Osho, who was earlier called Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, has been enlightening people with his teachings and learnings on meditation and inner peace. His original name was original name Chandra Mohan Jain and he was born to a Jaina Cloth Merchant. After his graduation in philosophy and intense spiritual awakening at the age of 21, he became a spiritual leader and a teacher of meditation in 1966. He preaches freedom and detachment from the world and living a celebratory life not burdened by rituals.
Osho focused on teaching his disciples to live out of the box and introduced a revolutionary new meditation technique called The Mystic Rose. According to Osho, it has three steps. "Laughter is the first step. One of the great writers, Norman Cousins, has just now written of his life-long experiment: that if he laughs for twenty minutes without any reason, all his tensions disappear. His consciousness grows, the dust disappears," he said. The next step is tears. He claimed, "It has been told to us that tears are a symptom of weakness – they are not. Tears can cleanse not only your eyes, but your heart too."
"The third step is silence. I have called it 'The Watcher on the Hills.' Become as silent as if you are alone on the top of an Himalayan peak, utterly silent and alone, just watching, listening... sensitive, but still," Osho said.
10 Osho Quotes On Meditation And Inner Peace (Image: Instagram/oshointernational)
10 Osho Quotes On Meditation And Inner Peace
1. Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence, it is receiving existence. It is opening your heart, not closing your mind. - Osho
2. The more aware you become, the more you empower yourself and take control of your own life. - Osho
3. Experience life in all possible ways – good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. - Osho
4. In meditation, the ego disappears. The ego is the barrier between you and existence, between you and your true being. - Osho
5. Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that unawareness has built. - Osho
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6. Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints, it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. - Osho
7. Meditation is a quality of being that you bring to the act. It is not a particular act, it is not that you do this then it is meditation – that you sit in a certain posture, siddhasana, and you keep your spine erect, and you keep your eyes closed or you look at the tip of your nose or you watch your breath, then it is meditation – no, these are just devices for the beginners - Osho
8. Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you. - Osho
9. In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear. - Osho
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10. Meditation in the East has a totally different meaning, just the opposite of the Western meaning. Meditation in the East means no object in the mind, no content in the mind; not meditating upon something but dropping everything; neti, neti, neither this nor that. Meditation is emptying yourself of all content. When there is no thought moving inside you there is stillness; that stillness is meditation. Not even a ripple arises in the lake of your consciousness; that silent lake, absolutely still, that is meditation. And in that meditation you will know what truth is, you will know what love is, you will know what godliness is. - Osho
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