Osho on Gautam Buddha’s – Right Effort, Right Meditation, Right Food
Question : Beloved Master, Whatever i do, i try too hard. Please tell us about Buddha’s “right effort.” Osho : Anand Nagaro, Gautama the Buddha has taught only one thing,…
Osho on Arhatas and Bodhisattvas
Osho – Just to be enlightened is not enough. A mere enlightenment will give you all the joys of the world, but you will become absolutely dumb. You will not…
Osho – The witness makes you a buddha
Osho – I have told you the story many times about Gautam Buddha. One day, walking on the road from one town to another, he was talking to Ananda. A…
Osho on Suchness (Tathata), Remain in this attitude of suchness
Question – Beloved Osho, there is a word that has often touched me deeply. By just remembering it from time to time it feels as if it can healwounds, and…
Osho – The more conscious you are, the more intensely you live
Osho – THE ESSENTIAL TEACHING OF GAUTAM THE BUDDHA is not a teaching at all, but an awakening. A way to become more aware. He does not give you a…
Osho – A Buddha cannot be asked to help you. He is help – but a passive help
Osho – The first thing: to ask the Buddha to help us is foolish, for three reasons. First, he cannot. Second, even if he could he would not. Third, we…
Osho on Buddhism Message – The message of Buddhism is freedom
Osho – THE THINKER IS CREATIVE WITH HIS THOUGHTS. This is one of the most fundamental truths to be understood. All that you experience is your creation. First you create…
Osho – Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror
Question – Beloved Master, Can the watcher, the consciousness, ever be judgmental about what he sees, or is it still the ego judging the ego, the mind condemning itself? Osho…
Osho – Buddha says: There is no sinner, no saint; nothing is pure, nothing is impure
Osho – This existence is neither impure nor pure. There is nobody who is a sinner and nobody who is a saint. Buddha’s insight is utterly revolutionary: he says nothing…
Osho on Black Hole and Emptiness, Black hole is like Buddha’s concept of emptiness
Osho – Buddha says: All dharmas are full of emptiness. That nothingness exists at everything’s core: that nothingness exists in a tree, that nothingness exists in a rock, that nothingness…
Osho on Buddha Sannyasins – Buddha says that sannyas is to be just in the middle
Question – Buddha inspired a large number of persons to become sannyasins – sannyasins who would beg for their meals and live away from society, business and politics. Buddha himself…
Osho – Tantra was born as a rebellion a rebellion against Buddhism, not against Buddha
Question – How did tantra grow out of buddhism which, as far as i know, views sex as a hindrance to meditation? Osho – It is related to the first…
Osho – To realize the essence of Buddhism is to realize what Buddha realized
Osho – The essence of Buddhism is not in the scriptures, not in the words of Buddha. It is something to be understood, because it has far-reaching implications. Whatever Buddha…
Osho on Buddha Statues – Watching a Buddha statue is watching a Yantra
Question – While in an art museum in frankfurt recently, i entered one room with nothing but statues and carvings of buddha. I put absolutely no faith in stone idols,…
Osho – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow
Osho – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow, to take a decision to go into dangers, to take a decision to live in indecision. This…
Osho – Man is not in bondage, only thinks so
Osho – A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to…
Osho – Buddha chose death as a symbol; hence the yellow robe
Osho – Buddha chose for his sannyasins the yellow robe, just as I have chosen the orange. That is the difference between my approach and the Buddha’s approach. Yellow represents…
Osho – Atisha is not an escapist. He does not teach escapism
Atisha Sutra – Train with Phrases in Every Mode of Behavior. Osho – Atisha is not an escapist. He does not teach escapism, he does not tell you to move…
Osho – Gautama the Buddha’s whole religion can be reduced to a single word – Freedom
Osho – Gautama the Buddha’s whole religion can be reduced to a single word. That word is freedom. That is his essential message, his very fragrance. Nobody else has raised…
Osho – According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live Unconsciously
Osho – Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep — not…
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 Gautama the Buddha and Jesus Christ Message
Osho – Gautama the Buddha’s most fundamental message to humanity is that man is asleep. Man is born asleep. He is not talking about the ordinary sleep; he is talking…