Question 5 Beloved Osho, The chimpanzee who made reagan famous as an actor was called bonzo. reagan was his sidekick. there is a rumor that it is actually bonzo who is in the white house, and reagan is skulking up a tree in beverly hills. beloved master, do you know the inside scoop on this story? I know it. It is not a story, it is the tr...

There are two approaches towards reality: one is logical. Of that approach, Aristotle is the father in the West. It simply moves in a line, a clear-cut line. It never allows the opposite; the opposite has to be discarded. This approach says A is A and never not A. A cannot be not A. This is the formulation of Aristotelian logic — and it lo...

Even to cut a flower is uncivilized behavior, what to say about people like Genghis Khan, who killed forty million people; Tamerlane, who killed thirty million people; Nadir Shah, he again killed forty million people, and statistics are not available about many others. Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ivan the Terrible … no data is...

Question 2: Osho, How can i become the new man that you speak about? Bhagwato, Jesus says: Unless you are born again you will not enter into my kingdom of God. Exactly that’s what I say to you: Unless you are born again…. There are two births. One is given to you by your parents; that is a physical birth. That is only an opportunity for th...

Question 4: Osho, Please talk about the Misuse of Power. Shantam Divyama, there is the famous statement of an English philosopher: “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I do not agree with him. My analysis is totally different. Everybody is full of violence, greed, anger, passion — but has no power; so he remains a saint. T...

Nonviolence is not social policy and law. If it is social tradition and law, it can never free itself from violence Nonviolence is not social, it is spiritual. If we make nonviolence a social law, then we may, some day, consider violence a necessity. And then it becomes such a disaster that violence will be considered necessary to protect ...

[This is your name Osho told Marco from Italy, Swami Veet Marko. Veet means going beyond, Marko means warlike.] In the past we have praised warlike qualities very much because the whole past of humanity is nothing but wars and wars. In three thousand years we have fought five thousand wars. It is rare to find a single day when somewhere on...

Question 1: Peace of mind can be gained by withdrawal from the world, by stilling the vortices of the mind. But how much inner peace is appropriate in a world that contains attica, vietnam, johannesburg, biafra, pakistan and sub-sahara africa? The world contains Vietnam, Attica, and things like that, because the peace of mind is missing. T...

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide, and people are brought to one consciousness within themselves. This will be a totally different dimension to work with. Up to now it was revolution. The point was society, its structure. It has failed again and again in different ways. Now it should be the individual; an...

Question 3: Osho, Is This World Insane? Siddhartha, IT SEEMS SO. At least up to now it has been insane. Man is not born insane but is driven towards insanity by the priests, by the politicians, by the parents, by your whole educational system, by your morality, by all that is enforced upon you, by all the conditionings. You are driven insa...

Question 1: Osho, Can you please say something about violence as the expression of rebellion? Milarepa, violence can never be a part of the rebellious spirit for the simple reason that violence is the whole past of humanity — and the rebel wants to discontinue with the past. Violence has been the way of life for millennia. Directly or indi...

Question : Have you a message for the Press? Certainly. The press should be absolutely free, and the freedom of press includes television, radio, and all news media. Nothing should be in the control of the government, because government has all the powers, and individuals have no powers. Who is going to fight for them, and who is going to ...

Question Osho, You are going on a world tour. What will your message be? My message is, that we have to create a world without the boundary of nations, without the boundary of religions — only then we will be for the first time civilized. Otherwise we are carrying barbarious past in beautiful garbs. My effort will be to expose our barbario...

Question 3 : Beloved Osho, You told us the story of Krishna and Arjuna. But is there no value in resisting war in a time where a handful of madmen play with atomic bombs? Peter Bohm, how can you resist these few madmen who are playing with atom bombs? What will be your strategy of resistance? In fact, your resistance may bring the war soon...

Water from mountains flows downward trying to find out pits, ditches or lakes. Water runs downwards; then the same water, becoming well heated, is transformed into vapour and then begins to run towards the sky, begins to find heights, begins to ride on clouds, begins to travel towards the sun. It is the same water, it is the energy, but it...

Question : What is the difference between real nonviolence and turning the other cheek? There is much difference. Turning the other cheek is just a conditioning. I am reminded of a Christian saint who was always talking about turning the other cheek. One man got very fed up and he hit the saint on one of his cheeks. The saint, of course — ...

Man is unconscious, Although he believes he is conscious. That very belief protects his unconsciousness. Man is ignorant, although he believes he knows. That very belief keeps the ignorance intact. Man is just the opposite of what he thinks he is. To understand this is the beginning of a great revolution. To see where you are, what you are...

on Terrorism The Terrorism is in your Unconscious Question 1 Beloved Osho, I've heard that in europe the threat of terrorism is striking fear in everyone. airplanes are delayed by extraordinary security measures, many of the seats are empty, and some airports are closing. people are even thinking twice about going out in the evening. and a...

Nonviolence Question 1 Osho, What do you think about the philosophy of nonviolence and particularly about the christian dogma of turning the other cheek? I am not a philosopher. The philosopher thinks about things. It is a mind approach. My approach is a no-mind approach. It is just the very opposite of philosophizing. It is not thinking a...

Question 1 Beloved Osho, Why is the world so sick today? Why are misery and tension increasing? It is the outcome of all the idiotic ideas that have dominated humanity in the past. It was bound to happen. All the religions are responsible for it. What they have done, whether knowingly or unknowingly, is the cause of the misery, suffering a...