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"Zen’s understanding is that in the present moment the whole past is
hidden, and in the present moment the whole future also is hidden. The
present moment contains the whole universe — past, present, future. If
you can manage to understand the present moment, you have understood
the whole phenomenon of eternity."

~Osho ♥

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REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO HAVE ATTAINED BEFORE YOU. Cherish their memory. That will help you on the way.

There will be many moments when suspicion will arise, doubts will arise; THERE WILL BE LONG LONG DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL... when you will feel utterly lost, when you will start thinking of going back and being just the ordinary person you had been before. In those moments, REVERE THE MEMORY OF TH

E BUDDHAS, revere the memory of all those great heroes who have attained to truth.

In Pythagoras' language, THE HERO MEANS ONE WHO HAS BECOME ENLIGHTENED, who has attained the truth.

THE ONLY HEROIC DEED IN LIFE IS TO BECOME REALIZED; all else is very ordinary. You can become very famous -- it is very easy. You can have political power -- it does not need much intelligence. You can earn money -- you have only to be a little cunning and calculative. These are not great things. THE ONLY GREAT THING that makes a life great and sublime IS TO KNOW TRUTH, IS TO KNOW GOD, is to BE Truth, is to BE God.

But the journey is very alone.

...REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES...

...of Buddha, of Lao Tzu, of Krishna, of Christ, of Moses, of Mohammed, of Mahavira. REMEMBER! That's why I am talking on so many masters: so you can remember that YOU ARE NOT ALONE ON THE PATH. Many have succeeded before you. You will also succeed.

If so many have succeeded, why not you? Many have preceded you and reached. You are not moving alone; many are ahead of you. It is a LONG procession of truth-seekers. You are part of a great chain. You may be a small drop, but YOU ARE PART OF A GREAT RIVER -- THE RIVER OF BUDDHAS, of all the enlightened people of the world.

That's why I am talking about so many enlightened people: TO GIVE YOU COURAGE, TO GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE; to give you the sense that you are in a great chain -- part of a golden chain -- and you are not moving alone. THERE IS NO NEED TO BE AFRAID: YOU CANNOT BE LOST!

"...REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, OF SPIRITS, DEMI-GODS..."

One who attains to God becomes a demi-god, becomes a god himself. One who has known Him has become Him. CHERISH THE MEMORY. Remind yourself.

OSHO♥
Philosophia Perennis

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OSHO~IF YOU CAN SIT SILENTLY, GOD STARTS POURING INTO YOU

ZEN IS PASSIVE -- that's why in Zen, SITTING became one of the most important meditations. Just sitting -- ZAZEN. 

Zen people say that if you simply sit doing nothing, things will happen. THINGS WILL HAPPEN ON THEIR OWN; you need not go after them, you need not seek them, you need not search for them. They will come. You simply sit. 

IF YOU CAN SIT SILENTLY, if you can fall into a tremendous restfulness, if you can 'relax' yourself, if you can drop all tensions and become a silent pool of energy, going nowhere, searching nothing, GOD STARTS POURING INTO YOU. From everywhere God rushes towards you.

JUST SITTING, DOING NOTHING, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

And remember, when Zen says 'just sitting' it means just sitting -- nothing else, NOT EVEN A MANTRA. If you are repeating a mantra, you are not just sitting, you are again getting into some tommyrot, again into some mind thing. If you are not doing anything whatsoever... Thoughts are coming, coming; they are going, going -- if they come, good; if they don't come, good. You are not concerned with what is happening, YOU ARE SIMPLY SITTING THERE. If you feel tired, you lie down. If you feel your legs getting tense, you spread them. YOU REMAIN NATURAL. Not even watching. Not making any effort of any kind. That's what they mean by just sitting. AND JUST SITTING, IT HAPPENS.

OSHO
Zen: The Path of Paradox