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    East and West: The Inner vs the Outer

    Question 1: Beloved Osho, In the West, celebration is associated with the American idea of having a good time which is synonymous with noise, loud music, watching movies, smoking, sex, and release of energy as such, while silence and serenit...
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    East & West are meeting Here!

    Question 2: Osho, Western psychologists say that meditation is a subjective phenomenon and therefore much psychological research is not possible. do you agree? I do not agree, because no research is possible. You are saying, "Much psychologi...
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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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    We are trying to present a new synthesis between East and West

    [A sannyasin asked just what was happening here, with Osho, in relation to human psychological growth.] We are trying to present a new synthesis between East and West. The eastern methods are more individualistic, more inward-going, and more...
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    Is it really possible to grow and flower in the harsh environment of the west?

    Question 3: Osho, Being near you, i feel utterly at home, as if in the right soil. in the west, i worried: "how to be near osho sooner?" and often found it impossible to be meditative. Osho, is it really possible to grow and flower in the ha...
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    The future has to allow there to be a deep harmony between inner polarities

    The difference between animals and man is that animals have fixed potentialities while man has infinite possibilities. But they are only possibilities. Man can grow, but this growth must be helped. We must open up centers throughout the worl...
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    The West is moving towards the East, the East is moving towards the West.

    The Zorba-Buddha Sythesis One thing: a great synthesis is happening here – something that has never happened before, of which they are afraid – and which needs to happen. It is a must for humanity’s survival. I am trying to create a great sy...
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    Pythagoras: East meets West

    The Greatest Luxury RENDER TO THE IMMORTAL GODS THE CONSECRATED CULT; GUARD THEN THY FAITH: ... REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, OF SPIRITS, DEMI-GODS.... BE A GOOD SON, JUST BROTHER; SPOUSE TENDER; AND GOOD FATHER. CHOOSE FOR TH...
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    on Western Mind and Eastern Mind

    Question : Will the Western Mind have to expand as the Eastern Mind has? The Western mind can succeed as far as science is concerned, but it cannot succeed in religious consciousness. Whenever a religious mind is born, even in the West, it i...
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    why are so many young people from the west now becoming interested in eastern religion and philosophy?

    Question 4 What factors do you attribute the western youth revolt to, and why are so many young people from the west now becoming interested in eastern religion and philosophy? Mind is a very contradictory thing. It works in polar opposites....
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    Why have all the great masters come from the East?

    Question : Osho, Why have all the great masters come from the East? Because humanity has yet not been total. The East is introvert, the West is extrovert. Man is split, mind is schizophrenic. That’s why all the great masters have come from t...
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    Become one unity

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, You are the greatest marketing person of a product that gratifies the soul. we are in the business of selling a product that gratifies the mind; there are others who sell products that gratify the body. what lessons ...
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    Indians are so obsessed with money

    They have a special day in the year when they worship notes and rupees – that day is coming closer – Diwali. No country in the world has ever worshipped rupees and money, yet they worship. And this is not just symbolic, this is very indicati...
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    All the eastern techniques are in a way repressive.

    [A sannyasin who is teaches martial arts in Taiwan says: I found in the encounter group I did, that certain emotions brought out anger, and I could see how to use T'ai Chi for love, but things like pain and fear, I cannot come in contact wit...
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    I teach one world. East and West have to disappear

    Question 1: Can you give me a message to take to the western world so that people there might understand you and your followers? Joey Simons, my message is very simple. That's why it is difficult to understand. I teach the obvious; it is not...
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    Now they turn to the east, and the east is turning to the west

    Question 3 One day you explained about the imbalance of object-centered western culture and subject-centered eastern culture, and you also mentioned that nowhere in any culture is the total human being accepted. do you visualize such a comin...
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