Archive for 'Discourses'

21-Day Experiment in Silence and Seclusion

21-Day Experiment in Silence and Seclusion

Osho explains all the steps during the 21 day experiment in silence and what is bound to be experienced [...]

Osho Driving Rolls Royces

Osho Driving Rolls Royces

In December 1979, for the first time, a Rolls Royce is used to drive Osho to Buddha Hall for his discourse. An in an interview, Osho explains the difference between driving a Rolls Royce or a [...]

Osho Driving in India

Osho Driving in India

Osho speaks about the time when he learned how to drive and about a trip he made during which his car broke down. [...]

Nobody Can Make a Dogma Out of Me

Nobody Can Make a Dogma Out of Me

Osho Interviewed by Willem Sheer from Pers Unie, The Hague, Netherlands [...]

Osho Driving in Oregon

Osho Driving in Oregon

Osho speaks about getting his Oregon driving license and being stopped by the police while driving on the county road in Oregon. [...]

Yes, There Are Problems

Yes, There Are Problems

Osho explains how we can (and cannot) help the world [...]

The Most Important Word in our Language

The Most Important Word in our Language

Beloved Osho, What is the most important word in our language? [...]

Ramakrishna’s Photo

Ramakrishna’s Photo

The anecdote of Ramakrishna kissing the feet in his own photograph [...]

In Your Love I Will Live

In Your Love I Will Live

Q: You talk nonsense in the lectures. How can you tell us to go and look for an alive master if you die? [...]

‘Fuck’ is one of the most beautiful words

‘Fuck’ is one of the most beautiful words

The last question: Beloved Master, I feel shocked when you use the word 'fuck'. What to do? [...]

19.1.2012

19.1.2012

I am drunk with the divine. It is a miracle how I am here. [...]

Maulingaputta and Mahakashyapa’s Defeat

Maulingaputta and Mahakashyapa’s Defeat

For both, no debate after two years of sitting in silence at Buddha's feet [...]

700 Year Gap

700 Year Gap

Osho talks about what 'happened' between his last and his present life [...]

Remains and Vibrations of Enlightened Ones

Remains and Vibrations of Enlightened Ones

Osho speaks about energy and vibrations of enlightened ones, and in particular about a cave underneath Potala monastery in Tibet [...]

Love Is Our Only Power, Silence Is Our Only Force

Love Is Our Only Power, Silence Is Our Only Force

Osho says there is no power which is higher than love, and there is no force which can defeat silence [...]

Matter and Consciousness

Matter and Consciousness

Are mind, mana, intellect, buddhi, mind stuff, chitta, and ego, ahankara, separate entities or different names for the same thing? [...]

When Osho Dropped His Body

When Osho Dropped His Body

Osho tells us what happened after he dropped the body [...]

A Peak Into Future Akashic Records

A Peak Into Future Akashic Records

Osho speaks on the illusion of birth and death and peaks into future Akashic Records [...]

A Noah’s Ark of Consciousness

A Noah’s Ark of Consciousness

Osho calls upon his people to create a Noah's Ark of consciousness to save the great heritage of humanity [...]

Accept, And Then Just Watch

Accept, And Then Just Watch

Through awareness, transformation happens spontaneously. If you become aware of your anger, understanding penetrates [...]

The God Whom I Love Is Inside

The God Whom I Love Is Inside

Osho speaks on Kabir, T.S. Eliot and poetry, and how the language of the heart has been forgotten... [...]

Learn How to Pray and the Master Comes

Learn How to Pray and the Master Comes

Osho's commentary on a poem by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke [...]

Protests Cannot Save the Universe

Protests Cannot Save the Universe

Osho speaks on the responsibility his disciple feels about our planet [...]

The Gap Between Two Sounds

The Gap Between Two Sounds

Osho, Only in moments of love do I feel my body dancing with joyful sweetness, and only in moments of love do musicians create music which touches my heart. [...]

I Am Against Any Kind of Organization

I Am Against Any Kind of Organization

Osho emphasizes there is no organization between him and his sannyasins and that each and every sannyasin is his medium [...]

