Osho Meditation Talks

Osho – Meditation is for everyone, for Ordinary people too

Osho - Meditation is for everyone

Question - Surely Meditation is for Mystics. Why do you propose it for ordinary people and their children? Osho - First, I have never come across an ordinary person; they do not exist. They are only created by egoistic people. The egoist has to create the ordinary – that is the only way the ego can exist, [...]

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Osho on Discipline – Uptightness of Army life as meditation

Osho on Discipline

[A visitor has been posted by the army from Nepal to Poona. Osho explains how to use even the discipline and uptightness of army life as meditation.] Osho : The basic thing is not the technique of meditation. The basic thing is to do it with awareness. Any method can be of help if one [...]

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OSHO : MEDITATION IS A PROCESS OF DEATH

OSHO  MEDITATION IS A PROCESS OF DEATH

OSHO : MEDITATION IS A PROCESS OF DEATH, OF NON-BEING, of becoming nothing on your own accord, of disappearing into the whole, into the harmony of the whole. But it is a miracle, the greatest paradoxical experience of life. There is no contradiction in it, but there is a paradox. Seen from the intellectual standpoint, [...]

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Osho on craving for repetition of spiritual experiences

Osho on craving for repetition of spiritual experiences

[A sannyasin keeps thinking about an experience she had when she took sannyas – an experience of seeing a light. It was beautiful but it has never happened again.] Osho : Remember one thing: if something happens never ask for its repetition; otherwise it will never happen again. If you ask for it to be [...]

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Osho on Yoga, Osho on science of Yoga, Osho on Patanjali Yoga

Osho on Patanjali Yoga

Osho : Before we talk about the first sutra of Patanjali, a few other things have to be understood. First, yoga is not a religion–remember that. Yoga is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan. Yoga is a pure science just like mathematics, physics or chemistry. Physics is not Christian, physics is not Buddhist. If Christians [...]

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Osho on Meditation Brings Clarity, Osho on Meditating deeply

Osho on Meditating deeply

Question : Beloved Master, Why do I have so much difficulty When I have to decide something, for instance, whether i should go or stay here longer? I do not seem to be able to solve such problems. Osho : Anand Tosha, you are asking the question to a wrong person because I don’t have [...]

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Osho on Vairagya ‘Non Attachment’

Osho on Vairagya

Question : Beloved Osho, Is Vairagya, Nonattachment, a method, a means, an intermediate stage, or an end in itself? Osho : It is all – because means and ends are not two things. The way and the goal are not two things. The way is just the beginning of the goal, and the goal is [...]

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Osho on Right Contemplation and Right Meditation

Osho on Right Contemplation

Osho : This will look a little paradoxical, because we think meditation is always right, contemplation is always right. That is not the case; you can contemplate on wrong things. For example, when you are angry you contemplate; really, when you are angry you contemplate more. You become obsessed with one thing and you go [...]

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Osho on difference in Prayer and Meditation

Osho on difference in prayer and meditation

Question : What is the difference between Prayer and Meditation? Osho : A lot of difference. A great difference. in fact they are absolutely different things. Their movement is in different directions. There are two types of religions in the world: prayer oriented religions and meditation oriented religions. Christianity, Judaism, Mohammedanism, Hinduism – these are [...]

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Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt and Listening to Inner Voice

Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt

Osho : FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to distract it, not to take it in some other direction where it was not going on its own. To surrender to nature, to flow with [...]

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Osho discourse on heat yoga and Bhrama Yogi

Osho on Heat Yoga and Bhrama Yogi

Osho : Yoga says there are not two things in us like consciousness and unconsciousness. In us, there is only one existence and these are two polarities of it. Hence a man can be influenced from either pole. In Tibet, there is an experiment known as Heat-Yoga. There are hundreds of monks who can remain [...]

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Osho on Centering, Osho on Inner center

Osho on Centering inner center

Osho : The world is transformed by people who live in this world as if this world is just a dream. People are changed, transfigured, by those who live in this world unconcerned, indifferent to trivia… who live a life of inner centering, who live in the world but don’t allow the world to enter [...]

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Osho on Gurdjieff Meditation, Osho on Gurdjieff Dream Meditation

Osho on Gurdjieff Meditations

George Gurdjieff Osho – Gurdjieff, one of the buddhas of this century, used to give a certain meditation to his disciples which is very significant. He used to say to his disciples, “If you can remember in a dream that ‘This is a dream,’ then you are on the very threshold of transformation.” But it [...]

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Osho on ‘Who am I’ Meditation technique

Osho on

Question – Beloved Master, Who Am I ? Osho – Narayano, it is a question to be made a meditation. It is not a question to be asked, it is a question to be contemplated — because nobody can answer it for you and nobody’s answer can become your answer. This is one of those [...]

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Osho on Self Remembering, Transformation of Self Rememberance

Osho on Self Remembering

Question – In which way can the Practice of Self – Remembering Transform the Human Mind? Osho – Man is not centered in himself. He is born centered, but the society, the family, the education, the culture, they push him off-center, and they put him off-center in a very cunning way, knowingly or unknowingly. So [...]

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Osho – Do you recommend any particular discipline besides Dynamic Meditation?

Osho on Spiritual discipline

Question – Do you recommend any particular discipline besides Dynamic Meditation? Osho – Even to move into an undisciplined life you have to follow some discipline. But you must remain the master; it must not become a slavery. The real thing, the end, is always to be spontaneous As we are, we are really conditioned [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha Disciples meditation

Osho on Gautam Buddha Disciples meditation

Osho – There is a story in Buddha’s life: One day one of Buddha’s sannyasins was passing through a street where he had gone to beg. The most beautiful woman of that town, the prostitute of the town, fell in love with the monk. She came down out of her house and requested the monk to [...]

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Osho on ‘Who Am I’ Question

Osho on Who Am I Question

Question – Osho, Please, In the Question”WHO AM I?” What does “I” mean? Does it mean the essence of Life? Osho – Hermann Sander, “WHO AM I?” IS NOT REALLY A QUESTION because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question. It is used as a mantra. [...]

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Osho Meditations – Finding time for Meditation:

Osho Meditations – Finding time for Meditation: Question: I am a lawyer. I don’t know how to meditate, and I seem to be occupied all of the time. Please suggest what to do. Osho : It is important to understand, because all the teachers of meditation in the world have been telling you that you [...]

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Osho – What is Meditation

Osho on Meditation :: When you are not doing anything at all – bodily, mentally, on no level – when all activity has ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is. You cannot do it, you cannot practice it; you have only to understand it. Whenever you can find time for just [...]

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Osho- Can a businessman be a meditator?

Osho on Meditation for Businessmen

Question – Osho – Can a Businessman be a Meditator? Osho – One has to do something in life. Somebody is a carpenter and somebody is a king, and somebody is a businessman and somebody is a warrior. These are ways of livelihood, these are ways of getting bread and butter, a shelter. They can’t change your [...]

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Osho on Meditation – Meditation means living without words

Osho on Meditation and words

Osho- Meditation is not an Indian method; it is not simply a technique. You cannot learn it. It is a growth: a growth of your total living, out of your total living. Meditation is not something that can be added to you as you are. It can come to you only through a basic transformation, [...]

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