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A Vision of Freedom in a Culture of Lies

 

 

 

“The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about.

 

My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

 

It is not a question of getting freedom from something. That freedom will not be freedom, because it is still given to you; there is a cause to it. The thing that you were feeling dependent on is still there in your freedom. You are obliged to it. Without it you would not have been free.”

 

The freedom to do anything you want is not freedom either, because wanting, desiring to do something, arises out of the mind – and mind is your bondage.

 

The true freedom certainly comes after choiceless awareness, but after choiceless awareness the freedom is neither dependent on things nor dependent on doing something. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is the freedom just to be yourself. And you are yourself already, you are born with it; hence it is not dependent on anything else. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you. A sword can cut your head but it cannot cut your freedom, your being.


It is another way of saying that you are centered, rooted in your natural, existential self. It has nothing to do with outside.


Freedom from things is dependent on the outside. Freedom to do something is also dependent on the outside. Freedom to be ultimately pure has not to be dependent on anything outside you.


You are born as freedom.


It is just that you have been conditioned to forget it.


Layers upon layers of conditionings have made you a puppet. The strings are in somebody else's hands. [....]

 

To be again in that purity, in that innocence, in that consciousness, is what I mean be freedom.


Freedom is the ultimate experience of life. There is nothing higher than that. And out of freedom many flowers blossom in you. Love is the flowering of your freedom. Compassion, another flowering of your freedom.

All that is valuable in life flowers in the innocent, natural state of your being.


So don't connect freedom with independence. Independence is naturally from something, from somebody. Don't connect freedom with doing things that you want to do, because that is your mind, not you. Wanting to do something, desiring to do something, you are in the bondage of your wanting and your desiring.
 

But the freedom I have been talking about you simply are -- in utter silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.

 

- Osho, "From Death to Deathlessness; You Are Born Free #23"

 

 

 

 

Control is a dirty word. It has not four letters in it, but it is a four-letter word. Freedom, and when I say freedom I don’t mean license. When I say freedom you may understand license because that’s how things go. A controlled mind, whenever it hears about freedom immediately understands it as license. License is the opposite pole of control. Freedom is just in between, just exactly in the middle, where there is no control and no license.

 

Freedom has its own discipline, but it is not forced by any authority. It comes out of your awareness, out of authenticity. Freedom should never be misunderstood as license, otherwise you will again miss.

 

Awareness brings freedom. In freedom there is no need for control, because there is no possibility for license. It is because of license that you have been forced to control, and if you remain licentious the society will go on controlling you.

 

It is because of your licentiousness that the policeman exists and the judge and the politician and the courts, and they go on forcing you to control yourself. And in controlling yourself you miss the whole point of being alive, because you miss celebration. How can you celebrate if you are too controlled?

 

- Osho, "Nirvana: The Last Nightmare: Creativity: A Dynamic Energy #4"

 

 

 

 

 

Freedom has to be understood. It is a very delicate matter, a very subtle matter, one of the most profound, because freedom is equivalent to god.

 

That's why Mahavira refused the existence of God, because he accepted the existence of freedom, and that was enough. He called ultimate freedom moksha. Moksha means absolute freedom, ultimate freedom; then there is no need for God. Freedom is another name for God.

 

Three things have to be understood. First, there is a kind of freedom that you are acquainted with: that is freedom from. A child wants to be free of the parents. The slave wants to be free from the master, from the boss. This is freedom from; it is a reaction, it is the ego asserting itself. And I am not saying there is anything wrong in it; you just have to watch the different colors of freedom.

 

When you are seeking freedom from, sooner or later you will fall into another trap -- because it is a reaction and not an understanding. That's what happened in all the revolutions in the past. In 1917 the poor masses of Russia revolted against the Czar, wanted to be free from Czardom. And they became free just to become slaves again, because they had no positive idea of freedom. Their idea of freedom was negative. Their whole interest was how to be free from the Czar. They forgot, they completely forgot, that just to be free from the Czar was not going to help; some other Czar would be waiting. [....]

