November 2008

Osho on Pythagoras, Osho on Greek philosopher Pythagoras

Osho discourse on Greek philosophers Pythagoras

Osho : When one of the great Greek philosophers, Pythagoras, reached Egypt to enter a school – a secret esoteric school of mysticism – he was refused. And Pythagoras was one of the best minds ever produced. He could not understand it. He applied again and again, but he was told that unless he goes [...]

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Osho on Obstacles in Meditation and Mind games

Osho on Obstacles in Meditation

Osho : Do not make meditation the last thing on your schedule. Make it the first. Then when you feel that now it is not an effort, when you can sit for an hour together completely immersed in breathing – aware, attentive – when you only know this, that you have achieved attention of breathing [...]

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Osho on difference in Awareness and Attention

Osho on difference in Awareness and Attention

Osho : Between ‘awareness’ and ‘attention’ there is a difference. When you pay attention to anything it is exclusive; you have to withdraw your attention from everywhere else. So it is a tension really. That is why it is called attention. You pay attention to one thing at the cost of everything else. If you [...]

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Osho on Witness, Witnessing and Dream Analysis

Osho on Witness, Witnessing and Dream Analysis

Osho : The East is concerned with the witness, not with what it witnesses. You may be seeing a real tree or you may be seeing a dream tree – it makes no difference. For the Eastern approach it makes no difference whether the tree is real or just a dream tree. In both the [...]

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Osho Buddha Hall Meditation in Last Days, 10000 Buddhas

Osho Buddha Hall Meditation in Last Days

Osho Buddha Hall Meditation in Last Days To make it clear, Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Just watch. You are the witness, you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are only a witness – just a mirror. This witnessing is the point of departure, the point from where transformation begins. Drink deeply from the [...]

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Osho on Ramakrishna Cancer and Ramakrishna Devotion

Osho on Ramakrishna Cancer

Osho : I am reminded of a case: Ramakrishna had a cancer of the throat. In the last stage it became impossible even to drink water. All his disciples said, ”Why don’t you ask in your prayers to God to remove this cancer? We know that if you ask, your prayer will be heard. And [...]

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Osho on Zen Master Ma Tzu and his Disciple Nansen

Osho on Zen Master Ma Tzu

Osho : We have discussed Ma Tzu. It is no wonder that a man of the insight of Nansen immediately became… he did not miss a single moment as he arrived at Ma Tzu’s monastery, as he saw the master, he immediately touched his feet. And this respect was not one-sided, this love was not [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha, Maulingaputta and Zen Masters

Osho on Gautam Buddha, Maulingaputta

Osho : Maneesha, in the long history of Zen there are milestones. Mahakashyapa is the first, but not much is known about him – in Buddhist scriptures he is mentioned only once. Just one mention and yet he is regarded as the greatest disciple of Gautam Buddha. For twenty years he has not spoken a [...]

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Osho on Relationship, Loving Oneself and Loving Others

Osho on Relationship Loving Oneself

Osho : You meet people of the same plane. So the first thing to remember is: a relationship is bound to be bitter if it has grown out of unhappiness. First be happy, be joyful, be celebrating, and then you will find some other soul celebrating and there will be a meeting of two dancing [...]

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Osho on Surrender and How to Surrender

Osho on Surrender

Question : WHAT IS THE MEANING OF SURRENDER? HOW IS SURRENDER? Osho : There are a few things, you have to do them if you want to know them. There is no way to tell anything about them. And surrender is one of those things. It is a dimension of love, let-go. If you ask [...]

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Osho on Kabir, Mystic Kabir is Life Affirmative

Osho on Kabir

Osho : I invite you to come with me into the innermost realm of this madman Kabir. Yes, he was a madman – all religious people are. Mad, because they don’t trust reason. Mad, because they love life. Mad, because they can dance and they can sing. Mad, because to them life is not a [...]

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Osho on Real Knowledge and knowing

Osho discourse on real knowledge and knowing

Osho : Unless the knowledge is your own, there will always be a rift between what you know and what you do. Because whatsoever you do cannot be transformed by knowledge gathered from others; it cannot be changed by borrowed knowledge. It changes only when your insight flowers. It is difficult to have a synthetic, [...]

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Osho discourse on Selfish Pride, Pride is always for wrong reasons

Osho discourse on Selfish Pride

Patanjali Yoga Sutra : It is difficult to Subdue Selfish Pride. Osho on above sutra : One of the most arduous things in life is not to think of oneself as extraordinary. Of course, this is the most ordinary thing in the world to think, because everybody thinks he is extraordinary. Everybody thinks he is [...]

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Osho on inferiority complex and superiority complex.

Osho on inferiority complex

Osho : My Beloved Ones, Yesterday, I talked of four sutras of Yoga. Today, I would like to talk to you on the fifth sutra. The fifth sutra of Yoga is: What is in the atom, is in the whole; what is in the micro, is in the macro; what is in the smallest, is [...]

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Osho on Yoga Sutra – Alonesness and Universal Oneness

Osho on Yoga Sutra, Alonesness and Universal Oneness

Osho : Yoga says if only we could see that we are not more than a bird on a big aeroplane. In a river, two straws were floating. The river’s flow was rapid and one straw was trying to fight against the river’s current. He was trying to make a dam in the river to [...]

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Osho on Heat Yoga and Bhrama Yogi

Osho on Heat Yoga

Osho : Yoga says there are not two things in us like consciousness and unconsciousness. In us, there is only one existence and these are two polarities of it. Hence a man can be influenced from either pole. In Tibet, there is an experiment known as Heat-Yoga. There are hundreds of monks who can remain [...]

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Osho discourse on Yoga Sutras, Patanjali Yoga sutras

Osho on Patanjali Yoga sutras

Osho : Yoga’s third sutra… I told you that existence has two forms. Energy – the first sutra. Second – energy has two forms – non-existence and existence. And the third sutra – existence has two forms. One we call conscious, the other we call unconscious. But they are two forms, not two separate things. [...]

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Osho on Lao Tzu and Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Osho on Lao Tzu

Osho : Lao Tzu once told his friends that he could not be defeated by anyone in his life. Naturally his friends kept quiet. Then they asked him to tell the secret to them also why no one could defeat him because they also did not want to be defeated by anyone. But Lao Tzu [...]

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Osho on Loving Oneself and Growth

Osho on Loving Oneself

Osho : Anand Narayani. Anand means bliss; Narayani means a goddess – a goddess of bliss. That’s what we are meant to be – gods and goddesses of bliss. And if we are not it is simply because of our own foolishness; it is simply because of our own misunderstanding of life. We are responsible. [...]

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Osho on Life – Life is a constant movement, it never comes to any end

Osho on Life and Change

Osho : Life has no security; it thrives in danger. It has no safety; it is possible only in danger. Death is safe and secure; life is a risk. Hence those who really want to live have to take many risks. They have to go on moving into the unknown. They have to learn one [...]

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Osho – Love is the only light there is in life

Osho on Light

Osho : Prem Ellen. Prem means love; Ellen means light. Love is the only light there is in life. Love is the inner light. It needs no fuel; it is eternal. It is not caused by anything, hence it cannot be turned off. Anything that can be put on can be turned off. It is [...]

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Osho on Truth, Truth is never an Achievement

Osho discourse on Truth

Osho : Truth is never an achievement; one cannot seek and search it. Seeking is a sure way of not finding it. Search and you will miss, because the very idea of searching, seeking, is rooted in desire, and desire is the barrier. Truth happens when there is no desire in the mind. When the [...]

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