Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Research Institute1

	...it is within you, without you; you are made of it... you need not do anything else except listen to it.











	Relax, but remember only one thing: witnessing. This single word witnessing is the master key to all the mysteries and miracles of life











	One can be open to all possibilities but aware of one's inner direction. The direction is known. For example, you have a feel for music-- that direction is known. You are open to all possibilities but you know that your sense of inner direction is there. You feel where your fulfillment lies. Remain open, but remain perfectly aware of the inner sense of direction. Then many things will fall in line with you, and you will not be disturbed. You will be able to use all the opportunities available to help your inner direction. And the inner direction will become more and more clear, integrated.












	Many things are happening. When a person dies, his aura starts subsiding. If you are silent, you can feel it-- an energy force, a vital energy field, subsiding, getting back to the center ...If you watch you will feel ripples coming back in a reverse order, and when they are totally concentrated in the navel, you can see a tremendous energy, a tremendous light- force.












	Tantra and zen are to be the future 'religions' of the world as these two approaches are most suited to the emerging consciousness of this age. ...If love appeals to you, Shiva will appeal to you... if meditation appeals to you then Saraha will appeal to you... Tantra converted Tibet , and Saraha is the founder of Tantra.












	Yoga, and all the great secret teachings of the world: to help you become aware of your feminine and your masculine inside --what Tantrikas call Shiva and Shakti, and what Taoist call yin and yang. The polarity, the positive and negative in you, the day and night in you-- they have to meet there... Zarathustra calls it "explosion of fire." Lao Tzu calls "explosion of light."












	The woman is half, the man is half-- together they are a greater energy, a more whole energy, a healthier energy. Join together. Let yin and yang function together... When inner man and woman have met and melted, and when you are no longer divided inside, you have become one-- integrated, crystallized, one-- you have attained. This is enlightenment. ... You may have seen the statues of Shiva as ardhanarishwar; half man, half woman. That is picture of everybody's being, inner being.

We are working on the following dimensions to actualize Osho-dream:

"...The mystics have found -- and it is one of the ancient most discoveries, at least ten thousand years old -- that life, that the whole of existence, is made of sound, of subtle vibrations of sound.

...When you become absolutely silent in meditation, a subtle humming sound is heard within one's own being. It does not come from the outside; it comes from one's own inner-most core.

...In the East we have called it Omkar; the sound aum comes closest to it -- it is just approximate, remember, not exact. But if you go into an empty

temple and you just chant "Aum, aum, aum..." and you go on chanting, and then you stop suddenly,because the temple is empty it will go on resounding. That resounding comes very close to the innermost sound. And once this soundless sound, as it is called, this inner melody of your being is heard, bliss explodes, your whole life becomes harmonious. Then suddenly everything fits, then it is no more a problem. Life for the first time is not a problem, not a riddle to be solved but a mystery to be lived...

"On the path, if you start listening Aum, you are accepted, you are welcome. You need not seek anywhere. You have found the door. Just relax more and leave everything in the hands of existence -- a total trust and complete passivity. Your absence is the presence of godliness. The moment you are not the miracle has happened.

--Osho

What is relaxation? It is a state of affairs where your energy is not moving any where, not to the future, not to the past -- it is simply there with you. In the silent pool of your energy, in the warmth of it, you are enveloped. This moment is all. There is no other moment. Time stop and there is relaxation.

The meditator has to learn how to relax, how to rest, and enjoy rest. And slowly slowly, one settles into one's own center. And the moment you touch your own center you have touched eternity, you have touched timelessness, you have tested nectar for first time.

Meditation can flower only in deep relaxation; relaxation is the right soil for meditation to happen... And the miracle of relaxation is that when relaxation is total, the mind disappears.

"...We are born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it, we remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of our aloneness as a tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace, ateaseness with existence, we misunderstand it as loneliness..."

"...Aloneness will give you peace, silence, equanimity, meditativeness, awareness, a sense of integrity, centering, rootedness, groundness..."

"...Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two side of the same coin..."

