Prayer to all offended by osho. Prayer is the result of true meditation

Osho what is prayer read

eat well famous story about a peasant girl from the Punjab in love. This girl once thoughtfully passed through the field, where a religious man offered his prayers. The law of religion does not allow crossing such a place. As the village girl was walking back, the religious man said to her:

How rudely 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 in great perplexity asked:

What do you mean by prayers?

Prayers? he exclaimed. - Don't you know, stupid girl, what prayers are? This is a conversation with God! Offering prayers means thinking about God and talking with Him.

That's strange! How could you see me if you were thinking about God and talking to Him? As I passed through here, I thought of my lover and talked to him in my head. That's why I didn't 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, anxieties and worries forever. This is the spiritual way. All life's 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 yearns for. This is the feeling of perfect love.

To every heart that sincerely asks: "What is the path to God?" - the path is indicated. Everyone is given that 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 know itself through 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 from the experience of others.

Relationships are constantly testing what you are capable of, constantly challenging you to create, express and experience higher and higher traits of yourself, your even higher perception of the world, 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 all of this outside of a relationship at all.

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

Love is as natural a function as breathing.

True love is unity, the connection of I and YOU in one whole, the absence of separation. Love is the desire to return to the One Whole, it 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 without conditions. Only greed asks and waits.

In true love, there is not 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 never enough for it. So don't true love brings only disappointment, and the real one brings complete satisfaction.

True, higher love is a deep spiritual experience, which has nothing to do with bodies and the opposite of 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, prayer itself is not important, he wants to get a result, so such a prayer cannot be called real.

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 in every moment (and for every moment) of being, this is love, true happiness. This is a harmonious flow of energy from the soul to God and from God to the soul. You are in a 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 whispers of love.

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

And when we no longer hear our conscience, He is forced to shout at us through the mouthpiece of suffering.

For how else can He reach our hearts?

I will always protect you.

Will you call on Allah, Buddha, Hosts, Christ or

Omnipresent Love, I will always come to your aid.

However, this assistance will be shown in different ways,

depending on which Me you call.

and their infinitely varied relationships of mutual love!

The energies of God, including individual souls,

different 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 part of this Love and you exist

to take your place in this gigantic plan,

in this grand design of Her movement, Her life,

Her self-continuation. This Love - and there is I Myself.

And one day you will return to Me.

You are always a servant of the Great Love.

The question never stood - 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 get it. Your dream is not eternal.

fulfilling your desires

allowing you to use it

without disturbing your lifestyle

suits you well...

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 better understand God as a Person, you can read new conversations with God, which reveal Him in many ways. personal qualities. The book is no less interesting and engaging than Walsh's early books on the subject. She gives answers to many really important questions life, helping to orient oneself in one's desires and set priorities. God is always ready to help us if we sincerely turn to him - regardless of what religion we are in, and whether we go to church at all. The book "The Voice of a Loving Conscience", published on the Conversations with God website, is a new, fresh look at oneself, one's inner world on your desires and relationship with God. The book can be read online or downloaded in any format convenient for you. Informative reading!

Music of the Soul

Rajneesh Bhagwan Shri

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Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh(Osho)

When you are early in the morning

see the sunrise

in silence and within you

sunrise also begins - this is a prayer.

When a bird soars in the sky

and you soar in the sky. And you forgot

that you are separate is a prayer.

Wherever separation 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, it's a new way of life. Not something that you do; but something that you become. It is a state of being - nothing to do with the words you speak in a temple, a mosque, a church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.

This is attunement with the universal, with the whole ... to enter into harmony with the whole is a 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 comprehensive 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, they listen in silence. They talk in dialogue, they simply remain in silence: there is nothing to say.

What can be said? You can bow in obeisance. You can celebrate. And yet your bow, your service, your celebration, your gratitude... all this is still an attempt to express. You are trying to express yourself without words, because words are so small, and the 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 existence participate, an existence that becomes your lover, that becomes your "You". And yet in prayer there is neither "I" nor "You" - one and the other disappears. Both merge into one, unite into one whole, an organic whole. Like a drop of dew in the ocean, you disappear. Nothing separates you and existence. What could be the dialogue?

