Osho Stories

Osho on Rabia parable – Seeking and Seeker

Osho on Rabia parable

Osho  - I have heard about a very great Sufi mystic woman, Rabia al-Adawia. One evening, people found her sitting on the road searching for something. She was an old woman, her eyes were weak, and it was difficult for her to see. So the neighbours came to help her.   They asked, ‘What are [...]

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Osho story on Surdas, Osho on Saint Surdas

Osho story on Surdas – There is a story in India about a saint, Surdas. I don’t think it is true. If it is true then Surdas is not a saint. Surdas can only be a saint if the story is untrue. I am ready to say that the story is untrue; I cannot say [...]

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Osho on Jesus Stories, Jesus Christ Stories

Osho on Jesus Story – My work is done as far as I am concerned because I am done. Now the energy has become a compassion and an overflowing, and all those who really want to taste are invited to do so without any condition. You are not to give anything, you simply are to [...]

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Osho on Gurdjieff Stories, George Gurdjieff Stories

Osho on Gurdjieff Stories – George Gurdjieff used to tell a story… there was a magician who had many sheep. And it was a trouble to get them home from the forest every night — wild animals were there, and he was losing many of his sheep. Finally the idea came to him, “Why do [...]

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Sufi Stories of Osho, Osho on Sufi Stories of Sufi Mystics

Osho on Sufi Stories – I have often told a Sufi story. A man renounces the world, his wife, his home. He is young and he is going in search of a master. Just outside his village under a tree, an old man is sitting. The sun is just setting, and darkness is descending. The [...]

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Osho discourse on ‘Every thing is Good as it is’

Osho everything is good as it is

Osho – Just explaining this to you: that there is no goal, that there is nothing to achieve, that everything is good as it is. I will tell you a Sufi story: There is a story told by Sufis about a man who read that certain dervishes, on the orders of their Master, never touched [...]

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Osho on Ramakrishna Stories, Ramakrishna Paramhansa Stories

Osho on Ramakrishna Stories

Osho – Ramakrishna used to tell a beautiful story. A bird was flying with a dead mouse and twenty or thirty birds were chasing him. The bird was very much worried. ‘I am not doing anything to them, I am just carrying my dead mouse. They are all after me.’ And they hit him hard [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasruddin Stories, Sufi Stories of Mulla Nasruddin

Osho Mulla Nasruddin Stories

Osho - There is a story about a Sufi mystic, Mulla Nasruddin. From the very beginning it was thought that he was upside down. His parents were in trouble. If they would say, “Go to the right,” he would go to the left. Finally his old father thought that rather than bothering with him, it is [...]

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Osho Stories on Rumi, Mystic Rumi Sufi Stories

Osho Stories on Rumi, Mystic Rumi Sufi Stories There is a story in the life of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi. He was working with his disciples in the desert, in a small monastery. A few travelers passing by, just out of curiosity stopped and went in. They saw that in the courtyard the students were sitting, [...]

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Osho Mulla Nasruddin Story, Osho Story on Mulla Nasruddin

Osho – One Sufi story is that Mulla Nasruddin was chosen by the Shah of Iran to go to the king of India as his messenger, to make a friendship between two great countries. All the other important people in the court of the Shah of Iran were very jealous. They were trying in every [...]

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Osho on Meera, Osho story on Meera

Osho – There is a beautiful story about a great woman mystic of India, Meera. She was really a mad devotee, a mad BHAKTA, in tremendous love and ecstasy with God. She was a queen, but she started dancing on the streets. The family disowned her. The family tried to poison her — the family [...]

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Osho on Moinuddin Chishti, Osho Story on Moinuddin Chishti

Osho on Moinuddin Chishti

Osho – I have heard a story. It happened in Ajmer… You must have heard about one Sufi mystic, Moinuddin Chishti, whose dargah, whose tomb, is in Ajmer. Chishti was a great mystic, one of the greatest ever born, and he was a musician. To be a musician is to be against Islam because music [...]

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Osho on Bahauddin, Osho on Sufi story about Bahauddin

Osho : The master represents only your real self; he speaks to you only to provoke the sleeping center of your being. Once the center is awake the master becomes silent with the disciple. There is a Sufi story about Bahauddin, one of the great Sufi mystics. He was living with his disciples, a few hundred [...]

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