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 simple [Continue]

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 of [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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, if [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 to [Continue]

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 [Continue]

Osho – Man and woman are intimate enemies – enemies and yet intimate. There is great pull and great attraction – because of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the uncharted, the mysterious. But for the same reason, there is conflict. If your woman is with you then you start feeling: how to be alone? When you [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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; [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]