Quotes From "Awareness: The Key To Living In Balance" By Osho

Misery is a state of unconciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling -- so we are continuously contradicting ourselves each moment. Action goes in one direction, thinking goes in another, feeling is somewhere else. We go on falling apart, we become more and more fragmented. There are only two ways out of it. They can become meditators - alert, aware, conscious.. that's an arduous thing. It needs guts. Or the cheaper way is to find something that can make you even more unconcious thank you are, so you cannot feel the misery, like drugs and alcohol, sometimes even religion.. Osho

You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows, but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried, not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort. Osho

And all are asleep, so all are foolish. Don't feel offended. Thefacts have to be stated as they are. You function in sleep; that's why you go on stumbling, you go on doing things you don't want to do, you go on doing things you have decided not to do. You go on doing things you know are not right to do, and you don't do things that you know are right. How is this possible? Why can't you walk straight? Why do you go on getting trapped into bypaths? Why do you go on going astray? This is what is happening. Watch your life--everything that you go on demanding is so confused and so confusiing. You are not alert. You can't see, you can't heart-- certainly you have ears so you can hear, but there is nobody inside to understand it. Certainly you have eyes so you can see, but there is nobody present inside. So your eyes go on seeing and your ears go on listening, but nothing is understood. And on each step you stumble, on each step you commit something wrong. And still you go on believing that you are aware. . Osho

The first step in awareness is to be watchful of your body. Slowly, slowly one becomes alert about each gesture, each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear. Your body becomes more relaxed, your body becomes more attuned, a deep peace starts prevailing even in your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body. Osho

Mind is basically the beginning of madness. And if you are too much in it, it will drive you mad. Mind has no certainity about anything. If you are betweeen two polarities of the mind, in a limbo--always to do or not to do, you will go crazy. You are crazy! Before it happens, jump out and have a look from outside at the mind. Mind is basically indecisive and awareness is basically decisive. So any act of awareness is total, full without repentance. . Osho

Man wants to make certain about the future, about tommorow--which cannot be done. Let it sink as deeply in your heart as possible, it cannot be done. Don't waste your present moment trying to make the future certain. The future is uncertainity that is the very quality of the future. One can do only one thing: Be alert and wait. Osho

Acts don't mean anything. Acts do not matter--you, your awareness, your being conscious, mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern. Osho

Unconcious makes you interested in other--things, people, but it is always the others. Unconciousness keeps you you completely in the darknesss; your eyes go on being focused on others. It creates a kind of exteriority, it makes you extroverts. Conciousness creates interiority. It makes you introverts; it takes you inward, deeper and deeper. Osho

And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy, you never look deep, you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover. Osho

We always live in the tommorow, which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which comes always is today, and we go on sacrificing today for tommorow, which is nowhere. The mind goes on thinking of the past, which you have destroyed, which you have sacrificed for something that has not come. And then it goes on postponing for further tommorows. Osho

Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it. Osho

I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life, in love, in meditation, in the beauties of the world, in the ecstasy of existence--rejoice in everything! " Transform the mundane into the sacred. Transform this shore ino the other shore, transform the earth into paradise. And then indirectly a certain renunciation starts happening. But that happens, you don't do it. It is not a doing, it is a happening. Osho

Once you have known awareness, nothing is worth it-- you have known the greatest bliss of life. Then, suddenly, many things simply drop; they become stupid, become foolish. The motivation is not there, the desire is not there, the dreams have fallen. Osho

They happen only when you are distant, aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings. Osho