“In language it is always a problem to express things.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Let-go’; “When you totally accept something, in that very acceptance you have transformed its character.”
“When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen,” states Osho
“Although they were blind, they started finding that this man walks in a different way, talks in a different way, knows things that they don’t know. He says, ‘Now it is sunrise.’ He says, ‘Now the whole sky is full of stars’ – and those blind eyes could not see any star.”
“What calamity has happened to smell? There seems to be no reason why smell has been so suppressed. No culture anywhere has consciously suppressed it but it has become suppressed.”
“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Perfume’; “Each sense has two possibilities: if the energy falls …downwards, then it is sexual; if the energy rises upwards, then it is spiritual.”
“A cup of tea declares that the night is over, wake up! Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence. The universe has allowed you one day more – you cannot demand, it is a gift.”
Osho speaks on ‘Boxing’; “[The psychiatrist’s] whole expertise is how to put you back and make you normally mad.”
“…but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.” A short excerpt where Osho speaks on personality and individuality
“I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human. Here nobody is an emperor and nobody is a beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.”
Osho answers a question by Nitin Bharti; “You have to learn how to say yes with totality. That is trust, that is surrender, that is faith.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Music’; “If you are sitting by a waterfall just listen to the sound of the waterfall and become one with it.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Relating’; “Two lovers support something invisible and something immensely valuable: some poetry of being, some music heard in the deepest recesses of their existence.”
“Alexander the Great, or others of his category – are perhaps searching for something else, and are not aware of it. They are searching for greatness – but greatness does not come from acquiring an empire. Greatness comes from becoming your real self, bringing your potentiality to actualization.”
“The moment a synchronicity happens… between the heart of the man of the vertical and the heart of the man who is not yet vertical… you also start moving vertically.”
“You should be faithful only to love, not to the lover. Both should be faithful to love, as long as it lasts. If it lasts your whole life, good. If it does not last your whole life that is even better!”
“Not only Buddha, nobody has come down from the seventh heaven, ever. But a few people get obsessed, identified with their reflections.”
Osho speaks on ‘Decision’ in a darshan; “Whenever it is a question of choosing between the old and the new, always choose the new.”
“This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. This moment this cake is delicious.”
“Whenever you want to try to understand me, don’t bring in what I have said in the past; that is not going to help. The latest has to be taken into account.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Belief’; “There is turmoil within every believer and he is afraid, really afraid to come across something which may disturb his belief.”
“When your senses are unable to see… even then you are a witness. And to perceive the inner witness the senses are not needed.”
“Tantra says that the first thing is to be available to joy,” states Osho commenting on a sutra by Saraha
‘Freedom from’ is political… ‘Freedom for’ is artistic, creative, scientific. And ‘just freedom’ is religious.
Osho speaks on ‘Synchronicity’; “The whole scientific world is based on the causal relationship. Synchronicity has no place in it. But in human life everybody who is a little alert may have found it.”
Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Friendship’ by commenting on Pythagoras’ sutra: “Choose for thy friend, the friend of virtue; yield to his gentle counsels, profit by his life; and for a trifling grievance never leave him.”
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho
“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “You cannot achieve it directly. You have to grow rose bushes; when the roses arrive there will be fragrance automatically. Bliss is a fragrance of meditation.”
“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”
“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”
Osho speaks on ‘Leela’: “Life is a leela, it is a play, and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened… You are already that which you are trying to be.”
“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”
Jokes and the let-go meditation guided by Osho (with audio); “Just be a witness that you are not the body. Be a witness that you are not the mind. And finally, be a witness that you are only a witness, nothing else.”
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”