奧修談瑜伽的節錄
奧修談瑜伽的節錄瑜伽只是一種技巧 技巧來自於頭腦,宗教性的技巧也是來自於頭腦‑‑‑‑瑜伽、咒語、冥想圖騰。瑜伽指的是用身體的姿勢幫助你深入自己,這些姿勢是頭腦所創造出來的,它們是宗教性的技巧。那是為何瑜伽不屬於任何特別宗教的一部分。它們可以是基督教瑜伽、印度教瑜伽、完全可以有佛教瑜伽、耆那教瑜伽‑‑‑‑瑜伽可以和各類的宗教一樣多。瑜伽只是一種技巧。沒有機器是印度教,沒有機器是伊斯蘭教。你不會到市集上去買一輛伊斯蘭教的車或印度教的車。機器只是機器。瑜伽是一個技巧,咒語是一個技巧;它是頭腦所創造的。事實上,咒語(mantra)和頭腦(mind)來自相同的字根------兩者都是來自梵文的”人”這個字。一個分支變成頭腦,另一個分支變成咒語-二者都是頭腦的一部份。。 Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1, Talk #9 瑜伽存在的基本元素是聲音 如同物理學家所認為,萬事萬物不過是由電子所組成,電子的能量。瑜伽認為萬物皆由聲音電子所組成。對瑜伽而言,存在的基本元素是聲音,因為生命不過是一種震動。生命不過是一種寧靜的表達。我們來自於寧靜,又消失於寧靜之中。寧靜、空間、空無、不存在,是你內在的核心、輪之中樞。除非你來到那個寧靜、來到除了你純淨存在之外別無它物的空間,否則是無法得到解脫的。這是瑜伽的架構。 他們將你的存在分成四個層面。我對你們說的,是最後一層。瑜伽稱之為艾特味克汗(itvaikhari),這個字是指開花結果。但是在對你說之前,在我說出某事之前,它如同一種感覺、一種經驗對我呈現,那是第三階段。瑜伽稱之為伊特瑪德亞瑪(itmadhyama),"中間"。但某件事於內在被經驗之前,它移動的形式如同種子。 你通常無法經驗到它,除非你非常深入靜心,除非你完全平靜。甚至未發芽之前,種子內的攪動都可以被察覺,它非常微細,瑜珈稱為帕須揚提(pashyanti),這個字的意思是“回頭看“,看到源頭。超乎此外的,是你的根本存在出自於萬物的升起。稱之為帕拉(para),意思是“超凡的“ Osho, Yoga: The Path to Liberation, Talk #9 瑜伽總是和派坦加利聯想在一起 事實上,瑜伽不是派坦加利發明的。瑜伽更古老。早在派坦加利之前好幾世紀,它已經在那兒。他不是發現者,但他幾乎變成發現者和建立者,只因為他稀有的人格特質。在他之前,很多人都已做過,幾乎每件事情都已經被知道。但是瑜伽在等待一個派坦加利。突然之間,當派坦加利談論它,每件事落入秩序,他成了創立者。他不是創立者,但他的人格是一個如此對立的組合,他從自身理解到無法理解的元素,他變成了創立者-幾乎是創立者。現在瑜伽總是和派坦加利聯想在一起。 Osho, The Mystery Beyond Mind, Talk #5 瑜伽試著一步一步地穿透內在奧秘 整個瑜伽是一種方法學:如何揭露那幽微隱藏的;如何打開你內在的門;如何進入如你所是的殿堂;如何發現你自己。你在那兒,從最初你就在那裡,但你從未發現。無時無刻你攜帶著這個寶藏,隨著每次氣息的進出,寶藏就在那裡。你或許沒有覺察到,但你從未錯過它。 你或許完全忘記,但你從未失去它。你或許已完全忘記,但無法失去它-----因為你即是它。所以唯一的問題是:如何發現它。它被遮蔽,被好幾層的無知所遮蔽。瑜伽試著一步一步,慢慢地,穿透這內在的奧秘。瑜珈用八個步驟完成這個發現。開始的步驟稱為巴亥瑞瑜珈(bahirang yoga ),外在的瑜伽。亞姆(Yam)、尼亞姆( niyam)、阿桑( asan)、迪普納亞姆(pranayam)、普雷亞特 (pratyahar ),這五個步驟被認為是外在的瑜珈。接下來三種,最後三種----- 迪亞那拉(dharana)迪陽( dhyan) 三摩地(samadhi ) -----被認為是安塔瑞(antarang),內在的瑜伽。 Osho, The Essence of Yoga, Talk #9 瑜伽是努力,譚崔是不努力 瑜伽是努力,譚崔是不努力。帶著努力,帶著你微弱的能量、微弱的自我與整體抗爭。那得花好幾百萬世。這也似乎沒有可能因此而成道。與整體對抗是愚蠢的,你只是一部分。猶如波浪對抗海洋,葉子對抗樹木,或是你的手對抗你的身體。你在對抗誰呢?瑜伽是努力、密集的努力。瑜伽是對抗河流的方式、逆流而上。於是,凡是自然的,瑜伽捨棄;凡是不自然的,瑜伽志在取得。瑜伽是一種不自然的方式,同河流抗爭,逆流而上。當然,它富有挑戰性,也許享受著。但是誰在享受這種挑戰呢?------是你的自我。 Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Talk #6 瑜伽能再次教導你活在當下 無論你在何處,在那個片刻,享受不問未來。頭腦不想著未來,就在當下這個片刻,現在這個片刻,你很滿足,那就無需到任何地方。無論你身在何處,就在那個點上,你掉進大海,你與宇宙合一。但是頭腦對當下毫無興趣,它的興趣是在未來的某處、某些結果上。所以這個發問的問題是,某種程度來說,關於這樣一個頭腦----比起西方頭腦,稱它為現代頭腦更好----現代的頭腦不斷地被未來、被結果所困,而不在當下。 這樣的頭腦如何被授予瑜伽?這個頭腦可以被教導瑜伽,因為這種未來導向無法帶你到任何地方。而這種未來導向,正對現代頭腦創造一種接連不斷的悲慘,我們已經創造一個地獄----我們已經對創造出太多。現在,若非人從地球消失,就是他必須蛻變自身;若非人類完全消滅,因為這個地獄無法再繼續了,就是我們必須經歷蛻變。因此瑜伽對現代頭腦意義深遠,因為瑜伽可以拯救。他可以再次教你如何活在當下、如何忘記過去及未來、如何以如此的強度停留在當下這一刻,讓此刻變得無時間性。這個瞬間成為永恆。 Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #8 瑜伽是更高層次的健康 瑜伽是給那些完全健康,就醫療科學所認定的正常人。他們沒有精神分裂、沒有發瘋、沒有精神官能症,他們是身心健全的人,沒有特別的病症。而他們知道無論所謂的正常或健康都是無用的,還需要更多、更好、更神聖、更完整的東西。治療是針對生病的人,治療可以幫助你來到瑜伽,但瑜伽並不是一種療法。瑜伽是一種更高層次的健康,一種不同類型的存在和完整。治療最多只能為你調整。佛洛伊德說:我們不能再做更多了。我們可以將你調整為社會上正常的人 – 但如果這個社會本身是病態的,又會如何呢?而它的確是。社會本身是生病的。治療可以讓你回歸正常適應社會,但社會本身是有病的 Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 瑜伽不是一種療法 門徒是指一個追尋者,不是群眾,是一個嘗試歸於中心並且結晶化–至少試著、努力著,真誠地努力成為一個個體,能感覺他的自性,成為自己的主人。整個瑜伽的紀律是個努力讓你成為自己主人。而你現在只是眾多欲望的奴隸,眾多主人在那裡,而你只是奴隸---被拉往各個方向。現在瑜伽的記律。瑜伽是一種紀律。它從你這方來改變自已的努力。還有很多其它事情的需要瞭解。 瑜伽不是一種療法。現在西方,很多心理療法已經很普及,很多西方的心理學者認為瑜伽也是一種療法。不是的,它是一種紀律。有甚麼不同? 不同之處在於:如果你生病了,治療是需要的,如果你患病,治療是需要的;當你是健康的,記律是需要的。真的,只有當你是健康的,記律才有幫助。它無用於患病的狀況下。 Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 瑜伽的記律是指瑜伽想要在你身上創造一個結晶化的中心 倘若那一刻來到,當你對所有的方向感到困惑、所有的道路已經消失,未來是黑暗的,所有的欲望都變得苦澀,透過每個熟知的欲望只得到失望。所有希望和夢想的作為都已經停止:現在瑜伽的記律。這個"現在"或許尚未到來,然後我持續談論瑜伽,你也不會去聽。唯有當這個片刻出現在你裡面,你才聽得進去。你真的不滿足嗎?每個人都會回答:是的。但是那個不滿足並不是真的。你對這個不滿足,也許對那個也不滿足,但你並不是完全的不滿足。你還抱著希望。過去的期望無法令你滿足,而你還在希求未來。你的不滿足並不全然:你仍然渴望從某處找到滿足,從某處找到喜悅。 偶爾你感覺毫無希望,但那不是真的。你感覺無望是因為特定的期望沒有被達成。特定的期望沒了---但期望仍然在那兒,期望並沒有遠離你。你仍然抱著期望。你對這個期望、那個期望不滿意,但你並沒有對期望本身不滿意。如果你對期望本身感到失望,那麼那個片刻已經到來,你將能夠進入瑜珈。然後這種進入並非進入一種智力上的、理論上的現象,它是一種進入記律的入口。什麼是記律?記律是只在創造出一種秩序, 因為你是一團混亂、你完全失序。 戈齊福曾經說過---戈齊福很多方法像派坦加利,他也嘗試將宗教的核心成為科學。戈齊福說:你不是個體,你是群眾,甚至當你說我的時候,也沒有任何我在那裡。有很多我在你裡面,很多自我。早上一個,下午另一個,晚上第三個我,但你從未覺察這種混亂----因為誰會對它覺知?沒有一個中心可以變得覺知,瑜伽的記律是指:瑜伽想要在你身上創造一個結晶化的中心。 Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 對瑜伽而言完全的挫折是需要的 所以,一個人能進入瑜伽,或是瑜伽的路途,只有當他完全對自己的頭腦感到挫折時才有可能。如果你仍然希望透過頭腦得到某些東西,瑜伽就不適合你。完全的挫折是需要的-----它揭露了頭腦所投射的是無用的,頭腦所希望的了無意義,它無法將你帶到任何地方。它只是關閉你的眼睛,使你中毒,它從不允許真相向你揭露,它保護你反抗真相。你的頭腦是一種毒品,它反抗那本來所是的。所以除非你對頭腦、對你存在的方式、對你截至目前為止的生存之路感到完全挫折,如果你可以無條件的拋棄它,你才能夠進入這條道路。 因此很多人感興趣,但很少人進入,因為你的興趣或許只在源於頭腦。你也許希望現在,透過瑜伽,你可以得到某些東西,但是想要達成的動機在那裡------透過瑜伽,你或許變得完美,你或許達到完美本性的極樂狀態,你或許與婆羅門合一,你或許達到存在、意識、法喜(satchitananda)的狀態。這也許是你對瑜伽感興趣的原因。如果這是原因,那麼你和瑜伽之間並沒有交集。那麼你是完全地違反它,走向一個完全相反的向度上。。 Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 瑜伽道途非常困難 但是瑜伽的途徑是非常困難的。它就是不可能,幾乎不可能,透過瑜伽會讓你達到完美的自我。它意味著你變成整個宇宙的中心。這個道途非常遙遠、艱難,而真的,它從未到達終點。因此,有些瑜伽道途的跟隨者,在某些世,他們轉向譚崔。瑜伽在理智上是可以理解的,存在上則不可能。如果它是有可能的,你也會透過瑜伽到達,但通常它從未發生。即使發生,也非常稀有,馬哈維亞只有一個。 有時候數百年過去了,然後有一個像馬哈維亞的人透過瑜伽自我實現。但是他是稀有的,一個例外,他打破規則。但是瑜伽比譚崔更具吸引力。譚崔是容易、自然的,透過譚崔,你可以很自然很容易、毫不費力地達成。因為如此,譚崔從未如此吸引你,為甚麼?任何吸引你的事也吸引你的自我。凡是你感覺滿足你自我的將更加吸引你。你緊緊抓住自我,因此瑜伽非常吸引你。 Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk #32 身體首先需要經過淨化 哈達瑜珈並沒有將此列入考慮之內,因為早期,特別是在印度,被壓抑的頭腦和壓抑的態度並不常見。當時,印度是最不壓抑的國家之一。而現在,已今非昔比。在西方,基督教已造成很多壓抑,每個人內在都是殘廢的。這些身體上的壓抑必須先釋放,否則如果你從一個不合適、不自然的身體開始,會製造出很多不需要的問題。 這是為何現在要介紹哈達瑜珈完全不知道的事情:身體首先需要先經過淨化。要帶進這種淨化,一種全新的科學是需要的,因為壓抑是一種新的產物。例如,如果你有很多性壓抑,亢達里尼能量卡住了,無法往上移。令亢達里尼能量可以往上移的整個結構卡住了,被壓抑的性能量卡住。或者,如果你過於耽溺於性,你沒有多餘的能量可以往上移動。有兩個問題:若非你有一個壓抑的頭腦導致能量卡住,便是過於耽溺於性,而沒有多餘的能量在你內移動。 你不是在一種自然狀態,你的能量不平衡,它不是一種自然的流動,非壓抑即耽溺。有平衡的能量之下,哈達瑜珈可以很容易地被使用,否則會製造出問題。另一件事是所有哈達瑜珈的技巧都是從道場發展出來的,它們是道場的技巧,給那些想要一天二十四小時,不做任何事、只專心修煉的人用的。然後,你也是一樣,必須用很長的時間,年復一年地修練。如果用哈達瑜珈教一個不專心融入其中的人-----他只來練哈達瑜珈一兩次,或甚至一天只練一個小時,其它二十三個小時花在完全不同的世界、背道而馳的工作上----那是沒有太大幫助的。每天你所得到的也會失去。道場的方式是最佳修煉之道。 Osho, The Eternal Quest, Talk #4 |
