Category Archives: Osho Insight

Q:* WHAT IS WITNESSING?

A:* Whatever you are doing….
For example, right now you are writing. You can write in two ways.

The ordinary way that you always write…. You can try another method: you can write it and you can also inside witness that you are writing it.

Q:* DOES THAT MEAN SOME KIND OF DETACHMENT?

A:* A detachment. You are a little distant, away, watching yourself writing.

So any act, just moving my hand, I can watch. Walking on the road, I can watch myself walking. Eating, I can watch.

So whatever you are doing, just remain a witness.

Q:* BUT DOESN’T THAT HAVE A TENDENCY TO DEVELOP SOME KIND OF SUPER-EGO, A WATCHER, A WATCHER, A WATCHER?*

A:* Not at all.

If you have any ego, it will destroy it, because this watching is very much poisonous to the ego.

It is not ego that watches.

The ego is absolutely blind. It cannot watch anything. You can watch your ego.

For example, somebody insults you and you feel hurt, and your ego feels hurt.

You can watch it. You can watch that you are feeling hurt, your ego is feeling hurt, that you are angry.

And you can still remain aloof, detached, just a watcher on the hills. Whatever goes on in the valley you can see.

So all these methods are basically different ways of witnessing.

I have condensed in a very simple way.

First, watch your actions of the body.
Second, watch your actions of the mind: thoughts,
imaginations.
Third, watch your actions of the heart: feelings, love, hate, moods, sadness, happiness.

And if you can succeed in watching all these three, and as your witnessing grows deeper and deeper, a moment comes that there is only witnessing but nothing to witness.

The mind is empty, the heart is empty, the body is relaxed.

In that moment happens something like a quantum leap.

Your whole witnessing jumps upon itself.

It witnesses itself, because there is nothing else to witness.

And this is the revolution which I call enlightenment, self-realization. Or you can give it any name, but this is the ultimate experience of bliss.
You cannot go beyond it.

~ OshO
The Last Testament, Vol 3

Have you ever seen the statue of Kali?
She is the mother and death also, kal, means death so her name is Kali.
And she is the mother, so she is a woman.
She is beautiful, beautiful like a mother. Nobody else can be as beautiful as the mother.
Even if one’s own mother is ugly, she seems beautiful. Nobody thinks in terms of the beauty of the mother, but the mother is beautiful.
Because if you see your mother as ugly, then that means that you are ugly because you are her expansion.
So Kali is beautiful, very beautiful But around her neck she is wearing a garland of human heads.
She is beautiful, but she is Kali- kal, death.
Western thinkers are puzzled over this symbol.
They wonder why a woman should be depicted so horribly, so terrifying.
And you call her mother also!
How frightening it is horrible, be-cause death starts from the one who gives birth.
It is terrible, because death has arrived along with the birth.
The mother has given death as well as life.
So on one side she is as beautiful as the mother, as the source, and on the other end she is like kal, death, as dark as death.
Around her neck is a garland of human heads in her hand she is holding a severed head, blood dripping, and she is standing, with her feet on her husband.
This is a very deep symbol: woman as life, and as death too.
Because death comes from where life comes, these two are the two sides of the same coin.
And nobody else on this earth realized this fact as the Hindus have done.

~ OshO
Bhaj Govindham – The song of ecstasy

For thousands of years there have been two types of sannyasins in India: one with beard, long hair; one without beard, without hair.
Those who have beards and long hair have a certain deep reason for it—they may not be aware of it. Long hair has always been anti-social.
The beard, and long hair particularly, have always belonged to the bohemians: artists, painters, asocial elements, rebellious people, crazy, eccentric.
This is one extreme.
The other extreme is the shaven-headed monk. Between the two is the straight person, the common man, who is not eccentric this way or that.
On one hand are the rebellious people— rebellious in the sense that their religion will be non- traditional. The shaven-headed people are those who have a certain affinity with the tradition.
They will be religious but they will not be anti-traditional. They may be as asocial as the long-haired ones, but they will not be anti-tradition.
They will feel a continuity with the past, they will have a certain heritage, they will have a feeling of belonging …
Long hair gives individuality. If you shave one thousand people and have them standing naked, you will not be able to find out who is who—the shaven-heads look almost the same.
Much individuality comes about through hair. That’s why women are so interested in hair: it gives them indivi- duality, personality.
With shaven-headed women you will not see much difference between the homely and the beautiful, In fact, in the African tribes, to find out the real beauty they shave the women, because then only rarely does one woman stand out as beautiful; the other ninety-nine percent will simply disappear in the mob ..
And religion happens in two ways: either it is traditional or it is rebellious.
The rebellious person will like a beard, long hair. The rebellious person does not want to belong— he wants to be separate, he wants to an island.
Both are good; whatsoever suits you is the question.

~ OSHO – THIS IS IT!

“Meditation transforms. It takes you to higher levels of consciousness and changes your whole lifestyle.
It changes your reactions into responses to such an extent that it is unbelievable that the person who would have reacted in the same situation in anger is now acting in deep compassion, with love – in the same situation.
“Meditation is a state of being, arrived at through understanding. It needs intelligence, it does not need techniques.”

~ Osho, Beyond Enlightenment, Talk #29

“My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, ‘I am happy. Peace, it is wonderful.’ One simply watches, one says, ‘Yes, a white cloud passing.’”

~ Osho