Osho on Enlightened Masters

Osho – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do?

Osho on enlightened masters ego

Question – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do? Osho – It is bound to be so. They sound egoistic because they cannot be humble in the sense you understand humility. Try to understand. It is a delicate point. Whatsoever you call humbleness is a function of the ego. It is a [...]

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Osho on Heraclitus – I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives

Osho on Heraclitus

Osho – I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives. In fact, Heraclitus is the only Greek I have ever been in love with — except, of course, Mukta, Seema and Neeta! Heraclitus is really beautiful. Had he been born in India, or in the East, he would have been known as a [...]

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Osho on Dipankara and Gautam Buddha meeting – Dipankara is an ancient Buddha

Osho on Dipankara

Osho – Dipankara is an ancient Buddha. Gautama Buddha, in his past life when he was not enlightened, had gone to Dipankara. He wanted to be accepted as a disciple, but Dipankara laughed and he said, “There is nothing to be learned.” Truth cannot be learned. Yes, something has to be understood, but nothing has [...]

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Osho – Why have all the great masters come from the East?

Osho on Great Masters

Question – Beloved Osho, Why have all the great masters come from the East? Osho – Because humanity has yet not been total. The East is introvert, the West is extrovert. Man is split, mind is schizophrenic. That’s why all the great masters have come from the East and all the great scientists have come [...]

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Osho on Jalaluddin Rumi – The dancer disappeared in the dance

Osho on Jalaluddin Rumi

Osho – Rumi does not mean anything, it is a name of a place; because he came from Rum he was called Rumi. His message is love, and he belongs to the highest categories of the Buddhas. He was the man who inverted a new method of meditation, whirling. There have been hundreds of devices; [...]

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Osho on Sahajo teachings – Woman Mystic of India

Osho on Sahajo

Osho – Sahajo is the name of one of the most important woman mystics of India. There have been very few women mystics in the whole history of man for the simple reason that man never allowed them to discover themselves. Humanity up to now has lived in a very ugly way. Half of humanity, [...]

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Osho Story on Baal Shem, Watching is certainly the golden key of spiritual life

Osho on Baal Shem

Osho – Lalita, you are asking me what can be more beautiful than to be in the presence of the master. Why not dissolve in the presence? To be in the presence of the master, there is still separation. Why be in the presence? Why not become the presence itself? And only then you will [...]

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Osho – For ninety years J. Krishnamurti has been working, first upon himself, then upon others

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Question – Beloved Osho, I’m afraid that the world is going to end before I get enlightened. What can I Do? Osho – You seem to be very much in a hurry. If you understand me, there is no problem — right now you can become enlightened. At least right now the world has not [...]

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Osho on Bauls – The Baul is not a seeker, the Baul is one who has found

Osho on Bauls

Question – Who is a Baul? Please tell us the definition. Osho – IT should have been asked in the beginning; now this is going to be last. But in a way, it is good. If in the beginning you had asked about the definition of a Baul, it would have been almost impossible to [...]

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Osho – The Jivanamukta is one who has known death while still living

Osho on Jivanmukta

Osho – A few more indications about the inner state of a jivanamukta, the one liberated while living. The jivanamukta is one who has known death while still living. As it is, death is known by all, but only at the time of dying. That too cannot be called the knowing of death because just [...]

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Osho on Meera, Indian woman Mystic Meera

Osho on Meera

Osho : Meera is a launching place for your pilgrimage. Her scripture is the scripture of love. Perhaps calling it scripture is not right. Take Narada’s BHAKTI SUTRAS — sutras of devotion — that is scripture. There one finds reasoning, method, fixed precepts. It is a system of devotion. Meera herself IS devotion. You won’t [...]

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Osho on Woman Enlightened Master, Osho on Woman Enlightenment

Osho on Woman Enlightenment

Question : Why has there never been a single Woman Enlightened Master? Osho : A woman cannot be a Master — it is not possible. When a woman arrives she becomes a Mistress, not a Master. The fulfilment of a woman is love. The flowering of a woman is love. Mastery is not the goal [...]

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Osho on Jesus Christ Training in Secret School Essenes

Osho on Jesus Christ

Osho : Jesus was trained in one of the oldest secret schools. The school was called Essenes. The teaching of the Essenes is pure Vedanta. That’s why Christians don’t have a record of what happened to Jesus before his thirtieth year. They have a little record of his childhood, and they have a record after [...]

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Osho on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Osho on Navadip

Osho on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Osho : Krishna comes at the pinnacle of a rationalist, intellectual culture that had left no stones unturned. We had thought everything that could be thought. From the VEDAS and Upanishads we had traveled to vedant where knowledge ends. VEDAS itself means the end of knowledge. Giants like Patanjali, Kapil, Kanad, Brihaspati and Vyas had [...]

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Osho on female Enlightened masters, few female masters?

Question : YOU, BUDDHA, JESUS, ETC. ARE ALL MEN. YOU SAY WOMEN ARE CLOSER TO NO-MIND. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE A MAN’S BODY? WHY ARE THERE NO WOMEN MASTERS? Osho : It is from Deva Chandan – of course, a woman who belongs to the lib movement. It is significant. The question has to be [...]

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Osho on Ramakrishna Cancer and Ramakrishna Devotion

Osho on Ramakrishna Cancer

Osho : I am reminded of a case: Ramakrishna had a cancer of the throat. In the last stage it became impossible even to drink water. All his disciples said, ”Why don’t you ask in your prayers to God to remove this cancer? We know that if you ask, your prayer will be heard. And [...]

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Osho on Kabir Initation, Osho on Kabir and Ramananda

Osho on Kabir and Ramananda

Osho : Kabir is saying: Where can I find a Master who can become a bridge between me and you, whom I can tell, and trust that the message will be delivered to you, who can answer on my behalf? Where can I find a Master? The story of Kabir is of tremendous beauty. It [...]

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Osho on Krishna, Osho on Lord Krishna

Osho on Lord Krishna

Osho : Krishna is utterly incomparable, he is so unique. Firstly, his uniqueness lies in the fact that although Krishna happened in the ancient past he belongs to the future, is really of the future. Man has yet to grow to that height where he can be a contemporary of Krishna’s. He is still beyond [...]

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Osho on Diogenes, Diogenes lived naked, but his nakedness was very, very beautiful

Osho on Diogenes

Osho : Why do you want to hide your body from others? What is wrong with it? Society, civilization, culture, they have conditioned your minds to believe that something is wrong with the body. You feel guilty if you are caught naked. And laws exist and courts to force you not to be naked. And [...]

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Osho on Kabir death, Osho on Mystic Kabir Death in Maghar

Osho on Kabir death

Osho : Nobody can save anybody else – and it is good that nobody can save anybody else. Otherwise even your liberation would be a kind of enforcement. It would be as if you have been forced to enter into heaven – two persons following you with naked swords and forcing you to enter into [...]

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Osho on Mystics, A mystic is in a state of natural being

Osho on Mystics

Question – What is a Mystic? Osho – I don’t know, Purna, and nobody else knows either. That’s why a mystic is called a mystic. Something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped, that cannot be comprehended. Not that it is something special. It is very ordinary. That makes the mystery ten thousandfold. [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha Physical death

Osho on Gautam Buddha Physical death

Osho – The day Gautam Buddha died, early in the morning he said to his disciples, ”It is more than enough. It is time for me to leave.” They could not understand what he meant; perhaps he meant to leave for another place. Buddha said, ”You don’t understand, I mean I am going to leave [...]

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