Yoga Is Just a Technology
“Technology comes from the mind, and religious technology also comes from the mind – yoga, mantra, yantra. Yoga means body postures, which can help you to go deep inside yourself; they are created by the mind. That is religious technology. That’s why Yoga is not part of any particular religion. There can be Christian yoga, there can be Hindu yoga, there is certainly Buddhist yoga, Jaina yoga – there can be as many yogas as there are religions. Yoga is just a technology. No machine is Hindu; no machine is Mohammedan. You don’t go into the marketplace to purchase a Mohammedan car or a Hindu car. Machines are simply machines. Yoga is technology. Mantra is technology; it is created by the mind. In fact, mantra comes from the same root as mind – both come from the Sanskrit word man. One branch becomes mind, another branch becomes mantra – both are part of the mind.” Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1, Talk #9 The Basic Element of Existence for Yoga Is Sound “Just as physicists think that the whole consists of nothing but electrons, electric energy, yoga thinks that the whole consists of nothing but sound electrons. The basic element of existence for yoga is sound because life is nothing but a vibration. Life is nothing but an expression of silence. Out of silence we come and into silence we dissolve again. Silence, space, nothingness, nonbeing, is your innermost core, the hub of the wheel. Unless you come to that silence, to that space where nothing else remains except your pure being, liberation is not attained. This is the yoga framework. “They divide your being into four layers. I am speaking to you; this is the last layer. Yoga calls it vaikhari; the word means ‘fruition’, flowering. But before I speak to you, before I utter something, it becomes manifest to me as a feeling, as an experience; that is the third stage. Yoga calls it madhyama, ‘the middle’. But before something is experienced inside, it moves in a seed form. “You cannot experience this ordinarily unless you are very meditative, unless you have become so totally calm that even a stirring in the seed which has not sprouted yet can be perceived; it is very subtle. Yoga calls that pashyanti; the word pashyanti means ‘looking back’, looking to the source. And beyond that is your fundamental being out of which everything arises. That is called para; para means ‘the transcendental’.” Osho, Yoga: The Path to Liberation, Talk #9 Yoga Will always Be Associated with Patanjali ”In fact, it was not he [Patanjali] who invented Yoga; Yoga is far more ancient. Yoga had been there for many centuries before Patanjali. He is not the discoverer, but he almost became the discoverer and founder just because of this rare combination of his personality. Many people had worked before him and almost everything was known, but Yoga was waiting for a Patanjali. And suddenly, when Patanjali spoke about it, everything fell in line and he became the founder. He was not the founder, but his personality is such a combination of opposites, he comprehends in himself such incomprehensible elements, he became the founder – almost the founder. Now Yoga will always be associated with Patanjali.” Osho, The Mystery Beyond Mind, Talk #5 Yoga Tries Step by Step to Penetrate the Inner Mystery “The whole yoga is a methodology: how to uncover it which is so hidden, how to open the doors within yourself, how to enter the temple that you are, how to discover yourself. You are there, you have been there from the very beginning, but you have not discovered it. The treasure is carried by you every moment. Every breath you take in or out, the treasure is there. You may not be aware, but you have never missed it. “You may be completely oblivious, but you have never lost it. You may have forgotten it completely, but there is no way to lose it – because you are it. So the only question is: how to discover it. It is covered; many layers of ignorance cover it. Yoga tries step by step, slowly, to penetrate the inner mystery. In eight steps yoga