Osho – Whenever you start planning you have divided yourself
Osho – All that is great, all that is beautiful, all that is true and real, is always spontaneous. You cannot plan it. The moment you plan it, everything goes…
Osho – People have more leisure — that is another thing. But what do they do with their leisure?
Question – As a child, sundays have been something very special to me. Now, since a few days, i wake up every morning and go out, see the sun shining…
Osho – How to be choiceless where important decisions are needed
[A sannyasin asks for guidance on how to be choiceless where important decisions are needed.] Osho – There is some subtle problem, and it comes to everybody who wants to…
Osho – how is one to live before becoming enlightened?
Question – You said that the real morality is the shadow of enlightenment. But then how is one to live before becoming enlightened? Osho – THE moment you ask ’how’…
Osho – meditation doesn’t belong to the act; it belongs to the quality you bring to the act
Osho – Sri Aurobindo says somewhere that the whole life is yoga — and it is so. Everything can become a meditation. And unless everything becomes a meditation, meditation has…
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 – Paradise is herenow! This very body is the Buddha
Osho – Life basically is an expression of love. Love is the fragrance of the flower of life. They are two sides of the same coin. The person who avoids…
Osho on Serenity, Serenity means a state of choicelessness
Osho – The man of serenity is not disturbed by anything because he accepts. Sadness comes, he accepts it. Joy comes, he accepts it. He has no preference, he has…
Osho – Mischief is bound to bring its own punishment
Osho – Mischief is bound to bring its own punishment just as certainly as birth is bound to bring its own death. You cannot avoid death, you cannot avoid the…
Osho – You create your heaven and You create your hell
Osho – Be courageous and drop all this nonsense. There is no hell and there is no heaven; you create your heaven and you create your hell. There is nobody…
Osho on Pleasure – Pleasure inevitably brings bondage
Osho – Pleasure is from the outside and bliss is from the inside. Pleasure depends on others. Bliss is independent. Pleasure inevitably brings bondage. Bondage is sbsolutely part of pleasure,…
Osho on Art of Life, The art of life begins with meditation
Question – Beloved Osho, Would you talk some more on the Art of How to be Fully Alive? Osho – Prem Rudra, the art of living fully, totally, and intensely…
Osho – Any action that happens through awareness is right; any action that happens through unawareness is wrong
Question – Is there such a thing as Right or Wrong? Osho – Akam, there is no such thing as right or wrong, because something may be right this moment…
Osho – When depressed, be depressed. Simply be depressed. Don’t get depressed about your depression
Osho – Remember this: Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes. Nothing lasts forever; the depression will go. And when it leaves you, wait —…
Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related, Restlessness is a by-product of boredom
Queston – Please explain the nature of the experiences we call Boredom and Restlessness. Osho – Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness.…
Osho – Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging
Osho – Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life, then clinging is stupidity, because your…
Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become Dishonest
Osho – We have forgotten all honesty. Out of fear we have become dishonest, out of fear we have become false. Out of fear we follow the crowd and become…
Osho – Be friendly: don’t create any Antagonism with life.
Osho – Niro means the element water. And water is very symbolic, symbolic of flow, symbolic of nonresistance, symbolic of let-go. And these have to become the qualities of a…
Osho – Never Fight with Natural things, Otherwise Perversions arise.
[A sannyasin newly arrived says: I’m very glad I’m here, but I feel like I left a part of my heart in london. It’s making it a little difficult but…
Osho – Know your Chief Characteristic and become Aware of it,
Osho – The problem is with those people who think they know. They are in real trouble. They know not and they think they know. So there is no possibility…
Osho – In Suffering everybody Remembers God – even an atheist
Question – Why do I remember God only When I am in Suffering? Osho – You don’t remember God. When you are in suffering your remembering God is just meaningless.…
Osho on Most Basic law of Life to be Understood
Osho – One of the Most basic laws of life has to be understood. Life is based on polarity; everything exists with its polar opposite. Otherwise is not possible. Mind…