Beloved Osho,
Not long ago, in a discourse, I heard you say that you hated spaghetti. Then recently, you said you hated suntans.
Osho explains that science is not the only methodology to use to enter the mysteries of existence, rather the crudest and slowest methodology, and that a mystic can enter existence in a single moment.
Beloved Osho,
The Sufis say that a person has a purpose in life and you need to find out what your purpose is. This question keeps coming up for me now that I am not in a commune any longer.
Osho, If I can truly experience the music of the flute player, can that be on the same level as the experience you wish to occur with you? I am thinking of the Sufis: I see, but I do not see. I am behind a glass wall.
Q: How is it possible that the mind can go on producing thoughts constantly, and how can we stop that which we have not started?
Sanjaya, how am I to know? How can I answer this question? Nobody else can answer it for you except you. I cannot answer it on your behalf.
Beloved Osho,
Why have human beings gone through this struggle since the very beginning? Were there not already highly developed civilizations living on this earth? And yet their consciousness got lost and man had to start all over again.
Osho, William Blake said, ‘The way of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,’ and, ‘Man never knows what is enough before he knows what is too much.’
“If being awakened has become your priority, and you are ready to sacrifice everything for it, then there is hope.”
The Ancients said:
“(Self-)cultivation takes an unimaginable time (while) enlightenment in an instant is attained.”
In 1888 a person named Ramanujan was born in a poor Brahmin family in South India. He became a very famous mathematician.
[…] it all depends how much you trust your silence, how much you trust yourself, how much the silence is arising from your inner sources.
Surrender is a very paradoxical state: on one hand you disappear, on the other hand you appear for the first time in your infinite glory, in your multidimensional splendor.
Beloved Master,
Upon returning to Holland last year I started communicating about you with an overwhelming sense of urgency. I felt you imparted this urgency to me, but it seemed also to be a part of my nature.
Beloved Osho, You were saying that the new will be victorious. Will it really be the new, or will it be the old polished up here and there.
Beloved Osho,
Since I have been able to trust more and more in existence, everything is going so easily, so softly, so beautifully.
Beloved Osho, What is this undercurrent of giggling in my heart every time I feel that you are using the whole world as a device for our growth, and that you are using us as a device for the whole world? Would you please comment?
Q: Sometimes you talk nonsense in the lectures. How can you tell us to go and look for an alive master if you die?
During three thousand years, fifteen thousand wars have been fought. Fifteen thousand wars in three thousand years?
Osho speaks about knowing one’s essence, quotes Master Lu-tsu saying that only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space.
Osho answers a question about death and the utter necessity to truly experience life so the conscious becomes more and more alive while the unconscious goes on dying.
Man is as if asleep. Man lives in a stupor – moves, works, is born, lives and dies, but almost fast asleep, snoring.
Beloved Master, why is it that nobody likes to be criticized, and yet everybody loves to criticize others?
Meditation is a subtle death – a deep death of you, your mind, your ego, of all that makes you defined. But that which is within is there. That is pure consciousness.
Q: What is the difference between entering another body and psychic mediumship? How does one enter into a medium?
“At the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware.”
Osho states, “You are a projector going on and on projecting things which are nowhere, only inside you, and the whole world becomes a screen.”
Osho explains how gratitude arises out of compassion and is not directed towards anyone in particular.
The law of synchronicity has to be understood. This is one of the greatest contributions of Carl Gustav Jung to modern humanity: the law of synchronicity.
The old man has lived with all kinds of divisions – nations, races, religions. The New Man will live an undivided humanity, with all the sources pooled into one. And that will enable him to explore the universe.
Q: Osho, Dolly Diddee showed me a passage from one of your earlier books where you say that no saint is against any other saint, and that they deliberately speak against each other to drive away people who are not suited to them and to push their buttons.
Osho asserts that society will soon fix an electrode in people’s brains to control them – it will be cheap and easy, and then there will be no possibility for human freedom.
Osho says male domination is the root of homosexuality and that within fifty years governments and religions will start preaching homosexuality.
The coming few years are going to be very significant years in man’s history. Now a handful of people will be of no help in matters spiritual.
Beloved Osho,
In the face of the huge mystery of life, since the early ages humankind has consulted oracles. It’s very famous throughout history – like the oracle of Delphi.
Just think that one morning you wake up and you don’t have any problems – you will be in such grief.
Why do we wear one hundred and eight beads on our malas? Does this belong to the world of ritualistic religion?