Osho replies in writing to the question: ‘Can one meditate on a formless entity? And if so, will the formless remain formless?’
“Pravira means one who is very courageous. And the greatest courage in life is to live totally, in spite of all the priests and all the people who want you not to be joyous, not to be living totally.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Friendship’ by commenting on Pythagoras’ sutra: “Choose for thy friend, the friend of virtue; yield to his gentle counsels, profit by his life; and for a trifling grievance never leave him.”
A handwritten note (𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟼-𝟼𝟽) by Osho, published in Naye Sanket, and translated in Wings of Love & Random Thoughts
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
“When the disciple touches the feet of the master, it is not only what you see, something else is happening.”
“The deepest core of being is non-being. The foundation of isness is nothingness. And when I say nothingness I don’t mean nothingness – I only mean no-thingness.”
“Wherever you go, you go with the idea of profit, achievement, success, attainment. If somebody has come here with this idea he should leave as soon as possible, run as fast as possible from me, because I cannot help you to become somebody.”
“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho
“If you love a man, meditation will be the best present that you can give to him. If you love a woman, then the Kohinoor is nothing; meditation will be a far more precious gift – and it will make your life sheer joy.”
“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”
“When I am talking about one way, I am that way. Don’t cling to my words, listen to the wordless message. And if it hits your heart, if it sings in your heart, then you have found your way.”
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
“For a real lover of challenges, success and failure mean nothing,” says Osho to a sannyasin in darshan
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “You cannot achieve it directly. You have to grow rose bushes; when the roses arrive there will be fragrance automatically. Bliss is a fragrance of meditation.”
“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”
“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”
Osho speaks on ‘Leela’: “Life is a leela, it is a play, and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened… You are already that which you are trying to be.”
“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”
Jokes and the let-go meditation guided by Osho (with audio); “Just be a witness that you are not the body. Be a witness that you are not the mind. And finally, be a witness that you are only a witness, nothing else.”
Osho states, “A destination is a very clear-cut thing; direction is very intuitive. A destination is something outside you, more like a thing. A direction is an inner feeling; not an object, but your very subjectivity…” (with audio)
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”
“Enlightenment certainly has no grades, but as time passes it deepens, sharpens, matures, becomes more and more rich.”
Two quotes by Osho on ‘Masks’; “When you come to a Master his work is to pull the mask away, to loosen the hold of the mask on you.”
“Consciousness is not the content. You are consciousness: thoughts come and go, you are the host. Thoughts are the guests – they come and stay for a while, take a little rest, or their food, or stay overnight, and then they are gone. You are always there.”
“The mind is very impotent in a way. It cannot give you any existential juice, any existential experience, and that is the only thing that matters,” comments Osho on this anecdote
“Somewhere a deep balance is needed. Just between the two, exactly between the two, is transcendence. “
“Dolphins are very loving animals, very playful, very joyous… If you are swimming, they will swim with you. If you are playing with them, they will play with you,” states Osho
“Share whatever you have gained… Your meditation is a preparation for a higher life, for a deeper life, for a more divine life. But you will have to be more loving and more compassionate…”
Osho speaks on ‘Balancing’: “Live life in all possible ways; don’t choose one thing against the other, and don’t try to be in the middle.”
“From the very beginning, everyone is a Buddha… This is the basic message of Zen – and the greatest message that has ever been delivered to man.”
“The twentieth century has brought mankind to such a peak, and his consciousness is now ready to evolve, to turn in a totally new direction,” states Osho
“Don’t try to change the circumstances of your life, try to change the psychology. Try to change your attitudes towards life, don’t try to change the outer situation. Use the outer situation and change the inner state.”
The let-go meditation, guided by Osho (with audio). “Gather your energies, your total consciousness. And with an intensity, rush towards the center of your being. A deep urgency is needed, as if this is going to be your last moment of life.”
“The moment you have accepted the night totally – and there is no seeking and hankering for the morning – the morning has come.”
“At the moment of sandhya kal you are nearest to God; therefore the Hindus have made use of this time for prayer.”
Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”
“Somebody throws [the responsibility] on God, somebody on karma, somebody on destiny, somebody on the I Ching, but people go on giving it to somebody else.”
Osho speaks on ‘ Awareness’. “Try to make this such a permanent state of awareness in you that whenever you start finding something wrong with the other, remember it.”
“Rare is the possibility of someone’s listening, and rarest is the possibility of someone understanding.”
Osho speaks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new program of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”