“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.”
“You have everything that you need. God never sends anybody as a beggar into the world.”
“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.”
“Man is always pretending that which he is not; that’s a way of hiding oneself.”
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.”
Osho speaks on ‘Breath’; “If you are not breathing fully, you cannot live fully.”
“If you can understand this only then can you understand other things that I have to say.”
“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.”
Osho speaks on ‘Money’; “Live the moment, drop the future, and money loses its glamor.”
“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.”
“If you cannot reach, don’t try to console yourself!”
“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.”
“A promise is possible only if tomorrow is certain. But who knows anything about tomorrow?”
“All talk is to prepare you for silence, and only in silence can the truth be given.”
“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”
Osho speaks on ‘Addiction’.
“This moment life is there – live it!”
“We are greedy. We live through greed…”
Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”
“Whenever the union is found, God is found.”
“What can you ask for? [God] has already given all that can ever be received by you.”
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.”
Osho remembers his birthplace, Kuchwada.
“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 speaks on ‘Anger’: “You can simply take five deep breaths and see where your anger has gone.”
“Mastership arises only when you learn slowly, slowly to dissolve into existence,” states 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.”
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “The search for truth is ultimately the search for bliss.”
“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.”
“Two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful.”
“You are Buddhas, pretending not to be, pretending to be somebody else.”
Osho speaks on ‘Buddhahood’; “To be responsible is the beginning of buddhahood.”
Osho comments on ‘The thinker is creative with his thoughts.’
“To be alive is the way, to be conscious is the way.”
Osho on ‘Breath’; “Breath is the bridge between your soul and your body.”
“If it is the bus terminus, why should you worry? How can you miss it? There is no way of missing it!”
Osho speaks in discourse the day Anand Maitreya left his body, 17 July 1987.
Angulimala “had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people, not less than that, because the society had not treated him well.”
Osho says, “Open the cage and fly across the sun into the blue sky and disappear.”
“One of the most famous Zen stories about the great Zen Master Hakuin…” as told by Osho.
Osho speaks on ‘Anxiety’; “Desires don’t create anxiety… Anxiety creates desire.”
“Buddha’s miracles are so different that you will be surprised!” states Osho.
“If we see changes in the situation we change immediately, as if we have no integrated soul, no crystallized soul.”
“Clouds gather and go, they disappear, they are accidental, but the sky remains. You are the sky.”
“The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary.”
Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’
“Love is a law unto itself; it needs no other law,” states Osho.
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.”
Osho explains the pure power of non-discipline.
“Even an unenlightened Master, with deep trust, can revolutionize your life. And the reverse is also true: even an enlightened Master may not be of any help. It depends on you…” says Osho.