 

Freedom from is not true freedom.

 

Then there is another kind of freedom: freedom for. The second kind of freedom, which is far better than the first. The first is negative. The second is positive: one wants to be free to do something. For example, you want to be free of your family because you are in love with music. You are not really against the family. You are for music, and the family creates a hindrance, so you escape from the family. You are not against the family, against the parents, but they want you to become an engineer and you want to become a musician.

 

And it is good to be a musician even if you have to suffer for it. It is better to be a musician if you really want to be a musician, if you have a passion for it, than to be a successful engineer, rich, comfortable, safe. You can be safe, rich, comfortable, secure, but you will be dead if you do something which you never wanted to do. If you want to become a musician or a dancer or a poet and that is your passion, then go for it. You may be a beggar, you may never become known, you may never be rich -- because the society does not need much poetry. [....]

 

This is the second kind of freedom: freedom for. This is a positive approach, better than the first. The first type of person becomes a politician. The second type of person becomes a poet, a painter, an artist. The first freedom is negative, the second freedom is positive -- but remember, they are aspects of the same thing. [....]

 

The real freedom is the third kind, the transcendental freedom. What is that? It is neither from nor for; it is simply freedom. It is just freedom. That is moksha: just freedom. Neither against anybody – it is not a reaction; nor to create some future – there is no goal. One simply enjoys being oneself, for its own sake; it is an end unto itself.”

 

- Osho, "The Secret: Trust Is a State of Your Being #6"

 

 

 

 

“Everybody wants freedom as far as talking is concerned, but nobody really is free and nobody really wants to be free, because freedom brings responsibility. It does not come alone. And to be dependent is simple: the responsibility is not on you, the responsibility is on the person you are dependent on.

 

So people have made a schizophrenic way of life. They talk about truth, they talk about freedom, and they live in lies, they live in slavery – slavery of many kinds, because each slavery frees you from some responsibility.”

 

- Osho, "The Path of the Mystic: Treasures of Dragons #16"

 

 

 

 

“You are born as freedom. It is just that you have been conditioned to forget it. Layers upon layers of conditionings have made you a puppet. The strings are in somebody else’s hands.

 

If you are a Christian, you are a puppet. Your strings are in the hand of a God which does not exist, so just to give you the sense that God exists there are prophets, messiahs, representing God. They represent nobody. They are just egoistic people – and even ego wants to reduce you to a puppet.

 

They tell you what to do, they give you the Ten Commandments. They give you your personality – that you are a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Mohammedan. They give you your so-called knowledge. And naturally, under the great burden which they start giving you from the very beginning of your childhood, the Himalayan load you are carrying – underneath it, hidden, repressed, is your natural self.

 

If you can get rid of all conditionings, if you can think that you are neither a communist nor a fascist, that you are neither a Christian nor a Mohammedan. You were not born a Christian or Mohammedan; you were born just pure, innocent consciousness.

 

To be again in that purity, in that innocence, in that consciousness, is what I mean be freedom.

 

Freedom is the ultimate experience of life. There is nothing higher than that. And out of freedom many flowers blossom in you.”

 

- Osho, "From Death to Deathlessness: You Are Born As Freedom #23"

 

 

 

 

People like Hitler, Mao and Stalin are not born accidentally. They are born only when a whole country desires to be enslaved. Each person eagerly wishes for a man who can stand up and say, "I know what is right, Follow me!" -- so that they can follow him. They want to be told clearly what to do and what not to do. This is why we pursue politicians and sadhus and mahatmas. And these whom we ask, -- they too have asked others. They have no direct knowledge of their own; they too do not know what is right and what is wrong. The fact is, when there are people to inquire, teachers become available.



We are eager to place our burden on others. Freedom seems too heavy for our shoulders. It should actually be the other way around: freedom should give us wings to fly in the sky.

