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Osho on Centering, Inner center

Osho on Centering, inner center

Osho : The world is transformed by people who live in this world as if this world is just a dream. People are changed, transfigured, by those who live in this world unconcerned, indifferent to trivia… who live a life of inner centering, who live in the world but don’t allow the world to enter them, who live in the world but the world does not live in them, who remain untouched, who carry their silence everywhere – in the marketplace they remain in their inner temple… nothing distracts them from their being.

These people become catalytic agents. These people bring a totally new quality to human consciousness. A buddha, a jesus, a krishna, a mohammed – they bring another world into this world.

That is the meaning of the hindu word ’avatar’. It means they bring god into the world; the god descends through them. A vision… they become windows. Through them you can have a vision, a glimpse of something that is beyond.

One of the most influential writers, authors and thinkers. of the West was Aldous Huxley. He was very much in tune with the eastern idea of inner centering. He was one of the western minds who penetrated very deeply into the eastern attitude towards life. It is said that when a californian brushfire destroyed a lifetime’s possessions, Aldous Huxley felt only an unexpected freedom.’I feel clean,’ he said.

He had a really beautiful collection of rare antiques, rare books, rare paintings – the whole life’s possession – and the whole possession was destroyed in a fire. Looking at the flames, he could not believe it himself that he simply felt unburdened, a sense of freedom. Disturbed not at all; on the contrary, a sense of freedom – as if the fire had been a friend. And later on he said, ’I feel clean.’ This is the eastern attitude.

If you are centered, nothing can be destroyed. No fire can destroy your centering. Not even death is capable of distracting you. And this centering is possible only if you start living each moment meditatively, fully alert, aware.

Don’t move like an automaton. Don’t react like a mechanism. Become conscious. Collect yourself more and more so that a crystallized consiousness continuously illuminates your inner being, a flame goes on burning there and it lights wherever you move. The path, the way, whatsoever you do, it lights it.

This inner flame, this inner light is there, potentially there… like a seed. Once you start using it, it sprouts. Soon you will see – the spring has come and it is blossoming and you are full of the fragrance of the unknown and the unknowable. God has descended in you.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho on Wu Wei and way of Heart


Question : Wu Wei and the way of the Heart – How are they Interrelated?

Osho : They are not interrelated; they are one and the same thing – just two ways of saying the same thing. Wu-wei means action without action. It means doing without doing. It means allowing that which wants to happen..Don’t do it, allow it to happen. And that is the way of the heart.

The way of the heart means the way of love. Can you do love? It is impossible to do love. You can be in love but you cannot do it. But we go on using expressions, like ’making love’, which are foolish. How can you make love? When love is there, you are not there. When love is there, the manipulator, the maker, is not there.

Love does not allow any manoeuvre on your part. It happens. It happens suddenly out of the blue. It is a gift. Just as life is a gift, love is a gift. The way of the heart or the way of love or the way of wu-wei – they all are the same. They insist that the doer has to be dropped, forgotten, and you have to live your life not as a manipulator.

You have to live your life as a flow of the unknown. Don’t move upcurrent and don’t try to push the river. Flow with the river. The river is already going to the sea. You just be one with the river and it will take you to the sea.

There is no need even to swim. Relax… and let the river take you. Relax… and let god possess you. Relax… and let the whole take the part. Doing means the part is trying to do something against the whole, the part is trying to have its own will against the whole.

Wu-wei means the part has understood that it is only the part and has dropped all struggle. Now the whole is doing and the part is happy. The whole is dancing and the part is dancing with it. To be in tune with the whole, to be in step with the whole, to be in a deep orgasmic relationship with the whole, is the meaning of wu-wei. And that is the meaning of love.

That’s why Jesus says, ’God is love.’ He is creating a parallel – because in man’s experience there is nothing other than love which comes close to god. Listen. You were born, but then you were not aware at all. It was a happening, but it has already happened; nothing can be done now. You will die; someday it will happen in the future.