completes the discovery. The beginning steps are called bahirang yoga, the yoga of the outside. Yam, niyam, asan, pranayam, pratyahar these five steps are known as the yoga of the outside. The following three, the last three – dharana, dhyan, samadhi – are known as antarang, the yoga of the inside.” Osho, The Essence of Yoga, Talk #9 Yoga Is Effort, Tantra Is Effortlessness “Yoga is effort; Tantra is effortlessness. With effort, with your tiny energy, and your tiny ego, you fight with the whole. It will take millions of lives. Then too it doesn’t seem possible that you will ever become enlightened. Fighting with the whole is stupid; you are just a part. It is as if a wave is fighting with the ocean, a leaf is fighting with the tree, or your own hand fighting with your body. With whom are you fighting? Yoga is effort, intense effort. And Yoga is a way to fight the current, to move against the current. So whatsoever is natural, Yoga has to drop; and whatsoever is unnatural, Yoga has to strive for. Yoga is the unnatural way: fight with the river and move against the current. Of course, there is challenge and the challenge may be enjoyed. But who enjoys the challenge? – your ego does.” Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Talk #6 Yoga Can Teach You again how to Be Here and Now “Wherever you are, in that moment, enjoy not asking for the future. No futuring in the mind, just the present moment, the nowness of the moment, and you are satisfied. Then there is no need to go anywhere. Wherever you are, from that very point you will drop into the ocean, you will become one with the cosmos. But the mind is not interested in here and now. The mind is interested somewhere in the future, in some results. So the question is, in a way, relevant for such a mind – it will be better to call it the modern mind rather than Western – the modern mind which is constantly obsessed with the future, with the result, not with the here and now. “How can this mind be taught Yoga? This mind can be taught Yoga because this future orientation is leading nowhere. And this future orientation is creating constant misery for the modern mind. We have created a hell – and we have created too much of it. Now either man will have to disappear from this planet Earth, or he will have to transform himself. Either humanity will have to die completely because this hell cannot be continued anymore, or we will have to go through a mutation. Hence, Yoga can become very meaningful and significant for the modern mind because Yoga can save. It can teach you again how to be here and now, how to forget past and how to forget future and how to remain in the present moment with such intensity that this moment becomes timeless. The very moment becomes eternity.” Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #8 Yoga Is for a Higher Order of Health “Yoga is for those who are completely healthy as far as medical science is concerned, normal. They are not schizophrenic, they are not mad, they are not neurotic. They are normal people, healthy people with no particular pathology. Still they become aware that whatsoever is called normality is futile, whatsoever is called health is of no use. Something more is needed, something greater is needed, something holier and whole is needed. Therapies are for ill people. Therapies can help you to come to Yoga, but Yoga is not a therapy. Yoga is for a higher order of health, a different order of health – a different type of being and wholeness. Therapy can, at the most, make you adjusted. Freud says we cannot do more. We can make you an adjusted, normal member of the society – but if the society itself is pathological, then? And it is! The society itself is ill. A therapy can make you normal in the sense that you are adjusted to the society, but the society itself is ill.” Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 Yoga Is not a Therapy “A disciple means a seeker who is not a crowd, who is trying to be centered and crystallized – at least trying, making efforts, sincere efforts to become individual, to feel his being, to become his own master. The whole discipline of Yoga is an effort to make you a master of yourself. As you are, you are just a slave of many, many desires. Many, many masters are there and you are just a slave – and pulled in many directions. Now the discipline of Yoga. Yoga is discipline. It is an effort on your part to change yourself. Many other things have to be understood. “Yoga is not a therapy. In the West many psychological therapies are now prevalent, and many Western psychologists think that Yoga is also a therapy. It is not! It is a discipline. And what is the difference? This is the difference: a therapy is needed if you are ill, a therapy is needed if you are diseased, a therapy is needed if you are pathological. A discipline is needed even when you are healthy. Really, only when you are healthy can a discipline then help. It is not for pathological cases.” Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 The Discipline of Yoga Means Yoga Wants to Create a Crystallized Center in You “If the moment has come when you feel that all directions have become confused, all roads have disappeared, the future is dark and every desire has become bitter and through every desire you have known only disappointment, all movement into hopes and dreams has ceased: Now the discipline of Yoga. This “now” may not have come. Then I may go on talking about Yoga but you will not listen. You can listen only if the moment is present in you. Are you really dissatisfied? Everybody will say yes, but that dissatisfaction is not real. You are dissatisfied with this, you may be dissatisfied with that, but you are not totally dissatisfied. You are still hoping. You are dissatisfied because of your past hopes but you are still hoping for the future. Your dissatisfaction is not total: you are still hankering for some satisfaction somewhere, for some gratification somewhere. “Sometimes you feel hopeless but that hopelessness is not true. You feel hopeless because certain hopes have not been achieved, certain hopes have fallen away – but hoping is still there, hoping has not fallen away. You will still hope. You are dissatisfied with this hope, that hope, but you are not dissatisfied with hope as such. If you are disappointed with hope as such the moment has come, and then you can enter Yoga. And then this entry will not be an entering into a mental, speculative phenomenon. This entry will be an entry into a discipline. What is discipline? Discipline means what creates an order within you. As you are you are a chaos. As you are you are totally disorderly. “Gurdjieff used to say – and Gurdjieff is in many ways like Patanjali, he was again trying to make the core of religion a science – Gurdjieff said that you are not one, you are a crowd; not even when you say “I”, is there any I. There are many I’s in you, many egos. In the morning one I, in the afternoon another I, in the evening a third I, but you never become aware of this mess – because who will become aware of it? There is not a center that can become aware. The discipline of Yoga means Yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you.” Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 For Yoga a total Frustration is Needed “So one can enter Yoga, or the path of Yoga, only when he is totally frustrated with his own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, Yoga is not for you. A total frustration is needed – the revelation that this mind which projects is futile, the mind that hopes is nonsense, it leads nowhere. It simply closes your eyes, it intoxicates you, it never allows reality to be revealed to you. It protects you against reality. Your mind is a drug. It is against that which is. So unless you are totally frustrated with your mind, with your way of being, with the way you have existed up to now, if you can drop it unconditionally, then you can enter on the path. “So many become interested but very few enter, because your interest may be just because of your mind. You may be hoping that now, through Yoga, you may gain something, but the achieving motive is there – that you may become perfect through Yoga, you may reach to the blissful state of perfect being, you may become one with the Brahman, you may achieve the satchitananda. This may be the cause of why you are interested in Yoga. If this is the cause then there can be no meeting between you and the path which is Yoga. Then you are totally against it, moving in a totally opposite dimension.” Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1 |
YOGA QUOTES FROM OSHO
Yoga is just a technique
Skills come from the mind, and religious skills also come from the mind---Yoga, mantras, meditation totems. Yoga refers to the use of body postures to help you penetrate into yourself. These postures are created by the mind. They are religious techniques. That is why yoga is not part of any particular religion. They can be Christian yoga, Hindu yoga, Buddhism yoga, and Jain yoga. Yoga can be as many as there are various religions. Yoga is just a technique. No machine is Hinduism, no machine is Islam. You will not go to the market to buy an Islamic car or a Hindu car. Machines are just machines. Yoga is a technique, mantra is a technique; it is created by the mind. In fact, mantra (mantra) and mind (mind) come from the same root-both are from the Sanskrit word "person". One branch becomes the mind, the other branch becomes a spell-both are part of the mind. .
Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1, Talk #9
The basic element of yoga is sound
As physicists believe, everything is made up of electrons, the energy of electrons. Yoga believes that everything is composed of sound electronics. For yoga, the basic element of existence is sound, because life is nothing but a vibration. Life is nothing but a peaceful expression. We come from tranquility and disappear into tranquility. Tranquility, space, emptiness, and non-existence are the core and center of your inner circle. Unless you come to that tranquil space, where there is nothing but your pure existence, you will not be free. This is the framework of yoga.
They divide your existence into four levels. What I am telling you is the last layer. Yoga is called itvaikhari (itvaikhari), this word means flowering and fruiting. But before I tell you, before I say something, it appears to me like a feeling, an experience, that is the third stage. Yoga is called itmadhyama, "middle." But before something is experienced internally, it moves like a seed.
You usually cannot experience it unless you are very deeply meditation, unless you are completely calm. The agitation in the seed can be noticed even before it germinates. It is very subtle. Yoga is called pashyanti. This word means "look back" and see the source. Beyond the other, your fundamental existence comes from the rise of all things. Call it para, which means "extraordinary"
Osho, Yoga: The Path to Liberation, Talk #9
Yoga is always associated with Patanjali
In fact, Yoga was not invented by Patanjali. Yoga is more ancient. It was there for centuries before Patanjali. He is not a discoverer, but he has almost become a discoverer and a builder because of his rare personality traits. Before him, many people have done it, and almost everything has been known. But yoga is waiting for a Patanjali. Suddenly, when Patanjali talked about it, everything fell into order and he became the founder. He is not the founder, but his personality is such an opposite combination. From his own understanding to incomprehensible elements, he becomes the founder-almost the founder. Now yoga is always associated with Patanjali.
Osho, The Mystery Beyond Mind, Talk #5
Yoga tries to penetrate the inner mystery step by step
The whole yoga is a methodology: how to expose the faintly hidden; how to open the door inside you; how to enter the temple as you are; how to discover yourself. You were there, you were there from the beginning, but you never found out. You carry this treasure all the time, and with every breath coming in and out, the treasure is there. You may not be aware of it, but you never miss it.
You may forget it completely, but you never lose it. You may have forgotten it completely, but you cannot lose it-----because you are it. So the only question is: how to find it. It is obscured, obscured by layers of ignorance. Yoga tries to penetrate this inner mystery step by step, slowly. Yoga uses eight steps to accomplish this discovery. The first step is called bahirang yoga, external yoga. Yam, niyam, asan, pranayam, pratyahar, these five steps are considered external yoga. The next three, the last three-dharana, dhyan, samadhi-are considered antarang, the inner yoga.
Osho, The Essence of Yoga, Talk #9
Yoga is hard work, Tantra is not hard work
Yoga is hard work, Tantra is not hard work. With effort, with your weak energy and weak self, fight against the whole. That would take millions of lives. It also seems impossible to become a Taoist. It is foolish to fight the whole, you are only a part. It is like waves against the ocean, leaves against trees, or your hands against your body. Who are you fighting against? Yoga is hard, intensive effort. Yoga is a way of fighting against the river and going upstream. Therefore, what is natural, yoga is forsaken; what is unnatural, yoga aims to achieve. Yoga is an unnatural way of fighting against the river and going upstream. Of course, it is challenging, maybe enjoy it. But who is enjoying this challenge? ------It is your ego.
Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Talk #6
Yoga can teach you to live in the present again
No matter where you are, at that moment, enjoy without asking the future. The mind does not think about the future, just at this moment, now this moment, you are satisfied, then there is no need to go anywhere. No matter where you are, at that point, you fall into the sea and you are one with the universe. But the mind has no interest in the present. Its interest is somewhere in the future, some results. So the question to be asked is, to some extent, about such a mind-it is better to call it a modern mind than a Western mind-the modern mind is constantly trapped by the future and the results Not in the moment.
How can such a mind be granted yoga? This mind can be taught yoga, because this future orientation cannot take you anywhere. And this future orientation is creating a continuous misery for the modern mind. We have created a hell-we have created too much. Now, if man disappears from the earth, he must transform himself; if man is completely eliminated, because this hell can no longer continue, then we must undergo transformation. Therefore, yoga has far-reaching significance to the modern mind, because yoga can save. He can again teach you how to live in the present, how to forget the past and the future, how to stay in the present moment with such intensity, and make this moment timeless. This moment becomes eternal.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #8
Yoga is a higher level of health
Yoga is for those who are perfectly healthy and normal people recognized by medical science. They have no schizophrenia, no madness, no psychosis. They are physically and mentally sound people and have no special illnesses. And they know that no matter what the so-called normal or healthy is useless, they need more, better, more sacred, and more complete things. Treatment is for people who are sick. Treatment can help you come to yoga, but yoga is not a therapy. Yoga is a higher level of health, a different type of existence and integrity. The treatment can only be adjusted for you at best. Freud said: We can't do more. We can adjust you to a normal person in society-but what if the society itself is pathological? And it really is. The society itself is sick. Treatment can allow you to return to normal and adapt to society, but society itself is sick
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
Yoga is not a therapy
A disciple is a seeker, not a crowd, but an attempt to focus and crystallize-at least try, work hard, and sincerely try to become an individual, who can feel his own nature and become his own master. The whole discipline of yoga is an effort to make you your master. And now you are just a slave to many desires, many masters are there, and you are just a slave---drawn in all directions. Now the rules of yoga. Yoga is a discipline. It changes its own efforts from your side. There are many other things to understand.
