Now the work starts. Atisha is very condensed, seed-like. That is the meaning of a sutra; it is just like a thread, just a hint, and then you have to decode it.

"Phenomena" means all that you see, all that you experience. All that can ever be experienced is all phenomena.

Remember, not only are the objects of the world phenomena and dreams, but also objects of consciousness. They may be objects of the world, they may be just objects of the mind. They may be great spiritual experiences. You may see Kundalini rising in you: that too is a phenomenon - a beautiful dream, a very sweet dream, but it is a dream all the same.

You may see great light flooding your being, but that light is also a phenomenon. You may see lotuses blooming inside you and a great fragrance arising within your being: these too are phenomena, because you are always the seer and never the seen, always the experiencer and never the experienced, always the witness and never the witnessed.

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