This moment you are alive. The birth has happened, the death has to happen. Between the two there is only one possibility – love. These are the three basic things: birth, love and death. They all happen. But birth has already happened – -now you cannot become aware of it. And death has not happened – how can you become aware of it right now? Only love is the possibility between the two, which is happening right now.

Become aware of it and see how it happens. It is nothing on your part. You don’t do anything. Suddenly you feel one day a glow, suddenly you feel one day an energy arising. In the hands of the unknown…. The god of love, has knocked at the door.

Suddenly you are no more the same: the dullness has disappeared, the drabness has disappeared, that staleness has disappeared. Suddenly you are singing and bubbling with joy. Suddenly you are no more the same – at the peak. The valleys are forgotten, the dark valleys… sunlight and the peak. Have you done anything for it?

People go on teaching love. How can you love? Because of this teaching, love has become impossible. The mother goes on saying to the child, ’Love me! I am your mother.’ How is the child supposed to love? What is he supposed to do, in fact? The child cannot believe what to do, how to do it.

And the mother goes on insisting. The father goes on insisting, ’When I come home, love is expected!’ By and by the child becomes a politician; he starts the politics of love – which is not love at all. He starts playing tricks. He becomes deceptive. He smiles when the mother comes close, and the mother feels ’he loves me’.

He has to do these things because he depends on them, his survival depends on them. He is helpless. He becomes a diplomat. He does not feel any love but he has to pretend. By and by the pretension becomes so deep-rooted he goes on pretending his whole life. Then he loves a woman because she is his wife; then she loves a man because he is her husband.

One has to love. Love becomes a duty. Can you think of any more absurd possibility? Love becomes a duty; one has to do it. It is a commandment; one has to fulfill it. It is a responsibility. Now, the real love will never happen to such a person, such a conditioned mind, because love is always a happening.

You are always taken unawares. Suddenly, from nowhere, it comes to you. The arrow comes, hits the heart, you feel the pain, the sweet pain of it, but you don’t know from where and how it happens. Love still remains in the hands of god. It is a happening.

Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi

Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi

Osho : What happens when you simply sit? The whole energy that has been moving in the body, outside the body, in actions, is no more moving. You become a pool of energy. The energy goes on gathering; you become a reservoir. In zazen you are not even allowed to sway or move your body, not even a slight movement, so no energy is invested in action; all energy becomes available. It goes on falling inside. It fills you. It starts overflowing.

When the moment comes of overflowing, there is satori. Satori is a moment of energy overflowing. Thinking stops by and by. It takes time – almost three days is the time. If you exert day and night, continuously, somewhere in three days the moment comes when the energy is so much it simply explodes.

Everything calms down – a sudden lightning inside. Everything becomes clear – a clarity of perception is achieved. This is what is called satori in Japan.

Satori is a glimpse of samadhi – the first glimpse. Of course, in the first glimpse you cannot recognize what it is. It is so unknown. You have never known it before, you have never come across it before. It has to be approved by the master.

The next time when it comes you will be able to recognize it, but for the first time you don’t know what it is, how to understand it, how to interpret it. It is so vast, and all your experiences are irrelevant to it. Your whole past is irrelevant to it.

All your hopes for the future are irrelevant to it..It is something you had never hoped. It is something you had not even imagined. It is something you had not even dreamed. How can you recognize it? That’s why the first satori has to be approved by the master. Up to the first satori one has to remain with the master. Then one can move on one’s own, but not before that.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Mome
    nt of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho on Sufism, Sufism is a vision

Osho on Sufism

Osho : Sufism is a vision. In fact to call it ’Sufism’ is not right because it is not an ’ism’ at all. Sufis don’t call it ’Sufism’; it is the name given by the outsiders. They call their vision TASSAWURI, a love-vision, a loving approach towards reality. It is falling in love with existence. The person who thinks about existence is a little bit antagonistic because he creates a problem out of existence – as if existence is challenging him and he has to decipher it, he has to decode the mystery, he has to destroy the mystery. He fights.

