“You are supported by your past life, that’s why you are here. And your past life is supported by another past life…”
“These people have taken a tremendous step. They have risked their established mind to enquire into the unfamiliar and the unknown – and ultimately, the unknowable.”
“Mind has a stupidity: to complete things. Mind is a perfectionist. Ninety-nine? The obsession is created: they must be a hundred.”
“Almost each sentence is going to create trouble for anybody who wants to organize a religion around me.”
An excerpt for the topic of ‘Tantra’; “Before you meet the woman you should rise higher in your consciousness because then the meeting will happen on a higher plane.”
“…it has tremendous beauty; it has something of the ultimate in it. Now it is pure sharing. Now it is a luxury, it is no more a need.”
“A real man of awakening is not hard, he is not frozen. He has melted. The ice has disappeared into water.”
“Even now I am not part of the ashram. I cannot be part of any institution or any organization, even my own.”
Excerpted for the topic of ‘Awake’; “The real waking state happens only when you are completely deprogrammed, unconditioned.”
“It is not that you have to become a Buddha, you are a Buddha, fallen asleep. Somebody needs to kick you. Somebody needs to shout at you. Somebody needs to hit you. And that is the purpose of a master.”
“I am giving you a simple alternative: you have to drop your whole past – your hatred, your distinctions of color and nation, your fights amongst religions, political ideologies…”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nudity’; “We have created a world around ourselves and we have cut ourselves off from nature. We have become uprooted – and this uprootedness is one of the basic causes of your misery.”
“Competition is one of the most irreligious things in the world, but that’s what everybody is doing.”
“The ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose – when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance.”
“You are your world, so when you change your attitude you change the very world in which you exist.”
“When someone becomes enlightened it is a death deeper than ordinary death; when someone becomes enlightened he comes to know that he is not the body. The attachment, the identification, disappears.”
“I teach you first to live as a Zorba, and only on that foundation will be raised the temple of your buddhahood.”
“Meditation simply means removing the dust that the fakir threw on the eye. And the dust is nothing but the whole mind process of thoughts, desires, imagination, memory.”
“These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man’s freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.”
“The true word, the authentic word, always creates silence in you. That is the criterion of its power…”
“Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world – the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here.”
“If you really want to wake up and if you also want to become part of the great hope for humanity and the future of man, then die to the past, so that you can be reborn to the future.”
“A total yes is sannyas, an unconditional yes: yes to all, to life and to death – because death is not against life but is life’s ultimate culmination, its highest peak.”
Quote chosen for the topic of ‘Boredom’; “It is a goading for the search. It is a goading towards God, towards Tao.”
“Prayer is not saying something to God; on the contrary, it is listening to God. It is being ready to receive his gift.”
Beloved Master, it is a rumor in the air that you are being arrested today or tomorrow. What is your comment?
“You may have been wandering in darkness for millions of lives, but it cannot destroy your inner light because darkness cannot be aggressive. It is not. Something which is not, how can it be aggressive? Darkness cannot destroy light.”