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Meditation Quotes by Osho

42 Meditation quotes by Osho

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Osho teaches that Zen is a free, joyous dance that does not require rules, only fresh inquiry. He urges us to watch the mind’s habits and try new actions so the mind loosens its grip. He also links meditation to scientific discovery, saying insight comes from inner stillness, not just thought.

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“Include and grow. Include and expand.”

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“Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.”

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“Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the…

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Zen is not a renunciation, it is a rejoicing. It is the manifesto of dance and celebration.

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“Remember, whenever you have two things, two alternatives, choose the new one, choose the harder, choose the one in which more awareness…

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Zen is non-judgemental, Zen is non-evaluative, Zen imposes no character on anybody. Because to impose character, you will need valuation ⬠good and…

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“Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not…

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“Meditation, godliness, enlightenment, nirvana, they all came into being through love, because through love a glimpse was achieved. And when the glimpse…

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Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum…

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Zen has nothing to do with any god. No sincere man, no intelligent man has anything to do with any fiction. He…

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Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why…

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“Only one thing is harassing you: your own idea of achieving things as quickly as possible. But meditation is not to be…

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One of the fundamentals of Zen that makes it a totally unique religion, more than any other religion of the world, is…

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“But these trees don’t grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except…

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Zen comes closer to science than any other religion for the simple reason that it does not require any faith. It requires…

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“Have you ever watched one thing? – whatsoever is your last thought in the night will be your first thought in the…

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“At the cost of efficiency always choose awareness, and you will create the situation in which meditation will become possible. You are…

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“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a…

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“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting…

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“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science…

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“Imagination is a great force. On the path of meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the path of love, imagination is a…

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I call Zen the only living religion because it is not a religion, but only a religiousness. It has no dogma, it…

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“So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry,…

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“Your life is like a car which moves sometimes with jerks caused by the dirt in its gas as if it has…

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What is understanding? -- understanding is pure intelligence. That pure intelligence is originally yours; you are born with it. Nobody can give…

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“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity…

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“Meditation is simply awareness without any effort, an effortless alertness; it does not need any technique. But your mind is so full…

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“Don’t do anything—no repetition of mantra, no repetition of the name of God—just watch whatever the mind is doing. Don’t disturb it,…

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“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging…

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Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It…

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“Because you have created so much tension in your life, now you are meditating. But this is the opposite of tension, not…

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The bamboo is very much loved by the Zen poets for its tremendous quality of being hollow. Out of this hollowness of…

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Zen says: Remain true to your freedom. And then a totally different kind of being arises in you, which is very unexpected,…

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A presence surrounds an enlightened person. That presence has nothing to do with the body; when the body is gone,the presence still…

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“If you can meditate, if you can create a little distance between your mind and your being, if you can see and…

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Even Zen finally has to be transcended. Finally you have to become so meditative that you don⬢t need to meditate any more…

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“The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you have to push through.…

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Zen is the very principle of existence. Whether there is anyone who teaches it or not, whether there is anyone who learns…

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“Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Sosan – they are the Masters of this law of reverse effect. And this is the difference…

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“When you eat food you never say, "Let it be inner." When you are thirsty and you drink water, you never say,…

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“They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous…

“The ego is possible only in conflict, struggle. If you have nothing to fight about, you will create some way or other to fight.”

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“There is a great need to be needed. Remember, you feel good whenever you are needed. Sometimes, even if it brings misery to you,…

“All possible resources have to be used, so that you can learn to use your anger in such a way that it becomes compassion,…

“The three religions born outside India don’t have any name for it because they never went far in search of oneself. They remained childish,…

“Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your…

“No, life is meant to be a celebration; celebration is its central note. If someone asks you, better ask this question of yourself: ”Do…

“Imagination is a great force. On the path of meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the path of love, imagination is a help. On…

Yoga means that now there is no hope, now there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what…