Question 1: How should I Pray? I don’t know how to properly express this love that I feel into Prayer PRAYER is not a technique, it is not a ritual, it is not a formality. There is no pattern to it. It is a spontaneous outpouring of the heart, so don’t ask how,...

Deva Marc. Deva means divine; marc means war -- divine war. There is a constant war between the evil and the good, between the forces of darkness and the forces of light, between that which brings you down and that which uplifts you. One has to be very consciou...

Question 5 : What is the difference between Prayer and Meditation? A lot of difference. A great difference. in fact they are absolutely different things. Their movement is in different directions. There are two types of religions in the world: prayer oriented r...

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 ...

Man can live in a violent way. That’s how many people live: aggressive – aggressive with others, aggressive with themselves. And those who are aggressive with others and with themselves are bound to be aggressive with existence itself. The relationship between ...

Prayers done without meditation are formal, foolish Question 2: I want to Pray to God. Please teach me the way. DON’T bother God, He’s got his own problems. Don’t you see whatsoever He creates dies? Keep your problems to yourself. Why should one want to pray to...

[A sannyasin said that Ma Vipassana who is seriously ill is his friend; he would like to do something but feels helpless.] It is good to feel helpless… prayer arises out of helplessness. And that helplessness will help your ego to drop. If you can do something ...

The existence is not willing for that. And it is good that it is not willing for that; otherwise, just as you are neurotic, the whole would go neurotic. So many wills imposing themselves upon existence, and if the existence were to yield to each and everybody’s...

Prayer does not depend on what you say; it depends, rather, on what you are. Worship depends not on what you do but what you are. Religion is involved not with your actions but with you existence. If love is at the center of your being there will be prayer at y...

Question 4: Osho, What is prayer? It is a tremendously significant question because I do not have a God, but I still have some place for prayer in my vision, in my approach. Prayer ordinarily is towards the concept of a God. I do not think that is a right kind ...

Question 8 Beloved Osho, Yes, yes, yes, Osho. Yes. Mukta, that’s what prayer is. Prayer consists of only one single word. That is the meaning of AMEN: it means yes. If you have said yes with your total heart, you have said all that can be said, that need be sai...

Life is god's grace, ant so is death. Love is god's grace, and so is all that ever happens, good and bad too. The whole duality of existence is god's grace. One who understands this is not only grateful for all that is good but is also grateful for all that app...

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 ...

Question 1: Will you please explain to me the Lord’s Prayer, as given by Jesus? Meditation can be explained, prayer never. It can be understood, but it cannot be explained. Prayer is something of the heart, very elusive, very indefinable. You can feel it, but y...

Question : What is Prayer? Prayer is wonder, reverence. Prayer is receptivity for the miracle that surrounds you. Prayer is surrender to the beauty, to the grandeur to this fantastic existence. Prayer is non-argumentative dialogue with existence. It is not a di...

Prayer is nothing but the most refined form of love. A love unaddressed to anybody, a love for the whole. -Osho, "The Messiah, Vol 1, #5"