Osho talks on ‘Breath’; “In Tantra, love-making is allowed only when you have learnt how to make love and yet keep your breath cool, rhythmic.”
Osho’s reply to a question from Italian TV, just a few months before he left his body.
“You have been eternally here, and you will be eternally here,” states Osho.
Osho speaks on Desiderata’s line: ‘Be yourself.’
A short meditation by Osho.
Osho explains that the name ‘Chinmatra’ simply means: only consciousness is true.
“You are living surrounded by death, and if this can be remembered, this can become the greatest stimulation for meditation, for awareness,” says Osho.
… with commentaries by Osho.
“Because the world consists of miserable people, you can force them to do anything,” declares Osho.
A poem by Leopold Staff with a commentary by Osho.
“First I want you to be established as a buddha. Then the second step is very easy: any day I can tell you to jump into the cosmos,” says Osho.
Osho states that “all religions have been teaching that everything is a dream.”
Be thankful, you are alive! Kul Bhushan’s thoughts about last year and the present.
Osho comments on: ‘Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter…’
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Osho’s letter to Krishna Saraswati, written on 20 February 1971.
Osho speaks on ‘Aloneness’; “Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience… If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness.”
Excerpt about Osho from an article discussing Indian godmen Paramahamsa Nithyananda alias Nithyanand and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan. By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, published in Blitz Weekly on 25 December 2020.
Welcome the New Year with Phoebe’s horoscope. Osho: “If you desire growth you will have to be always ready to move through new visions, new territories, new planes…”
Osho continues with the line in Desiderata: ‘Without surrender, without making any compromise, remain yourself.’
Nan In said to the archbishop, “Whoever has written these sentences will become a buddha in some future life.”
Akhil and six-year-old daughter Premo are called up in darshan to come forward to sit in front of Osho.
Osho reveals the secret how he is able to talk.
A meditation given to a new disciple during sannyas darshan.
The village where Osho was born has all but forgotten him. Sravani Sarkar visits Kuchwada. Published in The Week Magazine, December 13, 2020.
Osho speaks on the line from the Desiderata: ‘If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.’
“The man of compassion has to lie. The lie is only a device to wake you up,” explains Osho.
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Intuition that cannot be explained by knowledge or experience is actually the centre of consciousness, writes Pratiksha Apurv. Published in The Times of India and Speaking Tree, November 21, 2020.
“We are to destroy the whole past. It has been a horrible past, it has been a nightmare,” states Osho.
Osho speaks in darshan to Dhyan Navya: Dhyan means meditation. Navya means new.
Osho states, “Each system is perfect and works. But don’t mix it with anything else; let it function on its own.”
A meditation given by Osho to an Enlightenment Intensive group participant during a darshan.
“Your health depends on everybody else’s health,” states Osho.
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence,” and “As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons,” are the next lines of the Desiderata.
Three quotes by Socrates and a commentary by Osho.
“If your life is becoming insane just look deep down – you will find that all this deciding is driving you mad too,” says Osho.
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This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “Wherever human mind finds any barrier, any slavery, any limitation, it fights against it. The whole human history is a fight for freedom…”
A sannyasin, arriving, says he feels simultaneously very young and very old; and he feels to be alone.
Osho states: “He was a conqueror. He was pushing the river of life according to his desires… Please, flow with the river. You are a part, you cannot impose yourself on the whole; the whole is infinite.”
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Osho comments on the first sentence of the Desiderata: Hear then the wisdom of the wise…
Osho says, “There is a way of being in contact with reality without words… Words don’t help, they hinder.”
“…your soul is intrinsically free. You don’t have to ask for it, and you don’t have to struggle for it. It is already there, this very moment,” says Osho.
In a discourse in 1971, Osho made a prophetic statement.
Deva Dosa contemplates miraculous healings and insights from an abundance of zoom offerings facilitated by the Osho Atlanta team and others.
Osho quotes Rabia al-Adawiyya as saying: “The heard is the lie and the seen is the truth.”
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 speaks on the names he gives to his sannyasins.
Excerpt from a sizeable article by Shyam Lal Soni, a childhood friend of Osho. Translated from Hindi.
“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.”