A short quote from
Osho, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language, Ch 4, Q 2
Osho speaks on 10 mystics and their legacy – some of them in book form such as the Shiva Sutras, Light on the Path, and Guru Grantha Sahib,.
Ignatius of Loyola (23 October 1491 – July 31, 1556) was born to a family of minor nobility in northern Spain.
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.
Ninety-nine percent of people start meditating because meditation is talked about. There are times when it becomes fashionable.
There are stories about cultures reaching to the peak. But those that reached the ultimate height eventually had to go underground.
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.
“Ego always thinks of softness as weakness. That’s why women have been thought down the ages to be the weaker sex,” states Osho in a darshan.
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.
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was born in Prague, then part of Bohemia and of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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.
A letter from Seeds of Wisdom: “The night has not yet given way to the dawn, and the sky is still studded with departing stars.”