October 2008

Osho – Are you the only Enlightened person in this Ashram?

Osho on Enlightenment in Ashram

Question – Are you the only Enlightened person in this Ashram? If yes, is it impossible To enlighten or to be enlightened near an enlightened person? Osho – Since I became enlightened I have never come across a person who is not enlightened. You see only that which you are. Before I became enlightened, the [...]

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Osho on Crystallized Self and Ego, Ego is a deception

Osho - Ego is a deception

Question – What is the difference between a Crystallized Self and a big, strong Ego? Osho – THEY LOOK ALIKE, but they are as different as two things can be. Not only different, they are diametrically opposite. The crystallized self is not a self at all. It is called a crystallized ”self,” but it is [...]

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Osho on Sufi Mystic Bayazid Story about awareness

Osho on Sufi Mystic Bayazid story

Osho – One Sufi mystic, Bayazid, used to talk to his disciples about awareness, and they would ask, ”But what is awareness? You go on talking about it.” One day he took them to the river. On this side there was a small hill, and on the other side there was a small hill. He [...]

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Osho Sannyas – My Sannyas is Freedom, My sannyas is spontaneity

Osho - My Sannyas is Freedom

Question – What I mean by Sannyas is a spiritual discipline so that one becomes a Religious person, but it is not happening to me. What to do? Osho – My sannyas is not a discipline. My sannyas is freedom, freedom from all control – even from self-control. A controlled man is a dead man. [...]

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Osho on Religion , Religion is Transformation

Osho on Religion

Osho – Religion is a radical change of vision. It is not just a change of outlook. It is not just a change of ideology – it is a change of the very being itself. Hence it is radical – radical means of the roots. Religion is not a kind of renovation it is discontinuity [...]

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Osho on Pornography, Pornography is as old as the priest

Osho on Pornography

Osho – Pornography is a by-product of your so-called religions. It is a religious phenomenon – excuse me! It is because of your priests that pornography exists. And it is not a new thing, it is as ancient as man. Khajuraho, Konarak, Puri, what are they? Pornography in sculpture. And you can go to the [...]

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Osho on Mystics, A mystic is in a state of natural being

Osho on Mystics

Question – What is a Mystic? Osho – I don’t know, Purna, and nobody else knows either. That’s why a mystic is called a mystic. Something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped, that cannot be comprehended. Not that it is something special. It is very ordinary. That makes the mystery ten thousandfold. [...]

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Osho on Buddhism, Osho on What is Buddhism

Osho on Buddhism

Osho – Buddhism is not interested in general policy. It is not interested in philosophical speculation. It is interested in the details of life, its sufferings and their causes. It does not give you outlandish solutions. It does not provide you with new dreams. It simply looks face to face into life. It does not [...]

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Osho on Being Total – How to be total? How to give Everything?

Osho on Being Total

Question – How to be total? How to give Everything? Osho : VIDYA, ONE CAN BE TOTAL ONLY WHEN ONE IS NOT. Only emptiness can be total. If you are, you can’t be total. Your very presence will be a disturbance in your totality, your very presence will continue interfering with your totality. That’s why [...]

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Osho on purpose of Therapy Groups

Osho on Purpose of Therapy Groups

Osho – THE PURPOSE OF THE THERAPY GROUPS is not to bring the participants to their natural self – not at all. The purpose of the therapy groups is to bring you to the point where you can see your unnaturalness. Nobody can bring you to your natural self; there can be no method, no [...]

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Osho on Upanishads Metaphor, Story of two Birds

Osho on Upanishads Metaphor

Osho – So you live in two dimensions, on two planes. In the Upanishads they have the story, the parable or the metaphor, of two birds living in the same tree, absolutely alike. One bird sitting on the highest branch, utterly quiet, silent, unmoving, doing nothing, with closed eyes, somewhere in. The other bird on [...]

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Osho on Accepting Death, Osho on Zen Master Bokoju Death

Osho discourse on Accepting Death

Osho – I have seen many people die. They die like beggars, clinging; they don’t want to die because they have not lived yet, and death has come. But when there was life, they wasted it. Now that death has knocked on their doors they have become aware of the wastage of life. But a [...]

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Osho – In Japan, swordsmanship and archery became methods of teaching meditation

Osho on Zen swordsmanship

Osho – The warriors were something of the same – their bodies were worth seeing. They took care of their bodies, they took care of their discipline, and just to be a warrior they needed a certain meditation: to be alert, to be constantly aware because any moment … a small fault and you are [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha Physical death

Osho on Gautam Buddha Physical death

Osho – The day Gautam Buddha died, early in the morning he said to his disciples, ”It is more than enough. It is time for me to leave.” They could not understand what he meant; perhaps he meant to leave for another place. Buddha said, ”You don’t understand, I mean I am going to leave [...]

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Osho discourse on Swami Ramtirtha story

Osho on Swami Ramtirtha

Swami Ramtirtha Osho : Swami Ramtirtha used to tell a beautiful story: There was a very great atheist and he was continuously talking against God. He had written on the wall of his drawing-room in big golden letters: ”God is nowhere.” And then a child was born to him, and one day he was playing [...]

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Osho discourse on Desiderata, Western Mystic Desiderata

Osho on DESIDERATA

Osho – We enter today into one of the most beautiful worlds, that of a small document called the. It is strange because it has appeared many times and disappeared many times; hence nobody exactly knows who wrote it. Truth has the capacity to appear again and again; because of human stupidity it is lost [...]

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Osho on Silence – A forced silence will not give you the right taste of silence

Osho on Silence

Question : Many people are in Silence now. Do you recommend this? What is the purpose? Can it be helpful? Osho – I don’t recommend, but they understand. I don’t recommend anything in particular – except understanding. But if you understand, you would love silence. I don’t say: ’Be silent,’ because then it would become [...]

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Osho on Unconsciousness, Unconsciousness means living without a witness

Osho discourse on Unconsciousness

Osho : Consciousness means living with a witness; unconsciousness means living without a witness. When you are walking on the road, you can walk consciously — that’s what Buddha says one should do — you are alert, deep down you are aware that you are walking; you are conscious of each movement. You are conscious [...]

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Osho on Gurdjieff Meditation, Osho on Gurdjieff Dream Meditation

Osho on Gurdjieff Meditations

George Gurdjieff Osho – Gurdjieff, one of the buddhas of this century, used to give a certain meditation to his disciples which is very significant. He used to say to his disciples, “If you can remember in a dream that ‘This is a dream,’ then you are on the very threshold of transformation.” But it [...]

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Osho on ‘Who am I’ Meditation technique

Osho on 'Who am I' Meditation

Question – Beloved Master, Who Am I ? Osho – Narayano, it is a question to be made a meditation. It is not a question to be asked, it is a question to be contemplated — because nobody can answer it for you and nobody’s answer can become your answer. This is one of those [...]

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Osho on Living dangerously – To live dangerously means to live

Osho on Living dangerously

Question – What does it mean to live dangerously? Osho : DANGEROUSLY? To live dangerously means to live. If you don’t live dangerously, you don’t live. Living flowers only in danger. Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity. If you start getting secure, you become a stagnant pool. Then your energy is [...]

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Osho – Why you call yourself Bhagwan

osho on bhagwan

Question – Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? why do you call yourself God? Osho – I AM — and because you are. And because only god is. There is no other way, there is no other way to be. You may know it, you may not know it. The only choice is between ignorance [...]

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