• Truth is not somewhere in the future. It is not goal but the source. You are coming from truth. Of you can find the source again you will know what truth in.
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Truth will not be obtained from my talk – please understand this well. Nobody’s words can convey Truth. If a thorn gets embedded in your foot, you can use a second thorn to remove it; but once the thorn is out both become equally redundant. My words will not deliver Truth. but they can act like the thorn to remove the thorn of illusion of knowledge that you hold as your own. When this happens, my words will have served their purpose and become equally useless.

 

Words, be they from anybody, do not convey Truth. But if words delete words; if words are erased; and if the mind is emptied so that words have no hold on it, then of itself the mind attains Truth; for Truth is nowhere outside It is within each one of us. Once the mind gives up its habit of Looking outward, Truth is not difficult to attain. As long as we look to gurus, we look outside; as long as we hold on to shastras, we are looking outward As long as we cling to the cognition of other’s words, that which is attained in the No-Word, silent states remains unknown.

 

A poet once went to the seashore. It was early morning: The sun’s cool radiance filled the sky. The breeze came with a touch of the waves. The joy of the scene filled the poet’s heart too. Delighted he began to dance. Oh the bliss, the joy!… but his thoughts went back to his beloved, lying in in a hospital. How he wished that she were here beside him to share this beautiful morning! He was a poet, so the scene affected him more. Tears welled up in his eyes but soon he wiped them away. ”What if I filled a casket with this beautiful morning and sent it to her?”

 

He brought a box and lovingly opened its lid to the wafting breeze and the dancing rays. He then sealed it with care and sent ;t to his beloved, explaining to her how much he had missed her in those lovely surroundings, but that he was sending them to her in a box. The letter reached: so did the box but when she opened it there were no rays of the sun, no cool breeze, no glory of the morning that her lover had described. It was only an empty box. What is at the seashore cannot be carried in a box; and also there is no way to fill the experience of the Ocean of Truth in the chest of words.

 

Only words, blank and empty, remain. That which was experienced at the seashore is left far behind. Those who reach the shores of Truth, they too, long to convey the joy of their experience to those they love; so that those who could not come that far may also get a glimpse of that wonderful experience. They fill their chests with words and send them to us. The Geeta, the Bible, the Koran reach us; but that which they tried to send, remains far behind. Their compassion is unquestionable but heir words fail to convey Truth.

 

Words have never been adequate. If the beloved had held the box to her bosom and danced, we would have called her insane; but if she had caught the meaning behind the box, she would have run to the seashore. Then she would have partaken of the joy of the dancing waves and the cool breeze. But this is possible only if after getting the message, she is willing to cast the casket aside and set out towards the place from where something was attempted to be conveyed.

 

Those that likewise cast the shastras aside and proceed towards the source of the shastras, find themselves one day, at the shores of the Ocean of Truth. But we are such fools – we made a fanfare of the Geeta and are completely oblivious of the source from where Krishna sent the message of the Geeta. So also, have we done with the Bible and the Koran.

 

If Krishna and Christ, Mahavira and Buddha, happen to look at us, they will shed tears of anguish. They will say: ”We tried to send them a whiff of the sea-breeze but they have clung to the words of our message and remained where they were!” If they had their way, they would snatch all the books and throw them into the sea. But even if Krishna were to snatch the Geeta away from us, we would catch him by the neck – for what have we besides the Geeta?

 

Dostoevsky of Russia, wrote a book: The Brothers Karamazov. In that he says that after eighteen hundred years since his death, Jesus thought that the time was ripe for him to re-visit the earth. There were churches erected in every village to preach his message; there were priests and monks with the cross dangling from their necks. Almost half the world had turned Christian! He was sure of a tumultuous welcome.

 

So one Sunday, Jesus descended into a village and stood under a tree. People were returning from the village church; the morning mass was over. They were surprised to see a Christ-like figure standing under the tree. Who is this man dressed like Jesus? He must be an actor, they thought. They gathered round him, full of curiosity and began to question him: ”Your acting is perfect. You look exactly like Christ.”

 

”But I AM Christ,” said Jesus. They laughed aloud; one threw a stone, another a slipper and they all danced round him, calling him insane. One, out of pity, told him to go before the priest caught him.

