Osho on Therapies and Role of Therapist – Therapy has become a business
QUESTION – BELOVED OSHO, IS TAKING THE ROLE OF A THERAPIST DANGEROUS TO MY OWN SPIRITUAL GROWTH? IS IT POSSIBLE TO HELP PEOPLE AND STILL LET MY OWN EGO DISSOLVE…
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QUESTION – BELOVED OSHO, IS TAKING THE ROLE OF A THERAPIST DANGEROUS TO MY OWN SPIRITUAL GROWTH? IS IT POSSIBLE TO HELP PEOPLE AND STILL LET MY OWN EGO DISSOLVE…
Osho – To be a therapist, a groupleader, is a very great responsibility. One who is not ready should not move into it. It should not be an ego trip…
[A visitor said she had trouble becoming involved in the meditations here, adding that she could not stay much longer as she was a psychiatrist and had patients to see.]…
Question – Beloved Master, The west is overpopulated with psychotherapists and their patients, but why does no one seem to be helped? Osho – Patrick, the help is possible only…
Question – Beloved Osho, How can we Avoid being Authoritative? Osho – It is very simple. The people who are authoritarian are the people who are suffering from an inferiority…
Question – BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD IT SAID THAT SOME SANNYASIN THERAPISTS NOW IMAGINE THAT THEY ARE ON THE SAME PLANE AS YOU ARE, DOING THE SAME KIND OF…
[A sannyasin who is leaving wants to do massage but doesn’t know if that is right for her. Osho watches her energy movement for some moments and says yes, it…
[A sannyasin asks about becoming a Primal therapist.] Osho – It is always good to find something that you like – because it is your life; it should not be…
Osho – Love is therapy, and there is no other therapy in the world except love. It is always love that heals, because love makes you whole. Love makes you…
[A sannyasin is going back to the West and would like to run a group on the lines of the tao group that happens here. She isn’t sure though whether…
[The new sannyasin says she is a doctor.] Osho – You will become capable. You just need a little more love flowing. It works more than any medicine. Up to…
[The sannyasin therapist says: But between groups it seems that I don’t seem to be able to find a comfortable space to be in. I don’t have the same relationship…
[A sannyasin who is leaving said: Two months ago, you said you might give me a special healing meditation. I’ve been going to all the divine healings (that happen at…
[To the leader of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar)] Osho – It has to be remembered that the leader is not, in fact, a manipulator. He should not be.…
[The Arica group came to darshan tonight. One of the leaders said he had felt there had been a lot more love, compared to groups he had been in in…
[The groupleader says: I’ve been a leader in theWest… I’ve never had anyone to account to. I started to look at what I’m doing, and I realise that a lot…
[Osho asked the Hypnotherapy groupleader how the group had been. The groupleader replied: Well I’m never really content, but I’m happy.] Osho – That’s good! Leaders should never be content,…
[Another sannyasin who had lead the group said he was feeling apprehensive about taking groups in the States.] Osho – Always remember that you are a vehicle to me. So…
[A new sannyasin says: I am a therapist, a child therapist… Also working with brain- children and using hypnosis.] Osho – Hypnosis has many possibilities and more people should be…
Osho – THE PURPOSE OF THE THERAPY GROUPS is not to bring the participants to their natural self – not at all. The purpose of the therapy groups is to…
Question – Osho, What is the role of therapy in meditation? Osho – Buddha never needed any psychotherapy for his sannyasins; those people were innocent. But in these twenty five centuries,…