February 2009

Osho – That’s my whole Teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration

Osho Teachings - Celebration

Osho – That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration. When you worship, you start making a hierarchy; the lower and the higher. When you worship you put something on top of other things. When you worship, something becomes sacred and something becomes profane. When you worship you divide, you split existence. Then something [...]

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Osho – A rebellious person necessarily becomes Religious and a Loving Person cannot miss god

Osho – Prem means love, keshava is a name of krishna – it means god – god of love. But literally keshava means ’the long-haired one’. Krishna is the first hippie! Long hair has always been a symbol of rebellion… a symbol that one wants to go back to nature. Long hair has always stood [...]

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Osho – Tai Chi is a beautiful meditative process.

Osho – T’ai chi chuan is a war method, a defense method. When you use t’ai chi in fighting, then it is called chuan. But the moment you are getting ready to fight, you have missed the whole thing. Then you cannot be really relaxed. The very idea of defence, of fight, is ugly, non-meditative. [...]

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Osho – Everybody has a Murderer in him

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[A sannyasin said she had enjoyed two groups but not the encounter because she felt condemned for not bringing up hatred. She said in another group she had felt murderous and fearful of it, but in the encounter she was not feeling hate.] Osho – There is nothing to be worried about. In fact, everybody [...]

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Osho – We are taught a very repressive attitude, we are taught to repress the Negative.

[A sannyasin couple with two children ask for help with their relationship because the man loves the woman but she feels so repressed she cannot give much love to her husband.] Osho – That’s the situation that almost all human beings are in. We are taught a very repressive attitude, we are taught to repress [...]

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Osho on Belief, Trust and Shraddho. Shraddho means loving trust

Osho on Belief trust Shraddho

Osho – Shraddho means loving trust. There are three words which are synonymous in the dictionary but not in actual experience. One is belief, the second is faith, the third is trust. In actual experience they have nothing to do with each other – not only that: they are totally different dimensions. Belief is intellectual; [...]

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Osho – Nobody wants to be left alone. Nobody wants any quiet, silent moments

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Osho – Man’s search is for his real homeland. In this world man is a stranger, a foreigner; he lives a kind of uprooted life. Something essential is missing: he is missing the soil where he can grow his roots. His life remains an empty gesture. a constant occupation just so he remains occupied, so [...]

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Osho – Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned

Osho – Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, unthought. Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false. And that’s why people go on loving yet it never satisfies, because no phony food can be nourishing. True love has to be spontaneous, it has [...]

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Osho – Disciplehood is a paradox, birth – death together

Osho - Disciplehood is a paradox

Osho – Deva means divine, jurgen means a farmer. Life is an opportunity, just a seed. One can miss it, one can remain a seed; that will be the missing of the opportunity. One has to seek the right soil. One has to be a farmer; One has to learn how to grow. All that [...]

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Osho – Unless Meditation happens, nothing happens

Osho – A small lamp has to burn, has to be kindled, in the heart. The heart has all the potential to become light. We have not tried, we have not worked on the heart; otherwise it start radiating, glowing, it becomes aflame. All that has been so much of a problem simply disappears. One [...]

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Osho – Deva Nisarga…. Nisarga means to be Natural, to be Spontaneous

Osho on Deva Nisarga

Osho – Deva Nisarga…. Nisarga means to be natural, to be spontaneous, to be simple and poor. And blessed are the poor – only they shall inherit the kingdom of God. Only the poor are rich. This inner poverty is really an inner richness. When you simply move with nature, by and by you disappear. [...]

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Osho – Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear

Osho on dropping thoughts

Osho – The moment one starts functioning as a pure mirror, god is revealed immediately. God is already here: we are just not a mirror to him. One need not search for god, because he is not far away: he is very close, he is closer to you than you are to yourself. All that [...]

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Osho – Don’t force yourself to do something which is not happening Naturally

[A sannyasin says: I am in beautiful love with a sannyasin here but sometimes I feel very much that I need my own space, I need to be alone. And I don’t understand if it is good or if it is because I am afraid to be more deeply in love.] Osho – Nothing to [...]

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Osho – Be friendly: don’t create any Antagonism with life.

Osho – Niro means the element water. And water is very symbolic, symbolic of flow, symbolic of nonresistance, symbolic of let-go. And these have to become the qualities of a sannyasin. One should never become stagnant, because life is a process, a constant process; the moment you stop the process you are dead. Life is [...]

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Osho – You are afraid to lose control. You are afraid to commit yourself

Osho on Fear of Losing Control

[A sannyasin says: I feel that everything I do is always done with a reluctance about it. It’s like a weight and it keeps me from fully being there in anything – in meditation, in work, in relationships.... I used to label it fear... ] Osho – They are related things. Maybe a part is [...]

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Osho – Love is out going, Meditation is in going. Love is a sharing, But how can you share if you don’t have it in the first place

Osho on Love and Meditation

[A visitor said that while he was very happy to be here, he was missing his girlfriend. Osho said that it was good in a love relationship for lovers to sometimes be apart so an appetite arose to be together.] Osho – In fact the very word ’love’ simply means to desire. You may not be [...]

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Osho – I Teach you to forgive others, but even more to forgive yourself

Osho – Love knows how to forgive. Not only does one have to forgive others, one has to forgive oneself too, and that is the harder thing because we have been taught to feel guilty; we are burdened by guilt. A burdened man cannot grow and one who feels guilty feels always sick; he does [...]

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Osho – Each of my Sannyasins is individual; that’s my message to them

[The visitor replies: I think they are; the sannyasins want to be copies of you.]Osho – That is their misunderstanding. If somebody wants to…. But I am continuously throwing them to themselves. And you need not be that way! Even if others are making the mistake you need not: you need not try to become [...]

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Osho – Throw out all those answers; those are false answers

[A visitor says: Please tell me who I am.] Osho – Mm mm…. My telling you won’t help; you will have to come upon it yourself. Others have been telling you, that is the problem. Your father has told you ’This is what you are’; your mother has told you ’This is what you are.’ [...]

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Osho -Sannyasin Parents have to be aware; they have to help the Child

[Osho gives sannyas to a baby, and addresses the parents.] Osho – Prem Vega. Prem means love; Vega is the name of the brightest star – love, the brightest star. Every child represents love, brings love. Every child is a creation of love. Every child is a poem, and every child brings great hope into [...]

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Osho Guidance to seven months pregnant sannyasin

[The new sannyasin is seven months pregnant.] Osho -Then just be here and absorb as much of my energy as possible. Be open and vulnerable. But go to meditations – even if you can’t do them. Just sit by the side. Be a part, just silently participate. Go to the music group and sit silently [...]

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Osho – Meditation should become center of Life, One can drive meditatively, one can write meditatively

Osho on Meditation and Life

[To a new Indian sannyasin:] Osho – So you have arrived – I have been waiting for you. You had to come and you have arrived in the right time…. And remember a few things. The most important is that now meditation should become the very center of your life; everything else should be secondary. [...]

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