Dhammapada Discourses

Osho – Buddha says Just for the company’s sake, don’t move with a fool. Beware of that

Osho – Buddha says: Just for the company’s sake, don’t move with a fool. Beware of that. I have been observing thousands of saints and mahatmas — Jaina, Hindu, Mohammedan — and I was surprised to find one thing: ninety-nine percent of them look foolish, stupid. Something dull and dead seems to be inside them. [...]

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Osho – The greatest fault, the greatest misery is that people are not traveling at all towards truth

Osho – Don’t be worried that you are alone. Slowly slowly, you will become able to balance yourself. Slowly slowly, in slow steps, you will be able to go beyond the known. Slowly slowly you will be able to die as an ego and be born as an egoless presence. It may take a little [...]

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Osho – You are a slave of your own chemistry, you are a slave of your own physiology — and this slavery has to be Transcended

Osho – Sex is really an internal process of intoxicating you. It is chemical. You have nothing to do with it. It is your body chemistry, it is your physiology that releases certain chemicals in your body and then in a sexual state you can do something for which you will repent. Later on you [...]

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Osho – See what Is…. That is meditation. Put your mind aside. Face reality directly

Osho – See what Is…. That is meditation. Put your mind aside. Face reality directly. Encounter it, be face-to-face. Put the mind aside. Look into reality silently, without any thought, so that the thought cannot be a hindrance, a barrier, a distortion. That’s what meditation is: seeing what is and seeing what is not. The [...]

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Osho – To be without Misery needs great courage. To be Miserable is very Cheap

Question BELOVED MASTER, YES, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. MY FLAMES OF JEALOUSY, GREED AND VIOLENCE ARE BURNING ME. I SEE YOU SHINING AT THE DOORWAY, BECKONING ME TO SIMPLY COME OUT, YET I HOLD BACK, CLINGING TO MY MISERY WHILE MY MIND RACES ON WITH DESIRES. WHY CAN’T I LET GO? Osho – Deva [...]

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Osho – If Awareness is Enough they why Discourses, Groups, Sannyas

Question – BELOVED MASTER, YOU TELL US THAT AWARENESS IS ENOUGH. THEN WHY DISCOURSES, GROUPS, SANNYAS?Osho – Rick Ferris, how did you come to know that awareness is enough? I have to tell it again and again — that awareness is enough, that no discourse is needed. But even that has to be told to [...]

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Osho on Conscious Birth – Why Did I Choose to be Born into this Family

Question – BELOVED MASTER, MY PREVIOUS LIFE WITH MY MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER AND BROTHER WAS A PERIOD FILLED WITH UNHAPPINESS. WHY DID I CHOOSE TO BE BORN INTO THIS FAMILY? Osho – Prem Joshua, you have not chosen, because you died unconsciously. How can you choose? If YOU had chosen, you certainly would not have [...]

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Osho on working of Mind, How we keep on thinking like a slave

Osho – Any thought goes on inside your mind. Watch for a few minutes and you will be surprised: the mind seems to be crazy! It jumps from one thought to another thought for no reason at all. Just a dog starts barking in the neighborhood and your mind takes the clue from it… and [...]

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Osho – The first requirement for attaining to truth is the capacity to be free, the capacity to be nobody

Osho – There is an ancient Sufi parable: A man gave to a Sufi mystic a present, a golden bowl with a beautiful fish in it. The Sufi looked at the bowl and the fish and felt very sorry for the fish, because the bowl is an imprisonment. He went to the lake and he [...]

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