Osho remembers his birthplace, Kuchwada.
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.”
“Love and respect can sweetly help them to be more understanding about the world, can help them to be more alert, aware, careful,” says Osho.
“Eastern psychology says that it is not the parents who decide your life. Really, you have chosen them,” states Osho.
Osho says, “Thinking and contemplation are both processes of the mind, but they are very different, even opposite.”
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?”
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).
“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.
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.
“I am certainly in love with the American Constitution, because it is the only hope for humanity,” says Osho.
“We are to destroy the whole past. It has been a horrible past, it has been a nightmare,” states Osho.
Osho says, “…words can’t convey that which I am and I have to go on trying to do something which is not possible.”
“We have succeeded only in creating a hypocrite world. It is not civilized, it is not cultured,” states Osho.
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
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 tells an anecdote from his school days (with audio) – “…if you are aware, suddenly you are alone.”
A disciple thanks Osho for the love and compassion he expresses when he folds his hands and greets his people.
Osho speaks about the difference between ordinary suicide – that is not really suicide, you simply change the body – and the ultimate suicide, where you will never be born again, when you disappear into the cosmos.
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.
“The poetry is beautiful because there are sudden leaps and jumps…The prose moves on plain ground, in a logical sequence,” states Osho.
With the help of a moving sand art picture, Osho demonstrates the difference between mind and meditation.
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 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.