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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 –…