Question – BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS SO FUNNY ABOUT YOUR DRIVING TO DISCOURSE IN A ROLLS ROYCE?Osho – There is a long story behind it! I was driving… I was coming in an Impala, and people like you started writing letters to me saying that, “This is a plumber’s car!”I told Laxmi, “Change it!” So [Continue]
The Silversteins sent their son to a highbrow New England boarding school. A few months later he returned home for the Christmas holidays.“Samela,” greeted his mother. “It is so good to see you.”“Mother,” he replied, “stop calling me Samela. I’m grown up now and I wish you would refer to me as [Continue]
Osho – If you don’t listen to the buddhas you will be consumed by your own mischief. The harm that you do to yourself is such that nobody can do it to you; you are the greatest enemy to yourself, right now as you are. Of course you can be the greatest friend too, but [Continue]
Osho – Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour, becomes frustration. Each hope leads you into anguish. Buddha calls it the only impurity. Cut the roots of desire, live in the moment so totally, pull yourself out [Continue]
Osho – A bartender at a very posh gentlemen’s club was on duty when a distinguished gentleman seated himself at the bar, but made no attempt to order a drink. The bartender inquired what the gentleman would have, but the man replied that he was not drinking because he had tried liquor once and had [Continue]
Osho – There is only one thing which you can take with you, and that is true wealth. Buddha calls it meditation, awareness, watchfulness, mindfulness, consciousness. If you become more and more conscious, you can take that consciousness with you. But you are living a very very unconscious life. Your whole life is mechanical, you [Continue]
A little girl answered the knock on the door of the farmhouse. The caller, a rather troubled-looking, middle-aged man, asked to see her father.“If you have come about the bull,” she said, “he is fifty dollars. We have the papers and everything and he is guaranteed.”“Young lady,” the man said, “I want to [Continue]
A woman with a baby, next in line in the crowded anteroom of a station of the Infant Welfare Society, was shown into the doctor’s office by the nurse in charge.The doctor examined the baby, and then asked the woman, “Is he breast-fed or bottle-fed?”“Breast-fed,” she replied.“Strip down to you waist,” he [Continue]
Osho – As you become a witness, as you become aware, you simply come to know that you are not the body, not the mind, not even the heart. You are simply a watcher, different from all that surrounds you. The body is your outermost boundary; the mind a little more inner, the heart still [Continue]
A bachelor named Clem showed up at his weekly poker game with a black eye.His friend Joe asked what had happened to him.“Well,” Clem replied, “when I was getting dressed this morning a button came off my pants. I don’t know how to sew a thing, so I went to the next apartment and asked [Continue]
Osho – When your life is full of joy, unbounded joy, it is creative, then great creativity is born in you. Then you do something to contribute to the evolution of humanity, to the evolution of the whole universe. You add some beauty to it, you share your celebration with it. You make at least [Continue]
Osho – All kinds of things are going on inside the mind. One day just sit down and write whatsoever is coming into the mind. And don’t cheat, just write exactly whatsoever comes in and you will be surprised that this is your mind, this is where you have been living your life from. You [Continue]
Fred was admitted to a madhouse because he always felt he was a mouse and was totally paranoid about cats.After years and years of treatment he was finally declared normal again and the doctor said, “So you know now that you are not a mouse — you are a human being like me and there [Continue]
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. [Continue]
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, who don’t divide humanity at all. I [Continue]
