Osho – Patanjali is not in favour of the analysis of dreams
Osho – Turio. One of the greatest enlightened masters of the whole of history was Patanjali, who found the school of yoga. He divides man’s consciousness in four stages. The…
Osho – In Yoga two kinds of samadhi are talked about (nirbeeja and sabeeja)
Osho – Anand means bliss, nirbeeja means seedless. The word nirbeeja is a very specific word. In Yoga two kinds of samadhi are talked about, two kinds of ultimate states…
Osho – Patanjali is for unhealthy people and Zen is for very natural people
Question – For zen it is: “eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirsty.” For Patanjali it is: “regularity — niyam.” How to reconcile spontaneity and regularity?…
Osho – A man of awareness is unattached
Osho on Patanjali Yoga Sutra “Attraction, and through it, attachment, is towards anything that brings pleasure. Repulsion is from anything that causes Pain” Osho – These are your two ways…
Osho – Awareness is to be aware that you are not the body
Osho – what is awareness? Awareness is to be aware that you are not the body, not because the Upanishads say so or Patanjali says so — because you can…
Osho – You are that which will always exist
Osho – Lack of awareness is when you take your body as yourself. Ninety percent of your lives’ miseries are because of this: lack of awareness. You take the body…
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 Samadhi – In samadhi you become part of God
Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia.…
Osho on Shirshasana in Yoga – Don’t do too much shirshasana
Osho – In the old ashrams everybody had to sleep on a rocky bed – actually also, because it helps. In yoga, your spine, your backbone, is very important, and…
Osho – How does this mechanism of hope function?
Osho – How does this mechanism of hope function? Whenever you are in misery, sad, depressed, you immediately escape from it, you try to forget it. That’s how it continues.…
Osho – Your ego leads to misery, nobody else leads you into misery
Osho – Whenever you listen to the voice of the ego, sooner or later there will be trouble. You will fall into the trap of misery. This you have to…
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 on Patanjali Yoga Sutra – Virtue Brings Pleasure; Vice Brings Pain
Patanjali Yoga Sutra – VIRTUE BRINGS PLEASURE; VICE BRINGS PAIN. Osho – If you have done virtuous karmas, good actions, then you will have much pleasure around you. Even with…
Osho – Creation is Pranayam and Destruction of the world is Pratyahar
Question – Beloved Osho, Yesterday you explained that pranayam is the method which expands the bio-energy and pratyahar is to return to the original source. First it is expansion, then…
Osho on Yoga, Osho on science of Yoga, Osho on Patanjali Yoga
Osho : Before we talk about the first sutra of Patanjali, a few other things have to be understood. First, yoga is not a religion–remember that. Yoga is not Hindu,…
Osho discourse on Selfish Pride, Pride is always for wrong reasons
Patanjali Yoga Sutra : It is difficult to Subdue Selfish Pride. Osho on above sutra : One of the most arduous things in life is not to think of oneself…
Osho on Yoga Sutra – Alonesness and Universal Oneness
Osho : Yoga says if only we could see that we are not more than a bird on a big aeroplane. In a river, two straws were floating. The river’s…
Osho discourse on Yoga Sutras, Patanjali Yoga sutras
Osho : Yoga’s third sutra… I told you that existence has two forms. Energy – the first sutra. Second – energy has two forms – non-existence and existence. And the…
Osho on Lao Tzu and Patanjali Yoga Sutras
Osho : Lao Tzu once told his friends that he could not be defeated by anyone in his life. Naturally his friends kept quiet. Then they asked him to tell…
Osho on difference in Yoga and Tantra
Question – What is the difference between Traditional Yoga and Tantra? Are they the same? Osho – Tantra and yoga are basically different. They reach to the same goal; however,…