AWARENESS MEANS THAT WHATSOEVER IS HAPPENING IN THE MOMENT IS HAPPENING WITH

COMPLETE CONSCIOUSNESS; YOU ARE PRESENT THERE.

If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only
when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in
your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not
possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact,
there is only one sin and that is unawareness.
The original word sin means to miss. It doesn�t mean to commit something wrong; it
simply means to miss, to be absent. The Hebrew root for the word sin means to miss.
That exists in a few English words: misconduct, misbehavior. To miss means not to
be there, doing something without being present there � this is the only sin. And
the only virtue: while you are doing something you are fully alert � what Gurdjieff
calls self-remembering, what Buddha calls being rightly mindful, what Krishnamurti
calls awareness, what Kabir has called surati. To be there! � That�s all that is
needed, nothing more. You need not change anything, and even if you try to change
you cannot.�
OSHO
From The Hidden Harmony, Chapter Two

�When I say, "Just be yourself," I am saying to you, "Just be unprogrammed,

unconditioned awareness."
That's how you had come into the world, and that's how the enlightened person
leaves the world. He lives in the world but remains totally separate.
One of the great mystics, Kabir, has a beautiful poem about it. All his poems are
just perfect - nothing can be better.
One of his poems says, "I will give back the soul that was given to me at the time
of my birth as pure, as clean, as it was given to me. I will give it back that way
when I die." He is talking about awareness, that it has remained unpolluted.
The whole world was there to pollute it, but he has remained watchful.
All that you need is just to be watchful, and nothing will affect you. This
unaffectedness will keep your purity, and this purity has certainly the freshness
of life, the joy of existence - all the treasures that you have been endowed with.
But you become attached to the small things surrounding you and forget the one that
you are. It is the greatest discovery in life and the most ecstatic pilgrimage to
truth.
And you need not be an ascetic, you need not be anti-life - you need not renounce
the world and go to the mountains.
You can be where you are, you can continue to do what you are doing. Just a new
thing has to be evolved: whatever you do, you do with awareness - even the smallest
act of the body or the mind - and with each act of awareness you will become aware
of the beauty and the treasure and the glory and the eternity of your being.�
OSHO
Beyond Psychology Talk#22