Christianity and Christ

Osho – Christ is totally different from Christianity

Osho on Christianity and Christ

Question – A single session of your dynamic meditation has left within me a greater bliss and sense of being than twenty years of having had to listen to the stories of the new testament and to pray to an almighty and distant god who stayed an unexperienceable godot to me. Is it possible that [...]

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Osho – Jesus loved. That was one of his crimes: that he loved.

Osho on Jesus Love

Question – It is believed that Christ was the first politician of love in that he tried to save the world before he had saved himself, and that we are his children: politicians of love, seeking heaven on earth. Osho – Politician, and Christ? Politics and love are impossible to be together. Love is anti-political; [...]

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Osho – Jesus never created guilt in people. That was one of his crimes

Osho - Jesus never created guilt in people

Question – Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, So jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Osho – Fear and guilt are not the same thing. Fear accepted becomes freedom; fear denied, rejected, condemned, becomes guilt. If you accept fear as part of the situation…. [...]

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Osho – Never believe in a God who is separate from His creatures and the creation

Osho on God Creation

Osho – ONCE UPON A TIME, two explorers came to a clearing in the jungle. It was a beautiful place — thousands and thousands of flowers were blossoming. One of the explorers said, “There must be a gardener tending these flowers, looking after this plot.” He was a believer. The other disagreed and said, “I [...]

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Osho – Jesus committed the crime of being happy. That was his only crime

Osho on Jesus Crime

Osho – RELIGION CAN BE HEALTHY — as healthy as a new born babe, as healthy as the songs of the birds in the morning, as healthy as a newly opening lotus. Or religion can be ill, diseased, dying — just like an old man: shrinking, sad, moving.into death. When religion is young, it has [...]

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Osho – When Jesus touched the feet of his disciples, love touched their feet

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Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth – “THEN COMETH HE TO SIMON PETER, AND PETER SAITH UNTO HIM: LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET?” Osho – It doesn’t look appropriate.’Dost thou wash MY feet? It is okay if I wash yours; you are our Lord, our Master.’ A question arises in the mind of the disciple [...]

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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 – When Jesus was here, God existed. When Jesus disappears, God disappears

Osho - When Jesus was here

Osho – I AM A DRUNKARD. You may believe it or not, but I am a drunkard. You can look into my eyes and you can see it — I. am drunk with Jesus. And Jesus is a wine; he is not a man, he’s an intoxication. And once you have tasted of him, then [...]

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Osho – Conversion does not mean a change of religion; it means a change of consciousness

Osho on Conversion

Osho – Meditation means a state of no-mind — where all the functioning of the mind has ceased. The moment the functioning of the mind ceases you have a profound silence such that you have never known before, such clarity, such transparency — because all the clouds are gone, all the smoke is gone, there [...]

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Osho – I would not like my people to be like Christian missionaries

Osho on Christian missionaries

Question – Beloved Osho, More than anything else i want your vision to happen. When i am not with you, and i am out in the world, alone, What part can i play in helping your vision to happen? Osho – Just be yourself, utterly yourself. And never think in terms of how you can [...]

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Osho – The Christian way of being humble, modest, selfless, is basically wrong

Osho on Humbleness

Question – Beloved Osho, What is the difference between the christian way of being selfless, modest and humble, and your way of being egoless and ordinary? Osho – The Christian way of being humble, modest, selfless, is basically wrong. The words they are using may sound exactly the same as I use, but they don’t [...]

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Osho on Transformation of Sex Energy

Osho on Transformation of Sex Energy

QUESTION – BELOVED OSHO, WOULD YOU TALK TO US ABOUT USING OUR SEXUAL ENERGY FOR GROWTH, AS IT SEEMS TO BE ONE OF OUR MAIN PREOCCUPATIONS IN THE WEST. OSHO – Sex is the energy. So I will not say sexual energy — because there is no other energy. Sex is the only energy you [...]

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Osho on Jesus Christ Miracles – Jesus miracles happened because people were very trusting

Osho on Jesus Christ Miracles

Osho – A disease, any disease, first arises deep in the mind and then moves towards the body. It may take a long time to come to the body, it is a long distance. You are not aware of it when it is in the mind, you become aware of it only when it strikes [...]

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Osho – Belief is a repression of doubt and faith is an expression of trust

Osho on Belief and Faith

Osho – Faith is not belief. Many people misinterpret faith as belief. Religious people misinterpret it, anti-religious people misinterpret it; both are agreed on one thing, that faith means belief. Faith does not mean belief at all. Belief is of the head and faith is of the heart — they belong to two different centres, [...]

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Osho – Once the energy becomes vertical you are joined to god

Osho on Vertical energy

Osho – Meditation means becoming absolutely silent, still, serene, as if nothing moves inside, everything stops — the mind, time. There comes a full stop to all movement. In that full stop, when the ordinary movement of the mind stops, you start moving into a now dimension. The ordinary movement of the mind is horizontal. [...]

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Osho – Jesus says again and again,’Who is my family? — those who have understood me

Osho on Jesus Christ Words

Osho – Trust is the greatest thing in the world that can happen to a man, because it is the most impossible thing. To trust somebody else is almost impossible, because doubt continues. Howsoever you trust, the other is the other. Who knows? How can you penetrate the other? You can at the most know [...]

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Osho – If I bring some clarity to you, then you have seen me and you have recognized me

Osho on recognizition

Question – How can i see you, how can i recognize you, Osho? Osho – An ancient saying: When the sun rises we know this, not by staring at it, but because we can see everything ELSE clearly. HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE SUN? You don’t stare at the sun – you look at the [...]

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Osho – Unless words come out of silence they are dead

Osho on silence and words

Osho – If you can be eloquent but cannot be silent your eloquence is meaningless. Unless words come out of silence they are dead. Unless words come out of your inner emptiness they are not full. When words come out of your inner emptiness they carry a fullness; when they come out of your silence, [...]

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Osho – Unless you know, never feel at ease with words, doctrines, scriptures

Osho - Unless you know

Osho – Buddha has used the word, ”mindfulness” – samyak smriti, right mindfulness. He says whatsoever you are doing, do it mindfully; don’t do it in sleep, do it mindfully – whatsoever you are doing. Do it consciously, then consciousness begins to crystallize in the first state, wakefulness. When you have become conscious, when you [...]

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Osho – Truth comes to a consciousness which is neither moral nor immoral

Osho on Truth and Consciousness

Osho – Truth is beyond structure. It comes only when you are in an unstructured state of consciousness. It comes only when there is no expectation for it, not even preparation for it, because all preparation is expectation. Truth comes unawares, truth comes as a surprise. You cannot manage and manufacture it; it comes when [...]

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Osho – You have to eat Jesus, you have to drink Jesus

osho on surrender and jesus christ

Osho – Once surrender has happened completely, the master becomes the door for you. Then a different world of light, life and bliss opens — satchitananda Hindus have called it. The true existence, the true consciousness, and the true bliss, satchitananda, becomes possible for you. The master becomes the door, and once you have attained [...]

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Osho – Love is possible only in the climate of egolessness

Osho on Egolessness and Love

Osho – Love is possible only in the climate of egolessness. With the ego love cannot grow. Ego is like a rock and love is like a rose flower: if you put a rock on the rose bush there is no possibility of its growing, no possibility of roses ever flowering. The ego can do [...]

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