Chapter 3. THIS KNOWLEDGE IS A TRANSFORMATION

September 10, 1988

Our Beloved Master,

The layman asked Bankey:

"Although I am grateful to you for the teaching on unbornness,

Thoughts, thanks to the habits of the mind,

They come anyway,

And I get lost in them and have difficulties

Trying to stay permanently unborn.

To what can I apply the faith of my heart? "

Bankei replied:

"If you try to stop

Arising thoughts, the mind will be divided into two parts:

Stopping and stopping

And you will never achieve peace of mind.

Just believe that thoughts originally

Do not exist, but from time to time do arise

And they stop, depending on

What do you see and hear, but do not have

The real essence. "

Another layman asked:

"When I erase the thoughts that arise,

They keep coming from everywhere anyway

Do not stop.

How can I control them? "

Bankei replied:

"To erase the thoughts that arise is all the same,

Trying to wash away the blood with blood.

Although the original blood can be removed,

Washing off the blood will still leave traces;

No matter how much you wash off, the stains will remain. "

"No-mind is not originally born,

Does not die and exists without illusion.

Without realizing it, thinking

That thoughts really exist

You wander in the routine of birth and death. "

"Realizing that thoughts arise only temporarily,

You have to let them start and stop,

Without holding or rejecting them.

If the mirror is clean and clear

It reflects what passes in front of him,

But does not hold images. "

"The enlightened no-mind is infinitely brighter and cleaner,

Than a mirror, and at the same time radiates, like light, knowledge;

All thoughts dissolve in this light, leaving no trace.

If you believe this truth,

You can trust her, then no matter how many thoughts come,

They will not be an obstacle. "

It is your mind that guides you through birth and death in a circle, over and over, from one misfortune to another. You have to jump out of this circle, and the only way to jump out is simply by witnessing.

"Realizing that thoughts arise

Only temporarily, you must

Let them begin

And stop without holding or rejecting them.

Don't do anything at all.

It is like objects reflected in a mirror;

If the mirror is clean and clear, it reflects what

What passes in front of him, but does not hold the images.

Just be a mirror.

The enlightened no-mind is infinitely brighter and cleaner,

Than a mirror and at the same time radiates,

Like light, knowledge, all thoughts dissolve in such light,

Leaving no trace.

If you can believe this truth

And trust her, then, no matter how many thoughts come,

They will not be an obstacle. "

This awareness is not like knowledge. This awareness is transformation. You have passed from mind to no-mind. You have passed from body to non-body. You have passed from form to formlessness. This is transformation. There is no question of belief, trust, or faith. But I can understand the difficulties of the poor translator. He tried his best, but his conditioning comes out here and there, completely unintentionally.

Unknown ...

Be silent.

Close your eyes.

Look inward as deep as you can.

At the very end, you will find the source of your life.

This source of life is connected to the life of the universe.

To experience it is to be a Buddha, to experience

The final emptiness of the world, but at the same time

Absolute fulfillment of happiness

Blessing, gratitude,

Deep prayer for existence, gratitude ...

Take a look as close as you can

To the source of your life,

The center of your consciousness.

Because you will have to remember it later,

When you are on the periphery of life ...

Doing everything

But not for a moment interrupting the connection

With your innermost source of life.

Continuing to do everything, but like a buddha.

Simply knowing "I am a buddha"

Will change your whole lifestyle.

To make it clearer, no one knows ...

Relax.

Just watch the body, mind.

They are not you, you are the observer.

And the observer is another name for the Buddha.

It's a happy evening - ten thousand people

They just drowned in the ocean of observing consciousness.

Ten thousand buddhas - there has never been such a meeting.

But be very careful and careful,

In order not to lose this state of observation,

When you return from the center to the periphery.

Unknown ...

Come back, but come back with all the sensations

Full of joy, peace and silence,

With mercy and gratitude.

Sit like a Buddha for a few moments.

This will now be your final pose.

Slowly, slowly you will settle down

In your buddha nature.

And if we can create ten thousand buddhas -

It's enough to save humanity -

Ten thousand buddhas will reach every corner of the world,

Spreading love, compassion, awareness.

