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.
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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.”
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Q: When I heard you say that you wanted a hundred of us enlightened as soon as possible, I wondered why a hundred?
Q: You made me altogether confused and lethargic. I am like mad. At the moment I feel no trust even. Now tell me what should I do? Where should I go?
Q: Osho, why is it that one becomes so attached to the physical peculiarities of a master: his beauty, his gentleness, his language, his mispronunciation – so that alongside the awe and respect he inspires there grows such a feeling of tenderness and familiarity? If this is a device I want to be caught by it forever.
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be frozen. Gather your consciousness inwards, deeper and deeper…. This silence, this peace, this blissfulness discovers the buddha within you. For these few moments you are a buddha and it is up to you, if you can remember – then you
“Artificial intelligence can do scientific work, mathematical work, calculation – great calculation and very quick and very efficiently, because it is a machine. But a machine cannot be aware of what it is doing.”
Q: Osho, are you really crazy? How can I be crazy? I have no mind out of which to go. Osho, The First Principle, Ch 10, Q 4
The concept of the successor is bureaucratic. The very idea of succession is not the right idea in the world of consciousness. That’s why I have said, I will not have successors. But you are right in saying that you will carry in your bones and in your blood my love, my insight. But don’t
Osho, I am afraid of death, yet at the same time it has an incredible attraction for me. What does it mean?
I have heard, a man in an orange robe entered the Vrindavan juice bar, barged up to the front of the line, and demanded tea and cake.
In the East much has been worked out, much has been done to understand the ego, much probing has been done.
The whole of existence,
The birds, beasts, flowers and air call for our stillness,
Our meditation.
All except one small insect,
This winged parasite
This buzzing disturber
This mosquito.
Is he the devil?
Osho always favours vegetarianism; we show here the only time we heard him contradict this and the reasons for it.
My whole message is: Accept the you that you are, because God accepts it. God respects it, and you have not respected your being yet. Be immensely happy that God has chosen you to be, that God has chosen you to exist, to see his world, to listen to his music, to see his stars,
You were just talking about food, and now in the West food is a big cult. It’s one of the things coming in as a basis of spirituality.