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 – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough
Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough – it is time to go inward! Have the taste of the inner now. And once…
Osho – the first thing to decide is, is this a heart matter or a mind matter?
Osho – One has to be very very alert about one thing: there are things in which the heart will
Osho – Whenever a new child is born the relationship between the husband and wife immediately changes
Osho – Nothing to be worried about. I don’t see that you are not flowing with the river – that is not the confusion. The confusion is just the vice…
Osho – In any real situation you will be able to see who is intelligent
Osho – We go on polishing the mind in schools, colleges, universities, with the hope that we will be able to create an intelligent humanity. Our stupidity is such that…
Osho – Tao is certainly greater than mind – Tao is greater than everything
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…
Osho on Thinking – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies
Osho – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies. They cannot think without dividing. Whenever we go to think about something, we dissect it, we divide it into two.…
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 – Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness
Osho – Mind is just a disturbance. Mind is just a disturbance in consciousness. It is not your nature; it is just a disturbance. The moment there is no disturbance,…
Osho – Whatsoever you know will really hinder your search
Osho – Mind is incapable of knowing the truth. It can gather all kinds of information about truth, but to know about truth is not to know truth. To know…
Osho – It was mind crucifying the heart when Jesus was crucified
Osho – Mind is always old. Even a one-day-old child has a one-day-old mind, because mind means the past. It accumulates the past; it is accumulative it goes on accumulating…
Osho – the second birth becomes possible only through meditation
Osho – Man is a potentiality, a possibility. We can miss it millions miss it, and the reason why we miss is very simple: we think that we have already…
Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering
Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering. It is constantly crowded with many thoughts, desires. It goes on dreaming and dreaming. It is never still even for…
Osho – A different kind of mind exists when you are with nature
Osho – Very good! That may be one of the causes why you are so simple. Gardeners, farmers, fishermen, woodcutters, have a totally different kind of energy – the best…
Osho on Confusion in Life
Osho – Confusion remains, and one has to learn to live with it because life cannot be sorted out; it is so big. The confusion arises because of our impossible…
Osho – The result-oriented mind is a stupid mind
Osho – The result-oriented mind is a stupid mind. It goes on sacrificing the present for the future. Sacrificing! – and the sacrifice is absolutely non-creative. It goes on postponing.…
Osho on reality and desire – Reality is here and now
Osho – If the mind is filled with dreams you cannot see rightly. If the heart is filled with desires you cannot feel rightly. Desires, dreams and hopes – the…
Osho – I call that man religious who renounces the mind
Osho – The mind has a persistent habit to go on believing in itself — even against all facts. Even if your old mind goes on giving you nothing but…
Osho on Intelligence, Osho on intelligence of the heart and intelligence of the mind?
Question – What exactly is Intelligence, and what is the relation of the intelligence of the heart to the intelligence of the mind? Osho – Punita, intelligence is the inborn…
Osho – One has to work with both the body and the mind
Osho – Asanas, pranayama — there are so many methods through which energies can be made to flow inward. When they flow inward they become one, because at the center…
Osho – Is it possible to have an Original Thought?
Question – Is it possible to have an Original Thought? Osho – It is impossible, absolutely impossible to have an original thought. Because mind is memory, mind is the past,…
Osho – Mind is misery, Meditation is bliss
Osho – Mind is misery and cannot be otherwise, because mind lives in desires, ambitions, it is always hankering for the more — and that hankering cannot be satisfied. It…