And I don't think that if there are so many buddhas in the world,

Criminal politicians will be able to destroy it.

This is a critical moment of great responsibility

And at the same time a great challenge.

It's not just a matter of becoming a buddha,

It's a matter of saving this whole planet in all

Her beauty and greatness.

People used to become buddhas for their own sake!

Times have changed now.

You will have to be a Buddha not only for your own sake,

But also for the sake of saving the whole world from nuclear weapons

And its owners.

We will have to create a great consciousness on the globe.

This is our the only defense against destructive

Science and criminal politicians.

Remember: your responsibility is great, but it

Should be a joy, not a duty.

It should be your love, your involvement

In happiness, the feeling of life, your songs,

With your dances, your joy.

I am not asking you to be a missionary,

I want you to be the messiah.

Missionaries only transfer borrowed knowledge.

I want you to be the messiah in the sense

That you will spread your own experience.

You will radiate your own Buddhahood.

The fire of consciousness must be kindled on the globe.

This is humanity's only hope

So lively, so beautiful, so sweet.

The first time you are required to be a Buddha, not only

For yourself, but also create an atmosphere in which

The third World War will not be able to start.

Chapter 5. In the Instant of an Eye

September 12, 1988

It is your inalienable right to know the primordial nature or not to know it. You cannot be compelled by teachers or parents. Yes, they can drive knowledge, ideology into you. They really drag you into religion, not realizing that if you are full of ideologies, you become almost crippled, and this prevents you from knowing your own nature. You must lose all your weight. When you go higher, even breathing becomes difficult; even the clothes are beginning to be embarrassing. You need to lose all the weight, become weightless.

What is true in mountain climbing is also true in the world of consciousness. If you want to enter it, you have to drop all the knowledge that has been given to you. Just burn them! It is better to be ignorant on this path, because ignorance is naivety than to be full of knowledge.

If you are full of knowledge, this will be the greatest obstacle to awareness, because you think as if you already know. But there is no "as if" in existence. Either you know or you don’t know. And there is no way to convey it through words, all words will be misunderstood. Only the presence of the living Master, the silent silence, can become a glimpse, a trigger for you. It is not done by the Master, it happens because of your receptivity, your openness. Something clicks, and the word "click" cannot be replaced with another word.

Zen may be the only one scientific approach to a religious experience.

“We appreciate the great spirit of the hero only in this connection.

Before the signs are clear, before

Any illustration will become obvious, concentrate

For real, look, look, coming or going

Until your efforts are fully ripe. "

Everything is hidden in vision, in observation, when you look so intensely that all your energy is concentrated. Then existence cannot remain a mystery to you. In this concentration, you will mature, and you deserve to have all the secrets revealed to you.

"At the moment of thought, you reach agreement" - just in an instant.

As soon as you have reached the source of your life, then everything happens in the blink of an eye - and you are already in union with existence.

"The mind of birth and death is destroyed,

And suddenly you can clearly see your

The original appearance, the landscape of your native land,

Each dash is easy to distinguish.

You then see and hear the Buddhas,

Know and act as you did it

Enlightened ancestors ".

To know this source of your life and to jump to the other side in the blink of an eye means to be in union with the Whole, with the Cosmos. After this union, you behave like a Buddha. You cannot behave otherwise. Your actions or lack of movement will have the same quality as any Buddha. All Buddhas touched one cosmic source.

Zen does not seek God. We can say that he is looking for union - union with the Whole. And the union makes you everything that is, was and will be. Nothing remains outside the Whole, and you become one with Him.

Unknown ...

Be silent, close your eyes.

Feel like your body is completely frozen.

Look inside.

Straight to the source of your life.

Penetrate deeper without any fear.

Only on this path can a person find himself as a Buddha.

This is the only living road that leads you

Into your cosmic home.

Try to collect all the sensations of silence, bliss

And blessings.

How to make it clearer is unknown ...

Relax, feel that your mind and body are separate from you.

You are only an observer.

At this moment, when you are an observer, you are a Buddha.

Get to know your buddha nature, she is just a mirror -

Reflects everything, but remains intact.

Nothing leaves a trace on your observation.

