“Zen does not talk about
God at all, but only of godliness:
a certain
quality, a fragrance which is everywhere.
Only when you have the
capacity to learn will you be able to see it.
All that is needed on
your part is the capacity to be silent, receptive, welcoming, open”
Osho
“That is my crime, that I
create a doubt in you about your mind. I want you to understand that it is not your mind; and your search should be to
find your own mind. To be under somebody else’s impact is to remain
psychologically a slave. And life is not for slavery, it is to taste freedom. There
is something like truth, but with this
mind you can never know it, because this mind is full of lies, repeated century
after century. You can find the truth when you put this mind completely aside
and look at existence with fresh eyes, like a newborn child; then whatever you
experience is truth. And if you remain constantly alert not to allow others to
interfere with your inner growth, there comes a moment when you become so
attuned with existence, so one with existence…Only this experience is religious
experience. It is not Jewish, it is not Christian, it
is not Hindu. How can any experience be Jewish, Hindu or Mohammedan? You can
never see its ridiculousness. You eat something and you say it is delicious-but
is it Christian, or Hindu, or Buddhist? You taste something and you say it is
sweet-but is it communist? Is it materialist or spiritualist?
These questions are
nonsense. It is simply sweet, it is simply delicious. When you feel existence immediately,
without any mediator, with no mind given to you by anybody else, you taste
something which transforms you-which makes you enlightened, awakened; which brings
you to the highest peak of consciousness.
A greater fulfilment,
there is not.
A higher contentment,
there is not.
A deeper relaxation,
there is not.
You have come home. Life
becomes a joy, a song, a dance, a celebration-and I call this life religious.”
Osho – Never Born, Never Died
Only Visited This Planet Earth between
December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990.
"There is only one path, which goes inwards, where you will
not find a single human being, where you will only find silence, peace."