December 2009

Osho – Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance

Osho on Meditation and Compassion

Osho – Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance. Exactly like that it happens. The flower blooms and the fragrance spreads on the winds in all directions, to be carried to the very ends of earth. But the basic thing is the blooming of the flower. Man is also carrying a potentiality for [...]

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Osho – What is the future of Morality concerning Sex?

Osho on Morality and Sex

Question – Osho, What is the future of Morality concerning Sex? Osho – Divendra, THERE IS NO FUTURE OF ANY MORALITY concerning sex. In fact, the very combination of sex and morality has poisoned the whole past of morality. Morality became so much sex-oriented that it lost all other dimensions — which are far more [...]

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Osho – Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious.

Osho on Laughter Seriousness

Osho – Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others — the [...]

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Osho – The function of the commune is to create an atmosphere of encouragement

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Question – Beloved Master, What is the role of the commune as it is now, regarding therapy and meditation as offered in the university; and vice versa? And what is your vision of both their growth processes? Osho – The function of the commune is to create an atmosphere of encouragement — that you are [...]

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Osho – On the one hand you address me, “Beloved Master” — and you cannot have the mala and the locket

Osho on Mala

Question -Beloved Master, A few people are feeling not to wear their Malas or Red clothes, But they consider themselves Rajneeshees and want to live here. How does this fit your vision? Osho – There are no Rajneeshees, and there is no Rajneeshism. That was also part of this fascist regime. You cannot be Rajneeshees [...]

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Osho – What is your Vision for the New Commune?

Osho on Commune Vision

Question – Beloved Master, What is your Vision for the New Commune? Osho – Krishna Prem, the new commune is an experiment in spiritual communism. The word ‘communism’ comes from ‘commune’. There is only one possibility of communism in the world and that possibility is through meditation. Communism is not possible through changing the economic [...]

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Osho – The real power is love, and that love will make you softer, forgiving, without any anger

Osho on Love

Question – Beloved Osho, Traveling with you over the past few months and seeing the hardness of the world, instead of being hardened in response I find myself only becoming softer and softer. Would you please comment? Osho – The ordinary response will be to become even more hard, but you are not in an [...]

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Osho – My new phase of work is a Mystery School

Osho on Commune experiment

Question – Beloved Osho, We have experimented with Communes in both the east and the west that did not last. Buddha and other enlightened masters created communes that did last. What is the difference? Osho – Gautam Buddha and other masters never created communes the way we have created them. Buddha had followers, but not [...]

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Osho – It is not only that you are seeking God — God is also seeking you in many, many ways

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Osho – Many people have been doing that down the centuries. A Buddha comes, a Jesus comes, a Krishna, a Zarathustra — very few, very rarely. Shiko’s are very few — those who understand. Butei exists as the mass; Butei is the many; Butei is the majority, the crowd. Buddha comes and walks; he brings [...]

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Osho – If you flower in compassion you will feel simply grateful, not grateful towards me

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Question – Beloved Osho, 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 — [...]

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Osho – Become riverlike. Become a white cloud floating in the sky, and let the winds take you wheresoever they take

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Question – Beloved Osho, In place of the ten commandments, with which i was brought up, i have given myself a new set of rules — be alert, be patient, be spontaneous, accept myself. Osho – All questions are mind questions — no question comes out of no-mind — and all answers are no-mind answers. [...]

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Osho – Once the idea of uniqueness spreads in the commune, there will be nobody who will try to enforce authority

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Question – Beloved Osho, How can we Avoid being Authoritative? Osho – It is very simple. The people who are authoritarian are the people who are suffering from an inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority they impose their superiority. They want to prove that they are somebody, that their word is truth, that their word [...]

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Osho – Sannyas movement simply means the movement of the seekers of truth

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Question – What do you, you foresee as the future of your Sannyas Movement? Do you see it as prospering, even when you’re not here? Osho – Sannyas movement is not mine. It is not yours. It was here when I was not here. It will be here when I will not be here. Sannyas [...]

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Osho – Everything that is valuable comes from your own innermost being

Osho on Courage

Question : You have spoken of the need for Courage. Where does Courage come from? Is there any way to stimulate people’s Courage? Osho – Everything that is valuable comes from your own innermost being. It may be love, it may be intelligence, it may be creativity, it may be courage, it does not matter [...]

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Osho – Meditation means: alertness, awareness, mindfulness

Osho on Meditation

Osho – You will have to understand what I mean by meditation. Meditation means: alertness, awareness, mindfulness. So whatever you are doing, just do it consciously, don’t do it mechanically. I can move my hand mechanically. I can move it very consciously, fully alert. And there is a difference of quality. When you move it [...]

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Osho – There is a field already existing. And the moment you enter Rajneeshpuram, you will feel a different air, a different milieu

Osho on Energy

Question – I asked about the energy field here; and I was wondering if it ever happened, particularly when you were not feeling well, that a melancholy caught on? or, Is the energy here always positive? Osho – It is always positive. My sickness is a physical thing; the energy has nothing to do with [...]

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Osho – To me, That madness became meditation and the ultimate of that madness opened the door

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – If I could ask you a question about your past…. When you were looking for that door, You spent a year when you were Mad — in which you couldn’t formulate a sentence — and you lost your perspective. Is this correct? Is that the time that you were looking for that door? [...]

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Osho – My communes are run by women, and they have proved far superior to men in every possible way

Osho on communes run by women

Question – It seems the Whole Commune is run by Women. Is there a particular purpose or strategy to that? Osho – Certainly there is a particular strategy. Man has dominated women for centuries and forced the idea on them that they are the weaker sex, that they cannot do anything that man can do. [...]

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Osho – People who take others’ responsibility are responsible for creating retarded, dependent slaves all around the world

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Question – But you don’t think that you are responsible for all the Sannyasins living here, for the life and the future of the children I have seen in this city? Osho : I am not responsible for anybody. I am not even a member of this commune. I live outside the City of Rajneeshpuram. [...]

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Osho – Do you have any idea of Rajneeshism and Rajneeshpuram after you? Do you have any successor?

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Question – Do you have any kind of personal strategy for the future, any message to leave? Do you have any idea of Rajneeshism and Rajneeshpuram after you? Do you have any successor? Osho – No, because all the religions who have followed those lines have turned poisonous, have turned into curses on humanity. I [...]

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Osho on Zazen – Just because of zazen, monasteries came into existence

Osho on Zazen

Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the learned, it has never been a language of the masses. Buddha broke away from tradition and started speaking in the language of the masses. It [...]

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Osho Jokes

Osho Jokes

Osho – Now it is time for Sardar Gurudayal Singh. He seems to be sitting very far away. Just put the light on! Everybody has to see his rainbow-colored turban! 1.. One morning, Mad Melvin, Loony Larry, and Crazy Karl all escape from the Sunnyvale Insane Asylum. Happy as larks, the three loonies go into [...]

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