The mirror remains empty.

This emptiness can at any moment make a small

Leap and you will find yourself on the other side.

Just in a second, you and the whole will become one.

This fusion is the real goal of religiosity.

Wonderful evening...

Unfortunately, so few people are able to enjoy it.

But we have to spread this fire, this

Cool silence, just like a breeze across the land.

This silence will be the womb from which the new man will be born.

You are leading the way.

Unknown ...

Come back.

But come back as Buddhas, with great dignity,

With grace, with silence.

The last few moments just collecting, remembering,

Accumulating impressions of your moments of silence.

You must remain a Buddha for the entire twenty-four hours.

It is not an action, it is your nature.

This should be expressed in all your actions,

In your words, in your silence, in your songs, in your

But you remain an observer. Buddha.

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Sri Rajneesh Osho- Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart - read book online for free

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Osho, also known throughout the world as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, is the enlightened Master of our time. Osho means "oceanic, dissolved in the ocean." In this book, he says that a Buddha already lives inside each person - it is only necessary to open the Universe within oneself. Osho, using the examples of the statements of famous Zen Masters, shows the way to achieve a state of inner harmony and happiness, eternity and immortality, freedom and enlightenment.

Bhagavan Rajneesh
Buddha: Hollow Heart

Conversations conducted by Rajneeshev International University of Mysticism at Gautama Buddha Auditorium

Pune, India

September 8-15, 1988

INTRODUCTION

This book describes a forgotten land, its words are the words of a forgotten language. In order to hear them, you need to turn in a new direction, they enter you from the back door.

And then, as if someone in our very heart stands at the top, describing the view around: the cool air, the scent of flowers, the silence of the Moon.

He describes spaces that seem so far from the places where we lived our lives, but often bells sound between words - those bells that ring in us when a forgotten truth awakens. And in truth, the voice and what it describes often seems familiar. Penetrating deeper into this book, we begin to suspect that maybe we even lived here once, and once these spaces were our home. And maybe this land is actually not that far, in the end we stumble upon it just at such moments.

Open the back door for these words and listen.

Listen to this magic language and listen to the bells that ring so merrily in between. Maybe it’s just your own Buddha pulling on the ropes of bells, bells that ring for you:

“Your own being is so pure, so uncontaminated, even a particle of dust has never reached here — could not. Only your consciousness can reach this place, and consciousness arises in you along with no-mind. In a state of no-mind, you become awake, attentive, and there is nowhere to go from here, because all thoughts are gone. Therefore, you turn inward, and for the first time you meet your own original being. "

Usually the thematic discourses that Osho conducted began with some famous saying or a postulate.

Zen discourses were held in September 1988 in Pune, were taped to date by an accomplished student of Osho Jotti, and eventually entered the collection of Zen discourses "The Emptiness of the Heart".

Below is the beginning of the second discourse on Zen, a fragment dedicated to the saying of the famous Zen master Daikaku. Daikaku left a vivid mark in the history of Zen Buddhism in that when he was elected leader of a Zen monastery, he burned every single book in the monastery library. Daikaku said that people go to the monastery not to learn something, but to transform. And for this, books are not needed.

September 9, 1988

Our Beloved Master,
Daikaku said:

“Zen practice does not clarify the differences of concepts,
she throws away all preconceived notions,
and representations, and sacred texts, and everything else
and, piercing the veils, reaches the spring
their own existence behind them.

All the saints turned inward
and looking for ourselves
and this went beyond the boundaries of all doubts.

Turning inward means all 24 hours
in every situation,


deeper and deeper, to that place
which cannot be described.

It happens then,
when the thought process ends
and the mind ceases to discriminate;
when false views and ideas
disappear by themselves, without special attention to them;
when true actions
and true motives arise of their own accord, without seeking.

what is the truth of the heart.

And the person who decided to follow the path
should from the very beginning
never lose sight of her,
is she in a quiet place
or in a place of struggle,
and he shouldn't cling
for quiet places
and avoid places where there is anxiety.

If a person wants to take refuge from anxiety,
hiding in some quiet place,
he will fall into darkness.

