Osho on creating a protective aura – After meditation one has to create a protective aura
[A sannyasin returning to the west says: It doesn’t happen here, but at home by the end of the week I feel very tired. Sometimes I can’t even stand.] Osho…
Osho – The more aware you become, the more things will become superficial
[A group member says: All the emotional things, catharting things, seemed to be superficial on the one side, yet on the other seemed to be true, as I feel them.…
Osho – How to become utterly present in the present
Osho – Prem means love, vatayana means now, the present moment – love now. And my whole emphasis is on this moment, because this moment contains all. Now is the…
Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward long enough
[A sannyasin says: I’m feeling a bit more inward these days and meditations are feeling good to me.] Osho – One has to go inward. And you have roamed outward…
Osho – Consciousness without thinking: that’s what awareness is.
Osho – If you can live this moment, if you can be here this moment, then everything takes care of itself. Then you need not be anxious. Then there is…
Osho – If we can transform our ugly instincts into beautiful flowers
Osho – Man can live in constant conflict or in constant music. It is the game energy that become conflict or that becomes music. The whole thing is to learn…
Osho on divine rebellion – moving from identification to witnessing
Osho – Revolution is concerned with outer things: the economic structure of the society, the political structure, the state. Rebellion is inner: it is concerned with the state of consciousness.…
Osho – The present is the only time to live and to be
Osho – Ananda means bliss, ida means now. Bliss is never then; it is always now. Bliss is never there; it is always here. Bliss knows only one space: the…
Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering
Osho – Mind is never silent. It is constantly chattering. It is constantly crowded with many thoughts, desires. It goes on dreaming and dreaming. It is never still even for…
Osho on Watching Moods – Don’t become the mood, remain a watcher
Question – Whenever a certain feeling of opening comes and a certain peace, always a strong anxiety and a depression follow and make me very tired. It seems to be…
Osho – Meditation is silence, not an enforced silence
Osho – Meditation means no-thought, no-mind, no words. They have all been left behind; one has come to an immense, infinite silence. But that silence is not dead, it is…
Osho – You have to drop everything that you can possess
Osho – It is very difficult to be in the world, but it is even more difficult to be nonattached when the spiritual world opens its doors. The difficulty of…
Osho – How do I find when I am the witness?
[A sannyasin, leaving, asks: How do I find when I am the witness?] Osho – It is something self-evident: when you are, you know it; no extemal proof is needed.…
Osho – God is in the pause between two words, two thoughts, two desires
Osho – Deva means God, Viramo means interval, pause, period. God is in the interval, in the pause between two words, two thoughts, two desires, two emotions, two feelings –…
Osho on Meditation and Patience – Meditation needs infinite patience
Osho – Ma Dhyan Agni. Dhyan means meditation, Agni means fire. Meditation is a fire. It does two things: it burns your past totally, it consumes your mind absolutely without…
Osho – if you can love, you will not be afraid of death
Osho – If you can love, meditation will be very easy. The world will be more religious if love is accepted, helped along, and love becomes a natural milieu around…
Osho on identification with happiness – To identify with happiness is to invite unhappiness
Osho – Unhappiness can only touch the one who seeks happiness. To identify with happiness is to invite unhappiness. And you are all so eager to catch hold of happiness,…
Osho on Fear, You can use fear for meditation
Question – When moments of Fear come, What to do? Osho – Why should you ask to do anything?When there is fear — be afraid! Why create a duality? When…
Osho – Become more and more of a witness
Osho – Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in…
Osho – A thought arises only because one wants to do something
Osho – When the inner sky becomes one with the outer sky, when the inner emptiness merges with the outer emptiness, everything becomes desireless and actionless. Desires cannot arise without…
Osho on Zen swordsmanship as an Meditation method
Osho – In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction between ordinary life and religious life; rather, they have…
Osho – Only meditation is not a mind trip; everything else is a mind trip
Question – ANYTHING I SEE HAPPENING IN MYSELF IS FALSE, ILLUSORY, AND A MIND TRIP, RIGHT? AND MY RECOGNITION OF THE MIND TRIP IS A MIND TRIP TOO? Osho –…