on Depression Try to become aware when you are suffering Osho, More and more I see how my energy is either going very high or very low, how sometimes I get very excited, come down again and then feel embarrassed about what happened during this state of excitement. Do you have a knack to give me for how to watch when the excitement comes, n...

With every suffering, you are creating the possibility of some ecstasy. The ecstasy will follow right after it. But if you are too engaged with the suffering, you may miss it. If you are ill, after that illness a moment of health, a moment of well-being, will come to you. But you can be too concerned with the illness so that when the momen...

Question 1: Osho, Sometimes, when dark sides of my mind come up, it really scares me. it is very difficult for me to accept that it is just the polar opposite of the bright ones. i feel dirty and guilty and not worthy of sitting with you in your immaculate presence. I want to face all facets of my mind and accept them because i hear you of...

Prem means love, and achinta means no anxiety. And remember that only love brings a state of no anxiety – and only love. Everything else creates a new anxiety. You can go on changing your anxieties – somebody is seeking money, somebody is seeking power, then somebody starts seeking god – but all things will bring anxiety. Every desire brin...

And the deeper you go into the vertical, the more remote you go, then the farther from the world you go. Then the family is left on the surface; the anxieties of the day to day existence are left on the surface. They belong to the road, the traffic, the market. You simply move inside and they disappear. Remember, there are two ways to enco...

Question 3: How is anxiety related to desire? It seems easier to see that one is desiring than to see that one is ‘anxieting’ — in fact, there is no verb form for anxiety, at least not in english. Am i desiring my anxiety or anxieting my desire? THE DESIRE IS NOTHING but an escape from the state of anxiety. Desires don’t create anxiety, as...

[Another sannyasin, leaving, says he worries about small things, like where I’m going later in the day or my parents and going home. He feels it cuts him off from taking part in Osho and in the ashram.] Continue to worry a little, there is no hurry. Mm? you have not yet worried enough. Go deep into your worries, just really go madly into y...

And the deeper you go into the vertical, the more remote you go, then the farther from the world you go. Then the family is left on the surface; the anxieties of the day to day existence are left on the surface. They belong to the road, the traffic, the market. You simply move inside and they disappear. Remember, there are two ways to enco...

Question : How is one to Stop Worrying? This is from “Pathik the Pathetic.” He unnecessarily goes on becoming pathetic. Now, “how to stop worrying?” What is the need to stop worrying? If you start trying to stop worrying, you create a new worry: how to stop worry. Then you start worrying about the worries; then you double them. There is no...