In your lectures you talk about Gurdjieff, Ramana, Ramakrishna, Basho, and others who are physically not alive, but why don’t you talk about the enlightened persons who are physically alive today? The question is from Swami Yoga Chinmaya. He has the knack of asking foolish questions. Now, if there is some enlightened person alive, he
There was a little polar bear who asked his mother, ” Was my daddy also a polar bear?” “Of course your daddy was a polar bear.” “But,” goes on the little one after a while, “Mommy, just tell me, was my grandfather also a polar bear?” “Yes, he was also a polar bear.” Time goes
“Rape is one of the problems which is not so easy to decide and judge; there are so many complexities,” says Osho.
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes… and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to enter into your inner world. Gather all your energy, your total consciousness, and rush towards the center of your being. It is exactly two inches below your navel, inside. A great
Q: I got so excited today when you dropped Mahavira, Buddha and Jesus in the wastepaper basket. It was like a breath of mountain air. You gave us a glimpse of yourself that was so intimate and so mischievous. Would you like to play Puck in our next production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream?’
A woman never tells the truth about her age. I have told you that even on the point of a loaded gun you may perhaps become enlightened, but a woman will not reveal her age.
Beloved Osho, My whole being bows to your feet, but it is very difficult for me to take my eyes from your beautiful, radiant being, when you greet us coming and going in the morning. Am I missing by peeking? Is this attachment to your physical presence and form something that has to be transcended?
This crisis in human consciousness is of great importance, great import. Either man is to disappear from the earth or man will have a totally new being, a new birth. And my work here consists of giving a new birth to human consciousness. Osho, The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao, Ch 11
Q: You are the best killer, Osho. One year with you and slowly your poison is working in my mind. Whatever I pretend to be looks ugly and dirty; everything is in a turmoil. But now, in such a great confusion, how to find a small door for the divine to enter.
This is the third of three excerpts from a discourse by Osho about right diet, right labor and right sleep:
Q: Please will you explain to me what “the way of religion” means? I have always been so strongly against religion that I cannot imagine what it means. But, anyhow, I suppose it is the way of total aloneness. And this makes me a little uneasy. Since you gave me sannyas, I feel like I
Continuation from A Tremendous Poona Fiction Story The questioner has asked: “What do you mean by ‘the way of religion’? I have always been so strongly against religion that I cannot imagine what it means.” True. If you are against religion, how can you understand it? If you are FOR religion, then too you cannot understand
I am not here to fulfill your expectations. If I fulfill your expectations I will never be able to transform you. I am here to destroy all your expectations; I am here to shock you. And in those shocking experiences your mind will stop. You will not be able to figure it out: and that
“The buddha is nothing but a door into eternity,
into godliness, into the divine existence,” says Osho.
Q: If I could ask you a question about your past: you spent a year – when you were a student in India – mad; in which you couldn’t formulate a sentence, and you lost your perspective. Is that the time that you were looking for that door?
Humanity is dying. All that is human is disappearing, and all that is inhuman is becoming more and more dominating and powerful. Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Ch 24, Q 1
We are carrying incredible worlds within our souls, and we are not aware of them. We have the seeds of incredible experiences of love, ecstasy, but we have never allowed them to explode over our being, we have never allowed them to pulsate us. The whole effort here is to make you able to pulsate,
In this discourse, Osho speaks also about the meaning of the ’tilak’ or ‘tika’, Edgar Cayce, and that atomic energy was known and used already by the ancients.
With thanks to Zen Gardner for these exquisite photos, showing the miraculous beauty of nature reflected in tiny raindrops…
Q: What exactly do you do in the bathroom for three hours a day? Or should we not discuss that on videotape?
We are not going to live forever. As far as any individual is concerned, he is going to die. And when you die, what does it matter whether the society goes on living or not? For you, the moment you close your eyes everything is finished: the third world war has happened. I have
This is the second of three excerpts from a discourse by Osho about right diet, right labor and right sleep:
Nivedano … (Drumbeat) Be silent … Close your eyes … and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to enter in your inner world. You have to reach just below your navel, two inches exactly below, inside. Gather your energy and total consciousness, and rush with a deep urgency as
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes, and feel your body to be completely frozen. Look inwards with absolute urgency. Deeper and deeper, until you reach the source of your very being. It is very close – just one step and you are the buddha. Such a beautiful evening, and the dancing
Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone. Yes, you will feel fear, you will feel a certain trembling, you will feel all is lost; but this is just
Sugit (Japan) sent us this footage of a few moments in the life of mother duck and her ducklings. Which led us to Osho and consciousness and his observation on swans, peacocks and ducks.
Nivedano … (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano … (Drumbeat) Be silent … Close your eyes … and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to look inwards. You have to reach to the very center of your being. Gather your life energy and rush towards the center with total consciousness and an
This is the first of three excerpts from a discourse by Osho about right diet, right labor and right sleep.
I am reminded of a beautiful story; it is so beautiful that one wants…. It would have been good if it was true too; but it is very close to truth.
Nivedano … (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) (Drumbeat) Nivedano … (Drumbeat) Be silent … Close your eyes … and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to look inwards. Gather all your life energy, your total consciousness, and rush towards the center of your being with an urgency as if it is going
Q: Is the earth hollow? Is there an advanced civilization living there? Is there a sun at the center? Do these beings make periodic journeys through tunnels to specific places and tell the secrets? Is that where UFO’s come from?
Okay, Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inward with tremendous urgency as if this is the last moment of your life. Only with this urgency can you reach to the source of your life. And at the source of your life you are
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be frozen. Look inwards with absolute urgency, as if this is the moment of life and death. Without a total urgency, you cannot reach to the innermost center of your being. Remember, there may be no other time; this may be