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Osho – You cannot stop the mind because you have not started it

Osho on Stopping Thinking

Question – HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE MIND CAN GO ON PRODUCING THOUGHTS CONSTANTLY, AND HOW CAN WE STOP THAT WHICH WE HAVE NOT STARTED? Osho – You cannot stop that which you have not started. Don’t try it, otherwise you will simply be wasting time, energy, life. You cannot stop the mind because [...]

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Osho – Why we don’t feel the divine which is here/ now, within/without

Osho on divine which is here now

Question – Please explain why we don’t feel the divine which is here/ now, within/without, which is you, me and all. Osho – This is from Swami Yoga Chinmaya. Because you are too much, and too heavy on yourself. Because you cannot laugh, the divine is hidden. Because you are too tense, you are closed. [...]

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Osho – Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it

Osho on Seriousness

Question – You say that seriousness is a disease. Whenever i remember myself i feel serious, so what should i do? Osho – Don’t get serious about it. Let it be so, and laugh. If you can laugh at yourself, everything is okay. People laugh at others, but never laugh at themselves. It has to [...]

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Osho – Christ is totally different from Christianity

Osho on Christianity and Christ

Question – A single session of your dynamic meditation has left within me a greater bliss and sense of being than twenty years of having had to listen to the stories of the new testament and to pray to an almighty and distant god who stayed an unexperienceable godot to me. Is it possible that [...]

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Osho – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?

Osho on Joy and Enjoyment

Question – Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything? Osho – Joy is not allowed; you are preconditioned against joy. From the very childhood you have been taught that if you are happy then something is wrong — unhappy, everything is good. If you are miserable nobody is worried about it, but if you [...]

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Osho – Emptiness, when it is negative, is never at ease with itself

Osho on Negative and Positive Emptiness

Question – I feel empty. I cry. What’s next? Osho – This emptiness is negative. Otherwise you will not cry; you will laugh. This emptiness is like loneliness, not like aloneness. This emptiness is not a deep presence; it is simply absence. This emptiness is only death, and there is no resurrection in it. That’s [...]

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Osho – Everybody has his own way of being in love. Never compare it

osho on being in love

Question – Having never had the opportunity to truly fall in love, to know that surrender, is that keeping me from truly falling in love with you, being in that mad state of love? Is it enough just to feel quiet love, respect — though not necessarily that odd form of insanity? Osho – Don’t [...]

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Osho – Jesus loved. That was one of his crimes: that he loved.

Osho on Jesus Love

Question – It is believed that Christ was the first politician of love in that he tried to save the world before he had saved himself, and that we are his children: politicians of love, seeking heaven on earth. Osho – Politician, and Christ? Politics and love are impossible to be together. Love is anti-political; [...]

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Osho – Jesus never created guilt in people. That was one of his crimes

Osho - Jesus never created guilt in people

Question – Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, So jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Osho – Fear and guilt are not the same thing. Fear accepted becomes freedom; fear denied, rejected, condemned, becomes guilt. If you accept fear as part of the situation…. [...]

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Osho – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do?

Osho on enlightened masters ego

Question – Do all enlightened masters sound as egoistic as you do? Osho – It is bound to be so. They sound egoistic because they cannot be humble in the sense you understand humility. Try to understand. It is a delicate point. Whatsoever you call humbleness is a function of the ego. It is a [...]

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Osho – Never believe in a God who is separate from His creatures and the creation

Osho on God Creation

Osho – ONCE UPON A TIME, two explorers came to a clearing in the jungle. It was a beautiful place — thousands and thousands of flowers were blossoming. One of the explorers said, “There must be a gardener tending these flowers, looking after this plot.” He was a believer. The other disagreed and said, “I [...]

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Osho – Love is not a duty. In love, work becomes worship.

Osho on Love and Work

Question – You said, “we are not doing anything here,” But those of us who live and work here in the ashram are continuously occupied with’doing’. In fact the more we do, the more we are praised; and anyone who does not, or does less, is scolded. please explain. Osho – When I said, “We [...]

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Osho – Jesus committed the crime of being happy. That was his only crime

Osho on Jesus Crime

Osho – RELIGION CAN BE HEALTHY — as healthy as a new born babe, as healthy as the songs of the birds in the morning, as healthy as a newly opening lotus. Or religion can be ill, diseased, dying — just like an old man: shrinking, sad, moving.into death. When religion is young, it has [...]

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Osho – Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision

Osho on Spirituality and Virtue

Osho – SPIRITUALITY is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues — because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is [...]

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Osho – Why do you prefer to call meditation the art of dying

Osho on Meditation and Ego

Question – Why do you prefer to call meditation the art of dying rather than calling it the art of growing? Osho – Because I know your ego will like it very much if I called it the art of growing. The art of dying comes like a shock. Let me tell you an anecdote. [...]

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Osho – Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy

Osho on Spontaneous Celibacy

Question – As sex is closely related to death, What is the meaning of spontaneous celibacy? Osho – Sex is more closely related to birth than to death. Birth is out of sex; birth is a sexual phenomenon. Naturally, sex is also closely related to death — but as a by-product. Because birth is out [...]

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Osho – Your expectation is the barrier because God is the unexpected

Osho on Expectations and God

Osho – The truth cannot be your expectation. Whatsoever you expect will be a lie. Whatsoever you expect will be a projection. Whatsoever you expect will be a part of your mind. No, truth cannot be expected. It takes you unawares. In fact, it comes when you were not even waiting for it. It is [...]

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Osho – Look! See! Feel! Touch! — you will be nearer. But don’t think

Osho on language of existence

Osho – Existence has no language… and if you depend on language there can be no communication with existence. Existence is a mystery, you cannot interpret it. If you interpret, you miss. Existence can be lived, but not thought about. It is more like poetry, less like philosophy. It is a sign, it is a [...]

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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 – When Jesus touched the feet of his disciples, love touched their feet

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Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth – “THEN COMETH HE TO SIMON PETER, AND PETER SAITH UNTO HIM: LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET?” Osho – It doesn’t look appropriate.’Dost thou wash MY feet? It is okay if I wash yours; you are our Lord, our Master.’ A question arises in the mind of the disciple [...]

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Osho – Leave children alone. Never impose any religion on them

Osho - Leave children alone

Question – My little son was never baptized. will this be of importance. Osho – It is very important! It is good that he was never baptized because baptism is such a significant thing — it cannot be forced upon anybody. When you force it on a child you are creating an artificial religion for [...]

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