“Remember that you are alone, there is no God, there are no messengers, and there is no dictator. You have to be decisive about your own life,” states Osho in 1987 after he returns to Pune.
Osho states, “God has been invented. It was people’s need; people needed a protector. In the immensity of the universe, a man feels so alone, so small.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho replies to a question by Gayan: “To guide a person without his being at all aware that he is being guided… it is just like when you smell perfume in the garden and you start moving towards it.”
Osho states, “…thought waves are also physical. What we know as the mind is a very subtle form of physical energy. “
Osho says, “In the past the information was not available to explain memory as a bundle of thoughts and thought waves, but now it is easier….”
Osho comments: “His reasoning was so absolutely correct: If people go on gathering money on one side, then who is creating the thieves?” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho states, “The centers that exist deep within this body alone, which Yoga calls chakras, are the accumulated forms of many lives.” From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 6 of 6.
Osho says, “Everybody is playing a certain role that has been taught to him, for which he has been brought up.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“The deepest realization of astrology is that your past must be unlocked,” states Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 5 of 6.
Osho answers a question by a physician and states, “Health is natural, death is natural, but disease is not natural.”
“Life is like playing on the sitar, if you are too loose, you are lost, if you are too tight, you are lost. The wise have always followed the middle path,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“In the new commune, the first concentric circle will be for those who come like journalists – prejudiced people, who already know that they know. In short, for the fools,” states Osho.
Osho says, “Even miniature organisms possess an inner source of feeling.” From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 4 of 6.
“Light a candle of awareness and your emptiness will be full of light,” states Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Declare your freedom individually. And that’s my movement. You are here, not as a society, not as a community, you are here as an individual, states Osho
Whether you are afraid or not, everybody is missing the train. It is good that you are afraid, because that may help you to understand why you are missing, says Osho.
Osho says, “The actual birth takes place on the day when the foetus is conceived in the mother’s womb.” From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 3 of 6.
Osho says, “Hassids are Jews, but not accepted by the orthodox Jews. There is something in Hassids which I appreciate.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“Cosmic chemistry says that the entire cosmos is a body. Nothing in it stands apart, all things are joined together,” states Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 2 of 6.
Osho relates a tale showing what happens when one interprets a situation. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“The deepest laws of astrology were first discovered in India,” says Osho while speaking about the origins of astrology and the relationship between the sun and the human body. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 5, Part 1 of 6.
“When you tell somebody to believe in something, you are creating a neurosis in him, you are creating a division,” states Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho comments on a beautiful parable in the Upanishads. “The deepest core of being is non-being. The foundation of isness is nothingness.” “Life and death are not two things but two wings – two wings of the same phenomenon.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“Anand Devopama, there is certainly a connection; the connection is simple. Sexual orgasms and laughter happen in the same way; their process is similar,” replies Osho.
Death is not a problem created by thinking; you cannot solve it by thinking. Whatsoever you think, how can you solve it? says Osho.
“If you believe in God, you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense,” states Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“Everything is joined to the cosmos,” states Osho on the subject of sun spots and related wars, disturbances, and diseases on our planet.
“Desire means rejection of something – desirelessness means acceptance – you are happy as things are. In fact, things are irrelevant, you are happy. You are happy, that’s the point.” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho talks on the topic of ‘Love’: “You cannot accept the idea that you are worth loving, that anybody can love you.”
Sannyas darshan of Veet Nisha, from Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast, Ch 27, dated 27 February 1978: “To open your eyes needs courage because you may have to see things that you never wanted to see in yourself.”
Osho answers a question by Vasumati. Osho says, “When unhappiness comes one welcomes it, when happiness comes one welcomes it, knowing that they are partners in the same game.”
“Always remember, the universe is unknowable, absolutely, because it is alive. Analysis kills,” states Osho.
“For thousands of years the human mind has believed that by going to a holy pool, to a river or to a pond, all will be good. You want to find cheap ways to get rid of all that you have been doing, you don’t want to take its responsibility on yourself,” states Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho speaks on war in Afghanistan and in particular on the Pakhtoon people, and about the role of the Americans and opening up of the then Soviet Union
Osho talks on ‘Intuition’: “There are many people who would like to be intuitive, who would like to find the inner guide, just to succeed in the world. For them the inner guide will be a frustration.”
Osho speaks about a letter written to Dale Carnegie and how Carnegie’s answer was transformed over and over again. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
A sannyasin says: I’m going back to pursue my study of astrology and to try to use it as a medium to communicate with people – not for its predictative qualities but just as a psychological tool…. in pointing out blocks and indicating how best we can use our energy.
Osho talks on the subject of ‘Children’: “…you have to learn from them because they are far more closer to God than you are.”
“If you are humble, the whole existence becomes a teacher to you,” says Osho commenting on a Sufi story. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
In darshan, Osho speaks to Prito: “One has to be two things: at the center, bliss, at the circumference, love; inside, bliss, outside, love.
Osho answers a question about symbols and speaks in particular about the relevance of bowing down before the cast of his feet.
Our beloved Master, I can’t remember when you last paused to look at your watch to decide whether to speak further or not. Does that mean we have been juicier to be with lately?
Our beloved master,
I imagined that our tendency to put ourselves down was a product of our conditioning, and something peculiar to modern man. But even in Rinzai’s time it appears that was the chief obstacle to self-realization too.
Can a society of unenlightened people exist only if everybody is made to feel inadequate?
Osho speaks about the mind being the disease, “If you bring your mind to reality you will see something which is not there.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho answers a question about why his disciples are vegetarians and also speaks about the life of peacocks and deer in Rajneeshpuram.
“Love is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary. And what is love? – do not do unto others that which you would not like to be done to you,” comments Osho on this anecdote. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
In a Hindi discourse, Osho answers a question by the late Om Prakash Saraswati after listening to the first discourse on the Gita of Ashtavakra: “These words are of the sky. These words come from the homeland, come from that from which source we all come, the source to which we must return.”
Osho talks on the topic of ‘trees’ and tells the story of the Taoist woodcutter: “Either man has to turn back and drop the Western aggressive attitude or man has to get ready to say goodbye to this planet. ”
“If you are intelligent you will see the futility of greed. If you are intelligent you will not miss today for tomorrow. You will not sacrifice this moment for another moment, you will live this moment in its totality,” states Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.