Osho’s Reflections on Awareness
Osho says that the normal humanity is totally asleep. Zarathustra, all the awakened masters like Lao Tzu, Jesus, Buddha, Bahauddin, Kabir, Nanak – all of them have been teaching only one single theme and this is to wake up, to become aware. Wakefulness is the goal and wakefulness is the taste of all their teachings. Osho gives a beautiful example. He says like sea water is salty anywhere and everywhere, similarly all the Buddhas, of all places and times, have the same essence, that of awareness. He says, Adama and Eve were banished from heaven because they tasted from the fruit from tree of knowledge. They had become minds. When you become a mind, you lose consciousness (identification of Puruṣa with Prakṛti!). Mind means mechanical-ness; it means sleep.
There is a distinction (of life and death!) between being existing and living. We ‘exist’ when our physiological systems are working. But we start living only when we become aware. Wakefulness is the way to life. You are alive only in the proportion that you are aware. Awareness is the difference between death and life. Life is the goal and awareness is the technique the methodology to attain it.
Awareness leads to enjoying every moment because you
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However, Thoreau wakes himself with a bath, and this is when a part of himself that is asleep the rest of the time is awakened. Thoreau says that, “The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life” (Thoreau 45). This is a description of the average man’s condition because hardly anyone is awake enough to have a beneficial day filled with self discovery, and intellectual progress. The average individual is too drowsy because they do not understand how to truly become awake.
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