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Funny that the mind wants to becomes useless.
It will not work because uselessness cannot be a goal.
Maybe it is a device for people who are too ambitious and worrying. A device for relaxation.

It is a help […]

The thing is, SD, we live in a highly competitive world. It is difficult to avoid. I can be quite competitive at times, although as I age this is less so. Can’t be bothered. I think where competitiveness still […]

Exactly, Lokesh. In darshans, Osho very often asked what people going back to their lives in the world would be doing and commented on their responses, including giving some advice here and there. He certainly […]

All in all, a very good story, and well told. I was there when Osho told it, and I can remember afterwards, trying my best to be absolutely useless for some time. It was not difficult. Any idiot can be […]

Lao Tzu was passing with his disciples and they came to a forest where hundreds of carpenters were cutting trees, because a great palace was being built. So the whole forest had been almost cut, but only one tree […]

“We used to go for walks in the morning, in the evening (Ed: Osho’s grandfather and the young Osho). By and by, I said to him, ”Listen. Anyway, you are retired and I am not going to enter into business, so drop […]

Another mystic : Jakob Böhme

https://youtu.be/5m1JcAIaVKg?si=goQrZUezncxRIapH

Today, got into a Zen flow……………..

Japanese architecture
Nature
Ikebana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUlyUM6oXg

Gardens
Kyoto

https://youtu.be/RCi1e0Up5UQ

Korean mountain atomosphere
Seoraksan […]

“Men commit suicide more than women, the number is double – although women talk a thousand times more about committing suicide. They also take sleeping pills, but you will always find them the next day, again […]

I think Osho found Truth on the via negativa (neti, neti).

After his enlightenment he saw that there were different paths and called himself Master of Masters to attract different people.

That is an interesting take on Osho, “the Acharya who had once declared that his approach to truth was “totally negative” had morphed himself into a helpful mystic.” I’ve read elsewhere that people once thought […]

The first Alan Watts book I read, back in the early seventies, was titled ‘The Wisdom of Insecurity’. The title says it all and it had a positive effect on me…probably because I was feeling a bit insecure at the […]

From Oshonews…

https://www.oshonews.com/2025/10/24/the-dark-space-within/

“And this going in is not a kind of doing; you simply sit silently and you will find, slowly slowly, you are slipping – perhaps a […]

Brilliant description of who we are (and are not) in the ‘game of life’, by Alan Watts. Just this track would explain why Osho held him in such high regard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbCmtEvv8Js

Yup….

Yesss!

You put it in the best way.
Awareness is the ‘glue’ behind all experiencing.
And ends the experiencer…

Shopping – awareness
Driving – awareness
Falling – awareness
Pain – awareness
Doctor visit – […]

The paradigm has shifted towards who or what it is that seeks spiritual experiences. When one enquires who or what is it that seeks, the answer is nobody. Our idea of self is an illusion. We are the ghost in the […]

Hi,

I find myself coming back to the question of needing to have ‘experiences’ on the spiritual path. Or any spiritual path.

I have watched this video of a guy who wanted to become a Buddhist monk – on and off. […]

Yes, the “meditative argument” against thinking has certainly become a kind of a religious Sannyas dogma. The devil-mind is still our problem in the bottle without a goose inside….
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About the Maharishi […]

That’s rght, SD, thinking is needed for sharing an opinion here.

Even to be motivated to write, a thought is needed. Without thought, nothing happens.