the manifested world, in natural world; in silence you cognize the divine as unmanifest. Buddha is also right: he talks about the very pinnacle of prayer. But this peak becomes attainable only if you start with what is closest to you. The path to the highest begins with the closest.

The ancient Jews had a special word - maranatha... It means: "Come, Lord, come!" This is the prayer: “I am ready. My heart is open to you! I'm waiting. Come, Lord, come! " -… waiting with the greatest patience, opening all your doors and windows wide open so that his wind blows freely in you, so that his sun penetrates into the holy of holies of your being and fills you with light: “Come, Lord, come!”

The Jews had another word, hosanna - which means: “Come and deliver us! Come and deliver us from our ignorance! Come and deliver us from our limitations. Come and deliver us from our limits, free us from this prison in which we have imprisoned ourselves. Come and give us freedom! Come and deliver - come and deliver us! "

The very name of Christ, "Jesus", means: "He who sets free." Originally his name was Yeshua - or Jesus. His name means "He who came to deliver." The words "Hosanna" and "Yeshua" in Hebrew are of the same root, and they are related to each other as a question and an answer, as hope and fulfillment, as prayer and response, an answer to prayer.

If you are absorbed in prayer, hot and passionate, the answer comes. Jesus became the answer to many prayers. Buddha became the answer to many prayers - as did Mahavira, and Muhammad, and Nanak. These are the answers! Take them as answers to those many who have prayed. The master appears when the disciple is ready - nothing else. If the student truly prepared his heart, opened himself, became vulnerable, threw off his armor, the master immediately appears. The disciple is the question; the master is the answer.

Prayer as a bridge between a question and an answer, between a disciple and a master, between a seeker and a sought after, between the closest, the closest and the most distant, highest, between desire and fulfillment.

Prayer is born out of our love, in the experience of love - just like when we turn to each other ... Maybe you had to feel how different the same word can be? We speak with the same words, but the quality changes. When the word “you” is addressed to a person who is indifferent to you, there is no prayer in this word ... But when you say “you” to a woman or a man whom you love, the word is the same, but the quality has changed. When you say the same word “you” to a beloved woman, it contains prayer, it contains love. The word trembles with life, pulsates, flows. When you say "you" to the first person you meet in the market square, this word is lifeless.

Prayer gradually arose out of the experience of love. When one person loves another, he is filled with the greatest joy - and those who are intelligent enough, those who are sufficiently aware, once it became clear: "If love for one person brings so much joy, how much joy will love for all that exists!" Love paved the way for prayer.

When people love, they pray to each other. See what their eyes are when they look at each other. This sacred gaze. It may not last longer than a moment, but at that moment a flame burns. At this moment, the messenger of the transcendent appears. When people love, they pray to each other. So one lover says to another “you” - in this word there is respect, and trust, and desperate thirst. So someone says to you "you" - and in this word there is hope, and awe, and awe, and strength; and there is a request or kindness in the voice.

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TRUE PRAYER IS GRATITUDE TO GOD (OSHO)

But real prayer cannot be a request; true prayer can only be gratitude to God.

Real prayer has no purpose, it is itself a goal - it is gratitude, thanksgiving to the Almighty for allowing us to be, to breathe in the scents of flowers, to see all this variety of life forms. God allowed us to be aware, hear, taste, and have other perceptions. This is so wonderful that a real prayer-thanksgiving is born of itself, we thank God for all this, feeling that we practically cannot thank him.

Osho says: “You only come to the temple to thank:“ No matter how much You give me, it is still too much. I will never deserve this! " Everything you have received is just a gift, and this gift is from Divine love. You didn't deserve this. " This is the Grace of God.

Real prayer can be compared to real love - it is not a means to achieve something, love is the goal itself. You do not love for something, not for the purpose of getting something as a result of your love. When you love (if this is true love, and not selfish love), this love is bliss, so what other goals can there be when there is bliss? What are the expectations? You simply love, exude the scent of love, as flowers exude an aroma - expecting nothing, wanting nothing in return. You radiate love - that's enough.