Both definitions are correct. Those who call prayer a dialogue - as Christians, as Jews, as Hindus - are right. But they only talk about a fraction of the greatest experience called prayer. Buddhists say there is no dialogue. Jainism says there is no dialogue because there is no "I" or "You". Just absolute silence. They are also right - but it is also true that it is very difficult to approach prayer accurately.

Unlike science, religion cannot give definitions. If you ask science, everything is accurate in science. You ask: "What is water?" - and science says: "H 2 0". So simple! Exhaustingly simple. "H 2 0" - and that says it all, because water belongs to the objective world. The object is subject to analysis.

Prayer belongs to the world of subjectivity. It is not an object that lends itself to analysis. Strictly speaking, prayer cannot be shown to anyone. If someone insists: “I don’t see any prayer in you,” you won’t be able to show him your prayer, you won’t even be able to prove its existence. Prayer is like love - more like love than H 2 0 water. Love is just as indefinable.

Always remember: there are things that are below 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 exact. They are bigger than you. If prayer exists, it is not prayer that exists in you - on the contrary: you exist in prayer. Prayer is above you. You are just vibrating in this vast dimension, in this superabundance.

Meaning is a subtle phenomenon. It's like the scent of a flower. You cannot catch him, touch him with your hands, but he exists - whether you can catch him or not, whether you can put his safe or not. It still exists!

Taking this question further... then what is poetry? Just a bunch of words arranged in a specific order? No. It's something that happens when words are in a certain order - but more than a certain word order. It is not a grammar, it is not a language - it is something transcendental; something brought to life by words. Words give rise to poetry.

And the same is true in music. Instruments, notes, sounds serve to make silence happen - 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 the intervals, in the gaps, in the 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 immense 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. In this amazing beauty you live, 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 we did not even express our gratitude.

Whether God exists or not, we owe gratitude. People think: "If there is a God, we will thank him." But I tell you the exact 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 don't see with your ears and you don't listen with your eyes: eyes can only see, 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. This is not a specific set of actions performed as a kind of morning ritual. If the prayer is performed as a ritual, it loses all meaning. If prayer is done as a ritual, it will not bring you religiosity - it will make you a Hindu, it will make you a Mohammedan, but it will not bring you religiosity. Let the prayer be something absolutely informal: something from the very heart ... not a ritual - hastily performed in the mornings, because "it is necessary"; because you were taught that way; because you are doing your duty. If you don't do the ritual, you feel a little guilty; having performed a ritual, you do not receive a drop of joy from it. When the ritual is not completed, only a feeling of guilt results. To avoid feeling guilty, you perform a ritual. This is not a prayer.

Prayer is a way of life.

What I mean? A man of prayer is in prayer twenty-four hours a day. He sleeps in prayer; his dream itself is a kind of prayer. In the dream, he is so relaxed, as if sleeping in the arms of the universe. Falling asleep, he sleeps in divinity. Waking up, he wakes up in divinity. He opens his eyes, and the first thing that comes into his heart and into his being is gratitude, infinite gratitude. He eats divinity, he drinks divinity. He steps into divinity. He breathes in divinity, he breathes divinity. All his twenty-four hours the prayer goes on unceasingly. Like background music on the edge of hearing, the 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 chanting "Ram, Ram, Ram", it will disrupt the normal course of life. Behind the wheel - you will not be able to drive normally, because the mind will be bifurcated. You can't invest yourself fully in any job. So there is no need to repeat anything. Words and repetition have nothing to do with it at all; prayer is a kind of feeling, a kind of presence. You can imagine a sleeping mother: at night she sleeps, her child sleeps next to her ... maybe in the rainy season, when there are clouds in the sky and thunder rumbles. Thunder will not wake her up. But it is worth the child to move a little in a dream, to cry, and she will immediately wake up. The thunder couldn't wake her up, but the baby... Even in her sleep, some part of her being remembers the baby. So is prayer.

