Why do we wear one hundred and eight beads on our malas? Does this belong to the world of ritualistic religion?
Osho talks on ‘Full Moon’, “Many people who have become buddhas have attained their enlightenment on the full-moon night, even Buddha himself.”
Katsue Ishida aka Ma Gyan Sharno (194? – 2.4.2015) was a Japanese mystic and seeress.
Beloved Buddha, Once, after Daiji had become an enlightened master, he said to his monks, “I’m not going to explain any more debates; you know, it’s just a disease.” At this, a monk stood up from the assembly and came forward; Daiji went back to his room. On another occasion, when Daiji was sweeping the
Beloved Osho,
Many contemporaries and enlightened ones – Raman Maharshi, Meher Baba, George Gurdjieff and J. Krishnamurti – have worked with people, but people get more offended by you than by anybody else.
The world headquarters will be publishing my books, will be releasing my tapes, videotapes, will be doing every kind of work. But it has no domination over anybody. All communes of the world are independent. All centers of the world are absolutely free. They are under nobody’s guidance. My sannyasins are directly related to me.
Maybe not today but some time in the future, when man will be able to understand, he will come to know this truth.
Osho speaks on 11 books, among them Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidharma and In Search of the Miraculous.
A sannyasin, who is a dancer, says: Since I came to Poona I have been sick four times. There is no desire to do any activities. I thought I was going into a more devotional path but now I think I can go into meditation.
Osho, I laughed at everything you said the other day until you said that Mahavira smelt. I felt personally offended. It hurt.
I am going to say whatsoever I feel is the truth, and every day I will go on sharpening the truth. I have spoken so much for all kinds of people – three hundred books are there. Now I have to create three hundred more books to get rid of all that I have said!
It is the whole idea of private property that has created the father, that has created the family, that has created the ownership of the woman by the man.
Q: A couple of years ago, you talked about the world coming to an end – earthquakes, floods and wars and things. Is that still happening? Do you still see that coming to happen?
I am existing here in a very alien and strange world. I would like to give you many things but I cannot, because you yourself will resist. I would like to make you aware of many things in your being, but you will be against me. I have to go very slowly, I have to
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet.
Osho talks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new programme of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”
“When you feel that your menstruation is coming, try to watch, try to see what it is bringing along with it,” says Osho.
Aristotle (ca. 384 BCE – 322 BCE), together with Socrates and Plato, laid much of the groundwork for western philosophy.