Osho – Knowing means that you have seen it with your own eyes
Osho – KNOWLEDGE IS not enough, to rely on it is dangerous. Knowledge is borrowed, it is not knowing. Knowing grows with you, knowing is a growth, an evolution, knowledge…
Osho on Arhatas and Bodhisattvas
Osho – Just to be enlightened is not enough. A mere enlightenment will give you all the joys of the world, but you will become absolutely dumb. You will not…
Osho – The witness makes you a buddha
Osho – I have told you the story many times about Gautam Buddha. One day, walking on the road from one town to another, he was talking to Ananda. A…
Osho on functioning consciousness and a pure consciousness
Osho – We all think we are aware; that is one of our unawarenesses. We are only functionally aware. We have learned to do things, to go to bed, to…
Osho on Smoking Cigarettes – The cigarette is not a device for buddhahood
Osho – I have to make you all understand that you must act intelligently. Just the other day, because I told Hasya not to unnecessarily struggle with dropping cigarettes –…
Osho on Henri Bergson and his philosophy of intuition and Zen
Henri Bergson Question – Henri Bergson also proposes a philosophy of intuition. Is not his approach exactly like Zen? Osho – It looks exactly like Zen but it is not…
Osho on fake masters and their spiritual talks
Question – How is it that people who are not enlightened can talk with such apparent inside knowledge and so convincingly about the whole business? Osho – Precisely because of…
Osho – The test of whether your meditation is succeeding or not is in life
Question – I have been doing all the five meditations every day regularly for three years and because of these meditations i cannot do anything else. i am feeling very…
Osho – You have to forget my words; you have to remember the essence, not the words
Question – Osho, i go on forgetting your words. what should i do? Osho – Who has told you to remember my words? That’s how it should be, exactly, precisely.…
Osho – Why can’t there be only one religion in the world?
Question – Why can’t there be only one religion in the world? Osho – Because people are mad. Because people are fast asleep. There can be one religion one day,…
Osho on Zen and Politics – Is Zen against Politics?
Question – Is Zen against Politics? Osho – Zen is so much against politics that it never talks about it. It is so much against politics that it cannot even…
Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol
Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol. And the reason? It is green all the year. In every season it is green —…
Osho – Guilt creates pathology. Drop your guilt. And don’t bother about the causes
QUESTION – I ALWAYS FEEL GUILTY EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO APPARENT CAUSE. WHY? Osho – Just good luck, sir. You must have been brought up by very good parents,…
Osho – Greedy people renounce the world. This renunciation is not of understanding
Osho – A repressed person is carrying the same world as you. Just an opportunity is needed, a provocation, and immediately the real will come out. That’s why monks disappear…
Osho on Left and Right Brain (left hemisphere and right hemisphere)
Osho – Being is one, the world is many…and between the two is the divided mind, the dual mind. It is just like a big tree, an ancient oak: the…
Osho – Look at life without the mind. Put the mind aside
Osho – Just become a child again – unlearn whatsoever you have learned. Drop verbalization. Listen to these birds with no word arising in you. Suddenly a wave of freshness…
Osho – Each thought has a negative and positive polarity just like electricity
Zen Sutra – “the master said, while i was in zazen a number of wolves gathered around me, licking the tip of my nose, and sniffing my windpipe, but because…
Osho on energy phenomena in death – Sai Baba’s tomb is not dead. It is still alive
Zen Sutra – “At the death of a parishioner, Master Dogo, accompanied by his disciple zengen, visited the bereaved family. Without taking time to express a word of sympathy, Zengen…
Osho on Oscar (founder of Arica) – Controlled persons are always nervous
Osho – Just the other day I was reading an article on Oscar, the founder of Arica. The man who was interviewing him was a little surprised to see that…
Osho – Integrated, you are free; integrated, you become rebellious
Osho – Appearances are very deceptive. Appearances may give you respectability but they cannot give you contentment. And some day or other, in some way or other, the truth has…
Osho – We have gone astray, from the very beginning man is astray
Question – I kept wondering what you meant about our having to go astray — wondering what i would have to do, and then suddenly realised, we are astray.’ Osho…
Osho – If you are touching some altitude within your consciousness
Question – During my dancing meditation i kept having flashes about What you said concerning the society, drugs, etc. And Wondering that now that i am intoxicated by the ultimate…