Music of the Soul

When you see the sunrise in the early morning, watch in silence, and the sunrise starts within you too, that is prayer. When a bird soars in the sky and you soar in the sky. And you have forgotten that you are separate – that is prayer.

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

Prayer

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What is prayer? What is its exact definition?

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 way of looking at things, it is a new way of life. Not something that you do; but something like you become. It is a state of being - nothing to do with the words you speak in a temple, a mosque, a church. It is a silent dialogue with existence.

This is attunement with the universal, with the whole ... to enter into harmony with the whole is a prayer. This experience is great and boundless, 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.

The experience of prayer is so comprehensive 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, they listen in silence. They talk in dialogue, they simply remain in silence: there is nothing to say.

What can be said? You can bow in obeisance. You can celebrate. And yet your bow, your service, your celebration, your gratitude... all this is still an attempt to express. You are trying to express yourself without words, because words are so small, and the 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 existence participate, an existence that becomes your lover, that becomes your “You”. And yet in prayer there is neither "I" nor "You" - one and the other disappears. Both merge into one, unite into one whole, an organic whole. Like a drop of dew in the ocean, you disappear. Nothing separates you and existence. What could be the dialogue?

Both definitions are correct. Those who call prayer a dialogue—as Christians, as Jews, as Hindus—are right. But they only talk about a fraction of the greatest experience called prayer.

Prayer should remain blurry, elusive, without clear outlines. Prayer must remain incomprehensible. You see it only briefly, like a fleeting glimpse, but you cannot catch it in its entirety, touch it with your hands. It does not come down to a simple definition.

Unlike science, religion cannot give definitions. If you ask science, everything is accurate in science. You ask, "What is water?" and science says, "H2O." So simple! Exhaustingly simple. "H2O" - and that says it all, because water belongs to the objective world. The object is subject to analysis.

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

Always remember: there are things that are below 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 exact. They are bigger than you. If prayer exists, it is not prayer that exists in you – on the contrary, you exist in prayer. Prayer is above you. You are just vibrating in this vast dimension, in this superabundance.

But we have been taught, especially in this age of science, to be exact in everything. And this stubborn striving for accuracy destroyed much of what was beautiful and valuable in life. If something doesn't fit exact 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, nothing more.” Beauty cannot be precisely defined; then the mind says, “We just invented beauty. It contains nothing but our fantasies.” But then what is left? 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 insane desire for precision that makes it meaningless.

Meaning is a subtle thing. It's like the scent of a flower. You cannot catch him, touch him with your hands, but he exists - whether you can catch him or not, whether you can put his safe or not. It still exists!

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

Taking this question further... then what is poetry? Just a bunch of words arranged in a specific order? No. It's something that happens when words are in a certain order, but more than a certain word order. It is not a grammar, it is not a language - it is something transcendental; something brought to life by words. Words give rise to poetry.

And the same is true in 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 the intervals, in the gaps, in the pauses.

So, the first thing I can say about prayer is a feeling of immense 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. In this amazing beauty you live, 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 of the 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 morning dawn ... we did not deserve this! We received all this as a gift, but we did not even express our gratitude.

Second, prayer is a way of life. This is not a specific set of actions performed as a kind of morning ritual. If the 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 Mohammedan, but it will not bring religiosity. Let the prayer be something completely informal: something from the heart ... not a ritual - hastily performed in the morning, because "it is necessary"; because you were taught that way; because you are doing your duty. If you don't do the ritual, you feel a little guilty; having performed a ritual, you do not receive a drop of joy from it. When the ritual is not completed, only a feeling of guilt results. To avoid feeling guilty, you perform a ritual. This is not a prayer.

Prayer is a way of life.

