Is this a right explanation of phenomena of enlightenment by Osho?
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Some months back I had written a comment (*not able to find it atm*) to a post in BSE which resonated with the following explanation of Enlightenment by Osho, that ' *Enlightenment is consciousness conscious of itself* '. But it was not taken well.
The following is taken from his book, The Last Testament. I am very much in tune with this particular explanation and my practice also more or less depends on this. I just want to know is this accepted by any branch of Buddhism, whether Theravada, Mahayana or Vajrayana.
> First, watch your actions of the body.
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> Second, watch your actions of the mind: thoughts, imaginations.
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> Third, watch your actions of the heart: feelings, love, hate, moods, sadness,
happiness.
> And if you can succeed in watching all these three, and as your witnessing grows
deeper and deeper, a moment comes that there is only witnessing but nothing to
witness.
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> The mind is empty, the heart is empty, the body is relaxed.
**In that moment happens something like a quantum leap. Your whole witnessing
jumps upon itself. It witnesses itself, because there is nothing else to witness. And
this is the revolution which I call enlightenment, self-realization.** Or you can give it
any name, but this is the ultimate experience of bliss. You cannot go beyond it.
****Please no personal attacks on Osho, I consider him as a genuine enlightened master.***
Asked by The White Cloud
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Mar 16, 2022, 09:28 AM
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