“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.”

“The priority should be your attainment of spiritual freedom, because political tyrannies come and go,” declares Osho

“For twenty-four hours, wait; and after twenty-four hours, whatever comes to you, go and do.”

“Truth is not decided by voting. It is not a question of how many people believe in it,” confirms Osho.

In answer to a question Osho says, “Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed.”

Osho comments on one of the many mysterious stories of the Sufis; “Whenever a mood comes to you … always remember: This, too, will pass.”

Osho speaks on a doha by Kabir about death.

“How can you become a Buddha? Either you are, or you are not. How can you become?” asks Osho.

Osho states that “times of crisis are of tremendous significance…”

Osho says, “Through judgment you can never be intimate with a Master. Judgment creates barriers. Only through trust an intimacy arises…”

Osho states, “Democracy basically is mobocracy. There is a tendency in the mob to follow others. Somebody raises his hand, the others follow. The mob are like sheep.”

Osho’s vision: “The new man is an absolute necessity… If we cannot produce a new human being, then humanity will disappear from the earth.”

Osho responds to the question: Beloved Osho, It disturbs me when you don’t seem to bother about facts.

“Trust is a touchstone… One day you come across a real touchstone. You pick it up, it is warm, but still you throw it,” states Osho.

“Reality is… far more than our logic… Reality is this great jungle of infinity.”

An anecdote told by Osho where a monk became enlightened when he overheard a butcher say, ‘I never sell anything that is not the best.’

Beloved Osho, is relationship there because love is not?

Osho says, “A simple person is not one who possesses nothing, a simple person is one who has no possessiveness, who never looks back.”

Osho answers in an interview to Deva Bhaskar, Correio Braziliense, Brasília, Brazil.

Osho is asked by an elderly disciple to speak about death.

Devageet asks a question: Beloved Osho, It is now becoming too much. The gossips are going right and left.

“Almost every country has its own love stories, but nothing compared to Layla and Majnun because it has a Sufi message in it,” explains Osho.

“‘Yes, I am dying, but I must sing!’ Francis has become the song. … There is absolute silence inside. Out of that silence this song is born,” says Osho.

Osho states, “The past is gone – you are no longer a child, or you are no longer a young man. The past is gone. Let the gone be gone.”

Osho states, “If you go on listening to people you will become more and more confused.”

Osho quotes a famous sentence of Mencius: “If you want to reach, never run.”

Osho’s answer to: “Would it not make matters much simpler to somehow impress upon our young ones to begin with God?”

“You are a totally new manifestation of God. It has never been before so there has never been a person exactly like you,” states Osho.

Osho says, “The first myth of man is that he exists.”

“AUM is only a formula, just like H₂O. It simply represents the whole reality,” explains Osho (with audio)

“Travellers from different paths have come – travellers from different directions and dimensions…” – Osho answers a disciple’s question.

Osho says, “You can never be somebody else. Remember it as one of the most fundamental laws. Aes dhammo sanantano…” – illustrated by two stories.

“What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine,” asserts Osho

Osho says, “Discontent clouds your eyes and your vision; contentment makes your eyes unclouded and your vision clear.”

“All your projections are yours… and they have to disappear. You have to be disillusioned. Only in that moment of disillusionment does reality explode,” states Osho.

“Don’t force rules, just try to understand things. If you force rules upon yourself you will not become enlightened,” states Osho.

You often say that prayer is a state of consciousness. And you also say that prayer is a state of gratefulness. Then how is it that prayer is not non-dualistic?

“Difficult not to choose, but try – and in everything… When you feel hate, try to move to the middle. When you feel love, try to move to the middle,” states Osho.

… a man questioned the tailor. ‘Don’t you remember God created the whole world in six days?’ The tailor said, ‘I know. And look at the world, how he messed it. That’s what happens if you do things in six days.’ An anecdote told by Osho

“All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back,” adds Osho to the anecdote.

Osho is asked to “Kindly shed some light on this uniqueness about your ashram.”

Osho says: “You cannot repress any thought… The easiest thing is not to force, but to be just a witness.”

“If this is possible – to have space and togetherness both – ‘then the winds of heaven dance between you…'” states Osho.

“You can’t please everyone. If you try, you lose yourself,” comments Osho.

“People … think the ego comes through prestige and power – renounce power, renounce prestige – but then the ego comes through your humbleness,” says Osho.

Beloved Osho,
From birth onwards, time seemed to me to go faster and faster. But since we left America, just over two months ago, it feels to me like whole lifetimes have passed. Osho, what have you done to time?

“The people you think are moral are just repressed people, egoistic, carrying all sorts of repressed desires in them. Once an opportunity is given to them, they will explode,” concludes Osho.

“Wisdom is practical, knowledge impractical. Knowledge is abstract, wisdom is earthly; knowledge is just words, wisdom is experience,” comments Osho.

A question to Osho by his lawyer, late Ram Jethmalani: Beloved Master, When I am dead, am I really dead? I want to be really convinced that death is eternal sleep.

Osho answers one of Bhagwat’s questions; “You have to see what this ego is, and just seeing is enough.”

“Remember this story when you pray. Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon,” says Osho.

Osho says, “If you really understand me only then will you drop your clinging to me.”

Beloved Osho,

Many times sitting in your presence I am overwhelmed by a very childlike feeling. It seems so familiar, yet from a long time ago.

“I love this parable. God is a storyteller, he loves jokes…” comments Osho.

“This Sufi saying wants to create the third type of man, the real man: who knows how to do and who knows how not to do,” expounds Osho.

Osho answers to: “I am terribly scared to ask this question. Why do you mention Swami Yoga Chinamaya’s name when he asks a question? And why does something in me have to ask this question?”

“The mystery will remain a mystery, but by becoming yourself a mystery, you will understand,” adds Osho

“As I see it, mankind has lost all sense of direction,” states Osho.