February 2009

Osho – A togetherness is a Sacred Commitment. It is a great Involvement

[A sannyasin who had recently left hospital after an attack of typhoid fever, said that she was feeling paranoid and that her partner did not love her. Osho said it was natural to feel negative after illness, unless one was aware, and that illness was a great catharsis. He then asked her partner how he [...]

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Osho – Love has to be taken beyond Jealousy. Jealousy has to be dropped

[At a previous darshan (see ’The Passion For The Impossible’, September 1 st), Osho had advised a couple to work on their relationship. The woman was jealous about the man being with other women. Now they report back to Osho. The woman says that before her energy was more with her man, now it is [...]

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Osho – My whole effort is to make you Natural, Spontaneous

Osho – One thing has always to be remembered – that we are not to control the energy. We are just to help it wherever it is moving. We are not to direct it into a certain direction. We are just to help it wherever it is going. We have to go with it. Ordinarily [...]

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Osho – Therapy is a function of love. Love is therapeutic

[The new sannyasin says she is a doctor.] Osho – You will become capable. You just need a little more love flowing. It works more than any medicine. Up to now medical science has not been able to find anything more potent than love. If you can be loving to the patient, you will be [...]

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Osho – I dont want to do Meditation, It is too Much of an Effort

[A sannyasin says she is not doing the meditations because: It feels too much of an effort. I enjoy just sitting and walking, and being with friends.] Osho – Then don’t create problems! – because that sitting and enjoying you have been doing your whole life. That has not changed you. Your problems are there. [...]

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Osho – To me Perversion only means that you become a Menace to others.

Osho on Perversion

[A sannyasin had previously written to Osho about her sexuality, which seemed to have become more intensified lately – mainly been through auto-erotic activity. Guilt feelings surfaced from childhood, about its being a perversion. Osho checked her energy.] Osho – I told you to remain celibate for a few days specifically for this purpose, because [...]

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Osho on Freudian Psychoanalysis, Osho on Sigmund Freud

Osho on Sigmund Freud

[A visitor said three years of Freudian psychoanalysis helped her, but also made things difficult.] Osho – That too is true, because all the analytical methods are in a way incomplete. They help you only to a certain extent and then they leave you in a limbo. One feels that something has happened, but much [...]

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Osho Discourse on Tai Chi – Guidance onTai Chi Exercise

Osho – When doing these exercises, feel more like a liquid, Flowing energy, than like a solid body. Drop the concept of a solid body and help to focus on a different concept of liquid, fluid, flowing energy. Before you start T’ai Chi start doing this in the night so that you will be ready. [...]

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Osho on need of Active and Dynamic Meditation methods

[A sannyasin says: I was doing buddhist meditation for two years.... I kept falling asleep!] Osho – Mm, that’s possible in a buddhist meditation… very possible. That’s why zen masters have to keep a staff continuously to hit the disciples, because they are always dozing. The whole method is so silent, so relaxing, that the [...]

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Osho – To miss Meditation meant to undo months of Work

Osho on missing Meditation

[To a sannyasin returning to Germany, Osho suggested that it would be very helpful to make meditation a regular part of her routine. He said sometimes it was permissible to miss a meal – could even be beneficial – but to miss meditation meant to undo months of work.] Osho – It is very delicate [...]

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Osho on How to Introduce one’s parents to Sannyas and Meditation

Osho on Sannyas and Meditation for Parents

[To two resident sannyasins returning for a brief visit to the States to see their parents, Osho spoke about how one could introduce one’s parents to sannyas, meditation, and Osho, in a way that would be acceptable. He said one should not try to argue, but simply let one’s being, one’s happiness, be evidence of [...]

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Osho – You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you Need

[A sannyasin says: I see my craving and trying to fill up my spaces with other people. The love between Somendra and me is so beautiful. The pain is not the love.] Osho – It is a sad situation but can be of tremendous import. Happiness makes people shallow, sadness gives depth – and sometimes [...]

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Osho – A creative person is happy only when something beautiful is Created

[The sannyasin therapist says: But between groups it seems that I don’t seem to be able to find a comfortable space to be in. I don’t have the same relationship with myself that I have in the groups.] Osho – It is very indicative and has to be understood. When you are working with people, [...]

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Osho – When people are in love they avoid many things which look Ugly

[A sannyasin says: I wrote you a letter about having recently finished a relationship with somebody, and since then I’ve been feeling very negative towards him. I don’t understand why I feel so antagonistic to someone I once cared about. My understanding is that perhaps I didn’t express enough negativity during the relationship, but I [...]

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Osho – Every person has Energy to Heal. It is something natural

Osho - Every person has Energy to Heal

[A sannyasin who is leaving said: Two months ago, you said you might give me a special healing meditation. I’ve been going to all the divine healings (that happen at each monthly camp) and they did much.] Osho – You would like to become a healer? … You will be able. It will be good [...]

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Osho – A talented person is almost always in trouble. His very talent is a struggle

Osho on Talented person

[A sannyasin asked Osho about her father who is an artist, and had been diagnosed as schizophrenic.] Osho – I don’t think it is schizophrenia, and I don’t think it is an illness. This type of thing happens many times to talented people. A talented person is almost always in trouble. His very talent is [...]

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Osho – Anger is just the opposite of Prayer. To live in an angry way is to live without Prayer

Osho on Prayer

Osho – Man can live in a violent way. That’s how many people live: aggressive – aggressive with others, aggressive with themselves. And those who are aggressive with others and with themselves are bound to be aggressive with existence itself. The relationship between you and the existence is impossible if any kind of aggression remains [...]

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Osho – Love is not your power: Love is your helplessness, utter helplessness

Osho on love and helplessness

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I am very impatient about my inability to love, and I don’t know what to do about it.] Osho – Nothing has to be done. If you do something you will create more of a mess. Love is not a question of doing. Simply accept your helplessness and out of the [...]

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Osho – The only secret worth learning in life is the Secret of being in Harmony with oneself

Osho – The only secret worth learning in life is the secret of being in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the existence itself. Ordinarily people are constantly in conflict; they are in conflict with existence, with others, and with themselves. This triple conflict is their whole life. Naturally it culminates in more and [...]

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Osho – Love has many dimensions to it. The first dimension of love is that of passion

[Another visitor says: Can you love more than one person or is it just that love is a general feeling for many people? I think my confusion stems from something you said in the lecture about when you love someone, that person is... for me it would be all men. Is that possible?] Osho – [...]

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Osho – Let full moon night become your particular night for meditation

[A sannyasin describes an experience he had at a full-moon party when his mind became clear and he saw that people are in difficulty. He wanted to make himself useful, but he closed up again.] Osho – No, you cannot do anything about it. You cannot retain it… you cannot bring it. Whenever it comes [...]

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