Sufis say: We and the existence are one. There is no need to fight. Persuade, coo, invite, love,
befriend, and the existence itself starts revealing its mysteries. There is no need to rape it. The philosophic approach, the scientific approach, the intellectual approach, is a rape!

It is forcing existence to reveal its heart. It is undressing existence by force and violence. The violence may be of scientific methods or of logical methods – it doesn’t matter – but the violence is there. The philosopher has taken a standpoint as if nature is not ready to reveal its mysteries; it has to be forced. It is a violent approach. Sufism says there is no need, the existence is waiting for you to come close so that it can reveal its heart.

The existence is waiting for you to fall in love with it. If you are deeply in love with existence, it starts opening, it starts revealing its secrets. It has been waiting long for you to come close. There is no need to force it, there is no need to rape! You can fall in love. A world-view is an aggressive stance, a vision is a love stance. I said to you that Sufism is not a system, because all systems create bondage. They create prisons around you.

Sufism is freedom. It does not create any system around you. It does not tell you to believe in a certain system. Yes, it talks about trust, but not of belief. Trust is a totally different thing. Belief is belief in a theory, in a philosophy, in a world-view: you believe in Islam, you believe in Hinduism, you believe in Christianity. But when you trust, you trust in life. You don’t believe in life, you trust in life; you believe in philosophies.

Belief is a poor substitute for trust. And remember, belief is again from the head, trust is from the heart. Their qualities are different, altogether different, diametrically opposite. Never become part of a belief system: never become a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Jaina or a Buddhist. When you become part of a belief system you are becoming a slave.

If you can find a place, a space, where belief is not imposed on you but trust is helped, find that place. That is the right place where you can really grow and grow into freedom. There is no other growth – growth in freedom is the only growth. I said to you that Sufism is not a philosophy, but it is not anti-philosophy either. It simply takes no note of philosophies, anti-philosophies. It bypasses them, it is indifferent.

It says: Why be bothered with words while reality is available? When you can drink the water, why be worried about the theories about water? When you can go in the sun and dance with the sunrays, why be bothered about theories? Why not have an experience, an authentic experience? Philosophy goes round and round; it is about and about.

It never penetrates the core of truth. It thinks ABOUT truth, but to think about truth is to falsify. Truth has to be encountered, not thought about. Truth has to be LIVED not believed.

Truth is not a conclusion: you don’t arrive at truth by a syllogistic process. Truth is THERE!
You are truth, the trees are truth, the birds are truth, the sun, the moon. The truth is all over the place, and you close your eyes and you think about truth? All thinking will take you astray. There is no need to think. Live it! Only by living do you come to know it.

Sufism is not a way of thinking but a way of life, a way of living; not a philosophy of life but a way of life. I said Sufism is not speculative. Speculation means that you think about things you have not known. Now this is foolish. Speculation means a blind man thinking about light, a deaf man thinking about music. When you think about God do you think you are in any way different from the blind man thinking about light?

You have not seen God, you have not tasted anything divine, and you go on thinking. What will you do? Yes, mind is very clever and it can spin and weave beautiful systems, but those systems are just irrelevant. Good or bad, logical, illogical – they are just irrelevant. They have no relevance to reality, they have no context in reality, they are mind games. Sufism is not a mind game; that’s why it is practical, absolutely practical.

If you ask a Sufi about God, he will laugh, or he will sing a song which has no reference to God, or he will tell you a story in which God is never mentioned, or he will say something which seems absolutely unrelated to the question.

He is simply saying, ”Don’t be foolish. Let us be practical.” You ask about God and he will talk about prayer, not about God. A true Sufi will avoid the subject of God. He will talk about prayer; prayer is practical. You ask about paradise and he will talk about your misery and how to drop it – that is practicalness. Because paradise is not somewhere else, when you have dropped your miserable ways, you are in paradise, or to be more true, you ARE paradise.

