December 2009

Osho – Sex in itself is not that powerful. It appears very powerful, because we have been taught to be against it

Question – I have controlled and disciplined my sex life for years, But i am still much too interested in it. why? Osho – That’s why. It is so simple, so obvious. You have remained obsessed with it — otherwise why control it? Why repress it? What is control except repression? You became too attached [...]

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Osho – Any action that happens through awareness is right; any action that happens through unawareness is wrong

Question – Is there such a thing as Right or Wrong? Osho – Akam, there is no such thing as right or wrong, because something may be right this moment and it may not be right the next moment. Something may be wrong today and may not be wrong tomorrow. Right and wrong are not [...]

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Osho – Mind is never contemporary, Mind is always old.

Question – Beloved Osho, What is a Contemporary Mind? Osho – Contemporary mind is a contradiction in terms. Mind is never contemporary, it is always old. Mind is past — past and past and nothing else; mind means memory. There can be no contemporary mind; to be contemporary is to be without mind. If you [...]

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Osho – You don’t surrender to me. You simply surrender your ego

Question – You said nobody should dictate what you should do with your life. How does that fit with being available and surrendering to you? Osho – In the first place I am a nobody. Now listen to the question again. YOU SAID NOBODY SHOULD DICTATE WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Don’t surrender [...]

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Osho – If you feel grateful towards me it is a gratitude of the mind

Question – You’ve said Meditation is a flowering. and for us, the perfume of the flower is gratitude. Is there anything we can do for you? Osho – Yes. Meditation, compassion and gratitude. Whenever you are meditative, you feel blissful; whenever you are in compassion, you feel ecstatic. And then gratitude arises — not towards [...]

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Beloved Osho, Please tell us a few more murphy sutras and a few murphy anecdotes too

Question – Beloved Osho, Please tell us a few more murphy sutras and a few murphy anecdotes too. Osho – Gandharva, the Murphy sutras are really beautiful! The first sutra: If wives were good, God would have one. Second: Some people are born silly, some people acquire silliness, and some fall in love. Third: After [...]

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Osho – To enter into these mysteries you will need a silent mind that does not disturb you

Question – Beloved Osho, What is happening to me? I am opening more and more, and I have the feeling that the shadows in my body are gradually disappearing. When I close my eyes I can see more light in the body. It is so beautiful, and I feel so much for you — more [...]

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Osho – The meeting with the master has always been a kind of death

Question – Beloved Osho, I am afraid to meet you. trembling, shocked, alone… It means Death. Osho – The meeting with the master has always been a kind of death, death to all that you have been, death to your past, death to your ego, death to your personality. But it is not only death, [...]

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Osho – The word coming out of silence carries around it the wordless silence

Question – Beloved Osho, When I sit in your lecture I feel your silence and feel I become part of it. This is a wordless process in melting more and more into silence. At the same time, there are words from you. I hear them, and suddenly a connection happens from the silence to the [...]

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Osho on Criticism – Your meditation should help you, not to criticize but to appreciate

Question – Beloved Osho, Why do I like so much to criticize people and complain against life? Osho – Everybody likes it. To criticize people, to complain against people, gives you a good feeling. Criticizing others, you feel you are higher; complaining about others, you feel you are better. It is very ego fulfilling. And [...]

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Osho – Trust is the outcome of deep meditation. Fate is the outcome of your failures

Question – Beloved Osho, Could you please explain the difference between trusting existence and fatalism? Osho – The difference between trust and fate is very subtle. On the surface it seems they mean exactly the same thing, but in reality they are diametrically opposite experiences. Fate is a consolation. You are poor, and you see [...]

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Osho – I stand for absolute freedom, individuality

Question – Do you have any message for us in this new beginning? Osho – Just remember one thing: the sannyas movement has entered a critical stage. It is a good sign; it will bring maturity, strength, togetherness. What is to be remembered is that this strength, this togetherness does not become an organization. It [...]

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Osho – Risks should be one of the basic foundations of a real man

Question – Beloved Osho, You are an ever-changing, unpredictable Master — How can we be your contemporary fellow travelers? Osho – In the same way! Be unpredictable and be ever-changing. Never stop changing and never stop being unpredictable, and only then can life be a joy. The moment you become predictable, you become a machine. [...]

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Osho – Christ’s message is rejoice and be merry

Question – Beloved Master, Why do I feel sadness about Christmas when the whole message is rejoice and be merry? Osho – Vachana, Christ’s message IS rejoice and be merry. But that is not the message of Christianity. Christianity’s message is: be sad, long faces, look miserable; the more miserable you look, the more saintly [...]

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Osho – To live unconsciously is to live in sin; to live consciously is to be virtuous, is to be religious

Question – Beloved Master, Any marks for Choiceless UnAwareness? Osho – Anand Buddha, even if you are aware of that, that will do. Are you aware of choiceless unawareness? That will destroy that choiceless unawareness. Make it an object of awareness and it will disappear, evaporate. And no marks can be given for it, because [...]

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Osho – What is Tathata — Total Acceptance

Question – Beloved Master, What is Tathata — Total Acceptance? Osho – Dharmesh, tathata is one of Buddha’s most significant contributions to the world. Tathata means total acceptance: whatsoever the situation is, don’t fight with it. Accept it wholeheartedly, because it is through total acceptance that transcendence happens. If you fight with it you will [...]

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Osho on Trust – It is better to be deceived than to deceive

Osho on Trust

Question – Beloved Master, I can not trust anybody, Why? Osho – Sargam, I will just tell you a story. Meditate over it. The hired boy gets the youngest girl in the farmer’s family to go out into the hayloft with him. She comes back and tells her sister, “Say, the hired boy sure knows [...]

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Osho – A Pessimist is an optimist who has become frustrated with his optimism

Question – Beloved Master, What is the definition of a Pessimist? Osho – Shivananda, a pessimist is an optimist who has become frustrated with his optimism. He hoped too much and failed, he dreamed too much and could not achieve anything substantial. The pessimist is an optimist standing on his head; they are not different [...]

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Osho – Love is the greatest gift of God. Learn the art of it. Learn the song of it, the celebration of it

Question – Beloved Master, Everyone wants to Love and to be Loved. Why? “first sight of love, last sight of wisdom.” Is it true? Osho – Bal Krishna Bharti, love is prayer groping towards God. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, [...]

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Beloved Osho, What is Sannyas

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Sannyas? Osho – Moses, sannyas is a crazy way of living life. The ordinary way is very sane, mathematical, calculated, cautious. The way of sannyas is non-calculative, beyond mathematics, beyond cunningness, cleverness. It is not cautious at all; it is knowingly moving into danger. Friedrich Nietzsche says, “Live dangerously.” [...]

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Osho – In samadhi you become a creator because in samadhi you become part of God

Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia. The Greek word means quiet, calm, of deep inner contentment. That is the meaning of samadhi so contented, so deeply contented, that nothing disturbs now, [...]

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Osho – Bondage is never in a Situation, It is in the Attitude

Question – Is the Desire to stay near you, not going away, also a Bondage? Osho – It depends, because bondage is never in a situation, it is in the attitude. If you want to go away and cannot, then it is a bondage. If you don’t want to go away, the question doesn’t arise. [...]

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