If when he tries
cast aside delusions and discover the truth,
the world is made up of many possibilities,
he has to throw away thousands of impulses
and go forward without thinking at all
good or bad.
He shouldn't hate passion
he just has to make his heart clear. ".

Zen can say things that no other religion is capable of. Zen is a rare flower. All other religions are subservient to the interests of the law, to the past, to society, to the state. Zen is the exception. There are reasons for my love for him. This is the only revolutionary approach to ultimate reality and a person like Daikaku is a real Master. You must listen to his every word, as if you were listening to me.

Daikaku said:
“Zen practice does not clarify the differences of concepts ...”

The entire theological and philosophical world is associated only with clarification conceptual differences - what is what. They never go beyond the conceptual framework. From a Zen point of view, what they are doing is not just childhood, but also stupidity. The child can grow up, but the stupidity only gets bigger, bigger and bigger.

All religions served politicians, emperors, murderers, criminals. You may not know about it, but you have to find out. During the Second World War, the Pope blessed Mussolini, who was a fascist, to win. He prayed to God that he would make Benito Mussolini the winner. It is strange, but the archbishop in England also prayed to the same God - they were both Christians, but Italy and England were at war. Even Adolf Hitler was blessed and prayed for by both the Catholic and Protestant churches. The higher clergy prayed to God that he would become the winner. Apparently, it was difficult for God to decide! All parties prayed to one God, one Christian God. They conducted services according to one Christian Bible. But this strange situation shows that your religion is nothing more than a servant of the state - she can pray for Adolf Hitler - to become the winner of the whole world. And no matter who they pray to in a given religion, it has always been supportive of those who have power and wealth.

Zen anyway exception... Japan also participated in the war, but not a single Zen Master blessed the emperor of Japan for conquest.

The Emperor of Japan came to receive the blessing of a Zen Master and was considering how to ask about it. First, he tried to persuade the Master to come to the court. The master refused, saying, “Even if God calls me to court, I will refuse. I feel very good where I am. If you want to see me, you must come. The one who is thirsty must come to the well. " A clear enough answer ...

The Emperor eventually had to give in reluctantly, and he came to the Master, and his entire court followed him. Looking for words - what to say? - he asked: "I have always wondered what the devil is and what is heaven?"
The master said, "You are an idiot!" I think hardly any emperor was greeted like that. Poor monk who has nothing, nothing but himself ... but possession of himself gives him such power that he says to the emperor: "You are an idiot!" The emperor was furious. It was too much. He drew his sword and was about to chop off the Master's head.

The master said, "Wait a minute ..." This is the devil's road. "
The Emperor thought for a moment. He sheathed the sword and the Master said, “This is the road to heaven. Anything else you want to ask? "

The emperor replied, "I am satisfied." He did not dare to ask, "Bless me that I be the conqueror of the whole world." Just being in the presence of the Master, the idea itself looked silly.

“All the saints turned inward
and looking for ourselves
and this went beyond the boundaries of all doubts.”

He says, “Not only me, but all the Buddhas did the same. They destroyed all thoughts and cleared the space so that the spring of life can flow straight and you can know for the first time your own eternity, your own splendor. "

It sounds paradoxical, but it is a fact: all your religious teachings are a barrier to religiosity. Learning About God From Others Is Dangerous... It prevents you from getting to know the reality. directly and you pay for cheap knowledge.

Here is the whole Zen revolution: don't pay cheap for cheap knowledge, go for worthwhile experience. And everything that is an obstacle - throw it away.

Gautama Buddha even said: “ If I enter your meditation, immediately cut off my head! No one is allowed to hinder your development.. " They were real lions. Humanity can be proud of these people who had no desire to enslave themselves, like Catholics, Hindus and Mohammedans. All their efforts were to free themselves from all isms, from all churches, and to help you penetrate your own reality... This is the only truth, the only space that is holy.

“Turning inward means
all 24 hours and in every situation,
pierce all the shells one by one,
hiding their own essence,
deeper and deeper
to a place that cannot be described.

It happens then,
when the thought process ends,
and the mind ceases to discriminate;
when false views and ideas disappear by themselves,
without special attention to them;
when true actions and
true motives arise on their own, without seeking.

