September 2008

Osho on Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali

osho on rabindranath tagore geetanjali

Rabindranath Tagore Osho on 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 unless [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasrudin Jokes, Mulla Nasrudin Jokes

Mulla Nasruddin Jokes of Osho

Osho 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 discover the [...]

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Osho story on Surdas, Osho on Saint Surdas

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 [...]

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Osho on Jesus Stories, Jesus Christ Stories

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 [...]

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Osho on Gurdjieff Stories, George Gurdjieff Stories

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 [...]

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Sufi Stories of Osho, Osho on Sufi Stories of Sufi Mystics

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 [...]

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Osho discourse on ‘Every thing is Good as it is’

Osho everything is good as it is

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 [...]

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Osho on Ramakrishna Stories, Ramakrishna Paramhansa Stories

Osho on Ramakrishna Stories

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 [...]

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Osho on Jesus parable, Secret parable of Jesus Christ

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 [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasruddin Stories, Sufi Stories of Mulla Nasruddin

Osho Mulla Nasruddin Stories

Osho - 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 rather than bothering with him, it is [...]

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Osho Stories on Rumi, Mystic Rumi Sufi Stories

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, [...]

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Osho on Meher Baba, Osho Quotes on Meher Baba

Osho on Meher Baba

Meher Baba 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 [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasruddin Story, Osho Story on Mulla Nasruddin

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 [...]

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Osho on Hui Neng Enlightenment, Zen Master Hui Neng Enlightenment

Osho on Hui Neng Enlightenment

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 [...]

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Osho on Junnaid, Osho on Sufi Master Junnaid

Osho on Sufi Master Junnaid

Osho on 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 care [...]

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Osho on Khajuraho Temples, Osho on Tantra temples of Khajuraho

Osho on Khajuraho Temples

Osho on Khajuraho Temples – Khajuraho or Konarak — if you meditate there, you will know what the Tantra masters were doing. They were creating in stone something that is felt in the ultimate orgasmic joy. It was the most difficult thing to do, to bring ecstasy into the stone. And if the stone can [...]

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Osho on Muktananda, Osho on Muktananda Guru ‘Bhagavan Nityananda’

Osho on Muktananda

Osho on Muktananda – Have you seen Muktananda’s guru’s picture? If you have not seen it, it is worth seeing. It is a rare treat. I think he is unique — Nityananda IS unique. You may have seen people with big bellies: Nityananda is a belly with a head! The belly is so big, you [...]

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Osho on U G Krishnamurti, U G Krishnamurti with Ramana Maharshi

Osho on U G Krishnamurti

U G Krishnamurti Osho on U G Krishnamurti – Just the other day I was reading a lecture of U. G. Krishnamurti. He says he went to see Ramana Maharshi. He was not attracted — because he was chopping vegetables. Yes, Ramana Maharshi was that kind of man, very ordinary. Chopping vegetables! U. G. Krishnamurti [...]

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Osho on Social Workers, Revolutionaries

Osho on Social Workers and Revolutionaries – This is what I have watched. I have seen so many social workers, SARVODAYIS, and I have never seen a single person who has any inner light to help anybody. But they are trying hard to help everybody. They are madly after transforming the society and the people [...]

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Osho on Radhaswami Sect, Osho on Radhaswami religion

Osho on Radhaswami Sect In India there is a religion, Radhaswami. They have a list; they think there are fifteen stages of the evolution of the soul. Mohammed is on the third stage — I am just telling you as an example — Jesus is on the fourth stage, one stage higher; Krishna is on [...]

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Osho on Meera, Osho story on Meera

Osho – There is a beautiful story about a great woman mystic of India, Meera. She was really a mad devotee, a mad BHAKTA, in tremendous love and ecstasy with God. She was a queen, but she started dancing on the streets. The family disowned her. The family tried to poison her — the family [...]

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Osho on Totapuri, Osho on Ramakrishna Guru ‘Totapuri’

Osho on Totapuri

Totapuri Osho on Totapuri – Ramakrishna used the name of Mother Kali as a mantra continually, for years. He achieved much through it, but not the ultimate. He became silent, he became purified, he became holy; he became everything that we can conceive of a religious man. He became totally a religious man — but [...]

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