January 2009

Osho- It is not possible to be in a State of Pure Consciousness and then Fall Again

Osho on State of Pure Consciousness

Question – IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE IN A STATE OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS FOR A WHILE AND TO FALL OUT AGAIN? Osho – No, it is not possible. But something like it happens: you have a glimpse of pure consciousness; you have not entered. It is just as if you look from hundreds of miles’ [...]

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Osho – Same number of Women become Enlightened as Men

Osho on ENLIGHTENED WOMEN

Question – WHY IS IT THAT WE HEAR OF FEWER ENLIGHTENED WOMEN THAN MEN? Osho – The basic reason is that man is an expert in bragging; women are not. Many women have attained to enlightenment. The number is exactly the same as men — cannot be otherwise, because existence goes on balancing itself — [...]

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Osho – Go on Watching, Never relax this watching for a single moment

Osho on Watchfulness

Osho – This is a very important sutra: “Union with the divine happens through self study.” One has to study oneself — that is the only way to reach the divine. Patanjali does not say, “Go to the temple.” He does not say, “Go to the church.” He does not say, “Do the rituals.” No, [...]

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Osho – Master is always acting; A Master is a perfect actor

Osho on Master

Question – You said that a master sometimes has to be angry with the disciple and in that case he is acting. Is he acting also when he laughs or smiles at him? Osho – A Master is always acting; a Master is a perfect actor. He does not take life seriously. He does not [...]

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Osho – I am bankcrupt, Shall I just live on other People’s Expenses

Question – I HAVE BECOME QUITE USELESS. NOW WHAT DO I DO ABOUT MY FINANCIAL SITUATION? SHALL I JUST LIVE ON OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPENSES? Osho – If you have really become quite useless, you have attained; now there is nothing to attain. And if you have really become quite useless, you will not bother about [...]

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Osho – Why You always carry a Napkin with you

Osho

Question – WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CARRY A NAPKIN WITH YOU, EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO USE FOR IT? Osho – It is symbolic: that I am useless like my napkin. I don’t believe in utility. Utility belongs to the world, to the marketplace. I believe in nonutilitarian things: a flower. What is the utility [...]

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Osho – If you are Aware of Yourself you become Aware of others

Osho on Awareness

Question – In Being Selfish does one Still remain Aware of others or Not? Osho – If you are aware of yourself you become aware of others. How can it be otherwise? If you are not aware of yourself, how can you be aware of others? Awareness first must happen within you. The light must [...]

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Osho on Attraction for Opposite Sex, Male Female Attraction

Osho on Male Female Attraction

Osho – When you are in the body too much you are always hankering for contact with other bodies, a lust to be in contact with other bodies — which you call love, which is not love, which is just a lust — because the body cannot exist alone. It exists in a network of [...]

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Osho on Worrying, Osho on how to Stop Worrying

Osho on Worrying

Question – How is one to Stop Worrying? Osho – This is from “Pathik the Pathetic.” He unnecessarily goes on becoming pathetic. Now, “how to stop worrying?” What is the need to stop worrying? If you start trying to stop worrying, you create a new worry: how to stop worry. Then you start worrying about [...]

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Osho – What is the secret, How you Work on so many People at same time

Osho Work

Question – What is the secret of how you can work on so many of us at the same time? Osho – There is no secret to it. Because I love you, you are not so many. My love surrounds you, you become one. I am not working really on individuals, then it would have [...]

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Osho on Marriage – Marriage should be transcended; only then real marriage happens

Osho on Real Marriage

Question – Why do you appear to put down Marriage and yet tell people to get Married? Osho – This is from Anurag. To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is [...]

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Osho – Celibacy is Repressive, You suppress your sex energy

Osho – Celibacy is repressive — you suppress your sex energy — and that suppression never leads to transformation. But there are ways in which your godliness is revealed to you: suddenly, sex disappears. Not that it is suppressed. In that godliness the energy takes a totally different form. You become celibate, with no effort [...]

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Osho on Non Desiring Mind and Secret to Reveal Inner Treasure

Osho on Non Desiring Mind

Osho – You have always been seeking and seeking treasures, and they elude, and they are mirages, and they appear and when you reach after long journeys they are not there — because the real treasure is hidden behind you. It is you! There is no other treasure; you are the treasure. When one is [...]

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Osho – To be in the presence of a Buddha is to be on the way to becoming a Buddha

Osho on Buddha Presence

Osho – In the last night, when Jesus was departing from his friends, he broke bread and gave it to his disciples and said, “Eat it; this is me.” It is possible. When a man like Jesus takes the bread in his hand, the bread is no longer the same; it has become sacred. And [...]

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Osho on Life, Osho Sutras to Transform Life

Osho – Once it happened, I was in the mountains with a few friends. We went to see a point known as the echo point; it was a beautiful spot, very silent, surrounded by hills. One of the friends started barking like a dog. All the hills echoed it — the whole place appeared as [...]

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Osho on His Laziness, I am the laziest man in the whole world

Osho on His Laziness

Question – BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE THE LAZIEST MAN IN THE WORLD. IS THIS THE REASON WHY IN YOUR COMMUNE THE SANNYASINS ARE SO BUSY, FAR MORE BUSY THAN PEOPLE IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD? PLEASE COMMENT. Osho – It is true. I am the laziest man in the whole [...]

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Osho on Trust, How can you Trust even a Murderer

osho discourse on trust

Question – Beloved Osho, What kind of trust do you have in someone who is cheating you, murdering you? I could not understand. Osho – I do not understand myself – but what to do? I have only trust to offer because I don’t have any distrust in me. You ordinarily think that trust has [...]

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Osho – Is Awareness Higher Than Love

Osho on Love and Awareness

Question – Osho, Is Awareness higher value than Love? Osho – Virendra, THE HIGHEST PEAK IS THE CULMINATION of all the values: truth, love, awareness, authenticity, totality. At the highest peak they are indivisible. They are separate only in the dark valleys of our unconsciousness They are separate only when they are polluted, mixed with [...]

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Osho on Shortcoming in Tantra Teachings led to its Failure

Osho on Shortcoming in Tantra Teachings

Question – Beloved Osho, do you see shortcomings in the teachings of tantra that incline you to feel tantric methods are not suitable for us? Osho – It is not a complete system. There is a basic fallacy that human beings fall into: they find a small truth, a part of the truth, and rather [...]

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Osho on How to be Master of Ones Sexual Energy

Osho on Sexual Energy

Question – What is it to be master of one’s sexual energy? Osho – VEERESHWAR, TO THINK IN TERMS OF DUALITY IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. To divide yourself in two is to move towards a split. You are one! How can there be a master and a slave? The very idea is poison. And it has [...]

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Osho on God, God is a Presence not a Person

Osho on God

Question – Osho, What is God? Osho – Prem Sukavi, GOD is not a person. That is one of the greatest misunderstandings, and it has prevailed so long that it has become almost a fact. Even if a lie is repeated continuously for centuries it is bound to appear as if it is a truth. [...]

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Osho on Relationship, Real Relationship happens when Ego Drops

Osho on Relationship, Real Relationship

Question – What happens in and with the relationship between two partners, If their Ego drop? Osho – Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone. You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, [...]

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