 

”Your priest? He is my priest. Don’t you recognize me? I am the one to whom you pray every morning.”

 

”We shall worship you as you deserve, if you do not make yourself scarce quickly!” they told him. Jesus in his compassion forgave them; perhaps they really did not recognize him, but the priest was bound to, for he sang his praises all day. Then along came the padre. The noisy crowd became silent as he approached. Then one by one, they touched his feet – such is the world: it will stone God but it will prostrate before those who make business out of Him.

 

”This is blasphemy!” exclaimed Jesus.

 

”Keep quiet,” said the people. ”If the priest hears you, he will feel insulted.” This drew the priest’s attention. ”Who is this rascal?” he asked, ”Bring him to me.”

 

”You too do not recognize me?” Jesus asked the priest, ”And you wear my cross around your neck!” But Jesus overlooked the fact that the cross he was hung on was made of wood, while the cross that hung round the priest’s neck, was made of gold. Was ever a cross to hang a man by made of gold? And it is the man who is hung on the cross and not the cross on the man!

 

”This man looks like Satan himself!” proclaimed the priest, ”Our Jesus came to earth but once. There is no need for him to come again. Now we are here to look after his work.”

 

So Jesus was locked up in the attic of the church, He was shocked! This was the same kind of treatment he had received eighteen hundred years ago. ”Will I be crucified again?” He wondered. The priest came to visit him in the middle of the night. He fell at his feet and begged forgiveness. ”I recognized you alright, Oh Glorious One! But we are constrained to deny you in the market-place. You need not take the trouble of coming again. We are carrying out your work with all sincerity. Business is good, and if you come there is bound to be confusion. We have barely got things going smoothly and you come again! Please understand, we cannot acknowledge you in public. Not only that, we might have to resort to the same tactics to disown you, as we did eighteen hundred years ago. Pleas forgive us; we are helpless.”

 

The same will be the fate of Krishna or Mahavir or Mohammed, if they chose to come again We little realize that those whose words we cling to, have clearly warned us not to; for Truth is not in words. Truth is present in the ”word-less” silence, where all thoughts are absent.

 

Truth will not be in my words, nor in the words of anybody else. Then why do I speak? – to snatch your words away from you. If my words, like the thorn. can pick out the words from within you, I will have attained my end. Then you will be freed from my words as well as the words within. Then the mind, devoid of words, is ready to set out towards Truth. It is a matter of great regret, that instead of grasping the essence of the message of those who come to liberate us, we merely catch hold of their persons.

 

Buddha had forbidden his disciples from making his statue, but today his statues outnumber those of anyone else; In fact the Urdu word for ”statue” is derived from the word Buddha and it has come to mean any statue. There are Buddha idols to the tune often thousand in a single temple n China… and Buddha bad warned: ”Do not worship me!”

 

We are strange people! We catch the one who says ”Do not hold on to me” – catch him all the more firmly, lest he slips away! The more we like a person, the more we tend to cling to him for fear of losing him. This tendency has made slaves out of us. If we lose our hold on the old ones, we find new ones to hold on to. If Mahavir and Krishna, Buddha and Rama are getting out of hand we create a Gandhi and begin to cling to him: we must have someone or the other to cling on to. We do not want to stand on our own two feet. I wish to declare that only that person is qualified to call himself a man who, discarding others, stands on his own feet.

 

Only he can take hold of himself who casts aside all outside help. Remember: he who clings to others has no faith in himself. Because he finds himself weak, he tries to derive strength from others. Lack of faith in one’s self, becomes faith in others. He who has faith in himself, places his faith nowhere else. The irony of it all is: he who cannot hold on to himself, how can be hold on to another7 How can he sustain another. when he has no power over himself?

 

Faith in one’s self is religion, and not faith in others. God has given to each person all that he has given to everybody. Each one of us has that in him which has manifested itself in others – some Ram, some Buddha, some Mahavir, some Gandhi. What becomes manifest is present in seed within all. But when I say ”leave them,” I have no enmity towards their person. How can there be? Such wonderful people – what can I have against their person? What reason do I have to find fault with them? All I mean is: as long as you hold on to their person, you will never be able to find yourself; and he who fails to find himself, is disqualified to enter the temple of God.

