Osho – He who has recognized the guru, has discovered the hand of God
Osho – Nanak says whenever a person becomes liberated many others are liberated by contact with them. Liberation is such a great and superb occurrence and it is such a…
Osho – Nanak and Kabir and others have stressed one point — seek a living guru
Osho – Understand that Nanak has glorified the guru to a great extent. All saints have sung the glory of the guru, placing him above the scriptures. If the guru…
Osho on Kabir words on Guru – The guru is great beyond words
Kabir says: “the guru is great beyond words, and great is the good fortune of the disciple.” Osho on above Kabir words – Yes, to become a disciple is to…
Osho on Guru – Are you no guru at all or are you the rich man’s guru?
(Osho giving Sannyas to His Mother) Question – Bhagwan, are you no guru at all or are you the rich man’s guru? Osho – From my side, I am no…
Osho on Guru Purnima Day, Guru Purnima Day is the day of all the Buddhas
Osho : My feeling is that EACH of you here has passed many times around such groves — sometimes a Buddha, sometimes a Mansoor, sometimes an Ali, and sometimes a…
Osho – Buddha’s renunciation was simple, my renunciation is very difficult
Question – You say you are a buddha, and his teaching was based on simplicity, a simple life. Yours is based on comfort and luxury. Will you please comment on…
Osho – All artistic activity is on the way towards becoming religious
Question – When i am writing a book, i am full of flowing energy and delight. But, when i have finished, i am so empty and dead that i can…
Osho on Creativity – To be possessed by God is creativity
Question – Beloved Master, What is Creativity? Osho – Deva Mohan, action is not creativity, inaction also is not creativity. Creativity is a very paradoxical state of consciousness and being:…
Osho on Sexuality to Love – Sex accepted, respected, lived, becomes love.
Question – Beloved Master, tell me the way from sexuality to love. Osho – Amit Prem, sex is beautiful, sexuality ugly. And the difference has to be understood. Sex is…
Osho on Bhishma and Conscious Decision – Conscious effort makes the difference
Osho – Man is afraid of freedom, and freedom is the only thing which makes you a man. So we are suicidal — destroying our freedom. And with that destruction…
Osho – You are Gods — dreaming that you are men
Question – Dear Osho, are you really just a man who got enlightened? Osho – Just the other way round: a god who got lost and has found himself again;…
Osho – Enlightenment is the very source, the very ground, of your being
Question – When the internal talking stops, is this enlightenment? Osho – Parivesh, when the internal talking stops, who cares? Who is there to care? Who is there to raise…
Osho on meaning of Commune – A commune slowly, slowly grows a soul
The second and third questions are connected: Question 2 – Do you have some sort of contraption in your room with which you control or alter the moods of everyone…
Osho – It depends on you whether my religion will remain alive or not when I am gone
Question – What to do when you die? Stay together and run the risk that the movement will turn into a stale sort of religion, or dissolve and be open…
Osho – To relate is Insecure and Relationship is a Security
Question – Is relationship there because love is not? Osho – Mukti Gandha, yes. Love is not a relationship. Love relates, but it is not a relationship. A relationship is…
swami rajneesh on sleep, sleep is next to samadhi
swami rajneesh: people are searching for truth…running here…running there… getting up early…doing dynamic… then they do kundalini…then nadabrahma… then they do this…then that… as if by doing more you will…
swami rajneesh on blue pranic light and trees – meditation should be done under trees
swami rajneesh: few times i have spoken about this mystical emptiness… that is the very source of your life i have used the term black hole… so dark that nothing…
Osho – Only the individual can become Enlightened
Question – Beloved Osho, I heard you saying that enlightenment is the transcendence of mind — conscious, unconscious, sub-conscious — and that one dissolves into the ocean of life, into…
Osho on Childhood Innocence – Buddha is childlike, and all children are Buddha-like
Question – You said that when the school-child looks out of the window, he is in meditation. I always thought i was daydreaming when i did that, and far from…
Osho on Experience of God, Experiences and Drugs
Osho – Veet means beyond, anubhavo means experience. God is beyond all experience. You cannot experience God because he is not separate from you. You can live God, you can…
Osho on 24 miles radius of a living master that causes a person to become enlightened when he dies
Question – Bhagwan, what is it that happens within a twenty-four-mile radius of a living master that causes a person to become enlightened when he dies within that twenty-four-mile radius?…
Osho on responsibility of a doctor towards a patient who is dying
Question – Bhagwan, what is the responsibility of a doctor towards a patient who is dying and no longer wants to live? Should the doctor help him to die? Osho…