“If you cannot reach, don’t try to console yourself!”
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)
Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”
Beloved Osho, I don’t really have a question to ask you — everything is very good. Only one thing is confusing me a little. You have often spoken about the “chosen few.” Please, who is doing the choosing?
In darshan, Osho speaks to the participants of the Arica group, asking them about their experiences. One of them is Bob, a film producer, who becomes Swami Prem Samvada.
“Do something that comes out of you – not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be,” says Osho.
Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’: “It does not divide. It unites, it brings things together; it creates a togetherness in the world.”
Osho comments on a Zen story: “This is the way of Zen. It is the most unique phenomenon in the whole world of religions.”
“My definition of ‘being holy’ is nothing but to be whole – capacity to come into the world and yet remain above it, beyond it; capacity to use the mind but yet remain centered in your being.”
“A real painting is not just the sum total of the colors, it is more – and that “more” is the meaning,” says Osho.
“No analyst, nobody from the outside, can interpret, because each individual dreams in his own way.”
Osho talks in discourse to his disciples about a friend who is dying, Vipassana, and how to welcome death.
Osho, how to be creative while doing jobs which seem not to leave any space for creativity, like cleaning etc?
“A religious person will be festive each moment. His every breath is an expression of gratitude and benediction.”
“Hearing Zen, reading Zen is not going to give you Zen. Zen is a quality that you have to attain to.”
“In the search for the first principle silence is the door – the only door,” comments Osho on this sutra.
Osho speaks on ‘Burning’: “…unless you are ready to burn your false self, there is not going to be any real revolution in the world.”
Osho talks in a darshan to a sannyasin; “Love is… very delicate. One has to be very very careful and cautious about it.”
The Ten Grounds of the Way: Accepting the call of the beyond, centering, sagely intelligence. (part 4)
The Ten Grounds of the Way: “How do you measure the length of a man’s life?” The monk answered: “By the breath.” (part 2)
“Now years of listening to me, understanding me, you are in a position to be freed from all outer bondage.”