Q: Osho, I have got all the degrees that a university can offer. Why am I still ignorant?
America is in the grip of a very monstrous regime, and naturally they became afraid of a small commune that could become a model and people could become attracted to it. They were not so much afraid of Soviet Russia – it is so far away. We were amidst them. And their fear is natural.
Hazrat Rabi’a al-Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya (714 – 801 CE) also known as Rabi’ah al-Basri is considered to be the first female Sufi Saint of Islam, the first in a long line of female Sufi mystics. She was born and lived most of her life in Basra, a seaport in southern Iraq. Rabia was born into a
“Many individuals who take birth and attain higher consciousness on this earth, have to seek birth on other planets,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Just as a tree leaves seeds behind before dying, similarly the body too leaves behind seeds before it meets death.”
Beloved Osho, A few months ago my friend and I were visiting his dying father. Lots of people were around. His body was about finished.
Q: You have defined yourself as the rich man’s guru. Don’t the other people interest you? Are the rich particularly in need of a guru? Or are you their guru because they have money?
What do you call freedom? – mostly the political, the economic, the outside freedom, which is not in your hands, which has been given to you.
Osho speaks on hypnosis and its use for childbirth and the ecstasy which can be experienced while giving birth.
“A man of awareness does not need anybody else to tell him what to do, what not to do,” states Osho.
Meditation is not a solution of any problem in particular; it solves nothing. It simply helps you to get rid of the mind, the problem-creator. It simply helps you to slip out of the mind as a snake slips out of the old skin. Once you know you are not the mind the great transcendence
This always happens: when I say something, I create two groups of people around me. One group will be exoteric. They will organize, they will do many things concerned with society, with the world that is without; they will help preserve whatsoever I am saying. The other group will be more concerned with the inner
Q: I have heard that you sometimes make up questions to fit your jokes. Is this so? Please be truthful!
Osho speaks to a small group of people during dental sessions on a variety of ancient, old and contemporary books.
Osho speaks on Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980).
A sannyasin says he is trying to live up to his new name: Now I feel very happy and hope I am strong enough to do it in Germany.
I have been observing that whenever press people come to the ashram they are always looking for something negative – sex, money, etcetera, etcetera. Can’t they see what is happening here?
Osho speaks about David Yallop’s book, which uncovered Vatican conspiracies and the mystery surrounding Pope John Paul’s sudden death.
There are animals who are crying out to be freed from their forms. It happened at a camp in Matheran. I was staying very far away from the campus ground. The first evening, when I was going to my bungalow, a dog followed – really a rare dog. Then the dog remained continuously. Three times
“Enlightenment is the open sky of insecurity. It is vastness, it is uncharted ocean. The journey is from one unknown to another unknown,” declares Osho.
A sannyasin says: With people I am not very close to, it’s easy to make conversation. But with people I am closer to, there is nothing to say. And I don’t feel very comfortable with it. It is as though something is missing.
When Gautama the Buddha Auditorium becomes too small to contain all the seekers coming to Poona, our Beloved Master goes on a tour of the universe looking for a new site.
With the old, there is a guarantee. Millions and millions of people have followed it, how can so many people be wrong? That is the guarantee. If so many people say it is right, it must be right. In fact the logic of life is just the opposite. If so many people are following a
Answering a question by Vachana, Osho speaks on understanding purposelessness and never having been out of the home
Nivedano … (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano … (Drumbeat) Be silent … Close your eyes … No movement of the body. Let your whole consciousness gather inwards. Deeper and deeper … You are entering into your buddhahood. Without any fear go in, it is your own home. Except knowing this, all knowledge is useless. Except experiencing this
The question is from Gayatri. It is not only you, Gayatri, who is continuously daydreaming; everybody is doing that. Human mind as such is a daydreaming faculty. Unless you go beyond the mind, you will continue to daydream. Because the mind cannot exist in the present. It can either exist in the past or in
You may be the last generation which has the possibility to rebel. And if you don’t rebel, there may be no more chances: humanity can be reduced to a robotlike existence. So rebel while there is still time! Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Ch 4, Q 1