 

- Osho, "The Way of Tao, Vol. 2, Talk #4"

 

 

 

 

“To rejoice in chaos one needs guts. Very few people have that much courage. To enjoy freedom, very few people are ready. That's why a slavery exists in different names around the world.”

 

- Osho, "The Last Testament, Vol 3; Out of Chaos Stars Are Born #6"

 

 

 

 

“Everybody feels that others are responsible for his misery. The husband thinks the wife is responsible for his misery, the wife thinks the husband is responsible for her misery, the children think the parents are responsible for their misery, the parents think the children are responsible for their misery. It has become such a complexity. And whenever somebody else is responsible for your misery, you are not aware that by giving the responsibility you are losing your freedom.

 

Responsibility and freedom are two sides of the same coin.

 

And because you think others are responsible for your misery.... That's why there are charlatans, so-called saviors, messengers of God, prophets who go on telling you, "You have not to do anything, just follow me. Believe in me and I will save you. I am your shepherd, you are my sheep."

Strange, that not a single person stood up against people like Jesus Christ and said, "This is utterly insulting to say that you are the shepherd and we are sheep, and you are the savior and we are just dependent on your compassion, that our whole religion is just to believe in you." But because we have been throwing the responsibility for our misery on others, we have accepted the corollary that bliss will also come from others.

 

Naturally, if misery comes from others, then bliss has to come from others. But then what are you doing? You are neither responsible for misery nor are you responsible for bliss – then what is your function? What is your purpose? – just to be a target for a few people to make you miserable and for others to help you and save you and make you blissful? Are you just a puppet?

 

All the strings are in the hands of others. You are not respectful of your humanity; you do not respect yourself. You don’t have any love for your own being, for your own freedom.”

 

- Osho, "Beyond Enlightenment: The Master Is a Mirror #9"

 

 

 

 

“Freedom has nothing to do with the outside; one can be free even in an actual prison. Freedom is something inner; it is of the consciousness. You can be free anywhere -- chained, in a jail, you can be free -- and you can be unfree outside the jail, in your own home, visibly absolutely free, but you will be a prisoner if your consciousness is not free.
 

You are confusing outer freedom with inner freedom. As far as the outside is concerned you can never be absolutely free -- let it be clear once and forever. As far as outside is concerned you are not alone, so how can you be absolutely free? There are millions of people around you. On the outside, life has to be a compromise. If you were alone on the earth you would have been absolutely free, but you are not alone.

On the road you have to keep to the left. And Yvonne will feel this is a great bondage: "Why? Why should I be forced to be on the left? I am a free man. If I want to walk on the right I will walk on the right. If I want to walk in the middle of the road I will walk in the middle of the road." In India you can do it -- India is a free country, remember! It is the greatest democracy in the world, so right, left, middle, anywhere you can walk!

But one man's freedom becomes so many people's problem. You are free to be yourself, but you should not be an interference in other people's lives.

A man of understanding will respect his freedom as much as he will respect others' freedom, because if nobody respects your freedom, your freedom will be destroyed. It is a mutual understanding: "I respect your freedom, you respect my freedom, then we both can be free." But it is a compromise. I have not to interfere with your being, I am not free to trespass on you.

You want to sing loudly in the middle of the night. Of course you are a free person, and if you cannot sing loudly in your own house, what kind of freedom is this? But the neighbors have to sleep too; then there has to be a compromise.

On the outside we are interdependent. Nobody can be absolutely independent. Life is an interdependence. Not only with people are you interdependent, you are interdependent with everything. If you cut all the trees you will die because they are constantly supplying you with oxygen. You are dependent on them -- and they are dependent on you because you are constantly giving them carbon dioxide. We take oxygen in and exhale carbon dioxide; the trees do just the opposite, they exhale oxygen and inhale carbon dioxide. [....]

