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Osho – Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it

Osho on Seriousness

Question – You say that seriousness is a disease. Whenever i remember myself i feel serious, so what should i do? Osho – Don’t get serious about it. Let it be so, and laugh. If you can laugh at yourself, everything is okay. People laugh at others, but never laugh at themselves. It has to [...]

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Osho on Seriousness – It is your life attitude which is making you serious

Osho on Seriousness

Question – beloved master, i love to do t’ai chi and it has become my daily meditation, but i have a tendency to become too serious about it. can you drive out the monkey? Osho – Anand Srajan, it is impossible for anybody to drive the monkey out of your mind, because it does not [...]

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Osho on Jalaluddin Rumi – The dancer disappeared in the dance

Osho on Jalaluddin Rumi

Osho – Rumi does not mean anything, it is a name of a place; because he came from Rum he was called Rumi. His message is love, and he belongs to the highest categories of the Buddhas. He was the man who inverted a new method of meditation, whirling. There have been hundreds of devices; [...]

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Osho – The urge to create is the first stirring of the divine within you

Osho on urge to Create

Question – What is this urge to Create? Osho – The urge to create is the first stirring of the divine within you. The urge to create is the presence of God. You have the first message, the first ripple has reached to you. It is the beginning and the birth of prayer. Follow it. [...]

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Osho – Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it

Osho - Seriousness is illness

Question – Beloved Osho, Why are you not serious? Why are you always joking? Osho – Gunga Prasad, God is not serious — what can I do? God is always joking. Look at your own life — it is a joke! Look at other people’s lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. [...]

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Beloved Osho, Why is it so difficult for me to laugh?

Osho on difficulty to laugh

Question – Beloved Osho, Why is it so difficult for me to laugh? Osho – Sudheer, it must be that you have come here conditioned by wrong people. And the wrong people constitute the majority, almost ninety-nine point nine percent. The religious, the moralists, the puritans — they are all serious people. They destroy the [...]

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Osho – Enlightened person is always joyous, but the tradition, the convention cannot be joyous

Osho on Enlightened person

Osho – if you have heard of any sad and serious people becoming enlightened, then either they were not sad and serious or you have heard wrong. Serious and sad people become something else, they don’t become enlightened. They become popes, Mother Teresas, Mahatma Gandhis, Morarji Desais, SHANKARACHARYAS, Ayatollah Khomaniacs, IMAMS, priests. The churches, the [...]

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swami rajneesh on dance – you can dance your way to god

swami rajneesh on dance

question: you talked about dancing… could it be anywhere with anyone or by our own self ? swami rajneesh: anywhere everywhere ! anything anyhow ! just dance ! just dance with the breeze…with the stars with the moon…with the sun…with the trees it is so infectious ! dance with the bamboos with the trees in [...]

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Osho – Is it possible for a playful mind to be a Plastic surgeon or a Scientist

Question – Osho, You emphasize Playfulness, Leela. But is it possible for a playful mind to be a Plastic surgeon or a Scientist? Osho – The question is from Prem Leeladhar. He is a plastic surgeon, hence the question. REMEMBER that all that has ever been invented in the world has been invented out of [...]

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Osho – Christ’s message is rejoice and be merry

Question – Beloved Master, Why do I feel sadness about Christmas when the whole message is rejoice and be merry? Osho – Vachana, Christ’s message IS rejoice and be merry. But that is not the message of Christianity. Christianity’s message is: be sad, long faces, look miserable; the more miserable you look, the more saintly [...]

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Osho – My Sannyasins celebrate death because they celebrate life

Question – Beloved Osho, I have heard that your Sannyasins Celebrate Death. Osho – Paul, you have heard rightly! My sannyasins celebrate everything. Celebration is the foundation of my sannyas — not renunciation but rejoicing; rejoicing in all the beauties, all the joys, all that life offers, because this whole life is a gift of [...]

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Osho – In Japan, a great mystic, Hotei, is called the laughing Buddha

Osho on Hotei

Osho – In Japan, a great mystic, Hotei, is called the laughing Buddha. He is one of the most loved mystics in Japan, and he never uttered a single word. As he became enlightened, he started laughing, and whenever somebody would ask, Why are you laughing? he would laugh more. And he would move from [...]

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Osho – Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious.

Osho on Laughter Seriousness

Osho – Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others — the [...]

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Osho – Meditation is just a situation; silence is not going to be the consequence of it

Osho on Meditation Silence

Osho – Meditation is just a situation; silence is not going to be the consequence of it. No, meditation is just creating the soil, the surrounding, preparing the ground. The seed is there, it is always there; you need not put in the seed, the seed has always been with you. That seed is Brahma; [...]

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Osho – I am always responsible for whatsoever I am. Bliss or Misery, this is my Choice

Osho – Life has the potential to become a song of bliss, but there is every possibility of missing it too. It is not a certainty, there is no inevitability about it. It depends: you can make it, you can destroy it. Out of one hundred, ninety-nine point nine percent of people destroy their song [...]

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Osho Video : Absolutely Free to Be Funny

Osho – I Love to Disturb People. In a series of excerpts from an interview with Jeff McMullen of Australia’s “60 Minutes” Osho offers a series of one-liners about Gandhi, Hitler, the Pope and Mother Teresa — and goes on from there to talk about his reputation for being controversial, contradictory, and, in the words [...]

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Osho – That’s my whole Teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration

Osho Teachings - Celebration

Osho – That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration. When you worship, you start making a hierarchy; the lower and the higher. When you worship you put something on top of other things. When you worship, something becomes sacred and something becomes profane. When you worship you divide, you split existence. Then something [...]

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Osho – This feeling, that something is missing, is True because something is missing

Osho on feeling of missing something

[A sannyasin says that although everything is fine he feels he is still missing something, maybe laughter.] Osho – That feeling of missing something continues to the very end; it goes only at the last moment. You are not missing anything really, mm? – you are growing rightly, you ate moving in the right direction. [...]

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Osho – Life should be a sweet song but man has made it very bitter, very ugly

Osho - Life a Sweet Song

[A sannyasin had sent Osho some photos of his stone sculptures; stone arrangements.] Osho – I looked at your stone sculpture – beautiful! In the new commune you will have to do a few things. When the new commune is ready you have to plan a small place for your statues. Just make as many [...]

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Osho on Jazz Music, Osho on Classical and Jazz Music

Osho on Jazz Music

Question : Beloved Master, we have heard your comments about jazz music. Beloved Master, this question comes from two jazz musicians: Is our love of jazz music an obstacle on the path to enlightenment? Osho : Satyam and Dhyanesh, my comments about jazz music were made in a totally different context. Compared to classical music, jazz [...]

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Osho on Boredom Repetitive Life, Osho on Boring Life

Osho on Boring Life

Question : BELOVED OSHO, HOW IS ONE TO OVERCOME BOREDOM? HOW CAN ONE REDISCOVER MYSTERY IN THINGS THAT HAVE BECOME BORING, REPETITIVE, DEMYSTIFIED? Osho : The first thing to remember is that it is not that things are repetitive – it is your mind, not the things. The sun rises every day, you can say [...]

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Osho on Hippie way of life, Osho on Wandering Hippies

Osho on Wandering Hippies

Question : BELOVED OSHO, DO YOU FEEL THAT THE HIPPIE WAY OF LIFE – A LIFE OF NONACHIEVING, ALL PLAY AND NO WORK, LIVING FOR THE MOMENT, WANDERING ABOUT INSTEAD OF REMAINING IN ONE PLACE – IS BETTER FOR A SPIRITUAL SEEKER THAN THE USUAL LIFE OF MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND CAREER? Osho : The first [...]

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