Yoga is not a therapy. Nowadays, many psychotherapies are very popular in the West, and many western psychologists believe that yoga is also a therapy. No, it is a discipline. what's the difference? The difference is: if you are sick, treatment is needed, if you are sick, treatment is needed; when you are healthy, mindfulness is needed. Really, only when you are healthy, does the law help. It is not used in sick conditions.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
The law of yoga means that yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you
If that moment comes, when you are confused about all directions, all roads have disappeared, the future is dark, all desires become bitter, and only disappointment through every familiar desire. All hopes and dreams have ceased: the rules of yoga now. This "now" may not come yet, and then I continue to talk about yoga, and you won't listen. Only when this moment appears in you, you can hear it. Are you really not satisfied? Everyone will answer: yes. But that dissatisfaction is not true. You are not satisfied with this, and you may not be satisfied with that, but you are not completely dissatisfied. You still hold hope. The expectations of the past cannot satisfy you, and you are still looking forward to the future. Your dissatisfaction is not all: you still long to find satisfaction from somewhere, and joy from somewhere.
Sometimes you feel hopeless, but that's not true. You feel hopeless because certain expectations have not been fulfilled. The specific expectations are gone---but the expectations are still there, and the expectations are not far from you. You still have expectations. You are dissatisfied with this expectation and that expectation, but you are not dissatisfied with the expectation itself. If you are disappointed in the expectation itself, then that moment has arrived and you will be able to enter yoga. Then this entry does not enter into an intellectual or theoretical phenomenon, it is an entry into the law of memory. What is the rule of mind? The law of mind is only creating a kind of order, because you are a mess, you are completely out of order.
Gozifu once said --- Gozifu has many methods like Patanjali, and he also tried to turn the core of religion into science. Gezifu said: You are not an individual, you are the masses, and even when you say me, there is no me there. There is a lot of me in you, a lot of selves. One in the morning, another in the afternoon, and the third me in the evening, but you never noticed this chaos-because who would be aware of it? No center can become aware. The law of yoga means: Yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
Complete frustration is needed for yoga
Therefore, a person can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is completely frustrated with his own mind. If you still want something through your mind, yoga is not for you. Complete frustration is needed-it reveals that what the mind projects is useless, what the mind wants is meaningless, and it cannot take you anywhere. It just closes your eyes and poisons you. It never allows the truth to be revealed to you. It protects you against the truth. Your mind is a drug, it resists what it is. So unless you are completely frustrated with the mind, the way you exist, and the way you survive so far, if you can unconditionally abandon it, you can enter this path.
So many people are interested, but few people enter, because your interest may only stem from your mind. You may hope that now, through yoga, you can get something, but the motivation to achieve is there-through yoga, you may become perfect, you may reach the bliss of perfect nature, you may With Brahmin unity, you may reach the state of existence, consciousness, and satchitananda. This may be the reason why you are interested in yoga. If this is the reason, then there is no intersection between you and yoga. Then you are totally violating it and moving towards a completely opposite direction. .
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
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Yoga path is very difficult
But the way of yoga is very difficult. It is impossible, almost impossible, through yoga will allow you to achieve a perfect self. It means you become the center of the entire universe. This path is very long and difficult, and really, it never reaches the end. Therefore, some followers of the yoga path, in some lifetimes, they turn to Tantra. Yoga is understandable intellectually, but impossible to exist. If it is possible, you will also reach it through yoga, but usually it never happens. Even if it happens, it is very rare, and Mahavira has only one.
Sometimes hundreds of years have passed, and then someone like Mahavir realizes himself through yoga. But he is rare, with one exception, he breaks the rules. But yoga is more attractive than Tantra. Tantra is easy and natural. Through Tantra, you can achieve it naturally, easily and effortlessly. Because of this, Tantra has never attracted you so much. Why? Anything that attracts you also attracts your ego. Whatever you feel satisfied with your ego will attract you even more. You hold on to yourself, so yoga is very attractive to you.
Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk #32
The body needs to be purified first
Hatha Yoga did not take this into consideration because repressed minds and repressed attitudes were not common in the early days, especially in India. At that time, India was one of the least depressed countries. Now, it's not what it used to be. In the West, Christianity has caused a lot of depression, and everyone is inherently disabled. These physical depressions must be released first, otherwise if you start with an inappropriate and unnatural body, you will create many unnecessary problems.
This is why we are now introducing something that Hatha Yoga does not know at all: the body needs to be purified first. To bring in this purification, a new kind of science is needed, because depression is a new product. For example, if you have a lot of sexual depression, Kundalini energy is stuck and cannot move up. The whole structure that allowed Kundalini energy to move upward was stuck, stuck by the suppressed sexual energy. Or, if you are too addicted to sex, you have no extra energy to move up. There are two problems: if you don't have a depressed mind that causes the energy to get stuck, you are too addicted to sex, and there is no excess energy moving within you.
You are not in a natural state, your energy is not balanced, it is not a natural flow, non-repression or indulgence. With balanced energy, Hatha Yoga can be used easily, otherwise it will cause problems. The other thing is that all the techniques of Hatha Yoga are developed from the dojo. They are techniques of the dojo. They are used by those who want to practice twenty-four hours a day, do nothing, and just concentrate on practicing. Then, it's the same for you, you have to practice for a long time, year after year. If you use Hatha Yoga to teach a person who does not concentrate on it-he only comes to practice Hatha Yoga once or twice, or even only one hour a day, the other 23 hours are spent in a completely different world and run counter to it At work ---- it doesn't help much. What you gain will be lost every day. The way of the dojo is the best way to practice.
