Osho on Patanjali Yoga

Osho – In Yoga two kinds of samadhi are talked about (nirbeeja and sabeeja)

Osho on Yoga Samadhi

Osho – Anand means bliss, nirbeeja means seedless. The word nirbeeja is a very specific word. In Yoga two kinds of samadhi are talked about, two kinds of ultimate states of consciousness. One is sabeeja; it means with seed. Another is nirbeeja; it means seedless, without seed. The sabeeja state of mind is where somewhere [...]

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Osho – Patanjali is for unhealthy people and Zen is for very natural people

Osho on Zen and Patanjali

Question – For zen it is: “eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirsty.” For Patanjali it is: “regularity — niyam.” How to reconcile spontaneity and regularity? Osho – There is no need to synthesize. If you are really spontaneous you will become regular. If you are really regular you will become [...]

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Osho – A man of awareness is unattached

Osho on man of awareness

Osho on Patanjali Yoga Sutra “Attraction, and through it, attachment, is towards anything that brings pleasure. Repulsion is from anything that causes Pain” Osho – These are your two ways of being here in the world: you are attracted towards something which you feel causes pleasure, you feel repelled, repulsed by something which you think [...]

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Osho – Awareness is to be aware that you are not the body

Osho on Awareness

Osho – what is awareness? Awareness is to be aware that you are not the body, not because the Upanishads say so or Patanjali says so — because you can cram it into your mind that you are not the body. You can go on repeating every morning and evening, ‘I am not the body’ [...]

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Osho – You are that which will always exist

Osho on lack of awareness

Osho – Lack of awareness is when you take your body as yourself. Ninety percent of your lives’ miseries are because of this: lack of awareness. You take the body as yourself and then you suffer. You are suffering in a dream. The body is not yours. Soon it will not be yours. Where were [...]

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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 – In samadhi you become part of God

Osho on Samadhi

Osho – Samadhi is a word very difficult to translate into English; there exists no parallel. But in Greek there is a word which is parallel; that word is ataraxia. The Greek word means quiet, calm, of deep inner contentment. That is the meaning of samadhi so contented, so deeply contented, that nothing disturbs now, [...]

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Osho on Shirshasana in Yoga – Don’t do too much shirshasana

Osho on Shirshasana

Osho – In the old ashrams everybody had to sleep on a rocky bed – actually also, because it helps. In yoga, your spine, your backbone, is very important, and not only in yoga but in biology also. Now biologists say man could become man because he started standing erect, his backbone erect. Animals’ backbones [...]

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Osho – How does this mechanism of hope function?

osho on hope and misery

Osho – How does this mechanism of hope function? Whenever you are in misery, sad, depressed, you immediately escape from it, you try to forget it. That’s how it continues. The next time you are miserable — and you will not have to wait long; the moment my talk is finished you will be — [...]

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Osho – Your ego leads to misery, nobody else leads you into misery

Osho talks on yoga

Osho – Whenever you listen to the voice of the ego, sooner or later there will be trouble. You will fall into the trap of misery. This you have to watch: ego always leads into misery, always, unconditionally; always, categorically, absolutely. And whenever you listen to nature, it leads you to a well-being, a contentment, [...]

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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 on Patanjali Yoga Sutra – Virtue Brings Pleasure; Vice Brings Pain

Osho on Virtue

Patanjali Yoga Sutra – VIRTUE BRINGS PLEASURE; VICE BRINGS PAIN. Osho – If you have done virtuous karmas, good actions, then you will have much pleasure around you. Even with nothing around you, you will have a pleasant attitude towards life, a pleasant outlook. You will be able to see the bright lining in dark [...]

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Osho – Creation is Pranayam and Destruction of the world is Pratyahar

Osho - Creation is Pranayam

Question - Beloved Osho, Yesterday you explained that pranayam is the method which expands the bio-energy and pratyahar is to return to the original source. First it is expansion, then it is return to the source. Why is it so? Osho : Because life is made of contradiction and there is no other way for life [...]

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Osho on Yoga, Osho on science of Yoga, Osho on Patanjali Yoga

Osho on Patanjali Yoga

Osho : Before we talk about the first sutra of Patanjali, a few other things have to be understood. First, yoga is not a religion–remember that. Yoga is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan. Yoga is a pure science just like mathematics, physics or chemistry. Physics is not Christian, physics is not Buddhist. If Christians [...]

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Osho discourse on Selfish Pride, Pride is always for wrong reasons

Osho discourse on Selfish Pride

Patanjali Yoga Sutra : It is difficult to Subdue Selfish Pride. Osho on above sutra : One of the most arduous things in life is not to think of oneself as extraordinary. Of course, this is the most ordinary thing in the world to think, because everybody thinks he is extraordinary. Everybody thinks he is [...]

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Osho on Yoga Sutra – Alonesness and Universal Oneness

Osho on Yoga Sutra, Alonesness and Universal Oneness

Osho : Yoga says if only we could see that we are not more than a bird on a big aeroplane. In a river, two straws were floating. The river’s flow was rapid and one straw was trying to fight against the river’s current. He was trying to make a dam in the river to [...]

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Osho discourse on Yoga Sutras, Patanjali Yoga sutras

Osho on Patanjali Yoga sutras

Osho : Yoga’s third sutra… I told you that existence has two forms. Energy – the first sutra. Second – energy has two forms – non-existence and existence. And the third sutra – existence has two forms. One we call conscious, the other we call unconscious. But they are two forms, not two separate things. [...]

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Osho on Lao Tzu and Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Osho on Lao Tzu

Osho : Lao Tzu once told his friends that he could not be defeated by anyone in his life. Naturally his friends kept quiet. Then they asked him to tell the secret to them also why no one could defeat him because they also did not want to be defeated by anyone. But Lao Tzu [...]

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Osho on difference in Yoga and Tantra

Osho on Yoga and Tantra

Question – What is the difference between Traditional Yoga and Tantra? Are they the same? Osho – Tantra and yoga are basically different. They reach to the same goal; however, their paths are not only different, but contrary also. So this has to be understood very clearly. The yoga process is also methodology; yoga is [...]

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