Osho on Parenting

Osho – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?

Osho on Joy and Enjoyment

Question – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything? Osho – Joy is not allowed; you are preconditioned against joy. From the very childhood you have been taught that if you are happy then something is wrong — unhappy, everything is good. If you are miserable nobody is worried about it, but if you [...]

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Osho – Leave children alone. Never impose any religion on them

Osho - Leave children alone

Question – My little son was never baptized. will this be of importance. Osho – It is very important! It is good that he was never baptized because baptism is such a significant thing — it cannot be forced upon anybody. When you force it on a child you are creating an artificial religion for [...]

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Osho on Motherhood – So many women want to be mothers but they don’t know how to be

Osho on Motherhood

[A sannyasin says: I am pregnant and I want to ask you if I can be a good mother and if the child can be okay. ... I wanted a baby so much; that's why I don't know. Maybe I'm not strong enough -- that's why I wanted to ask you. Osho checks here energy.] [...]

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Osho on idea of worthlessness in Human Beings – Everyone is utterly Essential

Osho on idea of worthlessness in Human Beings

Osho – Anand means bliss, mahbuba means beloved. God creates the world out of his love. The world flows out of his love – it is an expression of his love, an explosion of his love. He loves every creature… from stones to stars. We are all protected by his love, we are all continuously [...]

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Osho on Mother Child Relationship, When you are screaming at them, you have to love them also

Osho on Mother Child Relationship

[The new sannyasin says she is concerned about screaming at her son. Osho asks her to give an example, and she replies: He comes up to his sister and he pinches her and she shrieks. It makes me nervous and so I scream at him to stop it.] Osho – No, don’t be worried about [...]

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Osho – If you allow children, they can become very dictatorial; they can really exploit you

Osho on Children

[A sannyasin, present with his five-year-old son says: I would like to talk about the relationship with my son. He is a very beautiful and rich child, but I feel he demands too much energy from me and needs much attention. I am in a struggle between feeling guilty and sacrificing myself. Is it possible [...]

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Osho on Parenting – Overprotection always creates a problem, but underprotection also creates a problem

Osho on Parenting - Overprotection

[An indian sannyasin, here on visit from kenya, said that she was concerned about what she felt was her overprotective attitude to her eighteen-year-old son. He also felt he was overprotected and that he was not allowed to do those things that other boys of his age were doing. She added that he had fits [...]

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Osho – If something is wrong with the child, it must have come from the parents

Osho on Children are imitators

Osho – Compassion is pure soul, it is pure sky: it has no matter around it. It is the ultimate blooming of the flower. Even the flower disappears in it, only fragrance remains. Shanti means silence, deva means god – god of silence. Help him to become as silent as possible. By being silent yourself, [...]

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Osho – the day the child is born, the mother is also born

Osho on mother child

[A sannyasin and her young son are present. She says: It’s very difficult for me – I feel he is very strong and I don’t feel strong at all. I don’t know what to do in certain situations.] Osho – Let him be strong! Why should you be worried about his strength? It is good. [...]

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Osho on Teachers and Children – Choose teachers who love small children

Osho on Teachers and Children

[The sannyasin who started the ashram school says: I just don’t understand what it means to be a teacher to children here... ] Osho – Yes, that is right – it will be a totally different thing! It will be a totally different thing…. It can’t apply here. A few things to remember, and then [...]

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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 – When a mother becomes too much concerned about the child

Osho on too much concerned about the child

[A sannyasin has brought her son because she is worried about the way he doesn’t eat, which may be causing bronchitis, and how he relates with other children.] Osho – What is the way? I think the problem is more with you than with him! He seems to be perfectly okay! You seem to be [...]

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Osho – The more disciplined the child, the more stupid he will be

Osho on Children and Intelligence

Osho – Every child is born clever. No child is ever born idiotic. To become an idiot one needs to be educated. To convert people to idiocy, schools and colleges and universities are needed. It is a great achievement. Idiocy is not natural; it has to be learned, it has to be earned. Great effort [...]

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Osho on Ambition and Competitiveness, Nothing kills love more than Ambitiousness

Osho on Ambition and Competitiveness

Question – Osho, What is ambition? To live without ambition seems frightening, like starting a new life up from the beginning. Osho – Latifa, Ambition is the greatest poison there is. It brings all other poisons in: greed, violence, competitiveness, struggle, a constant state of war with everybody else. It does not allow you any [...]

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Osho – Parents are not consciously exploiting their children

Osho on Consciousness and Parenting

Osho – We cling to the circumference, so much so that we have completely forgotten about the centre. Unless the circumference disappears completely we are not going to be reminded of the centre. And the centre contains all, the very kingdom of god. And the centre is capable of creating a thousand and one circumferences, [...]

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Osho – Without training the intellect the children will remain like animals

Osho on Intellect Training for children

Question – Beloved Osho, if intellect is such an obstacle in the journey towards self-realization, is not then training and sharpening of it just useless? Is it not possible that because of their innocence and expressiveness, children should be helped To move into meditation directly, without imparting them any training in the intellect? Osho – [...]

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Osho – I teach you Responsibility, Responsibility makes you feel strong

Osho on Guilt and Responsibility

Osho – Christianity has made you feel responsible for two thousand years, has made you feel guilty, that you are the sinner. Now psychoanalysis goes to the other extreme: it simply says you are not the sinner, you are not to feel guilty — you are perfectly okay. You forget about all guilt and you [...]

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Osho on Education, Osho vision of Right Education

Osho on Education

Question – What is Education? Osho – Parmar, man is born as a seed. He is born as a potentiality. He is not born as an actuality. And this is very special, this is extraordinary, because in the whole of existence only man is born as a potentiality; every other animal is born actual. A [...]

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Osho – Pregnancy is not equivalent to motherhood

Osho on Being a Real Mother

[A sannyasin says she's pregnant. She'd decided to have an abortion and thought she was happy with the decision, but since then, whenever she thinks about it she feels a tremendous amount of sadness.] Osho – Mm mm. This will be a momentary sadness. If you want to become a mother then you want to [...]

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Osho – Should Childten be told all the facts of Life, Irrespective of their age

Osho on Children

Question – Osho, Should Childten be told all the facts of Life, Irrespective of their age? Osho – Govinddas, IT HAS always been a problem down the ages — what to tell children and what not to tell. Parents have been very much concerned. In the past the strategy was not to tell about the [...]

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Osho – Give your children your love, but don’t give your Ideologies.

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Osho – TO BE A MOTHER IS SWEET…. Why? Just giving birth to a child is not to be a mother, remember. Otherwise there are millions of mothers on the earth — and there seems to be no sweetness. In fact, if you ask the psychologists they will say just the opposite. They will say [...]

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Osho – Never fight over children because then the child starts feeling ’What is happening?'

[A sannyasin asks about returning to the West to take custody of her son, as she and her husband are divorcing.] Osho – This is my suggestion: if you feel that you are too disturbed you can go and do whatsoever you want to do. But this is my suggestion – that going and fighting [...]

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