 

Now life is so interdependent... the sun is so far away. It takes ten minutes for the rays of the sun to reach to the earth, and rays move with tremendous speed -- one hundred eighty-six thousand miles per second. But we are related to other suns and other solar systems too. Everything in existence is interdependent, so you cannot be absolutely free on the outside -- and there is no need either.

Enjoy this interdependence. Don't call it bondage. It is not dependence, it is INTERdependence. You are dependent on others, others are dependent on you. It is a brotherhood, it is relatedness. Even the smallest grass leaf is related to the greatest star.

But in the inner world, in the inner kingdom, you can be absolutely free. So the whole question is of the inner. And then, Yvonne, you will not feel sad and rebellious; there is no need. Understand that the outer interdependence is a must, it is inevitable; nothing can be done about it. It is part of how things are. Accept it. When nothing can be done about it, acceptance is the only way. And accept it JOYOUSLY, not as a resignation. Accept it! This is our universe; we are part of it. We are not islands, we are part of the whole continent. We are not egos.

 

your idea of freedom is rooted somewhere in the idea of the ego. We are not egos. The ego is a false entity -- because we are not separate, how can we have egos? It is good as far as language is concerned; it is utilitarian to use the word 'I', but it has no substance in it. It is pure shadow, utterly empty. A useful word, utilitarian, but not real.

But inner freedom IS possible. It happens as you go deeper and deeper into awareness. Watch your body, watch your thought processes.

Just the other day Buddha was saying: Watch, witness the whole process of your thoughts. And slowly slowly, you will see you are neither anger nor greed, neither Hindu nor Mohammedan nor Christian, neither Catholic nor communist. Slowly slowly, you will be aware that you are not any thought -- you are not mind at all. You are a pure witness. The experience of pure witnessing is the experience of total freedom, but it is an inward phenomenon. And a man who is inwardly totally free has no hankering to be outwardly free. He is capable of accepting nature as it is.

Yvonne, create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom and then you will be able to see the interdependence on the outside. It is beautiful and it is a blessing. There is no need to rebel against it. Relax into it, surrender to it. And remember: only a person who is really free can surrender.

 

- Osho, "The Dharmapada: The Way of The Buddha Vol. 9: Freedom is Something Inner #4"

 

 

 


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    Spread the word

    So when I say, "Spread the word," I mean whatever I have been telling you, go on spreading in as many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that the word reaches to every nook and corner of...
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    Godliness is an energy.

    The first thing to be understood: God is not a person. But all the religions have talked about it in such a way that people get a false impression that God is a person, a personality. If you believe that God is a person then naturally you wi...
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    Osho Talks on Rebellious Spirit

    Osho on Rebellious Spirit ( Click → https://oshofriends.com/on_rebellion)
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    Death is the Master

    Death is the Master The Upanishads are unique scriptures on this Earth about the mysteries of life, and the Kathopanishad is unique amongst all the Upanishads. Before we enter into this Upanishad, it will be good to understand the inner curr...
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    Beauty Cannot Lead to Enlightenment

    Question 1 Osho, Was Rabindrinath’s longing, his creative angst, the very thing that in the end became an obstacle to his enlightenment? Am I also destined to die with tears in my eyes, and a pocket full of songs? Milarepa, a poet is not in ...
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    The Taj Mahal As Objective Art

    The Taj Mahal As Objective Art You will be surprised to know that the Taj Mahal was created on Sufi principles. This is not discussed in history, because the people who write history do not understand such depth, nor do they try to. They thi...
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    I have not stopped the sannyas movement

    Question 2 Osho, Is it just a coincidence that you started the neo-sannyas movement on september 26 and stopped it on the same day after fifteen years? I have not stopped the sannyas movement; I have stopped it becoming a religion. A movemen...
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    Three Types of Freedom

    Freedom can be of three types, and those three types have to be understood well. The first is freedom from, the second is freedom for, and the third is just freedom -- neither from nor for. The first, freedom from, is a reaction. It is past-...
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    The highest state of Love

