Devotion Mantra Prayer

Osho – Jesus’ prayer is almost childish. That’s the beauty of it

Osho on Jesus Prayer

Question – Will you please explain to me the Lord’s Prayer, as given by Jesus? Osho – MEDITATION CAN BE EXPLAINED, prayer never. It can be understood, but it cannot be explained. Prayer is something of the heart, very elusive, very indefinable. You can feel it, but you cannot think it. That is part of [...]

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Osho – Can the doors of heaven be opened by money?

Osho on Wealth and Learning

Osho – Prayer does not depend on what you say; it depends, rather, on what you are. Worship depends not on what you do but what you are. Religion is involved not with your actions but with you existence. If love is at the center of your being there will be prayer at your periphery. [...]

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Osho on Sadhana on Aum Mantra

Osho on Sadhana on Aum Mantra

Question – In doing sadhana on aum, is it better to repeat it like a mantra or to try to hear it as an inner sound? Osho – The mantra Aum has to be done in three stages. First, you should repeat it very loudly. That means it should come from the body — first [...]

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Osho on Bhajans (singing divine songs) – Bhajan is a continuous remembrance

Osho on Bhajan

Osho – You will see lots of people doing bhajan, singing the song of the divine, but they are not really doing bhajan. They are doing it very superficially. It may be a sort of recreation for them as they have not staked their life. It may be just an enjoyment for them, and this [...]

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Osho – Become so totally a slave of the goddess or god of love that you become one with it

Osho

Osho – Mallik is a name for God, a Sufi name. It means exactly what the English word ”lord” means – the master of all. Love is the god or the goddess, because there is nothing higher than love. Love is the supreme-most experience. Everything else is in the service of love. Love is nobody’s [...]

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Osho on helplessness – It is good to feel helpless, Prayer arises out of helplessness

Osho on helplessness

[A sannyasin said that Ma Vipassana who is seriously ill is his friend; he would like to do something but feels helpless.] Osho – It is good to feel helpless… prayer arises out of helplessness. And that helplessness will help your ego to drop. If you can do something in every situation then the ego [...]

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Osho on Prayer – PRAYER is not a technique, it is not a ritual

Osho on Prayer

Question: How should I Pray? I don’t know how to properly express this love that I feel into Prayer Osho - PRAYER is not a technique, it is not a ritual, it is not a formality. There is no pattern to it. It is a spontaneous outpouring of the heart, so don’t ask how, because there [...]

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Osho – Focus yourself within on the worshipper

osho on worshipper

Osho – Mind cannot comprehend him, but he can comprehend the mind. Mind is included in him – everything is included; even the stone is included in him. But the stone cannot include him: this is the point. Draw a big circle and then draw a small circle in it. The big circle includes the [...]

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Osho on Prayer, Prayer needs a poetic heart, a loving heart

Osho on Prayer

Question – What is Prayer? Osho – Prayer is wonder, reverence. Prayer is receptivity for the miracle that surrounds you. Prayer is surrender to the beauty, to the grandeur to this fantastic existence. Prayer is non-argumentative dialogue with existence. It is not a discussion… it is a love-dialogue. You don’t argue… you simply whisper sweet [...]

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Osho – What is the difference between Surrender and Blind Faith or Belief?

Osho on Faith Surrender

Question – What is the difference between Surrender and Blind Faith or Belief? Osho – MANY THINGS HAVE TO BE UNDERSTOOD. First, the difference between faith and belief, and second, the difference between surrender and faith. Belief is always blind and cannot be otherwise. Belief, as such, is blind. No belief is possible if you [...]

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Osho speaks on Tibetan mantra “Om Mani Padme Hum.”

Osho speaks on the Tibetan mantra “Om Mani Padme Hum.” The only country in the world which has devoted all its genius to the inner exploration is Tibet. Its findings are of tremendous value. Om mani padme hum is one of the most beautiful expressions for the ultimate experience. Its meaning is “the sound of [...]

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Osho – When you are repeating a mantra you are using the Mind

Osho on Repeating a Mantra

[A visitor says he has been meditating here but prefers passive meditations – like TM that he has been doing for some time. He wonders if he should keep using a mantra or just watch his breath: I feel just as good not using a mantra – to do it with my breath is just [...]

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Osho – Anger is just the opposite of Prayer. To live in an angry way is to live without Prayer

Osho on Prayer

Osho – Man can live in a violent way. That’s how many people live: aggressive – aggressive with others, aggressive with themselves. And those who are aggressive with others and with themselves are bound to be aggressive with existence itself. The relationship between you and the existence is impossible if any kind of aggression remains [...]

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Osho – The devotee’s vision is the greatest vision

Osho on devotee’s vision

Osho – When a scientist looks at a certain thing he looks with a rational eye; he wants to know what it is. When a poet looks at the same thing he looks with the aesthetic eye; he wants to enjoy it. When a devotee looks at the same thing he looks with the eye [...]

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Osho – Music is not of the mind. Mind is a jarring note in music, a distraction

Osho on Music

[A sannyasin brought his guitar to darshan and sang and played to Osho. He sang a song full of hare krishnas and LSD, kama sutras and cosmic consciousness. Osho commented that it was good, but could have been better.... ] Osho – You bring too much of the mind in; it should be more of [...]

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Osho – God’s creativity is continuous; there is no rest.

Osho on God and Creativity

Osho – It is not only that God created existence in the beginning. He continuously creates it, the creativity is a continuum. It has never stopped. In fact there was no beginning and there will be no end. God is more creativity than a creator. Each moment He is at work. There has never been [...]

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Osho – God can be Worshipped either out of Fear or out of Love

Osho – God can be worshipped either out of fear or out of love. If the worship is out of fear it is false, it is a sheer wastage of time. The worship is true and significant only when it is out of love, when it is out of bliss, when it is out of [...]

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Osho on Tibet Problem and Tibetan Mantra Om Mani Padme Hum

Osho on Tibet Problem

Question – Beloved Master, would you like to say something about the famous Tibetan Mantra, ”Om Mani Padme Hum”? Osho – Maneesha, the only country in the world which has devoted all its genius to the inner exploration is Tibet. Its findings are of tremendous value. Om mani padme hum is one of the most [...]

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Osho on Meera, Indian woman Mystic Meera

Osho on Meera

Osho : Meera is a launching place for your pilgrimage. Her scripture is the scripture of love. Perhaps calling it scripture is not right. Take Narada’s BHAKTI SUTRAS — sutras of devotion — that is scripture. There one finds reasoning, method, fixed precepts. It is a system of devotion. Meera herself IS devotion. You won’t [...]

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Osho on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Transcendental Meditation

Osho on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Transcendental Meditation

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Osho : I do not mean that you have to repeat the words ”I am,” rather, have the feeling. Taking a bath, feel ”I am.” Let there be the touch of the cold shower, and let yourself be there behind, feeling it and remembering ”I am.” Remember, I am not saying that [...]

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Osho on Ramakrishna Bhakti (Devotion) Approach

Osho on Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna Paramhansa Question : Ramakrishna said that the bhakti approach is the most suitable for this age. Is that so? Osho : No. Ramakrishna said that bhakti yoga was the most suitable approach because it was the most suitable for him. That is the basic window through which he came under the sky. It is [...]

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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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