“The moment you don’t know, intimacy arises between you and reality, a great friendship arises. It becomes a love affair.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 4)
“Whenever knowledge is not needed, put it aside and drown yourself into a state of not knowing – which is also a state of knowing, real knowing.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 3)
“By clinging to the fingers you will not see the moon, remember. There are even greater fools who start biting the fingers… Forget the finger and look at where it is pointing.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 2)
“The future of humanity will go closer and closer to the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 1)
Beloved Osho, I don’t really have a question to ask you — everything is very good. Only one thing is confusing me a little. You have often spoken about the “chosen few.” Please, who is doing the choosing?
“Do something that comes out of you – not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be,” says Osho.
Osho talks in discourse to his disciples about a friend who is dying, Vipassana, and how to welcome death.
“In the search for the first principle silence is the door – the only door,” comments Osho on this sutra.
The Ten Grounds of the Way: Accepting the call of the beyond, centering, sagely intelligence. (part 4)
The Ten Grounds of the Way: “How do you measure the length of a man’s life?” The monk answered: “By the breath.” (part 2)
“Now years of listening to me, understanding me, you are in a position to be freed from all outer bondage.”
Osho announces a new meditative therapy, the Mystic Rose; “You cannot conceive how much transformation can come to your being.”
Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’
Osho answers a question by Madhura and says, “Dance your aloneness, sing your aloneness, live your aloneness!”
Q: Why do I allow women to hold power over me, to accept or reject me? This old rut makes nonsense at heart. I want to get out.
Osho comments: “If there is such test, such totality of trust, time is not needed. If there is no trust, then even three lives are not enough.”
“Even an unenlightened Master, with deep trust, can revolutionize your life. And the reverse is also true: even an enlightened Master may not be of any help. It depends on you…” says Osho.
“I want five thousand rebellious spirits, five thousand burning torches, lights unto themselves,” declares Osho.
Osho’s introduction to the discourse series on the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. “Tantra is not an intellectual proposition, it is an experience.”
“This story is not true… because nobody is allowed to speak of Khidr directly. The inner guide is so subtle that it cannot be expressed in words.” (Part 4)
Beloved Osho, Recently it has started happening that as I begin to open my eyes first thing in the morning I can see a vision, like a scene from a movie – and that scene happens days after in reality, just like a repetition.
“Remember, there are two modes of life: the action mode and the non-action mode. The action mode believes in action, the non-action mode believes in receptivity.” (Discourse excerpt part 2 of 4)
“This is the man of individuality, who does not care for his life, for his body, who has no fear. He accepted death with joy.”
“The story that we are going to go into today is one of the greatest stories. It has that special flavor that only a Sufi story can have.” (Part 1)
“The golden gate is open for those who are simple, who are humble, who are almost nobodies…” adds Osho.
“When you come to me and you love me, your love has shadows on it of your past experiences,” states Osho.