Talks on Zen, Sufism, Upanishads, Tantra, Yoga, Sex, Love, Meditation, Career
Question – Osho, To find a soulmate sounds nice, but almost impossible. Would you please say something more about it? And how can it even come close to finding a…
(Osho hands Tantra Mridani her sannyas name with the comments) Osho – You have a simply far-out name. (laughter) This is your name: Ma Tantra Mridani. Mridani means erotic partner…
Osho – Identification is the root and everything else is nothing but leaves. Being identified with greed, being identified with anger, being identified with sex, is the root. And remember,…
Osho – Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if…
Question – How did tantra grow out of buddhism which, as far as i know, views sex as a hindrance to meditation? Osho – It is related to the first…
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Question – How is it that great masters like Chogyam Trungpa get so drunk on occasional festivities that they have to be carried home? Can the use…
Osho – You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery…
Osho – The first thing: There are two kinds of love. C.S. Lewis has divided love into these two kinds: ’need-love’ and ’gift-love’. Abraham Maslow also divides love into two…
Osho – Tara is also the name of a tantra goddess. There are two traditions of tantra – one is Hindu, another is Buddhist. In the Buddhist tradition tara is…
Question – Beloved Osho, do you see shortcomings in the teachings of tantra that incline you to feel tantric methods are not suitable for us? Osho – It is not…
Osho : FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to…
Question : Is n’t Tantra a way of Indulgence? Osho : IT IS NOT. It is the ONLY way to get out of indulgence. It is the only way to…
Osho : GAUTAM THE BUDDHA IS THE GREATEST MASTER who has ever walked on the earth. Christ is a great Master, so is Krishna, so is Mahavir, so is Mohammed,…
Osho : Even in ordinary life you feel the futility of words. And if you don’t feel the futility of words, that shows that you have not been alive at…
Question : How does one overcome the pull toward Sex so that the Kundalini Can go upward? Osho : Energy has been going downward through the sex center continuously for…
Question – How often should one Indulge in Sex in order to to help and not to Hinder the Meditation process? Osho – The question arises because we go on…
Osho – Tantra is science. Tantra says first know what the reality is, what man is, and don’t create values and don’t create ideals right now: first know what is.…
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,…
Osho – TANTRA means technique. So this treatise is a scientific one. Science is not concerned with why, science is concerned with how. That is the basic difference between philosophy…
Osho on Khajuraho Temples – Khajuraho or Konarak — if you meditate there, you will know what the Tantra masters were doing. They were creating in stone something that is…
Osho on Tantric Sex : Tantric sex is not sex at all; it is meditation. Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively,…