Osho on Happiness

Osho – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?

Question – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything? Osho – Joy is not allowed; you are preconditioned against joy. From the very childhood you have been taught that if you are happy then something is wrong — unhappy, everything is good. If you are miserable nobody is worried about it, but if you [...]

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Osho – Happiness cannot be sought, you cannot seek it

Question – Why am i still not happy? Osho – Because you still are, and because you are still chasing happiness. Happiness cannot be sought, you cannot seek it. It is a by-product, it is a natural consequence. If you make a goal out of happiness you will never find it, you will always miss [...]

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Osho – Once one starts accepting and respecting oneself, life starts changing

[A sannyasin who has just arrived says: I feel better.] Osho – Mm Mm, you are better and you will become better every day. One just has to accept the idea that one can be better and one starts becoming better. People are very miserly in accepting happiness; nothing else is a barrier. It is [...]

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Osho – The ego remains eternally unhappy, and the being is eternally happy

[A sannyasin says she has been feeling so full and so empty at the same time.] Osho – That is precisely what happens – fullness and happiness come together. If they don’t come together, then something has gone wrong. You are empty of yourself and full of the beyond. Something disappears leaving a space, and [...]

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Osho – Each person is potentially a god – nobody is less than that

[A seeker said that he had an experience following Kundalini meditation that had given him a great sense of joy. He had gazed at a tree and had become so filled with its beauty, so full of joy, that he felt he could not contain his feelings, and he became afraid. Osho said that one’s [...]

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Osho on Unhappiness – Unhappiness is the incapacity to understand life

Question – ‘Happiness is not being smart enough to know what to worry about.’ Please comment. Osho – This must have been said by a very unhappy man, and yet a very egoistic one. He cannot recognise the fact that unhappiness is created by being unintelligent. He is trying to save his ego. He is [...]

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Osho on Unhappiness – Unhappiness depends on the frame of your mind

Osho – If you are unhappy, that simply means that you have learned tricks for being unhappy, and nothing else. Unhappiness depends on the frame of your mind. There are people who are unhappy in all kinds of situations. They have a certain quality in their mind which transforms everything into unhappiness. If you tell [...]

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