Osho on Fear Fearlessness

Question – Beloved Osho, life is so exciting when i am open to each moment and not asking where it is going to take me next. The problems disappear and nothing can harm me. the moment my mind comes in saying, ”watch out!” the fear arises and life looks dangerous, and i take only calculated [...]

Osho – The universe is not unintelligent. You are not living in a cosmos which has no intelligence. It is pure intelligence that the existence is made of. Call it love, call it silence, call it nothingness, but in everything remember, the tremendous intelligence of existence is always there. And once you have learned the [...]

[Sannyasin says: I got angry and hit the wall. When I found energy did move, it really amazed me. I mean, how can all energy be stopped by fear?] Osho – Fear can stop energy because basically fear is nothing but a shrinking. When you are happy you expand, when you are unafraid you expand. [...]

Question – Beloved Osho, You say fear is the opposite of love. have you any practical or impractical suggestuons how one can drop fear? Osho – Atta, love is existential; fear is only the absence of love. And the problem with any absence is that you cannot do anything directly about it. Fear is like [...]

[A sannyasin who is going to the West says: I’m really scared of leaving. Osho asks: What is the fear? He replies: I don’t know.] Osho – That’s a good kind of fear if you don’t know what exactly it is. That simply means that you are on the verge of something unknown. When the [...]