Osho Dream June, 2000

 

Osho Dream 2000

The year was just after the century turned over and the Y2K scare was everywhere. I had recently left a commune in Louisa, Virginia and from there took a Greyhound bus accross the country to Seattle.

After arriving I moved into one of the three Osho houses in the city. There were several of his disciples in the house. His picture was displayed in several location and one of the sanyasas had collected over twenty or thirty of his books. But their behavior was not harmonious and there was constant tension and disagreements.

I thought they must be neurotic the way they kept finding things wrong around them blaming each other for trifles and insignificant things. 

After his transition into spiritual life I had a dream where Osho told me directly and clearly,  “I want you to be my successor. You can lead my devotees by example. You are high caliber.”

I took this as a great and unexpected honor and I told him so but I declined with mixed feelings and some inner turmoil because I felt that it was too much responsibility for me at the time. I was living free and easy and the issues of the so-called Sanyasas (worldly renunciates) had no appeal for me to address, bring about healing or sort out. Many of them had lived on the farm in Oregon, called Rajneeshpuram a spiritual community devoted to Osho's teachings with more than 7000 members and when it collapsed (due to illegal and bogus activities) many moved up the road and settled in Seattle.

At the time I was doing healing work and chakra balancing, breathwork, emotional de-armoring and restoring inner harmony of the centers but always one-on-one and not in groups.  

He said that he understood and would seek out other possible candidates. He never contacted me again after that. His controversial legacy lives on. Osho left this world for the world of spirit in January, 1990. He was in Puna, India at the time of his death.

• Osho: "Life and death are not separate events but are happening simultaneously. The act of breathing in is life, and the act of breathing out is death, so you are dying every moment you live. Death is not an enemy but a necessary friend for life to exist. It is a constant process, not a sudden event. To live fully, you must "die" to the past and the known with each moment to be available to the unknown and (the intensity of) the new."

• "A sannyas that withdraws from life turns into a bondage; a prison. And ultimate freedom is the very soul of sannyas. For me, sannyas does not accept any limitations, inhibitions, regimentation or discipline. For me, sannyas is the flowering of man′s ultimate freedom, rooted in his intelligence, his wisdom."

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“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill it, the more it will arise; you are simply feeding the desire when you think you are fulfilling it.”

“Only one thing is real wealth and that is self-knowledge, because it cannot be destroyed.”

“And all those who have known, they insist: “Know thyself!” Buddha, Jesus, Socrates, they go on insisting, “Know thyself!” The whole insistence of religion is to know thyself.”

“The universe was not created in time and finished, it is created each moment; it is being created each moment because it is God’s own being.”

“Knowing cannot go back; once achieved, it becomes part of you. It is not something you possess—it becomes your being and you cannot unknow it.”

“You are always trembling because you are making your signature on water—before you have completed it, it is gone. Your anxiety is because you are concerned with the realm of death and you have not looked towards life. And on each bed two are sleeping—the other is just a witness.”

“Why does consciousness fortify you?—because the more conscious you become, the more you know you cannot die, there is no death.”

― Osho, The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus

Osho talks Smoking and Drinking

Osho on Prayer and Meditation

• “Self-knowledge is the most difficult thing—not because it is difficult, but because you are scared to know about (see into) yourself. Consciously you may think, ”I would like to know myself (intimately and deeply), but the unconscious which is bigger, stronger, more powerful than the conscious, you will avoid self-knowledge. Why are you afraid? If you try to escape you will only find more fear, more anxiety, more inner turmoil. Fear is there, so you do not look at (or into) yourself.”

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