 

- Osho, “The Beginning of the Beginning, #3”

 

 

 

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    The Path of Intelligence

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    My whole message is: Accept the you that you are

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    How can i serve you?

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    I doubt, therefore, I am. But this is just an opening

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    Knowing is experience. Knowledge is information

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    Doubt is trust on the way. Doubt is inquiry and trust is the fulfillment of the inquiry.

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    Be yourself, authentically yourself. Respect yourself.

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    A sensitive person would prefer to die than to become a slave

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    Nothingness : Things disappear, only the ultimate substance remains.

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    Choicelessness is Bliss

    Question 1 Is it that there are only two alternatives before man - a life of abiding sorrow and suffering or one of divinity and bliss - and this choice lies with him? How is it that most have chosen the path of sorrow and suffering? It is a very significant qu...
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    Can someone who is not open wake up?

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    The Great Dance of Suchness

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    Ecology – everything is together.

    The Zen people will say, “There was song in the beginning, and then God sang and God danced, and that’s what he has been doing since then.” Each moment it is a dance. Look around. Can’t you hear these birds? These are not birds; don’t be deceived by them. These...
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    Trust is the ultimate product of doubt

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    When fear disappears there is innocence

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    Always listen to your own feelings

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    on Upanishads Metaphor - Story of two Birds

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    Whenever you can find time, move into the forest. Go to the wild sea

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    Jesus is a BHAKTA, a devotee

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    Prayer is nothing but the most refined form of love.

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    Doubt : The real foundation of religion is doubt, not trust.

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    Chaos is the very nature of existence

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    Sensitivity can be shared in a thousand and one ways.

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    Knowledge is not wisdom.

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    You are an emptiness - Anatta

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  29. Nature is wild, and when it is wild it has freedom.

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    What is Innocence, What is Beauty?

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    Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence.

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    on Innocence and Ignorance - Innocence is a state of meditativeness

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    What exactly is prayer? - Prayer is an experience of resurrection, a rebirth

    Question 1 Osho, Yesterday you mentioned that to be a disciple one needs to be in prayer - but what exactly is prayer? Prayer is an experience of resurrection, a rebirth, the birth of a new vision, a new dimension, a new way of looking at things, and a new way ...
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    Knowledge makes you blind. It closes your eyes.

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    on steady wisdom

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    Self-knowledge means: the knower is not, the known is not, the knowledge is not.

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    Whatsoever you have, share it

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    We should be proud of this planet earth.

    It is one single whole; and we should be proud that our planet earth is the only planet in this vast universe, where there are millions of solar systems having millions and millions of planets. Our planet is the only one which has evolved not only life, not onl...
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    on Intensity and Seriousness – With seriousness, you can never be Intense

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    Trust : If you can't trust anybody that means you must be deceiving others.

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    Doubt cannot destroy your trust. Doubt will destroy your beliefs

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    The authentic cannot be controlled

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    The way to trust is DOUBT, and doubt to the very end.

    And the second thing to remember: trust is not belief either. Belief is again a trick of the mind to repress doubt. Man is born with many doubts, millions of doubts, and it is natural, it is a gift of God. Doubt is a gift of God, but it creates trouble for you....
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    Don’t be a do-gooder

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    Does God exist? how can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists?

    Question 1 : Does God exist? how can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists? God is a mythical word, a mumbo-jumbo word that is the invention of the priesthood. Actually, to ask whether God exists is absurd. For those who know, God is e...
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    Logic : Logic is utilitarian, it is an invention of man. Life is non-utilitarian

    Logic Question 1 Osho, To what extent does life have relevance to logic? Logic is a very small thing, life is vast. Logic is utilitarian, it is an invention of man. Life is non-utilitarian, it is not an invention of man; on the contrary, man is life's invention...
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    Philosophy is an obsession with words.

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    Earth : This is the only sacred place where life exists, where consciousness exists, and where a few people have been capable of achieving the ultimate expression of being, enlightenment.

    Question 1 Osho, I have to ask you this esoteric question. how can you say with such certainty that this earth is the only place in the universe where life has blossomed, and consciousness has arisen? How do you know? It is not an esoteric question; it belongs ...
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    on Childhood Innocence – Buddha is childlike, and all children are Buddha-like

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    Be authentically yourself. You cannot imitate.

