Osho on attitude of the masses, avataras, tirthankaras, paigambaras towards women?
Question – Beloved Osho, What do you think about the attitude of the masses, avataras, tirthankaras, paigambaras towards women? Osho – Just disgusting. These people, who have been thought to…
Osho on Bauls – The Baul believes in the SAHAJA MANUSH, the spontaneous man
Question – Who has originated Bauls? Please explain. Osho – People like bauls are never originated. Religions like the Baul religion are more like happenings. Who originated the roses? Who…
Osho – Power cannot fulfill a love need
Osho – The ego goes on agreeing for wrong things, because the ego can exist only with the wrong. It feeds on the wrong. So whenever you feel that your…
Osho – A knowledgeable person is almost hidden behind his knowledge
Osho – Knowing always becomes knowledge — and you have to be alert not to allow it. One of the most delicate situations on the path of a seeker: knowing…
Osho – Consciousness without thinking: that’s what awareness is.
Osho – If you can live this moment, if you can be here this moment, then everything takes care of itself. Then you need not be anxious. Then there is…
Osho – Truth is felt by the heart, by your totality; by you, not by your head
Osho – Truth IS. It simply is, Nothing can be said about it. And all that can be said about it will falsify it. There is no need for any…
Osho – To realize the essence of Buddhism is to realize what Buddha realized
Osho – The essence of Buddhism is not in the scriptures, not in the words of Buddha. It is something to be understood, because it has far-reaching implications. Whatever Buddha…
Osho – Consciousness is one of those things which you cannot grow quickly
Question – Beloved Osho, On one occasion, Joshu said to his monks: I have single-heartedly practiced zazen in the southern province for thirty years. Osho – He is referring to…
Osho on Zazen, Just because of Zazen, Monasteries came into existence
Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the…
Osho on zen way of living – Zen does not renounce anything but transforms
Osho – Zen believes in a life which you are not acquainted with, a love that you have not even dreamt of. It lives in a totally different dimension, a…
Osho – Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone
Osho – The greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it…
Osho – Instead of the soldier the sannyasin has to be praised
Osho – In the past we have praised warlike qualities very much because the whole past of humanity is nothing but wars and wars. In three thousand years we have…
Osho – In any real situation you will be able to see who is intelligent
Osho – We go on polishing the mind in schools, colleges, universities, with the hope that we will be able to create an intelligent humanity. Our stupidity is such that…
Osho – To be a sannyasin means a deliberate, conscious search for truth
Osho – Even priests are not interested in god. The very word “god” does not create anything in your heart, it does not ring any bells; it is something arbitrary,…
Osho on reverence and respect for Parents, Relationship between parents and children
Osho – It is always so with parents… very difficult to finish.
Osho to a Con-Man and Hustler – There is a danger with intelligence; it can deceive itself
Osho – Hello,… come here. So you have come! Very good. This time don’t try to escape. Your whole life you have been escaping. There were many possibilities,
Osho on anxiety and love – Only love brings a state of no anxiety
Osho – Prem means love, and achinta means no anxiety. And remember that only love brings a state of no anxiety – and only love. Everything else creates a new…
Osho – Whatsoever happens in time is going to die. In time, the eternal is not possible
Osho – Deva means divine, and akal means two things: one is timelessness and another is deathlessness. One word has both the meanings because in the eastern mind – particularly…
Osho – feminine mind enters into meditation through love, male mind enters through awareness
Osho – There are two paths to the divine: one is awareness, the other is love. Through awareness you come to a point where time is transcended. Through awareness you…
Osho – If money serves meditation, money is good and one should use it
Osho – Jaya means inner victory, conquering oneself, and ananda means bliss – bliss that comes out of conquering oneself. And that is the only bliss there is. You can…
Osho – Blessed are the meek, because theirs is the kingdom of god
Osho – Deva means divine, and dhurva means fresh grass, just sprouting… very green, delicate – divine grass. And there is a particular meaning in it. A man can exist…
Osho – Desire means you are not herenow and Nirvana is always herenow
Osho – This is a paradox, but of tremendous import – that enlightenment becomes possible only when you forget about it. When the desire for enlightenment disappears, only then does…