Category: Asceticism Renunciation

Osho – He has abandoned worldly possessions to become a beggar. Why abandon worldly possessions? The worldly possessions can be abandoned in two ways. Again you have to understand: the…

Question – You say you are a buddha, and his teaching was based on simplicity, a simple life. Yours is based on comfort and luxury. Will you please comment on…

Osho – The ultimate state of consciousness is not a serious phenomenon. It is not sombre, it is not sad. It is full of joy, full of laughter, full of…

Osho – Renounce knowledge! I teach you renunciation of knowledge. I don’t teach you renunciation of the world; that is stupid, foolish, meaningless! I teach you renunciation of knowledge. And…

Osho – People say that they want to stop, but they are not yet tired – so they say one thing and they do just the opposite. Because to stop…

Osho on Patanjali Yoga Sutra “Attraction, and through it, attachment, is towards anything that brings pleasure. Repulsion is from anything that causes Pain” Osho – These are your two ways…

[Another indian sannyasin who is involved in film-making, said that he always felt like escaping from whatsoever he was doing to meditate, and when he was meditating he wanted to…

Question – Somewhere there is that fear which makes me closed and hard and sad and desperate and angry and hopeless. It seems to be so subtle that I don’t…

Question – When does the boat reach the other Shore? Osho – Deva Vigyan, there is no other shore, this is the only shore there is. And it is not…

Gautam Buddha Sutra – “IT IS NOT IRON THAT IMPRISONS YOU NOR ROPE, NOR WOOD, BUT THE PLEASURE YOU TAKE IN GOLD AND JEWELS, IN SONS AND WIVES”. Osho –…

Osho – I have heard that in England there was a great thinker by the name of Edmund Burke. He was once invited to give a lecture in a church…

Osho : One has to be detached from the world – but not out of any fear. If you give up anything out of fear it will not really be…

Question : Beloved Osho, Is Vairagya, Nonattachment, a method, a means, an intermediate stage, or an end in itself? Osho : It is all – because means and ends are…

Question – Osho, What is Renunciation? What is its place in your religion? Osho THE idea of renunciation is one of the fundamentals of all pseudo-religions. Its phenomenology has to…

Osho –  Remember, nobody is an exception. AES DHAMMO SANANTANO — only one law rules all, one eternal law. Whatsoever happens to the ant is going to happen to the…