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So much asking, so much answering, and in the end you will see that, far from getting less, your confusion has grown more; that your questions have increased rather than become less. Only then, perhaps, you may become aware that the answer to the questions is not in answers; the answer to the questions is in meditation. In this book of questions and answers, Osho guides people away from asking superficial, religious and intellectual questions and helps them to open up by posing real questions. Osho s answers to them are existential responses that take the questioner to a new level of consciousness, where they are inspired and supported to start living from their own understanding and experience.

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Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	15 mai 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789351186908
Langue	English

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Osho

NOWHERE TO GO BUT IN
Contents
About the Author
Preface
One: The Great Illusion
Two: Meditation: The Razor s Edge
Three: The One, Undivided
Four: Don t Throw Responsibility
Five: Read between the Lines
Six: Either This or That
Seven: First the Thirst
Eight: The Blinkers of the I
Nine: The Business of Isness
Ten: Mentation and Meditation
Eleven: Mysticism: Conscious Anarchy
Twelve: The Ultimate Intercourse
Thirteen: In: The Only Way Out
Fourteen: The Ecology of the Inner
Fifteen: You Need to Wake Up
Sixteen: The Only Miracle
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NOWHERE TO GO BUT IN
Osho defies categorization. His talks, which run into thousands, cover everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. Osho s books are not written but are transcribed from audio and video recordings of his extemporaneous talks to international audiences. As he puts it, So remember: whatever I am saying is not just for you . . . I am talking also for the future generations.
Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the 1000 Makers of the 20th Century and by American author Tom Robbins as the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ . Sunday Mid-Day (India) has selected Osho as one of ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India.
About his own work Osho has said that he is helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind ofhuman being. He often characterizes this new human being as Zorba the Buddha -capable both of enjoying the earthy pleasures of a Zorba the Greek and the silent serenity of a Gautama, the Buddha.
Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho s talks and meditations is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of all ages past and the highest potential of today s (and tomorrow s) science and technology.
Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life. His unique OSHO Active Meditations are designed to first release the accumulated stresses of body and mind, so that it is then easier to take an experience of stillness and thought-free relaxation into daily life.
Two autobiographical works by the author are available:
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic, St Martins Press, New York (book and eBook)
Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, OSHO Media International, Pune, India
Preface
T his is the first and the most important thing to understand: never force anything, just let it go easily. If you ever want to find out what the secret of your life is, then you have to go inwards. And thoughts are always going outwards; every thought takes you outwards. When all thoughts cease, there is nowhere to go-you simply are at home.
This at-homeness is meditation.
Utter silence and peace prevails.
In this silence every ambition seems to be stupid; the whole world of objects seems to be nothing but a dream. And your own being shines in its . . . brightness of heaven, at the centre of the vast expanse of phenomenal things, and needingno polishingor cleaning.
Your own being is so pure, so unpolluted, not even a particle of dust has ever reached there-cannot reach. Only your consciousness can reach there, and consciousness arises in you with no-mind. With no-mind you become so wakeful, so watchful- nowhere to go outside, because all thoughts are gone. So you turn inwards, and for the first time face your own original being.
Osho
The Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart
One
The Great Illusion
Osho,
Mystics have always said, There is no refuge but existence - there is nowhere to go but in. You say the same. We are familiar with the words, but our understanding does not go beyond the verbal level. Could you please explain the deeper meaning?
Understanding at the verbal level is not worth calling understanding. In the world of religion there is no greater deception than words. Words can be understood, there is no difficulty in that; but when that which is hidden behind the words remains not understood that is the real difficulty.
When the word is understood but not that which lies behind the word, life becomes a great turmoil. We create the illusion of knowing when we do not know, and nothing is more dangerous than assuming that one knows when one does not.
