“What calamity has happened to smell? There seems to be no reason why smell has been so suppressed. No culture anywhere has consciously suppressed it but it has become suppressed.”
“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Perfume’; “Each sense has two possibilities: if the energy falls …downwards, then it is sexual; if the energy rises upwards, then it is spiritual.”
“A cup of tea declares that the night is over, wake up! Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence. The universe has allowed you one day more – you cannot demand, it is a gift.”
Osho speaks on ‘Boxing’; “[The psychiatrist’s] whole expertise is how to put you back and make you normally mad.”
Osho suggests to a sannyasin in darshan: “Whenever you commit a mistake again, go into the process of it, see why, how, it happens.”
“…but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.” A short excerpt where Osho speaks on personality and individuality
“I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human. Here nobody is an emperor and nobody is a beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.”
A Cup of Tea (162). “When you are hungry you eat, when you are thirsty you drink, and when you meet a friend you greet him.”
Osho answers a question by Nitin Bharti; “You have to learn how to say yes with totality. That is trust, that is surrender, that is faith.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Music’; “If you are sitting by a waterfall just listen to the sound of the waterfall and become one with it.”
A Cup of Tea (161); “Death is within you, because death is the other side of life. Life cannot exist without death; they both belong to the same energy as positive and negative poles.”
“It is not like dropping clothes – it is as if one’s skin is being peeled off. Your past is all that you know you are.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Relating’; “Two lovers support something invisible and something immensely valuable: some poetry of being, some music heard in the deepest recesses of their existence.”
English translation of a letter by Osho to Mr Ashvani Kumar Saini, then a student at the Engineering College, Jabalpur
“Alexander the Great, or others of his category – are perhaps searching for something else, and are not aware of it. They are searching for greatness – but greatness does not come from acquiring an empire. Greatness comes from becoming your real self, bringing your potentiality to actualization.”
“…of dropping the mind, of moving from the bridge, moving into the unknown, taking a jump into the mysterious.” (with audio)
“The moment a synchronicity happens… between the heart of the man of the vertical and the heart of the man who is not yet vertical… you also start moving vertically.”
“You should be faithful only to love, not to the lover. Both should be faithful to love, as long as it lasts. If it lasts your whole life, good. If it does not last your whole life that is even better!”
“Not only Buddha, nobody has come down from the seventh heaven, ever. But a few people get obsessed, identified with their reflections.”
Osho speaks on ‘Decision’ in a darshan; “Whenever it is a question of choosing between the old and the new, always choose the new.”
“Trusting me you will be able to trust yourself, because trusting me, for the first time you will start tasting what trust is.”
“This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. This moment this cake is delicious.”
“Whenever you want to try to understand me, don’t bring in what I have said in the past; that is not going to help. The latest has to be taken into account.”
“It is an appeal to the individual soul: You take responsibility in your own hands. Don’t be contented, because there is so much more potential in you.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Belief’; “There is turmoil within every believer and he is afraid, really afraid to come across something which may disturb his belief.”
“When your senses are unable to see… even then you are a witness. And to perceive the inner witness the senses are not needed.”
“Whatsoever appears in the mind, just watch it. Watch it appearing, watch it being there, watch it disappearing.”
Osho, I find myself mostly attracted to women and very rarely deeply to a man. I am a little bothered about it. Could you please say something about it?
A handwritten note from Osho where he replies to the question, “What is meditation, and what is the method to do it?”
“Tantra says that the first thing is to be available to joy,” states Osho commenting on a sutra by Saraha
‘Freedom from’ is political… ‘Freedom for’ is artistic, creative, scientific. And ‘just freedom’ is religious.
Osho speaks on ‘Synchronicity’; “The whole scientific world is based on the causal relationship. Synchronicity has no place in it. But in human life everybody who is a little alert may have found it.”