What is born and what dies?

Those who think they will die identify totally with the body, and
think they are a physical body. Likewise with birth. What is born
and what dies?

A body, that's all. Are there not 7 billion (human) bodies? What is
the big deal? Thousands of bodies die daily, thousands more are born
daily.

There is nothing special about the body of a "realized sage." It's
just another body, and it dies the same as any other body.

"Osho" is just a label, a series of concepts, a word. The word is
associated with a body that failed to function and began to
disintegrate at some point. Big deal?

reality is simply the loss of ego

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

the limitless being

"That in whom reside all beings and who reside in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being--I am That." Amritbindu Upanishad

you are the supreme Brahman

You are the supreme Brahman, infinite, yet hidden in the hearts of all creatures. You pervade everything. (Shvetashvatara Upanishad. 3:7)

as the rivers flowing east and west

As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.
(Chandogya Upanishad. 10:1-2)

there is no duality

there is no duality; the mind, awake or dreaming, moves through maya ("illusion"); and only nonduality (advaita) is the
final truth. This truth is concealed by the ignorance of illusion. There is no becoming, either of a thing by itself or of a thing out of some other thing. There is ultimately no individual self or soul (jiva), only the atman (all-soul). - Gaudapada

seek first

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you. -Matthew 6:33

underlting all forms of yoga

"Underlying all forms of Yoga is the understanding that the human being is more than the physical body and that, through a course of discipline, it is possible to discover what this 'more' is."

A human being is a part of a whole

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

like a flash

"Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe...He sees and knows that the cosmos...is in fact...in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain."

the individual soul is non-different from Brahman

Brahman (the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal; and the Jiva or the individual soul is non-different from Brahman.

plain and simple

a boat painted and adorned, will carry you across the river; so also will one that is plain and simple

"I am" itself is God

"'I am' itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love."

you are not an individual

There are many persons who have a great attachment to their own individuality. They want first and foremost to remain as an individual and then search, for they are not prepared to lose that individuality. While retaining their identity, they want to find out what is the truth.

But in this process, you must get rid of the identity itself. If you really find out what you are, you will see that you are not an individual, you are not a person, you are not a body. And people who cling to their body identity are not fit for this knowledge.

giving up profit

"There's nothing from which the world could profit more than from giving up profit. A man who's no longer thinking in terms of winning and loosing is truly non-violent man, since he's above all conflicts." - Nisargadatta

face to face with truth

When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan

a gentle wind

A gentle wind fans the calm night;
A bright moon shines on the high tower.
A voice whispers, but no one answers when I call:
A shadow stirs, but no one comes when I beckon.
The kitchen man brings in a dish of lentils:
Wine is there, but I do not fill my cup.
Contentment with poverty is fortune's best gift:
Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.
Though gold and gems by the world are sought and prized,
To me they seem no more than weeds or chaff.- Fu Hsuan

The valley wind

Living in retirement beyond the World,
Silently enjoying isolation,
I pull the rope of my door tighter
And stuff my window with roots and ferns.
My spirit is tuned to the Spring-season:
At the fall of the year
There is autumn in my heart.
Thus imitating cosmic changes,
My cottage becomes a Universe.~Lu Yun

mirror of your perception

If you could get rid of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets Would open to you.
The face of the unknown, Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the Mirror of your perception. Rumi

harmony

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

peace means

Peace does not mean the absence of war. Peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. - Sri Chinmay

common good

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail. - I am that

becoming nobody

The game is not about becoming somebody; it's about becoming nobody. Ram Dass

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. Charles H Perkhurst

i believe it was the river

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined the river and then there was only one of us. I believe it was the river. - Norman Maclean

hanging loose

When your mind is free, not concerned, or worried, or focused on anything in particular, and your heart is not grasping or clinging to anything, then you are free. The most characteristic quality is that there is no fixation on anything; you're not focused on any issue or experience. Whatever is there, is there. So there is a freedom of mind. The mind is not saying, "I want this," or "I want to look at this," or "It has to be this way." The mind is loose. The expression "hang loose" tells us what it means to be liberated. A.H. Almaas

life is one indivisible whole

"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong
in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole." Ghandi

Song of the Soul

I am neither ego nor reason, I am neither mind nor thought,
I cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight
ever caught:
In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky -
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.

