June 2009

Osho – If the questioner is in a deep love and trust with the master, then everything is allowed

Question – It has been said that a disciple should have respectful manners and a Respectful attitude towards his Master, but often i feel like asking you Playful, Joking and Naughty questions. Does this indicate lack of Respect And ’Shraddha’, Trust? Osho – It does not depend on the question, it depends on the questioner. [...]

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Osho – Your center is the Buddha, your periphery is the Fool

Question – Sometimes you call us ‘you Fools’ and sometimes you call us ‘you Buddhas’. Are fools and Buddhas the same to you?Osho – They are not the same to me but they are both meeting in you right now, shaking hands within you. Your past is the fool, your future is the buddha, and [...]

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Osho – More a person is suffering from Inferiority, more ambitious he becomes

Osho – Try to understand why there is ambition within us. What is the reason for our running so madly? The reason is that the more a person is suffering from inferiority, the more ambitious he becomes. The more inferiority you experience, the more you feel that you are nothing, the more you will become [...]

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Osho – Effort comes when you are against the current

Osho – A choiceless awareness simply means whatever happens to you is perfectly the right thing to have happened. You don’t have any judgment about it. It does not mean that you will stop doing things; you will continue doing things but your doing things will be more like a man flowing in the current [...]

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Osho on Gertrude Stein Death, Gertrude Stein died enlightened

Osho – I have told you many times, but I love the incident so much, because in the contemporary world, and particularly in the West, nothing like it has ever happened …. In the East it has been happening to the Sufis, to the Zen monks, to the masters of meditation, but in the West [...]

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Osho – Acceptance a deep, total acceptance is what religion is all about

Osho – Wherever you are, if you can accept it, immediately then and there you have become the watcher on the hills. Even in hell, if you accept it, the hell disappears, because the hell can remain only through your rejection. The hell disappears and heaven appears. Whatsoever you accept becomes heavenly, and whatsoever you [...]

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Osho – Science is concentration. Religion is meditation

Osho – In India, we have called philosophy, ’darshan’. It means the capacity to see. We don’t call it a love of thinking, as the word ’philosophy’ means. We call it: the capacity to see. Philosophy is not a right translation of darshan. The right translation of darshan would be PHILOSIa – ’a love to [...]

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Osho – Beginning of man is in the trust that he shows in his own inner voice

Osho – The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values; he lives blindly, not knowing why. His life force is unconscious of itself. Many men also live in the same way. They only look like men, but they have not yet transcended the animal. The [...]

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Osho on Buddhahood, Buddhahood simply means transcendence of duality

Osho on Buddhahood

Question – Does a Buddha also need something as a Complementary? Who is complementary to a Buddha? Osho – Buddha or Buddhahood is not any polarity. It is not opposite to anything. It is beyond the duality. Night is against day. Life is against death. Love is against hate. Buddhahood is not against anything. It [...]

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Osho – Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid

Osho – Ninety-nine percent of your illnesses are your own working. Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid. This is the first ray of intelligence that has happened to you: that you feel that you are stupid – perfectly beautiful. To understand that one is stupid is to already be intelligent. [...]

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Osho – Mind is mischief, Mind is the source of all mischief

Osho - Mind is mischief

Osho – Mind is mischief; there is no other mischief. Mind is the source of all mischief. A master is a master only because he has ceased to be dominated by the mind. A master is a master of himself; he is no longer unconscious. Whatsoever he does, he does it knowingly. Whatsoever he is, [...]

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Osho – Loneliness is negative, an absence; Aloneness is positive, a presence

Osho – You must make a distinction between two words: lonely and alone. In the dictionary they carry the same meaning, but those who have been meditating, they know the distinction. They are not the same, they are as different as possible. Loneliness is an ugly thing; loneliness is a depressive thing — it is [...]

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Osho – In between was the heaven — you jump from one hell to another

Osho – Remember this, that if you are expecting anything from life, you will not get anything. Don t expect and it is there in all its glory. Don’t expect, don’t ask, and it showers upon you in all its miraculousness. All its magic is there. Just wait a little while without thoughts… but that [...]

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Osho – Religion is a subjective approach.

Osho – There are things which can be understood by learning — they are outside things, Objective things. That is the difference between science and religion. Science needs no subjective experience. You can remain outside and watch; it is an objective approach towards truth. Religion is a subjective approach. You have to go in, withinwards; [...]

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Osho – The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence

Osho – If you are too much engaged with your intellect you will not find time to be engaged with your total being. If you are too much in your head you will miss much that is available. The way can be known only if you deeply participate with existence. It cannot be understood from [...]

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Osho – A scripture is a scripture only if it gives you freedom

Osho – I have heard a story. A wasp made its abode near a window outside a big building. In winter this wasp would sleep and rest, in summer it would fly, dance and collect the pollen of the flowers. It was very happy. But this wasp was a special one – it was a [...]

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Osho – Man of understanding is in a total Let Go

Osho – The man of understanding is in a total let-go. He allows the law to function. If you want old religious language, non-buddhist language, you can call it surrender to god. Then the devotee says, ‘Now I am no more, only you are. I am just a flute on your lips, a hollow bamboo. [...]

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Osho – Humanity has invented many new diseases which were not prevalent before

Osho – Humanity has invented many new diseases which were not prevalent before. In the old scriptures, ayurvedic scriptures, many diseases are not mentioned. People think they are not mentioned because ayurveda was not yet enough of a science, so they could not diagnose those diseases. That is not true; ayurveda became a perfect science. [...]

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