Sufis always talk about techniques, methods. They never talk about ’whats’, they only talk about ’hows’. In that way they are as scientific as any scientist. Sufism is a glimpse of how religion should be. It is pointless to talk about God; create the ladder that takes you to God.

It is utterly a waste of time talking about paradise; give methods so that paradise can be explored inside your being. It is an inner phenomenon, it is your inner space. And so is hell.
Sufism is not even a religion. Rather, it is religiousness. It has no church, it has no book – Bible or Koran or Veda or Dhammapada. It has no book, no sacred book. It has no church. Sufism is a very, very free-floating religiousness.

Anybody can be a Sufi – a Hindu, a Christian, a Mohammedan. Anywhere, one can be a Sufi. It is a practical approach on how to create religiousness.


More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho – How to know that Sannyas is Good

Question : How is One to know that Sannyas is Good?

Osho : Sir, the proof of the pudding is in its tasting. Become a sannyasin: there is no other way. It is an experience; you have to know it through your own experience. And it is such an interior experience that nothing can be said about it from the outside. And it is of such depth that no word is capable of expressing it.

It is as if you have a pain in the heart: only you know. Or you have a headache: only you know. You may have come across people who have no experience of headaches… I know one person. He is sixty years old and he has never had a headache. It is impossible to explain to him what a headache is. The more you explain to him, the more he seems puzzled. he
has never had any experience – how can you convey it?

Sannyas is a very deep experience. It goes to your very roots. it shakes you out of your sleep, it starts transforming you from within. It is not something on the outside. The orange clothes and the mala and the new name – that is not sannyas. That is just an indication, a gesture; that is just a beginning, the first step. And everything else that happens then is very interior.
And you say: HOW IS ONE TO KNOW THAT SANNYAS IS GOOD?

The mother ran into the nursery when she heard her five-year-old son howling. His baby sister had been pulling his hair.
”Don’t mind the baby,” his mother said. ”She doesn’t know that it hurts you.”
A few minutes later, the mother ran back to the nursery. This time it was the baby doing the
screaming. ”What’s the matter with the baby?” the mother asked.
”Nothing much,” her five-year-old son replied. ”But now she knows.”

But that is the only way to know. So please let me pull your hair! Become a sannyasin and you will know: it is good. It is immensely good, there is nothing like it.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Gra
    ce, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho on Teacher and a Master

Osho on Teacher and a Master

Osho : Many buddhas have existed, but once in a while a buddha becomes a master. The famous name of Gautam the Buddha is famous just because of his being a master. Millions of buddhas preceded him, but they were not masters.

It happened: One day somebody asked Buddha, ‘You have almost fifty thousand sannyasins around you – how many of them have become like you?’ Buddha is reported to have said that many had. But the questioner was puzzled. He said, ‘If many of them have become like you, why does nobody know about them?’

Buddha said, ‘They have become enlightened, but they are not masters. They are just like me,
they exist on the same plane of being – that is one thing. But to persuade another to bring his
consciousness to the same plane is a difficult art.’

To persuade the other towards higher peaks of being is almost impossible because the other will create all sorts of resistances. And the more you try to bring him up, the more his ego will be there to resist. And the ego will enjoy falling down more and more. The ego will be the enemy. And the other is identified with his own ego, he thinks he is the ego. So when a master tries to transform or help, you create all sorts of barriers in order not to be helped.

Teachers are many, masters few. Teachers are very cheap; you can get them a rupee a dozen – because to be a teacher is nothing. You need a little intellectual capacity to understand things, a little capacity to explain things – if you are a little articulate you can become a teacher.

Scriptures are there: you can memorize them. With a little practice you can attain to a certain logical penetration into things. You can silence people, you can prove things. And many will be attracted because people live in their intellectual center – they live in their heads.

