Question 1: Osho, You tell us to be aware of everything -- which means to be a witness to everything, every act. when i decide to be aware in work, i forget about awareness, and when i become aware that i was not aware. i feel guilty; i feel that i have made a mistake. could you please expl...

Visarjan means dissolution, dissolution into the divine, immersion in the divine, the state of being lost…. One has to learn how to disperse oneself, how to come to a point where one is not. Only then god is. You and god cannot exist together; that’s not possible. That’s why so many people ...

Question 1: Osho, You took my heart and now it is too late; i am enjoying aloneness and laziness so much that sometimes i think there must be something wrong with me. i feel i am at the beginning of a new journey, and there is a question that keeps on coming up: what is the difference betwe...

FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to distract it, not to take it in some other direction where it was not going on its own. To surrender to nature, to flow with it. Not pushing the r...

Meditation is rest, absolute rest, a full stop to all activity — physical, mental, emotional. When you are in such a deep rest that nothing stirs in you, when all action as such ceases, as if you are fast asleep yet awake, you come to know who you are. Suddenly the window opens. It cannot b...

The Ocean is not Far Away Enjoy, live, love. But when things change, let them change; when things move, don't stop their movement. Always remain with the changing flux of existence, never be against it, and then nobody can create misery for you. Then whatsoever is, brings bliss, because you...

[Another sannyasin says: For two days after doing the gourishankar meditation I came into a space I don’t know, and I came in contact with so much fear…. I’d like to stay here but sometimes after this experience I become so frightened.] Don’t be worried. That experience has to be accepted. ...

He was not doing meditation, remember. He was just sitting and doing nothing. And then suddenly, flowers began to fall around him. And those were not ordinary flowers, not of this world, not earthly. They were not falling from the trees, they were falling from the sky, from nowhere, out of ...

Question 1 How can i feel life fresh day by day? please explain. LIFE is fresh but you are stale, and you become stale because you go on carrying the yesterdays. The past functions as a barrier between you and life. Die every moment to the past and then life can be felt and lived as fresh a...

When you are playing, you are not trying to prove that you are somebody. You are at ease, at home. While playing, just for fun, you are not worried what others think about you. Have you seen a father in a mock fight with his child? He will be defeated. He will lie down and the child will si...

God is always ready to give. He is always ready to share his being, his bliss, his truth, but we are unavailable, we are very closed. We don’t give him any way into our being, we don’t open even a single window. Out of fear we keep all the doors and windows closed; hence the wind and the su...

Now we will enter into the sutra. Do nought with the body but relax; shut firm the mouth and silent remain; empty your mind and think of nought. Do nought with the body but relax. Now you can understand what relaxation means. It means no urge to activity in you. Relaxation doesn’t mean lyin...

Question 2 Beloved Osho, When we start watching our bodies, and then our minds and emotions, there remains an element, although subtle, of concentration. Initially, for example, watching my breathing, I would watch it to the exclusion of everything else – here there was an element of focus....

Question 2: Osho, Why does everyone want to pretend to be what they are not? What is the psychology behind it? Narendra, everybody is condemned from his very childhood. Whatever he does on his own accord, out of his own liking, is not acceptable. The people, the crowd in which a child has t...

Question 2: On the path of surrender, How does the Seeker come to the right technique out of One hundred and twelve methods? On the path of will there are methods – these one hundred and twelve methods. On the path of surrender, surrender itself is the method, there are no other methods – r...

The man of understanding is in a total let-go. He allows the law to function. If you want old religious language, non-buddhist language, you can call it surrender to god. Then the devotee says, ‘Now I am no more, only you are. I am just a flute on your lips, a hollow bamboo. You sing; the s...

Question 2 Osho, Will you say something more about relaxation? i am aware of a tension deep at the core of me and suspect that i have probably never been totally relaxed. When you said the other day that to relax is one of the most complex phenomena possible, i glimpsed a rich tapestry in w...

The law of inner victory is very strange. In the outer world if you want to be victorious you have to be violent, aggressive, you have to be ready to fight. In the inner world just the opposite is the case: if you want to be victorious you have to forget fighting, you have to drop the very ...

The Grass grows by itself Question 2 Beloved Osho, How can one get out of the trap the mind creates of never being quite blissful in the moment, and be patient, letting the grass grow by itself? I'm always wanting to move faster, to push the river, and missing the beauty of it taking me in ...

Question 3: You tell me to follow my feelings, and when i finally dare to and am feeling much freer and simpler and happier, you say i am immature. What does it mean? IT is from Madhuri. It means exactly what it says: you are immature. What is immaturity? Whatsoever you are doing, you are d...

Osho Quotes on Relaxation “Meditation is the name of the deepest relaxation.” -Osho, "The Transmission of the Lamp" "The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, eff...

Question 4: Osho, I have heard you say, “Let Go — no Effort is needed.” but i am afraid of letting go because then i slip into my old patterns. please comment. It is one of the difficulties. Letting go, one can slip into old patterns, old conditionings. Still, take the risk. The fear has so...

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 division. You become one in your yes. You say ‘y...

Question 2 Osho, After two weeks of hypnosis sessions with kaveesha, i can now see my resistance to relaxation. In looking for a cause for this, i saw that to me, to relax means to be lazy and useless. My family would rather be sick than let go of their so-called power, thinking that being ...

Question 2: Osho, Why does spontaneity create so much fear in me? Having no structure feels like a death. How can i turn this fear into a let-go, a welcome, a rejoicing? Anand Anupam, perhaps you are not aware that you are again asking for another structure. I will read your question so tha...

Osho Quotes on Let Go Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation. -Osho, "Beyond Psychology“ ◈ Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness. -Osho, "Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind“ ◈ Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember thes...

Question 2 Osho, Will you say something more about relaxation? i am aware of a tension deep at the core of me and suspect that i have probably never been totally relaxed. When you said the other day that to relax is one of the most complex phenomena possible, i glimpsed a rich tapestry in w...

Question 3: Osho, What is the difference between “Easy” and “Lazy”. Satyam Svarup, the difference between easy and lazy is the difference between the positive and the negative. Easiness is a positive feeling; it is not empty. You are overflowing with energy, but you are simply enjoying the ...

One of the qualities that has disappeared from the modern man is patience. He is in too much of a hurry, so much so that he cannot enjoy anything. While he is eating he is thinking of something else; he is in a rush. And when he reaches that place which he was thinking about while eating he...

Tension and Relaxation Question 2 Osho, Please talk to us of tension and relaxation. usually, when i sit in front of you i relax all through myself. i lose any alertness i may have. when i am alert, there is a subtle tension which i need to maintain this wakefulness. it winds me up like a s...

Question 1 Osho, Recently i heard you say that transcendence of life's misery and confusion can occur by either a let-go of life or by fight -- as long as either is done with totality. mahavira's way was fight, and yours is let-go. could you say more about let-go and its relationship to int...

Meditation is rest, absolute rest, a full stop to all activity — physical, mental, emotional. When you are in such a deep rest that nothing stirs in you, when all action as such ceases, as if you are fast asleep yet awake, you come to know who you are. Suddenly the window opens. It cannot b...

My whole vision is of a human being, totally alive, intensely alive, enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with grace, with gratitude towards existence. And that's what loving yourself means. It means that you have thrown all the garbage of religious rejection, repr...