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Osho on Gautam Buddha Sutra – Seek the other Shore

Osho on Buddha Sutra

Osho – Buddha says: Don’t be too much concerned with this shore; it is momentary. Tomorrow you have to go. Even seventy years is not a long time; compared to eternity it is just a moment. Your life lasts only as long as a soap bubble. You THINK it is long enough — seventy years [...]

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Osho on Dream Analysis and Enlightenment

Question – BELOVED MASTER, IS IT NECESSARY TO GO THROUGH DREAM ANALYSIS FOR ATTAINING ENLIGHTENMENT? Osho – Gautami, dream analysis cannot help you to become enlightened, but dream witnessing can certainly help you. That is the difference between psychology and religion: psychology analyzes dreams; religion watches them, helps you to become aware of them. And [...]

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Osho – Desire as such is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent

Osho – Desire AS SUCH is a bondage, because when you desire, you become dependent on the other, on the desired object. Whether it is a woman, money, a man, power, prestige, it does not matter — it is desire, and desire brings bondage. Why? It is simple. When you desire something, your joy depends [...]

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Osho – Whatsoever happens to you is your own doing

Osho – If you don’t listen to the buddhas you will be consumed by your own mischief. The harm that you do to yourself is such that nobody can do it to you; you are the greatest enemy to yourself, right now as you are. Of course you can be the greatest friend too, but [...]

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Osho – Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine

Osho – Jayananda, it depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. There is one famous maxim of Murphy. He says there are two types of people: One, who always divide humanity in two types, and the other, who don’t divide humanity at all. I [...]

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Osho – Be Altruistic only when your own self is fulfilled

Osho – Buddha says There are needy people all around. There are ill people, there are poor people, there are paralyzed people and blind and deaf and lame. If you start serving all these people you will forget the real work. That’s what has happened to the Christian missionary. He runs the school, the hospital, [...]

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Osho – If you remember death, life cannot deceive you anymore

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Osho – Remember death, never forget it for a single moment! Because of this insistence, many people have thought Buddha is death-obsessed; he is not. You may be life-obsessed but he is not death-obsessed. He is simply bringing everything to a balance. He says, as much as you are involved in life you have to [...]

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Osho on Life – I affirm life, I rejoice in life

Osho - I affirm life

Osho – The worldly, the otherworldly, are not really different. There is only one difference that makes a difference and that is of awareness, alertness. And the awareness can be practiced anywhere: you need not go to the mountains, you need not go to the monasteries, you need not renounce the world. In fact, IN [...]

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Osho – The only way to be desireless is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot

Osho – Desire means greed for more and more. Desire means discontent, discontent with what is, discontent with the present; hence you seek contentment in your hopes for the future. Today is empty; you can live only by the hope of tomorrow. The tomorrow will bring something…although many tomorrows have come and gone and that [...]

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Osho – Buddhism never creates any guilt, it is not for repentance, it is for remembrance

Osho – The ordinary way of human beings is to overlook one’s own faults and to emphasize, magnify, others’ faults. This is the way of the ego. The ego feels very good when it sees, “Everybody has so many faults and I have none.” And the trick is: overlook your faults, magnify others’ faults, so [...]

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Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted

Osho on Settle inside Centered Inside

Osho – Settle inside, be centered inside, and outside be a wanderer : inside utterly rooted, and outside not staying long in any one place, not staying with one person for a long time, because attachments arise, possessiveness arises. So be just like a bee. Just the other night I was reading a poet’s memoirs. [...]

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Osho on Contentment, Contentment is your innermost nature. Contentment does not belong to things

Osho – Nobody can ever be contented in the world — that’s impossible. You can become more and more discontented, that’s all, because contentment happens only when you go inwards. Contentment is your innermost nature. Contentment does not belong to things. You can be comfortable with things — a beautiful house, a beautiful garden, no [...]

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Osho – whatsoever appears as happiness proves ultimately to be the source of unhappiness and nothing else

Osho – If you are too much distracted by desires, pleasures, gratifications, and if you are too thirsty in your senses for titillation, if you are searching foolishly for happiness in the outer world, then death comes and fetches you away like a flood which carries off a sleeping village. The man who is searching [...]

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Osho – Don't depend on the body and don't remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it

Osho – Don’t depend on the body and don’t remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it, care for it, but remember: you have to leave it one day. It is only a cage, it will be left behind, and the bird will be gone. Before that happens, take care of the [...]

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Osho – Become just a watchfulness. See that one part is saying this, another part is saying that

Osho – Buddha is saying: Don’t consider what is right and what is wrong, because if you consider what is right and what is wrong you will be divided, you will become a hypocrite. You will pretend the right and you will do the wrong. And the moment you consider what is right and what [...]

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Osho on Happiness – Pleasure is animal, happiness is human, bliss is divine

Question – Beloved Master, What is Happiness? Osho – Jayananda, it depends. It depends on you, on your state of consciousness or unconsciousness, whether you are asleep or awake. There is one famous maxim of Murphy. He says there are two types of people: One, who always divide humanity in two types, and the other, [...]

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Osho – If you take pleasure in your cave in the Himalayas you are as unfree as anybody who lives in a palace

Gautam Buddha Sutra – “IT IS NOT IRON THAT IMPRISONS YOU NOR ROPE, NOR WOOD, BUT THE PLEASURE YOU TAKE IN GOLD AND JEWELS, IN SONS AND WIVES”. Osho – It is not Iron that Imprisons you… your prison is not that gross, it is very subtle. It is not so visible, it is very [...]

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Osho – The dream can exist only if believed; the dream disappears if you don't believe in it

Osho – Beware of imagination. It can cloud your mind. It can destroy your capacity to see clearly. Hence I say: Unless you drop being Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians, you will not be able to see clearly. Your imagination has been contaminated for centuries. All your ideas and ideologies have to be put aside so that [...]

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Osho – It is a risky phenomenon to remain too much attached to your pleasures, to your imagination, because this is how you have been going from one l

Osho – Whenever you see some imagination arising in you, be alert. Don’t let it grow, don’t let it become a big tree. It will be far more difficult then for you to get rid of it because you may become attached to it; you may have invested many things in it; you may have [...]

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Osho – Character is not of much value. What is valuable is Consciousness — not Conscience

Osho – Remember, the foolish person may have a certain character. It is easy for the fool to create a certain character because he is stubborn. Stupidity is always stubborn. If some idea gets into his head he may be able to practice it more consistently than the intelligent person because he is stubborn, he [...]

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Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself

Osho – The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring — and you go on desiring. In fact, you think that if your desires are fulfilled your miseries will disappear. In the first place they are never fulfilled; in the second place, if they [...]

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Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up

Osho on Desire

Osho – Desire cannot be dropped unless you wake up. Millions of people have tried to drop desiring without waking up. In fact, the very idea of dropping desire was another desire and nothing else. They heard from the buddhas, from the awakened ones, that there is great peace if you drop desire, there is [...]

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