Osho, It is really chilly again today. Would you please tell us a few jokes about Rajneesh sannyasins?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.
Kashmiri saint and mystic poet Lal Ded (Mother Lalla), also known as Lalla or Lalleshwari (1320–1392), was born in Pandrethan (ancient Puranadhisthana) some four and a half miles to the southeast of Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.
Beloved Master,
Just the other day, Suman and I went off to Los Angeles via Portland to buy rainbow clothes.
Beloved Osho, Could you speak to us on laughter, its meditative powers, its chemistry on the brain, its power of transformation and healing… Its relation to silence, the gap, clarity, vision…
“Nijinsky was a dancer, and perhaps the best dancer the world has ever known; his dance was almost magic. He was born to dance,” says Osho.
Beloved Osho,
The other day someone asked me where I came from before coming to Poona and I couldn’t remember.
A question asked by Don Lattin, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, USA, in Rajneeshpuram:
The third question: Organizations have always frightened me because I felt there is a built-in evilness, and maybe a necessary evil. The Rajneesh Foundation is an organization, and has every possibility of becoming a very powerful organization. Can you tell me why the foundation is necessary? Yes. Because evil is necessary. The fourth question… Osho,
Just look around, just observe people, and you will be surprised seeing the utterly insane state which is known as normal.
Walter ‘Walt’ Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist.
Osho says:
“Animals should be loved, should be respected,
because somewhere at some time
they will also reach to the same consciousness as you.”
Psychologists say it is very difficult to find a man who has not thought at least four times in his life of committing suicide.
“If the world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throw away their arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.”
Nivedano… Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Look inwards, as deep as possible. It is your own space. At the very end you will find the empty heart. The empty heart is a door to eternity. It is a connection between you and existence. It is not something physical
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent, close your eyes. Feel your body to be frozen. Gather your consciousness inwards, deeper and deeper…. This silence, this peace, this blissfulness discovers the buddha within you. For these few moments you are a buddha and it is up to you, if you can remember – then you
Q: Osho, are you really crazy? How can I be crazy? I have no mind out of which to go. Osho, The First Principle, Ch 10, Q 4
The concept of the successor is bureaucratic. The very idea of succession is not the right idea in the world of consciousness. That’s why I have said, I will not have successors. But you are right in saying that you will carry in your bones and in your blood my love, my insight. But don’t
Osho always favours vegetarianism; we show here the only time we heard him contradict this and the reasons for it.
My whole message is: Accept the you that you are, because God accepts it. God respects it, and you have not respected your being yet. Be immensely happy that God has chosen you to be, that God has chosen you to exist, to see his world, to listen to his music, to see his stars,
The third world war is coming closer, but I am not interested in avoiding it or bringing it. Who cares? My whole interest is in you, and I want you to become aware that this earth is not going to live for long. If this becomes an awareness in you it will be a transforming
Now … Nivedano … (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano … (Drumbeat) Be silent, close your eyes, feel as if your body is frozen, and gather all your consciousness inwards, deeper and deeper. At the deepest point you are the buddha. And this buddha has to become your whole life. All expressions, actions, have to arise from this
The bodhisattvas make every effort to awaken people, knowing perfectly well that out of a million people, perhaps one may understand them and the remaining will either be indifferent, or most probably will misunderstand. Bodhisattvas know perfectly well that speaking the truth is a very shortcut way to create enemies in the world, because the
Nivedano… (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano… (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel the body to be completely frozen. Go inwards with your total energy, with a great urgency, as if this is the last moment of your life and you have to reach to the center and the source of your being. Deeper and deeper, your
On this pilgrimage I have met many more remarkable men than Gurdjieff recounts in his book, Meetings with Remarkable Men.
Boredom is absolutely human. A buffalo is never bored, a donkey is never bored – only man, only a highly evolved consciousness. If you are not bored with your life, it simply shows that you live in a very low state of consciousness. A Buddha is bored, a Jesus is bored, a Mahavira is bored
The positive people have to come out in the light, and tell with emphasis their own experiences and what they understand about me and my relationship to my people. Unless they come out and do it, they are in an indirect way helping the negative people. Because if those negative people are not contradicted, it
In chapter 21 of Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, Osho says that Shambhu Dube, Shambhu Babu, “was a poet, but never published his poetry while he was still alive…
Osho speaks on James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and suggests he should look to the East for support.
It has to be understood very clearly that nobody has a duty to spread my vision, my message to the people. I hate the very word missionary. These are the ugliest creatures on the earth. I don’t want to create missionaries. You have to be utterly selfish, concentrated on only one aim: becoming enlightened. As
America is in the grip of a very monstrous regime, and naturally they became afraid of a small commune that could become a model and people could become attracted to it. They were not so much afraid of Soviet Russia – it is so far away. We were amidst them. And their fear is natural.