Life begins at the point where knowing happens. Life is transformed through knowing. But if we live under the illusion that we know religion because we know the words, then our mind travels in one direction while our life travels in another, and often these directions are completely opposite. This is why hypocrisy comes to be a daily routine in the life of the so-called religious man.
The so-called religious man seems to be nothing but a hypocrite. He says one thing and lives another, and there is no harmony between what he says and what he lives. The origin of this lack of harmony is in the fact that he has substituted words for understanding.
Let us consider a few more points about this before dealing with the question. The moment we hear the words God, soul and enlightenment, we immediately think we understand them because we know their meaning as written in the dictionaries. We know the meaning of enlightenment, we know the meaning of godliness, we know the meaning of soul, but the verbal meaning is not the existential meaning. Just to say the word God, just to hear the word God, is not to know godliness. The word God is not in itself godliness. Even if the speaker of the word has known, he cannot pass on his knowing to you. Only the words will reach you, not his experience. The words will become part of your memory. Your memory will become full and dense, a load, and will become a scripture. You will fall into the illusion that you know what godliness is because you have heard the word God, because you have read it, and its meaning is given in the dictionary.
But without reaching out to it how can anyone know godliness? If it was so simple-if godliness could be known just by referring to a dictionary-there would be no ignorant person left on this earth; everyone would have become a knower. If the etymology and grammar of the word liberation were the key to liberation, everybody would be free, no one would be in bondage. How simple it is to know a word!
So the mind, because it is afraid of the journey, creates the illusion. That the mind should be afraid of the journey is only natural, because it is going to be a journey into death for it. The one who sets out in search of godliness will lose himself. But in referring to a dictionary there is no worry about losing oneself, in reciting the scriptures there is no question of losing oneself. But one who seeks enlightenment will disappear, because no enlightenment, no liberation, is possible without disappearance. Basically, it is the I who is the bondage. Then how is enlightenment possible until this I is dissolved?
This I is the wall between oneself and existence. Until this wall falls, how can it be experienced? This journey is a journey of death. The seeker has set out to die. But only through dying is the ultimate life attained; only by losing oneself is one found. Because of this, the mind is afraid . . . so it creates illusions and substitutes.
Understand well this law of substitution: to find substitutes is the greatest art of the mind. What is not found in life, the mind provides in dreams. You are thirsty and fast asleep at night, you are dying of thirst. You will have to wake up. You will have to interrupt your sleep to go and find some water. But no, it is then that the mind creates a substitute; you start dreaming of a fountain, and in your dream you approach the fountain and drink to your heart s content. No need to interrupt your sleep! Not until you wake up in the morning do you discover that the water was no water, the fountain was no fountain, and there was no quenching of your thirst-it was all an illusion. But only after waking up do you come to know this. The sleep in the night continued undisturbed; the mind found the substitute to keep it so.
The mind creates substitutes in life too, so that our sleep in life itself is not disturbed. If you are to know godliness, your sleep will be disturbed; it will come to an end. And we have a great vested interest in our sleep, because for lives upon lives we have treasured and cultivated only sleep, that is our only creation. And up to this very day our family, wife, friends, children, money and prestige have all been part of our slumber. The moment our sleep ends, all this will disappear too. The whole edifice will disintegrate. If sleep ends, this whole world that we have thought of as our world and all that we have seen as ours, will disappear. When we wake up in the morning we cannot find the friends who inhabited our dreams. When we wake up in the morning we cannot find the palaces that crowded our dreams. After waking up, there is no way to find the treasures that were ours in the dream; they are gone, gone forever.
All this we have created in our dream; hence the fear that the dream may be broken, our sleep may be broken. So we live an unconscious life. The name for this unconsciousness is the mind. And wherever there is any fear of the sleep being broken, the mind immediately creates a substitute. In knowing godliness our sleep will end, but in knowing the word God, there is no cause for our slumber to end. On the contrary, our sleep deepens and is fortified. If we go to seek the ultimate, the world will disappear. By reciting the word God, we make God also a part of the world.
This is why we build mosques and temples and gurudwaras. We construct churches and temples next to our shops and homes in order to make them a p