Osho – Coming close to a Master certainly creates fear
Question : I see in myself and even in this commune so much unconscious fear of change. Is your approach not Utopian? Will there ever will be anybody willing to…
Osho – I can help you only if I destroy you — if I destroy your past
Question : Do you know, Osho, that Mr Cecil Lewis has escaped? Osho : Poor old man. He was a nice man. But I was afraid that it was going…
Osho on Being with a Master or Searching alone without a Master
Question : Beloved Osho, I have heard you say that seeking the truth is as ecstatic as finding it. Does that not eliminate the search? Osho : It does not…
Osho on difference between obeying the master and following his guidance?
Question – Beloved Osho, what is the difference between obeying the master and following his guidance? Osho – The question is complex. In the first place, the master does not…
Osho – You are not to become attached to the presence of the master
Question – Beloved Osho, Sitting in your presence, meditation is really at its best. If asked why, i would say that it is because your blissful presence is contagious and…
Osho on Dying in Master’s Presence – Physical closeness means nothing
Osho with His Father and Mother (Osho’s Father Dadaji died Enlightened) Question : Beloved Osho, Thoughts of death have been a frequent visitor during my disciplehood. How can a disciple…
Osho – The guru is the address of God
Osho – The very word “guru” is meaningful. The “master” doesn’t carry that significance. The master seems to be someone who has mastered a thing, gone under a long training,…
Osho on Instant Enlightenment and False Gurus
Question – So many people are looking for instant enlightenment these days and there are all these gurus running around saying ‘follow me’ and yet it is questionable whether the…
Osho – He who has recognized the guru, has discovered the hand of God
Osho – Nanak says whenever a person becomes liberated many others are liberated by contact with them. Liberation is such a great and superb occurrence and it is such a…
Osho – Nanak and Kabir and others have stressed one point — seek a living guru
Osho – Understand that Nanak has glorified the guru to a great extent. All saints have sung the glory of the guru, placing him above the scriptures. If the guru…
Osho on Kabir words on Guru – The guru is great beyond words
Kabir says: “the guru is great beyond words, and great is the good fortune of the disciple.” Osho on above Kabir words – Yes, to become a disciple is to…
Osho on Guru Purnima Day, Guru Purnima Day is the day of all the Buddhas
Osho : My feeling is that EACH of you here has passed many times around such groves — sometimes a Buddha, sometimes a Mansoor, sometimes an Ali, and sometimes a…
Osho – The master is recognized through the heart and not through the head
Osho – Shiva says: THE GURU IS THE WAY. Do not be a way unto yourself or you will spoil everything. First of all, it is a difficult task to…
Osho – The master can create a certain atmosphere, a certain energy field
(Meditation is as easy as pie, as Osho tells a new sannyasin, who has been riding a unicycle around the ashram.) Osho – It is slipping out of your mind…
Osho – My real work is not in the day. It is in the night when you are fast asleep snoring
Question – We, in our unawareness and egoistic state, are not always in touch with the master. but is the master always in touch with us? Osho – Yes, because…
Osho – You need living Masters who have not yet become myths
Osho – Kabir says: The only thing worth doing is to wake up my mind. The God, the REAL guru, is inside. The word ‘guru’ is untranslatable. Neither does the…
Osho – Is it possible to deceive a master?
Question – Is it possible to deceive a master? Osho– YES, IF THE MASTER WILLS SO. Sometimes the Master wants to be deceived. If it is for your growth, he…
Osho on Initiation – In initiation, you are more important than the technique
Question – You have been explaining many meditation methods to us. However, Isn’t it true that no method can be all that powerful unless one is initiated into it? Osho…
Osho – Unless you are in love with a Master, you will not allow him to wake you up
Question – How do i find my way? Osho – Rashid, There is no way to be found, and there is no one to find it – and there is…
Osho on Egyptian Mystic Dhun-Nun, Surrender means total trust
Osho – surrendering is enough. It is a sudden method, it can work in a moment, it can explode you in a moment. On the surface it looks easy –…
Osho – The disciple has to learn the lesson of let-go with the Master
Osho – Deva means divine, urdhwa means upward-going – a divine upward-going. Science knows one law, the law of gravitation – that everything falls downwards, that the earth functions like…
Osho – Disciplehood means that you accept the fact that you know nothing
Osho – One can be a disciple only if one drops all knowledge. Disciplehood means that you accept the fact that you know nothing. It begins in a state of…