December 2008

Osho Why you live like a King, Possibilities after Enlightenment

Osho on Kingly Life

Question : Why do live like a King? Osho : Why not? I am an old Jew! You know Jews – if you ask them a question, they answer it with another question. There is a famous story about a king. He had many Jews in his court because they were rich people, but he [...]

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Osho – Why Love is So Essential for Spiritual growth

Osho on Love and Spiritual Growth

Question : WHY IS LOVE SO ESSENTIAL FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH? Osho : Love and awareness is the highest form of polarity – just like man/woman, life/death, darkness/light, summer/winter, outer/ inner, yin/yang, the body and the soul, the creation and the creator. Love and awareness is the highest form of polarity, the last polarity, at which [...]

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Osho – What we can do for Osho, Gratitude for Osho

Gratitude for Osho

Question : Beloved Osho, You’ve said meditation is a flowering. And for us, the perfume of the flower is gratitude. Is there anything we can do for you? Osho : Yes. Meditation, compassion and gratitude. Whenever you are meditative, you feel blissful; whenever you are in compassion, you feel ecstatic. And then gratitude arises — [...]

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Osho on Buddhas work, Don’t miss Buddhahood

Osho on Buddhas work

Osho : I have been working with many, many people, and sometimes they turn when the right moment was going to be; exactly before that moment they turn away. And the mind is cunning enough; it can philosophize, it can say why you have turned away. Exactly at the moment when something was going to [...]

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Osho on Meera, Indian woman Mystic Meera

Osho on Meera

Osho : Meera is a launching place for your pilgrimage. Her scripture is the scripture of love. Perhaps calling it scripture is not right. Take Narada’s BHAKTI SUTRAS — sutras of devotion — that is scripture. There one finds reasoning, method, fixed precepts. It is a system of devotion. Meera herself IS devotion. You won’t [...]

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Osho on Bhuribai, Osho Enlightened disciple Bhuribai

Osho on Bhuribai, Osho Enlightened disciple Bhuribai Osho : Bhuribai is very closely connected with me. I have come to know thousands of men, thousands of women, but Bhuribai was unique among them. Bhuribai’s mahaparinirvana — her death attaining the highest liberation — happened just recently. Count her with Meera, Rabiya, Sahajo, Daya — she [...]

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Osho discourse on Jealousy, ugliness of jealousy

Osho on Jealousy

Question : You speak a lot about the ugliness of Jealousy. Yes, it is quite ugly, but any suggestions to us sufferers of the disease who aren’t Enlightened on how to diminish it? Osho : First, diminishing it is not going to help. You can diminish it to such proportions that it will almost become [...]

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Osho on Woman Enlightened Master, Osho on Woman Enlightenment

Osho on Woman Enlightenment

Question : Why has there never been a single Woman Enlightened Master? Osho : A woman cannot be a Master — it is not possible. When a woman arrives she becomes a Mistress, not a Master. The fulfilment of a woman is love. The flowering of a woman is love. Mastery is not the goal [...]

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Osho on difference between Rationalisation and ‘Bullshit’

Osho on Rationalisation

Question : Please explain the difference between Rationalisation and ‘Bullshit’. Osho : ‘Bullshit’ is a far better word than ‘rationalisation’, but they mean the same. ‘Rationalisation’ is a clinical word — a word to be used by the professor, ‘bullshit’ is more alive. ‘Rationalisation’ is bloodless, ‘bullshit’ is very young, alive and kicking. But the [...]

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Osho on Living in Total Insecurity, Start living in insecurity

Osho on living in total insecurity

Question : CAN ONE WHO IS NOT ENLIGHTENED LIVE IN TOTAL INSECURITY AND NOT BE ANXIOUS, DEPRESSED AND MISERABLE? Osho : Total insecurity and the capacity to live in it are synonymous with enlightenment. So one who is not enlightened cannot live in total insecurity, and one who cannot live in total insecurity cannot become [...]

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Osho – Enlightened being dissolves into Cosmos?

