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When you live at the optimum, then you know what life is. And then you know the celebration of it and the benediction of it.
- Osho
Your daily life is your temple, and your religion. Act in awareness, act consciously, and many things will start changing.
- Osho
You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
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Your mind has been conditioned for centuries by people who have not understood your real needs.
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Nobody should in any way interfere in anybody else’s life.
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Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is agelessness.
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There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are.
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state — which we have lost.
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All leadership is misleading, and to guide is to misguide. Buddha was not a guide and Buddha was not a leader.
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You are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
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God is without purpose. The sky exists without purpose. Flowers bloom without purpose and stars shine without purpose. What happens to poor man that he cannot live without purpose?
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Life is very precious and the greatest treasure is hidden in it – and that treasure is of becoming a witness.
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It(existence) has given me so much, there is no way to pay anything back; there is no word even to express gratitude. The only way is that my every breath should be used in helping people to reach to the same Everest of consciousness.
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Truth is a search, not a faith. It is an inquiry, not a belief. It is a question, a quest.
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have been told how you should be. Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.
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Don’t cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious.
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As you become more and more sensitive, more and more sensuous, you will see more and more beauty around deeper you’re in side, the greater the beauty.
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
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A happy person needs no temple, no church--because for a happy person the whole universe is a temple, the whole existence is a church.
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Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?
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Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
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There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all.
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Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence.
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Respect life, and life will respect you. Love life and love will shower blessing on you.
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Witnessing is a happening, a by-product--a by-product of being total in any moment, in any situation, in any experience. Totality is the key.
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The world is a garland of millions of flowers, but running through all those flowers is a thread that keeps it together: that thread is love.
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Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed–borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.
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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
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If you love a person, you accept the total person. With all the defects. Because those defects are a part of the person. Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted. When you love, you simply love.
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
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It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.
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In Jainism forgiving carries great value, which I need to follow as it helps me to learn art of living, & I sincerely request you to forgive me if any of my.
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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
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Trust is the highest form of the same energy as doubt. Doubt is the lowest rung of the ladder, and trust is the highest rung of the same ladder. Use doubt, use it joyfully
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Conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be.
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Out of love, everything is right. Love is the magic that transforms everything into right.
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If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
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The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
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Meditation need a very relaxed mind--with no hurry, with no worry, with nowhere to go--just enjoying moment to moment, whatever comes.
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
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Meditation has happen first, then character comes as a shadow to it. And if meditation does not happen, then your character is just a hypocrisy.
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To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
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If you feel angry too often you should meditate more on anger, so that anger disappears and its energy becomes compassion.
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All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.
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Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.
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The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be content with yourself as you are is simple.
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A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
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To live a life of truth, ever if it is for a single moment, is far more valuable than to live eternally in lies.
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Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere.
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Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
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Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
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To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.
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We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
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Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.
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If you are a parent you will need this much courage-not to interfere. Open doors of unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.
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In the death of the ego love is born, divine is born, light is born, in the death of the ego you are transformed, all misery disappears.
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The world of being is the only real world, the world of truth. And unless you have come to it, you on wandering in of rein lands. You can never come home.
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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
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When two lovers meet not out of some bondage but out of freedom, there is benediction.
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Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.
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Do not seek a guru, because gurus are crippling. Anyone who gives you ready-made formulas is not a friend but an enemy.
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My function is very different from the function of Gautam Buddha. His function is only a small part of my philosophy. I want individuals to become enlightened, but I want also the whole of humanity to rise with the enlightened people. They may not become enlightened, but at least become conscious enough so that nations disappear, religions disappear, races disappear, and we can live as one humanity, as one earth.
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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
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You need either to create something or to discover something. Either bring your potential to actuality or go inwards to find yourself, but do something with your freedom.
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To be responsible is to be free. To give the responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner.
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A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy. The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'leela'. Leela means god's play.
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
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If you are really in love, you are no more the same as your were before. Something has love. You are no more the same as you were before. Something has disappeared; you are reborn. Love is a rebirth.
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Love brings freedom. And a love that does not bring freedom is not love.
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
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Listen to your own heart; that is the only scripture I prescribe. Yes listen very attentively, very consciously, and you will never be wrong.
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Be ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary.
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Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
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Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
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A man is successful if he follows his own natural way and lives it as totally and intensely as possible.
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Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms, love is a mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new.
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Take it easy, and remember Easy is Right.
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To discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a mew discovery, each moment brings a new joy; a new mystery opens its doors.
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A witness is not a judge. A witness is only a mirror. It shows u clearly the situation, and it gives u a spontaneous response.
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Mind, and mind’s hold on you, is the imprisonment. Get rid of the mind.
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Life is a beautiful journey if it is a process of constant learning, exploration. Then it is excitement every moment.
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The mind a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
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The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.
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To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.
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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
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The mirror mirrors things, but mirroring is not an activity. It is just the nature of the mirror, that whatever comes before it is reflected.
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Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.
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To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears, is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly slowly those fears disappear.
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Life has to b a joy, a dance, a celebration. & when death comes, it has to b welcomed wid silence, wid serenity. This is a way to kill death itself.
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We need a world - a new man, a new woman, a new child, who has intelligence. Not to imitate, not to deceive, but to stand on his own with power and integrity. Even if it means that he will be condemned by the whole world, it does not matter. What ultimately matters is that you have your own face.
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Is the celebrator celebrating! Already there is too much – the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky – celebrate it!
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The ego is just a useful fiction. Use it, but don't be deceived by it.
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
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Just as on a rosebush roses blossom, on the bush of awareness roses also blossom—roses of goodness roses of beauty, roses of grace.
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A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality.
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Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the centre, fear always comes from the periphery.
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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
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If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
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Your real being flowers only with love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life, your real destiny.
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Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.
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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.
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Try to understand that existence consists of polar opposites. If you choose one side, your life will remain only half; and a half-life is a miserable life.
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The greatest art is to attain a balance between all opposites,a balance betwn all polarities.Imbalance is the disease and balance is health.
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Truth certainly liberates, but the truth has to be your own. Only then it liberates.
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
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People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
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Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
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Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.
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Whatsoever you are doing, all doing has to become peripheral and a constant search for truth and a constant thirst for truth have to become your very center.
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My Message is very Simple. Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God.
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My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.
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Don't ask, Don't knock, Don't demand. Just Relax. if you relax, it comes. if you relax, it is there. if you relax, you start vibrating with it.
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
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When one wants to come to oneself no path is needed because one is already there. Just recognition – and the revolution happen! Just a remembrance!
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Life is an infinite mystery, therefore those who are filled with knowledge are deprived of life.
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
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I don't want anybody to cling to me, to be attached to me in any way. My whole effort is to give you total freedom, and methods so that whatever you want, you can create it within yourself. Not even God is needed, nothing is needed ― you are enough unto yourself.
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Life is a musical instrument, and awareness is its greatest music.
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
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Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory.
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.
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A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
