“Even now I am not part of the ashram. I cannot be part of any institution or any organization, even my own.”
Excerpted for the topic of ‘Awake’; “The real waking state happens only when you are completely deprogrammed, unconditioned.”
“It is not that you have to become a Buddha, you are a Buddha, fallen asleep. Somebody needs to kick you. Somebody needs to shout at you. Somebody needs to hit you. And that is the purpose of a master.”
“I am giving you a simple alternative: you have to drop your whole past – your hatred, your distinctions of color and nation, your fights amongst religions, political ideologies…”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nudity’; “We have created a world around ourselves and we have cut ourselves off from nature. We have become uprooted – and this uprootedness is one of the basic causes of your misery.”
“Competition is one of the most irreligious things in the world, but that’s what everybody is doing.”
“You are your world, so when you change your attitude you change the very world in which you exist.”
“When someone becomes enlightened it is a death deeper than ordinary death; when someone becomes enlightened he comes to know that he is not the body. The attachment, the identification, disappears.”
“I teach you first to live as a Zorba, and only on that foundation will be raised the temple of your buddhahood.”
“Meditation simply means removing the dust that the fakir threw on the eye. And the dust is nothing but the whole mind process of thoughts, desires, imagination, memory.”
“These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man’s freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.”
“The true word, the authentic word, always creates silence in you. That is the criterion of its power…”
“Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world – the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here.”
“A total yes is sannyas, an unconditional yes: yes to all, to life and to death – because death is not against life but is life’s ultimate culmination, its highest peak.”
Quote chosen for the topic of ‘Boredom’; “It is a goading for the search. It is a goading towards God, towards Tao.”
“Prayer is not saying something to God; on the contrary, it is listening to God. It is being ready to receive his gift.”
“The life of a real seeker is not an ordinary life. The life of a real seeker is the life of freedom.”
Osho on the theme of ‘Animal’; “He can go beyond it; that is another thing. But he belongs to animals. He can transcend, but he comes from the animal.”
“It is an old proverb in Tibet that hundreds go but rarely a single individual reaches – that too, rarely.”
“You are born to be mystics. Unless… you have come to know existence as a mystery… you have not taken the challenge of life, you have been a coward. You have wings, but you have forgotten it.”
Quote chosen for the topic ‘Choose Nature’; “The thinking up to now has been that the individual exists for the society, that the individual has to follow what the society dictates.”
“Not you but your coat is recognized by others; so you go on embroidering your coat, dressing yourself.”
Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’; “Life should be a continuous celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round.”
“It is easy to renounce the world, but how are you going to renounce the mind? Because the mind is the real world!”
Osho speaks on the Tantra vision; “Tantra teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous. It is the greatest of mysteries.”
Buddha answered, “I am just an excuse – they are surrendering. It is not a surrender to me; it is simply a surrender – I am just an excuse.”
Osho says, “The meeting with the enlightened person creates a resonance, a certain vibration that reaches to the very depths of your being.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Agnostic’; “If you have a certain idea of God, you will not be able to see him. Your very idea will become a barrier.”
“If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.”
“To think oneself a rooster is madness; to think oneself a human being is a greater madness, because you don’t belong to any form.”
Osho speaks to a new initiate in darshan, “Tell the mind, ‘Now go on, and I will be just a witness.'”
“Eat like an emperor. That doesn’t depend upon the quality of the food, it depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. Even with just bread, butter, and salt, you can be an emperor.”