Osho on Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali - It happened… a very significiant incident. One of the Indian poets, Rabindranath Tagore, translated one of his small books of poems, GITANJALI, “Offering of Songs.” He was awarded the Nobel prize for that small book. In India it was available for at least fifteen years. But [Continue]

Osho Mulla Nasrudin Jokes, Mulla Nasrudin Jokes Mulla Nasrudin was saying to me, ‘Love is blind and marriage is an eye-opener.’ One day Mulla Nasrudin was catching flies. He caught a few, and he told his wife, ‘I have found two female flies and two male flies.’The woman said, ‘This is surprising. How could you [Continue]

Osho story on Surdas – There is a story in India about a saint, Surdas. I don’t think it is true. If it is true then Surdas is not a saint. Surdas can only be a saint if the story is untrue. I am ready to say that the story is untrue; I cannot say [Continue]

Osho on Jesus Story – My work is done as far as I am concerned because I am done. Now the energy has become a compassion and an overflowing, and all those who really want to taste are invited to do so without any condition. You are not to give anything, you simply are to [Continue]

Osho on Gurdjieff Stories – George Gurdjieff used to tell a story… there was a magician who had many sheep. And it was a trouble to get them home from the forest every night — wild animals were there, and he was losing many of his sheep. Finally the idea came to him, “Why do [Continue]

Osho on Sufi Stories – I have often told a Sufi story. A man renounces the world, his wife, his home. He is young and he is going in search of a master. Just outside his village under a tree, an old man is sitting. The sun is just setting, and darkness is descending. The [Continue]

Osho – Just explaining this to you: that there is no goal, that there is nothing to achieve, that everything is good as it is. I will tell you a Sufi story: There is a story told by Sufis about a man who read that certain dervishes, on the orders of their Master, never touched [Continue]

Osho – Ramakrishna used to tell a beautiful story. A bird was flying with a dead mouse and twenty or thirty birds were chasing him. The bird was very much worried. ‘I am not doing anything to them, I am just carrying my dead mouse. They are all after me.’ And they hit him hard [Continue]

Osho – One of Jesus’ very significant parables has been lost completely. Just a reference is made to it in LUKE, but the complete parable is not in any of the authorized gospels, not even in the fifth gospel of Thomas. Some hidden sources, some secret societies, have continuously been meditating on that parable. I [Continue]

Osho Mulla Nasruddin Stories, Mulla Nasruddin Sufi Stories There is a story about a Sufi mystic, Mulla Nasruddin. From the very beginning it was thought that he was upside down. His parents were in trouble. If they would say, “Go to the right,” he would go to the left. Finally his old father thought that [Continue]

Osho Stories on Rumi, Mystic Rumi Sufi Stories There is a story in the life of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. He was working with his disciples in the desert, in a small monastery. A few travelers passing by, just out of curiosity stopped and went in. They saw that in the courtyard the students were sitting, [Continue]

Osho on Meher Baba – And these are the two possibilities: whenever enlightenment happens, either a person becomes absolutely silent or he bursts into song. These are the two possibilities. When Meher Baba attained he became silent. Then his whole life he remained silent. When Meera attained she started dancing and singing. These are the [Continue]

Osho - One Sufi story is that Mulla Nasruddin was chosen by the Shah of Iran to go to the king of India as his messenger, to make a friendship between two great countries. All the other important people in the court of the Shah of Iran were very jealous. They were trying in every [Continue]

Osho on Hui Neng Enlightenment It is said that Hui Neng, one of the greatest Zen masters, the sixth patriarch in the Zen tradition, became enlightened by hearing four lines of The Diamond Sutra. And he was just passing by in a marketplace. He had gone to purchase something, he was not even thinking of [Continue]

Osho on Junnaid, Sufi Master Junnaid – I have always loved to remember a Sufi master Junnaid. He was the master of al-Hillaj Mansoor. He had a habit: after each prayer… and Mohammedans pray five times a day. After each prayer he would say to the sky, “Your compassion is great. How beautifully you take [Continue]