Osho Short Quotes on Mind

Osho Short Quotes on Mind

1. Mind means the conditioning.
2. The mind is greedy. Mind is greed.
3. You drop this mind, and sannyas happens.
4. A mechanical mind is an unconscious mind.
5. The mind always thinks of doing something.
6. All minds lead finally to misery, to suffering.
7. Awareness is beyond time and beyond mind.
8. Mind’s whole structure is based on confusion.
9. Mind has no joy — it is really a wound, very painful.
10. From mind to no-mind is the revolution of sannyas.
11. Mind is confusion. Mind is never clear. It cannot be.
12. mind is confusion; it is not that you are in confusion.
13. Your mind is your misery, your mind is your bondage.
14. The only security in existence is going beyond the mind.
15. As a servant, mind is beautiful. As a master, it is a monster.
16. Mind moves in time and consciousness lives in timelessness.
17. Your mind is time. And when times ceases, your mind ceases.
18. Mind is nothing but the process of the ego, the functioning of the ego.
19. Meditation starts by being separate from the mind, by being a witness.
20. Awareness is not of the mind, awareness is something beyond the mind.
21. Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind.
22. To abandon the mind and to live life spontaneously is what I call sannyas.
23. There is nothing like a silent mind. When silence is there, there is no mind.
24. The mind has given nothing but misery, suffering, torture and nightmares.
25. The ego, the calculating, cunning mind, is never compassionate, cannot be.
26. Just be choiceless. Don’t choose. Choice brings the mind in. Choice is mind.
27. You cannot predict a man who acts out of no-mind; only mind is predictable.
28. You have to put mind aside to become a witness, and obviously mind resists it.
29. Sannyas is real suicide, because it destroys the mind, it takes you beyond the mind.
30. Mind is always mediocre, mind is never intelligent — it cannot be by its very nature.
31. Meditation has nothing to do with mind; meditation simply means a state of no-mind.
32. If you really want to be living at the maximum, don’t listen to the duality of the mind.
33. When the mind stops there is no ego, when the mind is not functioning there is no ego.
34. Mind is fear. Mind is a coward and is always concerned about security, safety, certainty.
35. The mind is the by-product of fear, and because of the fear it goes on creating its own security.
36. The death of the mind will be life for you, and the life of the mind is nothing but death for you.
37. The mind has no inherent capacity for joy. The mind is the cause of all misery; it knows nothing of joy.
38. Mind is constantly asking, desiring, demanding and creating frustration because it lives in expectations.
39. Mind can never be happy. Mind is your accumulated discontent. Mind is your accumulated unhappy past.
40. Bring more awareness to your mind, otherwise you are always on the verge of going mad, of becoming mad.
41. Just remember that you are only a witness. The body is not you, the mind is not you. You are just a mirror.
42. Existence never yields to any of our demands. It is the demanding mind that has been creating all our misery.
43. Witness that you are not the body; witness that you are not the mind — this is the way to transcend body and mind.
44. A mind that is not meditative is bound to suffer in every situation: riches, poverty, failure or success, it makes no difference.
45. Mind never meets the truth, never encounters the truth. The ways of the mind and the ways of the truth are absolutely separate.
46. Meditation is a state of no-mind. Meditation means the mind has stopped. Just you are, pure consciousness, simple awareness.
47. Gautam Buddha has made it a meditation. He called it upeksha — indifference. Just be indifferent to the mind, and it won’t be a disturbance for long.
48. Meditation is not a question of effort because all effort is going to be through the mind, of the mind, by the mind. How can it take you beyond the mind?
49. The unknowable is not part of the mind. The unknowable is available to your being, to your consciousness, to the hidden sources of your life.
50. Mind means dissatisfaction, mind means complaints, mind means unfulfilled greed, mind means incomplete desire. Mind is by its very nature a beggar.
51. The mind lives through desires. The mind lives through greed, fear, jealousy, ambition. The mind distorts. Because of the motivations, the mind distorts.
52. Our mind is very tricky and cunning: it always throws the responsibility on somebody, on something; it never takes the responsibility on itself. YOU are the cause of suffering.
53. The day your mind is absolutely silent, with no disturbance, you have taken the first step that takes you to the temple of God. The temple of God is made of your consciousness.
54. All knowledge is of the past. Mind is always of the past. Consciousness is always of the present. A buddha helps you to become more conscious; he does not help you to become more knowledgeable.
55. The whole process of sannyas is getting rid of the mind. Mind consists of questions and answers. The moment you get rid of the mind, then only consciousness is left in its purity, with not even a ripple.
56. It is your identification with thoughts that is creating the confusion: it brings you down into the mind; otherwise your watcher is far above it. And to get centered in your watching is the only way for peace.
57. Your mind is never in the present, and time is always in the present; so time and mind never meet. This is the misery — that you are missing the train every moment; and you will go on missing your whole life.
58. Meditation is simply going beyond mind, beyond the functioning of the mind, beyond all the fetters of the mind, and just entering into this silence, unmoving, unwavering — just a pure awareness, a silent flame, a great joy.
59. Meditation is the state of no-mind. Not of a silent mind, not of a healthy mind, not of a concentrated mind, no. Meditation is the state of no-mind: no society within you, no conditioning within you. Just you, with your pure consciousness.
60. When the mind no longer manipulates you, when the mind no longer controls you, when the mind is just a mechanism — if you need, you use it, otherwise you put it aside — you are free of the mind, you have attained your own masterhood.
61. Use the mind, but don’t become it. Use it as you use other machines. Mind is a beautiful machine. If you can use it, it will serve you; if you cannot use it and it starts using you, it is destructive, it is dangerous. It is bound to take you into some trouble, into some calamity, into some suffering and misery, because a machine is a blind thing. It has no eyes, it has no insight. Mind cannot see; it can only go on repeating that which has been fed into it. It is like a computer; first you have to feed it.