In my childhood I used to love swimming, and my village river becomes very dangerous in rainy season, it becomes flooded.
“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.”
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.
The world headquarters will be publishing my books, will be releasing my tapes, videotapes, will be doing every kind of work. But it has no domination over anybody. All communes of the world are independent. All centers of the world are absolutely free. They are under nobody’s guidance. My sannyasins are directly related to me.
Maybe not today but some time in the future, when man will be able to understand, he will come to know this truth.
It is the whole idea of private property that has created the father, that has created the family, that has created the ownership of the woman by the man.
Pythagoras’ contribution to western philosophy is immense. It is incalculable. For the first time he introduced vegetarianism to the West.
The art of transforming suffering, pain, evil, into something good is the art of seeing the necessity of the opposite.
I am talking a different language, you understand a different language – but there is no need to make much fuss about it. It is natural.
You must have heard about the Japanese poem, haiku. It is the smallest poetry form in the world – seventeen syllables only – but one of the most penetrating. The word ‘haiku’ means ‘the beginning’. This is a tremendous significance – the word haiku means the beginning. The haiku poets say: We only begin, we
The bhikkhu who guards his mind
And fears the waywardness of his thoughts
Burns through every bond
With the fire of his vigilance
Aum purnamadah purnamidam purnat purnamudachyate purnasya purnamadaya purnameva vashisyate. Aum this is the cold. That is the cold. From coldness emerges coldness. Coldness coming from coldness, coldness still remains! This morning is really cold, hence the change of the meaning. I don’t stick to the words, I stick to the reality! Therefore,
Osho, It is really chilly again today. Would you please tell us a few jokes about Rajneesh sannyasins?
Beloved Master,
Just the other day, Suman and I went off to Los Angeles via Portland to buy rainbow clothes.
Beloved Osho, Could you speak to us on laughter, its meditative powers, its chemistry on the brain, its power of transformation and healing… Its relation to silence, the gap, clarity, vision…
Beloved Osho,
The other day someone asked me where I came from before coming to Poona and I couldn’t remember.
A question asked by Don Lattin, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, USA, in Rajneeshpuram:
Just look around, just observe people, and you will be surprised seeing the utterly insane state which is known as normal.
Osho says:
“Animals should be loved, should be respected,
because somewhere at some time
they will also reach to the same consciousness as you.”
“If the world becomes a little more conscious, soldiers will throw away their arms and hug each other, sit down together under a tree and gossip.”