Osho on Master – Disciple

Osho on Guru – What makes someone a guru, a spiritual master?

Osho on Guru Spiritual Master

Question – What makes someone a guru, a spiritual master? Osho – When you are not there, when you have completely disappeared, the other becomes an open book to you. The more other-oriented you are, the less you can know what is happening to the other. The more you become self-oriented, the more possibility there [...]

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Osho – Being a disciple means falling in deep love without any motive

Osho on Master Disciple Love

Osho – Love is the most essential quality, the fundamental quality, without which nobody can be a disciple It is easy to be a student — it needs no love, it needs only logic — because the communication between the teacher and the student is from head to head. It is verbal, intellectual, logical. The [...]

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Osho – Whenever the disciple is ready, the master appears

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Osho – Deva means divine, agya means order or commandment – a divine order. Man cannot choose god; it is always god who chooses man. Man cannot enquire on his own, it is impossible. The desire to enquire into truth comes from the beyond; it is an order from above, it is a commandment. And [...]

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Osho – never decide anything when you are in the negative phase

Osho on Negative Phase and decisions

[A sannyasin, who is leaving says: I want to stay open to you. Osho checks his energy.] Osho – It will be difficult for you to remain open always and continuously. Sometimes you will be open and sometimes you will be closed. But that is nothing to be worried about. That is a rhythm, a [...]

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Osho – A Master simply teaches you how to be alert

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Osho – The real Master is not technical, he is simple — because there is no technique to achieve God. God is not somewhere at the end of a technique, no. God is already available to you. You are in God;you just have to shake yourself a little so that you can become a little [...]

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Osho on Kabir’s insistence for a SATGURU — for a true Master

Osho on Kabir

Osho – Real religion is never in the scriptures. And a real religious seeker does not go in search of scriptures, he goes in search of a Master — a living Master. That is one of the basic tenets of Kabir’s understanding: SATGURU — the living Master. Go and search for a living Master! If [...]

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Osho – The very presence of a master is seductive

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Osho – A person who happens to be enlightened will attract you – either your love or your hate. But one thing is certain: you cannot be indifferent to him, because he has gone so deep that his depth will resonate within you, will resound, reflect. His depth will call your depth. He will become [...]

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Osho on Guru – Guru literally means ‘the light’

Osho on Guru

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 any [...]

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Osho – A true guru will never impose himself upon you

Osho on Guru

Osho – The word “guru.” Guru means one who has gravitation, around whom you suddenly feel as if you are being pulled. The guru is a tremendous magnet, with only one’ difference. There is a man who has charisma — you are pulled, ut you are pulled towards him. That is the man of charisma. [...]

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Osho – You don’t surrender to me. You simply surrender your ego

Question – You said nobody should dictate what you should do with your life. How does that fit with being available and surrendering to you? Osho – In the first place I am a nobody. Now listen to the question again. YOU SAID NOBODY SHOULD DICTATE WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Don’t surrender [...]

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Osho – If you feel grateful towards me it is a gratitude of the mind

Question – You’ve said Meditation is a flowering. and for us, the perfume of the flower is gratitude. Is there anything we can do for you? Osho – Yes. Meditation, compassion and gratitude. Whenever you are meditative, you feel blissful; whenever you are in compassion, you feel ecstatic. And then gratitude arises — not towards [...]

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Osho – The meeting with the master has always been a kind of death

Question – Beloved Osho, I am afraid to meet you. trembling, shocked, alone… It means Death. Osho – The meeting with the master has always been a kind of death, death to all that you have been, death to your past, death to your ego, death to your personality. But it is not only death, [...]

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Osho – The word coming out of silence carries around it the wordless silence

Question – Beloved Osho, When I sit in your lecture I feel your silence and feel I become part of it. This is a wordless process in melting more and more into silence. At the same time, there are words from you. I hear them, and suddenly a connection happens from the silence to the [...]

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Osho – What is the difference between a Disciple and a Friend

Question – Beloved Osho, What is the difference between a Disciple and a Friend? Has the transformation amongst the sannyasins already happened? Osho – The distinction between a disciple and a friend has two sides to it. First, from the side of the master it has happened. I don’t have any disciples anymore. You can [...]

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Beloved Osho, What are the qualities of the Seeker of truth?

Osho on Seeker of Truth

Question – Beloved Osho, What are the qualities of the Seeker of truth? Osho – Every child is born with an innate search for truth. It is not something learned or adopted later on in life. Truth simply means, “I am, but I do not know who I am.” And the question is natural — [...]

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Osho – It is not only that you are seeking God — God is also seeking you in many, many ways

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Osho – Many people have been doing that down the centuries. A Buddha comes, a Jesus comes, a Krishna, a Zarathustra — very few, very rarely. Shiko’s are very few — those who understand. Butei exists as the mass; Butei is the many; Butei is the majority, the crowd. Buddha comes and walks; he brings [...]

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Osho – If you flower in compassion you will feel simply grateful, not grateful towards me

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Question – Beloved Osho, you’ve said meditation is a flowering. and for us, the perfume of the flower is gratitude. is there anything we can do for you? Osho – Yes. Meditation, compassion and gratitude. Whenever you are meditative, you feel blissful; whenever you are in compassion, you feel ecstatic. And then gratitude arises — [...]

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Osho – I am simply surrendered to the whole of existence

Osho on Surrender

Question – Beloved Osho, Sometimes it seems as if you are more surrendered to us than we are to you. Please comment. Osho – It is true. I am not surrendered to you, to my people particularly. But because I have got rid of the ego, I am simply surrendered to the whole of existence [...]

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Osho – Beloved Master, What If you are not the Real Master?

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Question – Beloved Master, What If you are not the real Master? Would It still be good for me to be with you? Osho – You are asking about a real master. I am not even a master, so the question of being real or unreal does not arise. This is the same game in [...]

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Osho – If the questioner is in a deep love and trust with the master, then everything is allowed

Question – It has been said that a disciple should have respectful manners and a Respectful attitude towards his Master, but often i feel like asking you Playful, Joking and Naughty questions. Does this indicate lack of Respect And ’Shraddha’, Trust? Osho – It does not depend on the question, it depends on the questioner. [...]

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Osho – Beloved Master, What Does it mean to be a Disciple

Question – Beloved Master, What Does it mean to be a Disciple? Osho – Prem Samadhi, it is one of the most delicate mysteries. No definition is possible of a disciple, but a few hints can be given, just fingers pointing to the moon. Don’t cling to the fingers — look at the moon and [...]

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Osho on Awakened Master – How will you recognize the real Awakened person

Osho – If you can find a man who is awakened, who is really virtuous and wise, whose virtue is not only a cultivated facade but a spontaneous fragrance, whose wisdom is no longer knowledge, whose wisdom is his own authentic experience… if you can find such a person, then go with him joyfully, wholeheartedly, [...]

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