    A relationship is a lower state. The highest state of love is not a relationship at all, it is simply a state of your being. Just as trees are green, a lover is loving. They are not green for particular persons, it is not that when you come ...
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    Even Godot Is Dead - Let's Dance

    Even Godot Is Dead - Let's Dance Question 1 Osho, It seems that never has any god-oriented religion been more anachronistic than it is today; yet curiously, Christianity at least seems to be blooming. Born-again Christians, Jesus freaks, and...
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    Love is must for Spiritual Growth

    Question : Why is Love so Essential for Spiritual Growth? Love and awareness is the highest form of polarity – just like man/woman, life/death, darkness/light, summer/winter, outer/ inner, yin/yang, the body and the soul, the creation and th...
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    Paradise is not somewhere else. It is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death. It is in you right now.

    Paradise This whole existence is the Garden of Eden! There is no other place, there is no other space, there is no other time. The whole universe is divine, so wherever you are you are in the Garden of Eden. The only thing that CAN be is: th...
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    Love is Greater than Truth

    Love is Greater than Truth Question 2 Osho, We can practice right behavior, and behavior according to duty, but then we will be waring false faces, as we are inwardly, as you say, a madhouse. So should we act as we feel, or act as we ought? ...
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    Love is the Earth Where One Needs to be Rooted

    If you are rooted in love, you are rooted. There is no other way to be rooted. You can have money, you can have a house, you can have security, you can have a bank balance; that will not give you rootedness. That is just a substitute, a poor...
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  57. The Mala is a Device for Meditation

    The Mala is a Device for Meditation You ask me, “Why this mala? Why this picture?” I will say, “Use it in this way, and this will happen,” and my answer is as scientific as possible. Religion never claims to be rational, the only claim is of...
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    Neo-sannyas is an effort to introduce the concept of ’sannyas without any renunciation of the world’

    Question : What is Neo – Sannyas all about? Neo-sannyas is an effort to introduce the concept of ’sannyas without any renunciation of the world’. To me, India has given only one thing to the world, to human consciousness, and that is the con...
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    Cut the Very Root

    Question 1 You tell us to be here-now, without goals and without purpose, but then you allure us also by talking about ecstasy, enlightenment, freedom and the possible fulfillment. It looks contradictory. Please explain. It is not contradict...
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    I am saying God is not, but there is tremendous godliness.

    Question 1: Beloved Osho, If there is no god, why were you being called bhagwan? There is no God, but that does not mean that I'm an atheist. Certainly I am not a theist - I am saying there is no God - but that does not mean that you jump to...
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    Osho on Woman and Feminine Qualities

    Osho on Woman and Feminine Qualities ( Click → https://oshofriends.com/on_woman)
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    Heaven and hell are within you, they are psychological.

    Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are psychological. The mind is heaven, the mind is hell, and the mind has the capacity to become either. But peopl...
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    Anything repressed creates guilt; anything not allowed creates guilt

    Question 7 Are fear and guilt the same thing? and surely as light shows up darkness, so jesus must have made people aware of their guilt. Fear and guilt are not the same thing. Fear accepted becomes freedom; fear denied, rejected, condemned,...
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    God neither ascends nor descends.

    God is. He neither ascends nor descends. Where can he ascend to and where can he descend to? God is all. There is nothing in to which God can ascend or descend. There is nobody else other than God. All that is is divine. So the first thing: ...
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    Something Belonging to Eternity

    Something Belonging to Eternity A few months ago my friend and I were visiting his dying father. Lots of people were around, his body was about finished. To most people he was indifferent, but when everyone left he suddenly opened his eyes a...
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    Osho's Guidance on Robes

    [Osho's guidance on the wearing of maroon and white robes, which he gave last year to Ma Deva Anando to pass on to everybody in the commune, was read again at the meeting of the White Robe Brotherhood on March 27, 1990.] The white robe shoul...
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    Speak to us of Love

