Osho on Zen

Osho on Zen – Zen goes beyond Buddha and beyond Lao Tzu

Osho on Zen Buddhism

Osho – ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique — unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge, it does not believe in [...]

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Osho – Drop Christianity, Drop Islam, Drop Buddhism

Osho - Drop Christianity

Osho – Everything that we go on doing on the surface will be just like changing a name. Inside you will remain the same. Your persona can never become more than skin deep — your know ledge, your identity in the world is nothing but a persona, a dressing. Zen says you are wasting your [...]

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Osho – Knowing means that you have seen it with your own eyes

Osho on Knowing and Knowledge

Osho – KNOWLEDGE IS not enough, to rely on it is dangerous. Knowledge is borrowed, it is not knowing. Knowing grows with you, knowing is a growth, an evolution, knowledge is implanted within you from me outside, knowledge is borrowed, it is counterfeit. It looks like knowing, it is not. It deceives, it gives you [...]

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Osho on Zen and Politics – Is Zen against Politics?

Osho on Zen and Politics

Question – Is Zen against Politics? Osho – Zen is so much against politics that it never talks about it. It is so much against politics that it cannot even be against it. If you are against it, it will affect you. Then somehow you will remain in some way related to it. To be [...]

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Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol

Osho on Bamboo and Zen

Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol. And the reason? It is green all the year. In every season it is green — come rain, come summer, come winter, it is green. Nothing changes it. It lives a kind of eternity. Its greenness means its freshness, its youth, [...]

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Osho – Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense

Osho - Be a fool

Osho – Ordinarily we think people who know answers are wise. They may be learned but they are not wise. They may be very well informed, but information has nothing to do with wisdom. People who are really wise, in fact, have no answers. They have a quest, an enquiry, a tremendous enquiry in them, [...]

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Osho – Mind is the barrier. No-mind is the door

Osho on Mind NoMind

Osho - Truth is all around, but your interpretations are YOUR interpretations. God is speaking all the time, but you hear not, or even if you hear, you hear something else. You hear according to you, your mind comes in, and hence you go on missing.  Unless the mind is dropped you will not be able to know [...]

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Osho – Remain alert while moving with people, while moving in the world

Osho on Remaining alert

Osho – Man ordinarily lives in these three states, sometimes waking, sometimes dreaming, sometimes fast asleep; this is the wheel man moves in. And because of these three states of mind many things have arisen into human consciousness and in human culture, civilization. The first kind of consciousness, waking, creates its own culture, its own [...]

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Osho on Zen Garden – My people have to learn to live like a Zen garden

Osho on Zen Garden

Osho – I am taking away from you all that can create boredom in you. My whole effort is to give you again a natural life — wild, adventurous, dangerous; then boredom cannot exist. The new man will live dangerously. He will live like wild animals, not like tamed animals in a zoo. He will [...]

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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 – You can wait for lives; it depends how much you cling to your ignorance

Osho - You can wait for lives

Question – Why do Zen monks have to have been living near their masters for ten, twenty, or even for forty years for the sudden enlightenment to happen? Osho – Because of their stupidities. You can be enlightened in a single minute; you can wait for forty years. It depends how gross you are. You [...]

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Osho on Zazen, Just because of Zazen, Monasteries came into existence

Osho on Zazen

Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the learned, it has never been a language of the masses. Buddha broke away from tradition and started speaking in the language of the masses. It [...]

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Osho on zen way of living – Zen does not renounce anything but transforms

Osho on zen way of living

Osho – Zen believes in a life which you are not acquainted with, a love that you have not even dreamt of. It lives in a totally different dimension, a dimension where everything is a dance, a celebration. Zen is the only religion of life. Others are worshippers of the dead. Life contains millions of [...]

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Beloved Osho, Are the Upanishads and Zen the same?

Osho on Upanishads and Zen

Question – Beloved Osho, Are the Upanishads and Zen the same? Osho – They are not. The upanishad is a happening between the master and the disciple, Zen is the happening in the disciple himself. The master may help him, may create devices, show the path – but Zen is basically an individual experience. It [...]

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Osho – A miserable person cannot find truth. He can theorise about truth

Osho on Miserable Person and Truth

Osho – Bliss is equivalent to god. ‘God’ is a beautiful word but it has become ugly because of wrong associations. It has fallen into wrong company. The priests have exploited it so much that I appreciate very much Friedrich Nietzsche’s declaration that god is dead and man is free. In fact he is saying [...]

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Osho on Zen Master Ikkyu and Zen Tea Ceremony

Osho on Zen Master Ikkyu

Question – Beloved Osho I love this little zen story, as it also has the flavor of your childhood stories. Ikkyu, the zen master, was very clever even as a boy. His teacher had a precious teacup, a rare antique. Ikkyu happened to break this cup and was greatly perplexed. Hearing the footsteps of his [...]

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Osho – For Zen, meditation has to be a twenty-four-hour affair

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Osho – Perhaps there is no other religion that has made your whole life, twenty-four hours a day, a meditative experience. Zen does not believe in meditating one hour in the morning, or one hour in the night. It does not make meditation a separate, particular act. It wants meditation to become a quality of [...]

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Osho on Zazen – Just because of zazen, monasteries came into existence

Osho on Zazen

Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the learned, it has never been a language of the masses. Buddha broke away from tradition and started speaking in the language of the masses. It [...]

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Osho on Zen swordsmanship as an Meditation method

Osho on Zen swordsmanship meditation

Osho – In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction between ordinary life and religious life; rather, they have bridged them both. And they have used very ordinary skills as UPAYA, as methods for meditation. That is something of tremendous import. Because if you [...]

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Osho – Zen is not a philosophy, it is not a doctrine

Question – Osho, What is Zen?Osho – Sagar, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER because Zen is not a philosophy, it is not a doctrine. It is an experience, an experience of your own interiority, of your own subjectivity – not an objective experience. If it were some object outside you, there would be a [...]

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Osho on Chuang Tzu butterfly dream, Story of Chuang Tzu dream

Osho on Chuang Tzu Butterfly dream

Question : Beloved Master, If Zen is the path and you are the gate, then who lives in the house? Osho : Prem Michael, Zen is the path and I am the gate and you live in the house. You have completely forgotten – that’s what makes the possibility of making a path, to remind [...]

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Osho on Samurai warriors – He was a monk and also a warrior.

Osho on Samurai warriors

Osho : Seven or eight hundred years ago in Japan they tried to create a different type of person – they called him a samurai. He was a monk and also a warrior. This is very strange – because what is the relation between a monk and a warrior? The temples in Japan are very [...]

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