The Fire of Awareness – Osho
When I become more and more aware, my attention develops and there remains a feeling that I exist, I am present, I am aware. Please explain how this feeling can be dissolved into an egoless state of...
View ArticleEnergy and Understanding – Osho
Is there any relationship between understanding and energy? Santosh, yes. There is great relationship. In fact, to call it relationship is not right – because energy is understanding. They are not two...
View ArticleI Have Taken All Those Props from You – Osho
When you wiped out temples and worship and gachchhamis, I got a sinking feeling that maybe you had given up on us. The most shocking revelation of the past month has been the gross stupidity we have...
View ArticleYour Meditation Will Take You, I Cannot Take You Anywhere
Krishna said to Arjuna, “Surrender and I promise you moksha.” Jesus also said to his disciples, “Come follow me and I will take you to the kingdom, to God.” But you say to us that you can only show...
View ArticleTurning Inward Toward the Real – Osho
Civilization is a training in how to become unreal. Tantra is the reverse process – how to prevent yourself from becoming unreal, and if you have already become unreal, how to touch the reality which...
View ArticleYour House is on Fire – Osho
I have heard one anecdote. In a conservative party rally, Lord Mancroft was invited to speak. He came right on time, reached the rostrum and said to the public – he was looking a little flustered – he...
View ArticleA Noah’s Ark of Consciousness – Osho
Rocks easily destroy flowers. The politicians and religions sense that enlightenment, freedom and individuality threaten their power. Is it fear alone that is the basis of the dark use of intelligence...
View ArticleDeath is Not the Enemy – Osho
Death is not the enemy. It appears to be so because we cling too much to life. The fear of death arises out of the clinging. And because of this clinging we are unable to know what death is. Not only...
View ArticleBeware of Thinking! – Osho
Once a doctor, a very well-known historian and an eminent scholar, was staying in a village. The postmaster, the old postmaster of the village, became curious about this old man, this doctor. He was...
View ArticleEnter Into the Mysterium – Osho
Life is not a problem but a mystery. For science life is a problem, but for religion it is a mystery. A problem can be solved, a mystery cannot be solved – it can be lived but it cannot be solved....
View ArticleMeditation is Not Interference – Osho
You say that millions of lives and millions of years of natural evolution can be avoided through reaching total awareness and total freedom. Can it not be argued that karma, with its natural forces of...
View ArticleMan is an Opportunity – Osho
Man is not a meaning but an opportunity. The meaning is possible, but is not given. The meaning can be created, but it is not already there. It is a task not a gift. Life is a gift, but life is open...
View ArticleFour Types of Samadhis – Osho
In which body is that obtained which you refer to as samadhi? Actually there are many types of samadhi. One samadhi will take place between the fourth and the fifth body. Remember, samadhi is not a...
View ArticleA Symphony of Fireflies
New River A few weeks ago, Amido and I were camping on the bank of the New River in New River State Park, North Carolina, and in the early morning I stepped out of the tent for a sitting meditation...
View ArticleThe Rhythm of Opposites – Osho
One of the greatest poets, Walt Whitman, is reported to have said, “I contradict myself because I am big, I contradict myself because I contain all the opposites, because I am all.” The same thing can...
View ArticleFind Out What Your Path Is – Osho
Will you please tell us why Krishnamurti is against techniques, whereas Shiva is for so many techniques. Being against techniques is simply a technique. Not only Krishnamurti is using that technique,...
View ArticleMeditation is Not an Experience, it Is a Realization – Osho
How can one know that the spiritual search in which one is involved is not an ego-trip, but is an authentic religions search? If you don’t know, if you are confused, then know well that this is an...
View ArticleNone of My Sannyasins are to Become Saviors – Osho
Though your emphasis has been for us, as individuals, to go within to save ourselves, I guess I am still naïve enough to feel that our love, our dancing, our joy could still save this beautiful planet....
View ArticleFulfillment Through Centering – Osho
There are many questions. The first: Is self- actualization a basic need of man? First, try to understand what is meant by self-actualization. A. H. Maslow has used this term “self-actualization.” Man...
View ArticleSunyawad, The Philosophy of Emptiness – Osho
These techniques are concerned with emptiness – they are the most delicate, the most subtle. Even to conceive of emptiness seems impossible. Buddha used all these four techniques for his disciples and...
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