The bhikkhu who guards his mind
And fears the waywardness of his thoughts
Burns through every bond
With the fire of his vigilance
Aum purnamadah purnamidam purnat purnamudachyate purnasya purnamadaya purnameva vashisyate. Aum this is the cold. That is the cold. From coldness emerges coldness. Coldness coming from coldness, coldness still remains! This morning is really cold, hence the change of the meaning. I don’t stick to the words, I stick to the reality! Therefore,
Q: Meher Baba remained silent for the last forty-five years of his life. Please comment on its implications.
Meher Baba (25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969), born Merwan Sheriar Irani in Pune, India, to Zoroastrian parents.
Osho, It is really chilly again today. Would you please tell us a few jokes about Rajneesh sannyasins?
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…”
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.
Kashmiri saint and mystic poet Lal Ded (Mother Lalla), also known as Lalla or Lalleshwari (1320–1392), was born in Pandrethan (ancient Puranadhisthana) some four and a half miles to the southeast of Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.
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?
Beloved Master,
Just the other day, Suman and I went off to Los Angeles via Portland to buy rainbow clothes.
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, Could you speak to us on laughter, its meditative powers, its chemistry on the brain, its power of transformation and healing… Its relation to silence, the gap, clarity, vision…
“Nijinsky was a dancer, and perhaps the best dancer the world has ever known; his dance was almost magic. He was born to dance,” says Osho.
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,
The other day someone asked me where I came from before coming to Poona and I couldn’t remember.
A question asked by Don Lattin, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, USA, in Rajneeshpuram:
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.’
The third question: Organizations have always frightened me because I felt there is a built-in evilness, and maybe a necessary evil. The Rajneesh Foundation is an organization, and has every possibility of becoming a very powerful organization. Can you tell me why the foundation is necessary? Yes. Because evil is necessary. The fourth question… Osho,
Just look around, just observe people, and you will be surprised seeing the utterly insane state which is known as normal.
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.
Walter ‘Walt’ Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist.
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.”
Osho says:
“Animals should be loved, should be respected,
because somewhere at some time
they will also reach to the same consciousness as you.”
Psychologists say it is very difficult to find a man who has not thought at least four times in his life of committing suicide.
“If the world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throw away their arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.”
Nivedano… Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Look inwards, as deep as possible. It is your own space. At the very end you will find the empty heart. The empty heart is a door to eternity. It is a connection between you and existence. It is not something physical
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?