January 2009

Osho on meaning of Life – Why life seems to be meaningless

Osho on Meaningless Life

Question – Life seems to be meaningless. Why? Osho – Life is… unless you give meaning to it. There is no in-built meaning in it; it has to be created. It has to be introduced, it has to be provoked. If you are waiting for some ready-made meaning, you will not get it… and life [...]

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Osho on Art of Listening, What is Right Listening by Guru Nanak Dev

Osho on Art of Listening

Osho – Mahavira has described four starting places from which you can reach the other shore. Of these, two can be understood: that of a sadhu and that of a sadhvi, a holy man and a holy woman. The other two seem more difficult: that of a shravaka and shravika. Shravaka means one who has [...]

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Osho – My wife is utterly faithful to me, but still doubt goes on lingering

Osho on Faith in Partner

Question – Osho, I know for sure that my wife is utterly faithful to me, but still doubt goes on lingering somewhere inside me. What should I do to get rid of the doubt? Osho – Avinash,IN THE first place, why should you ask that she should be faithful to you? It is from there [...]

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Osho on Receptivity – Receptivity is a state of No Mind

Osho on Receptivity

Qustion – Please Osho, What is Receptivity? Osho – Ananda Vandana, Receptivity is a state of no-mind. When you are utterly empty of all thought, when consciousness has no content, when the mirror reflects nothing, it is receptivity. Receptivity is the door to the divine. Drop the mind and be. In the mind, you are [...]

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Osho on Love – What is Love, Love is overflowing joy

Osho on Love What is Love

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Love? Osho – Swami Anand Tallis,LOVE is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Anand Tallis is very young – he is only nine – but he is far ahead of his age. His mental age must be almost double that, nearabout eighteen, hence the question. [...]

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Osho discourse on effort and non-effort and how they relate to Witnessing?

Osho on effort and non-effort

Question - Beloved Osho, to break our habitual ways of acting, feeling and thinking, and to start witnessing instead, some effort seems to be required. But ultimately all effort, including the effort towards Enlightenment, has to be dropped. Can you please speak on effort and non-effort, and how they relate to Witnessing? Osho – Don’t be [...]

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Osho on Tibet Problem and Tibetan Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum

Osho on Tibet Problem

Question – Beloved Master, would you like to say something about the famous Tibetan Mantra, ”Om Mani Padme Hum”? Osho – Maneesha, the only country in the world which has devoted all its genius to the inner exploration is Tibet. Its findings are of tremendous value. Om mani padme hum is one of the most [...]

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Osho on Self Acceptance, Why I am scared to Accept Myself the way I am

Osho on Self Acceptance

Question – Beloved Master, Why am I scared to accept myself the way i am? Osho – Kalyan Mitto, everybody is in the same situation. Everybody is scared to accept himself the way he is. This is how all the past centuries of mankind have cultivated, conditioned every child, every human being. The strategy is [...]

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Osho on Difference Between Witnessing and Tathata

Osho on Witnessing and Tathata

Question – PLEASE EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WITNESSING AND TATHATA. Osho – In witnessing, the duality is present. The witness finds himself separate from that which he experiences. If a thorn pricks his foot, the witnessing man says, “The thorn has not pricked me, it has pricked my body — I am only the knower [...]

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Osho on Forced Celibacy, Real Celibacy comes naturally

Osho on Forced Celibacy

Question - I have been a hindu monk for seven years. I had been told to be a celibate, so i forced it upon myself. It was very arduous but somehow i succeeded, at least physically, in it. But then the whole thing went into my head. Now i constantly think of sex and nothing else. [...]

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Osho – How do You Know Inner World of a Person

Osho on inner world

Question – How do you know the inner world of a person? Because I have always felt that the moment you see somebody, Instantly his whole life is revealed to you. This is my own experience too. Osho – There is not much mystery in it, it is very simple. If YOU are a mirror, [...]

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Osho on Truth, Truth cannot be taught but it can be learned.

Osho on Truth

Osho – Truth cannot be taught… but it can be learned. And between these two sentences is the key of all understanding. So let me repeat: truth cannot be taught, but it can be learned – because truth is not a teaching, not a doctrine, not a theory, a philosophy, or something like that. Truth [...]

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Osho Trademark case, Osho foundation loses ‘Osho’ trademark

OSHO International Foundation Zurich (the legal holder of trademarks and copyrights related to OSHO) have lost the trademark of the word “OSHO” as related to meditations and related usages. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board found that “the term OSHO is generic for the meditations devised by the mystic OSHO and the meditation and religious [...]

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Osho Copyright case Update

Beloveds, There was a big win for religiousness over religion in the US today. Obama is being sworn in and OSHO is free for all to use: it’s a happy New Year indeed. The US trademark board released it’s decision in the OSHO case today, after 10 years of litigation. The opinion was very strongly [...]

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Osho on When Enlightened Being leave his Body

Question – YOU SAID THAT LIFE IS A PILGRIMAGE WITHOUT A GOAL. IS THIS ONLY FOR THE UNENLIGHTENED? WHEN AN ENLIGHTENED BEING LEAVES HIS BODY, DOES THE PILGRIMAGE CONTINUE?Osho – Yes, the pilgrimage continues, but the pilgrim is no more. The pilgrim disappears, the pilgrimage continues. In you just the opposite is the case: the [...]

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Osho – In Suffering everybody Remembers God – even an atheist

Osho on Remembering God in Suffering

Question – Why do I remember God only When I am in Suffering? Osho – You don’t remember God. When you are in suffering your remembering God is just meaningless. Just because you want to avoid suffering, you remember God as a protection. You are not interested in God, you are only interested in how [...]

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Osho – Why dont we Love and Accept our Ego and Mind

Osho on Accepting Ego and Mind

Question - Can we not love and accept our head, our mind, our ego, as part of the whole life? Why reject them? Osho – I have not told you to reject them. How can you reject something which is not? I have been telling you only to see, to look into them. I am not [...]

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Osho on How to Transcend Biology, Physiology

Osho on How to Transcend Biology

Osho – Man and woman are intimate enemies – enemies and yet intimate. If your woman is with you then you start feeling: how to be alone? When you are alone, after a few days you start a great thirst and hunger for your woman – how to be with her? If you are alone, appetite [...]

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Osho – Meditation is for everyone, for Ordinary people too

Osho - Meditation is for everyone

Question - Surely Meditation is for Mystics. Why do you propose it for ordinary people and their children? Osho - First, I have never come across an ordinary person; they do not exist. They are only created by egoistic people. The egoist has to create the ordinary – that is the only way the ego can exist, [...]

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Osho on Ego, The Games of the Ego are very Subtle

Osho on Ego Games

Osho – The games of the ego are very subtle. And if one is trying to drop the ego they become more and more subtle. And if one has really decided to drop it anyhow, the ultimate strategy that the ego can use to protect itself is to become egolessness; is to pretend humility, humbleness; [...]

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Osho on Meaning in Life, Each one has to create meaning for Living

Osho on meaning in Life

Osho – A YOUNG man has asked why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life – one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there [...]

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Osho – Teachings of the Awakened Ones are not teachings

Osho on Teachings of the Awakened Ones

Osho – The Teachings of the Awakened Ones are not teachings at all because they cannot be taught — so how to call them teachings? A teaching is that which can be taught. But nobody can teach you the truth. It is impossible. You can learn it, but it cannot be taught. It has to [...]

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