It happens when a person knows
what is the truth of the heart.”

In these few statements, he expressed all the way from false to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. What he said can be concentrated so that you can remember it not as knowledge, but simply as a finger pointing to the moon - just some tips for your inner journey.

First of all remember twenty four hours a day what you have found in your meditations. You will forget again and again, but the forgotten will become less and less, and the memories will be fuller and fuller. Little by little, the memory gaps will disappear. Then the time will come when you will have a cycle of memories for 24 hours. Even during sleep you will know that you are a Buddha.

Based on the book "Buddha: The Void of the Heart", Osho
Publishing house CDK "Edinstvo"

September 9, 1988

Our Beloved Master,

Daikaku said:

“Zen practice does not clarify the differences of concepts,

she throws away all preconceived notions,

and representations, and sacred texts, and everything else

and, piercing the veils, reaches the spring

their own existence behind them.

All the saints turned inward

and looking for ourselves

and this went beyond the boundaries of all doubts.

Turning inward means all 24 hours

in every situation,

pierce all the shells one by one,

hiding their own essence,

deeper and deeper, to that place

which cannot be described.

It happens then,

when the thought process ends

and the mind ceases to discriminate;

when false views and ideas

disappear on their own, without special attention to them;

when true actions

and true motives arise of their own accord, without seeking.

It happens when a person knows

what is the truth of the heart.

And the person who decided to follow the path

should from the very beginning

never lose sight of her,

is she in a quiet place

or in a place of struggle,

and he shouldn't cling

for quiet places

and avoid places where there is anxiety.

If a person wants to take refuge from anxiety,

hiding in some quiet place,

he will fall into darkness.

If when he tries

cast aside delusions and discover the truth,

the world is made up of many possibilities,

he has to throw away thousands of impulses

and go forward without thinking at all

good or bad.

He shouldn't hate passion

he just has to make his heart pure. "

Manisha, Zen can say things that no other religion is capable of. Zen is a rare flower. All other religions are subservient to the interests of the law, to the past, to society, to the state. Zen is the exception. There are reasons for my love for him. This is the only revolutionary approach to ultimate reality, and a person like Daikaku is a true Master. You must listen to his every word, as if you were listening to me.

Daikaku said:

"Zen practice does not clarify the differences of concepts ..."

The entire theological and philosophical world is associated only with the clarification of conceptual differences - which is which. They never go beyond the conceptual framework. From a Zen point of view, what they do is not just childhood, but also stupidity. The child can grow up, but the stupidity only gets bigger, bigger and bigger.

All religions served politicians, emperors, murderers, criminals. You may not know about it, but you have to find out. During the Second World War, the Pope blessed Mussolini, who was a fascist, to win. He prayed to God that he would make Benito Mussolini the winner. It is strange, but the archbishop in England also prayed to the same God - they were both Christians, but Italy and England were at war. Even Adolf Hitler was blessed and prayed for by both the Catholic and Protestant churches. The higher clergy prayed to God that he would become the winner. Apparently, it was difficult for God to decide! All parties prayed to one God, one Christian God. They conducted services according to one Christian Bible. But this strange situation shows that your religion is nothing more than a servant of the state - she can pray for Adolf Hitler - to become the winner of the whole world. And no matter who is prayed to in a given religion, it has always been supportive of those who have power and wealth.

Zen is an exception anyway. Japan also participated in the war, but not a single Zen Master blessed the emperor of Japan for conquest.

The Emperor of Japan came to receive the blessing of a Zen Master and was pondering how to ask about it. First, he tried to persuade the Master to come to the court. The master refused, saying, “Even if God calls me to court, I will refuse. I feel very good where I am. If you want to see me, you must come. The one who is thirsty must come to the well. " A clear enough answer ...

The Emperor eventually had to give in reluctantly, and he came to the Master, and his entire court followed him. Looking for words - what to say? - he asked: "I have always wondered what the devil is and what is heaven?"

The master said, "You are an idiot!" I think hardly any emperor was greeted like that. Poor monk who has nothing, nothing but himself ... but possession of himself gives him such power that he says to the emperor: "You are an idiot!" The emperor was furious. It was too much. He drew his sword and was about to chop off the Master's head.