A teacher is a head-oriented person, more heady than you. He can impress you, but that impression will not lead you anywhere. You will remain in the same rut. He himself is nowhere. A teacher is a man who teaches without knowing what he is teaching. A teacher is a man who talks about things he has not known, who talks about worlds with no experience.

He has not tasted anything of the Unknown. He may have tasted many things of the Vedas, Koran, Bible, Upanishads; knowledge he may have gathered much, but knowing he has none. But you can adjust to a teacher very easily because he is of the same type; he belongs to the same level of being as you, to the same plane.

Teachers become very, very influential; they lead great movements; millions are attracted to them – because they talk the same language that you can understand. Masters cannot lead big movements – almost impossible. In fact, by the time they become known they are here no more; by the time people come to hear about them, they are gone.

Then they are worshipped for thousands of years, but that worship won’t help much. To be impressed by a master is difficult, because that means dying to your own ego. To allow a master to work on you is very courageous: you open your heart, you become vulnerable; and nobody knows where he is leading – you have to trust.

Logic is not of much help, only love. And love is rare. Everybody is logical: who is loving? Everybody has cunning intellect, but who has a trusting heart?

Osho discourse on harmony with existence

Osho : Once you become alive, once your life energy arises, you will suddenly feel that you fit with existence, but you don’t fit with the society. And I tell you: if you don’t fit with the society, don’t bother about it, because ultimately it means nothing. The only thing that will be meaningful ultimately will be whether you fit with existence or not.

Try to be harmonious with life, howsoever arduous. Even if it sometimes seems impossible, but try to be in harmony with the Whole. Even at the cost of being thrown out of the society and forced to become an outsider, don’t bother about it. This is what sannyas means to me.
Sannyas means an effort to seek ways and means to be in harmony with the Whole, even if it
creates a rift between you and your society – because society is man-made.

Even if you fit, nothing is achieved. One has to find his home into the Ultimate. And all societies are against God. People think that there are societies which are not against God. No. Sometimes, very rarely, for a few moments in history, in the vast desert of societies, a few oases have existed – but they are exceptions. No society has really existed which was religious.

For example, when Buddha was alive, then an oasis existed around him: a few thousand people – nothing compared to the whole world – a few thousand people converted, transformed, existed with Buddha. But the moment Buddha disappeared, that oasis disappeared, the very springs disappeared – how long can the trees exist without it?

A few oases here and there, rarely, have existed, but the society at large has remained anti-religious. But the people who manage the establishment are very cunning. They give society a ritualistic, formalistic, religious shape; churches exist, temples exist, and people go and pray; and holidays are there, religious holidays – but all formal. Don’t be deceived by the formality of it; it is a deception.

It is to give you a feeling that the society is religious and you need not go beyond society to seek religion. And religion is always beyond society, because religion is always alive, it is not of the mind.

And society is always of the mind; it is an order maintained by the mind. Religion is not an order maintained by the mind – religion is a discipline, loose and natural. It is not that you maintain it and manipulate it; rather, on the contrary, you lose yourself into the river like phenomenon, and the river takes possession.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness

Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness

Osho : Generosity is the real richness. And to be generous, to share, you don’t need many things. To be generous, you just have to share whatsoever you have. You may not have much – that is not the point. Who has much? Who can ever have enough? It is never much, it is never enough. You may not have anything at all, you may be just a beggar on the road, but still you can be generous.

Can’t you smile when a stranger passes by? You can smile, you can share your being with a
stranger, and then you are generous. Can’t you sing when somebody is sad? You can be generous – smiles cost nothing. But you have become so miserly that even before smiling you think thrice: to smile or not to smile? to sing or not to sing? to dance or not to dance? – in fact, to be or not to be?

Share your being if you have nothing. And that is the greatest wealth – everybody is born with it. Share your being! Stretch your hand, move towards the other, with love in the heart. Don’t think anybody is a stranger. Nobody is. Or, everybody is. If you share, nobody is. If you don’t share, everybody is.

