Therapist Group leaders

Osho on Therapies and Role of Therapist – Therapy has become a business

Osho on Therapy and Role of Therapist

QUESTION – BELOVED OSHO, IS TAKING THE ROLE OF A THERAPIST DANGEROUS TO MY OWN SPIRITUAL GROWTH? IS IT POSSIBLE TO HELP PEOPLE AND STILL LET MY OWN EGO DISSOLVE AT THE SAME TIME? I FEEL THAT A SUBTLE FIGHT GOES ON INSIDE ME BETWEEN ONE PART THAT IS CLEAR AND ANOTHER PART THAT WANTS [...]

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Osho – To be a therapist, a groupleader, is a very great responsibility

Osho on therapist and responsibility

Osho – To be a therapist, a groupleader, is a very great responsibility. One who is not ready should not move into it. It should not be an ego trip — otherwise rather than helping, you can harm. Only somebody who is not on an ego trip can be of help. The egoistic person can [...]

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Osho – A psychiatrist needs to be meditative more than anybody else

Osho on psychiatrist and meditation

[A visitor said she had trouble becoming involved in the meditations here, adding that she could not stay much longer as she was a psychiatrist and had patients to see.] Osho – A psychiatrist needs to be meditative more than anybody else — because your whole work is dangerous in a way. Unless you are [...]

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Osho – If you want to be changed you will seek a master, not a psychotherapist

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Question – Beloved Master, The west is overpopulated with psychotherapists and their patients, but why does no one seem to be helped? Osho – Patrick, the help is possible only through a buddha. The help is possible only through the awakened one. The psychotherapists are as asleep as you are; they are in the same [...]

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Osho – Once the idea of uniqueness spreads in the commune, there will be nobody who will try to enforce authority

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Question – Beloved Osho, How can we Avoid being Authoritative? Osho – It is very simple. The people who are authoritarian are the people who are suffering from an inferiority complex. To hide their inferiority they impose their superiority. They want to prove that they are somebody, that their word is truth, that their word [...]

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Osho – It is unfortunate but it is true that the therapists have missed me most

Osho on Therapists

Question – BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT SOME SANNYASIN THERAPISTS NOW IMAGINE THAT THEY ARE ON THE SAME PLANE AS YOU ARE, DOING THE SAME KIND OF WORK — IF PERHAPS ON A SOMEWHAT SMALLER SCALE. THEY NO LONGER EVEN MENTION YOUR NAME, AND APPEAR TO HAVE DISCARDED THE MALA AND RED [...]

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Osho on Massage, Make Massage a prayer

[A sannyasin who is leaving wants to do massage but doesn’t know if that is right for her. Osho watches her energy movement for some moments and says yes, it is good for her to do massage... ] Osho – Just remember one thing: keep the attitude of prayer whenever you are massaging the person… [...]

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Osho – One should not sell one’s life for a Living

Osho on Living

[A sannyasin asks about becoming a Primal therapist.] Osho – It is always good to find something that you like – because it is your life; it should not be wasted in any way. And if you have the feeling that you don’t like any job and that you have to do it, it becomes [...]

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Osho – Love is therapy, and there is no other therapy in the world except love

Osho on Love is Therapy

Osho – Love is therapy, and there is no other therapy in the world except love. It is always love that heals, because love makes you whole. Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no more an outsider here, but utterly [...]

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Osho – In a future world therapy will become absolutely Feminine

[A sannyasin is going back to the West and would like to run a group on the lines of the tao group that happens here. She isn’t sure though whether she is ready or able to lead groups. Osho saysthat her energy is ready – it just needs to flow a little bit more. He [...]

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Osho – Therapy is a function of love. Love is therapeutic

[The new sannyasin says she is a doctor.] Osho – You will become capable. You just need a little more love flowing. It works more than any medicine. Up to now medical science has not been able to find anything more potent than love. If you can be loving to the patient, you will be [...]

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Osho – A creative person is happy only when something beautiful is Created

[The sannyasin therapist says: But between groups it seems that I don’t seem to be able to find a comfortable space to be in. I don’t have the same relationship with myself that I have in the groups.] Osho – It is very indicative and has to be understood. When you are working with people, [...]

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Osho – Every person has Energy to Heal. It is something natural

Osho - Every person has Energy to Heal

[A sannyasin who is leaving said: Two months ago, you said you might give me a special healing meditation. I’ve been going to all the divine healings (that happen at each monthly camp) and they did much.] Osho – You would like to become a healer? … You will be able. It will be good [...]

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Osho – Once the leader is possessed, the duality disappears.

[To the leader of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar)] Osho – It has to be remembered that the leader is not, in fact, a manipulator. He should not be. If you manipulate, then it is something from the mind, and that which comes from the mind cannot go deeper than the mind. So the [...]

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Osho – Techniques work only when there is deep love. Left alone, techniques never work

[The Arica group came to darshan tonight. One of the leaders said he had felt there had been a lot more love, compared to groups he had been in in the States. He had also found that he was on a powertrip.] Osho – Techniques work only when there is deep love. Left alone, techniques [...]

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Group Leaders have been helpful to other people, but they have not been helpful to themselves

[The groupleader says: I’ve been a leader in theWest... I’ve never had anyone to account to. I started to look at what I’m doing, and I realise that a lot is wanting to please you, to get your approval. I think that was important for me. The marathon seemed to be turning out better for [...]

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Osho – In Buddhism there are two schools Mahayana and Hinayana

[Osho asked the Hypnotherapy groupleader how the group had been. The groupleader replied: Well I’m never really content, but I’m happy.] Osho – That’s good! Leaders should never be content, but should always be happy! If you become content you cannot help people, because only discontent brings creativity. Everybody is such an infinite possibility that [...]

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Osho – Always remember that you are a vehicle to me. Simply allow me to function through you

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[Another sannyasin who had lead the group said he was feeling apprehensive about taking groups in the States.] Osho – Always remember that you are a vehicle to me. So don’t be worried; simply allow me to function through you, and then things will happen of their own accord. Just allow. If you take it [...]

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Osho on Hypnosis, Meditation is Hypnosis in the vertical dimension and Hypnosis is Meditation in horizontal dimension

Osho on Hypnosis and Meditation

[A new sannyasin says: I am a therapist, a child therapist... Also working with brain- children and using hypnosis.] Osho – Hypnosis has many possibilities and more people should be working in that direction. has not been yet taken seriously, and it is one of the very fundamental things which can innermost core of all [...]

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Osho on purpose of Therapy Groups

Osho on Purpose of Therapy Groups

Osho – THE PURPOSE OF THE THERAPY GROUPS is not to bring the participants to their natural self – not at all. The purpose of the therapy groups is to bring you to the point where you can see your unnaturalness. Nobody can bring you to your natural self; there can be no method, no [...]

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Osho on Therapy and Meditation – Role of therapy in meditation?

Osho on Therapy and Meditation

Question – Osho, What is the role of therapy in meditation? Osho – Buddha never needed any psychotherapy for his sannyasins; those people were innocent. But in these twenty five centuries, people have lost their innocence, they have become too knowledgeable. People have lost their contact with existence. They have become uprooted. I am the first [...]

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