Osho on taking responsibility of oneself, Just be responsible to yourself
Question : Why are we afraid, and sometimes even resent taking responsibility for ourselves, and we expect either you or the commune to take the responsibility? Osho : It is…
Osho – Imitation is a substitute for understanding, and a very poor substitute
Question : Osho, i have fallen in love with chuang tzu, with joshu, with mumon, with bodhidharma. How can i not follow them? I feel already they have transformed me.…
Osho – The crowd hates individuals — I love individuals
Question : Beloved Osho, Although at the time i looked, felt, and behaved more like a mafia heavy than a meditator, you gave me the name, dhyan vipal. Over two…
Osho on Decision Making – To decide means to take risks
Question : Beloved Osho, Often i have the feeling that i am not doing something i ought to be doing, or doing something i should not be doing; that something…
Osho – Anything that becomes an imprisonment is Wrong
Question : I am aware of a dichotomy within me: when i am near you, i am drawn towards you and am conscious of being a thirsty seeker. When i…
Osho – Only the individual can become Enlightened
Question – Beloved Osho, I heard you saying that enlightenment is the transcendence of mind — conscious, unconscious, sub-conscious — and that one dissolves into the ocean of life, into…
Osho – The real individual cannot promise
Osho – Deva means divine, aruno means the rising sun — the rising sun of divinity. And that1s what sannyas is all about. The sun has always been there, just…
Osho – Integrated, you are free; integrated, you become rebellious
Osho – Appearances are very deceptive. Appearances may give you respectability but they cannot give you contentment. And some day or other, in some way or other, the truth has…
Osho – Self-respect and Pride are simply natural to your individuality
Question – Beloved Osho, what is the difference between self-respect and pride? Osho – Indradhanu, there is no difference between self-respect and pride. There is a difference between the ego…
Osho Tibetan Story – The crowd never likes people to be individuals
Osho – The path back home is certainly a razor’s edge. As you come closer and closer to yourself, the path goes on becoming narrower and narrower. At the very…
Osho on Accepting Challenge – In accepting the very challenge, one becomes a human being
Osho – Anand means bliss, sikha means a peak, a mountain-peak. Bliss is a peak. It is the highest peak of consciousness; there is nothing higher than that. All else…
Osho on holistic approach to life – Totality is possible, perfection is not possible
Question – Many see the work that goes on around you as a model for the holistic approach to life. Please talk about this. Osho – Krishna Prem, the old…
Osho – Each individual is unique, so unique that you have to discover yourself all alone
Osho – The greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it…
Osho on Uniqueness – Uniqueness is religious, specialness is political
Question – What is the difference between being special and being unique? Osho – BEING unique is everybody’s nature, being special is relative. When you start feeling that you are…
Osho – even after enlightenment the uniqueness of the individual remains intact
Question – If Krishnamurti is enlightened he must see what you are saying himself, right? So why doesn’t he just come here and find himself a chair and a case…
Osho on Imitation – Imitation will make you very stupid, unintelligent
Question – Cannot people learn by Imitating others? Osho – Ramakrishna, That’s how people learn, but that s how people remain stupid. too. The only way practiced hitherto is that…
Osho on Ambition and Competitiveness, Nothing kills love more than Ambitiousness
Question – Osho, What is ambition? To live without ambition seems frightening, like starting a new life up from the beginning. Osho – Latifa, Ambition is the greatest poison there…
Osho – Beware of the scholars; they are the most stupid people around
Osho – Beware of the scholars; they are the most stupid people around. But they talk beautifully, and if you are not alert you can be very easily deceived by…
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 Subhash Chandra Bose – Individuality is intrinsically rebellious
Subhash Chandra Bose Osho – Almost the whole of humanity is a victim: victims of pretensions, victims of having masks, victims of not being natural, because being unnatural pays…
Osho – Just be yourself, ordinary and unique, and fulfill your destiny
Osho – Tao says, that when nobody knows what to make of you – you are so ordinary that nobody knows what to make of you, nobody knows any utility…
Osho – Be my Disciples but not my Followers
Osho – Chuang Tzu always watched monkeys. He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man. And a monkey is hidden in you! This whole world…