Real prayer is love, you just enjoy it, you don't ask for anything else. When you realize that God is overflowing with love, gratitude arises in you. Because of your love for God, He gives you everything, and with a feeling of gratitude you go to the temple - just to offer a prayer of thanks. Gratitude in itself is already a prayer, it is a feedback from God, it is the highest point of happiness.

Selfishness is when you do not thank God for everything He gives you. Energy stagnates, you just receive, and you do not give anything in return. A fetid swamp of egoism is formed, which is based on the idea of \u200b\u200b"living only for oneself." When you offer a prayer of gratitude to God, the energy begins to circulate again, and the swamp of selfishness is cleared by the waters of love and gratitude.

It is so wonderful to feel grateful to God that nothing can compare to this feeling. Osho says that prayer is the highest point of human happiness, and such prayer does not become a means to achieve any goal. The goal is gratitude, love for God, and when this goal is achieved, when you feel it, every moment becomes a real prayer - a feeling of gratitude. There is no ego (egoism) in this, since you will not forgive anything, you thank for what is already there, because you understand that nothing could have been at all.

When you are grateful for what you have, are there any problems, is there anything else needed? All that remains is to thank and share the scent of love and gratitude without expecting to receive something in return. And it happens spontaneously, by itself, without any effort on your part, it's like a rose bloom in beautiful garden - she does not make any effort to this.

You exude this fragrance, share it, give it to others and to God - and there is no calculation, no deal, no expectations, no worries. This is gratitude at every moment (and for every moment) of being, this is love, real happiness. It is a harmonious flow of energy from soul to God and from God to soul. You are in constant prayer of thanksgiving, what could be better than this?

goal human life - to develop love for God, and there is no happiness higher than this constant prayer-thanks.

Based on materials from Osho, the book "Mustard Seed"

Real prayer is gratitude to God (Osho)

But real prayer cannot be a request; true prayer can only be gratitude to God.

Real prayer has no purpose, it is itself a goal - it is gratitude, thanksgiving to the Almighty for allowing us to be, to breathe in the scents of flowers, to see all this variety of life forms. God allowed us to be aware, hear, taste, and have other perceptions. This is so wonderful that a real prayer-thanksgiving is born by itself, we thank God for all this, feeling that we practically cannot thank him.

Love and gratitude is the best prayer

Real prayer is love, you just enjoy it, you don't ask for anything else. When you understand that God is overflowing with love, gratitude arises in you. Out of his love, God gives you everything, and with a feeling of gratitude you go to the temple - just to offer a prayer of gratitude. Gratitude in itself is already a prayer, it is a feedback from God, it is the highest point of happiness.

When you are grateful for what you have, are there any problems, is there anything else needed? All that remains is to thank and share the scent of love and gratitude without expecting to receive something in return. And it happens spontaneously, by itself, without any effort on your part, it's like a rose blooming in a beautiful garden - she doesn't make any effort to it.

Develop love for God, and there is no happiness higher than this constant prayer-thanks.

Based on materials from Osho, the book "Mustard Seed"

Is there anything above the prayer of gratitude?

In addition to what Osho said, you can add a few words from other sources that state that gratitude to God is very high level, but not yet the limit. Because you can just be grateful to the Lord, or you can thank Him, or at least try to do it. "But what can be done for the Almighty, who is Absolute and does not need anything?" - Osho followers will ask.

And to answer this question, you need to consider the Vedic concept and study the Vaishnava scriptures, which relate to bhakti yoga, where they are given, which help to actually express their gratitude to God. After all, if we accept the fact that God has a personal aspect, then it is logical to assume that He, as the Supreme Personality, likes some of our actions and some do not. And by doing what He likes, we thereby rise to a level that is above the prayer of gratitude.

The Vedas assert that the supreme goal of the human form of life is also the revival of love for God; then a person's whole life becomes the highest prayer... Through bhakti yoga (devotional service) one attains the supreme goal of life and returns to eternal happiness.

