Osho on Insincerity – If you know that you are insincere, it will drop
Question – I feel that i have been dishonest and insincere in all my relations throughout my life. yes, sir, i have not done justice to my parents, my wife,…
Osho – Only those who have suffered will be able to understand me
Question – The return is entirely a personal affair. even a very near one cannot understand. it is actually easily possible only for those who have suffered. but, lord, you…
Osho – How can a meditator know that he is going higher and deeper
Question – How can a meditator know that he is going higher and deeper, or if he is stuck somewhere? Osho – It is very simple. First, there are qualities…
Osho – Religion is living. Living totally, living intensely, without any purpose
Question – Bhagwan, what purpose does your philosophy or religion give for life — for the existence of anything at all? Osho – First it is not right to make…
Osho – Why does suffering exist in the world?
Question – Bhagwan, why does suffering exist in the world? Osho – The suffering exists in the world because of purposes, goals and things like that. The suffering simply means…
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 on missionaries and sharing – Never try to think in terms of missionaries
Question – To follow jesus a deep trust, surrender and love is needed but today a deep skepticism is prevalent all over the world. what is the way? Osho –…
Osho – Doubt, analyze, question, but remain seperate. You are not the doubt
Question – How is one who has been trained all his life to analyze and question and doubt to bridge the gap between doubt and trust? Osho – DOUBT IS…
Osho – If learning stops, you are dead. Learning is life
Question – Are you still learning too? Osho – Yes, because if learning stops, you are dead. Learning is life. You can ask me, “Are you still alive? ” —…
Osho – How can one be oneself if one is not oneself?
Question – Your teaching seems to be: to be absolutely oneself. This is beyond me. How can one be oneself if one is not oneself? Osho – Let me ask…
Osho – You cannot stop the mind because you have not started it
Question – HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE MIND CAN GO ON PRODUCING THOUGHTS CONSTANTLY, AND HOW CAN WE STOP THAT WHICH WE HAVE NOT STARTED? Osho – You cannot…
Osho – Why we don’t feel the divine which is here/ now, within/without
Question – Please explain why we don’t feel the divine which is here/ now, within/without, which is you, me and all. Osho – This is from Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Because…
Osho – Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it
Question – You say that seriousness is a disease. Whenever i remember myself i feel serious, so what should i do? Osho – Don’t get serious about it. Let it…
Osho – Christ is totally different from Christianity
Question – A single session of your dynamic meditation has left within me a greater bliss and sense of being than twenty years of having had to listen to the…
Osho – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?
Question – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything? Osho – Joy is not allowed; you are preconditioned against joy. From the very childhood you have been taught that…
Osho – Emptiness, when it is negative, is never at ease with itself
Question – I feel empty. I cry. What’s next? Osho – This emptiness is negative. Otherwise you will not cry; you will laugh. This emptiness is like loneliness, not like…
Osho – Everybody has his own way of being in love. Never compare it
Question – Having never had the opportunity to truly fall in love, to know that surrender, is that keeping me from truly falling in love with you, being in that…
Osho – Jesus loved. That was one of his crimes: that he loved.
Question – It is believed that Christ was the first politician of love in that he tried to save the world before he had saved himself, and that we are…
Osho on difference between helping others and trying to change others
Question – You said, “Teaching is the best way of learning but you have also said, “The world is irreligious because of too many preachers. “Would you please speak on…
Osho – Jesus never created guilt in people. That was one of his crimes
Question – Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, So jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Osho – Fear and…
Osho – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do?
Question – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do? Osho – It is bound to be so. They sound egoistic because they cannot be humble in the…
Osho – Never believe in a God who is separate from His creatures and the creation
Osho – ONCE UPON A TIME, two explorers came to a clearing in the jungle. It was a beautiful place — thousands and thousands of flowers were blossoming. One of…