I have no name, I have no life, I breathe no vital air,
No elements have moulded me, no bodily sheath is my lair:
I have no speech, no hands and feet, nor means of evolution -
Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss in dissolution.

I cast aside hatred and passion, I conquered delusion and greed;
No touch of pride caressed me, so envy never did breed:
Beyond all faiths, past reach of wealth, past freedom, past desire
Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss is my attire.

Virtue and vice, or pleasure and pain are not my heritage,
Nor sacred texts, nor offerings, nor prayer, nor pilgrimage:
I am neither food nor eating, nor yet the eater am I -
Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I.

I have no misgivings of death, no chasms of race divide me,
No parent ever called me child, no bond of birth ever tied me:
I am neither disciple nor master, I have no kin, no friend -
Consciousness and joy am I, and merging in Bliss is my end.

Neither knowable, knowledge, nor knower am I, formless is my
form, I dwell within the senses but they are not my home:
Ever serenely balanced, I am neither free nor bound -
Consciousness and joy am I, and Bliss is where I am found.

Shankaracharya

the sense of "I"

The sense of "I " which should have been identified with the whole universe of your experience, was instead cut off and
isolated as a detached observer of that universe. In the preceding chapter we saw that this unity of organism
and environment is a physical fact. But when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually
feel yourself as the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing,
known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a different way, for each organism is the universe experiencing itself in endless variety. From: 'The Book' Alan Watts

From: 'The Direct Path' Andrew Harvey

When you look past the different terminologies employed by the different mystical systems, you see clearly that they are each talking about the same overwhelming truth--that we are all essentially children of the Divine and can realize that identity with our Source here on earth and in a body.

Although each of the mystical systems expresses it in subtly different ways, this realization that we can all have of our
essential identity with the Divine is always described as a nondual one--that is, as a relationship in which we wake up
to the overwhelming and glorious fact that our fundamental consciousness is "one" with the Divine Consciousness that is
manifesting all things, all worlds, and all events. In other words, we are each of us parts of Godhead who, when we are
aware of it, enter into a naked, nonconceptual identity-of-consciousness with the Source from which all things and all
events are constantly streaming.

The Color Purple

I BELIEVE God is everything. . . Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to
feel that, you've found It... My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But
one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of
everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all round
the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it. - Alice Walker

raindrop from heaven

It is as if a raindrop fell from heaven into a stream or fountain and became one with the water in it so that never again can the raindrop be separated from the water of the stream; or as if a little brook ran into the sea and there was thenceforward no means of distinguishing its water from the ocean; or as if a brilliant light came into a room through two windows and though it comes in divided between them, it forms a single light inside.

St Teresa of Avila

and for no reason

*And For No Reason*

And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child.

And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is carried so high
I kiss the sun's mouth
And dissolve.

And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table,
Start passing their
Cups of wine
And their wild songbooks all around.

And
For every reason in existence
I begin to eternally,
To eternally laugh and love!

When I turn into a leaf
And start dancing,
I run to kiss our beautiful Friend
And I dissolve in the Truth
That I Am.

Hafiz/ Trans. Ladinsky

the reality of our experience

Enlightenment is the sudden recognition that non-duality is, has always been, and will always be the reality of our experience. Duality is an illusion. Consciousness is not private and personal, but impersonal, universal, and eternal. There is no limited personal entity, no conscious ego. The ego is a perceived object, not the all perceiving awareness. - Francis Lucille

there is pleasure in the pathless woods

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
~Lord Byron

on the treasury of the true dharma eye

Midnight. No waves,
no wind, the empty boat
is flooded with moonlight.- Dogen

no greater mystery

There is no greater mystery than this - that being the Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality. We think that there is something binding our reality and that it must be destroyed before the reality is gained. - Papaji