Osho on Master – Disciple

Osho – The master is recognized through the heart and not through the head

Osho on Master and Scriptures

Osho – Shiva says: THE GURU IS THE WAY. Do not be a way unto yourself or you will spoil everything. First of all, it is a difficult task to find a living person because to surrender to a living person is difficult; the ego gets hurt! So people take greater interest in the scriptures; [...]

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Osho – The master can create a certain atmosphere, a certain energy field

Osho on Master Work

(Meditation is as easy as pie, as Osho tells a new sannyasin, who has been riding a unicycle around the ashram.) Osho – It is slipping out of your mind like a snake slips out of its old skin. It is not a science, it is an art or, to be even more precise, it [...]

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Osho – My real work is not in the day. It is in the night when you are fast asleep snoring

osho on real work

Question – We, in our unawareness and egoistic state, are not always in touch with the master. but is the master always in touch with us? Osho – Yes, because a Master is in touch with all the four layers of you. Your conscious layer is only one of the four layers. But that is [...]

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Osho – You need living Masters who have not yet become myths

Osho on need of Living Masters

Osho – Kabir says: The only thing worth doing is to wake up my mind. The God, the REAL guru, is inside. The word ‘guru’ is untranslatable. Neither does the word ‘teacher’ nor the word ‘Master’ have that beauty. In fact, the phenomenon of the guru is so deeply Indian that no other language of [...]

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Osho – Is it possible to deceive a master?

osho on deceiving a master

Question – Is it possible to deceive a master? Osho- YES, IF THE MASTER WILLS SO. Sometimes the Master wants to be deceived. If it is for your growth, he is ready to do anything – even to be deceived. If that is the only way to help your cheating characteristic to surface, he will [...]

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Osho on Initiation – In initiation, you are more important than the technique

Osho on Initiation

Question – You have been explaining many meditation methods to us. However, Isn’t it true that no method can be all that powerful unless one is initiated into it? Osho – A method becomes qualitatively different when you are initiated into it. I am talking about the methods – you can use them. Once you [...]

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Osho – Unless you are in love with a Master, you will not allow him to wake you up

Osho - Unless you are in love with a Master

Question – How do i find my way? Osho – Rashid, There is no way to be found, and there is no one to find it – and there is no need either. The very idea of the way misleads, misguides. The way is possible only if God is far away; if there is a [...]

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Osho on Egyptian Mystic Dhun-Nun, Surrender means total trust

Osho on Egyptian Mystic Dhun-Nun

Osho – surrendering is enough. It is a sudden method, it can work in a moment, it can explode you in a moment. On the surface it looks easy – that one has not to do anything, just to surrender. Then you do not know what surrendering means. It can mean anything. If the Teacher [...]

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Osho – The disciple has to learn the lesson of let-go with the Master

osho on disciple letgo

Osho – Deva means divine, urdhwa means upward-going – a divine upward-going. Science knows one law, the law of gravitation – that everything falls downwards, that the earth functions like a magnet and pulls things towards itself. Religion knows another kind of law – the law that things can fall upwards too. Religion calls it [...]

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Osho – Disciplehood means that you accept the fact that you know nothing

Osho on Disciplehood

Osho – One can be a disciple only if one drops all knowledge. Disciplehood means that you accept the fact that you know nothing. It begins in a state of not-knowing. If you know then you cannot be a disciple. Then your knowledge will be a constant disturbance and whatsoever you know is nothing but [...]

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Osho – Sometimes when I see you in lecture I just feel angry against you

osho on disciple occasional anger for master

[A sannyasin says: Sometimes when I see you in lecture I just feel angry against you.] Osho – These things are natural. If you love me, you will sometimes be angry too. You cannot only love. When I accept your love I am also accepting your anger. You don’t have pure love, so how can [...]

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Osho – Consciousness is one of those things which you cannot grow quickly

Osho on Joshu and Consciousness

Question – Beloved Osho, On one occasion, Joshu said to his monks: I have single-heartedly practiced zazen in the southern province for thirty years. Osho – He is referring to those thirty years with his master, Nansen. He is saying, ”I have singleheartedly practiced zazen for thirty years continuously, without ever bothering about how far [...]

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Osho on Mastas – Spiritual Mad People

Osho on Mastas

Osho – A parable… Once in the garden of a Master there lived a monkey. And, as monkeys are curious people, he became very curious about the Master. He saw the Master sitting silently, doing nothing, and by and by he started coming close to him – what is this man doing? It was a [...]

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Osho Hasidic Tale of Rabbi Meir – Can the Master really save the disciple?

Osho on Rabbi Meir

Question – Can the Master really save the disciple? Osho – Certainly, absolutely… if the disciple is really a disciple he is already saved. It is not that first you have to be a disciple and then you will be saved – in your very being a disciple you are saved, in your very surrender [...]

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Osho – Beware of the scholars; they are the most stupid people around

Osho - Beware of the scholars

Osho – Beware of the scholars; they are the most stupid people around. But they talk beautifully, and if you are not alert you can be very easily deceived by them. They recite Koran, they recite Bhagavad Gita, they quote the Vedas, the Upanishads, they comment and they interpret, and in a very logical way, [...]

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Osho – The East has respected the Master tremendously

Osho on respect for master in east

Osho – The East has respected the Master tremendously. The West is absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of the Masters. It knows the teachers, it is perfectly aware about the teachers, but not about the Masters. Even people write about jesus as a great teacher – western scholars write about Buddha as a great teacher [...]

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Osho – The only way to be around a Master. Go on losing your mind

Osho - Go on losing your mind

Questions – What happens to my voice when you speak to me? What is the game? Osho – The question is from Somendra. When you are really in communion with me, you cannot speak. When you are really listening to me, you will lose your voice because in that moment I am your voice. The [...]

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Osho – Be my Disciples but not my Followers

Osho - Be my Disciples

Osho – Chuang Tzu always watched monkeys. He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man. And a monkey is hidden in you! This whole world is nothing but a monkey mountain, all around are monkeys. What is the characteristic of a monkey? What is the deepest character in the monkey? [...]

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Osho – If the master becomes a guest within you, your whole life is transformed

Osho on Master Disciple

Osho – All that is needed on the part of the disciple is not to repeat old patterns of many kinds of relationships with the master. Let it be a new relationship which you have never lived. Let it be absolutely untouched by your past. Let it be unique. And that’s why I insist again [...]

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Osho – It is certainly the master who chooses the disciple

osho on master chooses the disciple

Osho – It is certainly the master who chooses the disciple, but his choosing always remains indirect. He always gives a chance to the disciple to choose. The disciple is not even aware that he has been already chosen. But without the master choosing the disciple, there is no way for the disciple to choose [...]

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Osho – To live purposelessly is the way of being religious

Osho on Religious person life

[A visitor says he is confused about the master-disciple relationship. He doesn't know if he is ready for the spiritual path.] Osho – Mm mm. A few things…. First: there is no purpose in life. All search for purpose is bound to fail. To live purposelessly is the way of being religious; religion is not [...]

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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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