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Only idiots are not controversial.
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Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
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Respect your life. Out of that respect, you will start respecting life in others.
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
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I am not a teacher, and this is not a place where knowledge is important. I am just a presence to inspire in you that which is dormant, to allow you to recognize yourself.
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Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.
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You are simply a witness, no judgment, no evaluation, but a pure silent witnessing like a mirror.
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything. . . .
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Truth is subjectivity, it is your innermost core. Only you, and only you, can penetrate it; nobody else can go with you. The path has to be travelled in tremendous aloneness. And a Master knows it — that he is pushing you in a journey where you will be left alone.
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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
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What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
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Be Yourself - and only then can you be responsible and authentic and real. But ordinarily everyone is just secondhand and borrowed, and that makes everything ugly.
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I am not here to make you a sheep. You have been a sheep for too long already. I am here to make a man out of you. It is going to be arduous, but you have to start becoming responsible for your own life. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing, because then there is no point in wasting time in postponing, in waiting. Nobody is coming to help you. All waiting is futile, all waiting is sheer wastage.
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Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
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I want you to be independent and confident that you can attain these precious moments on your own.
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As you come to the center of your being you have found your original face. Your original face is the Buddha.
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There is no other god than life. So allow yourself to be possessed by life in all its forms, colors, dimensions – the whole rainbow, all the notes of music.
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Remember one thing: that you should not leave this earth unless you have made it a little more beautiful, a little lovelier, a little more loving.
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At the center we are one. At the periphery of existence we appear to be separate. And to know the truth of your being is to know the whole.
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This I call true religion – playfulness, lovingness, cheerfulness.
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A real religious man is one who has no past, who has no autobiography, who is continuously new, each moment slipping with GOD. He does not bother – what has happened, has happened – finished! Put a full stop it, and never look back. Go on...he is always calling you ahead, and ahead. He is always persuading you to move into new territories of being: from lust to love, from love to prayer - and there are higher realms than prayer. And he is constantly on the move. If you follow him, the only way is to be constantly on the move. Be a river.
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Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated.
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Love makes you feel welcome in the world. Love makes you a part of existence; it destroys alienation. Then you are no mere an outsider here, but utterly needed.
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You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.
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That is my whole teaching: just to be natural. Nature is Dharma, nature is Tao, and nature is Zen. And the moment you are natural, flowers will shower over you.
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Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness; it will be a song of meditation
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Contentment is a quality of your centre; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being.
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If you are aware, you cannot be angry, because anger can exist only in a state of unawareness; that is a prerequisite for anger to exist.
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I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.
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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
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All that is great is going to happen to you-- not by your effort, but by your relaxed openness, availability. Just keep your doors open.
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A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude. He is on the Way, he is on Tao; and he IS becoming meditative.
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Your absence is the presence of godliness.
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Don’t be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.
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Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you.
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Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.
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The only revolution possible is through taking the whole responsibility on yourself: I am the cause of my suffering. Hence I can be the cause of my bliss.
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
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To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
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Freedom is the ultimate value in the human soul.
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If love is not conscious it remains lust, and lust can never have anything of prayer in it. Lust is unconscious, love is conscious.
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I don’t believe in nationalism, and I don’t believe in any religion. I believe in the individual and his happiness.
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The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
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Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper. because you will disturb; you will create more problems.
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Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
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Everything is beautiful if inside your heart there is awareness.
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Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself.
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Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
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We have to make laughter, rejoicing, dancing, singing, part of a healthy being – just overflowing well-being.
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available, only stupid people will cling to small things. Be oceanic.
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Courage is a love affair with the unknown.
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The deeper your love, The deeper is your life. Think of love and life as synonymous.
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To me, every day is a holiday. If you love whatsoever you are doing, you are never tired of it; it is nourishing, it is energy-giving, it is vitalizing.
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point — now and here.
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Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.
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Mind is a continuous thirst for more. It never finds fulfillment.
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Only a mediator knows what life is, because he has reached the very source of eternity.
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Detach yourself from all fixed ideas; they are the killers of all aliveness and innocence-which are musts for illumination.
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Individuality is the very flowering of existence — nothing is higher than it.
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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 the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death -- that is not power. But the word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring new life to you; it can give you rebirth, resurrection -- that is power.
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
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Ambition is insanity. Ambition shows that you are not at ease with yourself, that you are not at home.
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Only the individual can rise to the heights of consciousness and awareness. The more you belong to the crowd, the deeper you fall into darkness.
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Go beyond the mind — and the way beyond the mind is very simple — just become a watcher of the mind.
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I am crazy, but you are crazier! And that is the only bond between us - I am crazy, you are crazier.
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I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
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There is no other God than life. Be more alive, and you will be more divine. Be totally alive, and there is no death for you.
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
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Never belong to a crowd; never belong to a nation; never belong to a religion; never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence.
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Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
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When you cheat somebody, you are losing something of your inner being… something which is tremendously valuable.
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The poison can become medicinal - you have to know how to transform it. And sometimes the nectar can be poisonous - if you dint know how to use it.
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Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
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Love, sing; dance not as a competitor, but as a man who wants to share his joy, his songs and his dances with his fellow human beings.
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The experience of the joy that the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown,makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. For the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear.
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These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle
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When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
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Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.
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If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
- Osho
I'm not giving you another dream, remember. You hanker for it, you would like me to give you another dream, but I am not going to give you another dream. That's why to be with me is difficult and arduous - because I am insisting that you wake up. Enough is enough. You have dreamed a lot; since eternity you have been dreaming. You have just been changing dreams. When you get fed up with one dream, you start changing it; you dream another dream. My whole effort is to shake you, to shock you - to wake you.
- Osho
If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else is needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.
- Osho
My effort is to continuously emphasize that meditation is nothing but watching the mind, understanding the mind, seeing all its subtle and cunning ways.
- Osho
Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.
- Osho
If a person can go into his sorrow deeply, he will find that all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss.
- Osho
The only way to be desire less is to be wakeful, watchful. Watchfulness creates a light in you, and in that light the darkness of desire cannot enter.
- Osho
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
- Osho
If meditation really happens, whatsoever the cause, compassion has to follow.
- Osho
Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by.
- Osho
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
- Osho
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
- Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence
- Osho
Meditation can bring the only revolution. There is all other revolution have failed.
- Osho
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators.
- Osho
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life’s greatest treasures, the capacity to trust. Without trust, love is not possible.
- Osho
Only by knowing oneself does one become capable of knowing the ultimate, because at the very core of your being the ultimate is present.
- Osho
If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
- Osho
Truth can whisper its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is its mysteries into your ears only when you are absolutely empty – emptiness is purity.
- Osho
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
- Osho
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
- Osho
Absence of consciousness is ego. Whenever the ego is absent, Love is present.
- Osho
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
- Osho
Remember it is a very fundamental law. You may not get something that you want, but you always get that which you need. Somehow the universe goes on fulfilling your needs; you may understand, you may not understand.
- Osho
Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.
- Osho
The will to wholeness is inherent in everything, but only in man has it become conscious. Therefore man lives in tension, and only when this longing is fulfilled is his negative state of tension erased.
- Osho
When you say that hole existence as a tremendous dance as a celebration you are liberate by it. It is celebration that celebration, it is love that liberate.
- Osho
Harmony is happiness, and harmony is heaven. And harmony happens only when you are in tune with the whole. To be with the whole is to be holy.
- Osho
Be true to yourself, and don't look at what others are saying. This is the only way to reach to the Divine, because it is the only way to be natural.
- Osho
It is a strange thing, that every child is born with a closed hand, and every body dies with an open hand.
- Osho
Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
- Osho
Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.
- Osho
Meditation is purest blissfulness. As you go deeper, you come across more and more beautiful spaces, more and more luminous spots. They are your treasure.
- Osho
If you want to get rid of misery, get rid of the lust for happiness. And when there is no misery, there is happiness.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in scripture. truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
- Osho
You create yourself moment to moment. You are mot born as a fixed entity, but only as an infinite. You are born as a seed, not as a tree.
- Osho
Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
- Osho
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.
- Osho
Prayer is gratitude. Prayer is thankfulness.
- Osho
No-mind is not against mind: no-mind is beyond mind.
- Osho
If you are not spiritually free, you are no free at all. Then all your freedoms are bogus, phony, pseudo.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.
- Osho
Live the day and live the night too. Dont miss anything. Make your life such a complimentary whole that everything fits together and makes it a piece of art.
- Osho
Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
- Osho
You be simply interested in your happiness, in your bless, and one day you will find godliness has entered in you. It is another name for ultimate bliss.
- Osho
Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lover, silence is enough language. without saying anything, they go on speaking.
- Osho
To me, this is the only strength, the only power – that we can transform life, we can transform consciousness.
- Osho
Life is freedom. It does not impose any meaning on you; it simply gives you an opportunity to create your own meaning. The meaning has to be created.
