“It is an appeal to the individual soul: You take responsibility in your own hands. Don’t be contented, because there is so much more potential in you.”
“Whatsoever appears in the mind, just watch it. Watch it appearing, watch it being there, watch it disappearing.”
A handwritten note from Osho where he replies to the question, “What is meditation, and what is the method to do it?”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The mind grows old, the body grows old but the being knows nothing of time…”
“The mind is very impotent in a way. It cannot give you any existential juice, any existential experience, and that is the only thing that matters,” comments Osho on this anecdote
“If you ask all the great minds they will say that whatsoever they have attained has come from beyond the mind, not from the mind.”
During a group darshan, Anand Deva, a physicist from Canada, speaks to Osho about his experiences in the group with astral projection.
A letter by Osho to Swami Anand Maitreya, dated 12 November 1970, published in Dhai Aakhar Prem Ka (ढ़ाई आखर प्रेम का), as letter #41.
Beloved Osho, Recently it has started happening that as I begin to open my eyes first thing in the morning I can see a vision, like a scene from a movie – and that scene happens days after in reality, just like a repetition.
In part two of his essay, Shanti concludes after his deliberations with Procrustes that “Everyone of us is a unique expression of ‘Existence’.”
Before I leave the world I have to complete what I have started. I cannot leave my garden unfinished,” states Osho.
“Mind is just a procession of thoughts passing in front of you on the screen of the brain,” states Osho.
Osho says, “Your mind is just… a TV screen or a drama stage. You are not supposed to act. You are not supposed to do anything.”
Osho comments on the last stanzas of Desiderata: ‘Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.’
Param Srikantia (Deva Anugraha) offers some sage advice on how to deal with the mind, the ‘chattering monkey’. Published on cleveland.com, November 29, 2020
Osho speaks on these lines in the Desiderata: “Hear then the wisdom of the wise…” and “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.”
A sannyasin, arriving, says he feels simultaneously very young and very old; and he feels to be alone.
Anando writes, “That was… a wonderful breakthrough. I stopped struggling and started enjoying watching my crazy mind, and then quite unexpectedly I started falling into silent gaps.”
Osho says, “The ego thinks it can do everything. It lives with this fallacy. The part lives with the fallacy that it is the whole.”
Osho says: “You cannot repress any thought… The easiest thing is not to force, but to be just a witness.”
With the help of a moving sand art picture, Osho demonstrates the difference between mind and meditation.
An individual simply means one who is indivisible, one who cannot be divided, states Keerti in the Deccan Chronicle. Published on June 24, 2019.