Osho on Religion Dogmas

Osho on Palmistry and Astrology – Lines have nothing to do with the future

Osho on Palmistry

Question – What about palmistry? What about those lines? Osho – Those lines have nothing to do with the future. We can cut both your hands off — still there will be a future. We can do plastic surgery and remove your whole skin — still there will be a future. Those lines are simply [...]

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Osho on Astrology – Man’s future is open and an open future gives freedom

Osho on Astrology

Osho’s Hands Question – Do you believe in astrology? Is it true that an astrologer predicted to your father that you would not survive more than seven years, but if you survived you would become a buddha? Osho – I have survived — that’s enough proof that astrology has no truth. Astrology is man’s weakness, [...]

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Osho – To me spirituality is living totally, intensely

Osho on Spirituality

Question - Bhagwan, What is Spirituality? Osho – The old concept has been, that spirituality is something against materialism. To renounce the pleasures of matter, of body, of mind has been defined as spirituality. To me it is nonsense. Spirituality is to be disidentified with everything that you can see, that can be an object to [...]

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Osho – How can we get rid of the Programming of Organized Religions?

Osho on Organized Religions

Question – Bhagwan, how can we get rid of the programming of organized religions? Osho – The process of deprogramming is one of the most simple. Just you have to watch the ideologies, philosophies, religions, that you are carrying in your mind — are not your own experiences. That’s the distinction to be made: what [...]

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Osho – Jesus committed the crime of being happy. That was his only crime

Osho on Jesus Crime

Osho – RELIGION CAN BE HEALTHY — as healthy as a new born babe, as healthy as the songs of the birds in the morning, as healthy as a newly opening lotus. Or religion can be ill, diseased, dying — just like an old man: shrinking, sad, moving.into death. When religion is young, it has [...]

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Osho – Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision

Osho on Spirituality and Virtue

Osho – SPIRITUALITY is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues — because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is [...]

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Osho – Is the devil really male?

Osho on Devil

Question – Beloved Osho, Is the devil really male? Osho – Deva Prachurya, it is a beautiful question because the women’s liberation movement is talking about God being a woman; they have started pronouncing him not he but she. But none of them has thought about the devil, which is a counterpart. They both exist [...]

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Osho – Why can’t there be only one religion in the world?

Osho on One Religion

Question – Why can’t there be only one religion in the world? Osho – Because people are mad. Because people are fast asleep. There can be one religion one day, maybe, we can hope for it — but that one religion will not be like Christianity where all have become Christians, no; that one religion [...]

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Osho – I consider religion to be the last luxury

Osho on Religion

Question – Why is it that western societies are becoming so interested in indian religion now? Osho – I consider religion to be the last luxury. Only when a society becomes affluent does religion become meaningful. And now, for the first time, a greater part of the world is not poor. America in particular is [...]

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Osho – Nanak insists that religion is not attained through scriptures, nor through tradition

Osho on Nanak Words

Osho – No matter how many scriptures you read, you cannot establish contact thereby with religion. No temple or mosque or church can connect you with religion. Slumbering, insensitive you go to worship; the same you who runs the shop, also goes to the house of worship. Your attitude should change, and once it is [...]

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Osho on Shambala – It is a mythological city somewhere in Tibet

Osho on Shambala

Osho – Shambala is a well-known name. It is a mythological city somewhere in Tibet, where only enlightened people can enter. To the unenlightened it remains invisible. No such city exists – it is a beautiful myth – although many foolish people have been in search of it. Still people go on searching, thinking that [...]

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Osho – Let cheerfulness be your prayer, let blissfulness be your meditation

Osho - Let cheerfulness be your prayer

Osho – Religion does not mean to belong to a particular church. It does not mean to believe in a particular dogma or belief system. It does not mean to perform a particular ritual. It does not mean being a Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Jew. To be religious means to be blissful, to be cheerful: cheerful [...]

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Osho – Blessed are the meek, because theirs is the kingdom of god

Osho - Blessed are the meek

Osho – Deva means divine, and dhurva means fresh grass, just sprouting… very green, delicate – divine grass. And there is a particular meaning in it. A man can exist in two ways: either like a very strong tree – resistant, fighting, stubborn – or like small grass – non-resistant, non-fighting, ready to yield. and [...]

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Osho – love has to be unconditional, non-dominating, non-possessive

Osho - love has to be unconditional

Osho – Life is an art. One has to go on learning more and more about it. And the best way to transform oneself into a noble spirit is love. Love is the very alchemy of transformation. But up to now religions have been teaching people to hate. They sermonize on love; in the churches, [...]

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Osho on Religion – Religion is fearlessness. Religion is freedom from all fears

Osho on Religion is fearlessness

Osho – Man is all alone. He is in darkness. He is without support. He is unsafe and afraid. This alone is his worry. The way to get rid of it is religion. Religion is fundamentally the way of working in fearlessness. But the religions, only in name, are most afraid of the fearlessness itself. [...]

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Osho on Religion and Religiousness – Religiousness is an individual affair.

Osho on Religion and Religiousness

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Religion? Osho – Milarepa, religion is not what people understand it to be. It is not Christianity, it is not Hinduism, it is not Mohammedanism. Religion is a dead rock. I teach you not religion, but religiousness – a flowing river, continuously changing its course, but ultimately reaching the [...]

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Osho – Truth is known only by going within

osho on truth

Osho – People ask me all kinds of questions: ”Does God exist? Is liberation a fact?”… and many more such queries are made but never one asks: ”Who am I What am I?” The basic question of religion is not God but the being of the Self. The journey of Truth is inward and not [...]

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Osho on Kabir’s insistence for a SATGURU — for a true Master

Osho on Kabir

Osho – Real religion is never in the scriptures. And a real religious seeker does not go in search of scriptures, he goes in search of a Master — a living Master. That is one of the basic tenets of Kabir’s understanding: SATGURU — the living Master. Go and search for a living Master! If [...]

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Osho – I am destroying God and spreading godliness to every human being

Osho on God

Question – Why does Man need God? Osho – It is out of fear. God is not needed at all. Man has lived in so much fear that he has needed some protection. There was fear of disease, there was fear of death — mostly it is death that makes man so afraid. He needs [...]

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Osho – I am the beginning of a new kind of Religiousness

Osho

Question – Are you the beginning of a new religion? Osho : I am certainly the beginning of something which is far more precious than any religion can be. I am also the end of all the old religions. The old religions have not helped humanity to progress in consciousness, in being. On the contrary [...]

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Osho on Religion – Organized religion is another form of politics

Osho on Religion

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Religion? What is your opinion on Organized Religion? Osho – Anand Maitreya, religion is the highest flight of human consciousness — it is the individual search for truth. The inner truth cannot be made an object of common knowledge. Each one has to go within himself; each time, it [...]

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Osho Video : Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy.

Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.

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