- Osho
Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and meditative.
- Osho
Love makes you wise but never knew. Knowledge makes you cunning and clever but never loving.
- Osho
Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
- Osho
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
- Osho
Life is for those who know how to celebrate.
- Osho
First face your own problem an counter then first try to transform your being, only a transformed person can process of transformation in trigger others.
- Osho
It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
- Osho
Consciousness plus thinking is Waking, Consciousness minus thinking is Samadhi, Unconsciousness plus thinking is Dreaming, Unconsciousness minus thinking is Sleep.
- Osho
Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
- Osho
If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
- Osho
To be in tune, to be harmonious with the universe, is bliss is joy, is music, is poetry. You start blooming the moment you are in tune with the whole.
- Osho
Religion has nothing to do with churches and temples and rituals: religion is born only when somebody pulsates with love.
- Osho
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
- Osho
Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human.
- Osho
Death is a quantum jump from one body, from one form into another form. But it is not an end to you.
- Osho
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
- Osho
If you are clear and clean in the mind, you will be able to find solutions for every problem that arises in your life.
- Osho
You have to relax, you have to stop judging.
- Osho
When you become an absolute pool of silence, an aura of grace arises around you and follows you like your shadow; that is the shadow of your soul.
- Osho
Be - don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
- Osho
Only lovers know the unity, thinkers cannot know unity. And in the unity of the whole one finds love and one finds wisdom.
- Osho
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
- Osho
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
- Osho
Aloneness is a flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive, aloneness is health.
- Osho
Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
- Osho
Watch the waves in the ocean. The higher the wave goes, the deeper is the wake that follows it. One moment you are the wave, another moment you are the hollow wake that follows. Enjoy both--dont get addicted to one. Dont say: I would always like to be on the peak. It is not possible. Simply see the fact: it is not possible. It has never happened and it will never happen. It is simply impossible--not in the nature of things. Then what to do? Enjoy the peak while it lasts and then enjoy the valley when it comes. What is wrong with the valley? What is wrong with being low? It is a relaxation. A peak is an excitement, and nobody can exist continuously in an excitement.
- Osho
My whole life has been devoted to only one single program: how to bring love and meditation together - because only through that meeting a new humanity is possible. And only in the meeting of love and meditation, the duality of man and woman - the inequality of man and woman - disappears.
- Osho
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
- Osho
Celebration is the very nature of existence.
- Osho
Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
I teach a new man, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world.[....] only with the death of the old can the new be born. The cessation of the old is the beginning of the new. My message to humanity is a new man.
- Osho
Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
- Osho
Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
- Osho
I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all.
- Osho
Meditation is something natural, something that is already hidden inside you and is trying to find its way to reach to the open sky, to the sun, to the air.
- Osho
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
- Osho
Life is not a means to some end somewhere in the future. Life is its own end, it’s own means. Life is all.
- Osho
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
- Osho
Rare is the person who transforms his life into a growth, who transforms his life into a long journey of self-actualization, who becomes what he was meant to be. In the East we have called that man the buddha.
- Osho
Meditation is the only way to discover your deathlessness.
- Osho
All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
- Osho
When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
- Osho
Let your life be integrated at the centre of the celebration. Only choose that which is Celebrating, Joyous.
- Osho
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
- Osho
Anything that gives you freedom is right, and anything that destroys your freedom is wrong.
- Osho
Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
- Osho
When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy.
- Osho
If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
- Osho
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds….
- Osho
Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.
- Osho
You are right now at the very source, and you have never left it for a single moment. Just recognize it, just open your eyes and see it!
- Osho
Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
- Osho
I don’t want you to worship Buddha’s; I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love become it.
- Osho
The moment you experience your own being, you have experienced the being of this whole universe because your heartbeat is part of the heartbeat of the universe.
- Osho
Life begins where fear ends.
- Osho
I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things, which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alone are enough to face the sunrise. You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.
- Osho
You are being taught everything, but you are not being taught to be yourself. This is the ugliest form of society possible, because it makes everybody miserable.
- Osho
The ego is the cancer of the inner, the cancer of the soul. And the only remedy - the only remedy I say - is meditation.
- Osho
Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
- Osho
The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.
- Osho
It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.
- Osho
Your trust in the total opens all your sensitivities to their extreme. This whole existence becomes a sheer dance, a sheer celebration.
- Osho
You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.
- Osho
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
- Osho
We are not interested in going to paradise; We are interested in making the paradise come here.
- Osho
To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.
- Osho
Meditation is the shortest way possible because you don’t go anywhere; you simply close your eyes and dive deep within your own being - where you already are.
- Osho
Happiness is not a result. It is a way of life. Happiness is not the end result of desire. It is an attitude, not a desire.
- Osho
Sharing is one of the greatest spiritual qualities. The miracle is that the more you share your bliss the more you have it.
- Osho
Any meditation that is of worth will be alive even in the marketplace. Because a marketplace is nothing once you attain to the meditative state.
- Osho
My word for prayer is love. Forget the word prayer, replace it with love. Love is not for some invisible God. Love is for the visible -- human beings, animals, trees, oceans, mountains. Spread your wings of love as far and wide as you can.
- Osho
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
- Osho
Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. The only false religion has rules because false religion is a game.
- Osho
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love—now you are love.
- Osho
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Osho
Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.
- Osho
Renunciation follows awareness like a shadow.
- Osho
Loneliness is sad, aloneness is blissful.
- Osho
The real religious man has to contribute to the world. He has to make it a little more beautiful than he found it when he came into the world.
- Osho
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
- Osho
Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.
- Osho
I do not give you any discipline, any philosophy. I simply help you to bring out your own consciousness into a state of flowering.
- Osho
Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
- Osho
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- Osho
Reality has not to be invented, it has to be discovered. It is already there. Hence science discovers, and true religion also discovers.
- Osho
Life is precious, and it is a gift from existence. We should not waste it.
- Osho
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.
- Osho
It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
- Osho
When you are utterly present in this moment, when you don't have any past and don't have any future ... when this cuckoo calling, this train passing, this dog barking, is all ... when THIS is all and there is no that, when the word 'here' is your whole reality and there is no 'there', when now contains all time and there is no then ... then you are in the state of samasati.
- Osho
My whole teaching is this, accept yourself, love yourself, and celebrate yourself.
- Osho
Suffering cannot exist without your support. Just withdraw your support, and suffering disappears.
- Osho
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.
- Osho
You are too much identified with the false, the personality.
- Osho
Be – don’t try to become.
- Osho
Where silence and awareness meet, mingle and become one, there is receptivity. Receptivity is the most important religious quality.
- Osho
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
- Osho
Awareness means to be totally aware of what you are doing at the time of doing it. Experiment with that and you will see it, and you will experience such peace as you have never known before.
- Osho
Whenever you create something, you feel enhanced; you reach towards peaks; you get high. All people who are creative are close to religion.
- Osho
Unless you find your spontaneity, unless you find your element, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, you cannot be meditative.
- Osho
No thought, no mind, no choice — just being silent, rooted in yourself.
- Osho
Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
- Osho
The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.
- Osho
Grace is a by-product of meditation. The more silent you become inside, the more graceful you become on the outside.
- Osho
The society is ill; individuals are victims. Society needs therapy; individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
- Osho
Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is in love.
- Osho
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom!
- Osho
Happiness is available to everybody —whosoever opens his heart, happiness is always available.
- Osho
We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
- Osho
All ambition is politics, all struggle to be the first is politics. A non-struggling, non conflicting mind is religious.
- Osho
Thinking is a very low activity; it is of the mind. Meditation is the highest within you; it is beyond mind.
- Osho
Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
- Osho
If you want life, then for life there is no fixed road. Life is here and now, multi-dimensional, spreading in every direction.
- Osho
Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.
- Osho
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage.
- Osho
Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
- Osho
Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That’s why you are not. That’s why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future.
- Osho
I want every one of my sannyasins to be utterly unique.
- Osho
Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
- Osho
Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing. Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.
- Osho
A truth cannot be read in a scripture, a truth has to be lived only in the innermost temple of your being.
- Osho
The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.
- Osho
The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
- Osho
Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
- Osho
Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
- Osho
Meditation is the only magic in the world and the only miracle.
- Osho
Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
- Osho
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
- Osho
Love has to be discovered — it is already there. And how to discover it? The more you are, the less is the possibility to discover love; the less you are, the more is the possibility to discover it. When the river disappears into the ocean, it discovers the ocean — it becomes the ocean.
- Osho
My meditation is a method of being aware — of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.
- Osho
To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help divine to be manifested in some form is creativity.
- Osho
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
- Osho
People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
- Osho
Love is not a higher quality than truth.
- Osho
My whole effort is to liberate you from all that binds you. Only when you are liberated from all bindings will you have a tremendous beauty, a splendor.
- Osho
The moment you accept youself you become beautiful.
- Osho
Don't try to understand life, Live it! Don't try to understand love, Move into love. Then you will know.
- Osho
The first: freedom. The second: uniqueness of individuality. The third: love. The fourth: meditation. The fifth: non-seriousness. The sixth: playfulness. The seventh: creativity. The eighth: sensitivity. The ninth: gratefulness. Tenth: a feeling of the mysterious. These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man's freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.
- Osho
Presence of mind means to be in the present, to be spontaneous, to be available to whatsoever is happening right now--to be available to here and now.
- Osho
A real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he does not depend on anybody else.
- Osho
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.
- Osho
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
- Osho
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
- Osho
Everything borrowed is ugly. Beliefs are borrowed, hence they are ugly. And when you live according to borrowed beliefs you create chaos in the world.
- Osho
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
- Osho
Each moment is an end unto itself. Enjoy It., die into it, disappear into it, and then something miraculous happens: great eternal life descends in you.
- Osho
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
- Osho
Be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you.
- Osho
If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.
- Osho
In relationship be blissful, in alone-ness be aware, and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
- Osho
Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
- Osho
When peace starts dancing. It is bliss. When peace becomes active, overflowing, it is bliss.
- Osho
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
- Osho
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility — because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
- Osho
why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. it is so absurd. it is so ridiculous. it is so beautiful, so wonderful! it is all sorts of things together. it is a great cosmic joke. Laughter is the real religion. Everthing else is just metaphysics.
- Osho
Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?
- Osho
It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
- Osho
Always remember that to be happy is to be religious; to be happy is to be virtuous; to be celebrating is to be prayerful.
- Osho
My whole effort is somehow to convince you - not with my words but with my silence and presence, with my love and with my joy - that you are at the very center of the universe, every one of you - because there is only one center. Only on the periphery are we separate; at the center we are one.
- Osho
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
- Osho
Every human being is a seed of Buddha. Blessed are those seeds which come to their flowering.
- Osho
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
- Osho
I am not a messiah and I am not a prophet. I am only a friend, and a friend cannot do what you are asking me to do. What commandments can I give you? No, none. I cannot tell you what to do and what not to do.
- Osho
Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.
- Osho
Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
- Osho
My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.
- Osho
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
- Osho
The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.
- Osho
Don't make me wholly responsible for your silence, because that will create a difficulty for you. Alone, what are you going to do? Then it becomes a kind of addiction, and I don't want you to be addicted to me. I don't want to be a drug to you.
