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Question : Beloved Osho, The dictionary definition of humble is: “having or showing a consciousness of one’s defects or shortcomings. Not proud, not self-assertive, modest.” is a rebel humble? Is…
Osho – The only problem is the ego, but it creates thousands of other problems; it is the root cause. And I am not interested in pruning the leaves and…
Question – How to Sacrifice the Ego? Osho – Deva Ahuti, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE EGO CANNOT BE SACRIFICED because the ego exists not. The ego is just all idea:…
Question – Beloved Osho, what is meant by a spiritual ego? Is spiritual greed one of its symptoms? Is it curable? Osho – Anand Tarangini, the spiritual ego is not…
Question – Sometimes it seems like wherever i go i am facing the wall. Osho – The wall is not outside, the wall is inside you. So wherever you go,…
Osho – Deva means divine and vineet means humbleness. Humbleness is going to be your work. And when I say humbleness, I don’t mean what the word ordinarily means. Ordinarily…
Osho – Essentially love is humbleness — there is no other kind of humbleness. If humbleness is cultivated without love, it is just a face for the ego, just another…
Question – Is the ego still working when i feel joy and contentment? Osho – Champak, when the joy is there, there is no ego. But when the joy is…
Osho – Learning goes into the ego; learning strengthens the ego. That is why pundits, brahmins, scholars, have the subtlest egos. Learning gives them scope, learning gives them space. They…
Osho – When you are playing, you are not trying to prove that you are somebody. You are at ease, at home. While playing, just for fun, you are not…
Osho – Deva is a sanskrit root; it means divine. Hasido is a hebrew root; it means pious – divinely pious. There is a piety that can be cultivated by…
Question – Beloved Osho, What is so attractive about Missing? Osho – Devaraj, it has a tremendous attraction, because it is only through missing that the ego can survive. It…
Osho – The ego goes on agreeing for wrong things, because the ego can exist only with the wrong. It feeds on the wrong. So whenever you feel that your…
Osho – The secret of immortality is to die as an ego. Be just a zero and you have attained to the eternal, because the zero cannot be killed by…
Question – Osho, Tao is greater than mind. Then why do we keep choosing the mind instead of flowing with the Tao? Osho – Prem Radha, It is precisely because…
Question – Osho, Why is it so difficult to forgive, to stop clinging to hurts long since past? Osho – The ego exists on misery – the more misery the…
Osho – Love is not something to be obtained from the outside. Love is the music of your inner being. Nobody can give you love. Love can arise within you,…
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 – The ego is cowardice. Cowardice is not an essential part of the ego, it is the whole of the ego. And it is bound to be so, because…
Osho – A meditator enters into his mind and starts watching how the mind functions. Just the very fact of watching the mind makes him aware that he is not…
Osho – Love is possible only in the climate of egolessness. With the ego love cannot grow. Ego is like a rock and love is like a rose flower: if…
Osho – Bliss is beauty; misery is ugliness. It not only cripples your body, it cripples your very soul. It paralyzes, it poisons, it is very destructive. But people cling…