Osho on difference between Discipline and Repression of Mind
Question : Osho, you say: go beyond the mind. Do not listen to its chatter. Discipline it and make it a servant. Do not be its slave. But how to…
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 on Licentiousness – Licentiousness is insane, as much insane as repressiveness
Question – Osho, do you profess licentiousness in life? Osho – I don’t profess anything. I simply clarify things to you, I don’t profess. I am not giving you any…
Osho – Don’t condemn; don’t suppress. Transform. Be more understanding, alert
Question – Is it possible to climb on to higher stages while one is suppressing or excluding parts of his being by outside conditions and illusions? Osho – No, it…
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 Eroticism, Erotic art of Khajuraho Konarak Puri Ajanta Ellora and West
Question – Beloved Osho, in the west, the portrayal of woman’s body is used in films, books and magazines. This art form is known as ‘eroticism’. Through the sculptures of…
Osho – Can’t man conquer himself by suppression and by fighting with himself?
Question – Can’t man ever conquer himself by suppression and by fighting with himself? Osho – What do you mean by the words ”suppression” and ”fighting with himself”? Don’t they…
Osho on Repression – Madness is the outcome of Repression
Question – Beloved Master, Is Repression always Bad? Osho – Prasado, absolutely bad, always bad, with no exceptions bad. Repression simply means you don’t understand your life energies. Repression means…
Osho – Rejection means repression. Anything rejected never leaves you
Question – Beloved Master, I am rejecting my mind and clinging to Awareness. Osho – Prem Shahido, mind has not to be rejected at all; if you reject it, it…
Osho – There is a subtle difference between Repression and Control
[Osho tells a sannyasin there are some things about his energy that it will be helpful for him to know. You haven’t allowed yourself to ever be wild, you’ve always…
Osho on Suppression, When you Suppress a thing it becomes Meaningful
[A sannyasin says she is afraid of going back to the West: I’m afraid that all the things I’ve dropped will come back again, and that I will drown in…