Osho on Living Totally

Osho – Religion is living. Living totally, living intensely, without any purpose

Osho - Religion is living

Question – Bhagwan, what purpose does your philosophy or religion give for life — for the existence of anything at all? Osho – First it is not right to make religion and philosophy synonymous. They are two totally different things. Philosophy is thinking about life, its purpose, its goal, but it is only thinking. Religion [...]

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Osho – You cling to life because your life is unfulfilled

Osho on Clinging to Life

Osho – if you want to abide always and always, you have not lived the moment. One who has lived his life truly, authentically, one who has enjoyed it, is always ready to die, is always ready to leave. One who has not enjoyed and celebrated, one who has not lived the moment, the life, [...]

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Osho – The workaholic is not total in his work. The workaholic is addicted to work

Osho on workaholic person

Question – Our Beloved Master, could you talk about the difference between a workaholic and someone who is total in their work? Osho – Maneesha, the difference is very great. The workaholic is not total in his work. The workaholic is addicted to work, he cannot sit silently. He has to do something; whether it [...]

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Osho on reaction and action, When you react, it can never be total

Osho on reaction and action

Osho – Witnessing is the technique for centering. We discussed centering. A man can live in two ways: he can live from his periphery or he can live from his center. The periphery belongs to the ego and the center belongs to the being. If you live from the ego, you are always related with [...]

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Osho on Living Totally – Unless you experience it totally, you cannot be finished with it

Osho on Living Totally

Osho – Anand means bliss or blissful, and sugatta is a name of buddha. Literally it means well gone, because in india we call those people well-gone who are not going to come back again, who are gone forever. They have gone so well that they will not be returning. It is a beautiful term, [...]

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Osho on holistic approach to life – Totality is possible, perfection is not possible

Osho on holistic approach to life

Question – Many see the work that goes on around you as a model for the holistic approach to life. Please talk about this. Osho – Krishna Prem, the old man is dying. And it is good news that the old man is on his deathbed, because the new can be born only when the [...]

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Osho – People have decided to remain static out of a desire for convenience

Osho on desire for convenience

[A sannyasin, returned from a visit to the West, says it was so difficult for him to readjust there he was unsure whether to come here again.] Osho – It happens many times in life. When your consciousness starts changing you cannot remain in the old pattern any more; you have to change it. In [...]

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Osho – Live in the present. That’s what I mean when I say live dangerously

Osho - To live in danger

Question – Osho, what do you mean by ”live in danger”? Should man not be careful for the future? Please explain it. Osho – Brahma Deo Bharti, To live in danger simply means not to cling to the past, because the past gives you a certain kind of security – because it is familiar, well-known. [...]

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Osho – Whatever you live unconsciously becomes a hangover

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Osho – The first thing to remember is how to drop thoughts and become thoughtless — thoughtless but alert, because in deep sleep also you become thoughtless, and that won’t do. It is good for the body, that is why after a deep sleep your body feels rejuvenated. But the mind remains tired even in [...]

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Osho – Living a holy life means living each moment totally

Osho on Holiness and Living Totally

Osho – The traditional sense of being holy is egoistic. It is a new form of egoism. Somebody is bragging about his money, somebody is bragging out his birth, blood, nobility, aristocracy, somebody is bragging about his political power. And somebody is bragging about his virtues, his prayers, his fasts, his austerities. But it is [...]

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Osho on Being Total – How to be total? How to give Everything?

Osho on Being Total

Question – How to be total? How to give Everything? Osho : VIDYA, ONE CAN BE TOTAL ONLY WHEN ONE IS NOT. Only emptiness can be total. If you are, you can’t be total. Your very presence will be a disturbance in your totality, your very presence will continue interfering with your totality. That’s why [...]

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Osho on Living dangerously – To live dangerously means to live

Osho on Living dangerously

Question – What does it mean to live dangerously? Osho : DANGEROUSLY? To live dangerously means to live. If you don’t live dangerously, you don’t live. Living flowers only in danger. Living never flowers in security; it flowers only in insecurity. If you start getting secure, you become a stagnant pool. Then your energy is [...]

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Osho on Living with Totality – If you want to Live, Live Now

Osho on Living with Totality

Osho – Things are simple. But somehow the mind wants to make them unnecessarily complicated, because unless they are complicated, the mind is not of any use. The mind is useful only when something is complicated — then the mind is needed. When the thing is simple, the mind is not needed at all. And [...]

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Osho on being Total in action and Not to be split, not to be schizophrenic

Osho on being Total in action

Question – Beloved Osho, Can you please talk about what it means to be total? Is it the same as not being split, or is there more to it? Osho – Not to be split, not to be schizophrenic, is only the beginning. And then there is the whole infinity, the whole eternity of ecstasy, [...]

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