- Osho
Intelligence is a natural phenomenon, every child is born intelligent.
- Osho
Meditation comes automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.
- Osho
Only a mediator knows a love that is not biological, that comes as a spiritual abundance, with a great urge to share.
- Osho
Remember, all great values are killed the moment you cling to them. And no great value can be imitated.
- Osho
My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.
- Osho
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
- Osho
To go beyond judgements of good and bad is the way of watchfulness. And it is through watchfulness that transformations happen.
- Osho
You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it - whatsoever it is.
- Osho
Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears.
- Osho
Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
- Osho
Man has to create himself. He is not ready- made, he is no given. And the creation has to be a self- creation – nobody else can make you.
- Osho
The lover is an emperor; the creator is an emperor – without invading the whole world. He has invaded the whole universe out of sheer loving creativity.
- Osho
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.
- Osho
Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
- Osho
I am not a messiah, and I am not a missionary. And I am not here to establish a church or to give a doctrine to the world, a new religion, no. My effort is totally different: a new consciousness not a new religion, a new consciousness not a new doctrine. Enough of doctrines and enough of religions! Man needs a new consciousness. And the only way to bring consciousness is to go on hammering from all the sides so that slowly slowly chunks of your mind go on dropping. The statue of a buddha is hidden in you. Right now you are a rock. If I go on hammering, cutting chunks out of you, slowly slowly the buddha will emerge. It takes time.
- Osho
You are the temple and the master of the temple. You need not go anywhere. If you need go anywhere it is only inwards, into your own interiority.
- Osho
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
- Osho
Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
- Osho
Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher.
- Osho
A man who lives life in its totality is a rainbow; he lives the whole spectrum of it.
- Osho
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
- Osho
You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
- Osho
Each individual has to create his own consciousness and conscience—only then will we be able to create a better world.
- Osho
There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
- Osho
Accept the wholeness of life; because to me the acceptance of the whole is the only holy experience in the world.
- Osho
Once you know yourself, there is no death. Death was only in your ignorance.
- Osho
Don't choose. Accept life as it is in it's totality.
- Osho
I am a natural person. I have no charisma, and I don’t believe in charisma. I don’t believe in methods - even if I use them, I don’t believe in them. I am a natural person, very ordinary. I can be lost in a crowd and you will not be able to find me. I don’t lead you, I accompany you.
- Osho
Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
- Osho
The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the miracle of life is: the more you give the more you have.
- Osho
Continuously clean your mind of beliefs, concepts, theories, ideas, ideologies, philosophies, doctrines, scriptures… Then the reality will be revealed to you.
- Osho
That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better. Why not just simply be? Why unnecessarily hurry here and there? You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.
- Osho
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, I am the watcher, I am not sadness.
- Osho
Insecurity is beautiful. And the day you know insecurity is beautiful, you have know the wisdom if insecurity.
- Osho
Never ask for sympathy. Be happy and love will be flowing towards you. Love is the right coin; sympathy is the wrong coin. It looks like love, it is not love.
- Osho
A single insight into yourself is more valuable than all your scriptures. A single glimpse of your consciousness and you has entered the real temple.
- Osho
If you are absolute without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.
- Osho
Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
- Osho
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
- Osho
Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.
- Osho
The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
- Osho
God is No Where, Life in Now Here.
- Osho
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.
- Osho
I love life. That’s why I give teachings of celebration, celebrate everything. From body to soul, physical to spiritual, sex to superconsciousness, everything is divine for me.
- Osho
Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
- Osho
Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them.
- Osho
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.
- Osho
My whole teaching is just be yourself, never interfere with anybody elses freedom. Freedom is my ultimate value.
- Osho
Whenever you act according to your own light, there is immense fulfilment, and deep rejoicing.
- Osho
Dancing is not just a movement. When a movement becomes ecstatic then it is dance. When the movement is so total that there is no ego, then it is a dance.
- Osho
When you awaken in your deepest core of being, in the very center of your existence, then there is only silence, immense joy and celebration.
- Osho
Man is always exploited through fear.
- Osho
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
- Osho
Meditation is an effort to get rid of personality and to reach to your living sources of life, your individuality, your flame.
- Osho
Do not imitate anyone, do not follow anyone, otherwise you will be just a pseudo existence - and that is worse than suicide.
- Osho
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
- Osho
Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing.
- Osho
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
- Osho
The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious.
- Osho
The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
- Osho
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
- Osho
Love never should be forced, love never should be an attempt. It should not be in the mind at all - If it happens, then it is beautiful.
- Osho
Every error is an opportunity to learn. Just do not commit the same mistake again and again-that is stupidity.
- Osho
My definition of meditation is that it is simply an effort to jump into the unconscious.
- Osho
If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
- Osho
you cannot be anybody else than yourself. That is authentic religiousness Every individual has his own uniqueness and that gives him dignity and grace.
- Osho
A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
- Osho
My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.
- Osho
Only the individual can know what meditation is and only the individual can know the beauty, the ecstasy, and the dance of this immensely beautiful existence.
- Osho
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
- Osho
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.
- Osho
When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
- Osho
Laughter is a tremendously helpful method to shake off all dust that everybody gathers without his knowing.
- Osho
Don’t try to understand life. Live it! Don’t try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know and that knowing will come out of your experiencing.
- Osho
If you start listening to the body, listening to nature, listening to your inner being, you will be more and happier.
- Osho
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
- Osho
If your heart says to take the jump, then take the jump, then risk, then be adventurous.
- Osho
Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas.
- Osho
The truth is showering on you in each breath, in each beat of your heart. Except truth, there is nothing else.
- Osho
To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.
- Osho
Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
- Osho
Never ask, Who is my real friend? Ask, Am I a real friend to somebody? That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.
- Osho
Oneness is the key.
- Osho
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don’t be a miser; only misers lose energy.
- Osho
Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
- Osho
It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear.
- Osho
A woman is to be loved, not understood.
- Osho
I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody's help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you. Left alone ― utterly alone ― you are bound to find your innermost center.
- Osho
My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. Your whole life has to be colored by it.
- Osho
In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.
- Osho
To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
- Osho
Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.
- Osho
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
- Osho
It is only out of totality that one blooms, that the spring comes, and your life starts having color and music and poetry.
- Osho
Misery is symbolic of unawareness ; Bliss is symbolic of awareness.
- Osho
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don’t judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
- Osho
Reaction is always unconscious; and response is always conscious.
- Osho
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
- Osho
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.
- Osho
Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
- Osho
Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
- Osho
I teach meditation, because that is the only way to allow love to happen in your being.
- Osho
Unless you recognize your original face, you will not be able to reach anywhere. You will not have any meaning to your Life.
- Osho
The world is a good place because it gives you an opportunity to test your silence, your meditation your watchfulness. Be in the world but don’t be of it.
- Osho
Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
- Osho
Once meditation settles and you and you fall into rhythm with existence, compassion is a consequence. Suddenly you feel you are in love with the whole.
- Osho
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
- Osho
Unless the truth is your own experience, whatever you believe about truth is only a belief. And all beliefs are lies, and all believers are blind.
- Osho
Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
- Osho
To me, this is religion - enjoying the air, enjoying the sea, enjoying the sand, enjoying the sun—because there is no other god than existence itself. Zorba the Buddha, on the one hand, is the end of the old man—his religions, his politics, his nations, his racial discriminations, and all kinds of stupidities. On the other hand, zorba the Buddha is the beginning of a new man—a man totally free to be himself, allowing his nature to blossom. There is no conflict Zorba and Buddha. The conflict been created by the so-called religions.
- Osho
Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
- Osho
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humour.
- Osho
I want you to be absolutely certain that nothing is wrong with anybody; all wrongs have been fed into you.
- Osho
Consciousness is never judgmental. Consciousness is only a mirror.
- Osho
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
First be a disciple; don't try to be a master. Mastership will come.
- Osho
I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.
- Osho
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
- Osho
Love equalizes people. You give because you love, you give because you respect. You give and allow the man to feel, to be honored, that is true giving.
- Osho
If you can say yes with the totality of your heart, you have said all that can be said. To say yes to existence is to be religious.
- Osho
Truth can never be borrowed from anybody.
- Osho
My work consists to bring you out of your cages — Hindu, Christian, Jew, communist, theist, atheist.
- Osho
When something inside you grows, it brings new responsibilities, because now you need more meditation, you need more love, you need more joy.
- Osho
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
- Osho
So the second thing to remember is never to demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything—because the other has no obligation to love you.
- Osho
Make laughter your prayer. Laugh more. Nothing releases your blocked energies as doe’s laughter. Nothing makes you innocent as doe’s laughter.
- Osho
Money, power, and prestige are uncreative; not only uncreative but destructive activities. Beware of them!!
- Osho
This is the authentic trinity of a truly religious man: truth, beauty, and good. These three experiences happen when u enters into your own subjectivity.
- Osho
Please watch how you are clinging to your sorrow, your misery. Drop it, let go of it! And your life will have a great sweetness.
- Osho
Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
- Osho
I say to you: light the lamp of independent thinking. Don’t become a slave to anyone by accepting his thoughts. Truth belongs to those who are their own master.
- Osho
Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
- Osho
To move on the path of meditation is to move on the path of life ... life's joys, life's songs, life's laughter. And take everything easy. Easy is right.
- Osho
When mind knows, we call it knowledge.When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.
- Osho
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
- Osho
Don't get tempted. Don't advise unless you really know. Don't guide.
- Osho
The first thing that should be a foundation for your whole life is the art of meditation; anything else should come later on.
- Osho
Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
- Osho
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
- Osho
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
- Osho
A single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.
- Osho
You are rich if you have tasted the nectar of your own consciousness. You are rich if you are capable of sharing your love unconditionally.
- Osho
I would hate to be respected by the present humanity -it does not have that intelligence, nor has it that heart, nor has it that being.
- Osho
The moment you see that whatsoever you are in your own creation, you are freed from all outer causes and circumstances.
- Osho
To fight with the mind is to give it reality, to recognize its power. There is no need to fight. One has just to be a witness. Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.
- Osho
There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man.
- Osho
One has to live totally. Ones life torch has to burn from both ends – even though it is only for one single moment, but then that single moment is eternity.
- Osho
You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
- Osho
The whole of life has to be your Temple; Work has to be your worship, Love has to be your prayer. This very body the Buddha, This very earth the Lotus Paradise.
- Osho
On the path nothing more is needed than Patience
- Osho
Love changes the whole climate of your inner being—and with that change the whole existence is changed.
- Osho
Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
- Osho
Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
- Osho
When one is total, life flowers — and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.
- Osho
Just as water flows downwards towards the ocean, beauty, truth, love — all that is valuable in existence — flows towards a person who is nobody.
- Osho
To be in the middle is to be beyond suffering.
- Osho
If you can trust nature, by and by you become quiet, silent, happy, joyful, celebrating—because nature is celebrating. Nature is a celebration.
- Osho
Mind always creates duality.
- Osho
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
- Osho
There is no other miracle in the world than meditation. It is the only science of transforming you into a new man. Into a superman. The superman is needed very much, urgently, because only the superman can prevent this beautiful planet from being destroyed by pygmy politicians, by ugly religions. All these vested interests are going to destroy the most beautiful planet in the universe. You can do only one thing to save it, and that is to become a Buddha and spread your Buddhahood - share it.
- Osho
Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, or faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.
- Osho
Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.
- Osho
Something disappears when you become aware, and something appears. Death disappears, deathlessness appears. The ego disappears, egolessness appears.
- Osho
The greatest good is to be conscious—because all other goods are born out of it. Being conscious is the source of all goodness, all virtue.
- Osho
Once you know meditation, you don’t have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path.
- Osho

