Osho on Knowledge Knowing

Osho – Knowing means that you have seen it with your own eyes

Osho on Knowing and Knowledge

Osho – KNOWLEDGE IS not enough, to rely on it is dangerous. Knowledge is borrowed, it is not knowing. Knowing grows with you, knowing is a growth, an evolution, knowledge is implanted within you from me outside, knowledge is borrowed, it is counterfeit. It looks like knowing, it is not. It deceives, it gives you [...]

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Osho – Only self knowledge can make you master of your inner powers

Osho on Self Knowledge

Osho – Only self knowledge can make you master of your inner powers. Only self knowledge fills your life with light, knowledge and splendor. The day you become capable of awakening, or becoming aware, you will realize that you were always a king. You will wonder. You will laugh at your foolishness in considering yourself [...]

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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 – Knowledge, awareness, will awaken you, here and now, to this very moment

Osho on Knowledge

Osho on Sutra “WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS DESTROYED THE DREAM IS SEEN” Osho – If knowledge of the soul does not penetrate you, and if the flame within does not get its fuel, then dreams arise in your life; then desires arise, and your life loses its way and staggers there in the darkness. Then you [...]

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Osho on Knowledge – Knowledge is basically schizophrenic; it creates a split.

Osho on Knowledge

Osho – Knowledge is the curse, the calamity, the cancer. It is through knowledge that man becomes divided from the whole. Knowledge creates the distance. You come across a wildflower in the mountains, you don’t know what it is, your mind has nothing to say about it, the mind is silent. You look at the [...]

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Osho – Mystery will possess you. You cannot possess the Mysterious

Osho - Mystery will possess you

Osho – Don’t become more of an expert in the spiritual search, because the experts are the losers. Don’t become more knowledgeable, become more innocent. Drop all that you know, forget all that you know. Remain wondering, but don’t transform your wondering into questions, because once the wonder is changed into a question, sooner or [...]

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Osho – A knowledgeable person is almost hidden behind his knowledge

Osho on A knowledgeable person

Osho – Knowing always becomes knowledge — and you have to be alert not to allow it. One of the most delicate situations on the path of a seeker: knowing always becomes knowledge — because the moment you have known something, your mind collects it as knowledge, as experience. Knowing is a process. Knowledge is [...]

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Osho – The only thing in life which cannot be borrowed is truth

Osho on Truth and Lies

Osho – Man lives in lies. He believes they are the only truth. And once you believe in a certain lie you make it a truth. But it is an invented truth, and it cannot liberate you and it cannot help you to know god — because truth is another name for god. People are [...]

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Osho – If you have the courage to be ignorant

Osho on courage to be ignorant

Osho – Man is caught in a universal deception. And when everybody is caught in the same deception, it becomes difficult to see. You have to find out if the clothes of knowledge – which you have thought of as clothes – are really clothes, or are you standing naked in invisible clothes? You have [...]

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Osho on Knowledge and Knowing – Knowing is alive; knowledge is dead

Osho on Knowledge and Knowing

Osho – The rishi says that knowledge must cease, because only then is knowing possible. Knowledge means the accumulation of dead experiences – of your own, or of others, but knowledge means the dead past. Knowledge is always of the past. Knowing is always here and now, and knowledge is always of the past. The [...]

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Osho – What is wrong with knowing more and more about God?

Osho on knowing more about God

Question: Beloved Master, What is wrong with knowing more and more about God? Can it not help the seeker? Osho – Kamalesh, knowing and knowledge are different. I am all for knowing and I am all against knowledge. Knowing is your insight, it is your capacity to see, it is philosia. Knowledge is philosophy. It [...]

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Osho on Truth – Truth is not as difficult as it appears

Osho on Truth

Osho – All knowledge is borrowed. Truth is never borrowed, truth cannot be borrowed. Nobody can give it to you, nobody can take it away from you either. But knowledge can be given and taken. The universities knowledge, and the mystery schools deal in truth. But because truth cannot be given the whole methodology has [...]

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Osho – Enlightenment is true knowing, is divine knowing

Osho on knowledge enlightenment

Osho -Animals don’t know. Man knows but his knowing is only information, accumulation of facts, accumulation of theories, ideologies, philosophies — it is all borrowed. And the borrowed always becomes a burden. It never brings freedom. By ‘divine knowing’ I mean you have to know your own. You are not to become knowledgeable. Knowledgeability is [...]

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Osho on True Knowledge – True knowledge has to happen within you

Osho on True Knowledge

Osho – Knowledge borrowed from others is untrue, knowledge gathered from the outside is untrue. It hides your ignorance but it does not make you wise. It covers up your wounds but it does not heal. In a way it is very dangerous because one tends to forget one’s wounds, and the wounds go on [...]

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Osho on Knowledge and Knowing, Knowledge makes you schizophrenic.

Osho on Knowledge and Knowing

Osho – All that you know, all that you think of as knowledge is rubbish. Know it as rubbish and drop it. All that is borrowed, all that is learned from others — and all that you know is learned from others — has to be dropped. It is humiliating: to carry it and to [...]

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Osho – Self Knowledge is liberation, Knowledge is liberation

Osho on Self Knowledge

Osho : Like this, such things are given which have no value. You give away in charity that which is useless. You do not have to make much effort to fast – it is only a little trouble to the body. You can do austerities also because it satisfies your ego. But the one and [...]

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Osho on Knowledge, Knowing and man of Knowledge

Osho on Knowledge Knowing

Osho : All knowledge is belief. Knowing is not belief, it is KNOWING. It is your perception it is your vision it is your growth. It is just like the mother – the child grows in her womb, she knows, the child is HER PART, her own extension, her own being, blood and bone. A [...]

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Osho on Real Knowledge and knowing

Osho discourse on real knowledge and knowing

Osho : Unless the knowledge is your own, there will always be a rift between what you know and what you do. Because whatsoever you do cannot be transformed by knowledge gathered from others; it cannot be changed by borrowed knowledge. It changes only when your insight flowers. It is difficult to have a synthetic, [...]

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Osho on Memorizing the Scriptures and Real Knowledge

Osho on Memorizing the Scriptures and Real Knowledge

Osho : Memorizing the scriptures means that you are committing theft. You are stealing the knowledge hidden in the scriptures; you did not get it by your own effort or hard work. It is all borrowed and stale, you are just holding on to the other person’s knowledge. Don’t construct your building on it. Its [...]

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