Osho speaks on ‘Addiction’.
Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”
Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’: “It does not divide. It unites, it brings things together; it creates a togetherness in the world.”
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.”
“Once you can become a witness in the sex act you will transcend sex, because in witnessing you become free.”
Osho speaks on ‘Agony and Ecstasy’: “Agony means: I don’t know who I am…. Ecstasy is the flower of agony.”
Osho speaks on ‘Tears’: “The heart has only one way to express itself, and that way is the way of tears.”
Osho speaks on ‘Dancing’; “The dancer remains one with the dance. Even when he starts dancing, the unity is not broken, there is no duality. Utter oneness.”
“As you listen to music, listen to me that way. Don’t listen to me as you listen to a philosopher; listen to me as you listen to the birds,” says Osho.
Osho talks on ‘Breath’; “In Tantra, love-making is allowed only when you have learnt how to make love and yet keep your breath cool, rhythmic.”
Osho speaks on ‘Aloneness’; “Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience… If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nature’: “This planet has to be loved, this planet has to be rejoiced in. It is a gift.”
Osho talks on ‘Depression’: “Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes.”
Osho on Hypocrisy: “Once you recognize that you are wearing a mask, the mask has already started slipping…”
Osho speaks on ‘Listening’; “My success is to give you a real taste so that you can become confident that meditation is not a fiction.”
:…life itself is rooted in freedom. We are not machines, we are not pre-programmed, we are utter freedoms.” Osho is quoted on the subject of ‘Freedom’.
Osho on ‘ Hypnosis’: “If you become aware, you can use it; not to hypnotize others, but to de-hypnotize yourself. And if you can become completely de-hypnotized, you are free, you are liberated.”
One of the excerpts from the 3-volume compilation, The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh, A-Z.
…shout, cry, jump, talk, babble, do whatever you please. Close the doors and observe your own madness in its entirety…” suggests Osho on ‘Anger’.
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 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.”
Osho on the subject of ‘Food’: “…there is a deep association between food and love; in fact food comes first and then love follows.”
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 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 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 on the subject of ‘Laughter’: “If you go into a total laughter people think it is hysterical. It is not, it is historical!”
Osho talks on ‘Listening / Hearing’: “Listening is all that meditation is about – how to listen to that which is already there.”
Osho speaks on ‘Happiness’: “…happiness and unhappiness are your moods and don’t depend on the outside.”
Osho talks on the topic of ‘Love’: “You cannot accept the idea that you are worth loving, that anybody can love you.”
Osho talks on ‘Intuition’: “There are many people who would like to be intuitive, who would like to find the inner guide, just to succeed in the world. For them the inner guide will be a frustration.”
Osho talks on the subject of ‘Children’: “…you have to learn from them because they are far more closer to God than you are.”
Osho talks on the topic of ‘trees’ and tells the story of the Taoist woodcutter: “Either man has to turn back and drop the Western aggressive attitude or man has to get ready to say goodbye to this planet. ”
Osho talks on ‘Listening’ at the 1968 Meditation Camp in Ajol, Gujarat: “Listen… and by and by, within you, a humming of silence will begin. The mind is becoming silent.”
Osho talks on ‘Family’. “The family conditions the child in the first place. Secondly, it is the cause of all kinds of insanities.”
Osho on the subject of ‘Cancer’. “When the mind becomes very tense, so tense that it is intolerable, it starts affecting the body tissues. That’s why cancer exists only when civilization becomes very, very sophisticated.”
Osho speaks on the topic: Surrender. “The buddha is a mirror: when you bow down you see your original face reflected in the buddha.”
Osho talks on the topic: Commune. “I would like to create a chain of communes all around the world…”
Osho speaks about the Nadabrahma meditation in a darshan, “Let the body get drunk, let the mind get drunk, let them fall into a deep love-affair with each other, and you slip out of it.”
Osho talks on Laughter: “The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it.”
Osho talks on ‘Education’: “A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate.”
Osho talks on ‘Prana’: “Yoga says you are not only breathing air; you are also breathing prana. In fact air is just a vehicle for prana, just a medium.”