March 2009

Osho – Life is basically insecure. Only death is secure

Osho on life is insecure

Osho – Life is basically insecure. Only death is secure. Life insurance is a contradiction in terms; there can be only death insurance. Life is an adventure, unpredictable. Hence one has to live it arduously. Life is dangerous; only death is safe. So the people who want to live safely die before their death, and [...]

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Osho – Give your children your love, but don’t give your Ideologies.

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Osho – TO BE A MOTHER IS SWEET…. Why? Just giving birth to a child is not to be a mother, remember. Otherwise there are millions of mothers on the earth — and there seems to be no sweetness. In fact, if you ask the psychologists they will say just the opposite. They will say [...]

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Osho – Buddha says Just for the company’s sake, don’t move with a fool. Beware of that

Osho – Buddha says: Just for the company’s sake, don’t move with a fool. Beware of that. I have been observing thousands of saints and mahatmas — Jaina, Hindu, Mohammedan — and I was surprised to find one thing: ninety-nine percent of them look foolish, stupid. Something dull and dead seems to be inside them. [...]

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Osho – The greatest fault, the greatest misery is that people are not traveling at all towards truth

Osho – Don’t be worried that you are alone. Slowly slowly, you will become able to balance yourself. Slowly slowly, in slow steps, you will be able to go beyond the known. Slowly slowly you will be able to die as an ego and be born as an egoless presence. It may take a little [...]

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Osho on Awakened Master – How will you recognize the real Awakened person

Osho – If you can find a man who is awakened, who is really virtuous and wise, whose virtue is not only a cultivated facade but a spontaneous fragrance, whose wisdom is no longer knowledge, whose wisdom is his own authentic experience… if you can find such a person, then go with him joyfully, wholeheartedly, [...]

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Osho on Pseudo Masters and Fake Gurus

Osho on Pseudo Masters

Osho – One thing about the pseudo master is that he manages a facade, he wears a mask. He wears a mask that you would like him to wear. He fulfills your expectations. The true master never fulfills anybody’s expectations. Jesus proved that he was a true master because at the last moment he frustrated [...]

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Osho Jokes – Religion is thought to be a very serious phenomenon

Osho – Religion is thought to be a very serious phenomenon. I may be the first person in the whole history of India who is mixing religion with jokes. Let us start with a few jokes. The first:Pierre, a Frenchman, Tonio, an Italian, and Stash, a Pole, were traveling through the country when their car [...]

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Osho – Anger is a thought, sex is a thought. Just watch, be alert, let them move on the screen

Osho – Anger is a thought, sex is a thought. Just watch, be alert, let them move on the screen — anger, greed, lust — and you remain aloof, cool, just a witness. In the beginning it is very difficult, but only in the beginning. If you persist then within three to nine months you [...]

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Osho – You are a slave of your own chemistry, you are a slave of your own physiology — and this slavery has to be Transcended

Osho – Sex is really an internal process of intoxicating you. It is chemical. You have nothing to do with it. It is your body chemistry, it is your physiology that releases certain chemicals in your body and then in a sexual state you can do something for which you will repent. Later on you [...]

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Osho – See what Is…. That is meditation. Put your mind aside. Face reality directly

Osho – See what Is…. That is meditation. Put your mind aside. Face reality directly. Encounter it, be face-to-face. Put the mind aside. Look into reality silently, without any thought, so that the thought cannot be a hindrance, a barrier, a distortion. That’s what meditation is: seeing what is and seeing what is not. The [...]

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Osho – To be without Misery needs great courage. To be Miserable is very Cheap

Question BELOVED MASTER, YES, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. MY FLAMES OF JEALOUSY, GREED AND VIOLENCE ARE BURNING ME. I SEE YOU SHINING AT THE DOORWAY, BECKONING ME TO SIMPLY COME OUT, YET I HOLD BACK, CLINGING TO MY MISERY WHILE MY MIND RACES ON WITH DESIRES. WHY CAN’T I LET GO? Osho – Deva [...]

