Osho Stories

Osho – In India people worship God in such ways that one feels sorry for them

Osho – In India people worship God in such ways that one feels sorry for them. Once I was staying with a woman; she was a great lover of Krishna, so much so that she had stopped sleeping with her husband – how can you love two persons? That is a betrayal. She believed that [...]

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Osho – When a rich man prays, his prayer cannot be for money. If he is still praying for money, he is not yet rich enough

Osho – There are two kinds of religiousness in the world: the religiousness of the poor — it is very worldly, it is very materialistic — and the religiousness of the rich — it is very spiritual, very nonmaterialistic. When a rich man prays, his prayer cannot be for money. If he is still praying [...]

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Osho – If you are identified you feed the mind; if you are not identified you stop feeding it

Osho on identification with mind

Osho – If you are identified you feed the mind; if you are not identified you stop feeding it. It drops dead on its own accord. There is a beautiful story. I love it very much…. One day Buddha is passing by a forest. It is a hot summer day and he is feeling very [...]

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Osho – When a Person is filled with faith, Guru Begins his Work

Osho – There is a story about a Sufi fakir. There were two fakirs who stayed opposite each other. The disciple of one of them, approached his guru and said, ”The Sufi next door is spreading all kinds of stories about you. He even maligns you and spreads horrible rumours about you. Why do you not set him [...]

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Osho – What was the reason? Why did Buddha repeat so often

Osho – Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, ”I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again”. This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu’s one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On the morning [...]

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Osho – Be watchful so that inside remains always alone, far away, a watcher on the hills.

Osho – A Zen master was passing across a river, a small river, and his disciple was asking a few questions. When they were crossing the river the disciple asked a question, saying ’Master, what is the way to cross the river?’ And the master said ’Cross it in such a way that the water [...]

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Osho Story on Gautam Buddha past life as an Compassionate Elephant

Osho – Once it happened that this elephant who was Buddha in a past life was living in a forest and the forest caught fire, the forest was on fire. It was a very terrible fire. The whole forest was burning and all the animals and birds were escaping from the forest. This elephant was [...]

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Osho – A great courage is needed in life to be yourself in Failure, in Success

Osho Story on Courage

Osho – When I was a small child at school there was a wrestling competition for the whole district; I have never been able to forget that incident. There was a wrestler, the most famous wrestler in those parts, who was defeated. He was going to be the champion, the district champion or something, and [...]

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Osho – Nothing is hidden from God because God is the inside of everything

Osho – Nothing is hidden from God because God is the inside of everything. And the inside knows all. You can hide something from others but you cannot hide it from yourself, and it is there that God is hiding. It is not in the object, it is in the subject itself. There is a [...]

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Osho Hassidic Story – What do you possess? You don’t possess even yourself

Osho Hassidic Story

Osho – THERE is one very ancient tale. If you listen well, you will find yourself also in it. But if you only hear it, you will laugh at it and forget it. Sometimes you simply laugh to forget a thing, to hide a thing. Many times I have observed that you laugh just to [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha ‘Majjhim Nikaya’ The Middle Path

Osho on Buddha MAJJHIM NIKAYA Path

Buddhist Sutra- UNMINDING MIND, KEEP IN THE MIDDLE – UNTIL. Osho : Only this much is the sutra. Just like any scientific sutra it is short, but even these few words can transform your life totally. UNMINDING MIND, KEEP IN THE MIDDLE – UNTIL. KEEP IN THE MIDDLE… Buddha developed his whole technique of meditation [...]

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Osho Story on Hassid Master Sosya – Be yourself

Osho : The truly religious person is one who drops out of the whole trip of becoming, who relaxes in his being, who rejoices in his being, who says, ”I am that” – AHAM BRAHMASMI – ”I am already that”; ANA’L HAQ – ”I am truth, I am God.” These are just expressions of being. [...]

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Osho telling Sufi story of a Fakir and Pundit

Osho Sufi Story

Osho : There is a Sufi story. To earn his living a Sufi fakir used to work as a ferryman on a river. One day a village pundit wanted to go across the river. The fakir offered to take him across free of charge. He used to charge one or two paisa for the journey. [...]

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Osho story on Sheikh Farid, Osho on Sheikh Farid

Osho on Sheikh Farid

Osho – There is a story I would like to tell you about a Sufi mystic, Sheikh Farid. He was going towards the river one day to take his morning bath. A seeker followed him and asked him, “Please, just wait for one minute. You look so filled with the divine, but I don’t even [...]

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Osho on Upanishads Metaphor, Story of two Birds

Osho – So you live in two dimensions, on two planes. In the Upanishads they have the story, the parable or the metaphor, of two birds living in the same tree, absolutely alike. One bird sitting on the highest branch, utterly quiet, silent, unmoving, doing nothing, with closed eyes, somewhere in. The other bird on [...]

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Osho discourse on Swami Ramtirtha story

Osho on Swami Ramtirtha

Swami Ramtirtha Osho : Swami Ramtirtha used to tell a beautiful story: There was a very great atheist and he was continuously talking against God. He had written on the wall of his drawing-room in big golden letters: ”God is nowhere.” And then a child was born to him, and one day he was playing [...]

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Osho on Kahlil Gibran Story

Osho – Kahlil Gibran also writes a similar story: A magician came into the town, chanted a few mantras, threw something into the well of the town, and said, “Whosoever will drink the water of this well will go mad.” Now there were only two wells in the town: one was for the common people [...]

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Osho on H.G. Wells Story, Osho on poet H G wells

Osho on H G Wells

H.G. Wells Osho – This world is almost a madhouse. To be sane here will look like becoming insane. H.G. Wells has written a story: There is a valley somewhere in Mexico where a small tribe lives, hidden deep in the mountains. They are all blind. A fly is found in that valley; once a person [...]

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Osho on Gautam Buddha Disciples meditation

Osho on Gautam Buddha Disciples meditation

Osho – There is a story in Buddha’s life: One day one of Buddha’s sannyasins was passing through a street where he had gone to beg. The most beautiful woman of that town, the prostitute of the town, fell in love with the monk. She came down out of her house and requested the monk to [...]

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Osho on Lord Hanuman and Saint Ramdas Story

Osho on Hanuman and Saint Ramdas

Lord Hanuman Osho – There is a very beautiful story…. There was a great saint, Ramdas. Thousands of years after Rama walked on the earth, Ramdas was reciting his story again — after thousands of years. The way he used to tell the story of Rama was so enchanting, so magnetic, so charismatic, that it [...]

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Osho Story on Rabindranath Tagore, Osho on Rabindranath Tagore

Osho story on Rabindranath Tagore – Rabindranath, one of the greatest poets of this country, was living on a small houseboat. He used to live for months together on that houseboat; he loved living on the houseboat. It was a full-moon night and he was reading in his room, a small cabin, just by a [...]

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Osho on Bankei, Osho story on Zen Master Bankei

Osho story on Zen Master Bankei

Osho - The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary. The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power, politics, somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, [...]

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