About Oshobuddha Meditation Center


 
 
If you are a spiritual seeker and have landed on this page you are standing before the gates of a beautiful temple accessable to everyone. Many friends have been inquiring about sannyas, what is the commitment and how one can become a sannyasin. Osho has said, "Nobody knows what sannyas is - not even I. It is just a pushing you into the unknown, into an insecure way of life. It is a quantum leap. It is a jump into the darkness of the night. But it makes you tremendously free." Put simply sannyas is a love affair and meditation is at its center.
 
The more traditional way of taking sannyas is still available at Oshoworld by Swami Chaitanya Keerti and at Tapoban with Swami Arun. The Pune Meditation Resort, the major center today, is also worth a visit. There is a list of meditation centers from around the world available at these sites so you can look for a center near where you live. Some informations on sannyas you can get from the Introduction to Sannyas, a site of Osho International Foundation.
 
Note: The Oshobuddha Ashram will be a place of inner spirituality and freedom that is open to all people. The Oshobuddha Ashram centers around the teachings of Osho, someone who has acquired a special, and thus an enlightened, understanding of the world. Currently we are under negotiations to purchase the property if all goes well additional buildings will be placed on the property. Contact details for residential work stays and visitors will be provided in the near future.

 
The best attitude towards meditation is to be patient as the mind does not always want to focus. Having a sense of expectation towards positive results can create uncomfortable pressure and thus take away enjoying of the experience. By practicing meditation regularly, the person whom meditates gains a wonderful sense of the self. You can use OshoBuddha as a place to meditate. Visit our site with awareness and let this be a meditation also. Anything you do with awareness is meditation. It is important to listen to Osho discourses and hear his voice thereby giving you a closer connection with an enlightened master.
 
 
Be Whatsoever It Is Natural For You to Be
 
Even if you decide to follow somebody, listen to your heart, as to whether you want to follow. I am not saying don't follow anybody, because if your heart says follow, then what will you do? But listen to the heart, feel your own feeling first. Because ultimately you are responsible to your heart. Everything else is secondary -- you are primary. You are the center of your world. Feel it, wait for the feeling to arise. Be patient, don't be in a hurry. And if you have felt your feeling well, then you will have a deep root, and that root will make you strong, and that root will not allow any confusion to settle around you.
 
The whole existence is available to guide you -- and you are now in a position to be in direct contact with the universe. As your gratitude deepens, as your grace becomes more and more clear, as your silence becomes more and more rooted in you -- it is the universe itself which takes you into its own hands. Those hands are invisible, but they are there; you are not orphans in the universe. You are immensely needed and loved, you are just not aware of it. To be here now means to be very alert, aware, conscious, so that this moment is no more burdened with past, no more burdened with future. So this moment is unburdened with all garbage, and is clear, pure, innocent. And in that innocence you will find the door into God.

 
LET THIS MOMENT BE THE MOMENT. Don't live in the past because nobody can live in the past - it is no more. And don't make your palaces in the future - it cannot be done. The future does not exist. LIVE IN THIS MOMENT. Jesus says to his disciples, 'Look at these lilies in the field, how beautiful they are. Even Solomon, attired in all his costly garments, was not so beautiful.' AND WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE LILIES IN THE FIELD? They live in the moment. Today is the day, tonight is the night and this moment is the only moment. Once you start living in the moment you are constantly in touch with life. And life refreshes you, life goes on rejuvenating you. Yes, the body will disappear one day - but that is not death. It is simply a tired body going to rest. Yes, this mind will be lost, because this mind has been used. What do you want? Do you want to use this same mind forever and ever? Are you not fed up with it? This mind works from the day you are born, up to the day you die - seventy, eighty, ninety years.

It is a mechanism. Feel a little compassion for the mechanism -- by and by it gets old, by and by it does not function so well, so you need a new mechanism.... DEATH IS JUST REST, NOTHING ELSE. You dissolve into the elements. The body goes back to the earth to rest. But it will be revived again in thousand and one bodies, it will come back again. Can't you watch it everywhere? Spring comes, the trees are full of bloom, and then the flowers disappear back into the earth. Then the leaves fall down into the earth and become manure. Again they will enter into some other tree's circulation. Again they will become part of some other tree. Again they will live under the sun. Again they will enjoy the wind and the moon and the stars. Again they will laugh, again they will smile, again they will sing a song. And again birds will come to them and people will enjoy seeing them.