Osho Teachings

Osho – You have to forget my words; you have to remember the essence, not the words

Osho on Words and Essence

Question – Osho, i go on forgetting your words. what should i do? Osho – Who has told you to remember my words? That’s how it should be, exactly, precisely. You have to forget my words; you have to remember the essence, not the words. And the essence need not be remembered, it has only [...]

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Osho – We are the answer to the questions that are surrounding humanity.

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Question – Beloved Osho, i heard you say sometime ago that science is of the head and religion is of the heart. i understand that these qualities, being of a polarity, are mutually dependent. one cannot exist without the other, just as man cannot exist without both head and heart. Would not then a world [...]

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Osho on Traditional Paths – I have no particular path. All paths are mine

Osho on Traditional Paths

Question – How would you describe your particular path to enlightenment in relationship to other traditional paths such as the various kinds of yoga, sufism, buddhism, zen, christianity, etcetera? Osho – I HAVE NO particular path. I don’t belong to any path whatsoever, and therefore all paths belong to me. Each path is perfect in [...]

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Osho – Allow the spontaneous to happen, and the spontaneous happens just by living life intensely.

Osho - Allow the spontaneous to happen

Osho – The message is to never think about yourself in any way which condemns. One has to learn to respect oneself; that is the beginning of a great change. We have been taught to condemn, to despise, to hate. We have been told to love others but we have not been told to love [...]

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Osho – Every sannyasin has to shout from the housetops, Spread my word wherever you go

Osho - Every sannyasin has to shout from the housetops

[A couple of sannyasins who have been running a centre in Goa are going West.] Osho – Spread my word wherever you go. Now this is the work: every sannyasin has to shout from the housetops, mm? Don’t be shy about it; that time is over: now take initiative. And don’t miss any opportunity. Whenever [...]

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Osho – I will use films, television, videotapes, tapes, every modern technique to spread the message

Osho on television, videotapes

Question – Osho, Don’t you have enough disciples? What is the need for videotapes of you and your commune? Osho – Devesh, I have got only one hundred fifty thousand sannyasins in the world – that is just a drop in the ocean of humanity. And if you want to transform the consciousness of man [...]

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Osho Teachings – What is your fundamental teaching to your Sannyasins?

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Question – Osho, What is your fundamental teaching to your sannyasins? Osho – Gourishankar Mehta, It seems you must be a total stranger to this place, otherwise such a question is not possible, because I have got no teaching. I am not a teacher at all; I don’t teach you anything. Teaching means imparting information. [...]

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Osho on Religion and Religiousness – Religiousness is an individual affair.

Osho on Religion and Religiousness

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Religion? Osho – Milarepa, religion is not what people understand it to be. It is not Christianity, it is not Hinduism, it is not Mohammedanism. Religion is a dead rock. I teach you not religion, but religiousness – a flowing river, continuously changing its course, but ultimately reaching the [...]

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Osho on Personality and Individuality – Don’t cling to Personality

Osho on Personality and Individuality

Question – Beloved Osho, Is It really worth putting any energy into improving my personality? Osho – Anand Tarika, have you ever heard me? I have been constantly telling you that the personality has to be dropped so that your individuality can be discovered. I have been insisting that the personality is not you; it [...]

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Osho vision – a meditative loving quality, a loving meditative quality

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Osho – It is the challenge and a challenge worth accepting because only through that challenge does one grow. Growth is an uphill task and this is the greatest challenge, this is the Everest, the highest climb — dangerous, hazardous, but the more dangerous it is the more enchanting, the more intriguing, the more interesting [...]

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Osho – my message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

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Osho – The word ’nija’ has many meanings: one is self, another is individual.When a person is just his own self, when a person has an individuality – when a person lives his way, in his own way, lives his life in his own way, when a person doesn’t try to fit with any mould, [...]

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Osho – Unless you are whole you are never fulfilled

Osho on fulfillment

Osho – The only difference between deep, dreamless sleep and the awakened state, the enlightened state, is that of awareness. If you can be aware in your deep sleep you are a Buddha. You are not aware even while you are awake, and the Buddha is one who is aware even while he is deep [...]

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Osho on Poverty – poverty is ugly and it has to be destroyed totally

Osho on Poverty

Osho – Poverty is not something to be praised; it is something to be condemned, totally condemned. It is like cancer: it has to be destroyed; no respect should be given to it, because that is nourishment. It should not be praised in any direct or indirect way, because that is how it has been [...]

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Osho – My way is The Way of the White Clouds

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Osho – To me, the life of a white cloud is the life of a SANNYASIN, of a man who has renounced. The life of a householder is a fixed routine. It is a dead thing, it is a pattern. It has a name, it has a form. It moves on a particular track like [...]

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Osho – TATWAMASI: you are that, you are the whole

Osho on TATWAMASI word

Osho – This is freedom: to be free from all narrowness. If you are a Hindu, you cannot be free, you are very narrow. You are in a tunnel called Hinduism. If you are a Mohammedan, you are not free. If you think you are man, you are woman, you are not free — tunnels, [...]

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Osho – I am trying to wake you up herenow

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Question – you spoke of the three ways: beauty, grandeur and power. which is your way? or is it all three? Osho – It is neither. I have no way, because I am not leading you anywhere. I am trying to wake you up herenow. You are already wandering all over the earth. My effort [...]

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Osho – Learn to enjoy not only the pleasures of life but the pains too

Osho on Helplessness Frustration

Question – Osho what to do with the feeling of helplessness at the frustration in finding that nothing is ultimately satisfying — all is not enough? Osho – Deva Alla, IF THIS IS YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, then the question won’t arise — then how can you ask the question? The question arises out of some [...]

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Osho – If you can be ordinary, You are successful

Osho on Success in Ordinary Life

Question – What is your view of being successful in ordinary life? — i am afraid you are against success! Osho – I AM NEITHER AGAINST ANYTHING NOR FOR ANYTHING. Whatsoever happens, happens. One need not choose — because with choice is misery. If you want to be successful then you will remain miserable. You [...]

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Osho – I love you. Love is my message — let it be your message too

Osho – MY BELOVED ONES: I love you. Love is my message — let it be your message too. Love is my color and my climate. To me, love is the only religion. All else is just rubbish, all else is nothing but mind-churning dreams. Love is the only substantial thing in life, all else [...]

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Osho – Great Responsibility We have to get your words out to the World

Question – Beloved Osho, You spoke the other day about the great responsibility we have to get your words out to the world. Can you say some more? Osho – The most important need of humanity today is to be made aware that its past has betrayed it. There is no point in continuing the [...]

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Osho – A Master is not a message but a medium

Question – What is your Message, Osho? I Don’t understand you. Osho – My message is that there is no message. I am not here to give you a message, because a message will become knowledge. I am here to impart something of my being. It is not a message, it is a gift. It [...]

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Osho – The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide

Osho – The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide, and people are brought to one consciousness within themselves. This will be a totally different dimension to work with. Up to now it was revolution. The point was society, its structure. It has failed again and again in different [...]

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