The first is called dharmakaya: the body of the ultimate law. And what is the ultimate law? Emptiness is the ultimate law: all is empty. If you really want to grow, you will have to let this insight soak into you: all is empty. Life is empty, death is empty, all phenomena are empty - because nothing abides, everything passes by, all is dream stuff. If this is understood, this will protect you. How can you be insulted if all is empty? How can there be pain if all is empty? ...you must have seen a dream that the other was insulting you, that the other spat on you.
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The second body is nirmanakaya: the first arising of compassion. When all is empty, when everybody is on the funeral pyre, then compassion arises. It is not to be cultivated, remember, it arises out of the first body. If you cultivate it, then you still believe in the ego. If you cultivate it you still believe in character... in virtue. If there is no self, what is character..? what is virtue..? what is good?

First settle into nobodiness and then the second body will arise of its own accord. Nirmanakaya means the body of creation. It is strange... this is the insight of all the great Buddha, that if you become a nobody, great creation arises out of you... you become a...medium, a voice, for the whole. The first experience will be great compassion. Of course in the beginning it will be partial, conditional, caused by the suffering of others...If nobody is starving and nobody is dying, there will be no compassion.

Out of the second, the third crystallizes. It is called Sambhogakaya, the body of bliss. In the third body, compassion is unconditional... it is not a question whether somebody is suffering or not... It is like a light burning in the night, it goes on radiating...Just as you go on breathing [even while you are asleep], a Buddha is compassionate even while asleep.

And the fourth body is called swabhavakaya: the body of the ultimate nature, of spontaneity, of your innermost being as it is. In the fourth body, all distinctions disappear, all dualities are transcended... one simply is, with no distinctions, with no categories, with no divisions.

Each seeker after truth has to pass through the four bodies.

From The Book of Wisdom, by Osho
Used by kind permission of Osho Foundation International