Beloved Osho, What is Courage?
Question: Beloved Osho, What is Courage? Osho : Premo, courage means going into the unknown in spite of all the fears. Courage does not mean fearlessness. Fearlessness happens if you…
Osho – The fear of life is really fear of your own self
Question : Why do i seem to feel more afraid of life than of death? Osho : DEATH IS UNKNOWN. You cannot be really afraid of that with which you…
Osho on Fear of being Left Alone and Aloneness
Question : Beloved Osho, My biggest fear and limitation, as far as i can discover, is the fear of being left alone. I feel that this always had, and still…
Osho – One can be hurt — that’s the fear — but that risk has to be taken
[The new sannyasin says: I have been afraid of something… when people get near me.] Osho – Yes, you are afraid. I can see it. That fear has to be…
Osho – Jesus never created guilt in people. That was one of his crimes
Question – Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, So jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Osho – Fear and…
Osho – Each thought has a negative and positive polarity just like electricity
Zen Sutra – “the master said, while i was in zazen a number of wolves gathered around me, licking the tip of my nose, and sniffing my windpipe, but because…
Osho – Mind is a coward. Those who listen to it become utterly cowardly
Question – Beloved Osho, life is so exciting when i am open to each moment and not asking where it is going to take me next. The problems disappear and…
Osho on Fear – Fear is a reality. It has to be faced, it has to be understood
Question – Beloved Osho, What to do with fear? I am feeling very tired being led around by it. Can it be mastered or killed? How? Osho – The question…
Osho – Once you have learned the art of trusting, you are beyond all fear
Osho – The universe is not unintelligent. You are not living in a cosmos which has no intelligence. It is pure intelligence that the existence is made of. Call it…
Osho – All beliefs are rooted in Fear. Either you are afraid or you are greedy.
Question – I believe in God, And it is not out of fear. Why do you say that all belief is out of fear? Osho – Then why do you…
Osho – Fear is nothing but a shrinking. When you are happy you expand
[Sannyasin says: I got angry and hit the wall. When I found energy did move, it really amazed me. I mean, how can all energy be stopped by fear?] Osho…
Osho – Whatsoever is attained is attained forever. There is no way to fall back
[A sannyasin said he was feeling a little apprehensive about going, saying that he hoped he would not lose that which he had gained while he was here.] Osho –…
Osho – love is existential; fear is only the absence of love.
Question – Beloved Osho, You say fear is the opposite of love. have you any practical or impractical suggestuons how one can drop fear? Osho – Atta, love is existential;…
Osho – Man lives in fear, that’s why he becomes hard. It is fear that creates hardness
Osho – Man lives in fear, that’s why he becomes hard. It is fear that creates hardness. In fear we close up; we close all doors and all windows. We…
Osho on Fear of Other’s Opinion – Never accept others’ opinions
Question – Why am i always afraid of other’s opinion? Osho – Because you are not, because you are not yet. You are nothing but a piled-up phenomenon of others’…
Osho on Fearlessness – Most essential factor in search of truth
”What is the most essential factor in search of truth? Osho – I said: ”Courage – courage to know the reality in the self. To know oneself as one is,…
Osho – The greatest fear in the world is the fear of the unknown
Osho – The greatest fear in the world is the fear of the unknown – and mind is a coward. Hence, the world at large perhaps may never be ready.…
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 – You have fear don’t ask why; just look into the fear, go into it, watch.
[A sannyasin who is going to the West says: I’m really scared of leaving. Osho asks: What is the fear? He replies: I don’t know.] Osho – That’s a good…
Osho on Fear – Everybody’s life, more or less, is governed by fear
[A sannyasin says: My life seems to be governed by fear. Can you help me?] Osho – (a little chuckle) Mm, I will help, that’s why I am here! Everybody’s…
Osho on Death, Osho on fear of Death
Osho : The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It…
Osho – Man is afraid of losing his body and his possessions
Question – Beloved Osho, Why is man afraid to leave his body and his possessions? Osho -Because you don’t have anything else — just your body, your possessions. And what…