“When you come close to a real Master, he gives you the taste of fearlessness.”
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.”
“You will think, ‘What has it to do with spirituality?’ It has much to do with spirituality. You have to create a peaceful surrounding – only then can you fall into meditation. You have to create an atmosphere, an energy field – only then can you go inwards.”
“Pythagoras’ sutras are divided into three parts; they are known as the three famous P’s of Pythagoras.”
“I feel a very deep spiritual affinity with Pythagoras. I am also bringing you a synthesis of East and West, of science and religion, of intellect and intuition, of the male mind and the female mind, of the head and the heart, of the right and the left.”
“Just say something and it happens. You just say to the mind, ‘Enough – now you be the servant, because you are the servant.’ And, I say, it is just that simple.”
Osho on ‘ Availability’; “You will be far more complete if Jesus, Krishna, Mohammed, Moses, Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Ko Hsuan, Kabir, Bahauddin, all become part of your inner being.”
“Whatsoever it is, just be herenow – and a tremendous revelation is waiting for you. The revelation is that nobody can be unhappy in the herenow.”
Osho speaks on ‘Children’; “Once a child comes to know that his parents are untrue, his whole trust is lost.”
Osho speaks on ‘Midwife’; “I can help, I can protect, I can guide, that’s all. The actual phenomenon, the transformation, is going to happen to you.”
‘If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him immediately!’ – What about you? How do I both love you and kill you?’
“It is the process of reabsorbing back to the cause, bringing effect back to the cause; the process of involution.”
“When you come closer to yourself you come closer to me because in the innermost being the centre is one.”
Osho speaks on Dogen. This is the sutra that troubled him to the very core of his being: ‘All human beings are endowed with the buddha-nature’.
“If you ask all the great minds they will say that whatsoever they have attained has come from beyond the mind, not from the mind.”
During a group darshan, Anand Deva, a physicist from Canada, speaks to Osho about his experiences in the group with astral projection.
“Reaction is out of the past. If you react, out of old habits, out of mind, then you are not responding. To be responsive is to be totally alive in this moment, here-now.”
Osho speaks on Prince Charles; “The new man will find his living god in the trees, in the birds, in the rivers, in the ocean, in the mountains, in the stars. He will transform the whole universe into his temple.”
Beloved Osho, It seems that masters have always been betrayed by their chief disciple. The same has happened to you, with those to whom you have given so much love and attention, and on whom you have worked so hard.
“One day or other you will come to the wide river where… all is taken… and you are left totally alone, with no possessions.”
Osho speaks on ‘Religion’; ” All religious people are explorers, all religious people are adventurers.”
“The moment you don’t know, intimacy arises between you and reality, a great friendship arises. It becomes a love affair.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 4)
“Whenever knowledge is not needed, put it aside and drown yourself into a state of not knowing – which is also a state of knowing, real knowing.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 3)
“By clinging to the fingers you will not see the moon, remember. There are even greater fools who start biting the fingers… Forget the finger and look at where it is pointing.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 2)
“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”
“The future of humanity will go closer and closer to the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.” (Ah This! Ch 1, part 1)