Osho on Repression

Osho – Greedy people renounce the world. This renunciation is not of understanding

Osho on greedy people

Osho – A repressed person is carrying the same world as you. Just an opportunity is needed, a provocation, and immediately the real will come out. That’s why monks disappear from the world — because there are too many provocations, too many temptations. It is difficult for them to remain contained, to hold on. So [...]

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Osho on Licentiousness – Licentiousness is insane, as much insane as repressiveness

Osho on Licentiousness

Question – Osho, do you profess licentiousness in life? Osho – I don’t profess anything. I simply clarify things to you, I don’t profess. I am not giving you any ideology, I am only giving you insight. Take note of the difference. An ideology has to be professed, an insight has to be imparted. I [...]

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Osho – Don’t condemn; don’t suppress. Transform. Be more understanding, alert

Osho - Don't condemn; don't suppress

Question – Is it possible to climb on to higher stages while one is suppressing or excluding parts of his being by outside conditions and illusions? Osho – No, it is impossible. You are asking me, “Is it possible to go up the ladder only in part?” Some part of you is left down, some [...]

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Osho – If we can transform our ugly instincts into beautiful flowers

Osho on Instincts

Osho – Man can live in constant conflict or in constant music. It is the game energy that become conflict or that becomes music. The whole thing is to learn the art of creating harmony within your being — and the whole conditioning of humanity is to create conflict. They tell you not to be [...]

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Osho on Eroticism, Erotic art of Khajuraho Konarak Puri Ajanta Ellora and West

Osho on Erotic art of Khajuraho

Question – Beloved Osho, in the west, the portrayal of woman’s body is used in films, books and magazines. This art form is known as ‘eroticism’. Through the sculptures of khajuraho and ajanta i have seen that a similar art form was there in the east. Can you talk about the difference between these two [...]

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Osho – Can’t man conquer himself by suppression and by fighting with himself?

Osho on self knowledge by suppression

Question – Can’t man ever conquer himself by suppression and by fighting with himself? Osho – What do you mean by the words ”suppression” and ”fighting with himself”? Don’t they mean that the individual will be dividing himself? He will be fighting with himself. This means he will attack and defend at the same time. [...]

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Osho on Repression – Madness is the outcome of Repression

Osho on Repression and Madness

Question – Beloved Master, Is Repression always Bad? Osho – Prasado, absolutely bad, always bad, with no exceptions bad. Repression simply means you don’t understand your life energies. Repression means you are forcing your life energies into the unconscious, throwing them into the basement of your being. There they will go on growing, there they [...]

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Osho – Rejection means repression. Anything rejected never leaves you

Question – Beloved Master, I am rejecting my mind and clinging to Awareness. Osho – Prem Shahido, mind has not to be rejected at all; if you reject it, it will remain. Rejection means repression. Anything rejected never leaves you; it simply moves from the conscious to the unconscious, from the lighted part of your [...]

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Osho – There is a subtle difference between Repression and Control

Osho on Repression

[Osho tells a sannyasin there are some things about his energy that it will be helpful for him to know. You haven’t allowed yourself to ever be wild, you’ve always had a subtle control inside you – and that can be a hindrance to spiritual growth... ] Osho – There is a subtle difference between [...]

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Osho on Suppression, When you Suppress a thing it becomes Meaningful

Osho on Suppression

[A sannyasin says she is afraid of going back to the West: I’m afraid that all the things I’ve dropped will come back again, and that I will drown in them.] Osho – It is natural… fear is natural. It is very difficult in the beginning to make a distinction between dropping a thing and [...]

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