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. Behind the wheel - you will not be able to drive normally, because the mind will be bifurcated. You can't invest yourself fully in any job. So there is no need to repeat anything. Words and repetition have nothing to do with it at all; prayer is a kind of feeling, a kind of presence. You can imagine a sleeping mother: at night she sleeps, her child sleeps next to her ... maybe in the rainy season, when there are clouds in the sky and thunder rumbles. Thunder will not wake her up. But it is worth the child to move a little in a dream, to cry, and she will immediately wake up. The thunder couldn't wake her up, but the baby... Even in her sleep, some part of her being remembers the baby. So is prayer.

You live everyday life, you perform 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, in a moment of silence, the prayer will come to the surface; at ordinary times it continues internally, subtly.

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

We are so small existence is so vast... we have only come here 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 strangers to existence; we are not outsiders. We are like him. We are sympathetic to him. Existence has populated its universe with us. By the will of existence, we exist. We can ask. But there is no demand note in the request. We are grateful if the request is granted. We are grateful if the request is not fulfilled. Remember this. This is the beauty of prayer.

If the request is granted, we are grateful, obviously. If the request is not fulfilled, we are still grateful. Why are we grateful even when the request is not granted? Because a person who knows what prayer is, who lives by prayer, also knows that sometimes we ask for something that is not good for us. Existence is more visible. If the request is useful to us, it will be granted. If the request is not useful, 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 to pick up the pieces 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 fragments. - He said no.

This is what prayer is. You have the right to ask, but you have no right to demand. No means no. In the end, God makes the decision. The requirement implies that you have already decided everything. Demand means: you want existence to do your will. The request means only: “I lay my desire at your feet, but everything is your will - let your will be done; Thy Kingdom come…” Those 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." The Buddha says that prayer is silence. And both are right. Osterhus is right - in a certain sense it is true: no one can pray without words, because no one exists outside of language. Language is to us what the ocean is 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 grammarian. The grammarian knows only the body of the language; 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 this dialogue you will need to learn.

It has never happened to you that you suddenly wanted to talk to the 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? Don't you sometimes like to talk to the stars? If not, you have lost the ability to feel. Have you ever touched a stone - with love, with tenderness. feeling its surface. Have you ever wanted to say something to everything invisible that surrounds you? This is prayer, this is dialogue.

But you'll have to be brave. Yes, it will take real courage - only then can prayer happen. It's very easy to go to church and pray, because that's how it is with people. Nobody will call you crazy. On the contrary, you will be considered a highly religious person, a worthy person, a good Christian - either a Catholic or a Hindu. You will only get universal respect. But if you start talking to trees... Just think: in church you can talk to a crucifix, that is, to a piece of a dead tree, but you can't talk to a tree, 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. Break free someday from the prison of your so-called sanity. It just leads to madness, this so-called common sense. 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 single reason: 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 psychoanalysis acquired such significance? Because people have forgotten how to pray.

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

In the past, man's 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. The 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. are manifestations of the divine. Vibrant with life, pulsing with this moment, now.

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

Churches are created by man - both temples and mosques. In them you will find only a man, a man with his own politics. In them you will find only a man, a man with all his stupidity. Trees are not so 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 will 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 be patient. You just need to convince the tree that yes, you are really addressing him or her, talking to him or her - that's all. This will take a little time.

The man treated the trees so cruelly that they withdrew and became distrustful. Let the tree understand, let the tree feel that you are not crazy, that there is no violence in you, no aggressiveness – that you have come to it with love, with the greatest love.

So, prayer should begin with a dialogue - but with whom? I offer 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 - these are the basics of prayer. And then, along with nature, little by little, start moving into silence. Sitting next to blooming rose, go with her into silence without a thought or a word: you and the rose, together without words, and between you there is only a pulse of silence ... waves of silence.

In dialogue you will come to know the divine in the world of manifestation, in natural world; in silence you will know the divine as the unmanifested. Buddha is also right: he is talking about the very pinnacle of prayer. But this peak becomes achievable only if you start from 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, throwing open all your doors and windows, for his wind to blow freely in you, for his sun to penetrate into the holy of holies of your being and fill 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 imprisoned ourselves. Come and give us freedom! Come and deliver—come and deliver us!”

