“You simply watch; you stand by the side unconcerned.”

“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.”

“A master is not a teacher. A master shares his being with you, not his philosophy.”

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.”

“Greed is the root of fear. As long as you desire things you will be afraid to lose them.”

“It is more important to know the lines of someone’s desires than to know the lines of his palms!”

“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.

“Let everything pass. Don’t judge, don’t condemn, don’t evaluate. You are only a mirror.”

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.”

“God is the ocean you are in, because God is another name for life.”

Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”

“The king said, ‘I certainly have made a mistake. God knows what he is doing.'”

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

Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Be Thyself’: “To me, uniqueness of individuals is the greatest truth.”

“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.”

“From the very moment of conception the search starts… Until death the search continues.”

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.”

“Compassion knows no rules, compassion is beyond rules. It is wild. It follows no formalities.”

Two quotes by Osho on ‘Masks’; “When you come to a Master his work is to pull the mask away, to loosen the hold of the mask on you.”

“Consciousness is not the content. You are consciousness: thoughts come and go, you are the host. Thoughts are the guests – they come and stay for a while, take a little rest, or their food, or stay overnight, and then they are gone. You are always there.”

“The mind is very impotent in a way. It cannot give you any existential juice, any existential experience, and that is the only thing that matters,” comments Osho on this anecdote

“The last question: It is from Yatri.”

“Somewhere a deep balance is needed. Just between the two, exactly between the two, is transcendence. “

“Dolphins are very loving animals, very playful, very joyous… If you are swimming, they will swim with you. If you are playing with them, they will play with you,” states Osho

Osho speaks on ‘Balancing’: “Live life in all possible ways; don’t choose one thing against the other, and don’t try to be in the middle.”

“From the very beginning, everyone is a Buddha… This is the basic message of Zen – and the greatest message that has ever been delivered to man.”

“Don’t try to change the circumstances of your life, try to change the psychology. Try to change your attitudes towards life, don’t try to change the outer situation. Use the outer situation and change the inner state.”

The let-go meditation, guided by Osho (with audio). “Gather your energies, your total consciousness. And with an intensity, rush towards the center of your being. A deep urgency is needed, as if this is going to be your last moment of life.”

Osho on the topic of ‘Computers’; “Knowledge is mechanical; it can be done by a computer.”

“The moment you have accepted the night totally – and there is no seeking and hankering for the morning – the morning has come.”

“When you come close to a real Master, he gives you the taste of fearlessness.”

Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”

“Existence never copies itself. It is always new and always fresh.”

“Only those who are ready to behead themselves can understand.”

Osho speaks on ‘ Awareness’. “Try to make this such a permanent state of awareness in you that whenever you start finding something wrong with the other, remember it.”

“Rare is the possibility of someone’s listening, and rarest is the possibility of someone understanding.”

Osho speaks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new program of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”

Osho responds to the question, “Why do I feel hesitation in enjoying anything?” with a story.

“Just say something and it happens. You just say to the mind, ‘Enough – now you be the servant, because you are the servant.’ And, I say, it is just that simple.”

“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.”