Osho Stories

Osho – The witness makes you a buddha

Osho on witness

Osho – I have told you the story many times about Gautam Buddha. One day, walking on the road from one town to another, he was talking to Ananda. A fly sat on his forehead, and just as you do automatically, he remained engaged in talking to Ananda and shooed the fly. Then he suddenly [...]

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Osho on Confusion and Emptiness – Confusion is almost the natural state of humanity

Osho on Confusion and Emptiness

Question – Beloved Osho, When you looked at me i felt afraid and empty. i am confused. please comment. Osho – Confusion is almost the natural state of humanity. Everybody is confused. When I looked into your eyes, you became aware suddenly of the confusion because there was a comparison. When I look into your [...]

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Osho story – A scripture is a scripture only if it gives you freedom

Osho story on scriptures

Osho – I have heard a story. A wasp made its abode near a window outside a big building. In winter this wasp would sleep and rest, in summer it would fly, dance and collect the pollen of the flowers. It was very happy. But this wasp was a special one — it was a [...]

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Osho – When you are waiting, you become, of course, more alert.

Osho on Waiting for God to Come

Osho – Thousands of people have been waiting for thousands of years, with great longing and passion. Their waiting has helped – not that they came to know God, but their waiting helped them to become more alert. Judaism, particularly, has used waiting as a methodology for awareness. It is Judaism’s parallel to vipassana. But [...]

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Osho Story – You don’t know enough about yourself

Osho Story

Question – Beloved Osho, you said the other day that if you were a cab-driver nobody would be able to recognize you. I don’t agree. At lease I for one would recognize you. Osho – Madam, I don’t believe you. You don’t know enough about yourself. I appreciate your love for me, but I cannot [...]

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Osho Tibetan Story – The crowd never likes people to be individuals

Osho story on crowd individuals

Osho – The path back home is certainly a razor’s edge. As you come closer and closer to yourself, the path goes on becoming narrower and narrower. At the very end of this path you are going to find your pure aloneness. The crowd has never found any truth. On the contrary, whenever anybody has [...]

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Osho – If God is the only judge, then who are we to decide

Osho - If God is the only judge

Osho – The Hebrew idea behind the concept that God is the judge is of great importance. It means that no man has the authority to judge. You should not judge – judgment is to be left in God’s hands. And we go on judging. We go on saying: This is right and that is [...]

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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 Hasidic Tale of Rabbi Meir – Can the Master really save the disciple?

Osho on Rabbi Meir

Question – Can the Master really save the disciple? Osho – Certainly, absolutely… if the disciple is really a disciple he is already saved. It is not that first you have to be a disciple and then you will be saved – in your very being a disciple you are saved, in your very surrender [...]

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Osho Sufi Story – Somebody, some day, is bound to see the flowers

Osho Sufi Story

Osho – Sat-Chit-Anand – truth, consciousness, bliss. All are possible to you. In fact, they are your birthright. You just have to claim them … and the claim needs a little patience. There is a Sufi story: A king stopped his horse. He was passing by a nursery that belonged to a poor gardener. And [...]

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Osho – You are functioning out of memories, out of the past

Osho on Past and Memories

Osho – Try to see that whatsoever action is there, it is not arising out of you but rather arising out of the chain of actions you have done in the past. Try to understand this distinction clearly. Whenever you do something – if somebody insults you, you think that the reaction is arising from [...]

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Osho – Unless you can get free from the mind, there is no salvation

Osho on Mind and salvation

Osho – A temple is under construction. I pass by it and think: ”The temples are many; perhaps the number of persons visiting them has gone down; but then why is this new temple being constructed? And this is not alone. There are many other temples under construction. Few temples are built everyday. Temples are [...]

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Osho on Grace – Whenever you are open the grace is already flowing

Osho on Grace and nondoing

Osho – you must be here and now, and you must not be – you must not be – an ego. Then you are open, and whenever you are open the grace is already flowing; it has been flowing forever. If you are not getting it, it is not something that you can get by [...]

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Osho – Truth is hidden because of our Restlessness

Osho on Truth and Restlessness

Osho – We attach a lot of value to ourselves; and the more value we attach to our little selves, the more restless we become; and the more we suffer and the possibility of realizing Truth gets less and less. He who is tranquil and filled with peace, can realize Truth. The first rule for [...]

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Osho – If the master becomes a guest within you, your whole life is transformed

Osho on Master Disciple

Osho – All that is needed on the part of the disciple is not to repeat old patterns of many kinds of relationships with the master. Let it be a new relationship which you have never lived. Let it be absolutely untouched by your past. Let it be unique. And that’s why I insist again [...]

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Osho – Who is loved is immaterial; the loved one is just an excuse

osho on love and loving

Osho – Who is loved is immaterial; the loved one is just an excuse. The real objective is that because of a beloved, the river of love that has up to now been blocked within the lover may start flowing; the fountain that has for so long been covered over may spring up again; all [...]

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Osho Story on Baal Shem, Watching is certainly the golden key of spiritual life

Osho on Baal Shem

Osho – Lalita, you are asking me what can be more beautiful than to be in the presence of the master. Why not dissolve in the presence? To be in the presence of the master, there is still separation. Why be in the presence? Why not become the presence itself? And only then you will [...]

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Osho on Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis is a Buddha

Osho on Saint Francis of Assisi

Osho - The extraordinariness of a Buddha is his utter ordinariness. His ordinariness is his extraordinariness. To be ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. Just the other night I came across a very beautiful story about Saint Francis, a Buddha. Saint Francis of Assisi lay on his deathbed. He was singing, and singing [...]

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Osho – Enlightenment has no language

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Osho – Once you start falling in love with somebody, although in the beginning it is only his language, his poetry, his graceful assertions, his mysterious words … slowly, slowly you come closer and closer. Words are forgotten and the person becomes more and more important, his presence becomes more and more tangible. You can [...]

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Osho – Truth is God. There is no other God except the truth

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Osho – I was in a big city. Some young men came there to meet me. They started asking: “Do you believe in God?” I said: “No. What relation is there between belief and God? I know God.” Then I told them a story: There was a revolution in some country. The revolutionaries of that [...]

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Osho – A scripture is a scripture only if it gives you freedom

Osho – I have heard a story. A wasp made its abode near a window outside a big building. In winter this wasp would sleep and rest, in summer it would fly, dance and collect the pollen of the flowers. It was very happy. But this wasp was a special one – it was a [...]

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Osho – You can deny God, but God never denies you

Osho Sufi God

Osho – There is an ancient Sufi parable: A man gave to a Sufi mystic a present, a golden bowl with a beautiful fish in it. The Sufi looked at the bowl and the fish and felt very sorry for the fish, because the bowl is an imprisonment. He went to the lake and he [...]

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