Osho speaks about plastic and its dangers to humanity and to the Earth.

“The time is ripe now for a great rebellion to destroy all these walls,” says Osho to Gyan Rasiko.

Osho states, “You cannot enter into the same river even once!”

“When you come to me and you love me, your love has shadows on it of your past experiences,” states Osho.

A letter by Osho to Krishna Saraswati, dated 1st April 1971.

“The presence of the master, his charisma, his energy is missing in the written word,” states Osho.

“Love and respect can sweetly help them to be more understanding about the world, can help them to be more alert, aware, careful,” says Osho.

“Nobody can be independent. If you try it, you are being stupid,” states Osho.

“Time is completely beyond discrimination. It is always pure now,” says Osho to Prem Dhyan.

“Two types of mad people have joined together: the politicians and the scientists,” declares Osho.

Beloved Osho, Will you give me a few more laws to come out of my confusion? 

“Intellectuals are profound archers – first they shoot the arrow and then they draw the target!” explains Osho.

What have you learned from being with us?

“Eastern psychology says that it is not the parents who decide your life. Really, you have chosen them,” states Osho.

“Whatever you have, you don’t recognize its value unless you lose it,” says Osho.

Osho states, “In science, in archery, in other arts, concentration may be of great use – but it is not meditation.”

Osho states: “There is no need to have boundaries of nations, because the earth has no boundaries.”

Osho states, “Man will become ugly.”

“Sometimes I wonder what I am doing here, teaching people to be enlightened,” says Osho.

Osho says, “Thinking and contemplation are both processes of the mind, but they are very different, even opposite.”

Osho says, “Freedom means tremendous responsibility; you are on your own and alone.”

“Democracy basically means government by the people… but the people are retarded. So let us say: government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded,” states Osho.

Before I leave the world I have to complete what I have started. I cannot leave my garden unfinished,” states Osho.

“…something will start happening. I may be thousands of miles away, that doesn’t matter.”

Osho states, “All your work is concerned with shifting your focus from the object to the subject.”

Osho responds to the question, “And why has there not been a Master before you in all the ages who has combined and synthesized all the teachings of past Buddhas?”

Beloved Osho,
Please tell us a few more Murphy sutras and a few Murphy anecdotes too.

Bodhidharma: “No action is holy, because every action arises out of the ego…”

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Osho speaks on ‘Death’; “Death is your home where you come after many many journeys…”

Osho on ‘ Creativity’; “Creativity is when you are not…”

“Your mind is hell. Going beyond your mind is heaven,” states Osho.

“The joy of having a vision, an insight into the future, is immense,” says Osho.

“What kind of home is this where people go on changing? It is a caravanserai. It is just an overnight stay, and then one has to go.”

“You have to catch hold of your inner light with your own awareness. Other than that there is no way,” says Osho.

“They can destroy your body, but they cannot destroy your spirit,” states Osho.

Osho asserts that “there is no need to fight society.”

“But only a man of deep surrender knows that god is our protector,” says Osho.

“The answer comes in a moment of relaxation,” states Osho.

Osho says in sannyas darshan: “‘Latifa’ means the subtle one.”

“An authentic person should live beyond good and evil,” states Osho.

Osho states, “I say unto you there is no evil, and there are no evil forces in the world.”

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Osho states, “I want to transform you from unconsciousness into consciousness.”

“Just sit by the stream of your mind. Don’t do anything; nothing is expected from you.”

Osho speaks on ‘Agony and Ecstasy’: “Agony means: I don’t know who I am…. Ecstasy is the flower of agony.”

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Osho states, “Life has to be lived without questions and without answers…”

“Surrender is only when even if you are right, you can give in,” explains Osho about work in the ashram.

Osho answers a question by Asheesh about what transforms one into a disciple.

Osho states, “And every age has always felt that it is passing through a very critical moment.”

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Osho speaks on the significance of a teddy bear for a child and also refers to the work of Donald Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971).

“Prayer is just your effort to persuade God to do things according to you… I am against prayer. I am for meditation,” says Osho.

“Mind is just a procession of thoughts passing in front of you on the screen of the brain,” states Osho.

“You need not worry; you do the best you can do with life… And everything else will follow on its own accord,” states Osho.

Osho speaks on ‘Tears’: “The heart has only one way to express itself, and that way is the way of tears.”

Osho on ‘Tantra’; “Real Tantra is not technique but love. Is not technique but prayer.”

Osho states, “Ask questions – not out of knowledge… Ask out of your ignorance.”

Osho says, “Beauty is the god of the poet, of the painter, of all creative artists.”