Osho

A life becomes a dance only when it is an adventure. And it can become an adventure only when there is something higher than you to achieve, to reach.

Paradise is not somewhere else. Paradise is not geographical. It is not above the clouds in the heavens; it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death. It is in you right now. You are made of it, so there is no need to seek and search anywhere else.

What had happened? That assertion which came from his deepest core of being—“I give up”—in that very giving up, all goal-oriented mind efforts and endeavors disappeared. “I give up.” In that very moment he was no more the same person. And bliss showered on him. He was silent, he was a nobody, and he touched the ultimate stratum of non-being. Then he knew what meditation is.

Freedom can be of three types, and those three types have to be understood well. The first is freedom from, the second is freedom for, and the third is just freedom—neither from nor for. The first, freedom from, is a reaction. It is past-oriented; you are fighting against the past, you want to get rid of it, you are obsessed with it.

The second idea is freedom for; it is future-oriented. The first is political, the second is more poetic, visionary, utopian

It is present-oriented. The first is political, the second is poetic, the third is mystic, religious.

How to find this freedom? How to find this essential core of your being? It happens in meditation. Atisha calls meditation “awareness.”

Ego will ride on your spiritual experiences now. One has now to be very careful.

Ego will ride on your spiritual experiences now. One has now to be very careful.

Ego will ride on your spiritual experiences now. One has now to be very careful.