Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Get ready and claim your inheritance

BELOVED OSHO,

ANYONE WHO GIVES UP THE TRANSCENDENT FOR THE MUNDANE, IN

ANY OF ITS MYRIAD FORMS, IS A MORTAL. A BUDDHA IS SOMEONE

WHO FINDS FREEDOM IN GOOD FORTUNE AND BAD. SUCH IS HIS

POWER, KARMA CAN’T HOLD HIM. NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF

KARMA, A BUDDHA TRANSFORMS IT. HEAVEN AND HELL ARE

NOTHING TO HIM. …IF YOU’RE NOT SURE, DON’T ACT. ONCE YOU

ACT, YOU WANDER THROUGH BIRTH AND DEATH AND REGRET

HAVING NO REFUGE ….. TO UNDERSTAND THIS MIND, YOU HAVE TO

ACT WITHOUT ACTING. ONLY THEN WILL YOU SEE THINGS FROM A

TATHAGATA’S PERSPECTIVE.

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Suchness is our self-nature

BELOVED OSHO,

THE BUDDHA SAID PEOPLE ARE DELUDED. THIS IS WHY WHEN THEY

ACT THEY FALL INTO THE RIVER OF ENDLESS REBIRTH. AND TRYING TO

GET OUT, THEY ONLY SINK DEEPER. AND ALL BECAUSE THEY DON’T

SEE THEIR NATURE. IF PEOPLE WEREN’T DELUDED, WHY ELSE WOULD

THEY ASK ABOUT SOMETHING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM? NOT ONE OF

THEM UNDERSTANDS THE MOVEMENT OF HIS OWN HANDS AND FEET.

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Understanding comes in mid-sentence

BELOVED OSHO,

IF YOU ENVISION A BUDDHA, A DHARMA OR A BODHISATTVA AND

CONCEIVE RESPECT FOR THEM, YOU RELEGATE YOURSELF TO THE

REALM OF MORTALS. IF YOU SEEK DIRECT UNDERSTANDING, DON’T

HOLD ONTO ANY APPEARANCE WHATSOEVER, AND YOU’LL SUCCEED.

I HAVE NO OTHER ADVICE. …DON’T CLING TO APPEARANCES, AND

YOU’LL BE OF ONE MIND WITH THE BUDDHA.

BUT WHY SHOULDN’T WE WORSHIP BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS?

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense

BELOVED OSHO,

BUT SUPPOSE I DON’T SEE MY NATURE, CAN’T I STILL ATTAIN

ENLIGHTENMENT BY INVOKING BUDDHAS, RECITING SUTRAS, MAKING

OFFERINGS, OBSERVING PRECEPTS, PRACTICING DEVOTIONS, OR DOING

GOOD WORKS?

NO, YOU CAN’T.

AND WHY NOT?

IF YOU ATTAIN ANYTHING AT ALL IT’S CONDITIONAL, IT’S KARMIC. IT

RESULTS IN RETRIBUTION. IT TURNS THE WHEEL. AND AS LONG AS

YOU’RE SUBJECT TO BIRTH AND DEATH, YOU’LL NEVER ATTAIN

ENLIGHTENMENT. TO ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT YOU HAVE TO SEE

YOUR NATURE. UNLESS YOU SEE YOUR NATURE, ALL THIS TALK ABOUT

CAUSE AND EFFECT IS NONSENSE. BUDDHAS DON’T PRACTICE

NONSENSE. A BUDDHA IS FREE OF KARMA, FREE OF CAUSE AND

EFFECT. TO SAY HE ATTAINS ANYTHING AT ALL IS TO SLANDER A

BUDDHA. WHAT COULD HE POSSIBLY ATTAIN? EVEN FOCUSING ON A

MIND, A POWER, AN UNDERSTANDING OR A VIEW IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A

BUDDHA. A BUDDHA ISN’T ONE-SIDED. THE NATURE OF HIS MIND IS

BASICALLY EMPTY, NEITHER PURE NOR IMPURE. HE’S FREE OF

PRACTICE AND REALIZATION. HE’S FREE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Beyond this nature there’s no Buddha

BELOVED OSHO,

IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND BY YOURSELF, YOU’LL HAVE TO FIND A

TEACHER TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF LIFE AND DEATH. BUT UNLESS

HE SEES HIS NATURE, SUCH A PERSON ISN’T A TEACHER. EVEN IF HE

CAN RECITE THE TWELVEFOLD CANON, HE CAN’T ESCAPE THE WHEEL

OF BIRTH AND DEATH. HE SUFFERS IN THE THREE REALMS WITHOUT

HOPE OF RELEASE.

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

A pilgrimage to your own being

BELOVED OSHO,

BODHIDHARMA’S BLOODSTREAM SERMON

EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS IN THE THREE REALMS LEADS BACK TO

THE MIND. HENCE, BUDDHAS OF THE PAST AND FUTURE TEACH MIND

TO MIND WITHOUT BOTHERING ABOUT DEFINITIONS.

BUT IF THEY DON’T DEFINE IT, WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY MIND?

YOU ASK. THAT’S YOUR MIND. I ANSWER. THAT’S MY MIND. IF I HAD NO

Osho – Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

To seek nothing is bliss

BELOVED OSHO,

BODHIDHARMA’S OUTLINE OF PRACTICE

MANY ROADS LEAD TO THE PATH, BUT BASICALLY THERE ARE ONLY

TWO: REASON AND PRACTICE. TO ENTER BY REASON MEANS TO

REALIZE THE ESSENCE THROUGH INSTRUCTION AND TO BELIEVE THAT

ALL LIVING THINGS SHARE THE SAME TRUE NATURE, WHICH ISN’T

APPARENT BECAUSE IT’S SHROUDED BY SENSATION AND DELUSION.

Osho Bodhidharma The Greatest Zen Master

Bodhidharma is saying: IF YOU ATTAIN ANYTHING AT ALL, IT’S CONDITIONAL, IT’S KARMIC. IT RESULTS IN RETRIBUTION. IT TURNS THE WHEEL. AND AS LONG AS YOU’RE SUBJECT TO BIRTH AND DEATH, YOU’LL NEVER ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT. Enlightenment has not to be an effect of some cause, not an effect of some practice, not an effect of some conditions that you have fulfilled. It has not to be an attainment, but only a discovery.

It is already there.

Osho – Beyond Psychology

Watchfulness is the greatest magic

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHEN I GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, I AM SWEPT AWAY BY SUCH INCREDIBLY
SURREAL DREAMS THAT I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING SURPRISED I AM IN
MY SAME BED.

OSHO,

IS THERE A WAY TO CHANNEL THIS PHENOMENAL ENERGY THAT
GOES INTO DREAMING AT NIGHT, INTO WATCHFULNESS?

The phenomenon of dreaming and watchfulness are totally different things. Just try one thing: every night, going to sleep, while you are just half awake, half asleep, slowly going deeper into sleep, repeat to yourself, “I will be able to remember that it is a dream.”

Osho – Beyond Psychology

Logic should serve love

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU TOLD A STORY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE
TO UNDERSTAND:

A SEEKER IS LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS; HE IS TIRED AND THIRSTY. IT IS
NIGHT AND HE SEES A SILVER BOWL WITH CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER
WHICH HE DRINKS AND THEN SLEEPS. IN THE MORNING LIGHT HE SEES
THAT THE BOWL WAS IN FACT A DIRTY OLD SKULL.

HE LAUGHED AND BECAME ENLIGHTENED.

WHAT DID HE SEE, OSHO?