“That’s what enlightenment is all about: to be unself-conscious.”
“A real man of awakening is not hard, he is not frozen. He has melted. The ice has disappeared into water.”
“Even now I am not part of the ashram. I cannot be part of any institution or any organization, even my own.”
Excerpted for the topic of ‘Awake’; “The real waking state happens only when you are completely deprogrammed, unconditioned.”
“It is not that you have to become a Buddha, you are a Buddha, fallen asleep. Somebody needs to kick you. Somebody needs to shout at you. Somebody needs to hit you. And that is the purpose of a master.”
“I am giving you a simple alternative: you have to drop your whole past – your hatred, your distinctions of color and nation, your fights amongst religions, political ideologies…”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Nudity’; “We have created a world around ourselves and we have cut ourselves off from nature. We have become uprooted – and this uprootedness is one of the basic causes of your misery.”
“Competition is one of the most irreligious things in the world, but that’s what everybody is doing.”
Phoebe comments on the last two chapters of the discourse series, Roots and Wings. Protagonists are Mahakashyapa and the Zen monk Ziguin
Osho speaks in darshan to a sannyasin who is leaving to visit her dying father, and gives her a special meditation. “I call it emptying. Just empty yourself of everything, like a zero, just a nothingness.”
While researching dates in Osho’s life for sannyas.wiki, Swami Shailendra came across a poignant passage in a Hindi discourse – one that, as the family later realised, coincided precisely with the evening their grandmother passed away
“The ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose – when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance.”
“You are your world, so when you change your attitude you change the very world in which you exist.”
Q: When I awake in the morning I feel very depressed… I want to know if I can do something when I feel depressed.
“When someone becomes enlightened it is a death deeper than ordinary death; when someone becomes enlightened he comes to know that he is not the body. The attachment, the identification, disappears.”
Osho comments on anecdotes about Zen Masters Ekido, Mu-Nan and Nansen, in the discourse series Roots and Wings – by Phoebe
“I teach you first to live as a Zorba, and only on that foundation will be raised the temple of your buddhahood.”
“Meditation simply means removing the dust that the fakir threw on the eye. And the dust is nothing but the whole mind process of thoughts, desires, imagination, memory.”
“These ten non-commandments constitute my basic attitude towards reality, towards man’s freedom from all kinds of spiritual slavery.”
The video from a 1978 BBC/ITV programme surfaced recently on social media, here with a short introduction by Subhuti who was also seen at the British tea party, and transcription of KP’s interview thanks to Nirbija
“The true word, the authentic word, always creates silence in you. That is the criterion of its power…”
“Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world – the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here.”
“If you really want to wake up and if you also want to become part of the great hope for humanity and the future of man, then die to the past, so that you can be reborn to the future.”
In this final instalment of a three-part interview with Osho’s childhood friend Sukhraj, life itself becomes the teacher. A drunken welcome, a near-fatal accident, a devastating flood – and one sentence transforms everything
In the second instalment of this interview Sukhraj Bharti reflects on the dawning recognition of his childhood friend as Bhagwan – and on the strange intimacy, pride and playfulness that continued between them
“A total yes is sannyas, an unconditional yes: yes to all, to life and to death – because death is not against life but is life’s ultimate culmination, its highest peak.”
Quote chosen for the topic of ‘Boredom’; “It is a goading for the search. It is a goading towards God, towards Tao.”
“Prayer is not saying something to God; on the contrary, it is listening to God. It is being ready to receive his gift.”
In part 2 of her new series, Phoebe examines Osho’s Glimpses of a Golden Childhood from another aspect, and we meet his Nani, Pagal Baba, Magga Baba, Masto and Prof. S.S. Roy as his mentors