Top articles
-
A person who has suppressed sex cannot be loving
YOU BECOME AFRAID OF LOVE IF YOU SUPPRESS SEX. A person who has suppressed sex will always be afraid of love -- because the moment love comes, sex will follow. Love is of the soul and sex is of the body; so love cannot be allowed to happen, because then...
-
Religion is the state of absolute wakefulness
I WATCH YOU REPEATING MANTRAS and incantations, muttering words you have memorized from the scriptures, and my heart is filled with sympathy for you. What are you doing? Do you take this drugging, this self-forgetfulness, this soul-destroying slumber...
-
HUMEURS CÉLESTES, météo astro-spirituelle pour mieux vivre votre vie.
AIR DU TEMPS : LA MÉDITATION DU TIGRE Copenhague ! Chaque pays retranché dans sa petite économie, incapable de s’entendre sur des problèmes qui nous concernent pourtant tous. Et aussi d’importantes manifestations citoyennes, pour que les gouvernements...
-
Simple, loving, open, intimate, you create a paradise around you
I AM REMINDED of one English philosopher, EDMUND BURKE. He was very friendly with the archbishop of England. Whenever Edmund Burke used to deliver a talk in the university, the archbishop used to come and listen to him. It was worth listening -- EACH...
-
You are unique
"There has never been a person like you before, there is not anybody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you. Just see how much respect existence has paid to you. You are a masterpiece — unrepeatable, incomparable,...
-
People, even when they sympathize, sympathize only formally
When you take the breath in, LET IT BECOME YOUR MEDITATION that all the suffering of all the beings in the world is riding on that incoming breath and reaching your heart. Absorb all that suffering, pain and misery in your heart, and see a miracle happen....
-
A religious man simply is loose and natural
EVERYBODY IS BORN IN FREEDOM, BUT DIES IN BONDAGE. The beginning of life is totally loose and natural. But then enters the society, then enter rules and regulations, morality, discipline, and many sorts of trainings. And the looseness and the naturalness...
-
You will have to make an effort, take an initiative
WHAT ARE YOU PROTECTING IN YOURSELF? Life is very fragile; one's life should not be a misery. Life is like a flower: in the morning it is there, by the evening it is gone. IT IS BETTER TO SHARE THE FRAGRANCE. It is better to share your love, your friendship,...
-
Feel the absence of all other objects but this one
The technique: "FEEL AN OBJECT BEFORE YOU. Feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Then leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize." "Feel an object before you" -- any object. A roseflower or anything will do. "Feel...
-
The most fundamental thing is to know oneself
YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, and it is very difficult to live without knowing who you are. Unless you know who you are, whatsoever you do is going to be a failure, a frustration. YOU CAN SUCCEED IN BEING FULFILLED only if you know who you are. Then you...
-
A Gathering of Friends
December 23, 1967, Lonavala WE HAVE GATHERED HERE to consider a few very significant matters. I had no idea that what I am saying to individual people would some day also need to be made public. I had never thought about it. I talk to people according...
-
While I am here, a little while more, don't miss the opportunity
TILOPA WAS FORTUNATE TO FIND A NAROPA. There have been few masters, unfortunate, who never could find a disciple like Naropa. So whatsoever they had gained disappeared with them -- because there was nobody to receive it. SOMETIMES MASTERS HAVE TRAVELED...
-
Dr John on Meditation
We have received many questions for Dr. John on the subject of meditation. Many of them were too simple for Dr. John to answer. Like “how to do non-doing”, “where is the pathless path”, and so on.. He has chosen only to anwer the really difficult questions,...
-
You can take my words for granted, then my words will be dead
Beloved Osho, You have just been saying that the words of the Master become mere words after the Master is gone. What will happen after you are gone? //Osho:// Do you think my words are not already dead for you? First, think of that. THE MASTER IS THERE,...
-
Osho on Money
I'M FOR A SOCIETY WHERE MONEY MOVES FAST, nobody clings to it, everybody uses it. And do you remember? A simple law of money is: THE MORE YOU USE IT, THE MORE VALUABLE IT IS. For example, here we are sitting. If ten persons have one hundred rupees in...
-
Dr John on Sex
After Dr. John’s appeal in the last issue to ask your questions about sex, the mail was so plentiful, that Dr. John has been totally overwhelmed. In fact he has been reading, and rereading your letters with such intensity that he fell into a coma from...
-
Every child has to disobey the father, that is part of growth
CHRISTIANS SAY ADAM AND EVE COMMITTED THE ORIGINAL SIN, and the whole of humanity is suffering. It is so patently foolish! Now, scientists say that humanity has existed for millions of years... Millions of years before, a couple, Adam and Eve, committed...
-
The Whole existence is sexual
MAN IS A SEXUAL ANIMAL. That's how we are. That's the way life means us to be. That's how we have found ourselves here. GO INTO IT. Without going, you will never be able to transform it. I'm not speaking for mere indulgence. I am saying move into it with...
-
Homo Novus - New Year message
I TEACH A NEW MAN, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world. I proclaim Homo Novus. THE OLD MAN IS DYING, and there is no need to help it survive any more. The old man is on the deathbed: don't mourn for it -- help it to die. Because only with...
-
People are living unconsciously, not knowing what they are doing
WE HAVE WORKED for thousands of years to make the earth a big madhouse, and we have succeeded, unfortunately. ... THERE IS VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE for the simple reason that we have, in subtle ways, not allowed people's energies to be creative; and whenever...
-
Either people have to listen to me of accept global suicide
From many directions these things have gathered to a point where EITHER PEOPLE HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME, OR THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT GLOBAL SUICIDE. It is not just a theoretical question anymore, it is something existential. That's why I think whether anybody...
-
Money is utilitarian, it has to be used !
MONEY HAS A PURPOSE. ONE NEED NOT BE OBSESSED, THIS WAY OR THAT, for or against. Money is utilitarian. You need not be only living FOR money, and you need not be AGAINST the money -- it is just utilitarian. That's why my attitude towards money is: MONEY...
-
Enlightenment is to be in tune with existence
As far as I am concerned, EXCEPT MAN, THE WHOLE EXISTENCE IS PERFECTLY HEALTHY, perfectly at ease.... In my vision, it is not something hereditary that has gone wrong; IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO EVERY CHILD, AGAIN AND AGAIN. Because every child is...
-
The very meaning of patriotism is treason towards humanity
I DON'T BELIEVE IN COUNTRIES. If I am listened to, then I will say that India should be the first country to renounce nationalism. It would be good if the country of Krishna, Buddha, Patanjali and Gorakh renounces nationalism and says we are an international...
-
Love is infinite in all directions
LOVE IS A STATE OF HARMONY, accord, attunement, at-onement -- it is music. Just as a musician plays on his instrument, TWO LOVERS PLAY ON EACH OTHER'S HEARTS. And slowly, a harmony arises between the two, and it goes on reaching to higher peaks. There...