BUDDHA CALLED HIS COMMUNITY the SANGHA. Buddha says to his disciples to seek three refuges. When anybody comes to surrender he has to surrender to three things: he says, "I surrender to Buddha, I surrender to the sangha, I surrender to dhamma." BUDDHA...

SANGHA means commune. Bodhidharma says: "It is so named because of the beauty of its harmony." A SANGHA, A COMMUNE, IS THE BROTHERHOOD of those disciples and devotees who have GATHERED AROUND A BUDDHA. It is a brotherhood of the bees who have come to...

You want somebody should come to you and love you. YOU CAN WAIT FOREVER BECAUSE THE OTHER IS ALSO AFRAID. And people who are afraid they become afraid of one thing absolutely, and that is the fear of being rejected. IF I GO AND KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR, THE...

Beloved Osho, What is a natural Buddhist like me doing leading Sufi dancing? And a natural Sufi like Pradeepa doing leading vipassana and zazen? Aneeta, THIS IS A CRAZY PLACE TO BE, I KNOW IT! The day I talked about the natural Sufi and the natural Buddhist,...

ONE DAY IN 1928, BUCKY FULLER stood on the shore of Lake Michigan and planned to throw himself in. HE WAS READY TO GIVE UP because he was a failure financially by the standards of the upper middle class which he had been born into. As a construction engineer...

J ESUS SAYS, 'JUDGE YE NOT.' His statement is absolute, with no qualifications. It is categorical. He does not say, 'Don't judge wrongly,' he simply says, 'Judge ye not.' Don't judge at all. He makes no distinction between right judgment and wrong judgment....

Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic...

Can negative emotions such as cowardice and hypocrisy also be beautiful? If you have the idea to be a brave man then it looks ugly to be a coward. But cowardice is a fact, and the ideal is just an ideal, a fantasy of the mind. Sacrifice fantasies to reality,...

I F YOU BEHAVE WITH EVERY CONSCIOUS BEING IN SUCH A MURDEROUS WAY, certainly nobody is going to be interested in the very word 'Enlightenment'. It will create fear; you will be in unnecessary danger. Of course, ONLY THESE FEW ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE whom you...