Osho on Zen – Zen goes beyond Buddha and beyond Lao Tzu
Osho – ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique — unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most…
Osho – Drop Christianity, Drop Islam, Drop Buddhism
Osho – Everything that we go on doing on the surface will be just like changing a name. Inside you will remain the same. Your persona can never become more…
Osho – Knowing means that you have seen it with your own eyes
Osho – KNOWLEDGE IS not enough, to rely on it is dangerous. Knowledge is borrowed, it is not knowing. Knowing grows with you, knowing is a growth, an evolution, knowledge…
Osho on Zen and Politics – Is Zen against Politics?
Question – Is Zen against Politics? Osho – Zen is so much against politics that it never talks about it. It is so much against politics that it cannot even…
Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol
Osho – Zen people have always liked the bamboo. The bamboo is their symbol. And the reason? It is green all the year. In every season it is green —…
Osho – Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense
Osho – Ordinarily we think people who know answers are wise. They may be learned but they are not wise. They may be very well informed, but information has nothing…
Osho – Mind is the barrier. No-mind is the door
Osho – Truth is all around, but your interpretations are YOUR interpretations. God is speaking all the time, but you hear not, or even if you hear, you hear something else. You…
Osho – Remain alert while moving with people, while moving in the world
Osho – Man ordinarily lives in these three states, sometimes waking, sometimes dreaming, sometimes fast asleep; this is the wheel man moves in. And because of these three states of…
Osho on Zen Garden – My people have to learn to live like a Zen garden
Osho – I am taking away from you all that can create boredom in you. My whole effort is to give you again a natural life — wild, adventurous, dangerous;…
Osho – Patanjali is for unhealthy people and Zen is for very natural people
Question – For zen it is: “eat when you are hungry and drink when you are thirsty.” For Patanjali it is: “regularity — niyam.” How to reconcile spontaneity and regularity?…
Osho – You can wait for lives; it depends how much you cling to your ignorance
Question – Why do Zen monks have to have been living near their masters for ten, twenty, or even for forty years for the sudden enlightenment to happen? Osho –…
Osho on Zazen, Just because of Zazen, Monasteries came into existence
Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the…
Osho on zen way of living – Zen does not renounce anything but transforms
Osho – Zen believes in a life which you are not acquainted with, a love that you have not even dreamt of. It lives in a totally different dimension, a…
Beloved Osho, Are the Upanishads and Zen the same?
Question – Beloved Osho, Are the Upanishads and Zen the same? Osho – They are not. The upanishad is a happening between the master and the disciple, Zen is the…
Osho – A miserable person cannot find truth. He can theorise about truth
Osho – Bliss is equivalent to god. ‘God’ is a beautiful word but it has become ugly because of wrong associations. It has fallen into wrong company. The priests have…
Osho on Zen Master Ikkyu and Zen Tea Ceremony
Question – Beloved Osho I love this little zen story, as it also has the flavor of your childhood stories. Ikkyu, the zen master, was very clever even as a…
Osho – For Zen, meditation has to be a twenty-four-hour affair
Osho – Perhaps there is no other religion that has made your whole life, twenty-four hours a day, a meditative experience. Zen does not believe in meditating one hour in…
Osho on Zazen – Just because of zazen, monasteries came into existence
Osho – Zen I have explained to you. It comes from the Sanskrit dhyan. Buddha never used Sanskrit as a part of his revolution. Sanskrit was the language of the…
Osho on Zen swordsmanship as an Meditation method
Osho – In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction between ordinary life and religious life; rather, they have…
Osho on Zen – Zen is not a philosophy, it is not a doctrine
Question – Osho, What is Zen? Osho – Sagar, IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER because Zen is not a philosophy, it is not a doctrine. It is an experience,…
Osho on Chuang Tzu butterfly dream, Story of Chuang Tzu dream
Question : Beloved Master, If Zen is the path and you are the gate, then who lives in the house? Osho : Prem Michael, Zen is the path and I…
Osho on Samurai warriors – He was a monk and also a warrior.
Osho : Seven or eight hundred years ago in Japan they tried to create a different type of person – they called him a samurai. He was a monk and…