Osho – Just be a mirror: reflect me; don’t try to understand me

Osho on discourses

Question – If you are not there, and there is no thought any more, How can you give such coherent and beautiful discourses? It seems like you are aware and understand what you are saying. Osho – Such beautiful and coherent discourses are possible because I am not there. Once I am there, they will [...]

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Osho – Heartache is a positive thing. Headache is a negative thing

Osho on Heartache and Headache

Question – My heart aches. such a tiny crevice of it feels able to open to you. I want to melt and flow around you like a puddle; and i don’t know how. Somehow my heart knows what it would feel like to open totally to you, and because it does not, it aches. and [...]

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Osho – When listening to me, sit like a Buddha, silent, receptive, feminine.

Osho on Listening

Question – If i can truly experience the music of the fluteplayer, can that be on the same level as the experience you wish to occur with you? I am thinking of the sufis: i see, but i do not see. i am behind a glass wall. Osho – The object is irrelevant. Only the [...]

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Osho – Jesus’ prayer is almost childish. That’s the beauty of it

Osho on Jesus Prayer

Question – Will you please explain to me the Lord’s Prayer, as given by Jesus? Osho – MEDITATION CAN BE EXPLAINED, prayer never. It can be understood, but it cannot be explained. Prayer is something of the heart, very elusive, very indefinable. You can feel it, but you cannot think it. That is part of [...]

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Osho – He (enlightened man) does not answer your questions; he answers you

osho on enlightened man answer

Osho – Always remember it: whenever you come to an enlightened man, whatsoever you say is not the point. He talks out of his heart. In fact, he does not answer your questions; he answers you, your deepest need, about which you yourself are not aware. It happens so many times when I am answering [...]

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Osho – Whatsoever you say about others, says more about you

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Question – Osho, here with you is the deepest, most growing place for me to be and i dislike much of what i see here — dead rajneeshianity rising like an ikon, licentiousness not freedom emerging, arrogance and aggressiveness the rule, humility and caring the exception. Opening to the awareness that these are my qualities, [...]

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Osho – A man who is enlightened lives out of his consciousness.

Osho on an Enlightened Man

Question – What constitutes the behaviour of an enlightened man? Osho – An enlightened man is all emptiness. What constitutes an emptiness? It has no ‘constitutes’ in it; hence it is empty. A man who is enlightened has no character. Let me repeat it: an enlightened man has no character at all. He lives from [...]

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Osho – If you have decided to remain thirsty, it is up to you

Osho on Sannyas and Thirst

Question – Do you think that you will be unable to work upon me if i do not take your Sannyas? Osho – Have you come to find your capacities or have you come to find my capacities? Are you your problem, or am I your problem? Leave me to myself; you at least solve [...]

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Osho – A cultivated trust will not be trust; it will be false

Osho on Cultivated Trust

Question – Can Trust be Cultivated? Osho – A cultivated trust will not be trust; it will be false, it will be insincere. It will just be on the surface; it will never touch your centre. Whatsoever is cultivated remains superficial, because whatsoever is cultivated remains of the mind. Trust cannot be cultivated, just as [...]

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Osho – When Jesus was here, God existed. When Jesus disappears, God disappears

Osho - When Jesus was here

Osho – I AM A DRUNKARD. You may believe it or not, but I am a drunkard. You can look into my eyes and you can see it — I. am drunk with Jesus. And Jesus is a wine; he is not a man, he’s an intoxication. And once you have tasted of him, then [...]

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Osho – God, fate, destiny – these are bogus words, mumbo jumbo

Osho on God, fate, destiny

Question – Beloved Osho, you say we are responsible for ourselves, and that there is no god. What part do fate and destiny have in our lives? or are they just excuses to avoid our responsibilities by pinning hope on something outside ourselves? Osho – They are just excuses and nothing more. There is no [...]

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Osho – May way is the way of meditation: Neither of head nor of heart

osho my way of meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, your way is the way of the heart, and the outside world is the way of the head. Will it ever be possible that man can function from a blend of both head and heart, or must the two always remain totally divorced? will it always be essential to make a [...]

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Osho – When I saw myself as enlightened, I saw the whole existence as enlightened

Osho on Enlightenment

Question – Beloved Osho, i can’t conceive of you ever being unenlightened. Did you really become enlightened only thirty-two years ago? Osho – Neither can I conceive it. This is one of the very fundamental things in the nature of enlightenment. Once you are enlightened, you are in a very strange situation – trying to [...]

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Osho – The discontented man is suffering from his ego.

Osho on discontented man

Osho – These religions go on giving you hope. Hope is the poison; it keeps you dragging, waiting for the moment when the hope, the promise, will be fulfilled. Christians are waiting for Christ to come back. He said to them again and again, ”I will be coming soon on the clouds of glory, with [...]

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Osho – I have no desire to live the next moment, or to die the next moment.

osho on martyr

Question – Beloved Osho, In the last few days, as i listen to you, it seems you are trying to be a martyr. are you? Osho – I am not even a Christian – why should I like to be a martyr? The word looks beautiful, but the reality is that those who would like [...]

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Osho – Whatsoever is private, remember, it must belong to the world of dreams.

Osho on Private Dreams

Heraclitus Sutra: “the waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.” Osho on above Sutra – Dreams are private, absolutely private! Nobody can enter into your dream. You cannot share a dream with your beloved. Husbands and wives, they sleep on one bed but dream separately. It is [...]

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Osho – The very fact that you are aware changes your acts.

Osho on acting with awareness

Heraclitus Sutra: “One should not act or speak as if he were asleep” Osho on above Sutra – Act, speak, with full awareness and then you will find a tremendous change in you. The very fact that you are aware changes your acts. Then you cannot commit sin. Not that you have to control yourself, [...]

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Osho – Philosophy is a tranquilizer, Religion is a shock

Osho on religion and philosophy

Osho – One man came to me. He was worried; he is the father of a beautiful daughter. He was very much worried. He said, “Every morning she feels a little sick, and I have been to all the doctors and they say nothing is wrong. So what to do?” So I told him, “You [...]

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Osho – Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God

Osho - Vertical is God

Osho – While you are here with me, be here with me; be totally here with me so that you can learn a new mode of movement, so that you can move into eternity, not in time. Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God. Both meet at [...]

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Osho – Be in the moment. Bring your total being in the moment

Osho - Be in the moment

Osho – The mind is always either in the past or in the future. It cannot be in the present, it is absolutely impossible for the mind to be in the present. When you are in the present, the mind is there no more because mind means thinking. How can you think in the present? [...]

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Osho – Heraclitus says ‘You cannot step in the same river twice’

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Osho – What is the message of Heraclitus, the deepest message? Understand so you can follow. He does not believe in things, he believes in processes — process is God to him. And if you watch closely, you will see that THINGS don’t exist in the world; everything is a process. In fact to use [...]

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Osho on Heraclitus – I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives

Osho on Heraclitus

Osho – I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives. In fact, Heraclitus is the only Greek I have ever been in love with — except, of course, Mukta, Seema and Neeta! Heraclitus is really beautiful. Had he been born in India, or in the East, he would have been known as a [...]

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