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These are the four planes which have to be understood.

These are the four planes which have to be understood. First is the body. On the bodily plane, the man who lives identified with the body, if he says, “This is it,” he will only mean food and sex and nothing else. His “this is it” will conta...

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Whenever you are in misery you like to throw the responsibility on somebody

Once it happened, I was in the mountains with a few friends. We went to see a point known as the echo point; it was a beautiful spot, very silent, surrounded by hills. One of the friends started barking like a dog. All the hills echoed it — ...

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What is the meaning of wearing orange clothes as a sannyasin?

Question 1 What is the meaning of wearing orange clothes as a sannyasin? It is true that wearing a particular kind of clothes does not make one a sannyasin, but it is also true that sannyasins do wear some particular kind of clothes. Clothes...

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Life is not static — it is a dance; it is dynamic, it is movement.

Deva means divine nratyo means dance. Life is not static — it is a dance; it is dynamic, it is movement. Not even for a single moment does anything remain the same; everything goes on changing. Change is absolute. The mind wants things not t...

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Could you please comment on the disciple-disciple relationship?

Question 2 Beloved Osho, I am familiar with the master disciple relationship after years of being around you. Could you please comment on the disciple-disciple relationship? There is no such thing. Disciples in the past have created organiza...

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Sannyas is a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, a great courage to become discontinuous with your own past.

Sannyas is a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, a great courage to become discontinuous with your own past. It is a rebirth. It is a change so great… as if the old dies, and dies utterly and totally and the new comes into being from nowh...

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My effort is to make meditation almost a science

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,...

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My way is The Way of the White Clouds

To me, the life of a white cloud is the life of a SANNYASIN, of a man who has renounced. The life of a householder is a fixed routine. It is a dead thing, it is a pattern. It has a name, it has a form. It moves on a particular track like rai...

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What the agreement of sannyas meant

[A visitor asked what the agreement of sannyas meant.] That you are no more. It is a total surrender. No agreement – because in an agreement there are two parties. You simply surrender. Much courage is needed… It is not an agreement because ...

