Your guidance and further reference to the books would be very grateful. However, I would like to continue reading Osho's books. I finished reading the Empty Boat yesterday. I started reading those books in the same order given and began to experience a greater calmness as I continue reading them. Firstly, thank you very much for referring them. I accidentally came across this forum a month ago and your reference on these three books of Osho. and people think he is a rich man's guru (he said that once, by the way. Don't listen or read to any other guru until you finish these three. Make it slow and enjoy reading the books, without feeling any hurry to finish them. You will get more clarity on the path after reading these three books.Let me know how you feel after you finish those books. – The Last Testament Volume 4: Chapter 15 by Osho Out of them all I have chosen witnessing, because most of them are based on this in different ways. You can make a method of combinations, but those one hundred and twelve are exhaustive. That list is exhaustive, there is no possibility of adding a single method more. I have tried almost all one hundred and twelve methods. Slowly, slowly, you will see sleep coming in, and as your witnessing becomes deeper there comes a moment when you can see that the whole night you are asleep yet still alert. When you are going to sleep you don’t fall asleep suddenly, it takes a few minutes just watch how the sleep comes in.
You can do it anywhere – walking on the street, sitting in the bus, sitting in the plane, eating, even sleeping. Whatever word you choose makes no difference.īut this is the ultimate peak, this is the ultimate goal of human life. This experience of absolute organic unity of your consciousness has been called by different names – moksha, nirvana, liberation, enlightenment, illumination. It becomes both the seer and the seen, the object and the subject, and for the first time you have unity.
Once your emotions and moods disappear, suddenly there is a quantum leap – the witness has nothing to witness anymore. I call my way the fourth way because after the third you cannot do anything. The method remains the same – you remain a witness without judgment.įirst body, second mind, third heart. When thoughts have stopped, then you become aware of a very subtle breeze – and there is a great joy to see it pass.
You are often not aware of what your emotional state is – it is very deep, there is a thick layer of thoughts. You are not even aware many times that you are sad. Once you are simply a mirrorlike witness, thoughts disappear, and you become aware of a deeper layer, of emotions, moods, which are very subtle. Strangely enough, when you stop making comments on the thoughts, they begin to stop your comments keep them alive. Anybody passes by, the mirror reflects it that’s all, it makes no comment. This is bad.” Not justifying, not appreciating, no judgment… non-judgmental witnessing, just like the mirror. Then you start witnessing your thoughts – sitting silently, just watching the rush of thoughts, not interfering, not saying, “This is good. Once you have witnessed your body, you have got the knack of the method. But walking with absolute alertness every step, every fall of a leaf, every ray of the sun, every bird flying in front of you, fully alert… slowly, slowly, you become aware that you are not the body that is walking, you are something inside which is witnessing. If you are walking on the road, and you are also witnessing that you are walking – not going along just like a robot, mechanical, everyday habit, the road is known, the legs know it, you can even walk with closed eyes. The moment you witness something you become separate from it, you are the witness, the thing becomes an object – the witnessed. Out of all of those I have chosen the most simple – the most easily done. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation. Once you complete the book, you may have more clear idea on what to do. Allow his words to work on you and just read with open mind. The actual spiritual practice happens when you read the book.
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