March 2009

Osho – Be Altruistic only when your own self is fulfilled

Osho – Buddha says There are needy people all around. There are ill people, there are poor people, there are paralyzed people and blind and deaf and lame. If you start serving all these people you will forget the real work. That’s what has happened to the Christian missionary. He runs the school, the hospital, [...]

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Osho on Reducing Weight, Why there is Obsession with Food

Osho on reducing weight

Question – BELOVED MASTER, I AM OBSESSED WITH FOOD. I EAT TOO MUCH AND HAVE GAINED ENORMOUS WEIGHT. CAN YOU HELP ME TO REDUCE MY WEIGHT? Osho – Sangito, this is strange, coming to me from California just to reduce your weight. In California there are far more facilities available to reduce weight. I know [...]

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Osho – If you remember death, life cannot deceive you anymore

Osho

Osho – Remember death, never forget it for a single moment! Because of this insistence, many people have thought Buddha is death-obsessed; he is not. You may be life-obsessed but he is not death-obsessed. He is simply bringing everything to a balance. He says, as much as you are involved in life you have to [...]

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Osho – things that are causing you Misery must be giving you some Pleasure too

Question – BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO I FEEL SO MUCH PAIN IN LETTING GO OF THE THINGS THAT ARE CAUSING ME MISERY? Osho – Deva Akal, the things that are causing you misery must be giving you some pleasure too; otherwise the question does not arise. If they were pure misery you would have dropped [...]

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Osho – To live without meditation is to be foolish, because whatsoever you do then is going to be wrong

Osho – If you look at your life, if you watch closely, you will see what a fool you are, what a jerk you are! To live without meditation is to be foolish, because whatsoever you do then is going to be wrong. You cannot do right without meditation because right only grows in the [...]

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Osho – God is not to be searched for; what is to be searched for is Consciousness

Osho on searchng god

Osho – From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light — and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can create it — you can put [...]

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Osho – Don't throw your responsibility on others; that's what keeps you miserable

Osho – Don’t throw your responsibility on others; that’s what keeps you miserable. Take the responsibility on yourself. Remember always, “I am responsible for my life. Nobody else is responsible. So if I am miserable then I have to look into my own consciousness; something is wrong with me, hence I create misery around me.” [...]

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Osho – Your whole interest is exhibition: how to show that you are better than others

Osho – Not only do you go on moving in the same small circles, you repeat, you imitate other people and their stupidities. You are constantly repeating, you are constantly looking around at what is being done by whom. You don’t live a life from within; you are imitators. Your whole interest is exhibition: how [...]

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Osho – Beloved Master, What Does it mean to be a Disciple

Question – Beloved Master, What Does it mean to be a Disciple? Osho – Prem Samadhi, it is one of the most delicate mysteries. No definition is possible of a disciple, but a few hints can be given, just fingers pointing to the moon. Don’t cling to the fingers — look at the moon and [...]

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Osho on Life – I affirm life, I rejoice in life

Osho - I affirm life

Osho – The worldly, the otherworldly, are not really different. There is only one difference that makes a difference and that is of awareness, alertness. And the awareness can be practiced anywhere: you need not go to the mountains, you need not go to the monasteries, you need not renounce the world. In fact, IN [...]

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Osho – Start becoming conscious; that is the only way to arrive

Osho - Start becoming conscious

Osho – Man is a seed of great potential: man is the seed of buddhahood. Each man is born to be a buddha. Man is not born to be a slave but to be a master. But there are very few who actualize their potential. And the reason why millions can’t realize their potential is [...]

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Osho – Beloved Master, How do you know so Many Jokes

Osho Jokes

Question – Beloved Master, How do you know so Many Jokes? Osho – Viramo, first, in none of my past lives have I been an Englishman. Secondly, in many of my past lives I have been a Jew. Sir Reginald, riding in a New York taxi, was challenged by the driver to solve a riddle: [...]

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Osho Joke – Parrots are far more Intelligent than your professors

Osho – A great scholar once bought a parrot. When he got it home he told it, “I am going to teach you to talk.”“Don’t bother,” answered the bird. “I can talk already.”He was so amazed that he took it to the university. “Look! I have got a fantastic talking parrot here….” But the parrot [...]

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Osho – Sanity happens only when you become so totally silent that all inner chattering disappears

Osho on Sanity

Osho – This whole mind of communicating with people in an attempt to be verified by them simply shows a deep darkness inside; otherwise, there is no need. And I am not saying that when a man becomes full of light he stops communication — no. Only he can communicate, because he has something to [...]

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Osho – The only way to be desireless is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot

Osho – Desire means greed for more and more. Desire means discontent, discontent with what is, discontent with the present; hence you seek contentment in your hopes for the future. Today is empty; you can live only by the hope of tomorrow. The tomorrow will bring something…although many tomorrows have come and gone and that [...]

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Osho Joke – I want it my way, the way we do it in Brooklyn

Osho – A wizened little client in a fancy whorehouse is heard shouting from the upper floor: “No! Not that way! I want it my way, the way we do it in Brooklyn. So quit it! Do it my way or forget it!”The madam climbs the stairs and erupts into the girl’s room. “What is [...]

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Osho – Buddhism never creates any guilt, it is not for repentance, it is for remembrance

Osho – The ordinary way of human beings is to overlook one’s own faults and to emphasize, magnify, others’ faults. This is the way of the ego. The ego feels very good when it sees, “Everybody has so many faults and I have none.” And the trick is: overlook your faults, magnify others’ faults, so [...]

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Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted

Osho on Settle inside Centered Inside

Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted, and outside not staying long in any one place, not staying with one person for a long time, because attachments arise, possessiveness arises. So be just like a bee. Just the other night I was reading a poet’s memoirs. [...]

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Osho – When a rich man prays, his prayer cannot be for money. If he is still praying for money, he is not yet rich enough

Osho – There are two kinds of religiousness in the world: the religiousness of the poor — it is very worldly, it is very materialistic — and the religiousness of the rich — it is very spiritual, very nonmaterialistic. When a rich man prays, his prayer cannot be for money. If he is still praying [...]

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Osho on Contentment, Contentment is your innermost nature. Contentment does not belong to things

Osho – Nobody can ever be contented in the world — that’s impossible. You can become more and more discontented, that’s all, because contentment happens only when you go inwards. Contentment is your innermost nature. Contentment does not belong to things. You can be comfortable with things — a beautiful house, a beautiful garden, no [...]

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Osho – whatsoever appears as happiness proves ultimately to be the source of unhappiness and nothing else

Osho – If you are too much distracted by desires, pleasures, gratifications, and if you are too thirsty in your senses for titillation, if you are searching foolishly for happiness in the outer world, then death comes and fetches you away like a flood which carries off a sleeping village. The man who is searching [...]

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Osho on Nature of Desire and Jealousy, The nature of desire is Jewish

Osho - The nature of desire is Jewish

Osho -If you can become desireless, then death cannot have any sway over you. It is the desiring mind that is caught in the net of death, and we are all full of desires: desire for money, for power, for prestige, respectability — a thousand and one desires. Desires create greed, and greed creates competition, [...]

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