    Speak to us of Love Then said Almitra, speak to us of love. And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are ha...
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    Death is a Great Revelation

    Death is a Great Revelation Sat Prem came to me last night. Vipassana is on her deathbed. He was very worried, shaken, immensely shaken, and rightly so. The moment of death of someone you have loved deeply brings your own death into your min...
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    Osho Talks on Zorba Buddha

    Osho Talks on Zorba Buddha ( Click → https://oshofriends.com/on_zorbabuddha)
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    There is No Tomorrow

    There is No Tomorrow Q: You have no philosophy of life? Osho: No philosophy of life. I have LIFE itself. There are people who have philosophies of life, but they don't have any life. Q: Your philosophy, if there is one, has been expressed in...
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    China is the most difficult country out of all the countries for the transformation of man.

    Question : Osho, Beautiful, rare beings, such as lao tzu, lieh tzu, and chuang tzu, have evolved out of china. That was thousands of years ago. China today has changed its face to a robotlike country. In your vision, do you see any possibili...
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    Rebel Against Personality

    Rebel Against Personality Question 2 Osho, Does the being, or self, in the person die with the death of the person; or does it live beyond death in another body? The question is a little complicated. First you have to understand that your pe...
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    Osho Talks on Religion and Science

    Osho Talks on Religion and Science ( Click → https://oshofriends.com/on_religion )
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    What is Herenow?

    Question 1: What is Herenow? Does ‘thought’ form part of it? If so, then all-time and all-things are now. Or... is herenow only in no-mind? Thought is the capacity of not being here - so thought cannot exist in the herenow, it cannot be part...
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    My fight is against the very concept of nationality, the very concept of the divisions of religions.

    Question 2 Beloved Osho, Upon being questioned on his place in history, einstein said, "if relativity is proved right, the germans will call me german, the swiss will call me a swiss citizen, and the french will call me a great scientist. if...
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    Where Does Your Body End?

    Where Does Your Body End? Question 5 Does the soul leave the body when you die? Where does it go? This whole way of thinking – that something remains and something leaves – is fallacious. The gross body that we know is just a seed, the outer...
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    There is no purpose in life. All search for purpose is bound to fail.

    There is no purpose in life. All search for purpose is bound to fail. To live purposelessly is the way of being religious; religion is not a purpose. Politics is a purpose, business is a purpose; religion is not a purpose. What is the purpos...
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    Osho Talks on Education, Child and Parenting

    Click → Osho on Education, Child and Parenting (https://oshofriends.com/on_education)
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    Why did friedrich nietzsche declare that god is dead?

    Question 4 Osho, Why did friedrich nietzsche declare that god is dead? He had to declare it, because God was dead. The God that had been worshipped for thousands of years was dead; not the real God, but the God that the human mind had create...
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    Are you not a rich man's guru?

    Question 5: Are you not a rich man's guru? I AM - BECAUSE ONLY A RICH MAN CAN COME TO ME. But when I say 'a rich man' I mean one who is very poor inside. When I say 'a rich man' I mean one who is rich in intelligence; I mean one who has got ...
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    My people, once they become enlightened, are going to be masters

    I could say that not only you all will be enlightened; you all will be masters. All enlightened people have not been masters, but I can say with tremendous guarantee that my people, once they become enlightened, are going to be masters, for ...
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    Can't one believe in god without seeing him?

    Question 6 Osho, Can't one believe in god without seeing him? WHO IS TELLING YOU TO BELIEVE IN GOD? I am against all belief. You must be a very new comer here. Belief is irreligious, as much as disbelief is. Belief means you don't know yet y...
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    I am an invitation

    Question 1 Osho, Can you say who you are? Maneesha, I am an invitation for all those who are seeking, searching, and have a deep longing in their hearts to find their home. I am an answer to the question that everybody is, but cannot formula...
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    Whenever I use the word god I simply mean godliness, remember it.