We have known only unconscious oneness; we have never known conscious oneness. Meditation is conscious oneness. It is the other pole of sexuality. Sex is one pole, unconscious oneness; mediation is the other pole, conscious oneness. Sex is the lowest point of oneness and meditation is the peak, the highest peak of oneness.

Meditation means: bliss in being alone... One is really alive when one has become capable of it, when there is no dependence on any more on any body, on any situation, on any condition.

Nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. Things only move between manifestation and unmanifestation. They become visible, they become invisible. To become invisible is a resting place. Just as after each day you need deep sleep in the night to rejuvenate you,to make you again young and fresh, in the same way after each life you need death. Death is a deeper sleep and nothing else. After each life your body is so tired, you need a new body, a new manifestation. The old wave disappears, but the water in that wave remains in the ocean; it will come again in a new wave. The old is continuously becoming new--allow it. Simply allow life and go with it in deep trust.

The awareness of death makes you live life totally, as joyously, as possible. Death is not your enemy. In fact, it is an invitation for you to live intensely, totally to squeeze every drop of juice from every moment. Death is tremendous challenge and invitation.

Death gives you the ultimate in orgasmic joy: the body is left behind forever and your being become one with the whole. It is immeasurable. To become one with a single person gives you so much joy, just think: how much joy will happen in becoming one with the infinite! But it does not happen to everybody who dies, because the people who have not lived rightly cannot die rightly either. The people who have lived in deep unconsciousness will die in deep unconsciousness. Death will give you only that which you have lived all your life; it is the essence of your wole life.

If your life was of meditativeness, awareness, witnessing, then you will be able to witness death too. If your whole life you remained cool, centered in different situations, death will give you the ultimate challenge, the ultimate test. And if you can remain centered, calm and cool and watching, then you will not die an unconscious death, your death will bring you to the ultimate peak of consciousness. And then, certainly, it has to be celebrated.

Yes, my sannyasins celebrate death because they celebrate life.

These 112 methods of meditation constitute the whole science of transforming mind. The very words Vigyan Bhairav Tantra mean the technique of going beyond consciousness. Vigyan means consciousness, bhairav means the state which is beyond consciousness, and tantra means the method: the method of going beyond consciousness.

...Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy is a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple -- a holy temple, a holy place.

...Thinking and feeling -- these are two basic types... Remember to find out your type. And no type is higher or lower. Do not think that the intellectual type is higher or the feeling type is higher -- no! They are simply types. No one is higher or lower.

...Tantra means this: the transformation of love into meditation. And now you can understand why tantra talks so much about love and sex.

Why? Because love is the easiest natural door from where you can transcend this world, this horizontal dimension...

Love suddenly changes your dimension. You are thrown out of time and you are facing eternity. Love can become a deep meditation -- the deepest possible...

Love for Shiva is the great gate.

...Sex must not remain sex; that is tantra teaching. It must be transformed into love. And love also must not remain love. It must be transformed into light, into meditative experience, into the last, ultimate mystic peak.

...Tantra says move in it totally. Just forget yourself, your civilization, your religion, your culture, your ideology. Forget everything. Just move in the sex act: move in it totally; do not leave anything out. Become absolutely non-thinking. Only then does the awareness happen that you have become one with someone. And this feeling of oneness can then be detached from the partner and it can be used with the whole universe. You can be in a sex act with a tree, with the moon, with anything. Once you know how to create this circle, it can be created with anything -- even without anything.

...In reference to this, Osho says some meditations are appropriate for men and some for women. These distinctions are based in his understanding about the complementary differences in the bodies of men and women. First he says, both men and women are half man and half woman because they are born of both a man and a woman.

...If women concentrate near the breasts, they will feel very happy, very blissful, a sweetness will pervade all over their being and their body will lose gravity. they will feel light, as if they can fly. And with this concentration many things will change; you will become more motherly, You may not become a mother but you will become more motherly. To everyone your relationship will become motherly -- more compassion, more love will happen.

...When two lovers are there, by and by they both become absent. A pure Existence remains - without any egos, any conflict... just a communion. In that communion one feels blissful.

...Of course, not every technique is suitable for every person, but within these 112 methods there is at least one method that will appeal to every type of person.