{"id":6456,"date":"2012-02-22T02:48:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2012-02-22T05:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T05:33:49","slug":"osho-quotes-on-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/osho-quotes-on-zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Osho quotes on Zen and liberating the spirit ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/02\/meditation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6460\" src=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/files\/2012\/02\/meditation-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across these Osho quotes\u00a0on his\u00a0insight and\u00a0light on Zen and life ~ If I may share them here for further meditation ~\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous &#8211; because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don&#8217;t leave any footprints. That&#8217;s what Buddha says, that the man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints. He is without wounds and without scars; he never looks back &#8212; there is no point. He has lived that moment so totally that what is the need to look back again and again? He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osho ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across these Osho quotes\u00a0on his\u00a0insight and\u00a0light on Zen and life ~ If I may share them here for further meditation ~\u00a0 &#8220;Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.&#8221; &#8220;The whole effort of a \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/osho-quotes-on-zen\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124,8],"tags":[24,108,4284],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-spirituality","tag-enlightenment","tag-osho","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}