Osho on unconscious surfacing in dreams – Much rubbish is being thrown out in dreams
Osho – I received your letter.
Osho – Nirjara means a state of consciousness where all conditionings have dropped
Osho – Nirjara. It is one of the most important words in the Eastern search for truth. It comes from the Jaina tradition. That tradition is very much unknown in…
Osho – All desires are insane! The only sanity is to be desireless.
Question – Beloved Osho, Are all desires insane? Osho – Narayano, yes, all desires are insane. Desire as such is insane because desire means living in the future, and the…
Osho – A demanding mind always becomes miserable. Bliss is where demand is not
Osho – Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without
Osho – The greatest barrier to enlightenment is the longing for it
Question – Since coming to you, living a meditative life has become an easier and more natural phenomenon. However, i have practically given up all hope for enlightenment. Are these…
Osho – Desire has to be purified and transformed, because it is your energy
Osho – The energy called desire has been condemned for centuries. Almost all the socalled saints have been against it, because desire is life and they were all life-negative. Desire…
Osho on anxiety and love – Only love brings a state of no anxiety
Osho – Prem means love, and achinta means no anxiety. And remember that only love brings a state of no anxiety – and only love. Everything else creates a new…
Osho – Desire means you are not herenow and Nirvana is always herenow
Osho – This is a paradox, but of tremendous import – that enlightenment becomes possible only when you forget about it. When the desire for enlightenment disappears, only then does…
Osho – Be aware of your mind’s mechanism, and how it transforms everything into desiring
Osho – We don’t live in existence, we live in desires. Really, we don’t live in the world at all, we live in desires. Our life is not here and…
Osho – The desire to exhibit is the desire of an ignorant mind
Osho – The desire to exhibit is the desire of an ignorant mind. Why do you want to exhibit? Why do you want people to know you? What’s the cause…
Osho – Our desires are dreams, all our thoughts are dreams
Osho – Our desires are dreams, all our thoughts are dreams. And we go on continuously living in dreams because we are asleep. Dreams can exist only if we are…
Osho on Frustration – frustration is the shadow of expectation
Question – Beloved Master, I feel so Frustrated! Osho – So what! You must be responsible for it. If you don’t want to feel frustrated then there is no need.…
Osho on Desiring – The more you desire, the more miserable you will be
Buddha Sutra – O Monks, Do away with Passions. Osho on above Buddha Sutra – Drop desiring. Our desiring culminates everything. Our desiring becomes our interpretation of everything. The more…
Osho – If you are too much distracted by desires, pleasures, gratifications
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 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 on Nature of Desire and Jealousy, The nature of desire is Jewish
Osho -If you can become desireless, then death cannot have any sway over you. It is the desiring mind that is caught in the net of death, and we are…
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…
Don't play with your Desire and Pleasure in your imagination; that is strengthening them
Osho – If you allow desire and pleasure and lust and greed and anger and jealousy and possessiveness and violence and all these rushing streams towards you, they will sweep…
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…
Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up
Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up. Millions of people have tried to drop desiring without waking up. In fact, the very idea of dropping desire was…
Osho – When you desire something, Your joy depends on that something
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,…