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    Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own

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    To be authentic means: to remain true to your own being

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    Real renunciation means unconditioning the mind.

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    Truth : One can be it, but one cannot say it.

    Truth Question 1: Osho, Sometimes while just sitting, the question comes up in the mind: what is truth? But by the time i come here i realize that i am not capable to ask. but may i ask what happens in those moments when the question arises so strongly that had...
    CategoryTruth
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    You are a guest. Leave this earth a little more beautiful, a little more human, a little more lovable, a little more fragrant, for those unknown guests who will be following you.

    Question 2 : Osho, I feel like a guest on earth, as if i don't really belong here at all. in your beautiful gathering, i feel that i am also a guest, staying here only by your grace or by good fortune. i have nothing really to give, except myself. is this enoug...
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    What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom, and understanding?

    Knowledge and Wisdom, and Understanding Question 2 What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom, and understanding? There is a lot of difference, and the difference is not quantitative, it is qualitative. Knowledge is belief. Knowledge is others' experie...
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    Surrender is Understanding

    Question : My surrender is goal-oriented. I’m surrendering in order to win freedom, so it is not real surrender at all. I’m watching it, but the problem is: it is always “I” who is watching. Therefore, every realization out of that watching is reinforcement of ...
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    How to create intelligence?

    Question 4 Why dont I have any other question than this one? I am not enlightened so I feel my mind is becoming Dull It is just the other way round. Your mind is dull that's why you are not getting enlightened! Now you are putting things in completely the wrong...
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    Hinduism in its early stages was a very natural

    It is a long story.... Zen has moved from one country to another country, from one climate to another climate. It was born in India. Hinduism, as such, in its early stages, was very natural, very existential. It had no taboos about sex, its seers and saints had...
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    Empathy : Sympathy and apathy are opposed to each other. Empathy is beyond both.

    Question : Osho, Is Empathy the current that brings about the Awareness of our each and every Relatedness, and vice versa? The experience of empathy is very rare. You know what sympathy means, you also know what apathy means; but empathy you do not know. Sympat...
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    Renounce that which you are not

    Being means: the purity of my inner existence, nothing added by the outside – neither wealth, nor knowledge, nor anything else – just my inner consciousness in its purity. This is what I mean, what this Upanishad means by the growth of being. This being can be ...
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    Without love there is no prayer

    Without love there is no prayer, no grace, no mercy. On the tree of love all these flowers bloom. People can pray without love -- that's what they are doing all over the world, in all the churches, temples and synagogues: they don't know what love is trying to ...
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    Only through sensitivity can you discover the universal law

    Dharma is a very special sanskrit word. It means exactly what in chinese they mean by tao, or what in greek they mean by logos – the ultimate law. Not any law in particular…. The law of gravitation is a particular law. And then there are many laws – chemical, b...
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    Innocence means your just being a clear mirror — it is a state of not-knowing

    Nirdosh means innocent. Sannyas is an effort to discover your intrinsic innocence. It is not an effort to gain knowledge. The knowledgeable person is always a stupid person. The knowledgeable starts depending on knowledge, he starts functioning through knowledg...
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    Truth and Science

    Truth and Science Osho, What is the definition of truth? The experience of truth is neither a thought nor a feeling. It is a vibrating and a throbbing of all the vital components of your entire being. It is not in you; you are in it. It is your whole being, not...
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    Can you say something about doubt and negativity?

    Question 1: Osho, Can you say something about doubt and negativity? what is the difference? The difference between doubt and negativity is great. They look alike; on the surface they have the same color, but deep down the difference is unbridgeable. First, doub...
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    The authentic man means one who has come out of his personality.

    Question 3: Osho, What is the meaning of an authentic man? what is his nature, and his way of life? Jayantibhai, the authentic man means one who has come out of his personality. You have two words: personality and individuality. Personality is the false identit...
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    Dharma simply means your intrinsic nature

    The first thing to understand is the meaning of dharma. Unfortunately, the Sanskrit word ‘dharma’ – or the Pali word which Buddha used, ‘dhamma’ – has been wrongly translated as ‘religion’ by the theologians, and by scholars it has been translated as ‘law’, the...
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    The difference between following you and surrendering

    Question 3 Please explain the difference between following you and surrendering to you. There is a great difference. Following me, you are still on the path of will; surrendering to me, the will has disappeared. Following me, you are important. You are. This is...
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    This whole world outside, the objective world, is utterly empty.