    Osho on Godliness Hell is a lie; there is no hell. And heaven is a lie; there is no heaven. But they have lived for centuries and centuries, and I don't think they are going to disappear. They will live. God as a person is a lie. There is go...
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    Devotion is Not a Path

    Question 2 Osho, What is the path of devotion and does it have a place in your vision of the rebel? Rafia, devotion is not a path. You don’t have to travel it. Devotion is a way of merging and melting into existence. It is not a pilgrimage; ...
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    Love is Very Unearthly

    Love is Very Unearthly Love is always thankful. If love complains, then it is not love. Love basically is gratitude. Complaints arise when there are desires and they are not fulfilled; gratitude arises because all that is needed is already f...
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    On His Movement

    On His Movement I never think in terms of a movement, in terms of making a church, a religion; I simply go on sharing my heart with whosoever knocks on my door. And the grass goes on growing…. There are one million sannyasins around the worl...
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    Magical Surgery

    When I hear you talk about past lives I get scared. I have never had any remembrance, just a vague feeling, and somewhere I know that I don’t want to know... Unless it’s a remembrance of you. And about future lives, I get so sad – Just the i...
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    No heaven, no hell.

    When Gautam Buddha himself became enlightened, a man came to him. He could not trust his eyes -- such grace, such feminine grace, such beauty! He asked the Buddha, "Who are you? Ate you a god who has descended from heaven? I have never seen ...
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    The Lion’s Roar

    The Lion’s Roar MY BELOVED ONES: I love you. Love is my message – let it be your message too. Love is my color and my climate. To me, love is the only religion. All else is just rubbish, all else is nothing but mind-churning dreams. Love is ...
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    I am not giving you the answer.

    Question 4: Osho, Why is it that whenever i come to ask a question, questions of great significance, that i knew were there before, elude me. i would like to ask about enlightenment and meditation, but when i get down to writing them, the qu...
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    Art depends on you.

    Art depends on you. Question 4 What about art and enlightenment? When you are creating a poem, a painting sculpture, music, you can feel very close to the meditative state. yet, it is not pure nothing-ness -- because it has an end, a goal. i...
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    My love was keeping you together

    My message for my people is that the moment I am gone, your religion is gone. Then whatever remains is just a corpse. Don’t start worshipping the corpse. I am a free man and I want every sannyasin to be a free man. My love is the only bindin...
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    Only Life Goes Beyond Death

    Only Life Goes Beyond Death LIFE is an opportunity. You can use it, you can misuse it, or you can simply waste it. It depends on you. Except you, nobody is going to be responsible. Responsibility is of the individual. Once you realize this t...
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    A State of Silent Identification

    A State of Silent Identification Question 4: Please explain. Is life an observer and death observed? No, both are the observed – life and death. Beyond both is the observer. You cannot call that observer ‘life’ because life contains death in...
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    Sannyas is Eternal

    Sannyas is Eternal Question : What do you, you foresee as the future of your sannyas movement? do you see it as prospering, even when you're not here? Sannyas movement is not mine. It is not yours. It was here when I was not here. It will be...
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    With religion also, America can outshine and surpass the East.

    People become transformed only during emergencies. If one knows that one can transform tomorrow or even the day after, he will not do anything today; he will postpone it for tomorrow or the day after. But if he knows that there is no tomorro...
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    India is not just geography or history. It is not only a nation, a country, a mere piece of land.

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, Being with you in india is much stronger than anywhere else in the world. sitting with you in discourse feels like being in the very heart of the world. sometimes just sitting in the hotel room, closing my eyes, i fe...
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    Beyond the Astral Body

    Beyond the Astral Body Question 1 Osho, I have understood that the witness is pure consciousness, unaffected by the body and mind it takes temporary residence in. So, first: how do personality and conditioning persist from one life to anothe...
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