Osho on Right Living

Osho – Whenever you start planning you have divided yourself

Osho on Planning Life

Osho – All that is great, all that is beautiful, all that is true and real, is always spontaneous. You cannot plan it. The moment you plan it, everything goes wrong. The moment planning enters, everything becomes unreal. But this has happened to humanity. Your love, your sincerity, your truth, everything, has gone wrong because [...]

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Osho – People have more leisure — that is another thing. But what do they do with their leisure?

osho on leisure time

Question – As a child, sundays have been something very special to me. Now, since a few days, i wake up every morning and go out, see the sun shining through the trees, hear the birds singing and get this feeling, ‘ah, another sunday.’ I put on my best clothes and have sunday for the [...]

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Osho – How to be choiceless where important decisions are needed

Osho on Choicelessness and Choice

[A sannyasin asks for guidance on how to be choiceless where important decisions are needed.] Osho – There is some subtle problem, and it comes to everybody who wants to remain choiceless. But there is a misunderstanding, that’s why the problem. Choicelessness does not mean that you will not have to choose. In life, in [...]

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Osho – how is one to live before becoming enlightened?

Osho - live before becoming enlightened

Question – You said that the real morality is the shadow of enlightenment. But then how is one to live before becoming enlightened? Osho – THE moment you ask ’how’ you are asking again for a discipline. The moment you ask ’how’ you ask for methods, techniques. Why can’t you simply live? Are not animals [...]

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Osho – meditation doesn’t belong to the act; it belongs to the quality you bring to the act

Osho - meditation doesn't belong to the act

Osho – Sri Aurobindo says somewhere that the whole life is yoga — and it is so. Everything can become a meditation. And unless everything becomes a meditation, meditation has not happened to you. Meditation cannot be a part, a fragment. Either it is — and when it is you are wholly in it — [...]

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Osho – Meditation needs infinite patience

Osho on Meditation and patience

Osho – Ma Dhyan Agni. Dhyan means meditation, Agni means fire. Meditation is a fire. It does two things: it burns your past totally, it consumes your mind absolutely without even leaving a trace behind it, and your past contains everything — your religion, your politics, your nationality, your race, and all that. It contains [...]

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Osho – Paradise is herenow! This very body is the Buddha

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Osho – Life basically is an expression of love. Love is the fragrance of the flower of life. They are two sides of the same coin. The person who avoids love is simultaneously avoiding life too; hence the people who have been life-negative have also been love-negative. In fact escaping from the world was really [...]

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Osho on Serenity, Serenity means a state of choicelessness

Osho on Serenity

Osho – The man of serenity is not disturbed by anything because he accepts. Sadness comes, he accepts it. Joy comes, he accepts it. He has no preference, he has no choice. He lives in a choiceless consciousness: whatsoever happens happens, whatsoever is is, and he is totally open to it. He drinks it, he [...]

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Osho – Mischief is bound to bring its own punishment

Osho on Mischief

Osho – Mischief is bound to bring its own punishment just as certainly as birth is bound to bring its own death. You cannot avoid death, you cannot avoid the outcome of your deeds. So don’t think in these terms, because all that time wasted in avoiding, hiding, is simply wasted. All that energy can [...]

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Osho – You create your heaven and You create your hell

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Osho – Be courageous and drop all this nonsense. There is no hell and there is no heaven; you create your heaven and you create your hell. There is nobody anywhere to punish you or reward you. Forget those childish ideas of God — that if you are good Daddy will come with toys, and [...]

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Osho on Pleasure – Pleasure inevitably brings bondage

Osho on Pleasure and Bliss

Osho – Pleasure is from the outside and bliss is from the inside. Pleasure depends on others. Bliss is independent. Pleasure inevitably brings bondage. Bondage is sbsolutely part of pleasure, because the source of pleasure becomes more important than you are, and the fear arises that today it is available, but what is going to [...]

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Osho on Art of Life, The art of life begins with meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, Would you talk some more on the Art of How to be Fully Alive? Osho – Prem Rudra, the art of living fully, totally, and intensely is not something arduous or difficult, but it has been made almost impossible. It is so simple and so obvious that there is no need [...]

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Osho – Any action that happens through awareness is right; any action that happens through unawareness is wrong

Question – Is there such a thing as Right or Wrong? Osho – Akam, there is no such thing as right or wrong, because something may be right this moment and it may not be right the next moment. Something may be wrong today and may not be wrong tomorrow. Right and wrong are not [...]

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Osho – When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don’t get depressed about your depression

Osho on Depression

Osho – Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes. Nothing lasts forever; the depression will go. And when it leaves you, wait — be aware and alert — because after the depression, after the night, there will be a dawn and the sun will rise. If you can [...]

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Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related, Restlessness is a by-product of boredom

Osho - Boredom and restlessness

Queston – Please explain the nature of the experiences we call Boredom and Restlessness. Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom. Try to understand the mechanism. Whenever you feel bored you want to move away from that situation. If somebody [...]

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Osho – Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging

Osho - Life is a flux

Osho – Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your clinging is not going to change the law of life. Your clinging is only going to make you miserable. Things are bound to change; whether [...]

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Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become Dishonest

Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become dishonest, out of fear we have become false. Out of fear we follow the crowd and become phony. Out of fear we wear masks so that we look like everybody else — and we are not like everybody else. Everybody is unique; [...]

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Osho – Be friendly: don’t create any Antagonism with life.

Osho – Niro means the element water. And water is very symbolic, symbolic of flow, symbolic of nonresistance, symbolic of let-go. And these have to become the qualities of a sannyasin. One should never become stagnant, because life is a process, a constant process; the moment you stop the process you are dead. Life is [...]

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Osho – Never Fight with Natural things, Otherwise Perversions arise.

Osho - Never Fight with Natural things

[A sannyasin newly arrived says: I’m very glad I’m here, but I feel like I left a part of my heart in london. It’s making it a little difficult but I’m trying very hard to be present here.] Osho – Don’t try very hard. Just relax! If you try very hard you will not succeed. [...]

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Osho – Know your Chief Characteristic and become Aware of it,

Osho on Chief Characteristic of a man

Osho – The problem is with those people who think they know. They are in real trouble. They know not and they think they know. So there is no possibility for their growth. And they insist and they defend their knowledge. In defending their knowledge, they are defending their ignorance. If you are ill, you [...]

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Osho – In Suffering everybody Remembers God – even an atheist

Osho on Remembering God in Suffering

Question – Why do I remember God only When I am in Suffering? Osho – You don’t remember God. When you are in suffering your remembering God is just meaningless. Just because you want to avoid suffering, you remember God as a protection. You are not interested in God, you are only interested in how [...]

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Osho on Most Basic law of Life to be Understood

Osho on law of Life

Osho – One of the Most basic laws of life has to be understood. Life is based on polarity; everything exists with its polar opposite. Otherwise is not possible. Mind exists because of matter; mind is the polar opposite. Consciousness exists because of unconsciousness, the day exists because of the night, life exists because of [...]

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