Osho – The older a person becomes, the more cautious he becomes
Question – Beloved Osho, I am seventy-five years old. I want to become a sannyasin, But i don’t know why i am hesitating. Osho – Prakash Chandra Sethia, I think…
Osho – There are two types of people – those with high energy and those with low energy
Osho – You have much energy and you had not been using it creatively. Whenever energy is not used creatively it becomes destructive, stagnant, and by
Osho on Greed – Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of the emptiness of the mind
Osho – The mind is greed – and unless the mind disappears, greed goes on lingering in some way or other. Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of…
Osho on Waiting – The waiting should be full of thrill, enthusiasm, trust, hope.
Osho – Anand means bliss, vasant means spring – bliss spring. And when bliss comes it comes like a spring. It was not there and suddenly it is there; suddenly…
Osho – To me life is a divine experiment. It is not punishment – it is god’s experiment
Osho – To me life is a divine experiment. It is not punishment – it is god’s experiment. It is a design, it is a growth situation. It is a…
Osho – A demanding mind always becomes miserable. Bliss is where demand is not
Osho – Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without
Osho – Life is hopeless unless you change it. In itself it is hopeless.
Osho – Mm, mm… these are great qualities! Life is hopeless! It says nothing about you, it doesn’t say anything about you. Life is hopeless unless you change it.
Osho – Listening is a deep participation between the body and the soul
Osho – Anand means blissful, shravan means listening – blissful listening. And there is a difference between hearing and listening. If one is not deaf, one hears; it is the…
Osho on Shastri Sangeet – Indian classical music is the mathematics of sound
Osho – And don’t you feel strong enough to start doing it on your own?… Not yet? Because there is a problem in it.
Osho on Science of bio-rhythm – Even man has a kind of monthly period
Osho – Nothing to be worried about…. Just ordinary cycles of misery and happiness. I don’t see that there
Osho on Coma – Mind is a machine: it records only when you are receiving consciously
Osho – Mm mm, it can happen sometimes. Sometimes it can happen in an accident that the whole structure of the mind can change. And for better…
Osho – If we can create misery, then why can’t we create joy?
Osho – Deva means divine, samoda means delight – divine delight. And let that be your climate – live in it, breathe in it. It is only a question of…
Osho – Patanjali is for unhealthy people and Zen is for very natural people
Question – For zen it is: “eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirsty.” For Patanjali it is: “regularity — niyam.” How to reconcile spontaneity and regularity?…
Osho – Don’t condemn; don’t suppress. Transform. Be more understanding, alert
Question – Is it possible to climb on to higher stages while one is suppressing or excluding parts of his being by outside conditions and illusions? Osho – No, it…
Osho – A person who loves from his heart is being responded to from everywhere
Question – Does the Universe Love me? Osho – It is a wrong question to ask. You should ask the other way round, “Do you love the universe?” because universe…
Osho – The greatest barrier to enlightenment is the longing for it
Question – Since coming to you, living a meditative life has become an easier and more natural phenomenon. However, i have practically given up all hope for enlightenment. Are these…
Osho – The meaning of neti, neti is: go on negating until you reach to the negator
Osho – THE light that you seek is within you. So the search is going to be an inward search. It is not a journey to some goal in the…
Osho – There is no gradual enlightenment; enlightenment is always sudden
Question – Am i right to feel that you have travelled the path of gradual enlightenment? Did you dance when the enlightenment happened? Osho – I am still dancing. If…
Osho – Can one take the sudden jump with the help of drugs?
Question – Can one take the sudden jump with the help of drugs? Osho – No. That will be the jump of the drug, not yours; and the point is…
Osho – If we are all buddhas why did we fall into ignorance and unawareness?
Question – If we are all buddhas why did we fall into ignorance and unawareness? Osho – Because you are Buddhas. A rock cannot fall into unawareness. Because you are…
Osho on Luther Burbank, an American lover of trees and plants?
Luther Burbank Question – I am sure you will not say to a seed, “take a sudden jump and flower,” But why do you like to say to a man,…