    Emptiness means: this whole world outside, the objective world, is utterly empty. Think of it as empty. Contemplation it as empty and you will be surprised -- the moment you start getting into this idea of the emptiness of the whole world, many things will star...
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    Don't try to be a guru, don't try to be a helper.

    Meditation is nonsocial. It is not concerned with anyone else; it is concerned only with yourself. So no mask is needed; you can be authentic. But you cannot be authentic because you don't know the distinction. Even in meditation I feel that you are doing many ...
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    Osho on Trust

    Osho on Trust Trust Itself Is Such a Blessing When everything is going smoothly and beautifully, you can trust. But you are trusting somebody else -- God, God's only begotten son, any messenger of God, a prophet, a tirthankara or a Gautam Buddha, it does not ma...
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    I have not arrived through belief, I have arrived through doubt.

    Trust has to be deserved, belief is a very cheap substitute. Belief means you are afraid of doubt, because doubt creates trouble, and doubt keeps you in a state of confusion. And you are not courageous enough to live in confusion, not courageous enough to live ...
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    What is history?

    Question 3: Osho, What is history? HISTORY is time, hence all that is really significant is not included in it, because all that is really significant is beyond time. Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree... it is not a historical fact; there is no way to...
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    Be an authentic man or be an authentic woman.

    Go beyond mind; reach to a level of no-mind. Then love flowers, but that love has no opposite to it. Beyond mind there is no opposite to anything. Beyond mind everything is one. Within mind, everything is divided into two. But if you are within mind, it is bett...
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    To be authentic means to be totally factual

    Question 1: You said last night that modern man has become inauthentic in expressing anger, violence, sex, etc. You say that in india students and the younger generation are less violent in their emotional expressions than are western youth. does this mean that...
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    Questioning is useless if there is no space to receive

    Before you ask something, I must tell you that there are two types of questioning. One type of questioning comes not because you do not know, but because you know something. It comes out of your so-called knowledge. You have the answer already and then you rais...
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    When you feel that you are filled with bliss, express it. Share it

    The spiritual search starts as a seeking for eternal bliss, as a seeking for eternal liberation, as a seeking for divine light and divine life. But the center remains with you. In the beginning it is a self-centered search. Whatsoever you are seeking you are se...
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    Doubt sharpens your intelligence. It is a challenge.

    Doubt sharpens your intelligence. It is a challenge. You are neither saying yes, nor are you saying no. You are saying only one thing, “I am ignorant, and I am not going to trust unless I have experienced, whatsoever the case, unless I arrive at something which...
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    Acceptance - To accept all is the highest peak of meditation

    ACCEPTANCE Tathagata is one of the names given to Gautam the Buddha. It means one who lives in the suchness of life—who accepts whatsoever is the case, who accepts everything totally. Even death is absolutely accepted because his trust in existence is infinite....
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    Doubt is closing the door; trust is opening the door.

    Question 2 You talked of moving from faith to trust. how can we use the mind that swings from doubt to belief to go beyond these two polarities? Doubt and belief are not different -- two aspects of the same coin. This has to be understood first, because people ...
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    Remain true to yourself and you will remain true to God.

    You should never listen to what others are saying; listen to your feelings. Remain true to yourself and you will remain true to God. He has already given you the key -- the key is in your feelings. Never imitate, because there is no one way for all. If you unde...
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    The innocence of the children is ignorance, it is not true innocence

    Question 3: Osho, Is the innocence of small children just ignorance, or has it got any value too? The innocence of the children is ignorance, it is not true innocence. The true innocence happens only after the second birth. The true innocence happens only after...
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    Perfect sincerity belongs to the being, not to the mind

    All guarantees are because of insincerity. You guarantee, you promise, you say: This is the guarantee, I will do this. While you are giving the guarantee, at that very moment the insincerity is there. Perfect sincerity offers no guarantee because perfect sincer...
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    I am not teaching philosophy

    Question 7 What is philosophy? I don't know, and I don't think that anybody else knows either. Philosophy is a useless passion. I am using Jean-Paul Sartre's words, he says 'Man is a useless passion.' I say man is NOT a useless passion but philosophy is. You as...
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    Is knowing an intellectul experience?