The very name of Christ, "Jesus," means "He who delivers." His original name was Yeshua, or Jesus. His name means "Come to liberate". The words "Hosanna" and "Yeshua" in Hebrew have the same root, and they are connected with each other as a question and an answer, as a hope and a fulfillment, as a prayer and a response, an answer to a prayer.

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

Prayer is like a bridge between a question and an answer, between a student and a master, between a seeker and what is sought, between the closest, immediately close and the most distant, highest, between desire and fulfillment.

Prayer is born from 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 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 the woman or man you love, the word is the same, but the quality has become different. When you say the same word "you" to the woman you love, there is prayer in it, there is love in it. The word trembles with life, pulsates, flows. When you say "you" to the first person you meet in the marketplace, this word is lifeless.

Prayer gradually emerged from the experience of love. When one person loves another, he is filled with the greatest joy, and to those who are intelligent enough, to those who are aware enough, it once became clear: “If love for one person brings so much joy, how much joy will bring me love for all things!” Love paved the way for prayer.

When people love, they pray to each other. Look at their eyes when they look at each other. This sacred look. It may not last longer than a moment, but in this moment a flame is burning. At this moment, the messenger of the beyond appears. When people love, they pray to each other. So one lover says to another "you" - this word sounds respect, and trust, and desperate thirst. So someone says “you” to you - and this word sounds hope, and awe, and awe, and strength; and a request or caress is heard in the voice.

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REAL PRAYER - THANK YOU 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 the purpose in itself - it is gratitude, thanksgiving to the Almighty for allowing us to be, to inhale the aromas of flowers, to see all this diversity of life forms. God has allowed us to be aware, hear, taste, and have other perceptions. It is so beautiful that real gratitude-prayer is born by itself, we thank God for all this, feeling that we practically cannot thank him in any way.

Osho says: “You come to the temple only to give thanks: “No matter how much You give me, it is still too much. I will never deserve this!" All that 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.

True prayer can be compared to true love - it is not a means to achieve something, love is the end itself. You love not for something, not for the purpose of getting something as a result of your love. When you love (if it is true love and not selfish infatuation), that love is bliss, so what other goals can there be when there is bliss? What can be expected? You simply love, you exude the fragrance of love, as flowers exude the fragrance - without expecting anything, without wanting anything in return. You radiate love - and 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 is born in you. Out of your love for God gives you everything, and with a feeling of gratitude you go to the temple - just to offer a prayer of gratitude. Gratitude itself is already a prayer, it is a feedback with God, it is the highest point of happiness.

Selfishness is when you don't thank God for everything He gives you. Energy stagnates, you only receive and give nothing in return. A fetid swamp of selfishness is formed, which is based on the idea of "living only for yourself." When you offer up 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 thankful 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 (selfishness) in this, since you will not forgive anything, you are grateful for what is already there, because you understand that there could be nothing at all.

When you are grateful for what you have, is there any problem, is there anything else needed? It remains only to give thanks and share the aroma of love and gratitude, without expecting to receive something in return. And it happens spontaneously, on its own, without any effort on your part, it is like a rose blooming in beautiful garden She doesn't put any effort into it.

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

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

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 the purpose in itself - it is gratitude, thanksgiving to the Almighty for allowing us to be, inhale the aromas of flowers, to see all this diversity of life forms. God has allowed us to be aware, hear, taste, and have other perceptions. It is so beautiful that real gratitude-prayer is born by itself, we thank God for all this, feeling that we practically cannot thank him in any way.

Real prayer can be compared to real love - it is not a means to achieve something, love is the end itself. You love not for something, not for the purpose of getting something as a result of your love. When you love (if it is true love and not selfish infatuation), that love is bliss, so what other goals can there be when there is bliss? What can be expected? You simply love, you exude the fragrance of love, as flowers exude the fragrance - without expecting anything, without wanting anything in return. You radiate love - and that's enough.

