“Nobody can be independent. If you try it, you are being stupid,” states 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.”
“…something will start happening. I may be thousands of miles away, that doesn’t matter.”
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 asserts that “there is no need to fight society.”
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).
Osho says, “Beauty is the god of the poet, of the painter, of all creative artists.”
“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’s answer to, “Are there ghosts, fairies, and things like that?”
Osho declares, “Man can pass through a transmutation, but there is no evolution.”
Comments on Atisha’s sutras, from the ‘The Book of Wisdom’.
Osho is asked, “Why am I afraid of other people?”
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.
“Enlightenment is not a goal but the quality of being herenow,” states Osho.
“I am certainly in love with the American Constitution, because it is the only hope for humanity,” says Osho.
Osho states, “…stupidity goes on perpetuating itself.”
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.
Osho reveals the secret how he is able to talk.
“We are to destroy the whole past. It has been a horrible past, it has been a nightmare,” states Osho.
In a discourse in 1971, Osho made a prophetic statement.
“Our waking is only so-called, only a very small fragment of our being becomes conscious.”
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.”
“A Master is satisfied only when he has created another Master,” states Osho.
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.
In an interview, Osho answers a question by a journalist about the mala’s healing powers.
Rare video footage of Osho in very early Pune days from TikTok.
Osho tells an anecdote from his school days (with audio) – “…if you are aware, suddenly you are alone.”
“That’s what meditation is: watching all your acts, physical, mental….” says Osho.
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.
Osho is asked, “What is love?”
Osho is asked, “Sex seems to be dropping me. Is music next?”
Osho is asked how he would like to be remembered.
Osho declares, “Anybody who comes to me, I am ready to work.”
“Whatsoever you are and whatsoever you do is constantly being registered,” says Osho.
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.
Osho expresses his ultimate message.
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.