You may be a very rich man, but a miser, a non-sharing one. Then your own children are strangers, then your own wife is a stranger – because how can you meet a miserly man? He is closed. He is already dead in his grave. How can you move towards a miserly man? If you move, he escapes.

He is always afraid, because whenever somebody comes close, sharing starts. Even shaking hands a miserly man feels is dangerous, because who knows? – friendship may grow out of it, and then there is danger. A miserly man is always alert, on guard, not to allow anybody too close. He keeps everybody at a distance. A smile is dangerous because it breaks distances. If you smile at a beggar on the road, the distance is bridged.

He is no more a beggar, he has become a friend. Now, if he is hungry, you will have to do something. It is better to go on without smiling. It is safe, more economical, less dangerous – no risk in it.

It is not a question of sharing something. It is a question of simple sharing – whatsoever you have! If you don’t have anything else, you have a warm body – you can sit close with somebody and give your warmth. You can smile, you can dance, you can sing; you can laugh, and help the other to laugh. And when two persons laugh together, their beings are one in that moment. When two persons can smile together, suddenly all distance dissolves – you are bridged.

So don’t think that to be generous you have to be rich. Just the contrary is the case: if you want to be rich, be generous. And so many riches are always available; so many gifts you bring with your life, and you take with your death with yourself. You could have shared, and through sharing you would have become aware how rich existence makes you, and how poor you live.

And the more you share, the more your being starts flowing. The more it flows, newer springs are always filling the river again and again. And you remain fresh. Only a generous man is fresh. A non-generous man, a closed, miserly man, becomes dirty – bound to become so. It is just like a well. Nobody comes to it, and the well is not ready to give its water to anybody, then what will happen to the well? Fresh springs will not be supplying it because there is
no need. The old water will become more and more dirty.

The whole well will be dead. Fresh, living waters are not coming into it. This is how it has happened to many of you. Invite people to share you. Invite people to drink you.

That is the meaning when Jesus says: ‘Drink me! Eat me!’ The more you eat him, the more Jesus grows. The more you drink him, the more fresh waters are flowing in. The riches that life has endowed you with are not limited. But only a generous man can know about it. They are unlimited.

You are not a company with limited sources – you are a company with unlimited sources. Behind you is hidden the Divine. Nobody can exhaust it. Sing as many songs as you can: you will not be exhausted; rather, on the contrary, better and better songs will be coming in.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. "COLOR: rgb(51,204,255)">Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood

Osho discourse on Diogenes, Greek Mystic Diogenes

Osho discourse on Diogenes

Osho : Why do you want to hide your body from others? What is wrong with it? Society, civilization, culture, they have conditioned your minds to believe that something is wrong with the body. You feel guilty if you are caught naked. And laws exist and courts to force you not to be naked. And the whole of nature is naked. And it is so beautiful!

Only man has gone ugly somewhere. Some day, when man becomes more aware, man will be less and less attached to clothes. They may be used as utilities: the weather is cold – of course, you have to cover your body; but when the weather is pleasant and one can be like a simple, innocent animal, one has to be.

Completely hidden under clothes, your bodies have left the sensitivity to feel. To feel the touch of the rays of the sun, and to enjoy it, you have completely forgotten the language. To feel the wind on your naked body, as trees feel, and dance, you have completely forgotten. Only your face has been left, only your head. Otherwise, your whole body has been numbed.

Diogenes lived naked, but his nakedness was very, very beautiful – because it was innocent. You can live naked as a perversion also. Then it will not be beautiful. Then you may be an exhibitionist – something has gone wrong in your psychological world. Diogenes lived naked like animals.

And Alexander, it is said, felt jealous. He was robed in the costliest costumes possible and he felt jealous, it is said, seeing Diogenes naked. So beautiful! – envious. He asked, ‘How can I also be like you? – so innocent, so beautiful.’

