Osho on Osho

Question – Beloved Osho, In the last few days, as i listen to you, it seems you are trying to be a martyr. are you? Osho – I am not even a Christian – why should I like to be a martyr? The word looks beautiful, but the reality is that those who would like [...]

Question – Do you receive instructions from any Master of Masters? Osho – I AM NOT ON ANY ANCIENT path, so few things have to be understood. I am not like Mahavira who was the end of a long series of teerthankaras, twenty-four — he was the twenty-fourth. In the past twenty-three had become Master [...]

Question – Beloved Osho, Can you say who you are? Osho – Maneesha, I am an invitation for all those who are seeking, searching, and have a deep longing in their hearts to find their home. I am an answer to the question that everybody is, but cannot formulate — a question that is more [...]

Question – Beloved Osho, You are at once such an incredible strength and sweetness seeping through me. Why do i feel there is a need to protect you? Osho – It is one of the fundamental laws of life that everything that is higher is very vulnerable. The roots of a tree are very strong, [...]

Question – Osho, Were you not punished for your Mischievous Acts in Childhood? Osho – I have been punished, but I have never taken any punishment as punishment. From my very childhood that has been my attitude: that how you take a thing makes all the difference. Nobody can punish me if I don’t take [...]

Question – Beloved Osho, If you depart on the 6th of july of any year. Are we all going with you? Osho – No, nobody is going with me. I am not Reverend Jim Jones, I am not even a Christian. The day I go, your responsibility to live becomes greater — to live me, [...]

Question – Beloved Master, Who are you? Osho – I am not a messiah, nor a prophet, nor a savior. I am simply a human being, with a little difference that you are not awake and I am awake. You can call me the awakened one. I emphatically deny the role of the messiah, the [...]

Question – WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CARRY A NAPKIN WITH YOU, EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO USE FOR IT? Osho – It is symbolic: that I am useless like my napkin. I don’t believe in utility. Utility belongs to the world, to the marketplace. I believe in nonutilitarian things: a flower. What is the utility [...]

Question - Osho, you were saying that the new will be victorious. Will it really be the new, or will it be the old polished up here and there. There are publications now in germany that use you. Some mention you in the list of literature as the source, but others use you and don’t mention [...]