December 2009

Osho – You want to be lost, that’s why you are lost

Question – How is it that I am still Lost? Osho – Nobody can answer that question for you. You are lost; you must be knowing. You must be playing hide-and-seek. I know that you know. You want to be lost, that’s why you are lost. The moment you decide not to be lost, nobody [...]

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Osho on one more Birth – I say it is impossible Now

Question – Once you said that if it is needed, then you will take one more birth. but if you have already attained to samadhi without seed, how can you take one more birth? You may not think this a relevant personal question, but at the rate my spiritual growth seems to be going, it [...]

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Osho – While aware enjoy awareness, and while unaware enjoy unawareness

Question – Sometimes I feel aware and sometimes not. Awareness seems to pulsate. Does this pulsating slowly disappear or does it go suddenly Osho – In life everything is a rhythm. You are happy and then follows unhappiness. Night and day, summer and winter; life is a rhythm between two opposites. When you try to [...]

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Osho – My Sannyasins celebrate death because they celebrate life

Question – Beloved Osho, I have heard that your Sannyasins Celebrate Death. Osho – Paul, you have heard rightly! My sannyasins celebrate everything. Celebration is the foundation of my sannyas — not renunciation but rejoicing; rejoicing in all the beauties, all the joys, all that life offers, because this whole life is a gift of [...]

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Osho – Before death happens, Let Sannyas happen

Question – Beloved Osho, I am seventy-five years old. I want to become a Sannyasin, but I don’t know why i am hesitating. Osho – Prakash Chandra Sethia, I think you should wait a little more! Let death come first, then I can initiate you into sannyas…because when death has already happened, there will be [...]

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Osho – In Japan, a great mystic, Hotei, is called the laughing Buddha

Osho on Hotei

Osho – In Japan, a great mystic, Hotei, is called the laughing Buddha. He is one of the most loved mystics in Japan, and he never uttered a single word. As he became enlightened, he started laughing, and whenever somebody would ask, Why are you laughing? he would laugh more. And he would move from [...]

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Osho – Why it is so difficult for Sannyasins to have deep relationships with Non-Sannyasins

Osho on Sannyasins Relationships

Question – Beloved Osho, Why it is so difficult for Sannyasins to have deep relationships with Non-Sannyasins? Osho – It is natural. To be a sannyasin means you are deprogrammed. To relate with non-sannyasins is bound to be difficult because they are programmed people. Their programmed minds and your deprogrammed minds cannot have anything in [...]

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Osho on Let Go – Letting go means your masks will slip down

Osho on Let Go

Question – Beloved Osho, I have heard you say, “Let Go — no Effort is needed.” but i am afraid of letting go because then i slip into my old patterns. please comment. Osho – It is one of the difficulties. Letting go, one can slip into old patterns, old conditionings. Still, take the risk. [...]

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Osho – What is the difference between a Disciple and a Friend

Question – Beloved Osho, What is the difference between a Disciple and a Friend? Has the transformation amongst the sannyasins already happened? Osho – The distinction between a disciple and a friend has two sides to it. First, from the side of the master it has happened. I don’t have any disciples anymore. You can [...]

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Osho – Witnessing is a knack

Question – Beloved Osho, You describe Witnessing as a knack. often, late at night, when i am in a very relaxed state, witnessing happens. at other times, though, it just seems to be mind watching mind watching mind. please comment on this knack.a Osho – The moment I say that witnessing is a knack, it [...]

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Osho – Meditative awareness does not kill your experience of juice, rasa, it deepens it

Osho on Music Rasa

Question – Beloved Osho, I am a Rasa addict, and I can see how this dependency leads to misery. the coolness of meditation scares me though. Can Zorba survive the Buddha, or can the Buddha really remain juicy? Osho – It has not been possible in the past, or only with very few individuals. With [...]

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Osho – The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide

Osho – The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide, and people are brought to one consciousness within themselves. This will be a totally different dimension to work with. Up to now it was revolution. The point was society, its structure. It has failed again and again in different [...]

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Osho – Simple method of Meditation for Latin Lovers

Osho on Sacred Love

Question – Just a simple method of Meditation to suggest to Latin Lovers, So they may find their way? Osho – The simplest method for lovers is, while they are making love they should make it a sacred experience. All the religions have destroyed the sacredness of love. They have condemned it as sin. And [...]

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Osho – Enlightenment is the transcendence of all dualities: pleasure, pain; love, hate, life, death — all oppositions

Osho on Enlightenment and Pleasure

Question: So, We start from the idea of Pleasure. Can Enlightenment be the top most pleasure, as a definition? Osho : It is not pleasure. Pleasure is always something opposed to pain. It is never separate from pain. So pain can become pleasure. That’s why there are masochists in the world who torture themselves and [...]

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Osho – Every sannyasin is careful about perfume, cigarettes, they come to see me then they take bath that no smell is there

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Question – Over the years there have been a number of very Powerful people who have been with you — Your Sannyasins — a number of whom have left, or have been kicked out, like Shyam. Why do you think, that happens? Osho – No. Shyam has been kicked by me myself. Because he was [...]

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Osho – Whatever I am doing is just out of my love for you. It is not out of Hardness but out of my Softness

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Question : Bhagwan, you have said that you love to disturb people because only by disturbing them can you make them think. To what extremes would you go to disturb people? Osho : It depends on the people, not on me. For example, I will not have to go far to disturb Avirbhava. It is [...]

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Osho – What is actually your feeling now towards Sheela

Osho on Sheela

Question – What is actually your feeling now towards Sheela and what would you do if she would come back? Osho : I will take her back. We have a university here, and we have all kinds of therapies here. She needs some psychotherapy, a long treatment. I have all compassion for her, and the [...]

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Osho – Innocence is the door; through innocence you enter into beauty

Osho on Innocence

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Innocence, What is Beauty? Osho – Ram Fakeer, to live in the moment is innocence, to live without the past is innocence, to live without conclusions is innocence, to function out of the state of not knowing is innocence. And the moment you function out of such tremendous silence [...]

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Osho – Atisha is not an escapist. He does not teach escapism

Osho on Atisha Sutra

Atisha Sutra – Train with Phrases in Every Mode of Behavior. Osho – Atisha is not an escapist. He does not teach escapism, he does not tell you to move from situations which are not to your liking. He says: You have to learn to function in bodhichitta, in buddha-consciousness, in all kinds of situations [...]

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Osho – Lao Tzu cannot speak truth, but to be with Lao Tzu you may get the right direction

Osho on Truth

Question – Beloved Osho, Probably no enlightened master has spoken so many millions of words about the truth as you have. Lao tzu says, “the truth that can be spoken is not the truth.” Beloved Master, what do you say? Osho – Lao Tzu is right. The truth that can be spoken is no longer [...]

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Beloved Osho, What are the qualities of the Seeker of truth?

Osho on Seeker of Truth

Question – Beloved Osho, What are the qualities of the Seeker of truth? Osho – Every child is born with an innate search for truth. It is not something learned or adopted later on in life. Truth simply means, “I am, but I do not know who I am.” And the question is natural — [...]

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Osho – Faith is like eyes: you see yourself. Belief is like a lantern in a blind man’s hand

Osho on Faith

Question – The other day you said that belief was like a lantern in the hands of the blind. May i know what faith is? Osho – Faith is like eyes: you see yourself. Belief is like a lantern in a blind man’s hand: he cannot see, he cannot even use the lighted lantern. Even [...]

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