The master said, "Wait a minute ..." This is the devil's road. "

The Emperor thought for a moment. He sheathed the sword and the Master said, “This is the road to heaven. Anything else you want to ask? "

The emperor replied, "I am satisfied." He did not dare to ask, "Bless me that I be the conqueror of the whole world." It was just that being in the presence of the Master, the very idea looked stupid.

This book describes a forgotten land, its words are the words of a forgotten language. In order to hear them, you need to turn in a new direction, they enter you from the back door.

And then, as if someone in our very heart stands at the top, describing the view around: the cool air, the scent of flowers, the silence of the Moon.

He describes spaces that seem so far from the places where we lived our lives, but often bells sound between words - those bells that ring in us when a forgotten truth awakens. And in truth, the voice and what it describes often seems familiar. Penetrating deeper into this book, we begin to suspect that maybe we even lived here once, and once these spaces were our home. And maybe this land is actually not that far, in the end we stumble upon it just at such moments.

A quiet voice in this book tells us that a BEING awaits within us, buried in the dust of thoughts and the chaos of the heart. In any way, we need to clear the mind, empty the heart and open who lives here - who is calling from these cold inner heights.

Open the back door for these words and listen.

Hear this magic language and listen to the bells that jingle so merrily in between. Maybe it’s just your own Buddha pulling on the ropes of bells, bells that ring for you:

“Your own being is so pure, so uncontaminated, even a particle of dust has never reached here — could not. Only your consciousness can reach this place, and consciousness arises in you along with no-mind. In a state of no-mind, you become awake, attentive, and there is nowhere to go from here, because all thoughts are gone. Therefore, you turn inward, and for the first time you meet your own original being. "

Ma Prem Prarto

March 1989. Pune, India.

Chapter 1. EMPTY OF THE HEART

September 8, 1988

Our Beloved Master,

Bucco said:

"Take events easily, effortlessly,

and after a while the pressure of thoughts,

external and internal, falls off by itself,

and the true face will show itself.

Body and mind, free from all motivations,

always appear as emptiness and absolute identity,

shining like the brightness of the heavens in the center of the wide

spaces of existing things without polishing

or cleaning.

It's beyond all concepts

beyond being and non-being.

Leave your countless knowledge

impressions, understanding and go to this

the immensity of space.

When you came to this extent

there is not even a speck of Buddhism in your heart,

and when you don't have a speck of knowledge,

you gain the true vision of the Buddhas and patriarchs.

The true truth is like an immense space

which contains all phenomena.

When you can come and go

in all religions the same,

when there is nothing specifically of yours

neither inside nor outside,

when you live up to high

and you live up to the low

match the square and match the round, -

then it is That.

The emptiness of the sea allows the waves to rise;

the emptiness of the mountain valleys echoes,

the emptiness of the heart gives birth to a Buddha.

When your heart is empty, things are reflected in it,

as in a mirror, shining there without any distinction between them.

Life and death is an illusion

all Buddhas are in your one body.

Zen is not something mysterious

it's just hitting the target and piercing events.

If you put all doubts aside

the course of life and death will be interrupted by itself.

I ask you all:

Do you see it or not?

Like in June the snow melts at the top of Fuji. "

Manisha, Bukko came to the final expression of the experience of human existence proper. Very rarely does a Master reach a point like Bucco in his utterances. Listen carefully, because Bucco doesn't meet with you often.

Bucco said:

This is what I have been telling you for a long time. Being a Buddha is not hard work... These are not some achievements that you need for. Nobel Prize... This is the easiest thing in the world because it has already happened without you knowing it. The Buddha is already breathing in you. Just a little approval, a little inward turn - and it cannot be done forcibly. If you do it forcibly, you will lose the thread. This is a very delicate matter. You have to peer inside while playing, not seriously. This is what he means when he says, "Take things lightly." Don't take anything seriously. Existence is very simple. You have gotten your life without any effort and you are living life without any effort. You breathe well enough that you don't need to be reminded to breathe; your heartbeat continues even in sleep, so easy existence for you! But you perceive existence in a very different way. Your fists are too clenched. You want everything to be an achievement.

