Osho on Career Job

Osho on workaholic society – The idea of ‘the work’ has been imposed on you

Osho on workaholic society

Osho – The idea of ”the work” has been imposed on you for centuries, that you are here for a certain ”work” to do. Naturally, people wanted you not to be just lazy and enjoy. They wanted ”work” because your work is going to create wealth, your work is going to create Alexanders, your work [...]

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Osho on Baking as Meditation – If you can change your work into Meditation

Osho on Baking as Meditation

[A sannyasin who bakes said that because of his work he was unable to do the meditations, and should he do anything else. Osho said that when he had time he could meditate alone... ] Osho – Baking is a good meditation. Put your love into it, your whole awareness into it. Just don’t do [...]

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Osho on medical profession – All that we can do is not to do intentional harm

Osho on medical profession

[A sannyasin mother and daughter are leaving for the west. The mother says that up to now she’s been working as a pharmacist... she has to give medicine which may harm people rather than help them. Some of it is healing but she is not entirely happy about the whole of it.] Osho – I [...]

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Osho – To be with trees and plants is beautiful because they go on growing

Osho - To be with trees and plants

[Another sannyasin is returning to his farm in the west.] Osho – Come back whenever you can find time. To be on a farm is beautiful. Make your work your meditation. Farming is the only work that is worth doing. Whenever you are with things which grow, you grow. That is the difficulty with machines: [...]

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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 – You may have one of the most Precious things and you may not be able to Use it

[A sannyasin says he is not sure whether to continue with his master’s degree in sociology when he returns. He has four more years to complete. He enjoys university life but wonders if he could do more. Osho checks his energy] Osho – My feeling is that you should complete it; and it can be [...]

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Osho on Genius, Osho on whole art of being a genius

[A sannyasin who is a photographer said she was feeling low energy and disinterested in photography.] Osho – This comes again and again in everybody’s life: whatsoever you are doing you get tired of, you get fed up, you get bored with it. It is very easy to be interested in a new thing – it [...]

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Osho – Help people to attain a loving insight into their lives, help people to love themselves

Osho on Helping People

[A sannyasin expresses concern about being a sannyasin in the West. She works in a personnel at a university. Osho says that is good work, and love is needed more than expertise.... ] Osho – The therapist, the counsellor, has to love the patients so deeply, so totally, that in his love something starts in [...]

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Osho – One should not sell one’s life for a Living

Osho on Living

[A sannyasin asks about becoming a Primal therapist.] Osho – It is always good to find something that you like – because it is your life; it should not be wasted in any way. And if you have the feeling that you don’t like any job and that you have to do it, it becomes [...]

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Osho teaching career, Osho as a Professor

Osho teaching career

Osho : When I graduated from the university I immediately went to the education minister of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the chancellor of the University of Sagar, where I had postgraduate degrees in psychology, in religion, in philosophy. Now that same person is the vice-president of India. I went directly to him. I told [...]

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