Osho Tao Discourses

Osho – Lao Tzu has No Path or The No-Path is his path

Osho on Lao Tzu Path

Question – You said there are only two types of people: those whose path is awareness and those whose path is surrender or bhakti. It seems to me that lao tzu has nothing to do with either of them — is there a third type then who follow neither or both? Osho – LAO Tzu [...]

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Osho on Laziness – Laziness is better than the trap of egoism

Osho on Laziness

Question – The danger of your talks on taoism is that there are a lot of lazy, irresponsible people around who rationalise their bad habits by claiming to be inactive taoists. please clarify the difference between a taoist and a lazy escapist. Osho – The question is from Anand Prem. The first thing, there are [...]

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Osho on Navel Center – Lao Tzu says, “The navel is the centre and not the heart or the brain’

Osho on Navel Center

QUESTION – ONE FRIEND ASKS HOW A PERSON SHOULD FIND THE INTERNAL CENTRE THAT IS MENTIONED BY LAO TZU AND DEVELOP ITS HUNGER. OSHO – Sit with your eyes closed and think, “Where is the centre of my body?” We live through our body, but it is an unfortunate fact that we do not give [...]

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Osho – Lao Tzu says: ‘Bring down your consciousness from the head to the heart’

Osho on Lao Tzu Sutra

Osho – We keep changing objects: from the first to the second and the third and so on, but our chase does not abate. And this chase is insatiable. It can never be satiated because the nature of desires is insatiable. Therefore, the sage seeks to satisfy the hunger that exists in the innermost centre [...]

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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 – Tao is certainly greater than mind – Tao is greater than everything

Osho - tao is greater than mind

Question – Osho, Tao is greater than mind. Then why do we keep choosing the mind instead of flowing with the Tao? Osho – Prem Radha, It is precisely because of that. Tao is so vast that one is afraid to lose one’s identity in it. We are like dewdrops and Tao is like an [...]

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Osho – Just be yourself, ordinary and unique, and fulfill your destiny

Osho - Just be yourself

Osho – Tao says, that when nobody knows what to make of you – you are so ordinary that nobody knows what to make of you, nobody knows any utility for you, you cannot be used, you are so ordinary, without any talent – then, they say, the real mystery reveals itself through you. Then [...]

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Osho – A Taoist master has never been crucified or poisoned

Osho - A Taoist master

Osho – Don’t display! Don’t become an exhibitionist, otherwise you will be in trouble. And don’t rely on distinction and talent when you deal with men. Why? Because every man is an egoist. If you depend on your talent you will be in trouble because you will create enemies. If you depend on distinction you [...]

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Osho – Be my Disciples but not my Followers

Osho - Be my Disciples

Osho – Chuang Tzu always watched monkeys. He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man. And a monkey is hidden in you! This whole world is nothing but a monkey mountain, all around are monkeys. What is the characteristic of a monkey? What is the deepest character in the monkey? [...]

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Osho – A man of Tao remains ordinary, absolutely ordinary

Osho - A man of Tao remains ordinary

Osho – Tao says that whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out; whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth. Don’t throw it out. If you throw a seed on the street for [...]

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Osho – Life is based on the rule of opposites

Osho on Life and Contradictions

Osho – One of the basic sutras of Lao Tzu is that life is based on the rule of opposites. Life does not oppose its contradictions. Rather, it works in collaboration with its counter-forces. Ordinarily it appears that if your enemy dies you will be a happier man, but you do not know that with [...]

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Osho – The whole world is trying to fulfill the nonessential

osho on nonessential

Osho – Only a man of Tao could have changed that hell into a heaven. A man of Tao, wherever he is, is at peace, at ease. Only the essential is done, and if you can do the essential for him, he is happy. The nonessential is dropped. You cannot drop the nonessential. Really, ninety-nine [...]

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Osho – If there is no radio, no television, no newspaper

Osho on Man of Tao

Osho – The man of Tao is not one of much action – he is not a man of action, the least possible action happens through him. He is really a man of inaction, he is not much occupied with activity. But you are occupied with activity just to escape from yourself. You cannot tolerate [...]

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Osho – Chuang Tzu says: Character is not to be cultivated

Osho on character

Osho – Chuang Tzu is saying that the halo of saintliness around you shows that you are still there. The halo that you are good is sure to create calamity for you, and calamity for others also. Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu – master and disciple – have never been painted in pictures with halos, auras, around them. [...]

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Osho – Don’t be dominated and Don’t try to dominate

Osho on domination and ego

Osho – You should not try to influence anybody, and you should be alert that you are not influenced by others. The ego can do both but it cannot remain in the middle. The ego can try to influence, then it feels good, dominating, but remember that the ego also feels good being dominated. The masters feel good [...]

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Osho – Lu-tsu says, ‘Accept the situation you are in’

Osho on Lu-tsu acceptane sutra

osho – whatsoever situation you are in is a God-given situation; don’t reject it. It is an opportunity, an occasion to grow. If you escape from the opportunity, you will not grow. The people who go to the Himalayan caves and start living there and become very much attached to the caves remain ungrownup. They [...]

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Osho – Lao Tzu cannot speak truth, but to be with Lao Tzu you may get the right direction

Osho on Truth

Question – Beloved Osho, Probably no enlightened master has spoken so many millions of words about the truth as you have. Lao tzu says, “the truth that can be spoken is not the truth.” Beloved Master, what do you say? Osho – Lao Tzu is right. The truth that can be spoken is no longer [...]

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Osho – More aware you become the more responsible you become

Osho on Tao

The more aware you become the more responsible you become, the more you feel, the more you become a help — not that you start serving people, but your whole life becomes a service.

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Osho – T'ai Chi is very good But when the body is unburdened of repressed emotions

[A new sannyasin said she would like to learn T’ai Chi.] Osho – T’ai chi is very good, mm? But when the body is unburdened of repressed emotions and energy starts flowing, then T’ai Chi is just the right thing to do. But just wait… Just wait a little, mm? Always remember, everything has a [...]

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Osho – Ego can even renounce. It can Renounce everything but it will always save itself

Osho – All arrangements of life, like for instance our own life, is all based on a trance. We live in a trance; and the centre of this unconsciousness, is our ego. Lao Tzu says, ”Nature is eternal for it lives not for itself.” He who has no thought about himself, will not live for [...]

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Osho Discourse on Tai Chi – Guidance onTai Chi Exercise

Osho – When doing these exercises, feel more like a liquid, Flowing energy, than like a solid body. Drop the concept of a solid body and help to focus on a different concept of liquid, fluid, flowing energy. Before you start T’ai Chi start doing this in the night so that you will be ready. [...]

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Osho – Tai Chi is a beautiful meditative process.

Osho – T’ai chi chuan is a war method, a defense method. When you use t’ai chi in fighting, then it is called chuan. But the moment you are getting ready to fight, you have missed the whole thing. Then you cannot be really relaxed. The very idea of defence, of fight, is ugly, non-meditative. [...]

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