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    Discovering Your Center: your natural essence versus your false personality
    Discovering Your Center: your natural essence versus your false personality
    Discovering Your Center: your natural essence versus your false personality
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    Discovering Your Center: your natural essence versus your false personality

    By Osho

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    The longing to be who we really are . Osho explains how we became alienated from our own essence, what it means to live in that disconnect, and how to rediscover our authenticity. Osho delivers a lot in one small talk!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOsho Media International
    Release dateJul 25, 2018
    ISBN9780880507196
    Discovering Your Center: your natural essence versus your false personality
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    Osho

    Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.

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      Discovering Your Center - Osho

      DiscoveringYourCenter

      your natural essence versus your false personality

      Osho

      ISBN: 978-0-88050-719-6

      Copyright © 1978, 2016 OSHO International Foundation,

      www.osho.com/copyrights

      Images and cover design © OSHO International Foundation

      Discovering Your Center, by Osho

      From a series of OSHO Talks titled: Unio Mystica, Vol. 1, Chapter #2, Questions 1, 2 and 4

      Discovering Your Center is also available as an original audio recording, spoken by Osho

      Published by

      OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL

      an imprint of

      OSHO INTERNATIONAL

      www.osho.com/oshointernational

      ISBN: 978-0-88050-719-6

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      Today I looked at you and I felt myself so shallow and phony and false. There doesn’t seem to be anything deeper inside of me. Do these feelings show that I don’t have a center yet? It also shocks me that this seems to be my face at the moment.

      Nobody can exist without a center. Life is impossible without a center. You may not be aware of it, that’s another matter. It has not to be created but only rediscovered. And remember, I am not saying discovered, I am saying rediscovered.

      The child in the mother’s womb remains perfectly aware of the center. The child in the mother’s womb is at the center, vibrates at the center, pulsates at the center. The child is the center in the mother’s womb, he has no circumference yet. He is only essence, he has no personality yet.

      Essence is the center, that which is your nature, that which is given by existence. Personality is the circumference, that which is cultivated by society; it is not given by existence. It is by nurture, not by nature.

      As the child comes out of the womb, he comes for the first time in contact with something outside of himself. And that contact creates the circumference. Slowly, slowly, the society initiates the child into its own ways. The Christian society will make the child a Christian; and the Hindu, a Hindu, and so on and so forth. Then layer upon layer of conditioning is imposed on the child.

      Basically, if you enter a well-developed personality you will find these three things. First, a very thin positive layer – positive but phony. That is the layer which goes on pretending; that is the layer where all your masks are contained. Fritz Perls

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