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Osho – When the poetry is born, then the poet is born

Osho on Poetry and Poets

Question – For ten years i have identified myself as a poet. but since i took sannyas ten days ago it has become unimportant to me whether or not i ever write another verse, even though i have often heard you praise the poet. what has happened? Osho – The first thing: you cannot be [...]

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Osho on Music – Music is certainly next to silence

Osho on Music Silence Meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, Would you please explain your statement from the other morning of how music can be next to silence? Osho – Milarepa, I don’t know what I said the other morning — I don’t carry unnecessarily luggage from the past. But I will explain it to you this morning, in spite of [...]

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Osho – People have more leisure — that is another thing. But what do they do with their leisure?

osho on leisure time

Question – As a child, sundays have been something very special to me. Now, since a few days, i wake up every morning and go out, see the sun shining through the trees, hear the birds singing and get this feeling, ‘ah, another sunday.’ I put on my best clothes and have sunday for the [...]

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Osho on difference in chaotic music and the shake or rock music of the west

Osho on rock music

Question – In reference to the meditation techniques based on sounds, please explain the difference between the chaotic music played in your dynamic meditation and the shake or rock music of the west. Osho – Your mind is in chaos. That chaos has to be brought out, acted out. Chaotic music can be helpful, so [...]

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Osho – Real music is born out of a silent mind. Real music is meditation manifested

Osho on Real Music

Question – Beloved Osho, What is the difference between music and the gymnastics of music? in the last couple of years my experience has been of frantic non-harmonious music. instead of feeling silent and meditative, i am getting tendonitis in my arms from drumming. Can you comment? Osho – The difference is simple, just the [...]

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Osho on Poetry and Poet – Mohammed’s words are poetry, pure poetry

Osho on Poetry and Poet

Question – Is poetry the voice of wonder, or an avoidance of moving closer to the source, a sensuous lingering? Osho – Samarpan, it all depends on the poet. Poetry is simply a flowering, an outpouring of the heart of the poet. On a rosebush there will be a rose flower; it depends on the [...]

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Osho on Creativity – Creativity is simply the presence of God

Osho on Creativity

QUESTION – WHAT IS CREATIVITY? DOES IT CORRESPOND MORE TO THE PATH OF AWARENESS OR TO THE PATH OF LOVE? OR IS IT A CHILD OF BOTH? OSHO – Anand Kirti, CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs [...]

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Osho on Pythagoras vision – Pythagoras has contributed much to human thought

Osho on Pythagoras vision

OSHO – PYTHAGORAS ALSO INTRODUCED THE WORD ‘COSMOS’. ‘Cosmos’ means order, rhythm, harmony. Existence is not a chaos but a cosmos. Pythagoras has contributed much to human thought, to human evolution. His vision of a cosmos became the very foundation of scientific investigation. Science can exist only if existence is a cosmos. If it is [...]

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Osho – All creative people are crazy people — they live in a frenzy

Osho on problem with creative people

Question – [A sannyasin says: Whenever I do any kind of creative work, like writing or preparing a class, a tremendous tension builds up and I get all this nervous energy that I can't apply to my writing. So I start straightening the room or doing anything to kill time. If somebody walks by I [...]

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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 on Spiritual Painting – A painting can be sexual, erotic. A painting can be spiritual.

Osho on Spiritual Painting

[A sannyasin who is an artist, was leaving for a few months to organise some exhibitions for his work. Osho said that his meditation was going well, but into his work he should also try to bring a meditative dimension.... ] Osho – just paint with the idea that if somebody looks at the painting, [...]

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Osho on music – The seven notes of music are concerned with the seven chakras

Osho on music and chakras

[A sannyasin said that he had decided some time ago to dedicate his life to music. He went on to say that he played drums and had been part of a group in Australia.] Osho – Really devote yourself to it… religiously devote yourself. Sacrifice your whole being. Music is a very subtle meditation. The [...]

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Osho on Vincent Van Gogh Paintings – Power is a way to repress your inferiority complex

Osho on Vincent Van Gogh

Osho – Bliss makes one victorious. Money cannot make one victorious; at the most It covers up your property It does not make you rich, remember. It simply helps you to forget your poverty, That’s all — poverty remains, persists But becomes repressed. Wealth is a way to repress poverty Power is a way To [...]

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Osho on Shastri Sangeet – Indian classical music is the mathematics of sound

Osho on Indian classical music

[A visitor says he has been learning Shastri Sangeet from a guru in Bombay but he is not satisfied with it; the technique is becoming strong but not the emotional side.] Osho – And don’t you feel strong enough to start doing it on your own?… Not yet? Because there is a problem in it. [...]

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Osho – Man’s creativity is fulfilled only when paradise is created inside

Osho on paradise

Osho – Prem Lili. Prem means love, lili has many meanings; it is a very pregnant word. The most ancient meaning, the original meaning, is paradise. The lily represents paradise; it represents something of the beyond. It is of the earth and yet not of the earth. It is so divine, its beauty is so [...]

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Osho on Poetry and Silence – I am in immense love with Poetry

Osho on Poetry and Silence

Osho – Words are inadequate. When you really have something to say they are always inadequate. When you have nothing to say they are very adequate…. Knowing this, one can do two things: either one can become a poet or one can go into silence. And my suggestion is that to go into silence is [...]

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Osho on Painting as Meditation – How to make Painting a Meditation

Osho on Painting as Meditation

[A sannyasin asks how to make his hobby of painting a meditation.] Osho – Art is meditation. Any activity becomes meditation if you are lost in it. So don’t just remain a technician. If you are just a technician then painting will never become meditation. You have to be crazily into it, madly into it, [...]

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Osho – A sannyasin has to remember not to take anything for granted

Osho on Sannyasin and Existence

Osho – Existence loves us all. We are here, that is enough proof, otherwise we would not have been here at all; we have been chosen to be by existence. It is not our choice, we have not created ourselves; it is the decision on the part of the whole. And existence goes on nourishing [...]

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Osho on Eroticism, Erotic art of Khajuraho Konarak Puri Ajanta Ellora and West

Osho on Erotic art of Khajuraho

Question – Beloved Osho, in the west, the portrayal of woman’s body is used in films, books and magazines. This art form is known as ‘eroticism’. Through the sculptures of khajuraho and ajanta i have seen that a similar art form was there in the east. Can you talk about the difference between these two [...]

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Osho on Buddha Statues – Watching a Buddha statue is watching a Yantra

Osho on Buddha Statues

Question – While in an art museum in frankfurt recently, i entered one room with nothing but statues and carvings of buddha. I put absolutely no faith in stone idols, but i was surprised to feel a very strong energy current in the room, similar to what i feel here in the lecture. Was i [...]

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Osho – If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative

Osho on Love and Creativity

Osho – If you are in love you are naturally, spontaneously, creative; if you are not in love you are not only uncreative, you become destructive. Millions of people live without love; hence there is so much destruction in the world, so much anger, violence, hatred. Very rarely do you come across a person who [...]

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Osho on Intelligence and Intellect, Intelligence is certainly creative

Osho on Intelligence and Intellect

Osho – Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconscious phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other. It is bound to be so, it is doomed to be wrong, because it is a [...]

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