“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
The let-go meditation, guided by Osho (with audio). “Gather your energies, your total consciousness. And with an intensity, rush towards the center of your being. A deep urgency is needed, as if this is going to be your last moment of life.”
“The moment you have accepted the night totally – and there is no seeking and hankering for the morning – the morning has come.”
“At the moment of sandhya kal you are nearest to God; therefore the Hindus have made use of this time for prayer.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Life is a miracle because there is no reason for it to be. It is simply a miracle that you are, otherwise there is every reason for you not to be!”
Article by Amit Singh Kushwaha in Kashmir Vision on 12 December 2023; “In honoring Osho on his birth anniversary, we pay tribute to a visionary who dared to challenge the status quo, who beckoned us to awaken to our true nature, and who left an indelible mark on the tapestry of human consciousness.”
Part 1 of an interview with Osho’s mother, Ma Amrit Saraswati, first published in the Hindi Rajneesh Times
Osho speaks on the subject of ‘Sannyasin’: “My sannyas is an opening, a journey, a dance, a love affair with the unknown, a romance with existence itself, in search of an orgasmic relationship with the whole.”
“Somebody throws [the responsibility] on God, somebody on karma, somebody on destiny, somebody on the I Ching, but people go on giving it to somebody else.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho. “Man has lived uncivilized for a single reason: he never went deep into himself. I call only those people civilized who have reached their centre, and who have seen themselves as buddhas.”
Osho speaks on ‘ Awareness’. “Try to make this such a permanent state of awareness in you that whenever you start finding something wrong with the other, remember it.”
The British Library in London received the missing titles to complete their catalogue of Osho’s works, thanks to Neeten’s efforts.