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Osho Jokes – A huge bully sauntered into the dimly lit saloon

Osho Jokes

Osho – A huge bully sauntered into the dimly lit saloon. “Is there anybody here called Kilroy?” he snarled. Nobody answered. Again he sneered, “Is there anybody here called Kilroy?” There was a moment of silence and then a little Irishman stepped forward. “I am Kilroy,” he said. The tough guy picked him up and [...]

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Osho – If Awareness is Enough they why Discourses, Groups, Sannyas

Question – BELOVED MASTER, YOU TELL US THAT AWARENESS IS ENOUGH. THEN WHY DISCOURSES, GROUPS, SANNYAS?Osho – Rick Ferris, how did you come to know that awareness is enough? I have to tell it again and again — that awareness is enough, that no discourse is needed. But even that has to be told to [...]

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Osho – Concentration is thought to be Meditation — and Concentration is not Meditation

Osho – This is one of the greatest fallacies, very much prevalent in the so-called religious circles of the world, particularly in India. Concentration is thought to be meditation — and concentration is not meditation; it is just the opposite of meditation. Concentration is a mind phenomenon. To concentrate upon something means you are focusing [...]

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Osho on Conscious Birth – Why Did I Choose to be Born into this Family

Question – BELOVED MASTER, MY PREVIOUS LIFE WITH MY MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER AND BROTHER WAS A PERIOD FILLED WITH UNHAPPINESS. WHY DID I CHOOSE TO BE BORN INTO THIS FAMILY? Osho – Prem Joshua, you have not chosen, because you died unconsciously. How can you choose? If YOU had chosen, you certainly would not have [...]

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Osho on Dropping an Obession, Obsession simply means a wound in your being

Osho on Dropping an Obession

Question – BELOVED MASTER, HOW CAN ONE DROP AN OBSESSION? OR IS IT NOT TO BE DROPPED AT ALL, BUT ENJOYED? Osho – Satya, an obsession simply means a wound in your being, which keeps attracting you again and again, which goes on declaring itself, which wants your attention. You cannot drop it. How can [...]

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Osho on working of Mind, How we keep on thinking like a slave

Osho – Any thought goes on inside your mind. Watch for a few minutes and you will be surprised: the mind seems to be crazy! It jumps from one thought to another thought for no reason at all. Just a dog starts barking in the neighborhood and your mind takes the clue from it… and [...]

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Osho – The first requirement for attaining to truth is the capacity to be free, the capacity to be nobody

Osho – There is an ancient Sufi parable: A man gave to a Sufi mystic a present, a golden bowl with a beautiful fish in it. The Sufi looked at the bowl and the fish and felt very sorry for the fish, because the bowl is an imprisonment. He went to the lake and he [...]

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Osho Jokes – An airplane was lost in the clouds

Osho Jokes

Osho – I have heard: An airplane was lost in the clouds. Its many sophisticated machines were not working and the pilot informed the passengers on the telecom, “Don’t be worried. There is bad news and there is good news too. The bad news first: that we don’t know where we are going. The good [...]

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Osho Quote – Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides

Osho - Never feel lonely

Osho – Remember the difference between loneliness and aloneness. Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides; he is always with you. And whenever you are alone, only then will you be able to hear his footsteps. Whenever you are alone, only then will you be able [...]

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Osho – Meditation minus Bliss is not true meditation and bliss minus meditation is not true bliss either

Gautam Buddha Sutra – They Delight in Meditation Osho -This is a very significant sutra; remember it. Buddha says: THEY DELIGHT IN MEDITATION. It is easy to meditate if you don’t want to be blissful — it is very easy to meditate. If you want just to be blissful and you don’t want to be [...]

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Osho – Misery is symbolic of Unawareness; bliss is symbolic of Awareness

Osho – The devotee — the real follower — is constantly watching what he is doing, how he is doing, why he is doing. Even in small matters he de-automatizes himself. Walking, he does not just walk; he walks with meditative awareness. He knows that he is walking. Eating, he knows he is eating. You [...]

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