Osho on Stillness and its three dimensions
Question : Osho, last night you explained inner stillness through the dimension of inner silence. Please explain inner stillness from some other dimension. Osho : STILLNESS has many dimensions. One…
Osho – The stupid man’s silence will be stupid.
Osho : One thing will be of great value to understand: truth cannot be said, but at the same time, you cannot hide it. You cannot say it, but you…
Osho – The seeker has to be silent, then god speaks.
Osho – One can be in an argument with existence or one can be in a dialogue. When you are in argument with existence you are fighting, you are trying…
Osho – Unless words come out of silence they are dead
Osho – If you can be eloquent but cannot be silent your eloquence is meaningless. Unless words come out of silence they are dead. Unless words come out of your…
Osho on relationship between Silence and Blissfulness
Question – Beloved Osho, Can you talk about the relationship between silence and blissfulness? Is silence all that is needed? Does everything else follow? Osho – Prem Samarpan, there is…
Osho – The silence that I have been talking about is the silence of the heart
Osho – Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence.…
Osho – Meditation is silence, not an enforced silence
Osho – Meditation means no-thought, no-mind, no words. They have all been left behind; one has come to an immense, infinite silence. But that silence is not dead, it is…
Osho on Silence – Silence is beautiful only if it is rooted in awareness
Osho – Silence has been praised down the ages as one of the most important factors for inner transformation; but silence alone is neither enough nor beneficial. Silence alone can…
Osho on Silence and Aloneness, In silence nothing wrong can ever happen
Question – Beloved Osho, The other day you talked so beautifully about the sadness which follows the first experience of our innermost silence. Is it necessarily so, that when I…
Osho – The word coming out of silence carries around it the wordless silence
Question – Beloved Osho, When I sit in your lecture I feel your silence and feel I become part of it. This is a wordless process in melting more and…
Osho – Sanity happens only when you become so totally silent that all inner chattering disappears
Osho – This whole mind of communicating with people in an attempt to be verified by them simply shows a deep darkness inside; otherwise, there is no need. And I…
Osho on Silence – A forced silence will not give you the right taste of silence
Question : Many people are in Silence now. Do you recommend this? What is the purpose? Can it be helpful? Osho – I don’t recommend, but they understand. I don’t…