“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.”

Osho speaks on ‘Breath’; “If you are not breathing fully, you cannot live fully.”

“If you can understand this only then can you understand other things that I have to say.”

“If you ask all the great minds they will say that whatsoever they have attained has come from beyond the mind, not from the mind.”

Osho speaks on ‘Money’; “Live the moment, drop the future, and money loses its glamor.”

“Reaction is out of the past. If you react, out of old habits, out of mind, then you are not responding. To be responsive is to be totally alive in this moment, here-now.”

“If you cannot reach, don’t try to console yourself!”

“One day or other you will come to the wide river where… all is taken… and you are left totally alone, with no possessions.”

Osho speaks on ‘Religion’; ” All religious people are explorers, all religious people are adventurers.”

“A promise is possible only if tomorrow is certain. But who knows anything about tomorrow?”

“All talk is to prepare you for silence, and only in silence can the truth be given.”

“Everything has been perfect without you. When you will not be here everything will be as perfect as ever.”

Osho speaks on ‘Addiction’.

“This moment life is there – live it!”

“We are greedy. We live through greed…”

Osho speaks on ‘being aggressive’; “Our only responsibility is that while we are here we live a life of joy, love, blissfulness.”

“Whenever the union is found, God is found.”

“What can you ask for? [God] has already given all that can ever be received by you.”

Osho speaks on ‘Celebration’: “It does not divide. It unites, it brings things together; it creates a togetherness in the world.”

Osho comments on a Zen story: “This is the way of Zen. It is the most unique phenomenon in the whole world of religions.”

Osho remembers his birthplace, Kuchwada.

“My definition of ‘being holy’ is nothing but to be whole – capacity to come into the world and yet remain above it, beyond it; capacity to use the mind but yet remain centered in your being.”

“A real painting is not just the sum total of the colors, it is more – and that “more” is the meaning,” says Osho.

Osho speaks on ‘Anger’: “You can simply take five deep breaths and see where your anger has gone.”

“Mastership arises only when you learn slowly, slowly to dissolve into existence,” states Osho.

Osho, how to be creative while doing jobs which seem not to leave any space for creativity, like cleaning etc?

“A religious person will be festive each moment. His every breath is an expression of gratitude and benediction.”

“Hearing Zen, reading Zen is not going to give you Zen. Zen is a quality that you have to attain to.”

Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “The search for truth is ultimately the search for bliss.”

“In the search for the first principle silence is the door – the only door,” comments Osho on this sutra.

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.”

“Two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful.”