November 2008

Osho Hands, Osho hands touching seekers heart

Osho hands

Question : WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR HANDS? I FIND MYSELF MORE EMOTIONALLY MOVED BY WATCHING THEM, THAN BY LISTENING TO THE WORDS YOU SPEAK. Osho : It is natural, because when I am speaking I am speaking to your heads. Emotion cannot be involved, emotion cannot be there. I am talking to your [...]

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Osho on difference in Prayer and Meditation

Osho on difference in prayer and meditation

Question : What is the difference between Prayer and Meditation? Osho : A lot of difference. A great difference. in fact they are absolutely different things. Their movement is in different directions. There are two types of religions in the world: prayer oriented religions and meditation oriented religions. Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism – these are [...]

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Osho on Falling in Love, Head Condemns Love

Osho on Falling in Love

Question : YOU SAID THAT WHEN TWO BEINGS ARE IN LOVE THEY ARE IN COMMUNION WITH EACH OTHER. THEN WHY DOES THE WORLD CALL IT ’FALLING’ IN LOVE WHEN IT IS SUCH AN ECSTATIC HAPPENING AND NOT A FALL TO A LOWER PLANE? Osho : The world calls it falling in love because the world [...]

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Osho on Free Will and its relation to Being and Non doing

Osho on Free will

Question : PLEASE EXPLAIN MAN’S FREE WILL AND ITS RELATION TO BEING AND NON-DOING. Osho : There is nothing like that, like free will. It is just an ego concept, there cannot be anything like that. I am not saying the opposite, that you are dependent and slaves. Mind moves into opposites very easily. It [...]

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Osho on Search for Enlightenment a selfish search

Osho on Enlightenment Search

Question : IS NOT THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT A SELFISH SEARCH? Osho : Yes, it is. And the most selfish. There is nothing like it, it is incomparably selfish. And one has to be selfish, there is no other way to be. And all the teachings that go on telling you not to be selfish [...]

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Osho on Knowledge, Knowing and man of Knowledge

Osho on Knowledge Knowing

Osho : All knowledge is belief. Knowing is not belief, it is KNOWING. It is your perception it is your vision it is your growth. It is just like the mother – the child grows in her womb, she knows, the child is HER PART, her own extension, her own being, blood and bone. A [...]

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Osho on Samurai warriors – He was a monk and also a warrior.

Osho on Samurai warriors

Osho : Seven or eight hundred years ago in Japan they tried to create a different type of person – they called him a samurai. He was a monk and also a warrior. This is very strange – because what is the relation between a monk and a warrior? The temples in Japan are very [...]

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Osho on Intuition, working on Intuition, How Intuition comes

Osho on Intuition

Question: Does’t Intuition come to one through thought waves that are just like Radio Waves? Osho : This, again, will be very difficult to explain. If intuition comes through some kind of waves, then sooner or later the intellect will be able to explain it. It comes without any medium; that is the point. It [...]

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Osho on LSD, LSD as aid to Meditation, Danger of LSD

Osho on LSD

QUESTION: CAN LSD BE USED AS A HELP IN MEDITATION? Osho : LSD can be used as a help, but the help is very dangerous; it is not so easy. If you use a mantra, even that can become difficult to throw, but if you use acid, LSD it will be even more difficult to [...]

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Osho on Need of Active Meditation, Start with Active Meditation

Osho on Need of Active Meditation

Osho : You can go into meditation just by sitting, but then be just sitting; do not do anything else. If you can be just sitting, it becomes meditation. Be completely in the sitting; non-movement should be your only movement. In fact, the word zen comes from the word zazen, which means, just sitting, doing [...]

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Osho on Dancing, Nijinsky Dancer Lost in Dancing

Osho on Dancing and Nijinsky

Osho : Dancing is not passive, it is very active. In the end you become movement; the body is forgotten, only movement remains. Really, dancing is a most unearthly thing, a most unearthly art, because it is just rhythm in movement. It is absolutely immaterial so you cannot hold on to it. You can hold [...]