Diogenes said, ‘There is no how to it.’ And he was lying down on a bank of a river in the sand. It was morning and the sun was rising, and he must have been enjoying the poetry that comes through the sands to the naked body, the subtle messages, the warm sun falling on him. Diogenes said, ‘There is no need to ask for any how. This bank is big enough for both of us. You throw your clothes and lie down with me!’

There is no how to ask. Why ask how? How is a trick of the mind to postpone. If you ask how, then you are asking how to postpone – because you are saying there must be something to be practiced. And practice will take time. And, of course, you cannot practice right now. Tomorrow comes in. And once the tomorrow comes in, then you are done.

Said Diogenes, ‘There is no question of how! You just lie down and rest! And this bank is enough for both of us.’

Alexander said, ‘Some day, I always dream that some day there will be a possibility – when I have conquered the whole world.I am waiting for that day, then I will also relax and rest.’
Diogenes laughed and said, ‘Then you are foolish, because Diogenes can rest and relax without conquering the whole world. So why should you make it a condition that when you have conquered the whole world, then you will rest and relax?

And I tell you: then it is not going to happen ever, because the mind will ask for more and more. And when you have conquered this world, then the mind will ask, ”Is there any other world?”’

And it is reported that when Diogenes said this, that there is no other world but the mind will ask, ‘Is there any other world?’

suddenly Alexander felt sad. The sadness came immediately to him, knowing that there is no other world. Once you have conquered this world, then what will you do?

There is no other world to conquer. The mind will feel very much frustrated. The mind goes on for more and more and more. It doesn’t bother what you have: you may be a beggar – it asks for more; you may be an emperor – it asks for more. The nature of the mind is to
ask for more. It is not relevant what you have.

It is the very nature of the mind just to go on asking for more. A rich man goes on asking for more, and remains poor. He goes on desiring for more, and remains poor. It is difficult to find a really rich man.

More Osho Discourses

  1. Osho discourse on Nirvana
  2. Osho discourse on Diogenes
  3. Osho on Sufism, Sufis Vision
  4. Osho on Teacher and a Master
  5. Osho discourse on Kabir death
  6. Osho on Ramakrishna Mission
  7. Osho on Centering, inner center
  8. Osho on first step for a Meditator
  9. Osho discourse on Jesus miracles
  10. Osho on Kundalini, Kundalini Yoga
  11. Osho on Mary Magdalene and Judas
  12. Osho on Satori, Preparation for Satori
  13. Osho on Jesus Christ and Christianity
  14. Osho on Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid Story
  15. Osho on Will Meditation lead to Samadhi?

  16. Osho on How to know that Sannyas is Good
  17. Osho on overcoming sex and raising Kundalini
  18. Osho on increase in sex with raising Kundalini
  19. Osho on Satori, Satori is a glimpse of samadhi
  20. Osho on Death Meditation, Dying Consciously
  21. Osho Entering Sleep Consciously Meditation
  22. Osho on Intution, Intution is Irrational
  23. Osho on Gurus work, what a Guru can Do
  24. Osho on Sage Ashtavakra and Yagnavalkya
  25. Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

  26. Osho discourse on Harmony with existence
  27. Osho teachings on Sex and Sex outside Marriage
  28. Osho on Generosity, Generosity is real richness
  29. Osho’s Message, Osho Teachings Osho Philosophy
  30. Osho on Ramakrishna exploitation of Vivekananda
  31. Wordless communication with Existence Meditation
  32. Osho on Samadhi, Partial Samadhi of Vivekananda
  33. Osho on Psychic Exploitation of Gurus and Shaktipat
  34. Osho on Grace, recipient of Grace and Moment of Death
  35. Osho on Badarayana’s statement, ”athato brahma jigyasa”
  36. Osho on Stages of Enlightenment, Christhood or Buddhahood
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