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Life exists through duality

Life exists through duality. The very process of life depends on polar opposites. Life is like a river: for the river to exist, two banks are needed. The river cannot exist without two banks to support it, just as the bird cannot fly without...

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God is just a way, a method, a technique.

There is no one who will take your surrender. If there is someone and you surrender to him, then it is a sort of slavery. Really, there is not even a god to whom you are surrendering. And when we talk about a god, that is just to find you so...

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I am trying to wake you up herenow

Question 3: You spoke of the three ways: beauty, grandeur and power. which is your way? or is it all three? It is neither. I have no way, because I am not leading you anywhere. I am trying to wake you up herenow. You are already wandering al...

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on Confusion in Life

[A sannyasin, returning to the West, says she is confused.] Confusion remains, and one has to learn to live with it because life cannot be sorted out; it is so big. The confusion arises because of our impossible effort to sort everything out...

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TATWAMASI : you are that, you are the whole

This is freedom: to be free from all narrowness. If you are a Hindu, you cannot be free, you are very narrow. You are in a tunnel called Hinduism. If you are a Mohammedan, you are not free. If you think you are man, you are woman, you are no...

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What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today?

Question : Osho, What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today? The word `sannyas’ is one of the most significant in the human language. In the past it was given a wrong meaning. That wrong meaning destroyed its beauty, its joy, its laug...

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It is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos.

A few things about sannyas…. It is an initiation into the formless. It is not an initiation into some rigid form, it is not giving you a certain discipline — on the contrary it is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos. T...

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I see in them the future of sannyas

Question 4 You said that sannyas is a blissful phenomenon; it is not renunciation. in my view, the first shankaracharya was a sannyasin of bliss, and in that sense he can be taken for your sannyasin. please explain. also explain why you lay ...

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Nobody can run away from himself

[A sannyasin says he is fighting with himself about being alone, running away from it.] Nobody can run away from himself. One can only deceive but one cannot run away from it. There is no way – you are you. And the aloneness is so fundamenta...

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Is not life nothing but misery?

Question 4: Is not life nothing but misery? It depends on you. Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. You can use this freedom in such ...

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Sannyas means getting rid of the whole past

Man lives with a false idea about his being and it is that false notion that causes all the miseries, that creates hell. There is no way to get rid of miseries living within your world of the ego. You can change from one misery to another mi...

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on Boring Life

Question 5 : Beloved Osho, How is one to overcome boredom? how can one rediscover mystery in things that have become boring, repetitive, demystified? The first thing to remember is that it is not that things are repetitive – it is your mind,...

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My sannyas, is a way of bridging, a way of rejoicing, a way of bliss.

Bliss is a bridge, misery is a wall. It is everyone’s experience that whenever one feels miserable one does not want to relate with anybody; one wants to close one’s doors and hide somewhere. Just the opposite happens when you are blissful. ...

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What is a Buddhafield?

Question : Osho, What is a Buddhafield? Just living together, running businesses, doesn′t seem to be enough, it is not satisfying. It feels like something deeper - something more challenging for the collective and the individual, in which bo...

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Spiritual Delusions

Spiritual Delusions Remember one thing: except for silence, everything else is your imagination – howsoever beautiful. Only your silence I can say has my support, because only in your silence are you close to the very center of existence. In...

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Sannyas is costly — particularly my sannyas

Question : Osho, i would very much like to take sannyas but it will be totally ruinous for my career as orange clothes will not be accepted at my place of work. Is there any alternative to this? Shirish Ghurye, remember only one thing: if yo...

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Learn to enjoy not only the pleasures of life but the pains too

Question 4: Osho What to do with the feeling of helplessness at the frustration in finding that nothing is ultimately satisfying — all is not enough? Deva Alla, IF THIS IS YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, then the question won’t arise — then how can you...

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on Insecurity : One can be secure only in illusions

One can be secure only in illusions; there is no question of why. If you find somebody who is secure, you can be certain he must be living in illusions. But insecurity has tremendous beauty; you have not tasted of it. You have become too muc...

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Start living in insecurity – that is the way towards enlightenment

Question : Can one who is not enlightened live in total insecurity and not be anxious, depressed and miserable? Total insecurity and the capacity to live in it are synonymous with enlightenment. So one who is not enlightened cannot live in t...

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Spread my word wherever you go

[A couple of sannyasins who have been running a centre in Goa are going West.] Spread my word wherever you go. Now this is the work: every sannyasin has to shout from the housetops, mm? Don’t be shy about it; that time is over: now take init...

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Osho on Traditional Paths : I have no particular path.

Question 1 : How would you describe your particular path to enlightenment in relationship to other traditional paths such as the various kinds of yoga, sufism, buddhism, zen, christianity, etcetera? I HAVE NO particular path. I don’t belong ...

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What is your Message?

Question 1: Osho, What is your Message? Pritam, MY MESSAGE IS VERY SIMPLE Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God. Friedrich Nietzsche says God is dead. ...

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Life is a curse if you are not aware

Life is a curse if you are not aware. Then it is nothing but misery. It is only thorns, not a single rose. From the cradle to the grave there are hopes and man goes on living because of those hopes, but they are never fulfilled. In the end t...

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Be great lovers and be great meditators simultaneously. Don’t choose between the two.

It is the challenge and a challenge worth accepting because only through that challenge does one grow. Growth is an uphill task and this is the greatest challenge, this is the Everest, the highest climb — dangerous, hazardous, but the more d...

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Sannyas means living moment to moment

Life is just an overflowing energy without any purpose, and to me sannyas is to lead life purposelessly. Live life as a play and not as work. The so-called serious mind, which is diseased, will in fact convert play into work. The sannyasins ...

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Sannyas is not renunciation of life but a tremendous love affair with life

Life is divine. In fact life and God are synonymous. There is no God except life, and there is no life except God; they are two terms for the same mystery. But for centuries religious people have been against life. They were living with the ...

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Responsibility

Responsibility "You don´t understand even the meaning of the word responsibility. The society has been so cunning. It has destroyed our most beautiful words, given them distorted meanings. Ordinarily in your dictionaries "responsibility" mea...

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In the new commune we are going to have seven concentric circles of people.

Man is a bridge between the known and the unknown. To remain confined in the known is to be a fool. To go in search of the unknown is the beginning of wisdom. To become one with the unknown is to become the awakened one, the Buddha. Remember...

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What do you Teach and What is your Doctrine?

Question : What do you Teach and What is your Doctrine? I am not teaching a doctrine. Teaching a doctrine is rather meaningless. I am not a philosopher; my mind is antiphilosophical. Philosophy has led nowhere and cannot lead anywhere. The m...

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Love is the ultimate godly experience

Love is the ultimate godly experience. Love proves that existence is not without meaning, that life has significance. Except for love there is no proof for life’s significance. If one has not experienced love one will feel meaningless, accid...

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God is something hidden within humanity.

First a few fundamentals.... Zen is not a theology, it is a religion -- and religion without a theology is a unique phenomenon. All other religions exist around the concept of God. They have theologies. They are God-centric not man-centric; ...

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Osho Quotes on Biography

Never Born Never Died Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 - Jan 19 1990 With these literally immortal words, Osho both dictates his epitaph and dispenses with his biography. Having previously removed his name from everything, ...

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Why is it said that Life is stranger than Fiction?

Question : Why is it said that Life is stranger than Fiction? Because life is! Fictions are only reflections of life; how can they be stranger than life? Fictions are only parts of life. Life is a very complicated whole: it does not begin, i...

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Is not man the purpose of all evolution? : Existence is playful, not purposive

Question : Is not man the purpose of all evolution? Evolution has no purpose. The very idea of purpose is mediocre; it comes from the marketplace. Existence is playful, not purposive. It is leela; it is not work. But we think in terms of eco...

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At the low energy level things are settled – one has planned a life and settled; but this is missing life

[The woman journalist says her problem right now is low energy. Osho asks her if she has ever meditated. Only three times, here, she replies… ] Mm mm… it can be low, and with a low energy level you will miss many things in life, because many...