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Osho – Non doing as Meditation, doing through non doing

Osho on Non-doing is meditation

Osho : Non-doing is meditation, but when I say non-doing is meditation I do not mean that you need not do anything. Even to achieve this non-doing, one has to do much. But this doing is not meditation. It is only a stepping stone, only a jumping board. All ”doing” is just a jumping board, [...]

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Osho on Marcel book – The Myth of Sisyphus

Osho on Albert Marcel book

Albert Camus Osho : The book by Marcel, THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS. I am not a religious man in the ordinary sense; I am religious in my own way. So people will wonder why I am including books which are not religious. They are, but you have to dig deep, and then you will find [...]

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Osho on Wilhelm Reich Book "Listen Little Man"

Osho on Wilhelm Reich Book

Wilhelm Reich Osho : This is a strange book, nobody reads it. You may not even have heard about it, yet it was written in America. The book is LISTEN LITTLE MAN, by Wilhelm Reich. It is a very small book, but it reminds one of the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, TAO TE CHING, THUS SPAKE [...]

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Osho on Songs of Chandidas – Baul Songs of Chandidas

Osho on Songs of Chandidas

Osho : Tenth… the last for this session. It is a very small book, known only to a very few people in the world, but it needs to be declared from the housetops to each and everyone. It is THE SONGS OF CHANDIDAS – a Bengali madman, a Baul. The word Baul means a madman. [...]

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Osho on Paul Reps book Zen Flesh Zen Bones

Osho on Paul Reps’ ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES

Paul Reps Osho : Paul Reps’ ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES. It is a great work – not original in that he has not created it, but although not original it is far more significant than just a translation. It is a category in itself. In one way it is original, in another way a translation. [...]

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Osho on Gurdjieff Book "Meetings with remarkable men"

Osho on Gurdjieff Book

Osho : I was worried that I may not be able to mention Gurdjieff’s book MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN. Thank God for this P.P.S. This is a great work. Gurdjieff traveled all over the world, particularly in the Middle East and India. He went up to Tibet; not only that, he was the teacher of [...]

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Osho on Spiritual Helplessness – Divine Blessing

Osho on Spiritual Helplessness

Osho : Nanak says that none of the methods and tricks devised to be free of samsara have any strength in them either. The authentic power lies in the hands of Him who creates the world and, having created, admires it. It is all in His hands. All strength, all power lies in His hands. [...]

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Osho on Contentment and discontentment , Osho on contented person

Osho on Contentment and discontentment

Osho : Contentment is a significant word that unfortunately has been deformed and mutilated. When a person finds himself helpless he becomes contented. This contentment is only a consolation, not real at all. When he finds himself helpless after all efforts have failed him, and says its all right, this isn’t the posture of contentment [...]

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Osho on unconscious search, Osho on split in personality

Osho on unconscious search

Osho : There are a few people who have come to me not searching, just accidentally; a friend was coming and they thought, ‘Okay, let us go and see what is there.’ They were looking in a book store and they came across one of my books, and my picture attracted them; or they liked [...]

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Osho on female Enlightened masters, few female masters?

Question : YOU, BUDDHA, JESUS, ETC. ARE ALL MEN. YOU SAY WOMEN ARE CLOSER TO NO-MIND. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE A MAN’S BODY? WHY ARE THERE NO WOMEN MASTERS? Osho : It is from Deva Chandan – of course, a woman who belongs to the lib movement. It is significant. The question has to be [...]

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Osho discourse on philosopher George Santayana

Osho on George Santayana

George Santayana Osho : Kabir’s religion is very aesthetic, artistic. He’s a great poet – uneducated though. But what does poetry have to do with education? A great poet, one of the greatest; his poetry is simply sublime, not of this world. He says: One has to look for beauty. It is all over; the [...]

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