Osho on Body

Osho on Body and Mind needs – Body needs are beautiful, Fulfill body needs

Osho on Body and Mind needs

Question – How can one cut desires without suppressing them? Osho – Desires are dreams: they are not realities. You cannot fulfill them and you cannot suppress them, because to fulfill a certain thing it needs to be real; to suppress a certain thing also needs to be real. Needs can be fulfilled and needs [...]

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Osho on eating habits – Raman Maharshi said to avoid chillies, excess of salt, onions

Osho on eating habits

Question – So many dishes in the ashram kitchen contain onions. Remembering that Raman Maharshi said to avoid chillies, excess of salt, onions, etc, I am struck with the question: Is the kitchen sabotaging our possibilities of enlightenment? Osho – That’s my whole work here. To sabotage all your possibilities of enlightenment. If your desire [...]

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Osho – Vomit can be of infinite significance. It can be a kind of unburdening

Osho on Vomit and bodysoul

Question – One day, as you talked about the new commune, I feel as though someone was hitting me again and again in my stomach until i thought i would vomit. Was that you? It it was, What are you up to? Osho – HAVE YOU EVER HEARD that St. John of the Cross used [...]

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Osho – Flying is a very very natural desire in the innermost core of humanity

Osho on flying

Osho – Anand means bliss, ramraj means the kingdom of god: bliss, the kingdom of god. It is within you. The sky that I was talking about just now is within you. And the eagle I was telling you to become is your very soul. The soul is really confined, very much confined because the [...]

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Osho – In walking, sleeping, loving, remember one thing: the body has not to be used as a robot

Osho on awareness in body actions

Osho – Sudhindra means god of remembrance, god of awareness, god of mindfulness. The most important thing in your life will be awareness. Pour your whole energy into that dimension: become more alert, more attentive, more mindful. Whatsoever you are doing, make it a point that you should do it with awareness… small things: washing [...]

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Osho – It is good that you only have a crippled leg; people have crippled minds, crippled hearts

Osho on crippled leg

[At a previous darshan a sannyasin, who was crippled by polio four years ago, said he disliked the constant attention his disability received. Osho suggested he wear a sign ’I am crippled. Please don’t ask me about my leg. Thank you!’ Tonight he said it helped him to accept his situation, but he still feels [...]

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Osho on Right Food and Austerity – Food is right if it is non-gravitational

Osho on Right Food and Austerity

Osho – Now, we have to go into an enquiry about the bodies. Man is not one body, man has many bodies – layers of bodies. The body we know is only the outermost; inside it there is another, and inside that, another. Rishis have divided these layers into five. The first is known as [...]

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Osho – We are caught in many limitations – the body, the mind

Osho on Freedom

Osho – Anand Ciska. Anand means bliss; ciska means freedom. Bliss is freedom and vice versa: freedom is bliss. In fact they are two sides of the same coin. Misery arises out of limitation. Bliss is to know that we are infinite, that even the sky is not our limit, that we are one with [...]

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Osho – Meditation is a disidentification with the body

Osho Meditation and Disidentification

Osho – Meditation brings rebellion in life — rebellion against all traditions, conventions, dogmas, creeds, rebellion against the whole past, because unless you are completely clean of the past you cannot be totally herenow. And unless you are totally herenow you will never know what the truth is. Truth is never in the past, never [...]

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Osho – One has to work with both the body and the mind

Osho on Yoga Awareness

Osho – Asanas, pranayama — there are so many methods through which energies can be made to flow inward. When they flow inward they become one, because at the center there cannot be more than one. So the more energy goes inward, the more harmony there is. Conflicts drop. In the center there is no [...]

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Osho on Reducing Weight, Why there is Obsession with Food

Osho on Reducing Weight

Question – BELOVED MASTER, I AM OBSESSED WITH FOOD. I EAT TOO MUCH AND HAVE GAINED ENORMOUS WEIGHT. CAN YOU HELP ME TO REDUCE MY WEIGHT? Osho – Sangito, this is strange, coming to me from California just to reduce your weight. In California there are far more facilities available to reduce weight. I know [...]

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Osho – Don't depend on the body and don't remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it

Osho – Don’t depend on the body and don’t remain confined to the body. Use it, respect it, love it, care for it, but remember: you have to leave it one day. It is only a cage, it will be left behind, and the bird will be gone. Before that happens, take care of the [...]

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Osho – You are a slave of your own chemistry, you are a slave of your own physiology — and this slavery has to be Transcended

Osho – Sex is really an internal process of intoxicating you. It is chemical. You have nothing to do with it. It is your body chemistry, it is your physiology that releases certain chemicals in your body and then in a sexual state you can do something for which you will repent. Later on you [...]

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Osho on Prostitution – Prostitution is a betrayal of the Body

[A sannyasin says she has been working as a prostitute in the West. Returning there now to earn money to return here, she wonders whether to return to prostitution or not. A voice inside her says no – on the other hand it is a quick way to make money.... ] Osho – Then do [...]

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Osho – Healing the Pain by Being Aware of it passively

Osho on Healing Pain

[A sannyasin says he has a lot of tension in his back and neck – tension that is so painful at times that it totally occupies his attention.... It comes in the silent parts of the meditations. Osho asks him for details, and then checks his energy.] Osho – It is concerned with meditation, so don’t [...]

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Osho on How to Transcend Biology, Physiology

Osho on How to Transcend Biology

Osho – Man and woman are intimate enemies – enemies and yet intimate. If your woman is with you then you start feeling: how to be alone? When you are alone, after a few days you start a great thirst and hunger for your woman – how to be with her? If you are alone, appetite [...]

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Osho on first step for a Meditator- The body is the first step for a seeker

Osho on first step for a Meditator

Osho : My Beloved Ones, In this first meeting of the meditation camp, I would like to talk about the first step for a meditator, a seeker. What is the first step? A thinker or a lover follow certain paths but a seeker has to travel on a totally different journey. For a seeker, what [...]

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Osho – Man is afraid of losing his body and his possessions

Osho on fear of leaving body

Question – Beloved Osho, Why is man afraid to leave his body and his possessions? Osho -Because you don’t have anything else — just your body, your possessions. And what are your possessions? Extensions of your body. For example, no animal has created weapons, for the simple reason that animals are capable, strong; their teeth, [...]

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Osho on Body – The body is a momentary phenomenon

Osho on Body

Osho – The body is a momentary phenomenon. One day it was not, one day it will not be again. It exists only for the time being — it is like foam; looks so beautiful from the shore, the foam, the white foam of a wave. And if the sun has risen, around the foam [...]

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