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In the past, prayer was misunderstood. Prayer was part of faith in God. Those who did not believe in God could not pray. This turned millions of people away from prayer. Prayer must be freed from faith. In the beginning comes

prayer

and prayer is followed by God. God is not a prerequisite for prayer, God is its consequence. When you pray, you are aware of the existence of God. And you don't need to believe in Him. All beliefs are false, you can believe all your life, but your faith cannot make what you believe true.

You can hypnotize yourself, you can convince yourself. And still there will be a lie. Life is a gift from God, we must deserve this gift, because we have not yet deserved it. But we are ungrateful creatures. Even a simple "Thank you" does not occur to us. We do not feel gratitude for being given the opportunity to see, laugh, love, enjoy the music of being and the beauty of the world. No, we do not thank for this, on the contrary, we constantly complain.

Listening to the prayers of people, you will be surprised. All their prayers are endless complaints. There is no gratitude in prayers. All demand more all the time. Everyone says it's not enough for me. Nothing is never enough for anyone. The poor man asks, the rich man asks, the emperor asks, everyone asks. Everyone asks for something more for himself. So that you don't get everything for you. Lord, I deserve more, you are not fair to me. I call this outside religiosity.

True prayer comes from gratitude. For true prayer, a simple "Thank you" is enough. True prayer has nothing to do with what is known throughout the world as prayer. This is not a ritual, has nothing to do with a church, temple or mosque, it cannot be non-peasant, not Hindu, not Muslim, it does not need words, it is without verbal.

This is a silent gratitude. A silent bow to being. And therefore, whenever you feel the need to bow to the Earth, Trees, Sky, bow. Prayer is one of better means destroy the ego.

Excerpt from Osho's series of discourses "Until You Die" 1975
Translation: Ma Prem Champa
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If you go to the temple and your prayer becomes a desire, it will never be answered. Because prayer is possible only when there is no desire. Desire can never be prayer. If you ask for something, you will miss. You don't pray. And God knows whatever your need may be.
There was a Sufi saint Bayezid, and he always said: “God knows, whatever my need may be, so I never prayed - because it's stupid! What should I say to Him? He already knows. If I say what he knows, it’s stupid. If I am trying to find something that He does not know, that is also stupid. How can you find such a thing? So I just never bothered him. Everything that I need, He always gives. "
There was a time, he was very, very poor, hungry, rejected by the city through which he passed. No one was willing to give him shelter for the night. The night was dark, and he was sitting under a tree; on the outskirts of the city, it was dangerous. And one disciple said: "And what about this situation? If He knows that Bayezid, who loves Him, is in such trouble, that the city has rejected him, he is hungry and without food, sits under a tree, wild animals are everywhere, he cannot even sleep - what is this God about whom you say that He knows everything you need? "
Bayezid laughed and said: "He knows this is what I need in this moment... This is my need! How else? - Otherwise why is it so? God knows when you need poverty, "Bayazid said," and God knows when you need wealth. God knows when to starve, and God knows when to feast. He knows! This is what I need now.
You cannot ask. If you ask, you will not be given. In the request itself, you prove that you are not yet able to receive. Prayer should be silence. Silence is prayer. When words appear, desires immediately follow - because words are the carriers of desire. In silence, how can you desire? You tried? Silently can you desire something? How can you desire in silence? The language is needed. All languages \u200b\u200bbelong to the realm of desire. Therefore, all those who have cognized insist on silence, because only when there is not a word in your mind, desires will stop completely; otherwise, there is desire behind every word.
Whatever you say, even if you go to a temple and a mosque and a church and you say, "I do not want anything," that is desire. Just look, observe - desire is hidden somewhere. And you have heard that until you stop desiring, you will not be given. That is why you say - "I do not wish" - to receive. But it is hidden behind, in the shadows it is. Otherwise, why say at all: "I don't want anything?"
Shut up. Only silence is prayer.
All the prayers you have said are false. All the prayers you have been taught are not prayers at all - dead rituals. There is only one prayer and that is silence. Be so quiet that not a single word pops up in the lake of your consciousness. No ripples. The lake is in absolute silence. It becomes a mirror. It reflects existence. It reflects God. In this moment of silence, everything is achieved.