Osho on Watching Television and TV potato movement
Osho – Awareness is non-judgmental, just like the mirror. It only reflects, it does not say, “You are really a great beauty!” It does not say, “You are really very…
Osho on Experience of God, Experiences and Drugs
Osho – Veet means beyond, anubhavo means experience. God is beyond all experience. You cannot experience God because he is not separate from you. You can live God, you can…
Osho – Why are people spacing out instead of in?
Question – Bhagwan, why are people spacing out instead of in? Osho – Because spacing out is simple. It can be done through chemical means, through drugs, through alcohol, through…
Osho on Smoking Cigarettes – The cigarette is not a device for buddhahood
Osho – I have to make you all understand that you must act intelligently. Just the other day, because I told Hasya not to unnecessarily struggle with dropping cigarettes –…
Osho – Greedy people renounce the world. This renunciation is not of understanding
Osho – A repressed person is carrying the same world as you. Just an opportunity is needed, a provocation, and immediately the real will come out. That’s why monks disappear…
Osho – The workaholic is not total in his work. The workaholic is addicted to work
Question – Our Beloved Master, could you talk about the difference between a workaholic and someone who is total in their work? Osho – Maneesha, the difference is very great.…
Osho on Drugs and Samadhi – Similarity between samadhi and drugs
Question – I often take drugs. once when i was attending the discourse, i closed my eyes and suddenly felt the same as i feel on a drug trip. osho,…
Osho on Obsession – Obsession with food or clothes or cleaniness or money
Question – You talk a lot about people obsesssed with sex — but what is obsession? Obsession with food or clothes or cleaniness, etcetera? Osho – Prem Aniruddha, OBSESSION SIMPLY…
Osho – Can one take the sudden jump with the help of drugs?
Question – Can one take the sudden jump with the help of drugs? Osho – No. That will be the jump of the drug, not yours; and the point is…
Osho on Drugs Addiction – The person needs help, the person needs sympathy
[A sannyasin says she is addicted to heroin, and asks Osho to help her with it.] Osho – It will disappear; no need to worry about it. Just go through…
Osho – With meditation, whatsoever is attained remains with you
Osho – Once you have come to a point in your being, it can never be lost unless it was simply a dream. Only a dream can be lost. Drugs…
Osho on Chogyam Trungpa, Use of Alcohol and Sex in Tantra Tradition
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Question – How is it that great masters like Chogyam Trungpa get so drunk on occasional festivities that they have to be carried home? Can the use of…
Osho on Beginninglessness – Slip out of the mind, and you will know what it is: the beginningless, the endless
Question – My mind has difficulty understanding the Existence of Beginninglessness. Would you please talk about it? Osho – Prem Viraj, reality is indefinable. Reality simply is; there is no…
Osho on Reducing Weight, Why there is Obsession with Food
Question – BELOVED MASTER, I AM OBSESSED WITH FOOD. I EAT TOO MUCH AND HAVE GAINED ENORMOUS WEIGHT. CAN YOU HELP ME TO REDUCE MY WEIGHT? Osho – Sangito, this…
Osho on Dropping an Obession, Obsession simply means a wound in your being
Question – BELOVED MASTER, HOW CAN ONE DROP AN OBSESSION? OR IS IT NOT TO BE DROPPED AT ALL, BUT ENJOYED? Osho – Satya, an obsession simply means a wound…
Osho – The greatest art needed in life is to bring a Madman to Sanity
[A sannyasin asks about his brother, a former drug-taker and now a religious fanatic, who spends the day lying on his bed.] Osho – I understand the type. The only…
Osho on Drug Use – Drugs can slowly slowly destroy your capacities to Meditate
[A new sannyasin from America, says that she gets high meditating but now and then she slips back into drug-taking. Osho says that drug-taking and meditation are polar opposites though…
Osho – There are two types of addiction in life : Negative addiction and Positive Addiction
Osho – Deva means divine and giresh means god of the mountains. The full name will mean: god of the divine mountains. And I am giving this name to you…
Osho on LSD, LSD as aid to Meditation, Danger of LSD
QUESTION: CAN LSD BE USED AS A HELP IN MEDITATION? Osho : LSD can be used as a help, but the help is very dangerous; it is not so easy.…