Osho – More a person is suffering from Inferiority, more ambitious he becomes
Osho – Try to understand why there is ambition within us. What is the reason for our running so madly? The reason is that the more a person is suffering…
Osho – Effort comes when you are against the current
Osho – A choiceless awareness simply means whatever happens to you is perfectly the right thing to have happened. You don’t have any judgment about it. It does not mean…
Osho on Gertrude Stein Death, Gertrude Stein died enlightened
Osho – I have told you many times, but I love the incident so much, because in the contemporary world, and particularly in the West, nothing like it has ever…
Osho – Acceptance a deep, total acceptance is what religion is all about
Osho – Wherever you are, if you can accept it, immediately then and there you have become the watcher on the hills. Even in hell, if you accept it, the…
Osho – Science is concentration. Religion is meditation
Osho – In India, we have called philosophy, ’darshan’. It means the capacity to see. We don’t call it a love of thinking, as the word ’philosophy’ means. We call…
Osho – Beginning of man is in the trust that he shows in his own inner voice
Osho – The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values; he lives blindly, not knowing why. His life force is…
Osho on Buddhahood, Buddhahood simply means transcendence of duality
Question – Does a Buddha also need something as a Complementary? Who is complementary to a Buddha? Osho – Buddha or Buddhahood is not any polarity. It is not opposite…
Osho – Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid
Osho – Ninety-nine percent of your illnesses are your own working. Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid. This is the first ray of intelligence that…
Osho – Mind is mischief, Mind is the source of all mischief
Osho – Mind is mischief; there is no other mischief. Mind is the source of all mischief. A master is a master only because he has ceased to be dominated…
Osho – Loneliness is negative, an absence; Aloneness is positive, a presence
Osho – You must make a distinction between two words: lonely and alone. In the dictionary they carry the same meaning, but those who have been meditating, they know the…
Osho – In between was the heaven — you jump from one hell to another
Osho – Remember this, that if you are expecting anything from life, you will not get anything. Don t expect and it is there in all its glory. Don’t expect,…
Osho – Religion is a subjective approach.
Osho – There are things which can be understood by learning — they are outside things, Objective things. That is the difference between science and religion. Science needs no subjective…
Osho – The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence
Osho – If you are too much engaged with your intellect you will not find time to be engaged with your total being. If you are too much in your…
Osho – A scripture is a scripture only if it gives you freedom
Osho – I have heard a story. A wasp made its abode near a window outside a big building. In winter this wasp would sleep and rest, in summer it…
Osho – Man of understanding is in a total Let Go
Osho – The man of understanding is in a total let-go. He allows the law to function. If you want old religious language, non-buddhist language, you can call it surrender…
Osho on Cancer – Humanity has invented many new diseases which were not prevalent before
Osho – Humanity has invented many new diseases which were not prevalent before. In the old scriptures, ayurvedic scriptures, many diseases are not mentioned. People think they are not mentioned…
Osho – Witnessing means that when sex arises, stand aside and look at it
Osho – Remember this word ’witness’. This is one of the key words in the search for spirituality. If you can understand this word and practice it, you don’t need…
Osho – The basic problem of love is to first become mature
Osho – You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery…
Osho – The ’need-love’ or the ’deficiency-love’ depends on the other
Osho – The first thing: There are two kinds of love. C.S. Lewis has divided love into these two kinds: ’need-love’ and ’gift-love’. Abraham Maslow also divides love into two…
Osho – Don’t waste a single moment in anything else. Do the necessary things, the essential things
Osho – Man is born only as a potential. If you don’t develop your potential, if you don’t grow spiritually, you are just like an ox. The body will go…
Osho – Death has to be meditated upon; otherwise life can go on giving you false hopes
Osho – Remember death, never forget it for a single moment! Because of this insistence, many people have thought Buddha is death-obsessed; he is not. You may be life-obsessed but…
Osho – Buddha says truth is eternal, and whatsoever is not eternal is a dream
Osho – Buddha says truth is eternal, and whatsoever is not eternal is a dream — beware of the dreams! And your mind is also part of your body; that’s…