The Possibilities of Science in the Fifth Body

The Possibilities of Science in the Fifth Body

Osho speaks way ahead of time about science and the fifth body - the spiritual body [...]

Buddham Sharanam Ghachchhami

Buddham Sharanam Ghachchhami

Buddham sharanam gachchhami: in India there was no room for the buddham. [...]

Women in the Communes

Women in the Communes

Osho, Whatever Nansen meant when he requested “special treatment” for Joshu, apparently it didn’t mean Joshu moving into Lao Tzu House and having private, daily chats with the master. [...]

What is Money?

What is Money?

Question: What is money and why are most people deeply uncomfortable about it in one way or another? [...]

Don’t Just Do Something. Sit There

Don’t Just Do Something. Sit There

Rinzai’s famous saying Sitting silently, doing nothing, and the grass grows by itself. [...]

Positive Thinking: Philosophy for Phonies

Positive Thinking: Philosophy for Phonies

"The philosophy of positive thinking means being untruthful; it means being dishonest. It means seeing a certain thing and yet denying what you have seen; it means deceiving yourself and others." [...]

Creativity and Discipline

Creativity and Discipline

Osho speaks on creativity being the greatest rebellion [...]

The Talent of Creating Wealth

The Talent of Creating Wealth

Osho, Can you talk about money? What are all these feelings which are around money? What makes it so powerful that people sacrifice their lives for it? [...]

England Has No Future

England Has No Future

Beloved Master, What is causing this surge of violence against law and order? [...]

A Dog is Just God Spelt Wrongly

A Dog is Just God Spelt Wrongly

Osho says, 'Why should a dog not have a buddha-nature?' [...]

A Conscious Life is Rewarded with a Conscious Death

A Conscious Life is Rewarded with a Conscious Death

Osho speaks to a disciple about the blessing to be aware of his impending death of cancer [...]

OM Is Perhaps the Greatest Symbol in the Whole World

OM Is Perhaps the Greatest Symbol in the Whole World

Osho explains the expression 'om mani padme hum', its secrets and the Tibetan angle [...]

Osho on Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

Osho on Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses

In a discourse about religions being out of date, Osho speaks about Salman Rushdie and the fatwa issued against him in 1989 because of The Satanic Verses [...]

Euthanasia – Birthright of Every Human Being

Euthanasia – Birthright of Every Human Being

Osho speaks on euthanasia, the freedom to choose your death [...]

Objective and Subjective Art

Objective and Subjective Art

A compilation of excerpts where Osho talks about these two art categories [...]

How Osho Started to Sign His Books

How Osho Started to Sign His Books

I have been collecting books from my high school days. You will be surprised that by the time I was a matriculate I had read thousands of books and collected hundreds of books of my own [...]

Gratitude

Gratitude

Q: In my mind I am writing to you almost every day. All these questions and statements boil down to the following: Gratitude [...]

Love is the Greatest Alchemy

Love is the Greatest Alchemy

Q: You have talked about the superiority/inferiority dialectic as the basis of authoritarian and fascist relationships... [...]

What Does it Mean to be a Disciple?

What Does it Mean to be a Disciple?

No definition is possible of a disciple, but a few hints can be given, just fingers pointing to the moon [...]

I Am a Fighter

I Am a Fighter

Beloved Osho, I realized this morning when you were talking that I am a fighter, but I don't know anything except fighting [...]

Yes And No!

Yes And No!

Man is a dilemma, he is both yes and no. It is not abnormal in you, it is the normal state of humankind. Man is half earth, half sky; [...]

A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance

A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance

A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation [...]

Meditation, Shaktipat and Healing

Meditation, Shaktipat and Healing

Osho answers direct questions about healing through meditation and the chemical effects on the body and mind, and the meaning of shaktipat [...]

Spread the Message

Spread the Message

Osho speaks on the findings of Dr. Brian Weiss using hypnosis [...]

Life and Death

Life and Death

The man of experience forgets the desire to condemn [...]