Satori Samadhi Nirvana

Question – WHY IS IT THAT WE HEAR OF FEWER ENLIGHTENED WOMEN THAN MEN? Osho – The basic reason is that man is an expert in bragging; women are not. Many women have attained to enlightenment. The number is exactly the same as men — cannot be otherwise, because existence goes on balancing itself — [...]

Question : Why do live like a King? Osho : Why not? I am an old Jew! You know Jews – if you ask them a question, they answer it with another question. There is a famous story about a king. He had many Jews in his court because they were rich people, but he [...]

Question : WHEN AN ENLIGHTENED BEING DISSOLVES INTO THE COSMOS, DOES HIS UNIQUENESS DISSOLVE ALSO? Osho : The enlightened man, even while he is alive in the body, has already dissolved. He knows that he is no more, he knows that he is a nothingness. The dissolution has already happened. In fact, nothing has dissolved, [...]

Question –  How do you define Atma Chintan? Osho : There is no such thing as self-thinking, atma chintan. You cannot be in a state when you are thinking about yourself, because one who knows, knows; he never thinks about it. We only think about things which we don’t know… you go on thinking. But [...]

”IT IS NOT OBTAINED FROM OTHERS. THEREFORE, WHEN YOU ARE ENLIGHTENED, YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE MANIFESTS ITSELF. NOW YOU HAVE ATTAINED IT – CAREFULLY CULTIVATE IT.” Osho : This is a very significant statement of Hyakujo. You cannot cultivate enlightenment, that will be phony. You can walk like a buddha, you can manage to sit in [...]

Question : BELOVED OSHO, CAN THE INTELLECT BE A DOOR TO ENLIGHTENMENT, OR IS ENLIGHTENMENT ONLY ACHIEVED THROUGH SURRENDER? Osho : Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see [...]

Osho on enlightened disciple Maitreya – Earlier Osho has answered a question from Maitreya: Osho : You say, “Every day You are becoming more and more mysterious.” This is a good symptom. That means you are slowly, slowly coming closer and closer to me. The closer you come to me, the more mysterious you will [...]

Question  - ”Does this happening occur suddenly and unexpectedly?” Osho : Both things can be said. It cannot be predicted, so it happens suddenly. Nobody can say when it will happen. My own disciples go on asking me, ”When? Give the date, the day, the month, the year!” And I have to go on lying [...]

Osho : No, an enlightened person cannot dream. And if you like dreams very much, never become enlightened. Beware! Dreaming is part of sleep. The first thing is that for dreaming to happen you have to move into sleep. For ordinary dreams you have to move into sleep. In sleep you become unconscious. When you [...]

Question : Can there be a Partial Experience of Samadhi Osho : Not partial but preliminary. There is a difference between the two. The experience of samadhi cannot be partial, but there can be a mental glimpse of samadhi. The experience is spiritual; the glimpse is mental. If I stand on the top of the [...]