Osho’s reply to a question from Italian TV, just a few months before he left his body.

“You have been eternally here, and you will be eternally here,” states Osho.

“You are living surrounded by death, and if this can be remembered, this can become the greatest stimulation for meditation, for awareness,” says Osho.

“Because the world consists of miserable people, you can force them to do anything,” declares Osho.

“First I want you to be established as a buddha. Then the second step is very easy: any day I can tell you to jump into the cosmos,” says Osho.

Osho states that “all religions have been teaching that everything is a dream.”

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.”

Nan In said to the archbishop, “Whoever has written these sentences will become a buddha in some future life.”

Osho reveals the secret how he is able to talk.

“The man of compassion has to lie. The lie is only a device to wake you up,” explains Osho.

“We are to destroy the whole past. It has been a horrible past, it has been a nightmare,” states Osho.

Osho states, “Each system is perfect and works. But don’t mix it with anything else; let it function on its own.”

“Your health depends on everybody else’s health,” states Osho.

“If your life is becoming insane just look deep down – you will find that all this deciding is driving you mad too,” says Osho.

Osho states: “He was a conqueror. He was pushing the river of life according to his desires… Please, flow with the river. You are a part, you cannot impose yourself on the whole; the whole is infinite.”

Osho says, “There is a way of being in contact with reality without words… Words don’t help, they hinder.”

“…your soul is intrinsically free. You don’t have to ask for it, and you don’t have to struggle for it. It is already there, this very moment,” says Osho.

In a discourse in 1971, Osho made a prophetic statement.

Osho quotes Rabia al-Adawiyya as saying: “The heard is the lie and the seen is the truth.”

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 speaks on the names he gives to his sannyasins.

“Perfectionism is a kind of inhuman ideal. You cannot think of Buddha crying,” states Osho.

“Nothing is small in itself and nothing is big in itself. It is all comparative,” states Osho.

Osho talks on ‘Depression’: “Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes.”

Osho says that rebellion is the greatest spiritual phenomenon.

Osho: “Yes, to know oneself is very elementary.”

“And the problem with any absence is that you cannot do anything directly about it,” says Osho.

Osho states, “Understanding is not gradual, understanding is a sudden flash.”

Osho comments on a sutra, “So the first thing Uwais says is, ‘This is my feeling. I live moment to moment, without any plan or future. I don’t know what is going to happen this evening – maybe death.'”

“Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears,” says Osho.

“The quintessence of Tao is ‘Tathata’, acceptability. Where there is total acceptability, there is the condition of desirelessness,” states Osho.

The clock represents the mind – and not just literally, not just as a metaphor; mind is time, states Osho.

“The One and only God is known only when a person gets beheaded,” comments Osho on this anecdote.

Osho states, “There is still hope for humanity.”

Osho says, “To be encrusted in gold and to die are one and the same thing… The greater the wealth you want to achieve the more dead you have to be…. All heights are suicidal!”

“Our waking is only so-called, only a very small fragment of our being becomes conscious.”

Osho states, “We come and we go; we are like the line drawn over water…”

Osho states, “The moment you say something about the first principle, you go wrong.”

Osho says, “…you all have come with a return ticket.”

Osho says, “The ego thinks it can do everything. It lives with this fallacy. The part lives with the fallacy that it is the whole.”

“Carrying fuel, drawing water from the well and he says, ‘How mysterious.'”

Osho states, “all divisions are wrong.”

Osho tells a story about the Sufi mystic, Junaid, who had lived with almost all the great masters…

Osho states, “The whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism – hence it is so beautiful.”

Osho on Hypocrisy: “Once you recognize that you are wearing a mask, the mask has already started slipping…”

Osho says, “…words can’t convey that which I am and I have to go on trying to do something which is not possible.”

Osho says, “Either you can become a man of being, or you can become a man of having.”

“We have succeeded only in creating a hypocrite world. It is not civilized, it is not cultured,” states Osho.

Bauls say, “Whatsoever you love you become, and whatsoever is your love you will find.”

Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”

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.”

“A Master is satisfied only when he has created another Master,” states Osho.

Zarathustra has said, “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. He is a bridge and you should not make your house on the bridge…”

One of the Zen stories Osho commented upon for the series, ‘No Water No Moon’.

:…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 states, “The whole function of the Master is just to bring you home – which you had never left in the first place.”

In a discourse, Osho confirms to Devageet that sannyas is a training for rebellion.

In a Press Interview, Osho speaks to journalists sent by the Punjab Kesari, a Hindi newspaper, who had asked him about his health. Osho mentions his time during the twelve days he has spent in US jails.

Osho on Chekhov’s story: “To say no to anything is very easy… To be positive, to say yes, is very difficult.”

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.”