November 2009

Osho – How can I serve you?

Osho Teachings

Question – How can I serve you? Osho – Just be yourself. There is no other service to me. Just be yourself; that’s how you can serve me. That’s how you have already served me — if you are yourself. My whole effort is to help you to be yourself. If you are centered, rooted, [...]

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OSHO! OSHO! OSHO!!!…???

Osho Osho

Question – OSHO! OSHO! OSHO!!!…??? Osho – That is the way. If you can cry, if you can pray, if you can call from your very innermost core, the divine is always available. The divine is always close; it is just that you have not called, that you have not knocked at his door. Jesus [...]

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Osho on meditation for Ashramite Sannyasins – Your whole life should be meditation

Osho on Ashramite Sannyasins

They are told not to meditate too much because listening to me is meditation. Can you do a better meditation than listening to me? If you love the work, if you love me, that is meditation. Your whole life should be meditation.

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Osho Sannyas – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow

Osho Sannyas

Osho – That is why I can initiate anyone into sannyas. To me, initiation itself is a play. And I will not ask for any qualifications — whether you are qualified or not — because qualifications are asked when something serious is done. Just by existing everyone is qualified enough to play, and even if [...]

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Osho – When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don’t get depressed about your depression

Osho on Depression

Osho – Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes. Nothing lasts forever; the depression will go. And when it leaves you, wait — be aware and alert — because after the depression, after the night, there will be a dawn and the sun will rise. If you can [...]

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Osho on Zen swordsmanship as an Meditation method

Osho on Zen swordsmanship meditation

Osho – In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction between ordinary life and religious life; rather, they have bridged them both. And they have used very ordinary skills as UPAYA, as methods for meditation. That is something of tremendous import. Because if you [...]

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Osho – meditation and love are two names of almost the same experience

Osho - meditation and love

Osho – Love is an entirely different matter. It has no relation whatsoever to the intellect; it is quite unconnected to thought. Just as meditation is thoughtlessness, so is love. And just as meditation cannot be managed by the intellect, so it is with love. In fact, meditation and love are two names of almost [...]

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Osho Jokes on Jesus Christ

Question – OSHO, PLEASE TELL US FEW JOKES ABOUT JESUS CHRIST WHICH ARE ONLY RECORDED IN THE AKASHIC RECORDS. Osho – Masta, Okay. It is a little known fact that Jesus Christ was nearly called Manny shortly after his birth. Just before he was, however, someone walking past the stable peeked a look inside to [...]

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Osho – When a person is absolutely in harmony with the universe he becomes enlightened

Osho75

Question – OSHO, YOU SAID TODAY THAT THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A ‘GROUP SOUL’, BUT I HAVE BEEN STRONGLY FEELING SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THE COMMUNE. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS FEELING OF A COLLECTIVE SOUL IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE INTENSE AND ATTUNED DAY BY DAY. IT IS SOMETHING NEW FOR ME, AND VERY [...]

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Osho Jokes

Monsieur Foucard was visiting London for the first time. While walking about he felt nature calling and looked around for a public latrine like those in Paris. He could not find one and, in desperation, stepped into a dark building entrance. Immediately a bobby tapped him from behind, “You can’t do that here, you know!” [...]

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Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related, Restlessness is a by-product of boredom

Osho - Boredom and restlessness

Queston – Please explain the nature of the experiences we call Boredom and Restlessness. Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom. Try to understand the mechanism. Whenever you feel bored you want to move away from that situation. If somebody [...]

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BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT?

Osho on beyond enlightenment

Question – BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS BEYOND ENLIGHTENMENT? Osho – Maneesha, beyond enlightenment is only beyondness. Enlightenment is the last host. Beyond it, all boundaries disappear, all experiences disappear. Experience comes to its utmost in enlightenment; it is the very peak of all that is beautiful, of all that is immortal, of all that is [...]

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Osho – Only meditation is not a mind trip; everything else is a mind trip

Osho on Mind Trip

Question – ANYTHING I SEE HAPPENING IN MYSELF IS FALSE, ILLUSORY, AND A MIND TRIP, RIGHT? AND MY RECOGNITION OF THE MIND TRIP IS A MIND TRIP TOO? Osho – RIGHT. As far as thoughts go, everything is a mind trip. When thoughts cease and you see without any thoughts crowding in your mind, when you [...]

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Osho – Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort

Osho on Meditation

Osho – Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative. But the mind has played a trick: you meditate in the morning and then you put it aside; or you pray in the temple and then forget it. Then you come [...]

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Osho – It is unfortunate but it is true that the therapists have missed me most

Osho on Therapists

Question – BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT SOME SANNYASIN THERAPISTS NOW IMAGINE THAT THEY ARE ON THE SAME PLANE AS YOU ARE, DOING THE SAME KIND OF WORK — IF PERHAPS ON A SOMEWHAT SMALLER SCALE. THEY NO LONGER EVEN MENTION YOUR NAME, AND APPEAR TO HAVE DISCARDED THE MALA AND RED [...]

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Osho – My sannyas is to accept this challenge. To live dangerously is what my sannyas is all about

Osho Sannyas

Osho – Challenge brings integrity; otherwise a person remains hollow, empty. If all facilities are provided for you and there is no danger in your life, you will remain hollow and empty. God gives life with all its dangers. My sannyas is to accept this challenge. To live dangerously is what my sannyas is all [...]

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Beloved Osho, I am a sinner. Can I also become your Sannyasin?

Osho Sannyas

Question – BELOVED OSHO, I AM A SINNER. CAN I ALSO BECOME YOUR SANNYASIN? Osho – Govind, yes, absolutely yes! In fact, only a sinner can become a sannyasin. Those who think themselves saints, holier-than-thou, they are the closed people, they are the dead people. They have become incapable of living, incapable of celebrating. Sannyas [...]

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Osho – Creativity can never be indifferent. Creativity cares

Osho on Creativity

Question – BELOVED OSHO, WHO CARES? IS THIS CREATIVE INDIFFERENCE, OR SLEEP? PLEASE COMMENT. Osho – Creativity can never be indifferent. Creativity cares — because creativity is love. Creativity is the function of love and care. Creativity cannot be indifferent. If you are indifferent, by and by all your creativity will disappear. Creativity needs passion, [...]

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Osho – Why Buddha gave the key to Mahakashyap

Osho on Buddha Mahakashyap

Question – BELOVED OSHO, BUDDHA HAD MANY ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE AROUND HIM, YET HE FELT SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR THIS ONE ENLIGHTENED PERSON. IS THERE SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN ENLIGHTENMENTS? Osho – Yes, Buddha, had many enlightened persons around, but the key can be given only to such a person who can become a master in his own [...]

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