Beloved Master, For the past few weeks, I have been able to sit and allow my mind to be quiet -- sometimes for only a second, but sometimes for longer. Since this has been happening, I have experienced many beautiful spaces, as if this quietness somehow...

M editate over these tremendously significant sutras of Gautama the Buddha. He says: Mistaking the false for the true And the true for the false, You overlook the heart And fill yourself with desire. MIND IS NOTHING BUT DESIRE. THE HEART KNOWS NO DESIRE....

In therapy group situations, there are three fears that always come up in people: the fear of going crazy, the fear of sexual orgasm and the fear of dying. The fear of going crazy is essentially the fear of being alone. The fear of orgasm in essence is...

One of the most significant statements ever: "LOOK INTO YOUR HEART. FOLLOW YOUR NATURE." BUDDHA IS NOT SAYING FOLLOW SCRIPTURE. He is not saying FOLLOW ME. He is not saying follow CERTAIN RULES OF CONDUCT. He is not teaching you ANY MORALITY. He is not...

There is no possibility of exchange; but at the instinctive level, everything is an exchange. You give something, you take something -- and there is every effort to take more than you give. That's the whole difficulty of all the couples around the world....

DEATH WILL TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM YOU. Empty-handed you come and empty-handed you will go... UNLESS AND UNTIL YOU LOOK WITHIN, you will remain empty. LOOK WITHIN, AND YOU BECOME AN EMPEROR; the beggar immediately disappears from you. The mind is a...

- Osho, As another of your communes takes off the ground, I stronglydevelop symptoms of a misfit. India, and even a commune, just does not seem to be the place where I feel comfortable. Is there such a state as “doing your own thing, content and full...

Beloved Osho, Is the path of the rebel the middle path, or the path of extremes? I have heard you speak for and against both, and also say that there is no path. What guides the rebel? Marga Madir, THE REBEL HAS NO PATH TO FOLLOW. Those who follow any...

I HAVE HEARD about Mulla Nasruddin, that he was purchasing shoes in a shop. The shopkeeper said that, "Mulla, are you mad or something? Because you are trying on shoes which are not going to fit. You need shoes that are one size bigger." Mulla said, "Don't...

IN LENINGRAD, in Soviet Russia, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been allowed to build their own special church called The Kingdom Hall. At the first service, there is a lot of hooting, shouting, fainting, preaching and sermonizing before the service finally...