“Everybody has made a palace of the ego. Everybody is too full of it.”
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?’
“When you come closer to yourself you come closer to me because in the innermost being the centre is one.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”
Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”
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.
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.”
“If it is the bus terminus, why should you worry? How can you miss it? There is no way of missing it!”
Angulimala “had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people, not less than that, because the society had not treated him well.”
“If we see changes in the situation we change immediately, as if we have no integrated soul, no crystallized soul.”
Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’
Osho comments: “If there is such test, such totality of trust, time is not needed. If there is no trust, then even three lives are not enough.”