http://www.oshoteachings.com Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:20:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en swami rajneesh sannyas – we are one love ( latvia ) from Osho Rajneesh on Vimeo.]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/swami-rajneesh-sannyas-we-are-one-love-latvia/ swami rajneesh sannyas – this precious moment ( portugal ) from Osho Rajneesh on Vimeo.]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/swami-rajneesh-sannyas-this-precious-moment-portugal/ Question – What about palmistry? What about those lines? Osho – Those lines have nothing to do with the future. We can cut both your hands off — still there will be a future. We can do plastic surgery and remove your whole skin — still there will be a future. Those lines are simply [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-on-palmistry-and-astrology-lines-have-nothing-to-do-with-the-future/ Osho’s Hands Question – Do you believe in astrology? Is it true that an astrologer predicted to your father that you would not survive more than seven years, but if you survived you would become a buddha? Osho – I have survived — that’s enough proof that astrology has no truth. Astrology is man’s weakness, [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-on-astrology-mans-future-is-open-and-an-open-future-gives-freedom/ Question – Jail is a terrible thing. You have never spoken on the psychology of the jails. In the jails did you feel better mentally, or miserable? Osho – Every person is in a jail, not only in one jail but many jails. First your body is a jail, then your ideology is a jail, [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-on-jails-prison-space-makes-no-difference-in-your-state-of-being/ Question – Bhagwan, you are going on a world tour. What will your message be? Osho – My message is, that we have to create a world without the boundary of nations, without the boundary of religions — only then we will be for the first time civilized. Otherwise we are carrying barbarious past in [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-my-effort-will-be-to-expose-our-barbariousness-in-nationalism-in-different-groups/ Question – Bhagwan, why are people spacing out instead of in? Osho – Because spacing out is simple. It can be done through chemical means, through drugs, through alcohol, through LSD, through marijuana, through hashish. It is simple, because the question is just eating something or smoking something, and you space out. But no drug [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-on-spacing-out-why-are-people-spacing-out-instead-of-in/ Question - Bhagwan, What is Spirituality? Osho – The old concept has been, that spirituality is something against materialism. To renounce the pleasures of matter, of body, of mind has been defined as spirituality. To me it is nonsense. Spirituality is to be disidentified with everything that you can see, that can be an object to [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-to-me-spirituality-is-living-totally-intensely/ George Gurdjieff Question – Bhagwan, for years, there have been growth and consciousness movements. what is growth and consciousness really about? is consciousness something everyone has and can develop — or do some have it, and some don’t? Osho – First: it was George Gurdjieff who for the first time in the whole history of [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-gurdjieff-said-to-people-that-you-dont-have-any-soul/ Question – Bhagwan, you have said that people need to experience material wealth in their lives before spiritual growth can happen. Why then do so many people in wealthy, developed countries, suffer from mental diseases? Osho – The cause is the religions. The wealthy people in the West get bored with their riches. They are [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-the-wealthy-people-in-the-west-get-bored-with-their-riches/ Question – Bhagwan, how can we get rid of the programming of organized religions? Osho – The process of deprogramming is one of the most simple. Just you have to watch the ideologies, philosophies, religions, that you are carrying in your mind — are not your own experiences. That’s the distinction to be made: what [...]]]> http://www.oshoteachings.com/osho-how-can-we-get-rid-of-the-programming-of-organized-religions/