Enlightenment cannot be an achievement. This is what you already have - how can this be achieved? A true Master simply throws away what you do not have, but only believe what you have, and gives you what you already have. You have a lot of things that don't really belong to you, you just believe that you have them. The work of the Master is the work of the surgeon, to cut off everything that is not yours and leave only the essential core - an eternal being.

This is a very simple action, you can do it yourself. There are no problems and no risk in accepting events easily, effortlessly, but people take them very tensely. They take things seriously and it ruins the whole game. And remember, life is a game. Once you realize that this is a game, a deep fulfillment of the game will arise by itself. Victory is not a goal, the goal is to play totally, cheerfully, dancing. What is called playfulness is very essential in the exploration of your own being.

"Accept events easily, without effort, and after a while the pressure of thoughts, external and internal, subsides by itself, and the true face will reveal itself."

When I tell you that meditation is simply not thinking, you may misunderstand me. You don't have to do anything to achieve thoughtlessness, because whatever you do, it will be thought again. You must learn to see the stream of thoughts by standing at the edge of the road, as if you don't care what passes by. Just an ordinary movement. If you can consider your thoughts in such a way that they will not affect you too much, then gradually, without tension, the caravan of thoughts, which has been going on for thousands of years, will begin to disappear.

Why does a person suffer so much? Where does so much anxiety and anguish come from? Why does a person fail to be calm, collected, and concentrated? Too many attachments pull a person here and there, push in different sides, it is torn to pieces, loses its integrity and forgets what its essence is. If you are greedy for money - who are you, what is your essence? You are just greed for money and nothing else. If you are angry, your ego is hurt - who are you? You are just anger, a wounded ego, nothing else. If you are full of sexual passion - who are you? You are only sexuality, libido, nothing else. If you are ambitious, want to have power, prestige, respectability, who are you? You are just ambition and nothing. Look carefully - and you will find many desires in yourself, but you will not find yourself. The book "Buddha Once Said" contains the lectures of the greatest sage of our time, given by Osho from August 21 to October 30, 1976 in the Indian city of Pune. Publisher: "AST, Astrel-SPb" (2012) Format: 70x100 / 16, 640 pages ISBN: 978-5-17-069091-6

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There are no words. Osho - and that says it all.

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Great book. You learn a lot of new things. You begin to understand what you previously guessed about. If people adhered to this thought, would understand the laws of nature, then there would be love, tranquility and peace on Earth

Shchebunyaeva Irina0

A lot of wisdom, truth ... you become calm in life, but not inert, but more conscious ... all things and events become simple ... the book tries to answer the eternal question "who am I?"

Osho

Chandra Mohan Rajneesh ( चन्द्र मोहन रजनीश sometimes wrong "Rajanesh", -) - a famous religious figure, the founder of the mystical, from the beginning of the seventies is better known as Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh ( भगवान श्री रजनीश ) and later as Osho(ओशो) or Ravshan(गोहनीश्र). In many countries, the followers of Osho are referred to as.

“It was like an explosion. That night I became empty and then I was full. I stopped being and became being itself. That night I died and was reborn. But the one who was born had nothing to do with the one who died. There was no connection. I hadn't changed in appearance, but there was nothing in common between the old and the new ones. The one who perishes perishes to the end, nothing remains of him. "

In the 60s, under the name Acharya Rajneesh ( आचार्य acarya- teacher, Rajneesh- the nickname given to him in the family), traveled around India, criticizing and. In 1962, he began leading 3-10 day meditation camps. In a year, he left teaching.

Osho followers buy ranch for $ 5.75 million Big muddy an area of ​​64 thousand acres in Central Oregon, on the territory of which the settlement of Rajneeshpuram (now Antelope) was founded. In August, Osho moved to Rajneeshpuram, where he lived in the status of a guest of the commune.

During the four years that Osho lived there, the popularity of Rajneeshpuram grew. So, about 3000 people came to the festival organized there in 1983, and in 1987 - about 7000 people from Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. The city has a school, post office, fire and police departments and a transport system of 85 buses.

