Osho comments on a parable found on the back of Bob Dylan’s album, John Wesley Harding, From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Modern psychology has discovered a few things which are significant; although they have been discovered only intellectually, still it is a good beginning.
“All asking is unnecessary, because whatsoever answer I give to you is really there inside you. I only make it apparent. I help it to surface in you,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Deva Ashoka wrote the introduction to the darshan diary ‘The Open Door’. He elaborates on the two Bhagwans he perceives, the one who speaks in discourse and the other, in darshan.
“All civilizations live through beliefs and faith,” explains Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 9 of 9.
“The mind is very cunning. Everybody’s mind is the mind of the Jew. ‘Jew’ is not a race; it is the innermost core of all minds,” says Osho about this ‘joke’. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“It is not a question of following me; the real question is of following your own light,” says Osho.
Osho talks about Italians, and Indians, “I must have been an Italian; otherwise whatsoever I am now today would not have been possible.”
“The final thing to be understood about the tirtha is the value of symbolic acts,” explains Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 8 of 9.
The Japanese Master Nan-In (1868-1912) gave audience to a professor of philosophy. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho speaks to a sannyasin about the meaning of his new name and the human soul’s suffering and longing to go back to god.
Almost every person is split – for such silly and stupid things you cannot believe. You will not allow a saint just a little bit of smoking?
“There is one other thing to be understood. Ordinarily we have the illusion that we are all separate individuals. This is a wrong belief,” declares Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 7 of 9.
“If you ever want to get out of the mind – and without it there is no possibility of your inner growth – then, ‘Judge ye not,'” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
An Enlightenment Day Celebration in Bhagwan’s silent presence held in Pune 1. The following are quotes on the occasion of the celebration – and a song.
Osho, Why is hugging such an incredibly effective therapeutic tool? P.S. I used to think that clarity, wit and analysis was the way, but they are all garbage alongside hugging.
“Simple means no inferiority, no superiority… one simply is – no comparison,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“The pyramids of Egypt are tirthas of some old, lost civilization. One interesting fact about the pyramids is that there is complete darkness inside,” says Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 6 of 9.
“Your saints cannot be innocents because their goodness is forced too much; their goodness is already ugly. Their goodness is managed, controlled, cultivated, it is not innocent,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho speaks on the impact of television and computers in modern life, asserting that computers can destroy people’s memory systems.
“Hindus and Jainas have separate keys; the former work with water, the latter with fire,” states Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 5 of 9.
Osho speaks on the topic: Surrender. “The buddha is a mirror: when you bow down you see your original face reflected in the buddha.”
“Remember that your understanding is shown in every way, and if you watch correctly, your very watchfulness will take you to a further step.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho explains that each pilgrimage has its own key – no wrong person should reach the authentic place, but the right person will always find it. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 4 of 9.
“The real location of places for pilgrimage are often hidden or obscured,” says Osho. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 3 of 9.
Osho talks on the topic: Commune. “I would like to create a chain of communes all around the world…”
“Turn each opportunity of life into meditation. Do it fully aware, alert, watchful, witnessing,” says Osho while commenting on Zen master Ikkyu’s question. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho continues to explain the alchemical secrets of places of holy pilgrimage, here with reference to the tirthankaras. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 2 of 9. “A tirthankara is a greater phenomenon than an incarnation.”
Samudaya’s sannyas darshan. “Sat means being, samudaya means arising. Up to now you have lived as a becoming, as a desire: doing this, doing that, trying for this, trying for that. You have never given yourself any rest in being.”
“That’s how the ego exists. We magnify our virtues, we magnify our sins, we magnify everything,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“These people who are in power are almost on the brink of destroying the world, rather than lose their power. “
Osho speaks about the alchemical secrets of places of holy pilgrimage. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 1 of 9 – “A tirtha, a sacred place of pilgrimage, is a unique invention, very deep and symbolic, made by an ancient civilization.”
Q: Osho, when I dropped my job as a political reporter in order to come to Poona, some of my friends who are engaged in the struggle against atomic war, atomic power, destruction of the environment, the dismantling of democratic freedoms, etcetera, called me an escapist. Sometimes I wonder if they are right. Are they?
“Why are you searching outside for the bliss that you have lost within?” asks Rabia about whom Osho says, “Rabia al-Adawiyya is one of the rarest women in the whole human history.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho speaks about the Nadabrahma meditation in a darshan, “Let the body get drunk, let the mind get drunk, let them fall into a deep love-affair with each other, and you slip out of it.”
Osho declares him as one of the Western minds who has come very close to the Eastern way of looking at things.
“You cannot hoard flowers, that is one of the most beautiful things about flowers,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Beloved Osho, There are sannyasins living all over the world who feel a deep connection with you. However, on celebration days there is always that longing to be in your silent presence in Buddha Hall.
Osho has spoken many times lovingly about Dr. S.K. Saxena, one of his professors at the University of Jabalpur during the 1950s.
Osho says: “The problem is that, because you have repressed your tears of sadness, misery, pain — when you are joyful, rejoicing, then too your old repression continues; you go on holding your tears.”
Q: Looking at myself and others here, is it possible there have been others like us – such as Buddha’s disciples? Were they amazed and did they find themselves laughing at how greedy, cunning, inept they appeared and how absolutely unlike what they thought a sannyasin to be – or do we take the cake?
In view that Osho Chairs are now being established, we are publishing a discourse Osho gave on December 23, 1967 in Lonavala, India.