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 on Generation Gap – 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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Osho on Seriousness – It is your life attitude which is making you serious

Osho on Seriousness

Question – beloved master, i love to do t’ai chi and it has become my daily meditation, but i have a tendency to become too serious about it. can you drive out the monkey? Osho – Anand Srajan, it is impossible for anybody to drive the monkey out of your mind, because it does not [...]

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Osho – It is difficult to forget words. They cling to the mind

Osho on Words

Osho – It is difficult to forget words. They cling to the mind. It is difficult to throw away the net because not only are fish caught in it, the fisher is also caught. This is one of the greatest problems. Working with words is playing with fire, because words become so important that the [...]

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Osho – Whenever you start planning you have divided yourself

Osho on Planning Life

Osho – All that is great, all that is beautiful, all that is true and real, is always spontaneous. You cannot plan it. The moment you plan it, everything goes wrong. The moment planning enters, everything becomes unreal. But this has happened to humanity. Your love, your sincerity, your truth, everything, has gone wrong because [...]

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Osho on Sannyasin – Never ask me how a sannyasin should be

Osho on Sannyasin

Question – Osho, when i am working in the west i feel like an orange warrior, and i like it. When i am here i feel meditative, and i like it. Is the part of myself that still needs to fight an obstacle to becoming a good disciple? Osho – Deva Majid, A SANNYASIN HAS [...]

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Osho – The Profession of a Journalist is such that it lives on lies

Osho on Journalism

Question – Osho, are all the journalists blind? can’t they see the truth? why are they continuously spreading lies about you? Osho – Nisha, THE PROFESSION OF A JOURNALIST is such that it lives on lies. Truth is not news; lies are news, beautiful news. The bigger the lie the better the news, because it [...]

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Osho – Life is a continuous evolution and you have to be constantly alert

Osho on Life and Jealousy

Question – Osho, no passion, no jealousy, and so much loving. can it be true that this suffering is over? Osho – Prem Turiya, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THINGS to be remembered, and you will have to be constantly aware: you cannot take it for granted that the suffering is over. If [...]

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Osho on Zen – Zen goes beyond Buddha and beyond Lao Tzu

Osho on Zen Buddhism

Osho – ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique — unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge, it does not believe in [...]

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Osho on television evangelist Jim Bakker and Devil Worshippers

Osho on Devil Worshippers

Osho – Just by the way, I would like to tell you a very beautiful case of a great evangelist who had millions of listeners on the radio, and watchers on the television. In America, a new phenomenon is growing: TV evangelism. What is the need to go to the people? You just give the [...]

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Osho – The astral body goes on from womb to womb, from grave to grave.

Osho on Astral Body

Question – Our Beloved Master, I have understood that the witness is pure consciousness, unaffected by the body and mind it takes temporary residence in. So, first: how do personality traits and conditioning persist from one life to another? and second: does not that which makes us unique individuals have a continuum? Osho – Maneesha, [...]

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Osho – The wall is of your own ego — ego surrounds you like a wall

Osho on Ego Wall

Question – Sometimes it seems like wherever i go i am facing the wall. Osho – The wall is not outside, the wall is inside you. So wherever you go, you carry your wall. When you are alert, you feel it; when you are not alert, you don’t feel it — but the wall is [...]

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Osho – People have more leisure — that is another thing. But what do they do with their leisure?

osho on leisure time

Question – As a child, sundays have been something very special to me. Now, since a few days, i wake up every morning and go out, see the sun shining through the trees, hear the birds singing and get this feeling, ‘ah, another sunday.’ I put on my best clothes and have sunday for the [...]

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Osho – Drop Christianity, Drop Islam, Drop Buddhism

Osho - Drop Christianity

Osho – Everything that we go on doing on the surface will be just like changing a name. Inside you will remain the same. Your persona can never become more than skin deep — your know ledge, your identity in the world is nothing but a persona, a dressing. Zen says you are wasting your [...]

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Osho – Knowing means that you have seen it with your own eyes

Osho on Knowing and Knowledge

Osho – KNOWLEDGE IS not enough, to rely on it is dangerous. Knowledge is borrowed, it is not knowing. Knowing grows with you, knowing is a growth, an evolution, knowledge is implanted within you from me outside, knowledge is borrowed, it is counterfeit. It looks like knowing, it is not. It deceives, it gives you [...]

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Osho on Arhatas and Bodhisattvas

Osho on Arhatas and Bodhisattvas

Osho – Just to be enlightened is not enough. A mere enlightenment will give you all the joys of the world, but you will become absolutely dumb. You will not say anything, you will not find any way to express. Before enlightenment the master has to prepare the people who are going to succeed him, [...]

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Osho – The witness makes you a buddha

Osho on witness

Osho – I have told you the story many times about Gautam Buddha. One day, walking on the road from one town to another, he was talking to Ananda. A fly sat on his forehead, and just as you do automatically, he remained engaged in talking to Ananda and shooed the fly. Then he suddenly [...]

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Osho on functioning consciousness and a pure consciousness

Osho on functioning consciousness

Osho – We all think we are aware; that is one of our unawarenesses. We are only functionally aware. We have learned to do things, to go to bed, to get up early in the morning, to go to the job. Everything has been learned. Even a robot can do the whole process. You are [...]

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