Osho – Anything absolute is a death for the mind
Question : Osho, the vision “neither this nor that” feels so negative. How can i be accepting or even creative with this? I feel totally confused. Osho : Prem Helmut,…
Osho on Immature Mind – When I say, ‘Be mature,’ I mean become a no-mind
Question : You told me that my mind is immature. What does it mean to have a mind that is mature? Osho : To think that you know is to…
Osho on Effortless Effort in Meditation
Question : The other day you said that effort is dangerous, but hard work is needed in the meditations. For my german mind, effort equals hard work. Is there hard…
Osho – That’s how the mind functions: one takes things for granted
Osho : So don’t be worried — three months is not a problem, not a problem. Sometimes it is good to be away from here, sometimes very very good and…
Osho – Buddha says, don’t be too much attached to the body
Buddha Sutra : “For behold your body — A painted puppet, a toy, Jointed and sick and full of false imaginings, A shadow that shifts and fades”. Osho on above…
Osho – The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it
Osho – The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it. The very effort to stop it gives it more nourishment to go on. Millions of people, for centuries…
Osho – May way is the way of meditation: Neither of head nor of heart
Question – Beloved Osho, your way is the way of the heart, and the outside world is the way of the head. Will it ever be possible that man can…
Osho – Never repent about the past because that is again wasting the present
Question – Beloved Osho, my mind, the monster, distracts me even when i’m sitting in discourse. It simply takes over and thinks all sorts of silly thoughts and by the…
Osho on Imagination, Remember to avoid any kind of imagination — all imagination
Question – Beloved Osho, the other morning before lecture, i suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to touch, with great gratitude, the floor where you walk. in that moment, i heard…
Osho on Left and Right Brain (left hemisphere and right hemisphere)
Osho – Being is one, the world is many…and between the two is the divided mind, the dual mind. It is just like a big tree, an ancient oak: the…
Osho – Mind is the barrier. No-mind is the door
Osho – Truth is all around, but your interpretations are YOUR interpretations. God is speaking all the time, but you hear not, or even if you hear, you hear something…
Osho on psychotherapy and meditation – Meditation has nothing to do with psychotherapy
Question – Beloved Osho, does psychological therapy help to go beyond the mind? Osho – Vijen, psychological therapy can help you to understand the mind, but it cannot lead you…
Osho Story – You don’t know enough about yourself
Question – Beloved Osho, you said the other day that if you were a cab-driver nobody would be able to recognize you. I don’t agree. At lease I for one…
Osho – Identification with the mind is more subtle than identification with the body
Osho – Jean Paul Sartre wrote an autobiography. He has called it WORDS. The name is very meaningful. It is the autobiography of every man – words and words and…
Osho – The greatest trouble the mind can create is the longing for home
Osho – It is one of the deep-rooted habits of the mind always to divide things. The moment you divide things you are in trouble – and mind wants you…
Osho on Mind – Mind’s nature is to move from one extreme to another
Osho – The most difficult thing, the almost impossible thing for the mind, is to remain in the middle, is to remain balanced. And to move from one thing to…
Osho – Mind can go on playing tricks unless you learn how not to associate with it
Osho – Nothing is wrong with your energy, mm? just your mind goes on playing tricks with you. And the mind
Osho on Empty Mind – Meditation means making the mind empty, empty of all thoughts
Osho – Without meditation one is bound to live in misery. One can cover it up, one can find a few consolations, one has to find a few consolations otherwise…
Osho – The SAME is going to happen wherever you go, because YOU are the world
Osho – The world is there because of you – you create it, you are a creator. Every single being creates a world around himself, it depends on his mind.…
Osho – there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world
Osho – How you look at things depends on you, not on things. Unless you come to a point where you drop the interpreting mind and look direct, look immediate,…
Osho – To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace
Osho – Meditation is the door to the divine. To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace; in fact it is prepared…
Osho on Greed – Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of the emptiness of the mind
Osho – The mind is greed – and unless the mind disappears, greed goes on lingering in some way or other. Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of…