Osho on Death

Osho on Death   “There is nothing to be worried about. You will disappear like a snowflake in pure air. You are not going to die, you are only going to disappear. Yes, you will not be found in the individual form. The form will disappear into the formless – the snowflake into the pure …

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Osho on Sadness

Osho on Sadness   “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger …

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Osho on Fear

Osho on working with fear, not against it.   “Allow the fear. Tremble with it, let it shake your foundations – and enjoy it as a deep experience of stirring. Donʼt take any attitude about fear. In fact, donʼt call it fear; the moment you have called it fear you have taken an attitude. You …

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Everlasting

Everlasting Thou art hidden from us, though the heavens are filled  With Thy Light, which is brighter than sun and moon ! Thou art hidden, yet revealest our hidden secrets !  Thou art the Source that causes our rivers to flow.  Thou art hidden in Thy essence, but seen by Thy bounties.  Thou art like the …

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Praising

Praising Only one who has raised the lyre  Praising, that’s it! As one ordered to praise he emerged like the ore from the silent stone.  His heart, O the transient wine-press, among mankind, of an inexhaustible wine.  When the divine mode grips him, the voice in his mouth never fails. All becomes vineyard, all becomes …

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The Triumph song of Trisanku

The Triumph Song of Trisanku – Constellation Crux I shall not die. Although this body, when the spirit tires  Of its cramped residence, shall feed the fires,  My house consumes, not I.  Leaving that case  I find out ample and ethereal room.  My spirit shall avoid the hungry tomb,  Deceiving death’s embrace.  Night shall contain  …

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Vesper Hymn

Now, on sea and land descending,  Brings the night its peace profound: Let our vesper hymn be blending With the holy calm around.  Soon as dies the sunset glory, Stars of heaven shine out above,  Telling still the ancient story— Their Creator’s changeless love.  Now, our wants and burdens leaving To his care who cares …

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Gita

From the Bhagavata Gita : “Then, filled with wonder, with hairs standing on end, he, Dhananjaya, (Arjuna), bowing down with his head to the Lord, said with folded hands. Arjuna said: O God, I see in Your body all the gods as also hosts of (various) classes of beings; Brahma the ruler, sitting on a …

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Elemental seed

“And as the seed waits eagerly watching for its flower and fruit. Anxious its little soul looks out into the clear expanse To see if hungry winds are abroad with their invisible array ; So Man looks out in tree, and herb, and fish, and bird, and beast. Collecting up the scattered portions of his …

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Picasso

Artwork : Self-potrait by Pablo Picasso. “How like an Angel came I down! How bright are all things here!  When first among His works I did appear,  O how their Glory me did crown!  The world resembled his Eternity, In which my soul did walk;  And every thing that I did see Did with me …

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Adonis

– Words from Adonis, the Syrian poet (born Ali Ahmad Said Esber).  “So that your body moves wisely so that I move with it  with what is above it below it. and in between  so that I surround you and break any barrier that separates you from me. I read the book of your priests  …

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Crystal Spears

Ring out ye Crystal spears, Once bless our human ears,  (If ye have power to touch our senses so)  And let your silver chime Move in melodious time;  And let the Base of Heav’ns deep Organ blow,  And with your ninefold harmony. Make up full consort to th’ Angelike symphony.  For if such holy Song …

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Ambassador of Bliss

This soaring, sacred thirst, Ambassador of bliss, approached first.  Making a place in me That made me apt to prize, and taste, and see. For not the objects, but the sense Of things doth bliss to Souls dispense,  And make it, Lord, like Thee. Sense, feeling, taste, complacency, and sight,  These are the true and real …

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