Osho Discourse series

Osho – These religions go on giving you hope. Hope is the poison; it keeps you dragging, waiting for the moment when the hope, the promise, will be fulfilled. Christians are waiting for Christ to come back. He said to them again and again, ”I will be coming soon on the clouds of glory, with [...]

Osho – Just the other day I was reading an article on Oscar, the founder of Arica. The man who was interviewing him was a little surprised to see that he was continuously smoking, so he asked, ‘Why are you smoking so much and why do you smoke?’ At least Oscar was true. He said, [...]

Question – Is it good to take risks? Osho – Good or bad is not the question. If you are alive you have to take risks. Life is a risk. Only death is secure, life is never secure — there is no security. The companies that are called Life Insurance should really be called Death [...]

Question – Beloved Osho, can you please say something about the difference between the spiritual question, “who am i” and the psychological trauma of “who am i” Osho – Prem Shunyo, it is exactly the difference I was just talking about — the difference between the ego and the self. The ego is your false [...]

Osho – When you act out of nothingness, you respond; it is no longer a reaction. It has truth, it has validity in it, authenticity. It is existential. It is immediate, spontaneous, simple, innocent. And this action does not create any karma. Remember, the word karma means action, a particular action. Not all actions create [...]

Osho – If you can be loving in a single moment that is enough, because you never have two moments together. Only one moment is given. When one is lost, a second is given. You have only one moment always with you. If you know how to be loving in one single moment, you know [...]

[A sannyasin says: I have a lot of energy at twilight and it s very beautiful. I sing and I play the tamboura... it just comes.] Osho – Very good… enjoy it. Everybody has a period in twenty-four hours, a special period. People don’t know about it, but once you know about it that will [...]

Osho – Man ordinarily lives in darkness. We are born in darkness. In fact darkness is a basic need in the beginning. There is darkness in the mother’s womb. It is needed because light will be a disturbance for the growing child. The child is so soft, so tender; it needs velvety darkness to surround [...]

[A sannyasin says she has been feeling really lonely in the last few weeks, but for the first time is accepting this, like ’Okay, that’s it.’] Osho – Just okay is never okay. Enjoy it! Don t just say okay, because that is a kind of defeatism. Celebrate it! Aloneness is beautiful because it is [...]

Osho – Whenever you ask questions you will feel distant, because when you are asking questions your mind has to prepare itself for action – you have to think and ask and so on. And when you are doing these things a distance will be created. Your mind is active then, and in this mental [...]