Osho in Albania – Never Born, Never Died | The Spirit of Stillness
Kush është Osho? Një udhëheqës shpirtëror që sfidoi mendjen njerëzore me qartësi, qetësi dhe provokim. Zbulo vizionin e tij për vetëdijen.
Osho – Trust yourself, there is no need to struggle; we are all part of existence. We are born like waves in the ocean of the universe and again we merge back into this ocean. For a moment we savor the wind and the sunlight, and then we disappear. Therefore, live with endless joy and die with endless joy. For this, I invite you loudly to have courage and step into the sunlight, to leave the dark cave of time, old habits, and your very, very long sleep. And when one day you are awake, your life will be a blessing.
Osho spent thousands and thousands of hours speaking like no one else in human history, analyzing the human mind in all its forms: the mind as psychology, as emotion, as body/mind, as morality, as history, as belief, as religion, as social and political evolution. He analyzed it and then left it behind in the fundamental journey toward transcendence. There are no fixed points in Osho’s vision, only guidance in understanding oneself: 'I want to tell you that science is the supreme value, and there are two kinds of science: an objective science that deals with the outer world, and a subjective science that deals with the inner world, which until now has been called by the name religion. But it’s better not to call it that and instead divide science into two parts—objective and subjective—and the union of the two into one makes science the supreme value; nothing is higher than this
Osho is like a gentle breeze that sweeps across the planet, tickling anyone who is spiritually dead to bring them back to life. Jesus had his parables, Buddha his sutras, and Muhammad his Arabian night fantasies, while Osho has something suited for a race blinded by fear, ignorance, and superstition: Osho has the cosmic comedy. What he aims to do is destroy our illusions, heal our addictions, and reveal the self-limiting and often tragic absurdity of taking life too seriously.
Osho, who are you? — A simple human being, just like you. Not exactly the same, you are asleep, but that’s not a big difference. I too was once asleep, and one day you will awaken. You can awaken in this very moment; no one is stopping you, so the difference is insignificant.
Beloved, I am an invitation for all those who seek and carry a deep impatience in their hearts to find the path to their true home. I am an answer to the question that forms the essence of each one, yet no one manages to formulate it—a question that is more of an inquiry than a question, more of a thirst than a search of the mind or of words; a thirst that everyone feels in every cell and fiber of their being, yet cannot find a way to put into words or to pose as a question. I am an answer to that question you cannot formulate and do not expect to have an answer. When I say I am the answer, I do not mean that I can give it to you… but if you are ready, you may receive the answer. I am simply like a well, ready for you to lower your bucket and draw the water that suits you. I have the water, but it cannot reach you unless you make an effort for yourself. Only you can come to me.
It is a strange invitation. I will take you on a long journey that will end exactly where you already are. You will need to take many steps along many paths to reach your own self, because you have strayed far from it. You have completely forgotten the way back. I am here to remind you of the lost home. As a person, I do not exist. As a person, I merely appear. I exist as a presence. From the day I came to know my own self, the person disappeared. Only a presence exists—a presence full of life that can quench your thirst and fulfill your long-awaited expectation.
In short, I can say that I am an invitation—certainly only for those who have waited long in their hearts in search of themselves—a powerful inner urging that makes everything else lose its meaning except the finding of oneself. Until it becomes a priority for you, a matter so important that, if necessary, you could lose everything else, yet never separate from it… There are thousands of desires, but regarding this waiting, only one calls: to return to your innocence again, to find your reality. And when you find it, you will have found everything that truly has value—happiness, truth, joy. Jesus said, 'If you have eyes to see, see. If you have ears to hear, hear.' Of course, he was not speaking to the blind and the deaf. He was speaking to people like you. Perhaps he was speaking to you specifically, because you are not young in this world. You are as ancient as all of existence.
You have always been here. You may have met many masters, you may have been close to many Buddhas, but you were too busy with your own affairs. You were not aware of the waiting that resided within you. I am an effort to awaken what sleeps inside you, to stir it. The fire is there, but its flame is very weak because you have never cared for it. My invitation is to ignite the fire within you, and until you discover a life illuminated by the flame that burns, everything you know will be merely an illusion. You are accumulating knowledge only to forget that true knowing is missing. But no matter how much you gather, it cannot replace the recognition of yourself. By knowing yourself, suddenly all darkness and separation from the wholeness of existence vanish. I am an invitation for you to dive boldly into the ocean of life. Lose yourself, because this is the only way to find yourself.
Osho on Awareness
We search, but our search is unconscious; we seek in darkness without knowing what to look for or where, who we are, or where we are going. Human beings are the root of an extraordinary potential. Humans are born to be free, not to be slaves, yet very few are those who actualize this potential, and even rarer are those who transform their lives and realize that for which they were born.
In fact, only humans can be lost, because only they have consciousness—and consciousness has two possibilities. It can make you a lonely island in the middle of the ocean, or it can make you an infinite ocean. It can create limits for you, or it can grant you freedom. The art of setting the mind aside is the secret of life, because only then does the full beauty of existence unfold before you; only then do you have no limits, and both the stars and the sky belong to you.
Without freedom, life has no meaning. But when I speak of freedom, I am not talking about political, social, or economic freedom. By freedom, I mean freedom from time, freedom from the mind, freedom from desires. The moment the mind ceases to exist, that is when you truly exist. The mind is the barrier between you and reality, and because of this barrier, you are forced to live in a dark cell where no sunlight enters and no ray of joy reaches you. You have become a drop of water when you could be an ocean. That is why you are not happy—you are imprisoned. Except for humans, all of existence is happy. Only humans have fallen out of this harmony and have become lost.
But what is happening to humans today? In the name of freedom, they are becoming more and more enslaved. A person must use the mind, not be used by it. There is something completely wrong inside humans… Just look around, and you see a state of total madness that is called normality. But a normal world should be a world filled with joy, love, and fearlessness—where people enjoy every beautiful thing in life without smiling to others outwardly while cursing them inwardly. We pretend to be friends, but inside, we are all enemies—and this is madness. The whole society lives in an atmosphere of schizophrenia, and this shows that humans, until now, have failed. The mind is slavery; the heart is freedom.