Osho on Enlightened Beings

Question : WHEN AN ENLIGHTENED BEING DISSOLVES INTO THE COSMOS, DOES HIS UNIQUENESS DISSOLVE ALSO? Osho : The enlightened man, even while he is alive in the body, has already dissolved. He knows that he is no more, he knows that he is a nothingness. The dissolution has already happened. In fact, nothing has dissolved, [...]

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Osho on Jesus Christ Training in Secret School Essenes

Osho on Jesus Christ

Osho : Jesus was trained in one of the oldest secret schools. The school was called Essenes. The teaching of the Essenes is pure Vedanta. That’s why Christians don’t have a record of what happened to Jesus before his thirtieth year. They have a little record of his childhood, and they have a record after [...]

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Osho on Religion – Religion is freedom from Knowledge

Osho on Religion

Osho : I have heard a story. A wasp made its abode near a window outside a big building. In winter this wasp would sleep and rest, in summer it would fly, dance and collect the pollen of the flowers. It was very happy. But this wasp was a special one – it was a [...]

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Osho on Right Renunciation, Osho on Right Detachment

Osho on Right Renunciation

Osho – I have heard that in England there was a great thinker by the name of Edmund Burke. He was once invited to give a lecture in a church in a small village near London. But he was an absent-minded person, so very often he used to forget the time and date of his [...]

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Osho on detachment – If detachment is the opposite of attachment then it is wrong

Osho on detachment

Osho : One has to be detached from the world – but not out of any fear. If you give up anything out of fear it will not really be given up, it will chase you, it will follow you. If you are scared of anything, it will scare you more. If you run away [...]

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Osho on Meher Baba Awakening, Meher baba Enlightenment

Osho on Meher Baba Awakening, Meher baba Enlightenment Question : WITH GROWING DESIRELESSNESS, SOMETIMES THE PERSON BECOMES OUTWARDLY INACTIVE. IS IT LETHARGY AND DULLNESS? WHY DOES IT HAPPEN?Osho : Many things are possible, and it will depend. Certainly many desires will drop and many actions also. Those actions which were just caused by desires will [...]

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Osho on Atma Chintan, Atman is not the Self

Osho on Atma Chintan

Question –  How do you define Atma Chintan? Osho : There is no such thing as self-thinking, atma chintan. You cannot be in a state when you are thinking about yourself, because one who knows, knows; he never thinks about it. We only think about things which we don’t know… you go on thinking. But [...]

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Osho on Excitement, True Love and Joy in Relationship

Osho on Excitement and True Love

[A sannyasin, returning to the West, says that the joy and fun has gone out of his relationship with his girlfriend, though the love is still there.] Osho – There is some misunderstanding in your mind. The joy is not gone, joy has never been there – it was something else. It is excitement that [...]

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Osho on Watching and Watcher sitting at top of Hill

Osho on Watching and Watcher sitting at top of Hill Osho : The hand is moving, you are watching it – not only from the outside but from the inside too. You are separate, that witness is separate. It is unidentified with anything that we know of. It is identical only with God but we [...]

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Osho on Discipline – Uptightness of Army life as meditation

Osho on Discipline

[A visitor has been posted by the army from Nepal to Poona. Osho explains how to use even the discipline and uptightness of army life as meditation.] Osho : The basic thing is not the technique of meditation. The basic thing is to do it with awareness. Any method can be of help if one [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha Suchness, Tathata, Choicelessness

Osho on Gautam Buddha Suchness

Osho : Deva means divine, Madhyama means the middle – the divine middle. The extreme is the disease, and the mind lives through the extremes. The mind always thinks in terms of either/or, and reality is just exactly in the middle. It is never either/or; it is both/and. It is neither day nor night, neither [...]

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Osho on Responsibility of a Mother, Osho on Good Mother

Osho on Meditation for pregnant woman

[A sannyasin brings her baby and says she has been screaming a lot which upsets her.] Osho : That is part of being a mother…. It is not an easy job…. But now it is too late! Every woman wants to become a mother without knowing the responsibilities. It is a long commitment. And remember: [...]

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