Osho: “Yes, to know oneself is very elementary.”

Osho states, “Understanding is not gradual, understanding is a sudden flash.”

“The quintessence of Tao is ‘Tathata’, acceptability. Where there is total acceptability, there is the condition of desirelessness,” states Osho.

“The One and only God is known only when a person gets beheaded,” comments Osho on this anecdote.

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!”

Osho states, “We come and we go; we are like the line drawn over water…”

Osho states, “The moment you say something about the first principle, you go wrong.”

Osho says, “The ego thinks it can do everything. It lives with this fallacy. The part lives with the fallacy that it is the whole.”

“Carrying fuel, drawing water from the well and he says, ‘How mysterious.'”

Osho tells a story about the Sufi mystic, Junaid, who had lived with almost all the great masters…

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.”

Osho says, “Either you can become a man of being, or you can become a man of having.”

Bauls say, “Whatsoever you love you become, and whatsoever is your love you will find.”

Zarathustra has said, “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. He is a bridge and you should not make your house on the bridge…”

One of the Zen stories Osho commented upon for the series, ‘No Water No Moon’.

Osho states, “The whole function of the Master is just to bring you home – which you had never left in the first place.”

Osho on Chekhov’s story: “To say no to anything is very easy… To be positive, to say yes, is very difficult.”

Osho states, “Ego is a false notion of something which is not there at all. ‘Self’ means a center which can promise. This center is created by being continuously aware, constantly aware.”

“For twenty-four hours, wait; and after twenty-four hours, whatever comes to you, go and do.”

“Truth is not decided by voting. It is not a question of how many people believe in it,” confirms Osho.

Osho comments on one of the many mysterious stories of the Sufis; “Whenever a mood comes to you … always remember: This, too, will pass.”

“How can you become a Buddha? Either you are, or you are not. How can you become?” asks Osho.

Osho says, “Through judgment you can never be intimate with a Master. Judgment creates barriers. Only through trust an intimacy arises…”

Osho states, “Democracy basically is mobocracy. There is a tendency in the mob to follow others. Somebody raises his hand, the others follow. The mob are like sheep.”

“Trust is a touchstone… One day you come across a real touchstone. You pick it up, it is warm, but still you throw it,” states Osho.

“Reality is… far more than our logic… Reality is this great jungle of infinity.”

An anecdote told by Osho where a monk became enlightened when he overheard a butcher say, ‘I never sell anything that is not the best.’

Osho says, “A simple person is not one who possesses nothing, a simple person is one who has no possessiveness, who never looks back.”

“Almost every country has its own love stories, but nothing compared to Layla and Majnun because it has a Sufi message in it,” explains Osho.

“‘Yes, I am dying, but I must sing!’ Francis has become the song. … There is absolute silence inside. Out of that silence this song is born,” says Osho.

Osho states, “If you go on listening to people you will become more and more confused.”

Osho quotes a famous sentence of Mencius: “If you want to reach, never run.”

“You are a totally new manifestation of God. It has never been before so there has never been a person exactly like you,” states Osho.

Osho says, “You can never be somebody else. Remember it as one of the most fundamental laws. Aes dhammo sanantano…” – illustrated by two stories.

Osho says, “Discontent clouds your eyes and your vision; contentment makes your eyes unclouded and your vision clear.”

“Don’t force rules, just try to understand things. If you force rules upon yourself you will not become enlightened,” states Osho.

“Difficult not to choose, but try – and in everything… When you feel hate, try to move to the middle. When you feel love, try to move to the middle,” states Osho.

… a man questioned the tailor. ‘Don’t you remember God created the whole world in six days?’ The tailor said, ‘I know. And look at the world, how he messed it. That’s what happens if you do things in six days.’ An anecdote told by Osho

“All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back,” adds Osho to the anecdote.

Osho says: “You cannot repress any thought… The easiest thing is not to force, but to be just a witness.”

“If this is possible – to have space and togetherness both – ‘then the winds of heaven dance between you…'” states Osho.

“You can’t please everyone. If you try, you lose yourself,” comments Osho.

“People … think the ego comes through prestige and power – renounce power, renounce prestige – but then the ego comes through your humbleness,” says Osho.

“The people you think are moral are just repressed people, egoistic, carrying all sorts of repressed desires in them. Once an opportunity is given to them, they will explode,” concludes Osho.

“Wisdom is practical, knowledge impractical. Knowledge is abstract, wisdom is earthly; knowledge is just words, wisdom is experience,” comments Osho.

“Remember this story when you pray. Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon,” says Osho.

Osho says, “If you really understand me only then will you drop your clinging to me.”

“I love this parable. God is a storyteller, he loves jokes…” comments Osho.

“This Sufi saying wants to create the third type of man, the real man: who knows how to do and who knows how not to do,” expounds Osho.

“The mystery will remain a mystery, but by becoming yourself a mystery, you will understand,” adds Osho

“We are not satisfied with anything, and we go on asking for more, and we go on making our life more of a confusion,” states Osho.

“What he means simply is that you should not feel guilty. Whatever you do – if it is not right, don’t do it again,” comments Osho.

“Unless something is your experience, don’t go on deceiving yourself,” comments Osho.

Junnaid says to Mansoor, “Remember, there is no home. Or, the home is everywhere – both are true.” An anecdote told by Osho.

“…And if his patients are sick, then his salary should be cut,” suggests Osho, as Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu had proposed to their emperor.

Osho describes the moment Maharshi dies and adds: “There is nowhere to go. This is the only existence there is, this is the only dance there is – where can one go?”

“A real man of understanding never renounces anything. He simply understands: ‘Nothing is there to possess, so how can I renounce?'” says Osho.

“Everybody somehow is trying to feel, to convince himself, that he is the greatest man in the world … And you can always find something that will be supportive to you – but it is not really nourishing to you. It is cutting you off from existence,” states Osho.

“…You will have to lose a few things, but they are worthless. You will be gaining so much that you will never think again of what you have lost,” explains Osho.

After telling the anecdote, Osho says: “I am challenging you to jump out of the well … And the moment you see the ocean, there will be no need for me to convince you that this is bigger than your well.”