The clock represents the mind – and not just literally, not just as a metaphor; mind is time, states Osho.
“Man… never makes any effort, even in finding one very fundamental thing: who he is, from where he comes, and what is his destiny, where he is going,” states Osho.
Osho says, “To be encrusted in gold and to die are one and the same thing… The greater the wealth you want to achieve the more dead you have to be…. All heights are suicidal!”
“The rebel is in a state of tremendous love with freedom – total freedom, nothing less than that,” states Osho.
“An upanishad is a mystery school. And we are entering into an upanishad today,” declares Osho on August 16, 1986.
Osho says, “The ego thinks it can do everything. It lives with this fallacy. The part lives with the fallacy that it is the whole.”
Osho says, “When the society is in a turmoil and everything is in crisis, a chaos pervades – this is the moment, if you want, you can escape from the prison.”
From a discourse by Osho on Sufism: “If you have known love you have known death, if you have known meditation you have known death.”
Osho states, “The whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism – hence it is so beautiful.”
Osho on Hypocrisy: “Once you recognize that you are wearing a mask, the mask has already started slipping…”
Osho says, “…words can’t convey that which I am and I have to go on trying to do something which is not possible.”
“We have succeeded only in creating a hypocrite world. It is not civilized, it is not cultured,” states Osho.
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
Osho speaks on ‘Listening’; “My success is to give you a real taste so that you can become confident that meditation is not a fiction.”
“Just as you enter beyond enlightenment into nothingness, there must be a possibility of coming out of nothingness back into form, back into existence – renewed, refreshed, luminous – on a totally different plane,” says Osho.
Zarathustra has said, “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. He is a bridge and you should not make your house on the bridge…”
Osho answers Yoga Anurag’s question: According to what I have been hearing you say, the title of this series, Theologia Mystica, seems to be a contradiction in terms.
David came to darshan some weeks ago. A friend of the English novelist, Pankaja, David is a potter, and at his first darshan told Bhagwan that he has been involved in Subud, writes Maneesha.
Osho speaks about the process of a conscious death and nature’s indication to become aware that death is approaching.
:…life itself is rooted in freedom. We are not machines, we are not pre-programmed, we are utter freedoms.” Osho is quoted on the subject of ‘Freedom’.
“[It] is a common experience in medical colleges that the kind of sickness the students are learning about … starts happening to many students,” states Osho.
Osho states, “The whole function of the Master is just to bring you home – which you had never left in the first place.”
“This false ego which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear,” states Osho.
In a Press Interview, Osho speaks to journalists sent by the Punjab Kesari, a Hindi newspaper, who had asked him about his health. Osho mentions his time during the twelve days he has spent in US jails.
Osho on Chekhov’s story: “To say no to anything is very easy… To be positive, to say yes, is very difficult.”
Osho on ‘ Hypnosis’: “If you become aware, you can use it; not to hypnotize others, but to de-hypnotize yourself. And if you can become completely de-hypnotized, you are free, you are liberated.”
“Now, before we enter into our daily meditation… just to drop all burdens, all the worries of the world, and have a few good laughs,” says Osho.
Osho speaks on two occasions during discourse about meeting with Bodhidharma in an incarnation about 1400 years ago.
Rinzai said, “That which can be heard will not be essential. I have given you the key; silence is the key…”
Osho’s letter to Krishna Saraswati, 18 February 1971 – with a Sufi story. English translation by Ma Priyanshi.
Osho states, “Ego is a false notion of something which is not there at all. ‘Self’ means a center which can promise. This center is created by being continuously aware, constantly aware.”