Love and gratitude is the best prayer

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 is born 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 itself is already a prayer, it is a feedback with God, it is the highest point of happiness.

When you are grateful for what you have, is there any problem, is there anything else needed? It remains only to give thanks and share the aroma of love and gratitude, without expecting to receive something in return. And it happens spontaneously, on its own, without effort on your part, it is like a rose blooming in a beautiful garden - it does not make any effort.

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

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

Is there anything higher than a prayer of gratitude?

In addition to what Osho said, one 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 Supreme, who is Absolute and does not need anything?" - ask the followers of Osho.

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 in practice to 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 does not. And by doing what pleases Him, we thereby rise to a level that is above the prayer of gratitude.

The Vedas state that the highest goal of the human form of life is the revival of love of Godhead; then the whole life of a person becomes the highest prayer. Through bhakti-yoga (devotional service), one achieves the highest 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 has turned millions of people away from prayer. Prayer must be freed from faith. The beginning comes

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and God follows prayer. God is not the premise of 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. Every belief is 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 it will still be a lie. Life is a gift of God, we must earn this gift, because we have not yet earned it. But we are ungrateful creatures. Even a simple “Thank you” doesn’t cross our minds. We do not feel gratitude for the fact that we are given the opportunity to see, laugh, love, enjoy the music of life and the beauty of the world. No, we do not thank for this, on the contrary, we constantly complain.

When you listen to the prayers of people, you will be surprised. All their prayers are endless complaints. There is no gratitude in prayers. Everyone wants more all the time. Everyone says it's not enough for me. Nothing is ever enough for anyone. The poor man asks, the rich man asks, the emperor asks, everyone asks. Everyone is asking for something more. No matter what you get, everything is not enough for you. Lord, I deserve more, you're not fair to me. I call it beyond religiosity.

True prayer comes from gratitude. For true prayer, a simple “Thank you” is sufficient. True prayer has nothing to do with what is known throughout the world as prayer. It is not a ritual, it has nothing to do with a church, a temple or a mosque, it cannot be non-peasant, non-Hindu, non-Muslim, it does not need words, it is wordless.

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

An excerpt from Osho's series of discourses "Until You Die" 1975
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If you go to the temple and your prayer becomes a desire, it will never be heard. 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, Bayazid, and he always said, “God knows, whatever my need is, that's why I never prayed - because it's stupid! What to say to Him? He already knows. If I say what he knows, then it's stupid. If I'm trying to find something He doesn't know, that's stupid too. How can you find such a thing? So I just never bothered him. Whatever I need, He always provides.”
There was a time, he was very, very poor, hungry, rejected by the city he passed through. 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, he is sitting under a tree, there are wild animals everywhere, he cannot even sleep “What is this God of whom you say that He knows everything you need?”
Bayazid 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,” Bayezid said, “and God knows when you need wealth. God knows when to starve, and God knows when to feast. He knows! That is what I need now.
You cannot ask. If you ask, it will not be given to you. In the very request you prove that you are not yet capable of receiving. Prayer must be silence. Silence is prayer. When words appear, desires immediately follow - because words are the vehicles of desire. In silence how can you desire? You tried? Silently can you wish for something? How can you wish silently? Language is required. All languages belong to the realm of desire. Therefore, all those who have known insist on silence, because only when there is not a word in your mind will desires cease completely; otherwise, there is desire behind every word.
Whatever you say, even if you go to the temple and the mosque and the church and you say, "I don't desire anything," that is desire. Just look, watch - the desire is hiding somewhere. And you have heard that until you stop desiring, you will not be given. That's why you say, "I don't want" - to receive. But it's hidden behind, in the shadows it's there. Otherwise, why even say, “I don’t desire anything?”
Be quiet. 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. To be so quiet that not a single word floats in the lake of your consciousness. No ripples. Lake in absolute silence. It becomes a mirror. It reflects existence. It reflects God. In that moment of silence, everything is achieved.