“Perfectionism is a kind of inhuman ideal. You cannot think of Buddha crying,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Sannyas is the beginning of getting out of the law of karma.”
Sundar recalls a special moment in darshan when he passed on a message to Osho.
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.
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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.”
Deva Dosa contemplates miraculous healings and insights gained from a profound Upasana Meditation, shared globally for the first time via an Internet platform.
“Nothing is small in itself and nothing is big in itself. It is all comparative,” states Osho.
Osho talks on ‘Depression’: “Whenever you are depressed, wait for the moment that the depression goes.”
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Osho says that rebellion is the greatest spiritual phenomenon.
Osho: “Yes, to know oneself is very elementary.”
A haiku by Taneda Santōka, with a commentary by Osho.
“Many, many times man has become very civilized, and many, many times all civilization has disappeared from the earth,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Understanding is not gradual, understanding is a sudden flash.”
“Either be more free or be more conscious, and the other will result automatically,” says Osho.
“To be sane in this insane society is really a great work of understanding, courage, rebellion,” states Osho.
Phoebe’s horoscope with quotes by Osho; “All anxiety, all suffering exists because of you – the shadow of the shadow. The self is unreal, the ego is unreal, and because of that unreal self many unreal shadows are created.”
Osho comments on a sutra, “So the first thing Uwais says is, ‘This is my feeling. I live moment to moment, without any plan or future. I don’t know what is going to happen this evening – maybe death.'”
“Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears,” says Osho.
Anand Haridas reviews Osho’s book, a translation from Hindi: “Osho’s song begins with Yaari’s but takes its own path. He sings throughout the ten discourses on nature.”
“The quintessence of Tao is ‘Tathata’, acceptability. Where there is total acceptability, there is the condition of desirelessness,” states Osho.
The clock represents the mind – and not just literally, not just as a metaphor; mind is time, states Osho.
“Man… never makes any effort, even in finding one very fundamental thing: who he is, from where he comes, and what is his destiny, where he is going,” states Osho.
“The One and only God is known only when a person gets beheaded,” comments Osho on this anecdote.
About 30 years ago, Sardarji gave Anuragi a hand-written joke from Osho as a present.
Deva Dosa contemplates miraculous healings and insights from the abundance of Zoom offerings (Part 2).
Osho states, “There is still hope for humanity.”
Osho says, “To be encrusted in gold and to die are one and the same thing… The greater the wealth you want to achieve the more dead you have to be…. All heights are suicidal!”
“Every moment, everything is changing,” states Osho.
An article by Avijit Pathak, Professor of Sociology at JNU, published on 29 August 2020 in The New Leam.
“The rebel is in a state of tremendous love with freedom – total freedom, nothing less than that,” states Osho.
Osho states, “We come and we go; we are like the line drawn over water…”
A second letter by Osho to Krishna Saraswati dated 19 February 1971 – with a Sufi story.
Phoebe’s horoscope with quotes from Osho; “…where is the I, the ego? In the very intensity of consciousness the ego is no more.”
Osho answers a question by Prem Adina, stating “We are all connected in a thousand-and-one ways. “
Osho states, “The moment you say something about the first principle, you go wrong.”
Osho says, “…you all have come with a return ticket.”
“An upanishad is a mystery school. And we are entering into an upanishad today,” declares Osho on August 16, 1986.
(27 November 1951 – 7 August 2020)
Osho answers in darshan to Nitya about her giving massages.
Osho says, “When the society is in a turmoil and everything is in crisis, a chaos pervades – this is the moment, if you want, you can escape from the prison.”
“Carrying fuel, drawing water from the well and he says, ‘How mysterious.'”
Osho states, “all divisions are wrong.”
Osho tells a story about the Sufi mystic, Junaid, who had lived with almost all the great masters…
Srajan’s impressions about three very special hand-painted Japanese scrolls.
Phoebe’s horoscope with quotes from Osho; “…if nothing is needed for your bliss, only then can you be blissful.”
From a discourse by Osho on Sufism: “If you have known love you have known death, if you have known meditation you have known death.”
Osho states, “The whole of existence exists without any logic. It may be a poetry but it is not a syllogism – hence it is so beautiful.”
While working as a guard at Lao Tzu Gate, Arjuna recalls a tremendously deep teaching by Osho.
A letter by Osho to Yoga Geeta, dated 2 March 1966.
Osho on Hypocrisy: “Once you recognize that you are wearing a mask, the mask has already started slipping…”
Osho says, “…words can’t convey that which I am and I have to go on trying to do something which is not possible.”
Osho says, “Either you can become a man of being, or you can become a man of having.”
Anuragi, on a visit to Chandrapur (Chanda) a few months ago, met with Sharda, Anandmayee’s eldest daughter.
“We have succeeded only in creating a hypocrite world. It is not civilized, it is not cultured,” states Osho.
Bauls say, “Whatsoever you love you become, and whatsoever is your love you will find.”
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
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Osho speaks on ‘Listening’; “My success is to give you a real taste so that you can become confident that meditation is not a fiction.”