Beloved Osho,
You said the other day that we are born alone, we live alone and we die alone.
“When you feel that your menstruation is coming, try to watch, try to see what it is bringing along with it,” says Osho.
Beloved Master,
Would you please speak about the three rings of love? – The engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering?
Osho speaks on a story by Hermann Hesse; “Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved, but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue…”
Osho’s commentaries on Hakuin’s Song of Meditation. Full version of previously published excerpt: This is My Birthday.
Beloved Osho, What do you say about the third world war? Is it going to happen or not? What should we do to prevent it?
In Manali, in one of the press interviews, I was talking about the possibilities, the creative and absolutely new possibilities of doors that science can open.
Beloved Osho, I really felt affected when you talked about Rajen the other night, because I feel friendship for him, and I feel he loves you as he did before. I feel that in dropping the mala and the red clothes, he is simply trying to experience something new.
Veeresh asks: Beloved Osho, You have always been an inspiration to me. You give me the courage to continue to do my thing and not compromise in my work, even though I feel like an outcast almost everywhere I go. I need you to say it is okay for me to keep on being a misfit.
Osho, Are all the journalists blind? Can’t they see the truth? Why are they continuously spreading lies about you?
Beloved Osho, I love hearing the stories of the old masters and their disciples. It is so beautiful to feel the essence of those small oases of consciousness – which centuries of religion have since covered in the dust of dogma and deceit. But still, as I look at us sitting here, feeling the joy,
Po-Hun Wu-Jen said: ‘The technique of shooting is fine’ – you did well, beautiful! ‘But it is not the technique of non-shooting.’
Q: When you came to say farewell to Dadaji on the podium in Buddha Hall, suddenly the area where you and Dadaji’s body were became like a film. You both seemed to be without substance.
Q: You said the other day that no one is interested any more in questions like “who created the universe?” but a recent edition of ‘Time Magazine’ devoted considerable space to an article entitled “In the Beginning: God and Science.”
Let me tell you one story, one of the very daring and courageous stories. Such a courageous story is possible only in India. Not today’s India, because today’s India has become very cowardly.
The first question:
“Happiness is not being smart enough to know what to worry about.”
Please comment.
Q: When I heard you say that you wanted a hundred of us enlightened as soon as possible, I wondered why a hundred?
Q: You made me altogether confused and lethargic. I am like mad. At the moment I feel no trust even. Now tell me what should I do? Where should I go?
Q: Osho, why is it that one becomes so attached to the physical peculiarities of a master: his beauty, his gentleness, his language, his mispronunciation – so that alongside the awe and respect he inspires there grows such a feeling of tenderness and familiarity? If this is a device I want to be caught by it forever.
“Artificial intelligence can do scientific work, mathematical work, calculation – great calculation and very quick and very efficiently, because it is a machine. But a machine cannot be aware of what it is doing.”
Osho, I am afraid of death, yet at the same time it has an incredible attraction for me. What does it mean?
I have heard, a man in an orange robe entered the Vrindavan juice bar, barged up to the front of the line, and demanded tea and cake.
In the East much has been worked out, much has been done to understand the ego, much probing has been done.
The whole of existence,
The birds, beasts, flowers and air call for our stillness,
Our meditation.
All except one small insect,
This winged parasite
This buzzing disturber
This mosquito.
Is he the devil?
You were just talking about food, and now in the West food is a big cult. It’s one of the things coming in as a basis of spirituality.
Richard, you say, “I have been very interested to listen to your lectures during the past few days. Far from being unintellectual, they could be described as an intellectual tour de force.”
Q: I have heard sannyasins say that they are with you for some benefit to them. They have a motivation of enlightenment or something likewise. But I do not have any thoughts of enlightenment or any benefit which I may get by being with you. I just love to be in your presence without any motivation whatsoever. Please comment.