Osho – Everybody is expecting permanence and Permanence is not the nature of things

Osho on Permanence

Osho – The river will never be the same again. And you also will never be the same again. That’s why each moment is unique, incomparable. It has been never before and will never be again. This is beautiful! It is not a repetition, it is absolutely fresh. You will miss this freshness if you [...]

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Osho – The nature of the reality is change. Permanence is illusion

Osho on Change and Reality

Osho – Heraclitus loves the symbol of the river, Buddha loves the symbol of the flame. That symbol of the flame is even more subtle. The flame appears to be the same but it is not. Every moment it is disappearing; the old is going and the new is coming. Buddha says that in the [...]

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Osho – You cling to life because your life is unfulfilled

Osho on Clinging to Life

Osho – if you want to abide always and always, you have not lived the moment. One who has lived his life truly, authentically, one who has enjoyed it, is always ready to die, is always ready to leave. One who has not enjoyed and celebrated, one who has not lived the moment, the life, [...]

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Osho – Desirelessness is the method to come in, and desirelessness is meditation

Osho on Desirelessness

Osho – Renounce every outward-going effort, all that leads you outward. All that becomes a vehicle for your consciousness to move outward – renounce it. In the deep inactivity of renunciation, you will come to the center. For example, how does the mind move outward? It moves for wealth, it moves for prestige, it moves [...]

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Osho – The Eastern consciousness has never tried to convert anyone

Osho on the Eastern Consciousness

Osho – We use two words: BRAHMAN for universe, for the embodied form, and BRAHMA for the innermost center of consciousness. As long as we are feeling ourselves as bodies, we can never transcend brahman, the universe. The moment we become consciousness, the brahman drops; it becomes brahma. Then there is no universe, then there [...]

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swami rajneesh on vertical sky – enlightenment is a vertical explosion of light

swami rajneesh on vertical sky

swami rajneesh: dancing is an energetic transformation of your energy it is transforming the lower to the higher going vertically higher higher higher higher higher…stop you do not need to stop it stops you that is the peak of the perfect state of isness always find a way to reach that orgasmic state you can [...]

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swami rajneesh – what is the meaning of sannyas?

swami rajneesh on sannyas

question: what is the meaning of sannyas? swami rajneesh: no meaning pure love…let us drop all meaning not even searching for meaning just pure love…madness…i just want to go mad i have seen the eyes of this man and something draws me to him the unknown beckons and this mala is going to remind me [...]

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Osho – All that you put into the lives of others comes back into your own

Osho on Unconditional Sharing

Question – Beloved Osho, someone once told me the saying: “all that you put into the lives of others comes back into your own. “it has been with me ever since, and i feel it to be true. Can you please talk about this? it keeps coming up a lot for me. Osho – Prem [...]

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Osho on Laziness and Easiness – Laziness always feels a certain guilt

Osho on Laziness and Easiness

Question – Beloved Osho, you took my heart and now it is too late; i am enjoying aloneness and laziness so much that sometimes i think there must be something wrong with me. i feel i am at the beginning of a new journey, and there is a question that keeps on coming up: what [...]

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Osho – Never repent about the past because that is again wasting the present

Osho on Repenting about Missing Past

Question – Beloved Osho, my mind, the monster, distracts me even when i’m sitting in discourse. It simply takes over and thinks all sorts of silly thoughts and by the time discourse is over i get the feeling i missed another golden opportunity to be with you, drink from you, tune in with you. This [...]

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Osho on Imagination, Remember to avoid any kind of imagination — all imagination

Osho on Imagination

Question – Beloved Osho, the other morning before lecture, i suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to touch, with great gratitude, the floor where you walk. in that moment, i heard again that voice — it still sounds like your voice: “if you can kiss in gratitude the place on earth where i have stepped… i [...]

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Osho on Spiritual Ego – Ego can exploit any direction of life

Osho on Spiritual Ego

Question – Beloved Osho, what is meant by a spiritual ego? Is spiritual greed one of its symptoms? Is it curable? Osho – Anand Tarangini, the spiritual ego is not something different from the ordinary ego. Somebody feels his ego because he has money, somebody feels his ego strengthened because he has political power. Somebody [...]

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Osho on Comparison and Misery – Comparison always brings misery

Osho on Comparison

Question – Beloved Osho, everybody around is blissing out and this is the first time it is not happening to me. I want to feel you again and get lost. Right now, the connection is like a fragile, thin thread felt in some rare silent moments or shown by my tears. I’m still full of [...]

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Osho on Intimacy – Everybody is afraid of intimacy

Osho on Intimacy

Question – Beloved Osho, of my many fears, the one of which i am most aware is that of intimacy. I am like a hit and run driver in my relationships with people. Could you speak to me of my fear of intimacy? Osho – Ramaprem, everybody is afraid of intimacy. It is another thing [...]

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Osho on Music – Music is certainly next to silence

Osho on Music Silence Meditation

Question – Beloved Osho, Would you please explain your statement from the other morning of how music can be next to silence? Osho – Milarepa, I don’t know what I said the other morning — I don’t carry unnecessarily luggage from the past. But I will explain it to you this morning, in spite of [...]

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Osho – In the East, to get rid of sex is a blessing; in the West, it is the ultimate calamity

Osho on Sex

Question – Beloved Osho, could dry leaves really be falling at such a young age? i am thirty, and i enjoy sex when it comes, though i don’t come so often. i don’t feel i am holding something down; on the contrary, i find i usually have to hold it up. Beloved Osho, it now [...]

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Osho – Meditation slowly, slowly turns into your enlightenment

Osho on Meditation and Enlightenment

Question – Beloved Osho, watching the mind, it seems to me there is an infinite ocean of thoughts. Meditation gives me more peace and grounding, but hearing you speak about enlightenment — it seems to me far, far away. can you give me some advice? Osho – Dhyan Jashan, enlightenment is as far away as [...]

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Osho – I’m in a hurry to become enlightened. What should i do?

Osho on hurry to get enlightened

Question – Beloved Osho, I’m in a hurry to become enlightened. What should i do? Osho – Chitten, first just listen carefully to this small story. The plane had just taken off and the captain was telling the passengers about the altitude of the plane, the cruising speed etcetera. But he forgot to switch off [...]

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Osho – The generation gap exists simply because the reason for respect has disappeared

Osho on Generation Gap

Question – Beloved Osho, What is this generation gap? I hear so much about it these days. Osho – Jayesh, two old men of eighty were sitting in their club when one said, “Do you think there is as much love, as much fun going on as there used to be?” “Yes, certainly,” said the [...]

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Osho – Don’t expect! Whatever you get, be grateful for it

Osho on Expectations

Question – Beloved Osho, i feel so blessed to have this opportunity to float in your ocean of silence. Does my wanting more block my availability to receive it? Osho – Anand Saten, I am sorry to say to you that your wanting more is certainly going to block your availability to receive the bliss [...]

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Osho – Is the devil really male?

Osho on Devil

Question – Beloved Osho, Is the devil really male? Osho – Deva Prachurya, it is a beautiful question because the women’s liberation movement is talking about God being a woman; they have started pronouncing him not he but she. But none of them has thought about the devil, which is a counterpart. They both exist [...]

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Osho – The man who goes on trying to understand life proves to be a fool

Osho on Mystery of Life

Question – Beloved Master, it seems to me that you are truly the first man this planet has ever known who really understands women and accepts them. please comment. Osho – Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding. Life is so mysterious [...]

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