These are the two paths: self-forgetfulness, the way of the world; and self-remembrance, the way of God.
The paradox is that one who seeks happiness never finds it; and one who seeks truth and doesn’t bother about happiness has always found it.
~ OSHO – The_Hidden_Harmony
“But man cannot live naturally continuously because man also has freedom . Sometimes you can eat a little too much – that is your freedom . And sometimes you can go on a fast – that too is your freedom . Man is only animal in the world who has freedom : that is his dignity . But freedom brings dangers . The first danger is that you can go against nature . And nature is so polite that it does not shout , it whispers . Nature is very silent ; its voice is very still and small . It goes on saying , ” don’t do it , don’t do it , don’t do it” , and it goes on tolerating . There is a point beyond which it cannot tolerate and the disease erupts. Now , what is the Physician meant to do ? In the East the physician does not fight disease , the physician is not meant to destroy the disease . The physician is simply meant to bring the man back to nature.”
~ OSHO – Sufis : The People of the Path , Volume.2 , Chapter # 6 : An Eternal Recurrence
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Yoga is self-effort. Yoga has no priests. It has only masters who have attained by their own effort – and in their light you have to learn how to attain yourself.
Avoid the promises of the priests. They are the most dangerous people on earth, because they don’t allow you to become really discontent. They go on consoling you; and if you are consoled before you have attained, you are cheated, you are deceived.
Yoga believes in effort, in tremendous effort. One has to become worthy. One has to earn God; you have to pay the cost. Someone once asked the former Prince of Wales, “What is your idea of civilization?”
“It is a good idea,” replied the prince. “Somebody ought to start it.
The yoga is not just an idea it is a practice, it is abhyas , it is a discipline, it is a science of inner transformation. And remember, nobody can start it for you. You have to start it for yourself. Yoga teaches you to trust yourself; yoga teaches you to become confident of yourself. Yoga teaches you that the journey is alone. A master can indicate the way, but you have to follow it.
~ OSHO – Yoga: The Science of Living.
Whenever you are puzzled in a situation and you cannot see how to get out of it, don’t think; just be in a deep non-thinking and allow the inner guide to guide you.
In the beginning you will feel afraid, insecure, but soon, when you come every time to the right conclusion, when you come every time to the right door, you will gather courage and you will become trusting.
If this trust happens, I call it faith.
This really is religious faith – the trust in the inner guide. Reasoning is part of the ego.
It is you believing in yourself.
The moment you go deep within you, you have come to the very soul of the universe. Your inner guide is part of the divine guidance. When you follow it, you follow the divine; when you follow yourself, you are complicating things, and you don’t know what you are doing.
You may think yourself very wise. You are not.
Wisdom comes from the heart, it is not of the intellect.
Wisdom comes from the innermost depth of your being, it is not of the head.
Cut your head off, be headless – and follow the being, whatsoever, wheresoever it leads. Even if it leads into danger, go into danger, because that will be the path for you and your growth. Through that danger you will grow and become mature.
Even if the inner guide leads you to death, go into it, because that is going to be the path for you. Follow it, trust it, and move with it.
~ OSHO – The Book Of Secrets
Love waits, love can wait infinitely, only love can wait. If you love, you have such trust that you can wait. And god comes only to those who know how to wait. God never comes through desiring, he comes through waiting. Waiting is a passive desiring: you desire and yet you don’t desire; you desire and yet you don’t say ‘right now!’ You say, ‘Whenever it happens, I am happy and I am contented. Whenever you decide, that’s the right moment: this life or another life, it doesn’t matter. I will be waiting, I will wait forever!’
Time becomes irrelevant for one who can wait; hurry is no more there. And when there is no hurry and no time-consciousness, in that very instant god happens. God can happen this moment. We just need to be utterly silent and waiting. So this is the paradox: if you ask that he should happen right now you will have to wait very long… maybe forever; if you are ready to wait forever he can happen right now. In fact if you can wait he has already happened in that very waiting. He comes so silently, even the footsteps are never heard.
So meditate over it and allow that feeling of waiting….
~ OSHO – Far Beyond the Stars