The politician is not interested in children’s intelligence, because leaders are leaders only because people are stupid. Just think: if this country were intelligent, can you believe a man like Morarji Desai would be the Prime Minister of the country? It would be impossible. It is ridiculous! But people are so stupid; they will find
A politician was very much in love with his dog. One day he went to the market to buy some dog biscuits. He entered a shop and shouted, “Have you got biscuits for dogs?” The shopkeeper calmly replied, “Do you want to eat them here or do you want to take them home?” Politicians fight
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.
In my childhood I used to love swimming, and my village river becomes very dangerous in rainy season, it becomes flooded.
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.”
Now is my time. I don’t think anybody has spoken in a dentist’s chair. I feel privileged. I see buddhas envious of me.
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.
“This is the reason why man is not meditative: The whole society forces him to be in a state of mind, not in a state of meditation.”
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?
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, and philosopher.
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.