Osho Gems for Soul

Osho – We live with momentary things. That’s why there is so much misery

Osho on momentary things

Osho – We live with momentary things. That’s why there is so much misery, because whatsoever is momentary is not going to satisfy. By the time you become aware that it is there it is already gone. This life is almost a flux: it is continuously moving, slipping out of your hands. Nothing is certain, [...]

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Osho – Just think: if you are going to die tomorrow, then how many things will be important

Osho - if you are going to die tomorrow

Osho – Deva means divine, uparati means indifference to the non-essential – a divine indifference to the non essential. And that’s the whole work of the seeker. We are caught up in the non-essential, the mundane, the trivial. For the moment it looks so important, and the next moment it appears as if it had [...]

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Osho – This I call the materialist dimension – when you treat a person as a thing

Osho on materialist dimension and divine dimension

Osho – Deva means divine and ayama means dimension, the divine dimension. And that is the goal. One has to move into the divine dimension by and by. So become less and less interested in things. Become more interested in persons. Even while relating with things, relate to them as if you are relating with [...]

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Osho – A man living on the circumference is a man without soul

Osho - A man living on the circumference

Osho – Dhyan means meditation. Pathik means pilgrim, a traveler. Meditation is an inner journey. It is moving from your circumference to your own center. We live on the circumference and we have lived on the circumference for so many lives that we have become completely oblivious even of the fact that a center exists. [...]

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Osho – Anybody else truth is not your truth And can never be your truth

Osho - Anybody else truth is not your truth

Osho - Truth is a discovery And naturally all that we know about truth Has to be dropped Because we have not discovered it. Anybody else truth is not your truth And can never be your truth. To believe in others’ truths Is to remain in bondage. Meditation is the way of dropping All knowledge, all [...]

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Osho – Start living in the infinite, because that is our true reality

Osho - Start living in the infinite

Osho – Aseem means the unbounded, the infinite. Start living in the infinite, because that is our true reality. The idea that we are finite is just an idea, it does not correspond to reality; hence it creates much misery. Once you start thinking of yourself as finite you are constantly in struggle with the [...]

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Osho on Luther Burbank, an American lover of trees and plants?

Osho on Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank Question – I am sure you will not say to a seed, “take a sudden jump and flower,” But why do you like to say to a man, “take a sudden jump and be a buddha”? Osho – Because a seed is a seed and cannot understand, and a man is not a [...]

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Osho – We have to drop all that is untrue

Osho on dropping untruth

Osho – One of the most beautiful and the profoundest prayers is found in the Upanishads. It is the smallest prayer ever uttered yet it contains all the scriptures. The prayer is: Asto ma sadgamay — lead me, lord, from the world of untruth to the world of truth. Tumso ma jyotirgamay — lead me, [...]

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Osho – Unless you can get free from the mind, there is no salvation

Osho on Mind and salvation

Osho – A temple is under construction. I pass by it and think: ”The temples are many; perhaps the number of persons visiting them has gone down; but then why is this new temple being constructed? And this is not alone. There are many other temples under construction. Few temples are built everyday. Temples are [...]

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Osho on Fearlessness – Most essential factor in search of truth

Osho on Fearlessness and Truth

”What is the most essential factor in search of truth? Osho – I said: ”Courage – courage to know the reality in the self. To know oneself as one is, is most essential. That is very difficult. But without that there is no understanding of the truth. What else is the greater penance than knowing [...]

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Osho – Truth is hidden because of our Restlessness

Osho on Truth and Restlessness

Osho – We attach a lot of value to ourselves; and the more value we attach to our little selves, the more restless we become; and the more we suffer and the possibility of realizing Truth gets less and less. He who is tranquil and filled with peace, can realize Truth. The first rule for [...]

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Osho – Either become a buddha or you are bound to become cunning

Osho on Buddha and Cunningness

Question – Beloved Master, The other day you said that the old people become cunning. What are your grounds for saying so? Osho – Kumarel, I am a crazy person. I don’t say things because there are grounds to say them. I simply say something because I enjoy saying it. I cannot give you any [...]

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Osho – maturity does not come with age alone

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Osho: Love. A small boy with a penny clutched tightly in his hot little hand entered the toyshop and drove the proprietor to distraction asking him to show this and that and everything without ever making up his mind. Look here, my boy, said the storekeeper finally. What do you want to buy for a [...]

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Osho – Joy comes at the ultimate peak. It belongs to the soul

Osho on Joy

Osho – One can have pleasures without meditation because pleasures are of the body, but one cannot have joy without meditation. Joy belongs to the spirit. Pleasures belong to the body, happiness to the mind and joy to the soul. For pleasures everybody is equipped by nature, because it is our animal heritage, it is [...]

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Osho on Surrender – Surrender, and the remaining I will do

Osho on Surrender

Osho – Surrender is the greatest gamble. Surrender means putting the mind aside completely. Surrender means going mad. I say surrender means going mad, because all those who live in their logic and in their minds will think you have gone mad. To me it is not madness. To me madness, this type of madness, [...]

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Osho – never decide anything when you are in the negative phase

Osho on Negative Phase and decisions

[A sannyasin, who is leaving says: I want to stay open to you. Osho checks his energy.] Osho – It will be difficult for you to remain open always and continuously. Sometimes you will be open and sometimes you will be closed. But that is nothing to be worried about. That is a rhythm, a [...]

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Osho – Don’t sacrifice the essential for the non-essential

Osho on essential things

Osho – A person who wastes his life in accumulating things that can be purchased is simply being stupid, because those are not the things which can give meaning to your life. They don’t have any real value; they have a price but no value. So this is one of the most significant criterions to [...]

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Osho – Man cannot be virtuous unless he is blissful

Osho on Virtue and Bliss

Osho – Man cannot be virtuous unless he is blissful. In the past religions have been teaching just the opposite; hence the failure of the old religions. All religions have failed. Humanity has not become religious at all. After thousands of years of teaching, nothing much has happened. Only very few people have been really [...]

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Osho on Grace – Grace is a by-product of totality

Osho on Grace Totality

Osho – Pleasure is of the body, the most superficial kind of bliss, very momentary, nothing of much value, just writing on the sand — the wind will come and all will be gone. The second thing is happiness. It is something deeper than pleasure. It is more psychological than physiological. For example, sex is [...]

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Osho – Be authentic to yourself – sincere, honest

Osho - Be authentic to yourself

Osho – The first thing to be understood: you have to be authentic to yourself – sincere, honest. But that doesn’t mean that you have to hurt others through your honesty and sincerity, that doesn’t mean that you have to disturb others, that doesn’t mean that you have to disturb the rules of the game. [...]

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Osho – Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream?

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – Is it possible to become Enlightened in a Dream? Osho – Not only possible — whenever it happens, it always happens in a dream. Whatsoever you think is your waking consciousness, that too is not waking; that too is dreaming. While sitting here in front of me, do you think you are awake? [...]

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