Osho on Mind

Osho – Tao is certainly greater than mind – Tao is greater than everything

Osho - tao is greater than mind

Question – Osho, Tao is greater than mind. Then why do we keep choosing the mind instead of flowing with the Tao? Osho – Prem Radha, It is precisely because of that. Tao is so vast that one is afraid to lose one’s identity in it. We are like dewdrops and Tao is like an [...]

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Osho on Thinking – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies

Osho on Thinking and Dichotomies

Osho – Our minds always think in terms of dichotomies. They cannot think without dividing. Whenever we go to think about something, we dissect it, we divide it into two. That is the methodology of the mind. Mind cannot think in terms of Unity, in terms of synthesis. Mind thinks in terms of analysis so [...]

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Osho – Be aware of your mind’s mechanism, and how it transforms everything into desiring

Osho on Mind and Desiring

Osho – We don’t live in existence, we live in desires. Really, we don’t live in the world at all, we live in desires. Our life is not here and now, it is always somewhere else where the desire is arrowed. It may be anywhere, but it is never here. Never here, because desire needs [...]

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Osho – Meditation means how to create the state of no-mindedness

Osho on Meditation and Mind

Osho – Mind is just a disturbance. Mind is just a disturbance in consciousness. It is not your nature; it is just a disturbance. The moment there is no disturbance, there is no mind. And this state of no-mindedness is the state of consciousness – the expansion of consciousness. You drop into yourself: not into [...]

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Osho – Whatsoever you know will really hinder your search

osho on mind and search

Osho – Mind is incapable of knowing the truth. It can gather all kinds of information about truth, but to know about truth is not to know truth. To know about love is not to know love. To know love one needs to be a lover. No information can be of any help; one has [...]

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Osho – It was mind crucifying the heart when Jesus was crucified

osho on old mind

Osho – Mind is always old. Even a one-day-old child has a one-day-old mind, because mind means the past. It accumulates the past; it is accumulative it goes on accumulating experiences and everything that happens. It is always old and it goes on becoming older and older. But the heart is always young; it never [...]

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Osho – the second birth becomes possible only through meditation

osho on meditation and second birth

Osho – Man is a potentiality, a possibility. We can miss it millions miss it, and the reason why we miss is very simple: we think that we have already attained life. We make birth synonymous with life — that is our fundamental misunderstanding. Birth is only an opportunity to be alive, it is not [...]

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Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering

Osho on Mind

Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering. It is constantly crowded with many thoughts, desires. It goes on dreaming and dreaming. It is never still even for a single moment. And we have become identified with the mind, we think that we are our mind. That is creating the whole misery. Get [...]

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Osho – A different kind of mind exists when you are with nature

Osho on mind with nature

[The sannyasin says he is a gardener.] Osho – Very good! That may be one of the causes why you are so simple. Gardeners, farmers, fishermen, woodcutters, have a totally different kind of energy – the best kind of energy. When a politician comes he carries such a nuisance inside him, such a deceptive kind [...]

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Osho on Confusion in Life

Osho on Confusion in Life

[A sannyasin, returning to the West, says she is confused.] Osho – Confusion remains, and one has to learn to live with it because life cannot be sorted out; it is so big. The confusion arises because of our impossible effort to sort everything out; it is too big for that! There is no way [...]

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Osho – The result-oriented mind is a stupid mind

osho on result-oriented mind

Osho – The result-oriented mind is a stupid mind. It goes on sacrificing the present for the future. Sacrificing! – and the sacrifice is absolutely non-creative. It goes on postponing. This is not respect for the future – it is just a way to avoid the present. The result-oriented man always puts his hopes in [...]

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Osho on reality and desire – Reality is here and now

Osho on Reality

Osho – If the mind is filled with dreams you cannot see rightly. If the heart is filled with desires you cannot feel rightly. Desires, dreams and hopes – the future disturbs you and divides you. But whatsoever is, is in the present. Desire leads you into the future, and life is here and now. [...]

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Osho – I call that man religious who renounces the mind

Osho on renouncing mind

Osho – The mind has a persistent habit to go on believing in itself — even against all facts. Even if your old mind goes on giving you nothing but misery and hell, you go on believing in it. People say that this is an age of unbelief. I don’t see it. The same old [...]

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Osho on Intelligence, Osho on intelligence of the heart and intelligence of the mind?

osho on intelligence

Question – What exactly is Intelligence, and what is the relation of the intelligence of the heart to the intelligence of the mind? Osho – Punita, intelligence is the inborn capacity to see, to perceive. Every child is born intelligent, then made stupid by the society. We educate him in stupidity. Sooner or later he [...]

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Osho – One has to work with both the body and the mind

Osho on Yoga Awareness

Osho – Asanas, pranayama — there are so many methods through which energies can be made to flow inward. When they flow inward they become one, because at the center there cannot be more than one. So the more energy goes inward, the more harmony there is. Conflicts drop. In the center there is no [...]

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Osho – Is it possible to have an Original Thought?

Osho on Original Thought

Question – Is it possible to have an Original Thought? Osho – It is impossible, absolutely impossible to have an original thought. Because mind is memory, mind is the past, mind is that which you have already known, it is a borrowed thing, and whatsoever the mind can do can only be a repetition; new [...]

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Osho – Mind is misery, Meditation is bliss

Osho - Mind is Misery

Osho – Mind is misery and cannot be otherwise, because mind lives in desires, ambitions, it is always hankering for the more — and that hankering cannot be satisfied. It always goes on jumping ahead of you, wherever you would be, the mind will be asking for more. It is always ahead of you. The [...]

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Osho – You don’t have one mind; you are multi-psychic

Osho on Mind - multi-psychic nature

Osho – YOU HAVE MANY MINDS but you have only one heart. Have you observed this fact? You don’t have one mind; you are multi-psychic, you have many minds. They constantly change — every moment your mind changes. One moment it is full of doubt, another moment it is full of belief, and another moment [...]

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Osho on Stupid Mind – Is all Mind made out of the same material – Stupidity?

Osho on Stupid Mind

Question – Is all Mind made out of the same material – Stupidity? Osho - Yes. Mind is stupid. There is no mind which is intelligent. Mind cannot be intelligent; mind is stupidity. To say “stupid mind” is not right; it is repetitive because “stupidity” and “mind” both mean the same thing. Why is mind stupidity? [...]

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Osho – Mind is never contemporary, Mind is always old.

Question – Beloved Osho, What is a Contemporary Mind? Osho – Contemporary mind is a contradiction in terms. Mind is never contemporary, it is always old. Mind is past — past and past and nothing else; mind means memory. There can be no contemporary mind; to be contemporary is to be without mind. If you [...]

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Osho – Mind is mischief, Mind is the source of all mischief

Osho - Mind is mischief

Osho – Mind is mischief; there is no other mischief. Mind is the source of all mischief. A master is a master only because he has ceased to be dominated by the mind. A master is a master of himself; he is no longer unconscious. Whatsoever he does, he does it knowingly. Whatsoever he is, [...]

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Osho on Belief, Trust and Shraddho. Shraddho means loving trust

Osho on Belief trust Shraddho

Osho – Shraddho means loving trust. There are three words which are synonymous in the dictionary but not in actual experience. One is belief, the second is faith, the third is trust. In actual experience they have nothing to do with each other – not only that: they are totally different dimensions. Belief is intellectual; [...]

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