February 2009

Osho – How do I find when I am the Witness

[A sannyasin, leaving, asks: How do I find when I am the witness?] Osho – It is something self-evident: when you are, you know it; no extemal proof is needed. If the question arises that means that you are not, otherwise the question does not arise at all. It is like having a headache: nobody [...]

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Osho – Real person is exactly in the middle of both – he lives in the heart.

Osho on Real Person

Osho – Every child is born with the heart functioning but sooner or later we force his energy towards the head because the head is very useful in the society. Only by the use of the head will you become a head clerk, or the head station master. Only by using the head will you [...]

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Osho – Love has to start from your centre

Osho on Love

Osho – Love has to start from your centre – and you are the closest person to it – only then can it go on spreading. It is like you throw a stone into a silent lake and the ripples arise. First they arise just around the stone, and then they go on spreading to [...]

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Osho – Be Loving and wait for Gratitude to arrive. And when it comes, don’t resist

Osho on Love and Gratitude

Osho – I teach love for the world. Love this earth – it is really beautiful… it is utter splendour. Love from the smallest, the dewdrop, to the greatest star. Let this whole existence be your love object, let it be your beloved. Love has to be all-inclusive. And then only will you know the [...]

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Osho – Children’s liberation is needed, No other slavery is so deep

Osho on Children’s liberation

Osho – Veet means beyond, shankaro means conditionings. Man is born unconditioned, man is born as freedom… just an open sky, with no clouds, with no boundaries, with no adjectives, no definitions – neither Hindu nor Christian nor Communist – just pure existence, an emptiness. But immediately the society starts closing in on you, starts [...]

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Osho – Nobody can run away from himself

[A sannyasin says he is fighting with himself about being alone, running away from it.] Osho – Nobody can run away from himself. One can only deceive but one cannot run away from it. There is no way – you are you. And the aloneness is so fundamental that there is no way to escape [...]

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Osho speaks to a Sannyasin about take care of his Wife who lies very ill

[Osho speaks to a sannyasin who just arrived to take care of his wife who lies very ill in a local hospital.] Osho – She will survive – just wait; help her. You have come, that’s very good. Just be as loving to her as possible. And death, when it is around, or when one [...]

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Osho – You have fear don’t ask why; just look into the fear, go into it, watch.

Osho on Watching Fear

[A sannyasin who is going to the West says: I’m really scared of leaving. Osho asks: What is the fear? He replies: I don’t know.] Osho – That’s a good kind of fear if you don’t know what exactly it is. That simply means that you are on the verge of something unknown. When the [...]

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Osho – To live in Tao is to live in god. Tao is a far better word than God

Osho – Tao Devam. Tao means the way – not the way to any goal, but the way things are. Tao has nothing to do with goals; it has no future-orientation. It is the present moment and the things that are in the herenow. It is the totality of existence in the present and the [...]

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Osho – Marriage and Commitment are not both the same thing

Osho - Marriage and Commitment

[A sannyasin had written a letter about relationship with his girlfriend, who was living in London, and who wished to be married to him. He was uncertain as to what was the best thing to do as he had reservations about marriage but was in love with her.] Osho – One thing – don’t get [...]

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Osho – The devotee’s vision is the greatest vision

Osho on devotee’s vision

Osho – When a scientist looks at a certain thing he looks with a rational eye; he wants to know what it is. When a poet looks at the same thing he looks with the aesthetic eye; he wants to enjoy it. When a devotee looks at the same thing he looks with the eye [...]

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Osho – There is a subtle difference between Repression and Control

Osho on Repression

[Osho tells a sannyasin there are some things about his energy that it will be helpful for him to know. You haven’t allowed yourself to ever be wild, you’ve always had a subtle control inside you – and that can be a hindrance to spiritual growth... ] Osho – There is a subtle difference between [...]

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Osho – Be watchful so that inside remains always alone, far away, a watcher on the hills.

Osho – A Zen master was passing across a river, a small river, and his disciple was asking a few questions. When they were crossing the river the disciple asked a question, saying ’Master, what is the way to cross the river?’ And the master said ’Cross it in such a way that the water [...]

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Osho – Once you start looking at the Positive, all Negativity disappears

Osho

Osho – All depends on the mind. Ultimately all is our attitude. If we suffer, we suffer because of our wrong attitude, because of our wrong mind. Because we have created a mind which suffers, because we have cultivated a suffering mind, we suffer. If we create a bliss-mind, bliss follows. Ultimately everything can be [...]

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Osho – Once the leader is possessed, the duality disappears.

[To the leader of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar)] Osho – It has to be remembered that the leader is not, in fact, a manipulator. He should not be. If you manipulate, then it is something from the mind, and that which comes from the mind cannot go deeper than the mind. So the [...]

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Osho – Lovers always become friends in the end

[Osho asks a sannyasin about her relationship and she replies: Well, I feel good, and it’s the nicest thing that has happened to me for a very long time. But what’s happening is that he wants me to just be a friend – and I want more than that. He says that he cares about [...]

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Osho – Only if respect comes through love is it meaningful

Osho on Respectability

[A sannyasin says: I’ve got a real sense of self-disgust. I realise that a my life I’ve been trying to make myself respectable, and to give. myself some kind of esteem. I’ve been going after every substitute for love – and for me love just means manipulation. I can’t take it because I’ve got this [...]

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Osho – Modern painting is just like a child painting

[A sannyasin said that when she meditated, many pictures would emerge which she liked to draw and become involved with.] Osho – If pictures come it is a good release, so paint them; you continue it. Just go wild in it, and don’t paint through reason. Don’t be worried about what you are making, because [...]

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Osho – To be a mother means a great revolution, and a radical change

Osho - To be a mother

[A sannyasin says: I’m going to be a mother... Yes, I want it.] Osho – Do you understand what it means? If you want it, it is okay, mm? But one should be more conscious about it. To be a mother means a great revolution, and a radical change. To be a woman is one [...]

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Osho on Rolfing – Rolfing is painful because it has to relax the body structure

Osho on Rolfing

[The next sannyasin said that although she had done most of the therapies available in the ashram, she continued to have small areas on her breasts, hips and thighs, that she felt were blocked. The therapy referred to in the following conversation is known as Rolfing, or Structural Integration.] Osho – You have to pass [...]

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Osho – When you love a person you have to tell him everything

[A group member says she has difficulty surrendering in the relationship with her boyfriend] Osho – Tell him everything! … And tell him this also, that you are feeling difficulty in surrendering but you would like to, mm? Talking to him will help. Don’t hide it inside yourself. When you love a person you have [...]

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Osho on effortless Meditation Experience – I am not my body alone

[A sannyasin says: The other night I got very frightened. I was in my room lying on my bed, and for some reason I started thinking that I am not my body alone. The room stood out very strongly, everything in the room stood out strongly, but it wasn’t warm, it was cold.] Osho – [...]

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