“Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing,” states Osho.

Osho is asked, “Sex seems to be dropping me. Is music next?”

Osho says, “A simple person is not one who possesses nothing, a simple person is one who has no possessiveness, who never looks back.”

“Almost every country has its own love stories, but nothing compared to Layla and Majnun because it has a Sufi message in it,” explains Osho.

Osho is asked how he would like to be remembered.

“‘Yes, I am dying, but I must sing!’ Francis has become the song. … There is absolute silence inside. Out of that silence this song is born,” says Osho.

Osho states, “If you go on listening to people you will become more and more confused.”

Osho states, “Mind is the faculty of distortion.”

One of the excerpts from the 3-volume compilation, The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh, A-Z.

Osho quotes a famous sentence of Mencius: “If you want to reach, never run.”

“You are a totally new manifestation of God. It has never been before so there has never been a person exactly like you,” states Osho.

Osho says, “You can never be somebody else. Remember it as one of the most fundamental laws. Aes dhammo sanantano…” – illustrated by two stories.

Every woman is also a man and every man is also a woman, states Osho.

Osho declares, “Anybody who comes to me, I am ready to work.”

Osho says, “Discontent clouds your eyes and your vision; contentment makes your eyes unclouded and your vision clear.”

“Don’t force rules, just try to understand things. If you force rules upon yourself you will not become enlightened,” states Osho.

“Difficult not to choose, but try – and in everything… When you feel hate, try to move to the middle. When you feel love, try to move to the middle,” states Osho.

“Whatsoever you are and whatsoever you do is constantly being registered,” says Osho.

… a man questioned the tailor. ‘Don’t you remember God created the whole world in six days?’ The tailor said, ‘I know. And look at the world, how he messed it. That’s what happens if you do things in six days.’ An anecdote told by Osho

“All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back,” adds Osho to the anecdote.

Beloved Osho, Recently Rudolph Hess, one of the last Nazi big shots, died. He committed suicide in jail in Berlin, where he was imprisoned for forty-six years. He was the right-hand man of Adolf Hitler.

Osho says: “You cannot repress any thought… The easiest thing is not to force, but to be just a witness.”

“The poetry is beautiful because there are sudden leaps and jumps…The prose moves on plain ground, in a logical sequence,” states Osho.

Osho expresses his ultimate message.

“If this is possible – to have space and togetherness both – ‘then the winds of heaven dance between you…'” states Osho.

“Sex accepted, respected, lived, becomes love,” says Osho.

“You can’t please everyone. If you try, you lose yourself,” comments Osho.

Osho declares that the first freedom is to know that you are responsible.

With the help of a moving sand art picture, Osho demonstrates the difference between mind and meditation.

“People … think the ego comes through prestige and power – renounce power, renounce prestige – but then the ego comes through your humbleness,” says Osho.

While having dental treatment, Osho speaks about traveling and having an allergy.

“The people you think are moral are just repressed people, egoistic, carrying all sorts of repressed desires in them. Once an opportunity is given to them, they will explode,” concludes Osho.

“Wisdom is practical, knowledge impractical. Knowledge is abstract, wisdom is earthly; knowledge is just words, wisdom is experience,” comments Osho.

“Remember this story when you pray. Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon,” says Osho.

Osho speaks on acting and says, “If you take life as an acting, you will start moving towards spirituality.”

…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 says, “If you really understand me only then will you drop your clinging to me.”

“I can die, but not life. You can die, you will die – but not the cosmos, not the existence,” states Osho.

Maneesha has asked:
Our beloved Master,
This unspeakable that you are trying to communicate to us, this ungraspable that we are trying to get – sometimes it seems profoundly mysterious, sometimes it seems embarrassingly obvious. Is it either of these – or both together?

“I love this parable. God is a storyteller, he loves jokes…” comments Osho.

One Zen monk is reported to have said – every morning of his life after his enlightenment, the first thing in the morning he would say was, “Osho!”

“This Sufi saying wants to create the third type of man, the real man: who knows how to do and who knows how not to do,” expounds Osho.

An excerpt of Osho’s answer to the question, Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? Why do you call yourself god?

“The mystery will remain a mystery, but by becoming yourself a mystery, you will understand,” adds Osho

Osho speaks about the constant effort to defeat the other at whatever the cost.

“We are not satisfied with anything, and we go on asking for more, and we go on making our life more of a confusion,” states Osho.

“What he means simply is that you should not feel guilty. Whatever you do – if it is not right, don’t do it again,” comments Osho.

Osho says, “India is the only land in the whole world, strangely, which has devoted all its talents in a concentrated effort to see the truth and to be the truth.”

“Unless something is your experience, don’t go on deceiving yourself,” comments Osho.

Junnaid says to Mansoor, “Remember, there is no home. Or, the home is everywhere – both are true.” An anecdote told by Osho.

Osho declares that this earth is a big madhouse.

“…And if his patients are sick, then his salary should be cut,” suggests Osho, as Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu had proposed to their emperor.

Osho states, “Religion is not something that one gets – one has it, nobody can give it to you. It is your very being.

Osho describes the moment Maharshi dies and adds: “There is nowhere to go. This is the only existence there is, this is the only dance there is – where can one go?”

“Power in the hands of ignorant, retarded crowds is self-destructive,” says Osho.

“A real man of understanding never renounces anything. He simply understands: ‘Nothing is there to possess, so how can I renounce?'” says Osho.

“Everybody somehow is trying to feel, to convince himself, that he is the greatest man in the world … And you can always find something that will be supportive to you – but it is not really nourishing to you. It is cutting you off from existence,” states Osho.

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.”

“…You will have to lose a few things, but they are worthless. You will be gaining so much that you will never think again of what you have lost,” explains Osho.

After telling the anecdote, Osho says: “I am challenging you to jump out of the well … And the moment you see the ocean, there will be no need for me to convince you that this is bigger than your well.”