Excerpt from Alan Watts’ The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
“…something will start happening. I may be thousands of miles away, that doesn’t matter.”
“They can destroy your body, but they cannot destroy your spirit,” states Osho.
A poem by the late Raymond Clevie Carver Jr., inscribed on his tombstone.
“Love is portrayed as a device to create a fantasy or a dream in your mind,” contemplates Kul Bhushan.
Osho answers a question by Asheesh about what transforms one into a disciple.
Osho states, “The flower of love can blossom only when there is no ego, when there is no effort to dominate…”
“It is written in my breath and bones to fly on the wings of silence, joy and celebration,” writes Dhyan Jyoti.
“I am love. And if you cannot see it in my dancing, then you will certainly not see it at all when I stop dancing.”
A meditation Osho shared in a discourse: “Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love.”
“Love is something beyond the body. Bodies come and go, love remains,” says Osho.
A story about love, ego and nature. WWF video with text by Osho, published April 27, 2021.
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Osho is asked, “Why am I afraid of other people?”
Osho states, “In Sufism there is no one compared with Rabiya al-Adabiya.”
Osho says, “All other human beings are just like you. Just forms differ, names differ….”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “A life without love is life without life itself. It is just lived at the minimum, somehow lived, in fact a drag.”
“Desiderata says: Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. Don’t condemn yourself – you are a child of the universe,” states Osho.
Osho comments on the last stanzas of Desiderata: ‘Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.’
Osho speaks on further lines from the Desiderata, starting with ‘Neither be cynical about love… Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.’
A short meditation by Osho.
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Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nature’: “This planet has to be loved, this planet has to be rejoiced in. It is a gift.”
Osho states that “… it is certain that I have been poisoned by Ronald Reagan’s American government.” He describes in detail his experiences after his arrest in Charlotte and his accumulating health issues since.
Phoebe’s monthly horoscope with quotes by Osho: “If the emotion is negative, you will be freed of it by being aware that it is within you. If the emotion is positive, you will become the emotion itself.”
“And the problem with any absence is that you cannot do anything directly about it,” says Osho.
A quote by John Lennon.
“Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears,” says Osho.
Meditation makes us aware that even in difficult times when different aspects of life are pulling us apart, there is a deeper harmony within, writes Pratiksha Apurv. Published in The Times of India and Speaking Tree on August 14, 2020.
Marita remember visiting her father in India after she left school.
Bauls say, “Whatsoever you love you become, and whatsoever is your love you will find.”
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If our mindset is hijacked by anxiety let’s flip our heartset. Watch the whole video and don’t miss the inspiring flip!
“This false ego which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear,” states Osho.
This song was written and recorded in Greece during Pernilla Kannapinn’s artistic quarantine. It premiered on March 29, 2020.
Shastro’s contribution in the time of the coronavirus, to his series ‘Insights from the Cushion’.
Horoscope by Phoebe with Osho quotes; “Love is enough. Live only out of love. It may last long, it may not last, but… even if it is there for a single moment it will give you the taste of eternity. And there is every possibility that, if you are not afraid, it may last longer because fear is poison.”
Inspiring 68 year-old woman desperately needed funds for her ailing husband and found a solution. Published on BBC, February 10, 2020.
Osho is asked, “What is love?”
Sarita shares her thoughts and insights on the occasion of Valentine’s Day.
“Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing,” states Osho.
Beloved Osho, is relationship there because love is not?
Osho is asked by an elderly disciple to speak about death.
“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.
Sarita presents a meditation she often did after a break-up, “Enjoy being with nature in the same way you would enjoy being with a lover,” as Osho says.
One of the excerpts from the 3-volume compilation, The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh, A-Z.
Lovers become mirrors to each other, and then love becomes a meditation, states Osho. Published in The Free Press Journal, 12 November 2019.
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.
“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.
Osho states, “The moment you lose the fear of death, you become capable of living.” Published in The Economic Times on 17 September 2019.
Phoebe’s horoscope for the month of October, with quotes from Osho: “…Lovers are born and die. Love goes on.”
Chetna travelled to Chiang Mai in Thailand and met with Tao Master Mantak Chia.
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“No need to hide, no need to cover oneself. No need to be afraid: God is love and God is the judge,” says Osho to an initiate in darshan.
In this essay, Marc explores the meanings of intimate relationships people find themselves in and adds Osho’s insight to all relationships but in particular, the ultimate intimacy between master and disciple.
Nirvan writes, “When you learn to love yourself, you will naturally love everyone.”
Osho states, “Love is enough unto itself – it needs no salesmanship. It doesn’t need anybody to persuade, to convince; it is enough, it is a fire.”
The third question:
Dear Osho, I love you. In a Sannyas Magazine you said that you are not a person. Then what are you?
Q: Today at the lecture you extolled the virtues of Hasidism. But if they are so praiseworthy, so full of feeling of brotherhood, etc., why do they exclude women from their religious practices, and particularly their ecstatic religious dancing?