A sannyasin asks in darshan: I’m feeling loving towards people, feeling warmth, but I don’t feel very sexual. I don’t know if it’s slightly repressed or if it’s okay.
Osho on the theme of ‘Animal’; “He can go beyond it; that is another thing. But he belongs to animals. He can transcend, but he comes from the animal.”
“It is an old proverb in Tibet that hundreds go but rarely a single individual reaches – that too, rarely.”
“You are born to be mystics. Unless… you have come to know existence as a mystery… you have not taken the challenge of life, you have been a coward. You have wings, but you have forgotten it.”
“Only two meditators can live in love – and then love will not be a koan. But then it will not be a relationship either… it will be simply a state of love.”
“From this to nothingness, from here to nowhere. You cannot practise it… You are the only hindrance,” writes Osho in letter 171
Quote chosen for the topic ‘Choose Nature’; “The thinking up to now has been that the individual exists for the society, that the individual has to follow what the society dictates.”
“Not you but your coat is recognized by others; so you go on embroidering your coat, dressing yourself.”
Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’; “Life should be a continuous celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round.”
“It is easy to renounce the world, but how are you going to renounce the mind? Because the mind is the real world!”
Osho speaks on the Tantra vision; “Tantra teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous. It is the greatest of mysteries.”
Osho writes in a letter, “When there are no ripples of thought and emotion in the consciousness, then and only then dawns the third form of knowledge, and this third is the only real knowledge.”
Buddha answered, “I am just an excuse – they are surrendering. It is not a surrender to me; it is simply a surrender – I am just an excuse.”
Osho says, “The meeting with the enlightened person creates a resonance, a certain vibration that reaches to the very depths of your being.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Agnostic’; “If you have a certain idea of God, you will not be able to see him. Your very idea will become a barrier.”
“If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.”
“The path of meditation brings everyone to the awareness of a dark space within; and simultaneously, the absolute certainty that ‘I’m not it’. All that is needed of you is just to watch and not to do anything.”
While answering a disciple’s question, Osho addresses two issues; not being able to sleep after meditation, and hate. “It happens to every meditator…that sleep in the night becomes difficult.” “Hate sucks your energy, leaves you empty, spent. Love fills you with energy.”
“To think oneself a rooster is madness; to think oneself a human being is a greater madness, because you don’t belong to any form.”
Osho speaks to a new initiate in darshan, “Tell the mind, ‘Now go on, and I will be just a witness.'”
“It’s perhaps the boldest statement ever made by any human being in any age in any part of the world, and I don’t think it can be improved upon in the future, ever.”
“Eat like an emperor. That doesn’t depend upon the quality of the food, it depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. Even with just bread, butter, and salt, you can be an emperor.”
“I am teaching you the way of transcendence. All dualities have to be dropped: the duality of mind and heart, the duality of matter and mind…”
“You will interpret any message, any commandment, any order to you, in the way which appeals to you most.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Astrology’; “Whenever we are doing anything that is concerned with the future, it is basically a reading of the unconscious of the person. It has nothing much to do with the future.”
Q: How is it possible that by simply becoming aware at a particular point in the breathing process one can attain enlightenment?
“You can drop your mind this very moment because the mind cannot hold you. Mind is just a mechanism, a machine; you can get out of it any moment.”
Osho speaks on ‘Emptiness’; “The whole of existence has come out of emptiness, and whenever it becomes tired it goes back into emptiness.”
“Suddenly the benediction of emptiness spreads all over you. To be empty is to be divine. To be empty is to have come home.”
“…but I have faith in certain existential situations through which I can throw you into the unknown,” writes Osho in letter 165
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Let-go’; “When you totally accept something, in that very acceptance you have transformed its character.”
“When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen,” states Osho