Osho comments on the lines: ‘Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection,’ from the Desiderata.
“The best in art, the best in music, the best in literature, the best in philosophy, the best in religion – all are mysteries,” says Osho.
Osho speaks on Desiderata’s line: ‘Be yourself.’
“You are living surrounded by death, and if this can be remembered, this can become the greatest stimulation for meditation, for awareness,” says Osho.
Osho states that “all religions have been teaching that everything is a dream.”
Osho comments on: ‘Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter…’
Osho continues with the line in Desiderata: ‘Without surrender, without making any compromise, remain yourself.’
Nan In said to the archbishop, “Whoever has written these sentences will become a buddha in some future life.”
Osho speaks on the line from the Desiderata: ‘If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.’
“The man of compassion has to lie. The lie is only a device to wake you up,” explains Osho.
Osho states, “Each system is perfect and works. But don’t mix it with anything else; let it function on its own.”
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence,” and “As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons,” are the next lines of the Desiderata.
“If your life is becoming insane just look deep down – you will find that all this deciding is driving you mad too,” says Osho.
Osho speaks on these lines in the Desiderata: “Hear then the wisdom of the wise…” and “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.”
Osho states: “He was a conqueror. He was pushing the river of life according to his desires… Please, flow with the river. You are a part, you cannot impose yourself on the whole; the whole is infinite.”
Osho comments on the first sentence of the Desiderata: Hear then the wisdom of the wise…
Osho says, “There is a way of being in contact with reality without words… Words don’t help, they hinder.”
Osho quotes Rabia al-Adawiyya as saying: “The heard is the lie and the seen is the truth.”
“Perfectionism is a kind of inhuman ideal. You cannot think of Buddha crying,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Sannyas is the beginning of getting out of the law of karma.”
Osho states that “… it is certain that I have been poisoned by Ronald Reagan’s American government.” He describes in detail his experiences after his arrest in Charlotte and his accumulating health issues since.
“Nothing is small in itself and nothing is big in itself. It is all comparative,” states Osho.
Osho: “Yes, to know oneself is very elementary.”
Osho declares, “The future is bound to be more receptive, more welcoming. We may not be here but we can manage to change the consciousness for centuries to come.”
“Many, many times man has become very civilized, and many, many times all civilization has disappeared from the earth,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Understanding is not gradual, understanding is a sudden flash.”
“To be sane in this insane society is really a great work of understanding, courage, rebellion,” states Osho.
Osho comments on a sutra, “So the first thing Uwais says is, ‘This is my feeling. I live moment to moment, without any plan or future. I don’t know what is going to happen this evening – maybe death.'”
“The quintessence of Tao is ‘Tathata’, acceptability. Where there is total acceptability, there is the condition of desirelessness,” states Osho.
“Man… never makes any effort, even in finding one very fundamental thing: who he is, from where he comes, and what is his destiny, where he is going,” states Osho.
“The One and only God is known only when a person gets beheaded,” comments Osho on this anecdote.
Osho says, “To be encrusted in gold and to die are one and the same thing… The greater the wealth you want to achieve the more dead you have to be…. All heights are suicidal!”
“Every moment, everything is changing,” states Osho.
“The rebel is in a state of tremendous love with freedom – total freedom, nothing less than that,” states Osho.
Osho states, “We come and we go; we are like the line drawn over water…”
Osho answers a question by Prem Adina, stating “We are all connected in a thousand-and-one ways. “
Osho states, “The moment you say something about the first principle, you go wrong.”
“An upanishad is a mystery school. And we are entering into an upanishad today,” declares Osho on August 16, 1986.
Osho says, “The ego thinks it can do everything. It lives with this fallacy. The part lives with the fallacy that it is the whole.”
Osho says, “When the society is in a turmoil and everything is in crisis, a chaos pervades – this is the moment, if you want, you can escape from the prison.”
“Carrying fuel, drawing water from the well and he says, ‘How mysterious.'”
Osho tells a story about the Sufi mystic, Junaid, who had lived with almost all the great masters…
From a discourse by Osho on Sufism: “If you have known love you have known death, if you have known meditation you have known death.”
Osho states, “The whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism – hence it is so beautiful.”
Osho says, “Either you can become a man of being, or you can become a man of having.”
Bauls say, “Whatsoever you love you become, and whatsoever is your love you will find.”
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
“My suggestion is that a black hole is like a door: from one side it is a black door, a black hole – things go into it and disappear into nothingness,” says Osho.
Zarathustra has said, “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. He is a bridge and you should not make your house on the bridge…”
Osho answers Yoga Anurag’s question: According to what I have been hearing you say, the title of this series, Theologia Mystica, seems to be a contradiction in terms.
Osho speaks about the process of a conscious death and nature’s indication to become aware that death is approaching.
One of the Zen stories Osho commented upon for the series, ‘No Water No Moon’.
“[It] is a common experience in medical colleges that the kind of sickness the students are learning about … starts happening to many students,” states Osho.
Osho states, “The whole function of the Master is just to bring you home – which you had never left in the first place.”
“This false ego which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear,” states Osho.
Osho answers Deva Narayana’s question about being in a relationship with Aseema.
Osho on Chekhov’s story: “To say no to anything is very easy… To be positive, to say yes, is very difficult.”
“If I talk about the new man in America I will be killed immediately, imprisoned,” states Osho.
Rinzai said, “That which can be heard will not be essential. I have given you the key; silence is the key…”
Osho states, “Ego is a false notion of something which is not there at all. ‘Self’ means a center which can promise. This center is created by being continuously aware, constantly aware.”