“If we see changes in the situation we change immediately, as if we have no integrated soul, no crystallized soul.”
An essay by Shanti on “a fascinating man’s life.”
“Clouds gather and go, they disappear, they are accidental, but the sky remains. You are the sky.”
“The only miracle, the impossible miracle, is to be just ordinary.”
Vivekananda was called and Ramakrishna shouted very angrily and said, ‘Is this the way to use power?’
“Love is a law unto itself; it needs no other law,” states Osho.
Osho comments: “If there is such test, such totality of trust, time is not needed. If there is no trust, then even three lives are not enough.”
“Even an unenlightened Master, with deep trust, can revolutionize your life. And the reverse is also true: even an enlightened Master may not be of any help. It depends on you…” says Osho.
“If there is no death, there will be no life either,” says Osho.
“Remember, wherever you pay your attention, that becomes your reality,” states Osho.
Another Sufi story featuring Akbar: “That girl’s love was far deeper. She was closer to God than I was…”
A Sufi story told be Osho.
“Your mind is nothing but a teaspoon and with it you are trying to exhaust the oceanic existence.”
“This is the man of individuality, who does not care for his life, for his body, who has no fear. He accepted death with joy.”
“The golden gate is open for those who are simple, who are humble, who are almost nobodies…” adds Osho.
Osho states, “When you are seeing a sunset and you are overwhelmed by its beauty, in that moment there is knowing.”
Osho states, “You cannot enter into the same river even once!”
In part two of his essay, Shanti concludes after his deliberations with Procrustes that “Everyone of us is a unique expression of ‘Existence’.”
“The presence of the master, his charisma, his energy is missing in the written word,” states Osho.
In this two-part essay, Shanti explores the path from the mind to living from the heart.
“Intellectuals are profound archers – first they shoot the arrow and then they draw the target!” explains Osho.
“Whatever you have, you don’t recognize its value unless you lose it,” says Osho.
Osho states, “In science, in archery, in other arts, concentration may be of great use – but it is not meditation.”
Osho states: “There is no need to have boundaries of nations, because the earth has no boundaries.”
Osho says, “Freedom means tremendous responsibility; you are on your own and alone.”
Osho states, “All your work is concerned with shifting your focus from the object to the subject.”
Bodhidharma: “No action is holy, because every action arises out of the ego…”
“Your mind is hell. Going beyond your mind is heaven,” states Osho.
“What kind of home is this where people go on changing? It is a caravanserai. It is just an overnight stay, and then one has to go.”
“You have to catch hold of your inner light with your own awareness. Other than that there is no way,” says Osho.
“The answer comes in a moment of relaxation,” states Osho.
“Just sit by the stream of your mind. Don’t do anything; nothing is expected from you.”
Osho states, “Life has to be lived without questions and without answers…”
“Prayer is just your effort to persuade God to do things according to you… I am against prayer. I am for meditation,” says Osho.
“You need not worry; you do the best you can do with life… And everything else will follow on its own accord,” states Osho.
Osho states, “Ask questions – not out of knowledge… Ask out of your ignorance.”
Osho states, “The flower of love can blossom only when there is no ego, when there is no effort to dominate…”
Osho comments, “Only a master can save you who comes near to you and at the same time is far away from you.”
“No one recognises souls, only the clothes are recognized,” states Osho.
“I am love. And if you cannot see it in my dancing, then you will certainly not see it at all when I stop dancing.”
“He does not paint for any purpose. Painting is his dance with colors,” says Osho.
“Men have not allowed women to become enlightened… to be anything that is their potential,” states Osho.
Osho says, “That which is unnatural cannot be moral.”
“Wherever you are sitting, wherever you are, your being there should make the place important, not vice versa,” states Osho.
Osho quotes Coleridge: “These poems are the poems of my freedom – existence becoming free through me. These poems will have to wait.”
Osho says, “You have to remember that wherever you are it is a holy land and whatever you are doing it is divine.”
“Between these two, everybody exists. Being a prince or being a beggar are just identities given by others. It is not your reality.”
Osho states, “In Sufism there is no one compared with Rabiya al-Adabiya.”
Osho: “That’s what I have been doing my whole life, telling people, ‘Just a little more. Soon you will be reaching.'”
Osho says, “A poet cannot be corrected by a grammarian, by a linguist or by a scholar.”
Osho says, “Your mind is just… a TV screen or a drama stage. You are not supposed to act. You are not supposed to do anything.”
Osho says, “If surrender sits on the shoulders of your will, you have managed one of the greatest things in life.”
“Staking everything, knowing that you are gambling with the unknown… you may be victorious, you may be a failure, but it does not matter,” states Osho.
“Our own imagination is our last barrier. Once we are without imagination then reality is there face to face,” says Osho.
“The best in art, the best in music, the best in literature, the best in philosophy, the best in religion – all are mysteries,” says Osho.
“You are living surrounded by death, and if this can be remembered, this can become the greatest stimulation for meditation, for awareness,” says Osho.
Osho states that “all religions have been teaching that everything is a dream.”
“The man of compassion has to lie. The lie is only a device to wake you up,” explains Osho.
Osho states, “Each system is perfect and works. But don’t mix it with anything else; let it function on its own.”
“If your life is becoming insane just look deep down – you will find that all this deciding is driving you mad too,” says Osho.