Osho, The Eternal Quest, Talk #4
Skills come from the mind, and religious skills also come from the mind---Yoga, mantras, meditation totems. Yoga refers to the use of body postures to help you penetrate into yourself. These postures are created by the mind. They are religious techniques. That is why yoga is not part of any particular religion. They can be Christian yoga, Hindu yoga, Buddhism yoga, and Jain yoga. Yoga can be as many as there are various religions. Yoga is just a technique. No machine is Hinduism, no machine is Islam. You will not go to the market to buy an Islamic car or a Hindu car. Machines are just machines. Yoga is a technique, mantra is a technique; it is created by the mind. In fact, mantra (mantra) and mind (mind) come from the same root-both are from the Sanskrit word "person". One branch becomes the mind, the other branch becomes a spell-both are part of the mind. .
Osho, Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1, Talk #9
The basic element of yoga is sound
As physicists believe, everything is made up of electrons, the energy of electrons. Yoga believes that everything is composed of sound electronics. For yoga, the basic element of existence is sound, because life is nothing but a vibration. Life is nothing but a peaceful expression. We come from tranquility and disappear into tranquility. Tranquility, space, emptiness, and non-existence are the core and center of your inner circle. Unless you come to that tranquil space, where there is nothing but your pure existence, you will not be free. This is the framework of yoga.
They divide your existence into four levels. What I am telling you is the last layer. Yoga is called itvaikhari (itvaikhari), this word means flowering and fruiting. But before I tell you, before I say something, it appears to me like a feeling, an experience, that is the third stage. Yoga is called itmadhyama, "middle." But before something is experienced internally, it moves like a seed.
You usually cannot experience it unless you are very deeply meditation, unless you are completely calm. The agitation in the seed can be noticed even before it germinates. It is very subtle. Yoga is called pashyanti. This word means "look back" and see the source. Beyond the other, your fundamental existence comes from the rise of all things. Call it para, which means "extraordinary"
Osho, Yoga: The Path to Liberation, Talk #9
Yoga is always associated with Patanjali
In fact, Yoga was not invented by Patanjali. Yoga is more ancient. It was there for centuries before Patanjali. He is not a discoverer, but he has almost become a discoverer and a builder because of his rare personality traits. Before him, many people have done it, and almost everything has been known. But yoga is waiting for a Patanjali. Suddenly, when Patanjali talked about it, everything fell into order and he became the founder. He is not the founder, but his personality is such an opposite combination. From his own understanding to incomprehensible elements, he becomes the founder-almost the founder. Now yoga is always associated with Patanjali.
Osho, The Mystery Beyond Mind, Talk #5
Yoga tries to penetrate the inner mystery step by step
The whole yoga is a methodology: how to expose the faintly hidden; how to open the door inside you; how to enter the temple as you are; how to discover yourself. You were there, you were there from the beginning, but you never found out. You carry this treasure all the time, and with every breath coming in and out, the treasure is there. You may not be aware of it, but you never miss it.
You may forget it completely, but you never lose it. You may have forgotten it completely, but you cannot lose it-----because you are it. So the only question is: how to find it. It is obscured, obscured by layers of ignorance. Yoga tries to penetrate this inner mystery step by step, slowly. Yoga uses eight steps to accomplish this discovery. The first step is called bahirang yoga, external yoga. Yam, niyam, asan, pranayam, pratyahar, these five steps are considered external yoga. The next three, the last three-dharana, dhyan, samadhi-are considered antarang, the inner yoga.
Osho, The Essence of Yoga, Talk #9
Yoga is hard work, Tantra is not hard work
Yoga is hard work, Tantra is not hard work. With effort, with your weak energy and weak self, fight against the whole. That would take millions of lives. It also seems impossible to become a Taoist. It is foolish to fight the whole, you are only a part. It is like waves against the ocean, leaves against trees, or your hands against your body. Who are you fighting against? Yoga is hard, intensive effort. Yoga is a way of fighting against the river and going upstream. Therefore, what is natural, yoga is forsaken; what is unnatural, yoga aims to achieve. Yoga is an unnatural way of fighting against the river and going upstream. Of course, it is challenging, maybe enjoy it. But who is enjoying this challenge? ------It is your ego.
Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Talk #6
Yoga can teach you to live in the present again
No matter where you are, at that moment, enjoy without asking the future. The mind does not think about the future, just at this moment, now this moment, you are satisfied, then there is no need to go anywhere. No matter where you are, at that point, you fall into the sea and you are one with the universe. But the mind has no interest in the present. Its interest is somewhere in the future, some results. So the question to be asked is, to some extent, about such a mind-it is better to call it a modern mind than a Western mind-the modern mind is constantly trapped by the future and the results Not in the moment.
How can such a mind be granted yoga? This mind can be taught yoga, because this future orientation cannot take you anywhere. And this future orientation is creating a continuous misery for the modern mind. We have created a hell-we have created too much. Now, if man disappears from the earth, he must transform himself; if man is completely eliminated, because this hell can no longer continue, then we must undergo transformation. Therefore, yoga has far-reaching significance to the modern mind, because yoga can save. He can again teach you how to live in the present, how to forget the past and the future, how to stay in the present moment with such intensity, and make this moment timeless. This moment becomes eternal.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #8
Yoga is a higher level of health
Yoga is for those who are perfectly healthy and normal people recognized by medical science. They have no schizophrenia, no madness, no psychosis. They are physically and mentally sound people and have no special illnesses. And they know that no matter what the so-called normal or healthy is useless, they need more, better, more sacred, and more complete things. Treatment is for people who are sick. Treatment can help you come to yoga, but yoga is not a therapy. Yoga is a higher level of health, a different type of existence and integrity. The treatment can only be adjusted for you at best. Freud said: We can't do more. We can adjust you to a normal person in society-but what if the society itself is pathological? And it really is. The society itself is sick. Treatment can allow you to return to normal and adapt to society, but society itself is sick
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
Yoga is not a therapy
A disciple is a seeker, not a crowd, but an attempt to focus and crystallize-at least try, work hard, and sincerely try to become an individual, who can feel his own nature and become his own master. The whole discipline of yoga is an effort to make you your master. And now you are just a slave to many desires, many masters are there, and you are just a slave---drawn in all directions. Now the rules of yoga. Yoga is a discipline. It changes its own efforts from your side. There are many other things to understand.
