“Intellectuals are profound archers – first they shoot the arrow and then they draw the target!” explains Osho.
“Eastern psychology says that it is not the parents who decide your life. Really, you have chosen them,” states Osho.
Osho states, “In science, in archery, in other arts, concentration may be of great use – but it is not meditation.”
Osho says, “Thinking and contemplation are both processes of the mind, but they are very different, even opposite.”
“Democracy basically means government by the people… but the people are retarded. So let us say: government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded,” states Osho.
Osho responds to the question, “And why has there not been a Master before you in all the ages who has combined and synthesized all the teachings of past Buddhas?”
“What kind of home is this where people go on changing? It is a caravanserai. It is just an overnight stay, and then one has to go.”
“You have to catch hold of your inner light with your own awareness. Other than that there is no way,” says Osho.
Osho speaks on ‘Agony and Ecstasy’: “Agony means: I don’t know who I am…. Ecstasy is the flower of agony.”
Osho speaks on the significance of a teddy bear for a child and also refers to the work of Donald Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971).
“Prayer is just your effort to persuade God to do things according to you… I am against prayer. I am for meditation,” says Osho.
“Mind is just a procession of thoughts passing in front of you on the screen of the brain,” states Osho.
“You need not worry; you do the best you can do with life… And everything else will follow on its own accord,” states Osho.
Osho speaks on ‘Tears’: “The heart has only one way to express itself, and that way is the way of tears.”
Osho states, “The flower of love can blossom only when there is no ego, when there is no effort to dominate…”
“Tantra believes unless you have gone through all sexual experiences to the point when sex does not matter to you at all… you are capable of entering into the inner sanctum of the temple,” states Osho.
Osho comments, “Only a master can save you who comes near to you and at the same time is far away from you.”
Maneesha has asked a question: Our Beloved Master, is enlightenment something like getting the punchline to the ultimate joke?
“I am love. And if you cannot see it in my dancing, then you will certainly not see it at all when I stop dancing.”
Beloved Osho, Is there actually something to be heard? Or is it that as we refine our sense of listening, we are refined, and by the time we are able to listen totally, we are totally transformed?
“Men have not allowed women to become enlightened… to be anything that is their potential,” states Osho.
“It was a great insight of Jesus to send Thomas to South India where it was possible to preach and spread Jesus’ word.”
Osho states, “There is no need of nations, there is no need of religions, there is no need of races.”
“Wherever you are sitting, wherever you are, your being there should make the place important, not vice versa,” states Osho.
Osho quotes Coleridge: “These poems are the poems of my freedom – existence becoming free through me. These poems will have to wait.”
Osho speaks about an interview given by Dr Abraham Kovoor in December 1976 in which he talks about Osho, criticising him and the sannyasins.
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.”
Osho says, “You have to remember that wherever you are it is a holy land and whatever you are doing it is divine.”
“Between these two, everybody exists. Being a prince or being a beggar are just identities given by others. It is not your reality.”
“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.
In 1982 while Osho was in public silence, he answered several questions put to him by Ed Bradley of the 60 Minutes team, one of them about enlightenment.