Tagore’s insight “that the moon is the moon whether you have a very beautiful mirror or a very ordinary mirror.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your very being has to be musical, it has to become harmony. A man can exist as a chaos or a cosmos. Music is the way from chaos to cosmos.”
Osho replies in writing to the question: ‘Can one meditate on a formless entity? And if so, will the formless remain formless?’
“Pravira means one who is very courageous. And the greatest courage in life is to live totally, in spite of all the priests and all the people who want you not to be joyous, not to be living totally.”
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Friendship’ by commenting on Pythagoras’ sutra: “Choose for thy friend, the friend of virtue; yield to his gentle counsels, profit by his life; and for a trifling grievance never leave him.”
A handwritten note (𝟷𝟿𝟼𝟼-𝟼𝟽) by Osho, published in Naye Sanket, and translated in Wings of Love & Random Thoughts
“Whatsoever you believe becomes effective,” says Osho. “You see only that which you are looking for.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your heart is beating now. It cannot beat in the past; it cannot beat in the future. The heart knows only the present, hence it is utterly pure…”
“When the disciple touches the feet of the master, it is not only what you see, something else is happening.”
Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment; “If people choose to learn about Osho from Chat AI they may well get a much less biased view than if they read old lifestyle magazine articles…”
“The deepest core of being is non-being. The foundation of isness is nothingness. And when I say nothingness I don’t mean nothingness – I only mean no-thingness.”
“Wherever you go, you go with the idea of profit, achievement, success, attainment. If somebody has come here with this idea he should leave as soon as possible, run as fast as possible from me, because I cannot help you to become somebody.”
“Sex is only the alphabet of love, bricks out of which you can make a Taj Mahal. But Taj Mahal is not just bricks,” states Osho
“If you love a man, meditation will be the best present that you can give to him. If you love a woman, then the Kohinoor is nothing; meditation will be a far more precious gift – and it will make your life sheer joy.”
“First you have to become a receiver, first you have to attain to silence, then communion is possible, not before it.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The vast ocean, the infinite, is moving. You are just a wave in it. Relax, and let things be!”
“When I am talking about one way, I am that way. Don’t cling to my words, listen to the wordless message. And if it hits your heart, if it sings in your heart, then you have found your way.”
“The original mind is egoless. It does not know the ‘I’, because ‘I’ is a shrinking. The original mind is infinite, like the sky.”
“For a real lover of challenges, success and failure mean nothing,” says Osho to a sannyasin in darshan
Osho speaks on ‘Bliss’; “You cannot achieve it directly. You have to grow rose bushes; when the roses arrive there will be fragrance automatically. Bliss is a fragrance of meditation.”
“All paths can lead to it because in a way it is already achieved. It is within you. You are not seeking something new. You are seeking something which you have forgotten.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the series And the Flowers Showered; “There is no way to find truth, except through finding it!”
Osho speaks to a sannyasin in darshan, “One should always cultivate something that is purely for delight.”
“Life itself is enough unto itself. And if you are trying to fulfill some goal, you will miss life.”
Osho speaks on ‘Leela’: “Life is a leela, it is a play, and the moment you are ready to play, you are enlightened… You are already that which you are trying to be.”
“Don’t start seeking, just start looking at what is the case. Looking into the reality as it is, is enough.”
Jokes and the let-go meditation guided by Osho (with audio); “Just be a witness that you are not the body. Be a witness that you are not the mind. And finally, be a witness that you are only a witness, nothing else.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho. “This whole existence is a mystery… The deeper you go into it, the more mysterious it becomes.”
Osho states, “A destination is a very clear-cut thing; direction is very intuitive. A destination is something outside you, more like a thing. A direction is an inner feeling; not an object, but your very subjectivity…” (with audio)
Osho speaks on ‘Death – Love – Meditation’: “All that you can do is either you can go into it dancing or you can go into it reluctant, clinging to life. If you are reluctant you will miss the experience of death. If you go joyously you will have the experience of death.”
“The seeker is the sought. Just a few unnecessary things are crowding you. The search is negative – drop them and you discover yourself in all your glory.”
“Next time somebody insults you, give it five minutes, sit silently for five minutes, and then you can become angry.”
“Enlightenment certainly has no grades, but as time passes it deepens, sharpens, matures, becomes more and more rich.”
Two quotes by Osho on ‘Masks’; “When you come to a Master his work is to pull the mask away, to loosen the hold of the mask on you.”
“Consciousness is not the content. You are consciousness: thoughts come and go, you are the host. Thoughts are the guests – they come and stay for a while, take a little rest, or their food, or stay overnight, and then they are gone. You are always there.”
“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
“Somewhere a deep balance is needed. Just between the two, exactly between the two, is transcendence. “
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Once you drop expectations you have learned how to live. Then everything that happens fulfills you, whatsoever it is.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) is remembered by close friend Pupul Jayakar who is describing in her biography some of his last moments on earth… and by Osho speaking to us in discourse
“Dolphins are very loving animals, very playful, very joyous… If you are swimming, they will swim with you. If you are playing with them, they will play with you,” states Osho
“Share whatever you have gained… Your meditation is a preparation for a higher life, for a deeper life, for a more divine life. But you will have to be more loving and more compassionate…”
Osho speaks on ‘Balancing’: “Live life in all possible ways; don’t choose one thing against the other, and don’t try to be in the middle.”
“From the very beginning, everyone is a Buddha… This is the basic message of Zen – and the greatest message that has ever been delivered to man.”
“The twentieth century has brought mankind to such a peak, and his consciousness is now ready to evolve, to turn in a totally new direction,” states Osho
“Don’t try to change the circumstances of your life, try to change the psychology. Try to change your attitudes towards life, don’t try to change the outer situation. Use the outer situation and change the inner state.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Everything has to be at stake, then only is change possible. Change cannot be partial. Either it is or it is not.”
“Before Osho left his body, he himself gave the words to be inscribed on his samadhi: ‘Osho – Never Born Never Died’,” says Osho disciple Swami Chaitanya Keerti in an interview with Manoj More of the Indian Express, January 18, 2024