At the same time, conflicts with local authorities regarding building permits, as well as calls for violence from the residents of the commune, escalated. ... They intensified in connection with the statements of the secretary and press secretary of Osho Ma Anand Schell. Osho dô himself remained silent and was practically isolated from the life of the commune. Shella took over the commune.

Internal contradictions also intensified within the commune. Many followers of Osho, who disagreed with the regime established by Schell, left her. Faced with difficulties, the commune government, led by Schell, also used criminal methods. So, in 1984 in the food of several restaurants in the neighboring town The dallas were added to test whether the results of the upcoming elections can be influenced by reducing the number of people eligible to vote. On orders from Schell, Osho's personal physician and two Oregon officials were also poisoned. The doctor and one of the staff became seriously ill, but eventually recovered.

After Schella and her team hadtily left the commune in September 1985, Osho called a press conference to report on their crimes and asked prosecutors to initiate an investigation. As a result of the investigation, Shell and many of her employees were detained and later convicted. Despite the fact that Osho himself did not participate in criminal activities, his reputation (especially in the West) was severely damaged.

On October 23, 1985, a federal jury, in private, considered the indictment against Osho for immigration violations. On October 28, 1985, after a flight to Osho, he was detained without an arrest warrant (at that time, the charge had not yet been formally brought), citing Osho's attempt to leave the United States. For the same reason, Osho was denied bail. On the advice of his lawyers, Osho signed Alford plea- a document according to which the accused does not plead guilty, but agrees that there is evidence sufficient to convict him. As a result, Osho was conditionally sentenced and deported from the United States.

In November 1987, Osho stated that during the 12 days he was in US prisons, he suffered from, on which he slept and was poisoned.

Osho's teachings

In presenting Osho's views on the true nature of man and the methods of addressing it, one should be very vigilant and aware; Rajneesh did not write books, but conveyed his teachings in the form of conversations, each time addressed to a specific audience or even to a specific person. It is not surprising that with such a contextual presentation, part of the material was framed in a new way every time, and in some conversations one can find a significant difference from what was said before - for example, to one person Osho could say: “The world is static”, and to another - “The world is permanent is changing! ". Thus, he tried to bring a person to the "point of balance" so that he would not be one-sided, he was always in search. Many people are baffled by the contradictions in Osho's conversations. Here is what he says about this: "My friends are surprised:" Yesterday you said one thing, and today - another. Why should we obey? "I can understand their bewilderment. They grabbed only at words. Conversations are of no value to me, only the emptiness between the words I say is what is valuable. Yesterday I opened the doors to my emptiness with the help of words alone, today I open them, resorting to other words. The emptiness that appears between the words is what is important to me. Doors can be wooden, gold, silver; maybe they were decorated with patterns of leaves and flowers. Will they be simple or ornamented - none of this matters. opened door then white space matters. For me, words are just a tool to help open emptiness. "

Osho about Joy

Singing, dancing is undoubtedly the language of joy, but you can learn the language without knowing joy. This is what all of humanity is doing: people learn only gestures, empty gestures.

"- What is the reason for your joy. Teacher?" Osho explains this quote as follows - Joy has no reason, joy cannot have a reason. If joy has a reason, it is not joy at all; joy can only be causeless, unconditioned. There is a reason for illness, but health? .. Health is natural. Ask the doctor, "Why am I healthy?" - he will not answer. He can answer the question: "Why am I sick?" - for disease has a cause. He can diagnose this reason, determine why you are sick, but no one can find the reason why a person is healthy. Health is natural, health is how it should be. Illness is how it shouldn't be. Illness means something is wrong. When everything is in order, the person is healthy. When everything is in tune, the person is healthy, there is no reason. "

Osho movement

Rajneesh completely disapproved of any associations, including religious ones, and repeatedly warned his followers against creating organizations of the "follow" type; he recommended, in the event of his death, to immediately go in search of a "living Master".

However, this prescription was not fulfilled, and after the departure of the Master, the “new sannyasa” organized many osho centers around the world; the most famous of these is the "meditation resort" in Pune, India. The centers conduct group meditations - developed by both Rajneesh and his students.