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Don't you think that initiation into sannyas will lead to the formation of a sect around you?

Question 6 Don't you think that initiation into sannyas will lead to the formation of a sect around you? You think it will lead to the formation of a sect. No, it will not. To form a sect certain things are essential. To form a sect one need...

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Can't one be a seeker without being a sannyasin?

Question 2 What is the difference between a seer and a sannyasin? can't one be a seeker without being a sannyasin? One cannot be a seeker without being a sannyasin, because to be a seeker is the beginning of sannyas. A seeker is one who is s...

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Meditation and love are two names of almost the same experience

Marriage is a decision of the intellect. Love is an entirely different matter. It has no relation whatsoever to the intellect; it is quite unconnected to thought. Just as meditation is thoughtlessness, so is love. And just as meditation cann...

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Only the rebellious spirit comes to release its fragrance

Sannyas is the beginning of freedom: freedom from politics, freedom from religion, freedom from all kind of bondages. It is entering into universality, it is dropping the local boundaries. A sannyasin is neither an Indian nor an American nor...

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This is my trinity: meditation, awareness, oneness

Question : What does a person, a man or a woman, experience by following your religion? Do they become awake? There is no promise. I never promise anything to anybody. I am here, available. I am ready to explain how one becomes awake and my ...

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I am creating a paradise herenow.

Question 2 : You have talked about the great russian experiment. can you talk about the great experiment of your commune here? My commune here is a far greater experiment than any communism. Communism was only an economic revolution, changin...

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My approach is simple: Everybody has to be assertive, not aggressive.

My approach is simple: Everybody has to be assertive, not aggressive. Those two words are totally different. You can be assertive and very humble. You cannot be humble and aggressive. Aggressive is trespassing somebody else's right. Assertio...

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A new humanity is absolutely and urgently needed.

Question 1: Beloved Osho, You spoke the other day about the great responsibility we have to get your words out to the world. Can you say some more? The most important need of humanity today is to be made aware that its past has betrayed it. ...

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Spiritual Dependence

Spiritual Dependence My approach to your growth is basically to make you independent of me. Any kind of dependence is slavery, and the spiritual dependence is the worst slavery of all. I have been making every effort to make you aware of you...

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The moment you are initiated into sannyas, you are initiated into an uncharted, unplanned future

Sannyas means that you have come to realize that you are a seed, a potentiality. This is not the end. This is only the beginning, and now you must decide to go into that growth. That growth comes through freedom, that growth comes through in...

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I teach you Responsibility, Responsibility makes you feel strong

Christianity has made you feel responsible for two thousand years, has made you feel guilty, that you are the sinner. Now psychoanalysis goes to the other extreme: it simply says you are not the sinner, you are not to feel guilty — you are p...

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Just taste life as it is. It is a mystery, not a paradox.

Question 1: Osho, Everything appears to be very paradoxical: having to be total and yet having to remain a witness, a watcher; having to be drowned in love and yet to be alone. it sounds very mysterious, and i feel utterly lost and confused....

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Life is basically insecure. Only death is secure

Life is basically insecure. Only death is secure. Life insurance is a contradiction in terms; there can be only death insurance. Life is an adventure, unpredictable. Hence one has to live it arduously. Life is dangerous; only death is safe. ...

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Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of sannyas

Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of sannyas. They are not different things but different aspects of the same phenomenon. One has to be utterly truthful about oneself. One need not hide, only cowards hide. The ...

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Whenever you are in misery you like to throw the responsibility on somebody

Once it happened, I was in the mountains with a few friends. We went to see a point known as the echo point; it was a beautiful spot, very silent, surrounded by hills. One of the friends started barking like a dog. All the hills echoed it — ...

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That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration.

That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration. When you worship, you start making a hierarchy; the lower and the higher. When you worship you put something on top of other things. When you worship, something becomes sacr...

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Buddhafield means an energy field

The word buddhafield is of tremendous importance. You have to understand it, because that is what I am doing here -- creating a buddhafield. It is just to create a buddhafield that we are moving away from the world, far away, so that a total...

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My sannyas simply means that you drop all the conditionings that have been imposed upon you after you were born

Question : The last few years i have often thought of taking sannyas, but i am afraid. Why? It is not only your question; there are millions of people who are in the same position. The fear is very fundamental. To be initiated into sannyas m...

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What is your way of meditation? : I have chosen witnessing

Question : What is your way of meditation? My way of meditation is very simple. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation. Out of all of those I have chosen the most simple — the most easily done. I call it witnessing. The momen...

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I teach you to forgive others, but even more to forgive yourself.

Love knows how to forgive. Not only does one have to forgive others, one has to forgive oneself too, and that is the harder thing because we have been taught to feel guilty; we are burdened by guilt. A burdened man cannot grow and one who fe...

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Life is constantly changing and it is good that it is constantly changing

Question 1 Osho, I have been here now for almost two and a half years, but i still feel that something in my life goes basically wrong. except for short glimpses, i am unable to find any lasting meaning in it. most of the time i'm hanging in...

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I affirm life, I rejoice in life

The worldly, the otherworldly, are not really different. There is only one difference that makes a difference and that is of awareness, alertness. And the awareness can be practiced anywhere: you need not go to the mountains, you need not go...

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I love you. Love is my message

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 the only substan...

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A Master is not a message but a medium

Question : What is your Message, Osho? I Don’t understand you. My message is that there is no message. I am not here to give you a message, because a message will become knowledge. I am here to impart something of my being. It is not a messa...

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Is it true that whatsoever the master says or does is simply a device to transform the disciple?

Question 1: Osho, Is it true that whatsoever the master says or does is simply a device to transform the disciple? Narendra, it is one of the most impossible things in the world to indicate, to explain the ultimate truth. The experience is b...

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Spirituality - Osho Quotes on Spirituality

Osho on Spirituality Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues -- because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a de...

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My purpose is so unique - I am using words just to create silent gaps

Question: I realized that it is easier to become silent while listening to you than in any other meditation. When you stop talking everything seems to stop for a moment and I get a glimpse of what meditation can be. The he question you have ...

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My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation

My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation He is in the world and yet not of it. He is like a lotus flower coming out of dirty mud, but transforming the mud into the beauty of a lotus, living in a lake yet untouched by the...

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Each of my Sannyasins is individual; that’s my message to them

[The visitor replies: I think they are; the sannyasins want to be copies of you.] That is their misunderstanding. If somebody wants to…. But I am continuously throwing them to themselves. And you need not be that way! Even if others are maki...

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should one not listen to and follow the wise advice of one's parents, teachers and well-wishers?

Question 6: Osho, Should one not listen to and follow the wise advice of one's parents, teachers and well-wishers? LISTEN, but don't follow. Listen well, but follow your own insight, don't follow others' advice. Listen certainly, very medita...

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Sannyas is not prayer with sadness, seriousness

Existence only echoes our beings. Once you have known that bliss is your nature then the whole nature of the universe becomes blissful. That is what is meant by realization, liberation. Sannyas is not prayer with sadness, seriousness. It is ...

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That is the most miserable life: where there is no peak, no valley

Question 5: The peaks are getting pretty wonderful, but the valleys are deeper and darker than ever. finding balance seems impossible. what to do? There is no need to do anything. You are not to find balance, balance will find you. You simpl...

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Osho on meditation for Ashramite Sannyasins

Question : Why are the ashramite sannyasins not allowed to participate in all the meditations? why are they told to participate in only one meditation every day? It is because of you, ladies and gentlemen. It is because of your laziness. I g...

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All great art is born out of meditation

All great art is born out of meditation The seers of the ancient East have been very emphatic about the point that all the great arts – music, poetry, dance, painting, sculpture – are all born out of meditation. They are an effort to in some...

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What is your fundamental teaching to your sannyasins?

Question 2: Osho, What is your fundamental teaching to your sannyasins? Gourishankar Mehta, It seems you must be a total stranger to this place, otherwise such a question is not possible, because I have got no teaching. I am not a teacher at...

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The Present - Osho Quotes on Present Moment

Osho Quotes on Present Moment Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me. ♦ You have to p...

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I go on forgetting your words. what should i do?

