Osho

“A man’s true life is the way in which he puts off the lie imposed by others on him. Stripped, naked, natural, he is what he is. This is a matter of being, and not of becoming. The lie cannot become the truth, the personality cannot become your soul. There is no way to make the nonessential the essential. The nonessential remains nonessential and the essential remains essential, they are not convertible. And striving towards truth is nothing but creating more confusion. The truth has not to be achieved. It cannot be achieved, it is already the case. Only the lie has to be dropped. All aims and ends and ideals and goals and ideologies, religions and systems of improvement and betterment, are lies. Beware of them. Recognize the fact that, as you are, you are a lie. Manipulated, cultivated by others. Striving after truth is a distraction and a postponement. It is the lie’s way to hide. See the lie, look deep into the lie of your personality. Because to see the lie is to cease to lie. No longer to lie is to seek no more for any truth–there is no need. The moment the lie disappears, truth is there in all its beauty and radiance. In the seeing of the lie it disappears, and what is left is the truth.”Osho This Very Body The Buddha Chapter 6

Osho

“Mind can accept any boundary anywhere. But the reality is that, by its very nature, existence cannot have any boundary, because what will be beyond the boundary? – again another sky.That’s why I am saying skies upon skies are available for your flight. Don’t be content easily. Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.”

Dogen

Whenever a thought occurs,
Be aware of it,
As soon as you are aware of it,
It will vanish.
If you remain for a long period
Forgetful of objects,
You will naturally become unified.
This is the essential art of zazen.

Daito Kokushi

Just don’t seek from others,

If your ears see,

And eyes hear,

Not a doubt you’ll cherish

How naturally the rain drips

From the leaves!

Dongshan Liangjie

Just don’t seek from others,

Or you’ll be far estranged from self.

I now go on alone;

Everywhere I meet it:

It now is me;

I now am it.

One must understand in this way

To merge with thusness.

Raah

Ik door se aati hai

Paas aake palat-ti hai

Ik raah akeli si

Ruktii hai

Na chalti hai

Daio

In everyone it towers like

A mile high wall,

Flashing a great precious light

In everyones’s presence.

One thought ten thousand years,

Ten thousand years one thought,

Eating when hungry,

Sleeping when tired,

Who worries about the alteration

Of light and dark,

The change of the seasons?

Basho

Dewdrops

How better wash away

World’s dust?

I Live

Above all to my heart i am true

It does not tell me what to do

It beats, I live, it beats again.

For what? I wish I knew it knew.

Osho

You have to learn to be a witness to both … the outer and the inner, both are realities and there is also something more than a reality, that is your witness. Go beyond the outer and the inner both.
Go beyond duality, and a grace starts falling over you like rain.In this great moment you are not, only existence is, with all its glories, eternities … unbounded.

It is

There are days

I drop words of comfort on myself

Like falling rain

And

Remember it is enough to be taken care of by myself

Osho

You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth – everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you.

This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.  

God is Dead: Now Zen is the Only Living Truth, Chapter 1

Dogen

Contemplating the clear moon

Reflecting a mind empty as the open sky

Drawn by its beauty

I loose myself

In the shadows it casts

Chuang Tzu

The sound of the water

Says what i think

Buson

Utter aloneness

Another great pleasure

In autumn twilight

Issa

Just to say the word

Home, one word alone

So pleasantly cool

Issa

Brillant moon,

Is it true that you too

Must pass in hurry