Be a Light Unto Yourself – Osho
Is Zen the path of surrender? Then how come the basic teaching of Buddha is ‘Be a light unto yourself’? The essential surrender happens within you, it has nothing to do with anybody outside you. The...
View ArticleThe Greater Sensitivity, the Greater the Detachment – Osho
With deepening meditation, one becomes more and more sensitive to objects, events and persons. But due to this heightened sensitivity one feels a sort of deep intimacy with everything, and this usually...
View ArticleSurrender is Understanding – Osho
My surrender is goal-oriented. I’m surrendering in order to win freedom, so it is not real surrender at all. I’m watching it, but the problem is: it is always “I” who is watching. Therefore, every...
View ArticleTathata Means Suchness
In my sannyas darshan, Osho assigned two groups for me to do in the couple of weeks that I would be in Poona before heading to the States. The first was Tathata which was somewhat modeled on the EST...
View ArticleThe World Needs Masters – Osho
Can you explain the fine line between our trust in you and the saying, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him”? There is no fine line. Unless you trust, you don’t have a Buddha, you don’t have a...
View ArticleBuddha’s Inner Orgasm – Osho
We have always heard that tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the...
View ArticleBeyond Duality – Osho
You said that existence is a wholeness, that everything is related, that things are melting into each other, that the tree cannot be without the sun and the sun also cannot exist without the tree. In...
View ArticleBuddhaghosha
Buddhaghosha was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka of the Vibhajjavāda school and...
View ArticlePlease Don’t Try and Watch Others – Osho
Sometimes as I watch people playing the same old games over and over, my eyes feel ancient and jaded and my heart weary and cynical. I guess it’s because I’m feeling more and more my own games and...
View ArticleCharacter is Stagnant, Consciousness is a River – Osho
Why don’t you give your disciples a certain mode of conduct? Isn’t a moral character necessary for a spiritual life? Mahendra Singh, my whole effort is to give you a consciousness, not a character....
View ArticleMa Satya Priya, a True Rebel
Ma Satya Priya was a unique soul, a true rebel. Here are two posts from her four years apart. You can see that her rebelliousness was what true rebelliousness is; open, fluid, not fixed to the memories...
View ArticleJust a Liquid Friendliness – Osho
I am familiar with the master disciple relationship after years of being around you. Could you please comment on the disciple-disciple relationship? There is no such thing. Disciples in the past have...
View ArticleNow Wake Up! – Osho
Kabir says: My inside, listen to me, the greatest spirit, the teacher, is near, wake up, wake up! The original is: Parmatma guru nikat viraje, jag jag man mere . . . Your real Master, your God, is...
View ArticleMombasa and Moroni
In Nairobi, Kenya, while lying on my bunk in a youth hostel, a big blonde American guy entered the room and walked right up to me. His name was Peter. I wasn’t the only one in the room, there were...
View ArticleNegative Projection, a Technique of Visualization – Osho
Mind itself means projection, so unless you transcend the mind, whatever you come to experience is projection. Mind is the projecting mechanism. If you experience any visions of light, of bliss, even...
View ArticleFrom the Lowlands to the Highlands
The coast of Madagascar was a sight to see, miles and miles of white beaches, palm trees with the mountains behind, and not a soul in sight. We pulled into a small village in the north of the country...
View ArticleSeven Concentric Circles – Osho
Man is a bridge between the known and the unknown. To remain confined in the known is to be a fool. To go in search of the unknown is the beginning of wisdom. To become one with the unknown is to...
View ArticleNot Twoness
One summer day when I was Junior High School age, I must have been 13 or 14, I was sitting across the street from the house of two brothers who were friends of mine. They were eating lunch and I was...
View ArticleDon’t Miss this Opportunity – Osho
I feel so much resistance against meditation and I don’t have this desire for God that you speak about. Is this the right place for me? If you feel much resistance against meditation, it simply shows...
View ArticleThe World of the Gurus has Ended – Osho
My Friends and my Fellow Travelers, I would have loved to use the Urdu words for the same, because they have a depth and a poetry . . . even the very sound of them rings bells in the heart. The...
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