Question 6: Osho, I go on forgetting your words. what should i do? Who has told you to remember my words? That’s how it should be, exactly, precisely. You have to forget my words; you have to remember the essence, not the words. And the esse...

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I am absolutely life-affirmative

[A visitor says: I don’t know if taking sannyas means something extra that doesn’t permit an equilibrium between work and a spiritual association.] No, nothing. It is a simple gesture of your trust in me. It is not in any way anti-life or an...

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My message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

The word ’nija’ has many meanings: one is self, another is individual.When a person is just his own self, when a person has an individuality – when a person lives his way, in his own way, lives his life in his own way, when a person doesn’t ...

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Life is so vast it can contain contradictions

LIFE IS DIALECTICAL. It is more Hegelian than Aristotelean because it consists of the opposites. Without the opposites existence is impossible – day and night, life and death, summer and winter. Life is so vast it can contain contradictions,...

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on Fulfillment – Unless you are whole you are never fulfilled

The only difference between deep, dreamless sleep and the awakened state, the enlightened state, is that of awareness. If you can be aware in your deep sleep you are a Buddha. You are not aware even while you are awake, and the Buddha is one...

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My sannyas is not for the sad and the dead

Meditation is a process of rebirth. The first birth is only physiological, biological material. Don’t think that that’s all there is to life. Coming out of the womb of the mother is only an opportunity for a second birth, for the real birth....

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How can I serve you? : Just be yourself. There is no other service to me

Question 2: How can I serve you? Just be yourself. There is no other service to me. Just be yourself; that’s how you can serve me. That’s how you have already served me — if you are yourself. My whole effort is to help you to be yourself. If...

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Sannyas is a direct relationship between a sannyasin and god

Question 5 You said that sannyas is a direct relationship between a sannyasin and god, and that you are just a witness to it. but then the question arises if your witnessing will not create a kind of distrust in sannyas. please explain. You ...

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Responsibility: To be responsible means to be alert, conscious

The first step towards buddhahood, towards the realization of your infinite potential, is to recognize that up to now you have been wasting your life, that up to now you have remained utterly unconscious. Start becoming conscious; that is th...

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My message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

The word ’nija’ has many meanings: one is self, another is individual.When a person is just his own self, when a person has an individuality – when a person lives his way, in his own way, lives his life in his own way, when a person doesn’t ...

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only in Zen is his devotion towards a living master.

Question 1 : Beloved Osho, With the path of Sufism, the way of the heart behind us, where does the devotee fit in? Maneesha, the devotee fits in everywhere. Of course the context becomes different. In Sufism, the devotee is devoted to God to...

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”Right Conduct,” it means right relationship with others

When it is said, ”right conduct,” it means right relationship with others. You need not be false. When you can be true without hurting anybody, be true. But if you feel that your truth is going to hurt many and is unnecessary, it can be avoi...

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Life is based on the rule of opposites

One of the basic sutras of Lao Tzu is that life is based on the rule of opposites. Life does not oppose its contradictions. Rather, it works in collaboration with its counter-forces. Ordinarily it appears that if your enemy dies you will be ...

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What would be the daily routine, the discipline of your sannyasin?

Question 3 What would be the daily routine, the discipline of your sannyasin? You ask what the daily routine of my sannyasin would be. It is not a question of my sannyasin. How can anyone be my sannyasin? He or she will be just a sannyasin. ...

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If you don’t have a very developed ego, you cannot surrender.

This has to be remembered for many reasons. Spiritual effort is the most contradictory phenomenon. Effort has to be made, with full consciousness that nothing can be achieved through effort. Effort has to be made only to achieve no-effort, o...

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Is there a special significance in changing one's name and wearing a mala given by you?

Question 7 Is there a special significance in changing one's name and wearing a mala given by you? Yes, it has significance, great significance. The change of name has great significance for a sannyasin. It is an index, a symbol. Everything ...

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My way is The Way of the White Clouds

To me, the life of a white cloud is the life of a SANNYASIN, of a man who has renounced. The life of a householder is a fixed routine. It is a dead thing, it is a pattern. It has a name, it has a form. It moves on a particular track like rai...

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I will use films, television, videotapes, tapes, every modern technique to spread the message

Question 3: Osho, Don’t you have enough disciples? What is the need for videotapes of you and your commune? Devesh, I have got only one hundred fifty thousand sannyasins in the world – that is just a drop in the ocean of humanity. And if you...

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Life is mysterious, unexplainable - life is absurd

Question : Osho, Is life not sometimes far more surprising than fictions themselves? Not only sometimes but always. Fictions are only reflections of life — how can they be more surprising? No fiction is so fictitious as life itself; life is ...

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These are the four planes which have to be understood.

Whenever you are in misery you like to throw the responsibility on somebody

What is the meaning of wearing orange clothes as a sannyasin?

Life is not static — it is a dance; it is dynamic, it is movement.

Could you please comment on the disciple-disciple relationship?

Sannyas is a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, a great courage to become discontinuous with your own past.

My effort is to make meditation almost a science

My way is The Way of the White Clouds

What the agreement of sannyas meant

Life exists through duality

God is just a way, a method, a technique.

I am trying to wake you up herenow

on Confusion in Life

TATWAMASI : you are that, you are the whole

What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today?

It is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos.

I see in them the future of sannyas

Nobody can run away from himself

Is not life nothing but misery?

Sannyas means getting rid of the whole past

on Boring Life

My sannyas, is a way of bridging, a way of rejoicing, a way of bliss.

What is a Buddhafield?

Spiritual Delusions

Sannyas is costly — particularly my sannyas

Learn to enjoy not only the pleasures of life but the pains too

on Insecurity : One can be secure only in illusions

Start living in insecurity – that is the way towards enlightenment

Spread my word wherever you go

Osho on Traditional Paths : I have no particular path.

What is your Message?

Life is a curse if you are not aware

Be great lovers and be great meditators simultaneously. Don’t choose between the two.

Sannyas means living moment to moment

Sannyas is not renunciation of life but a tremendous love affair with life

Responsibility

In the new commune we are going to have seven concentric circles of people.

What do you Teach and What is your Doctrine?

Love is the ultimate godly experience

God is something hidden within humanity.

Osho Quotes on Biography

Why is it said that Life is stranger than Fiction?

Is not man the purpose of all evolution? : Existence is playful, not purposive

At the low energy level things are settled – one has planned a life and settled; but this is missing life

Don't you think that initiation into sannyas will lead to the formation of a sect around you?

Can't one be a seeker without being a sannyasin?

Meditation and love are two names of almost the same experience

Only the rebellious spirit comes to release its fragrance

This is my trinity: meditation, awareness, oneness

I am creating a paradise herenow.

My approach is simple: Everybody has to be assertive, not aggressive.

A new humanity is absolutely and urgently needed.

Spiritual Dependence

The moment you are initiated into sannyas, you are initiated into an uncharted, unplanned future

I teach you Responsibility, Responsibility makes you feel strong

Just taste life as it is. It is a mystery, not a paradox.

Life is basically insecure. Only death is secure

Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of sannyas

Whenever you are in misery you like to throw the responsibility on somebody

That’s my whole teaching, celebration; not worship but celebration.

Buddhafield means an energy field

My sannyas simply means that you drop all the conditionings that have been imposed upon you after you were born

What is your way of meditation? : I have chosen witnessing

I teach you to forgive others, but even more to forgive yourself.

Life is constantly changing and it is good that it is constantly changing

I affirm life, I rejoice in life

I love you. Love is my message

A Master is not a message but a medium

Is it true that whatsoever the master says or does is simply a device to transform the disciple?

Spirituality - Osho Quotes on Spirituality

My purpose is so unique - I am using words just to create silent gaps

My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation

Each of my Sannyasins is individual; that’s my message to them

should one not listen to and follow the wise advice of one's parents, teachers and well-wishers?

Sannyas is not prayer with sadness, seriousness

That is the most miserable life: where there is no peak, no valley

Osho on meditation for Ashramite Sannyasins

All great art is born out of meditation

What is your fundamental teaching to your sannyasins?

The Present - Osho Quotes on Present Moment