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is that which comes into existence only when we become identified with small things, which all pass.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. (Osho)

Courage is a love affair with the unknown. Osho

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is absent of all condemnation, all evaluation. One simply looks at the mind silently, seeing the whole traffic, without saying what is right and what is wrong, what should be and what should not be, just as, standing by the side of the road, you watch the people walking by saints and sinners, beautiful people, ugly people, good people, bad people but you are unconcerned. It has nothing to do with you... you are out of it.

Repression happens through fighting with your mind. Discipline happens through being watchful, aware, alert. In discipline, there is no fight implied. In discipline, there is no condemnation, no evaluation. One simply looks at the mind silently, seeing the whole traffic, without saying what is right and what is wrong, what should be and what should not be, just as, standing by the side of the road, you watch the people walking by saints and sinners, beautiful people, ugly people, good people, bad people but you are unconcerned. It has nothing to do with you... you are out of it. (osho 'walk in zen sit in zen': 33)

is evidence of the existence of 'I'. It is 'not knowing' as compared with innocence which is 'no knowing'.

because 'not knowing' implies the existence of i. no knowing does not imply... it simply states innocence. not knowing is ignorance and no knowing is innocence. ('Osho live' : pdf. 11)

is a very small phenomenon, limited to humanity. The stars don't speak nor the flowers, but they still express, they transmit their very being without any language.

Language is a very small phenomenon, limited to humanity. The stars don't speak nor the flowers, but they still express, they transmit their very being without any language. Zen is just a wildflower, spreading its fragrance to whomsoever it may concern. Those who have the sensitivity will understand it. (Osho 'this, this, this' 19)

is not so much a question of learning much. On the contrary. It's a question of unlearning much.

It's not a question of learning much. . . On the contrary. It's a question of unlearning much. (Osho)

is not about learning things, but learning how to learn. In order to be able to listen to the awakened ones you have to learn to understand their language, not according to you, but according to them.

When you listen to the awakened ones you will have to learn to understand their language, not according to you but according to them. (osho 'walk in zen sit in zen': 22)

is not just what the ears do. There are some things whereby you fail if you listen with your ears and, by listening with your eyes, you hear them.

isan then suggested that tozan visit ungan who tozan later succeeded. coming up to ungan, tozan asked, 'who can hear the sermons of insentient creatures'' 'insentient creatures can hear them,' answered ungan. 'why can i not hear them'' asked tozan. ungan raised his staff straight up and said, 'do you hear'' 'no, i don't,' answered tozan. ungan said, 'don't you know the sutra says, 'birds and trees, all meditate on the buddha and the dharma''' at this tozan suddenly became enlightened. he wrote the following verse: wonderful! how wonderful! sermons by insentient creatures... you fail if you listen with your ears... i repeat: you fail if you listen with your ears. listening with your eyes, you hear them. (Osho 'this, this, this' 28-29). By the eyes he does not mean the ordinary eyes, he means the eyes of an awakening clarity of your being. If you can hear in your silence, if you can see in your silence, then everything in the world is speaking, giving sermons, singing songs, dancing. (Osho 'this, this, this' 29)

is like being awake, in that there is never any need to stop and think about whether you are awake.

If you are awake there is no need to think that you are awake. When you love a woman you don't say, 'I think I love you.' If you say that she will slap your face! If you love her you love her. What is the point of saying, 'I think'' When you are thirsty you don't say, 'I think I am thirsty.' If you are thirsty you are thirsty. You simply say, 'I am thirsty.' (osho 'walk in zen sit in zen': : 24)

is utter absorption, being drunk into activity, lost in it. If you are a dancer, then only the dance remains and the dancer disappears.

A tremendously beautiful story. The Master created a situation and showed the whole path. This is DIRECT showing the path. He showed all that can be shown! There are only two things meditation and compassion. Meditation means being utterly absorbed into something, totally absorbed into something, completely lost. If you are dancing and only the dance remains and the dancer is forgotten, then it is meditation. If you are gambling and only gambling remains and the gambler disappears, then it is meditation. It can be any activity. Meditation is not averse to any activity. Meditation requires only one thing: be absorbed in it totally, whatsoever it is. If you are a thief and you are going to steal, and while stealing if you get absorbed utterly and totally, it is meditation. Who you are, what you do, does not matter! For Zen all that matters is totality, utter concentration, absorbed, lost, drunk into it. So much so that you are not standing behind aloof. This is the fundamental meditation. And then a natural outflow of it, a natural by-product compassion. (Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3 ' Osho)

is lost of all capacity to wonder and to look into the mysterious because of its obsession with knowledge.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows. (Osho)

is sometimes a representation of the whole in that if you but taste one drop of the ocean, you know the whole ocean.

taste one drop of the ocean, and you know the whole ocean.' (Osho live)

is a blind man in a dark night, in a dark house, searching for a black cat which isn't there.

anagoras used to say -and from him comes the proverb -that a philosopher is a blind man in a dark night, in a dark house, searching for a black cat which is not there. (Osho lve (13)

is, in many things, such that if one tastes a single drop of the ocean, one knows the whole ocean.

(1) lively perceptions (see, feel, hate, will), (2) less lively (reflect'taste one drop of the ocean, and you know the whole ocean.' (Osho live)

is the person one avoids the most in one's life. One's whole life is managed in such a way that one never comes across oneself. One has been trained, brought up, educated, cultured, civilized in such a way that one will never meet oneself. One will meet everybody except oneself, one will be introduced to everybody except oneself for the simple reason that the society does not know how to cope with the inner chaos.

The person that you are avoiding the most in your life is you. Your whole life is managed in such a way that you never come across yourself. You have been trained, brought up, educated, cultured, civilized in such a way that you will never meet yourself. You will meet everybody except yourself, you will be introduced to everybody except yourself for the simple reason that the society does not know how to cope with the inner chaos. ((osho 'walk in zen sit in zen' 8)

is a door which can open outwards and open inwards. It is with the same sense which you use to hear outer music, that you can hear the music of your own being.

All your senses are doors, and remember, a door can open outwards and the same door can open inwards. It is with the same sense which you use to hear outer music, that you can hear the music of your own being. The question is simply whether to go inwards or to go outwards... the door is the same. (Osho 'this, this, this' 45)

is a capacity that is lost in the modern mind because of its obsession with 'knowledge' and its consequent inability to look into the mysterious and the miraculous.

is a world (the world of words) which, once entered, marks an exit from the world of that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence. (Osho)

is such that everybody will feel sabotaged by the zen master and everyone will feel hurt by him. Everyone will feel he is disturbing their sleep. It is utterly thankless.

Zen is not interested in such compromises. It wants you to really wake up. And it is hard work, a thankless job. A Zen Master has chosen something for which nobody is going to thank him. Everybody will feel sabotaged by him and everybody will feel hurt by him. Everybody will feel he is disturbing their sleep. Only very few people, who are real inquirers, who are ready to risk all, will be able to understand, because Zen says your whole life has to be transformed, not just a part of your life. (Osho 'walking in zen, sitting in zen' 6)

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