The 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...
View ArticleDeath is Making Love with God – Osho
Is there a difference between the Shunyavada of Nagarjuna and Avyakritopadesh, the unspoken and the undefinable teaching of Lord Buddha? There is no difference at all. If a difference appears to be...
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 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 ArticleA Total Response of His Emptiness – Osho
If there is absolute emptiness inside an enlightened one, then how is it that he seems to be making decisions, discriminating, liking this or disliking that, saying yes or no? This will really look a...
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 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...
View ArticleThe Whiskers of the Pebble – Osho
What is religion? It is not the howling of the wolves at the moon, but that’s what it has become to the masses. If the masses are right, then animals have a great religious sense – wolves howling, dogs...
View ArticleMake Haste to Become the Fourth – Osho
Gurdjieff used to say that there are seven types of men. Let me explain those seven types to you. The first three types are very ordinary. You will find them everywhere, within and without. The first,...
View ArticleCultivating Right Attitudes – Osho
The mind becomes tranquil by cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the miserable, joy towards the virtuous and indifference towards the evil. The mind also becomes...
View ArticleThe Lotus Remains Untouched – Osho
When the activity of the mind is under control, the mind becomes like pure crystal, reflecting equally, without distortion, the perceiver, the perception and the perceived. Savitarka samadhi is the...
View ArticleThe Pure Look – Osho
Nirvitarka samadhi is attained when the memory is purified, and the mind is able to see the true nature of things without obstruction. The explanations given for the samadhis of savitarka and...
View ArticleThe Thought of No-Thought – Osho
These samadhis that result from meditation on an object are samadhis with seed, and do not give freedom from the cycle of rebirth. On attaining the utmost purity of the nirvichara stage of samadhi,...
View ArticleSeedless Samadhi – Osho
In the state of nirvichara samadhi, an object is experienced in its full perspective, because in this state knowledge is gained direct, without the use of the senses. The perception gained in...
View ArticleThe Eight Limbs of Yoga – Osho
By practicing the different steps of yoga for the destruction of impurity, there arises spiritual illumination which develops into awareness of reality. The eight steps of yoga are: self-restraint,...
View ArticleAurobindo, Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi – Osho
This talk was from a series that was originally given in Hindi and subsequently translated into English. Questioner: Shree Arvind (Aurobindo) has written a commentary on the Geeta in which he talks...
View ArticleI Don’t Belong to Any Path – Osho
I took sannyas from Swami Shivand of Rishikesh after reading his book Brahmacharya and other books of his. After some years, I was attracted to Sri Ramana Maharshi and thereafter to Sri Aurobindo due...
View ArticleZen is a Deprogramming – Osho
In his book, ‘The Way of Zen,’ Alan Watts writes, “One must not forget the social context of Zen. It is primarily a way of liberation for those who have mastered the discipline of social convention, of...
View ArticleOn Nietzsche’s “God Is Dead”– Osho
Friends, a new series of talks begins today: God Is Dead, Now Zen Is the Only Living Truth. The series is dedicated to Friedrich Nietzsche, who was the first man in the history of mankind to declare,...
View ArticleMagga Baba – Osho
On this pilgrimage I have met many more remarkable men than Gurdjieff recounts in his book Meeting With Remarable Men. By and by, as and when it happens, I will talk about them. Magga Baba Today I can...
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