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.”
“God is unconditionally given to you. It is a gift. There is no way to earn God, there is no way to become worthy of having God – God is not a possession. God is a gift, and an unconditional gift.”
“The life of a real seeker is not an ordinary life. The life of a real seeker is the life of freedom.”
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.”