Osho – Love is not a duty. In love, work becomes worship.
Question – You said, “we are not doing anything here,” But those of us who live and work here in the ashram are continuously occupied with’doing’. In fact the more…
Osho – Jesus committed the crime of being happy. That was his only crime
Osho – RELIGION CAN BE HEALTHY — as healthy as a new born babe, as healthy as the songs of the birds in the morning, as healthy as a newly…
Osho – Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision
Osho – SPIRITUALITY is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues — because if you practise a virtue it…
Osho – Why do you prefer to call meditation the art of dying
Question – Why do you prefer to call meditation the art of dying rather than calling it the art of growing? Osho – Because I know your ego will like…
Osho – Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy
Question – As sex is closely related to death, What is the meaning of spontaneous celibacy? Osho – Sex is more closely related to birth than to death. Birth is…
Osho – Your expectation is the barrier because God is the unexpected
Osho – The truth cannot be your expectation. Whatsoever you expect will be a lie. Whatsoever you expect will be a projection. Whatsoever you expect will be a part of…
Osho – Look! See! Feel! Touch! — you will be nearer. But don’t think
Osho – Existence has no language… and if you depend on language there can be no communication with existence. Existence is a mystery, you cannot interpret it. If you interpret,…
Osho – Lao Tzu has No Path or The No-Path is his path
Question – You said there are only two types of people: those whose path is awareness and those whose path is surrender or bhakti. It seems to me that lao…
Osho – When Jesus touched the feet of his disciples, love touched their feet
Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth – “THEN COMETH HE TO SIMON PETER, AND PETER SAITH UNTO HIM: LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET?” Osho – It doesn’t look appropriate.’Dost thou…
Osho – Leave children alone. Never impose any religion on them
Question – My little son was never baptized. will this be of importance. Osho – It is very important! It is good that he was never baptized because baptism is…
Osho – Just be a mirror: reflect me; don’t try to understand me
Question – If you are not there, and there is no thought any more, How can you give such coherent and beautiful discourses? It seems like you are aware and…
Osho – Heartache is a positive thing. Headache is a negative thing
Question – My heart aches. such a tiny crevice of it feels able to open to you. I want to melt and flow around you like a puddle; and i…
Osho – When listening to me, sit like a Buddha, silent, receptive, feminine.
Question – If i can truly experience the music of the fluteplayer, can that be on the same level as the experience you wish to occur with you? I am…
Osho – Jesus’ prayer is almost childish. That’s the beauty of it
Question – Will you please explain to me the Lord’s Prayer, as given by Jesus? Osho – MEDITATION CAN BE EXPLAINED, prayer never. It can be understood, but it cannot…
Osho – He (enlightened man) does not answer your questions; he answers you
Osho – Always remember it: whenever you come to an enlightened man, whatsoever you say is not the point. He talks out of his heart. In fact, he does not…
Osho – Whatsoever you say about others, says more about you
Question – Osho, here with you is the deepest, most growing place for me to be and i dislike much of what i see here — dead rajneeshianity rising like…
Osho – A man who is enlightened lives out of his consciousness.
Question – What constitutes the behaviour of an enlightened man? Osho – An enlightened man is all emptiness. What constitutes an emptiness? It has no ‘constitutes’ in it; hence it…
Osho – If you have decided to remain thirsty, it is up to you
Question – Do you think that you will be unable to work upon me if i do not take your Sannyas? Osho – Have you come to find your capacities…
Osho – A cultivated trust will not be trust; it will be false
Question – Can Trust be Cultivated? Osho – A cultivated trust will not be trust; it will be false, it will be insincere. It will just be on the surface;…
Osho – When Jesus was here, God existed. When Jesus disappears, God disappears
Osho – I AM A DRUNKARD. You may believe it or not, but I am a drunkard. You can look into my eyes and you can see it — I.…
Osho – God, fate, destiny – these are bogus words, mumbo jumbo
Question – Beloved Osho, you say we are responsible for ourselves, and that there is no god. What part do fate and destiny have in our lives? or are they…
Osho – May way is the way of meditation: Neither of head nor of heart
Question – Beloved Osho, your way is the way of the heart, and the outside world is the way of the head. Will it ever be possible that man can…