Osho in discourse
Be Aware: Here and Now
I am not here to give you a dogma. A dogma makes one certain. I am not here to give you any promise for the future - any promise for the future makes one secure.
I know you come here seeking some certainty, some creed, some 'ism', somewhere to belong to, someone to rely upon. You come here out of your fear. You are searching a sort of beautiful imprisonment - so that you can live without any awareness.
I am here simply to make you alert and aware. That is to be herenow - with all the insecurity that life is, with all the uncertainty that life is, with all the danger that life is.
excerpt from Osho, A Sudden Clash of Thunder, Chapter #6 – quote thanks to mySamasati, the daily Osho quote
On Awareness
One has to become more aware than one ordinarily is.
To be a sannyasin means to enter into the phenomenon of the sacred.
For that more awareness is needed, much more,
because it is not something mechanical, something routine.
It is now every day.
It is moving from the unknown towards the unknowable.
It is dropping the known every day, dying to the known
and entering into the unknown.
It is an eternal pilgrimage, because every moment is so full of mystery
that one has to be very alert, otherwise one will miss.
Very few people know the beauty of the stars.
Very few people know the beauty of the mountains.
OSHO