March 2009

Osho – Don't depend on the body and don't remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it

Osho – Don’t depend on the body and don’t remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it, care for it, but remember: you have to leave it one day. It is only a cage, it will be left behind, and the bird will be gone. Before that happens, take care of the [...]

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Osho – Become just a watchfulness. See that one part is saying this, another part is saying that

Osho – Buddha is saying: Don’t consider what is right and what is wrong, because if you consider what is right and what is wrong you will be divided, you will become a hypocrite. You will pretend the right and you will do the wrong. And the moment you consider what is right and what [...]

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Osho – Walk meditatively, eat meditatively, sit meditatively, even sleep meditatively. Let meditation be spread all over your life

Osho – Before you start helping others, live it in all possible ways. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively, sit meditatively, even sleep meditatively. Let meditation be spread all over your life. It should become a twenty-four-hour phenomenon, like breathing — so much so that you need not remember to meditate. It becomes so much your own [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasruddin Joke – Mulla Nasruddin and his Son

Osho Mulla Nasruddin Joke

Osho – Mulla Nasruddin’s son came home late from school. The Mulla grabbed him and gave him a beating, saying, “Let this be a lesson to you not to come home late!” The next day the boy came home with his clothes dirty from playing. The Mulla gave him a good smacking, saying, “Let this [...]

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Osho on Happiness – Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine

Question – Beloved Master, What is Happiness? Osho – Jayananda, it depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. There is one famous maxim of Murphy. He says there are two types of people: One, who always divide humanity in two types, and the other, [...]

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Osho – Many lives you have been seeking, this life also you are seeking. Have you found it?

Osho – Remember, always remember. Buddha insisted again and again: Remember you are a seeker. You are seeking your true home; you have not yet found it. Many lives you have been seeking, this life also you are seeking. Have you found it? Don’t waste your time, don’t go astray. Pour your whole energy into [...]

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Osho – No sexual experience can give you that beauty that will come if you watch your lust and through watchfulness the lust disappears

Osho on Sex and meditation

Osho – Passion creates many things in you. It creates fever, it makes you more unconscious — more unconscious than you already are. It drags you deeper into the mud. And with passion come hatred, illusion and desire — and then you are distracted from your nature. Your nature is poisoned, your innocence is poisoned. [...]

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Osho – If you are identified you feed the mind; if you are not identified you stop feeding it

Osho on identification with mind

Osho – If you are identified you feed the mind; if you are not identified you stop feeding it. It drops dead on its own accord. There is a beautiful story. I love it very much…. One day Buddha is passing by a forest. It is a hot summer day and he is feeling very [...]

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Osho – If you take pleasure in your cave in the Himalayas you are as unfree as anybody who lives in a palace

Gautam Buddha Sutra – “IT IS NOT IRON THAT IMPRISONS YOU NOR ROPE, NOR WOOD, BUT THE PLEASURE YOU TAKE IN GOLD AND JEWELS, IN SONS AND WIVES”. Osho – It is not Iron that Imprisons you… your prison is not that gross, it is very subtle. It is not so visible, it is very [...]

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Osho – The dream can exist only if believed; the dream disappears if you don't believe in it

Osho – Beware of imagination. It can cloud your mind. It can destroy your capacity to see clearly. Hence I say: Unless you drop being Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians, you will not be able to see clearly. Your imagination has been contaminated for centuries. All your ideas and ideologies have to be put aside so that [...]

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Osho – It is a risky phenomenon to remain too much attached to your pleasures, to your imagination, because this is how you have been going from one l

Osho – Whenever you see some imagination arising in you, be alert. Don’t let it grow, don’t let it become a big tree. It will be far more difficult then for you to get rid of it because you may become attached to it; you may have invested many things in it; you may have [...]

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Don't play with your Desire and Pleasure in your imagination; that is strengthening them

Osho – If you allow desire and pleasure and lust and greed and anger and jealousy and possessiveness and violence and all these rushing streams towards you, they will sweep you away. Don’t play with them in your imagination; that is strengthening them, that is getting under their sway. And the miracle is that everybody [...]

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Osho – Seeing this game of happiness and unhappiness, the watcher, the meditator becomes unidentified with both

Osho – Seeing this game of happiness and unhappiness, the watcher, the meditator becomes unidentified with both. When happiness comes he knows that unhappiness will be coming, so why get excited? When unhappiness comes he is not at all disturbed because he knows happiness will be coming just around the corner, so why become disturbed? [...]

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A real master always makes you feel good about yourself, not guilty; respectful towards yourself

Osho – Buddha says: Go alone, just remember two things. Don’t carry your mistakes — that means, don’t carry your past. There is no need even to repent about the past. Your religious people go on teaching you, “Repent!” because it is through repentance that they make you feel guilty, and when you are guilty [...]

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Osho – Character is not of much value. What is valuable is Consciousness — not Conscience

Osho – Remember, the foolish person may have a certain character. It is easy for the fool to create a certain character because he is stubborn. Stupidity is always stubborn. If some idea gets into his head he may be able to practice it more consistently than the intelligent person because he is stubborn, he [...]

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Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself

Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring — and you go on desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in the second place, if they [...]

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Osho – Buddha’s suggestion is: Be conscious. Bring more consciousness to your inner being and also to your outer actions

Osho - Be Conscious

Osho – Buddha’s suggestion is: Be conscious. Bring more consciousness to your inner being and also to your outer actions. He does not want you to create new desires — holy desires instead of unholy desires. He does not want you to become a saint as against being a sinner. He does not want you [...]

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Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up

Osho on Desire

Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up. Millions of people have tried to drop desiring without waking up. In fact, the very idea of dropping desire was another desire and nothing else. They heard from the buddhas, from the awakened ones, that there is great peace if you drop desire, there is [...]

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Osho on Gautama the Buddha and Jesus Christ Message

Osho on Gautama the Buddha Message

Osho – Gautama the Buddha’s most fundamental message to humanity is that man is asleep. Man is born asleep. He is not talking about the ordinary sleep; he is talking about a metaphysical sleep, a deep deep unconsciousness within you. You are acting out of that unconsciousness, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. It is [...]

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Osho – Why do I always get sexually excited when I see a Beautiful Woman?

Question – BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO I ALWAYS GET SEXUALLY EXCITED WHEN I SEE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN?Osho – Nanda Kishor, the first thing is that you are an Indian. It is very difficult for an Indian not to get excited when he sees a beautiful woman. Long long repression… your unconscious is full of repressions [...]

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Osho – Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom

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Osho – Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know [...]

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Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become Dishonest

Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become dishonest, out of fear we have become false. Out of fear we follow the crowd and become phony. Out of fear we wear masks so that we look like everybody else — and we are not like everybody else. Everybody is unique; [...]

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