Buddha says: Speak, but speak only when it is absolutely necessary
Osho – Buddha says: Speak, but speak only when it is absolutely necessary. Speak, but speak only to those who are ready to listen. Don’t go on speaking to each…
Osho on Gautam Buddha Sutra – Seek the other Shore
Osho – Buddha says: Don’t be too much concerned with this shore; it is momentary. Tomorrow you have to go. Even seventy years is not a long time; compared to…
Osho on Dream Analysis and Enlightenment
Question – BELOVED MASTER, IS IT NECESSARY TO GO THROUGH DREAM ANALYSIS FOR ATTAINING ENLIGHTENMENT? Osho – Gautami, dream analysis cannot help you to become enlightened, but dream witnessing can…
Osho – Desire as such is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent
Osho – Desire AS SUCH is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent on the other, on the desired object. Whether it is a woman, money, a man,…
Osho – Whatsoever happens to you is your own doing
Osho – If you don’t listen to the buddhas you will be consumed by your own mischief. The harm that you do to yourself is such that nobody can do…
Osho – Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine
Osho – Jayananda, it depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. There is one famous maxim of Murphy. He…
Osho – Be Altruistic only when your own self is fulfilled
Osho – Buddha says There are needy people all around. There are ill people, there are poor people, there are paralyzed people and blind and deaf and lame. If you…
Osho – If you remember death, life cannot deceive you anymore
Osho – Remember death, never forget it for a single moment! Because of this insistence, many people have thought Buddha is death-obsessed; he is not. You may be life-obsessed but…
Osho on Life – I affirm life, I rejoice in life
Osho – The worldly, the otherworldly, are not really different. There is only one difference that makes a difference and that is of awareness, alertness. And the awareness can be…
Osho – The only way to be desireless is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot
Osho – Desire means greed for more and more. Desire means discontent, discontent with what is, discontent with the present; hence you seek contentment in your hopes for the future.…
Osho – Buddhism never creates any guilt, it is not for repentance, it is for remembrance
Osho – The ordinary way of human beings is to overlook one’s own faults and to emphasize, magnify, others’ faults. This is the way of the ego. The ego feels…
Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted
Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted, and outside not staying long in any one place, not staying with one person…
Osho on Contentment, Contentment is your innermost nature. Contentment does not belong to things
Osho – Nobody can ever be contented in the world — that’s impossible. You can become more and more discontented, that’s all, because contentment happens only when you go inwards.…
Osho – whatsoever appears as happiness proves ultimately to be the source of unhappiness and nothing else
Osho – If you are too much distracted by desires, pleasures, gratifications, and if you are too thirsty in your senses for titillation, if you are searching foolishly for happiness…
Osho – Don't depend on the body and don't remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it
Osho – Don’t depend on the body and don’t remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it, care for it, but remember: you have to leave it…
Osho – Become just a watchfulness. See that one part is saying this, another part is saying that
Osho – Buddha is saying: Don’t consider what is right and what is wrong, because if you consider what is right and what is wrong you will be divided, you…
Osho on Happiness – Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine
Osho – Jayananda, it depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. There is one famous maxim of Murphy. He…
Osho – If you take pleasure in your cave in the Himalayas you are as unfree as anybody who lives in a palace
Gautam Buddha Sutra – “IT IS NOT IRON THAT IMPRISONS YOU NOR ROPE, NOR WOOD, BUT THE PLEASURE YOU TAKE IN GOLD AND JEWELS, IN SONS AND WIVES”. Osho –…
Osho – The dream can exist only if believed; the dream disappears if you don't believe in it
Osho – Beware of imagination. It can cloud your mind. It can destroy your capacity to see clearly. Hence I say: Unless you drop being Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians, you will…
Osho – It is a risky phenomenon to remain too much attached to your pleasures, to your imagination, because this is how you have been going from one l
Osho – Whenever you see some imagination arising in you, be alert. Don’t let it grow, don’t let it become a big tree. It will be far more difficult then…
Osho – Character is not of much value. What is valuable is Consciousness — not Conscience
Osho – Remember, the foolish person may have a certain character. It is easy for the fool to create a certain character because he is stubborn. Stupidity is always stubborn.…
Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself
Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring — and you go on desiring. In fact, you…