“Meditation has nothing to do with seriousness. Meditation is playfulness.”
Osho speaks on ‘Emptiness’; “The whole of existence has come out of emptiness, and whenever it becomes tired it goes back into emptiness.”
“Suddenly the benediction of emptiness spreads all over you. To be empty is to be divine. To be empty is to have come home.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series, The Open Door; “There is no need for you to be in control. Open all the doors, all the windows. Let the sun and the rains and the wind come (in)!”
“…but I have faith in certain existential situations through which I can throw you into the unknown,” writes Osho in letter 165
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Let-go’; “When you totally accept something, in that very acceptance you have transformed its character.”
“When the spring comes trees will bloom, and when the right time has come the fruits will ripen,” states Osho
“Although they were blind, they started finding that this man walks in a different way, talks in a different way, knows things that they don’t know. He says, ‘Now it is sunrise.’ He says, ‘Now the whole sky is full of stars’ – and those blind eyes could not see any star.”
“What calamity has happened to smell? There seems to be no reason why smell has been so suppressed. No culture anywhere has consciously suppressed it but it has become suppressed.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the darshan diary, Zorba the Buddha. “Life is a divine continuum. It has no beginning, and no end. It is forever and forever.”
“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Perfume’; “Each sense has two possibilities: if the energy falls …downwards, then it is sexual; if the energy rises upwards, then it is spiritual.”
“A cup of tea declares that the night is over, wake up! Be aware and see the whole beauty of existence. The universe has allowed you one day more – you cannot demand, it is a gift.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the darshan series, Nothing to Lose but Your Head
Osho speaks on ‘Boxing’; “[The psychiatrist’s] whole expertise is how to put you back and make you normally mad.”
Osho suggests to a sannyasin in darshan: “Whenever you commit a mistake again, go into the process of it, see why, how, it happens.”
“…but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.” A short excerpt where Osho speaks on personality and individuality
“I have been telling you: drop it. Now sit down. Be just human. Here nobody is an emperor and nobody is a beggar. Here everybody is himself. Just be yourself.”
A Cup of Tea (162). “When you are hungry you eat, when you are thirsty you drink, and when you meet a friend you greet him.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series, Until you Die. “The mystery of life is not something which can be solved or which is ever solved. It has to be lived.”
Osho answers a question by Nitin Bharti; “You have to learn how to say yes with totality. That is trust, that is surrender, that is faith.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Music’; “If you are sitting by a waterfall just listen to the sound of the waterfall and become one with it.”
A Cup of Tea (161); “Death is within you, because death is the other side of life. Life cannot exist without death; they both belong to the same energy as positive and negative poles.”
“It is not like dropping clothes – it is as if one’s skin is being peeled off. Your past is all that you know you are.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Dance with existence! Live it, be it and allow it to happen in its total mystery within you!”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Relating’; “Two lovers support something invisible and something immensely valuable: some poetry of being, some music heard in the deepest recesses of their existence.”
English translation of a letter by Osho to Mr Ashvani Kumar Saini, then a student at the Engineering College, Jabalpur
Osho speaks on the sutra, ‘Intone a sound, as Aum, slowly. As sound enters soundfulness, so do you…’ from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
“Alexander the Great, or others of his category – are perhaps searching for something else, and are not aware of it. They are searching for greatness – but greatness does not come from acquiring an empire. Greatness comes from becoming your real self, bringing your potentiality to actualization.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; ““We are always in the present… We can project in the future great illusions, but still we are here-now.”
“…of dropping the mind, of moving from the bridge, moving into the unknown, taking a jump into the mysterious.” (with audio)
“The moment a synchronicity happens… between the heart of the man of the vertical and the heart of the man who is not yet vertical… you also start moving vertically.”
“You should be faithful only to love, not to the lover. Both should be faithful to love, as long as it lasts. If it lasts your whole life, good. If it does not last your whole life that is even better!”
“Not only Buddha, nobody has come down from the seventh heaven, ever. But a few people get obsessed, identified with their reflections.”
Osho speaks on ‘Decision’ in a darshan; “Whenever it is a question of choosing between the old and the new, always choose the new.”
“Trusting me you will be able to trust yourself, because trusting me, for the first time you will start tasting what trust is.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death…”
“This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. This moment this cake is delicious.”