With the help of a moving sand art picture, Osho demonstrates the difference between mind and meditation.
While having dental treatment, Osho speaks about traveling and having an allergy.
Osho speaks on acting and says, “If you take life as an acting, you will start moving towards spirituality.”
“I can die, but not life. You can die, you will die – but not the cosmos, not the existence,” states 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!”
An excerpt of Osho’s answer to the question, Why do you call yourself Bhagwan? Why do you call yourself god?
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.”
Osho questions at what point abortion becomes violence.
Osho speaks about the politics in declaring abortions illegal and at the same time preventing dying people from having a pleasant death.
In this excerpt, Osho speaks on the origins of the Aryans and the Sanskrit roots many languages have evolved from.
Osho says people don’t see that they are poisoning the joy of the children and states that a human kind of education must be found in the world.
When the Master is alive, when he is living, when the truth is breathing, then it is a cult - it has to be condemned. And when the Master is dead... And with the Master's death the truth disappears, because truth needs an embodiment. It is an experience; it has to exist in the person
Osho answers a seeker’s question about how can there be any generalizations about the qualities of man and woman.
Osho declares “the greatest enemy today is science.”
A love letter from Bhagwan (Osho) to Vivek (Nirvano) from 1971.
Death is not a problem created by thinking; you cannot solve it by thinking. Whatsoever you think, how can you solve it? says Osho.
Two slideshows, dated 19th and 20th January 1990, Osho International Commune, Pune, India.
“When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal,” says Osho.
Osho talks about the copyright on the meditation The Four Directions. “So my suggestion to you is that the best will be to call it No Directions.”
Osho answers the question, “To us, are the words ‘god’ and ‘no-mind’ synonymous?”
“If you are walking on soft earth, the best way is to walk barefoot, no shoes. You have a tremendous contact with the earth,” says Osho.
Osho responds to the question, “Do you resent America?”
“A really alert man will not feel offended even if somebody insults him personally,” says Osho.
Osho states, “Wall Street is as good as any Himalayan cave.”
Oneness is the goal of all true religion, asserts Osho.
A selection of quotes where Osho talks about LSD, drugs in general, alcohol and meditation.
The question is if your ego disappears into meditation what will happen to your work.
Almost every person is split – for such silly and stupid things you cannot believe. You will not allow a saint just a little bit of smoking?
You cannot see enlightenment, you can see only the consequence of it.
An Enlightenment Day Celebration in Bhagwan’s silent presence held in Pune 1. The following are quotes on the occasion of the celebration – and a song.
To me this is sannyas:
Osho lines up a few plain requirements with a far-reaching outlook.
Q: You say the whole world is a mess. What is it that you’re trying to create in man, in the world?
Osho talks on the four yugas.
Somebody asked Mulla Nasrudin when he was lying on his deathbed:
Osho states that entertainments should be a raising of our consciousness.
Two quotes by Osho about John F. Kennedy.
The coming hundred years are going to be more and more irrational.
In my childhood I used to love swimming, and my village river becomes very dangerous in rainy season, it becomes flooded.
“In existence you cannot make clear-cut divisions, everything melts into each other, ” states Osho.
Somebody asked a very famous Chinese poet, Yang Wang-li:
Credit to Santosh
An organization is not needed, only a gathering is needed.
“This is the reason why man is not meditative: The whole society forces him to be in a state of mind, not in a state of meditation.”
Science cannot go beyond the object, because the very approach makes a limitation.
Osho comments on Atisha’s sutra: Drive all blame into one.
From Swami Yoga Chinmaya: I love the way you walk. Why do you walk how you walk?
Ninety-nine percent of people start meditating because meditation is talked about. There are times when it becomes fashionable.
There are stories about cultures reaching to the peak. But those that reached the ultimate height eventually had to go underground.
So in the lifetime of each of you, the decisive moment is going to come: