Osho Gems for Soul

Osho on Meditation and Passion, Only Passionate ones have become great Meditators

Osho on Meditation and Passion

Question – Beloved Osho, The more I am able to absorb You, The more thirsty I become. Please talk about Meditation and Passion. Osho - There is no harm in becoming more thirsty for truth. There is no harm in becoming more thirsty for new spaces of experience, new challenges, voyages to new stars in your [...]

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Osho – God comes to you when desire leaves

Osho on Desires

Question – What is turning Inwards? Osho – TURNING INWARDS is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all. Turning inwards simply means that you have been running after this desire and that, and you have been running and running and you have been coming again and again to frustration. [...]

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Osho – Everything that is valuable comes from your own innermost being

Osho on Courage

Question : You have spoken of the need for Courage. Where does Courage come from? Is there any way to stimulate people’s Courage? Osho – Everything that is valuable comes from your own innermost being. It may be love, it may be intelligence, it may be creativity, it may be courage, it does not matter [...]

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Osho on Sincerity | Sincerity is the fragrance of meditation

Osho on Sincerity

Question – Osho, Would yoi please say something about Sincerity? Osho – Yoga Punya, MAN can live in two ways: either he can live according to the dictates of others — the puritans, the moralists — or he can live according to his own light. It is easy to follow others, it is convenient and [...]

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Osho – Beginning of man is in the trust that he shows in his own inner voice

Osho – The only difference between men and other animals is that of values. No animal lives according to values; he lives blindly, not knowing why. His life force is unconscious of itself. Many men also live in the same way. They only look like men, but they have not yet transcended the animal. The [...]

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Osho – Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid

Osho – Ninety-nine percent of your illnesses are your own working. Be alert and watch. If you are stupid, you are stupid. This is the first ray of intelligence that has happened to you: that you feel that you are stupid – perfectly beautiful. To understand that one is stupid is to already be intelligent. [...]

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Buddha says: Meditation is the only wealth, because you can take it beyond death

Osho – There is only one thing which you can take with you, and that is true wealth. Buddha calls it meditation, awareness, watchfulness, mindfulness, consciousness. If you become more and more conscious, you can take that consciousness with you. But you are living a very very unconscious life. Your whole life is mechanical, you [...]

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Osho – Start becoming conscious; that is the only way to arrive

Osho - Start becoming conscious

Osho – Man is a seed of great potential: man is the seed of buddhahood. Each man is born to be a buddha. Man is not born to be a slave but to be a master. But there are very few who actualize their potential. And the reason why millions can’t realize their potential is [...]

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Osho – Once we know the Inner, the Outer starts withering; its importance simply disappears

Osho – Man is a very small phenomenon, but man contains the whole universe; he is a miniature universe. Inside also there is a sun. It has to be provoked, challenged. Once it starts functioning you will see your life changing of its own accord. You will see great energy arising in you, and you [...]

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Osho – Boredom is the price one pays for intelligence

[A sannyasin says he feels fed up with himself, feels no connection between his inner world and the outer one. He used to have many interests but no longer feels in touch with them. This is how any intelligent person will feel, Osho says. Boredom is the price one pays for intelligence. It should not [...]

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Osho – Nobody wants to be left alone. Nobody wants any quiet, silent moments

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Osho – Man’s search is for his real homeland. In this world man is a stranger, a foreigner; he lives a kind of uprooted life. Something essential is missing: he is missing the soil where he can grow his roots. His life remains an empty gesture. a constant occupation just so he remains occupied, so [...]

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Osho – Unless Meditation happens, nothing happens

Osho – A small lamp has to burn, has to be kindled, in the heart. The heart has all the potential to become light. We have not tried, we have not worked on the heart; otherwise it start radiating, glowing, it becomes aflame. All that has been so much of a problem simply disappears. One [...]

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Osho – Throw out all those answers; those are false answers

[A visitor says: Please tell me who I am.] Osho – Mm mm…. My telling you won’t help; you will have to come upon it yourself. Others have been telling you, that is the problem. Your father has told you ’This is what you are’; your mother has told you ’This is what you are.’ [...]

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Osho – Sadhu means simplicity: A blissful simplicity

Osho on Sadhu Simplicity

[To a new sannyasin Osho says:] Osho – Raise your hands and close your eyes. Feel like a bird flying into the sky; these are your wings. If you start feeling like moving upwards, allow the body. If the hands start moving upwards, allow them; if the body starts swaying, go into that. Go into [...]

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Osho – Man can function from 3 centres: Head, Heart and Navel

Osho on Head, Heart and Navel

Osho – Man can function from three centres: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel. If you function from the head you will go on spinning thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. They are very insubstantial, dream-stuff – they promise much, they deliver nothing. The mind is a [...]

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Osho – A great courage is needed in life to be yourself in Failure, in Success

Osho Story on Courage

Osho – When I was a small child at school there was a wrestling competition for the whole district; I have never been able to forget that incident. There was a wrestler, the most famous wrestler in those parts, who was defeated. He was going to be the champion, the district champion or something, and [...]

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Osho – Always Choose that which is Good for you and Good for Others.

Osho on Choosing Good

Osho – There is a constant war between the evil and the good, between the forces of darkness and the forces of light, between that which brings you down and that which uplifts you. One has to be very conscious in choosing sides. And it is an every moment affair. When you become angry you [...]

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Osho – Religion can arise only out of courage. It arises out of Adventure

Osho on Religion

Osho – Religion is possible only through courage, but usually the cowardly become religious. The temples, the churches, the mosques, are full of cowards. Their God is nothing but a projection of their fear; their prayer is nothing but a demand for protection. It is a kind of bribe. Their praise of God is not [...]

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Osho – One of most fundamental laws of Life: if you hate others, you will Hate yourself

Osho - if you hate others

Osho – The energy is the same; whether it becomes destruction or creation depends on one’s choice. The energy in itself is neutral – you can use it this way or that. Millions of people have decided to be destructive because they think that if they are destructive to others they are not going to [...]

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Osho – We are caught up in the Non-Essential, the Mundane, the Trivial

Osho on non-essential

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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