    Question 4 Osho, Is knowing an intellectul experience? The experience of knowing has two dimensions to it. One is objective knowing, the other is subjective knowing. Objective knowing is intellectual. That's what all of science goes on doing. It is intellectual...
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    Why do great philosophers and so forth, say such beautiful things and yet remain such a mess?

    Question 2 Why do great philosophers and so forth, say such beautiful things and yet remain such a mess? Philosophers are like fences -- they run round a lot without getting anywhere at all. Yes, they are exactly like a fence -- it goes on running round and rou...
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    Share as much as you can, and the more you will be given.

    Share! Share as much as you can, and the more you will be given. Jesus says: If you cling you will lose; if you share you will get. Don't be a miser -- share! And feel grateful: whosoever accepts your energy, feel grateful to him because he could have rejected ...
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    Osho on Sharing

    Osho on Sharing "Before death knocks on your door, share -- whatsoever you have. You can sing a beautiful song? -- sing it, share it. You can paint a picture? -- paint, share it. You can dance? -- go and dance, share it. Whatsoever you have -- and I have never ...
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    Give, give for giving's sake. Share for sharing's sake.

    Question 1: Osho, What is the source of your infinite spring of giving? The source is always the same. We are just like rays of the same sun. The source of existence is what we call God; it is better to call it the ultimate source. From there everything comes, ...
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    Love can at the most be only a glimpse of a ray

    Once you understand that God is both, then this highest possibility opens for you. This is the first principle, that you need not divide, all division is false, that you need not create any duality, because existence is nondual, because existence is one. And al...
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    I want you to be intelligent, to decide for yourself

    Question 1: Osho, Goethe once wrote in his 'Goetz Von Berlichingen', "Poverty, Chastity and Obedience - Unbearable are they all." What do you think about his statement? It is absolutely correct. These are the three calamities that have ruined the very being of ...
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    Knower, Known and Knowing.

    Now the first technique: EACH THING IS PERCEIVED THROUGH KNOWING. THE SELF SHINES IN SPACE THROUGH KNOWING. PERCEIVE ONE BEING AS KNOWER AND KNOWN. Whenever you know something, it is known through knowing. The object comes to your mind through the faculty of kn...
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    Acceptance : Tathata means saying ’Yes’ totally

    ACCEPTANCE "Acceptance is one of the most beautiful words. Buddhists, the followers of Buddha, have a term for it which is even deeper than the English word ’acceptance’; it is tathata. Tathata means saying ’yes’ so totally that in your being there is no divisi...
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    Satyam, Shivam, Sundramy : Truth, Virtue(Godliness), Beauty

    Satyam, Shivam, Sundram - Truth, Virtue(Godliness), Beauty - Question 1: Beloved Osho, What is the mystic conception of ultimate reality? Maneesha, the mystic's conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic, real experience. It is not a thought or a ...
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    Intelligence is a natural quality of life

    Question 1: Yesterday when you spoke of intelligence becoming meditation, there was such a rush inside. it felt as if my heart would explode. it was as if you had said something i'd been waiting to hear. can you elaborate? The question is from Krishna Prem. Int...
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    My religion is a religion of celebration, festivity.

    Become both love and meditation. Allow that synthesis to happen in you. The old religions are religions of renunciation. They teach people anti-life attitudes, they are life-negative. they encourage people to renounce life, to escape to the monasteries, to the ...
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    Is there quality in nothingness?

    Question 1 Osho, Is there quality in nothingness? Nothingness can either be just emptiness or it can be a tremendous fullness. It can be negative, it can be positive. If it is negative it is like death, darkness. Religions have called it hell. It is hell becaus...
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    What is intelligence?

    Question 2: Osho, What is intelligence? is it a state far beyond the mind and its limits? a kind of awareness of what the mind is, without belonging to it? is meditation connected with intelligence? and is intelligence a potential that we all have, and that sim...
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