A State of Silent Identification – Osho
Please explain. Is life an observer and death observed? No, both are the observed – life and death. Beyond both is the observer. You cannot call that observer ‘life’ because life contains death in it....
View ArticleConscious While Dreaming – Osho
Will you please explain to us what are some of the other factors which can make one conscious while dreaming? This is a significant question for all those who are interested in meditation, because...
View ArticleYou are in Prison and You Think You are Free – Osho
George Gurdjieff has said: “You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.” What are...
View ArticleSandhya: Twilight of Meditation – Osho
When people come to me and they ask, “How to meditate?” I tell them, “There is no need to ask how to meditate, just ask how to remain unoccupied. Meditation happens spontaneously. Just ask how to...
View ArticleEmptiness Has Its Own Fullness – Osho
For years I have contemplated what seems to me to be the basic message for well-being: love yourself. When I was a therapist, all day hearing, “I hate myself; I feel sorry for myself; I am proud of...
View ArticleSammasati – Osho
What exactly is the right remembrance that Buddha talks about? I go on remembering all kinds of things you have said, and my own insights, but isn’t that my mind trying to deceive mind? And who is...
View ArticleNothing Is Found – Osho
I was brought up in the teachings of Rudolph Steiner, but I could not yet break through my barriers towards him. Although I believe him to be right in the way he shows that for the West, the...
View ArticleHere is Your Home, Your Eternal Being – Osho
How are one-pointedness, concentration and meditation related to each other? Prem Dinesh, one-pointedness, concentration and meditation are not related to each other at all. This is one of the...
View ArticleLove is Greater than Truth – Osho
We can practice right behavior, and behavior according to duty, but then we will be waring false faces, as we are inwardly, as you say, a madhouse. So should we act as we feel, or act as we ought? The...
View ArticleTranslucent Darkness – Osho
Man up to now has lived in a very schizophrenic way. The reason why he has become divided is not very difficult to understand. For centuries he has been told that the world consists not of one world...
View ArticleMeditate Constantly – Osho
Meditate constantly. The person who is a seeker will not really be interested in getting only philosophical answers from others; he will be interested in knowing on his own. He will not be interested...
View ArticleYou Will Find the Christ – Osho
Can Buddha or Christ be created or developed out of every common human being? Or is Buddha or Christ only born as such? Every man is Buddha, every man is Christ: I feel it is not true. Bal Krishna...
View ArticleThe Path of Intelligence – Osho
Can the intellect be a door to enlightenment, or is enlightenment only achieved through surrender? Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots...
View ArticleMeditation is Your Mastercard – Osho
The other night during darshan, listening to your answer to Nivedano’s question, I had tears running down my face. For the first time in the seven years I’ve been with you, I could not only...
View ArticleThree Floors of Buddha’s Temple – Osho
The magnificent temple that Buddha built consists of three floors; his teaching has three dimensions to it, or three layers. And you will have to be very patient to understand those three layers. I say...
View ArticleGod Is Dead – Osho
Why did Friedrich Nietzsche declare that God is dead? Narayana, he had to declare it, because God was dead. The God that had been worshipped for thousands of years was dead; not the real God, but the...
View ArticleMeher Baba Attained Through Staring – Osho
Or stare without moving an eyelash. This or stare without moving an eyelash was the method of Meher Baba. For years together he was staring just at the ceiling of his room. For years together he was...
View ArticleAll Methods are Postponements – Osho
If the divine is right here and now, then what prevents us from seeing Him? Why do we cling to our dream life, even though it has become a misery for us? No, it has not become a misery for you yet;...
View ArticleUnwind Your Mind – Osho
I am fifty, but I don’t yet feel really mature and fully grown up. What is the matter with me? Maybe you have not yet killed anybody. That’s a must. If you want to become mature, you have to become a...
View ArticleLove is Greater than Truth – Osho
We can practice right behavior, and behavior according to duty, but then we will be waring false faces, as we are inwardly, as you say, a madhouse. So should we act as we feel, or act as we ought? The...
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