Yoga is not a therapy. Nowadays, many psychotherapies are very popular in the West, and many western psychologists believe that yoga is also a therapy. No, it is a discipline. what's the difference? The difference is: if you are sick, treatment is needed, if you are sick, treatment is needed; when you are healthy, mindfulness is needed. Really, only when you are healthy, does the law help. It is not used in sick conditions.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
The law of yoga means that yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you
If that moment comes, when you are confused about all directions, all roads have disappeared, the future is dark, all desires become bitter, and only disappointment through every familiar desire. All hopes and dreams have ceased: the rules of yoga now. This "now" may not come yet, and then I continue to talk about yoga, and you won't listen. Only when this moment appears in you, you can hear it. Are you really not satisfied? Everyone will answer: yes. But that dissatisfaction is not true. You are not satisfied with this, and you may not be satisfied with that, but you are not completely dissatisfied. You still hold hope. The expectations of the past cannot satisfy you, and you are still looking forward to the future. Your dissatisfaction is not all: you still long to find satisfaction from somewhere, and joy from somewhere.
Sometimes you feel hopeless, but that's not true. You feel hopeless because certain expectations have not been fulfilled. The specific expectations are gone---but the expectations are still there, and the expectations are not far from you. You still have expectations. You are dissatisfied with this expectation and that expectation, but you are not dissatisfied with the expectation itself. If you are disappointed in the expectation itself, then that moment has arrived and you will be able to enter yoga. Then this entry does not enter into an intellectual or theoretical phenomenon, it is an entry into the law of memory. What is the rule of mind? The law of mind is only creating a kind of order, because you are a mess, you are completely out of order.
Gozifu once said --- Gozifu has many methods like Patanjali, and he also tried to turn the core of religion into science. Gezifu said: You are not an individual, you are the masses, and even when you say me, there is no me there. There is a lot of me in you, a lot of selves. One in the morning, another in the afternoon, and the third me in the evening, but you never noticed this chaos-because who would be aware of it? No center can become aware. The law of yoga means: Yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you.
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
Complete frustration is needed for yoga
Therefore, a person can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is completely frustrated with his own mind. If you still want something through your mind, yoga is not for you. Complete frustration is needed-it reveals that what the mind projects is useless, what the mind wants is meaningless, and it cannot take you anywhere. It just closes your eyes and poisons you. It never allows the truth to be revealed to you. It protects you against the truth. Your mind is a drug, it resists what it is. So unless you are completely frustrated with the mind, the way you exist, and the way you survive so far, if you can unconditionally abandon it, you can enter this path.
So many people are interested, but few people enter, because your interest may only stem from your mind. You may hope that now, through yoga, you can get something, but the motivation to achieve is there-through yoga, you may become perfect, you may reach the bliss of perfect nature, you may With Brahmin unity, you may reach the state of existence, consciousness, and satchitananda. This may be the reason why you are interested in yoga. If this is the reason, then there is no intersection between you and yoga. Then you are totally violating it and moving towards a completely opposite direction. .
Osho, The Path of Yoga, Talk #1
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Yoga path is very difficult
But the way of yoga is very difficult. It is impossible, almost impossible, through yoga will allow you to achieve a perfect self. It means you become the center of the entire universe. This path is very long and difficult, and really, it never reaches the end. Therefore, some followers of the yoga path, in some lifetimes, they turn to Tantra. Yoga is understandable intellectually, but impossible to exist. If it is possible, you will also reach it through yoga, but usually it never happens. Even if it happens, it is very rare, and Mahavira has only one.
Sometimes hundreds of years have passed, and then someone like Mahavir realizes himself through yoga. But he is rare, with one exception, he breaks the rules. But yoga is more attractive than Tantra. Tantra is easy and natural. Through Tantra, you can achieve it naturally, easily and effortlessly. Because of this, Tantra has never attracted you so much. Why? Anything that attracts you also attracts your ego. Whatever you feel satisfied with your ego will attract you even more. You hold on to yourself, so yoga is very attractive to you.
Osho, The Book of Secrets, Talk #32
The body needs to be purified first
Hatha Yoga did not take this into consideration because repressed minds and repressed attitudes were not common in the early days, especially in India. At that time, India was one of the least depressed countries. Now, it's not what it used to be. In the West, Christianity has caused a lot of depression, and everyone is inherently disabled. These physical depressions must be released first, otherwise if you start with an inappropriate and unnatural body, you will create many unnecessary problems.
This is why we are now introducing something that Hatha Yoga does not know at all: the body needs to be purified first. To bring in this purification, a new kind of science is needed, because depression is a new product. For example, if you have a lot of sexual depression, Kundalini energy is stuck and cannot move up. The whole structure that allowed Kundalini energy to move upward was stuck, stuck by the suppressed sexual energy. Or, if you are too addicted to sex, you have no extra energy to move up. There are two problems: if you don't have a depressed mind that causes the energy to get stuck, you are too addicted to sex, and there is no excess energy moving within you.
You are not in a natural state, your energy is not balanced, it is not a natural flow, non-repression or indulgence. With balanced energy, Hatha Yoga can be used easily, otherwise it will cause problems. The other thing is that all the techniques of Hatha Yoga are developed from the dojo. They are techniques of the dojo. They are used by those who want to practice twenty-four hours a day, do nothing, and just concentrate on practicing. Then, it's the same for you, you have to practice for a long time, year after year. If you use Hatha Yoga to teach a person who does not concentrate on it-he only comes to practice Hatha Yoga once or twice, or even only one hour a day, the other 23 hours are spent in a completely different world and run counter to it At work ---- it doesn't help much. What you gain will be lost every day. The way of the dojo is the best way to practice.
Osho, The Eternal Quest, Talk #4