While having dental treatment, Osho speaks about traveling and having an allergy.
Osho speaks on acting and says, “If you take life as an acting, you will start moving towards spirituality.”
…shout, cry, jump, talk, babble, do whatever you please. Close the doors and observe your own madness in its entirety…” suggests Osho on ‘Anger’.
“I can die, but not life. You can die, you will die – but not the cosmos, not the existence,” states Osho.
Maneesha has asked:
Our beloved Master,
This unspeakable that you are trying to communicate to us, this ungraspable that we are trying to get – sometimes it seems profoundly mysterious, sometimes it seems embarrassingly obvious. Is it either of these – or both together?
One Zen monk is reported to have said – every morning of his life after his enlightenment, the first thing in the morning he would say was, “Osho!”
An excerpt of Osho’s answer to the question, Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? Why do you call yourself god?
Osho speaks about the constant effort to defeat the other at whatever the cost.
Osho says, “India is the only land in the whole world, strangely, which has devoted all its talents in a concentrated effort to see the truth and to be the truth.”
Osho declares that this earth is a big madhouse.
Osho states, “Religion is not something that one gets – one has it, nobody can give it to you. It is your very being.
“Power in the hands of ignorant, retarded crowds is self-destructive,” says Osho.
Osho talks on the subject of ‘Sannyas’: It “helps you to get rid of the non-essential … and meditation helps you to find the essential.”
Osho states, “We have completely forgotten our home.”
Osho questions at what point abortion becomes violence.
Osho speaks about the politics in declaring abortions illegal and at the same time preventing dying people from having a pleasant death.
Osho talks on ‘Trust’: “It is the highest form of love, it is the essential core of love. Love itself is a mystery and indefinable, but love is like a circumference and trust is its very center, its soul.”
In this excerpt, Osho speaks on the origins of the Aryans and the Sanskrit roots many languages have evolved from.
Osho states for the record that after a hundred years the prohibition of drugs in his commune will be thought anti-revolutionary.
Osho says people don’t see that they are poisoning the joy of the children and states that a human kind of education must be found in the world.
Osho on the subject of ‘Food’: “…there is a deep association between food and love; in fact food comes first and then love follows.”
Maneesha has asked:
Our beloved Master,
Those diamond thunderbolts you hurtle around you when you dance with us each evening – at the rate we’re going, someone could be knocked conscious!
But please, don’t stop!
A quote by Osho.
A symbol of triumph of good over evil, Holi marks the onset of spring. This year, the festival of colours will be celebrated on March 20 and March 21. A quote by Osho.
Answering a question about a connection between Buddha and him because both of them having been poisoned, Osho states: “The poisoning has been a great purification for me. This purification makes me receptive to the wandering soul of Gautam Buddha.”
Osho states, “Love is enough unto itself – it needs no salesmanship. It doesn’t need anybody to persuade, to convince; it is enough, it is a fire.”
Osho states, “How should the crippled be prevented from destroying the dancers?”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Authentic Art’: “True art means: if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration; if it makes you dance … if it becomes a bridge between you and God — that is true art.”
Osho states, “The whole world is trying to fulfill the non-essential.”
When the Master is alive, when he is living, when the truth is breathing, then it is a cult - it has to be condemned. And when the Master is dead... And with the Master's death the truth disappears, because truth needs an embodiment. It is an experience; it has to exist in the person
Osho answers a seeker’s question about how can there be any generalizations about the qualities of man and woman.
Buddhists believe that the body is made of four elements, states Osho.
Osho speaks on the topic ‘Responsibility’: “To be conscious means to take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders. To be responsible is the beginning of buddhahood.”
Osho declares “the greatest enemy today is science.”
Beloved Master,
A few people are feeling not to wear their malas or red clothes, but they consider themselves Rajneeshees and want to live here. How does this fit your vision?
Osho talks on the topic of ‘Zen Masters’: “Only in the absence of all activity, when you are relaxed to your very being, the door opens to all the mysteries of the world, all the miracles of existence.”
Osho states, “… if there is even a little bit of intelligence in America then it is time to stop now; otherwise, the country is going to have the same fate as that of Rome and Roman civilization.
Osho on the topic of ‘Art’: “…the extraordinary comes only through egolessness.”
Revolution is possible only in the individual soul, states Osho.
Nothing has happened
And nothing will happen.
What is there, is there.
Osho says, “I am here only for the seekers, not for the mob.”
Osho on the subject of ‘Laughter’: “If you go into a total laughter people think it is hysterical. It is not, it is historical!”
Osho speaks on a very meaningful parable by Chuang Tzu, and in particular about the phrase ‘the phoenix that never grows old’.
Osho talks on ‘Listening / Hearing’: “Listening is all that meditation is about – how to listen to that which is already there.”
Osho says, “The seed is immortal, it cannot die.”
In this particular excerpt from a discourse, Osho speaks about Gertrude Stein’s final moments before dying, when “she flowered in this koan.”
Osho speaks on ‘Happiness’: “…happiness and unhappiness are your moods and don’t depend on the outside.”
In meditation the mind unclutters, experiences are digested, and the overload disappears, leaving the mind fresh and young and clear and clean, states Osho.
A love letter from Bhagwan (Osho) to Vivek (Nirvano) from 1971.
Our beloved Master,
When you say each evening during the meditation, “Go in, go deeper and deeper like an arrow to your center,” is it that there is actually nowhere to go and nothing to do because we are already in?