“Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing,” states Osho.
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.”
Osho speaks on ‘India; “It is vibrating with certain energy fields which no other country can claim.”
Osho talks on ‘Full Moon’, “Many people who have become buddhas have attained their enlightenment on the full-moon night, even Buddha himself.”
Osho talks on ‘War’; “Unless we transform the very script of man, unless we give him a totally new programme of living and being, we can go on talking about peace but we will go on preparing for war.”