Osho on Mind

Osho – The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it

Osho - mind is a chattering box

Osho – The mind is a chattering box. You cannot stop it. The very effort to stop it gives it more nourishment to go on. Millions of people, for centuries have been trying to stop it, and they have all failed, for the simple reason that the desire to stop it is also part of [...]

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Osho – May way is the way of meditation: Neither of head nor of heart

osho my way of meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, your way is the way of the heart, and the outside world is the way of the head. Will it ever be possible that man can function from a blend of both head and heart, or must the two always remain totally divorced? will it always be essential to make a [...]

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Osho – Never repent about the past because that is again wasting the present

Osho on Repenting about Missing Past

Question – Beloved Osho, my mind, the monster, distracts me even when i’m sitting in discourse. It simply takes over and thinks all sorts of silly thoughts and by the time discourse is over i get the feeling i missed another golden opportunity to be with you, drink from you, tune in with you. This [...]

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Osho on Imagination, Remember to avoid any kind of imagination — all imagination

Osho on Imagination

Question – Beloved Osho, the other morning before lecture, i suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to touch, with great gratitude, the floor where you walk. in that moment, i heard again that voice — it still sounds like your voice: “if you can kiss in gratitude the place on earth where i have stepped… i [...]

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Osho on Left and Right Brain (left hemisphere and right hemisphere)

Osho on Left and Right Brain

Osho – Being is one, the world is many…and between the two is the divided mind, the dual mind. It is just like a big tree, an ancient oak: the trunk is one, then the tree divides into two main branches, the main bifurcation, from which a thousand and one bifurcations of branches grow. The [...]

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Osho – Mind is the barrier. No-mind is the door

Osho on Mind NoMind

Osho - Truth is all around, but your interpretations are YOUR interpretations. God is speaking all the time, but you hear not, or even if you hear, you hear something else. You hear according to you, your mind comes in, and hence you go on missing. Unless the mind is dropped you will not be able to know [...]

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Osho on psychotherapy and meditation – Meditation has nothing to do with psychotherapy

Osho on psychotherapy and meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, does psychological therapy help to go beyond the mind? Osho – Vijen, psychological therapy can help you to understand the mind, but it cannot lead you beyond the mind. Only one thing leads you beyond the mind and that is meditation. Meditation has nothing to do with psychotherapy, but psychotherapy can [...]

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Osho Story – You don’t know enough about yourself

Osho Story

Question – Beloved Osho, you said the other day that if you were a cab-driver nobody would be able to recognize you. I don’t agree. At lease I for one would recognize you. Osho – Madam, I don’t believe you. You don’t know enough about yourself. I appreciate your love for me, but I cannot [...]

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Osho – Identification with the mind is more subtle than identification with the body

Osho on Identification with the mind

Osho – Jean Paul Sartre wrote an autobiography. He has called it WORDS. The name is very meaningful. It is the autobiography of every man – words and words and words. You are filled with words, and this process of words continues the whole day, even in the mind. When you are sleeping, you are [...]

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Osho – The greatest trouble the mind can create is the longing for home

Osho on Mind and trouble

Osho – It is one of the deep-rooted habits of the mind always to divide things. The moment you divide things you are in trouble – and mind wants you to be always in trouble; otherwise it has no function. The greatest trouble the mind can create is the longing for home. I call it [...]

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Osho on Mind – Mind’s nature is to move from one extreme to another

Osho on Mind

Osho – The most difficult thing, the almost impossible thing for the mind, is to remain in the middle, is to remain balanced. And to move from one thing to its opposite is the easiest. To move from one polarity to the opposite polarity is the nature of the mind. This has to be understood [...]

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Osho – Mind can go on playing tricks unless you learn how not to associate with it

Osho on Mind Tricks

[A sannyasin had written to Osho about feeling guilty about recurrent sickness, and wondering if, in her involvement with a love relationship, she was diverting energy formerly invested in Osho. Osho checks her energy.] Osho – Nothing is wrong with your energy, mm? just your mind goes on playing tricks with you. And the mind [...]

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Osho on Empty Mind – Meditation means making the mind empty, empty of all thoughts

Osho on Empty Mind and Meditation

Osho – Without meditation one is bound to live in misery. One can cover it up, one can find a few consolations, one has to find a few consolations otherwise life would be intolerable. One has to remain occupied so that one does not feel the inner emptiness. And people find a thousand and one [...]

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Osho – The SAME is going to happen wherever you go, because YOU are the world

Osho - YOU are the world

Osho – The world is there because of you – you create it, you are a creator. Every single being creates a world around himself, it depends on his mind. The mind may be illusory, but it is creative – it creates dreams. And it is up to you to create a hell or heaven. [...]

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Osho – there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world

osho - every mind lives in his own world

Osho – How you look at things depends on you, not on things. Unless you come to a point where you drop the interpreting mind and look direct, look immediate, mind is your mediator. It brings you things distorted, it brings you things mixed with interpretations. They are not pure. So the only way to [...]

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Osho – To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace

Osho - Mind belongs to the marketplace

Osho – Meditation is the door to the divine. To live in the mind is to live in the mundane. Mind belongs to the marketplace; in fact it is prepared for the market-place — for competition, for ego trips, for politics, for money, power, prestige. From the kindergarten, school to the university we create the [...]

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Osho on Greed – Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of the emptiness of the mind

Osho on Greed

Osho – The mind is greed – and unless the mind disappears, greed goes on lingering in some way or other. Greed is simply nothing but the constant fear of the emptiness of the mind. It is an effort to somehow stuff the emptiness. So it can take any form. Sometimes you can go on [...]

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Osho – A demanding mind always becomes miserable. Bliss is where demand is not

Osho on a demanding mind

[A sannyasin couple and their baby are present. The man says he expected to come here and feel better, more loving. Instead, he says, in some ways he feels more sad, tense, angry.] Osho – Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without [...]

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Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough

Osho - One has to go inward

[A sannyasin says: I’m feeling a bit more inward these days and meditations are feeling good to me.] Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough – it is time to go inward! Have the taste of the inner now. And once you have tasted the inner then there [...]

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Osho – the first thing to decide is, is this a heart matter or a mind matter?

Osho on heart matter or a mind matter

[A sannyasin says: I’m a sort of a sentimental person. The mind says one thing and heart says something else. Up to now I’ve been always following the heart and am always at a loss.] Osho – One has to be very very alert about one thing: there are things in which the heart will [...]

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Osho – Whenever a new child is born the relationship between the husband and wife immediately changes

Osho on new child in family

[A sannyasin says she feels confused; stuck and not flowing. Osho checks her energy.] Osho – Nothing to be worried about. I don’t see that you are not flowing with the river – that is not the confusion. The confusion is just the vice versa: for the first time you are flowing with the river, [...]

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Osho – In any real situation you will be able to see who is intelligent

Osho on Challenge and Intelligence

Osho – We go on polishing the mind in schools, colleges, universities, with the hope that we will be able to create an intelligent humanity. Our stupidity is such that for five thousand years we have been doing this and yet we have not realised the fact that humanity has not become intelligent at all. [...]

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