OSHO: Speaks on all Major Topics Under the Sun

 

Aesthetics:

Religion in the highest form is creativity, poetry, aesthetics, a search for beauty, a rejoicing. At the lowest it is violence, power politics, an effort to dominate others, hypocrisy.

--OSHO

'Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot Chapter-21'

Aloneness:

If you are in your psychological needs, then you are lonely. If you are beyond your psychological needs, you know you are alone. And aloneness has a strength; loneliness is weakness. Loneliness is asking always for the other, it is dependent on the other.

--OSHO

'From Unconsciousness to Consciousness Chapter-25'

Anger:

One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

--OSHO

'The Transmission of the Lamp'

Awareness:

One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

--OSHO

'The Book of Wisdom, Chapter-24'

Body:

To be against life means to be against God, because life is God. To be against love is to be against God. To be against your body is to be against God, because it is God's body. It is his temple, his shrine; he has chosen to reside in it.

--OSHO

'I Say Unto You, Vil-1, Chapter-2'

Celebration:

Celebration is the only true prayer; it is the only way we can show our gratitude to God. Renouncing life is complaining against God.

--OSHO

'Tao: The Golden Gate Vol-1, Chapter-4'

Children:

We should teach children meditation as we start educating their intellect. Just as the child comes to understand science, he should come to understand religion simultaneously. As his head grows brighter let his heart also grow full of light.

--OSHO

'Nowhere to Go, But In Chapter-10'

Compassion:

Compassion is not addressed to anybody. It is not a relationship, it is simply your very being. You enjoy being compassionate to the trees, to the birds, to the animals, to human beings, to everybody -- unconditionally, not asking for anything in return.

--OSHO

'The New Dawn Chapter-22'

Complexes(Inferiority, superiority)

There is no need to feel inferior or superior. Everybody is just himself, there is no question of comparison. You are alone. There is nobody like you, so how can you be compared? It is comparison that brings inferiority, superiority the complexes and the psychological problems.

--OSHO

'From Bondage to Freedom Chapter-14'

Creativity:

Anything can be creative -- you bring that quality to the activity. Activity itself is neither creative nor uncreative. You can paint in an uncreative way. You can sing in an uncreative way. You can clean the floor in a creative way. You can cook in a creative way. Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach -- how you look at things.

--OSHO

'A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter-4'

Death:

Death is beautiful, as beautiful as life -- if you just know how to communicate with death. It is beautiful because it is relaxation. It is beautiful because the person has fallen back into the source of existence -- to relax, to rest, to be ready to come back again.

--OSHO

'The Diamond Sutra Chapter-2'

Desire:

Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Desire is a need gone mad. Needs are simple, they come from nature; desires are very complex they don't come from nature. They are created by the mind. Needs are moment to moment, they are created out of life itself. Desires are not moment to moment, they are always for the future.

--OSHO

'When the Shoe Fits Chapter-10'

Education:

The education that has prevailed in the past is very insufficient, incomplete, superficial. It only creates people who can earn their livelihood but it does not give any insight into living itself. It is not only incomplete, it is harmful too -- because it is based on competition.

--OSHO

'The Golden Future Chapter-23'

Fear:

There are many fears, but fundamentally they are only offshoots of one fear, branches of one tree. The name of the tree is death. You may not be aware that this fear is concerned with death, but every fear is concerned with death. Fear is only a shadow.

--OSHO

'The Invitation Chapter-7'

Greed:

Greed is an effort to stuff yourself with something -- it may be sex, it may be food, it may be money, it may be power. Greed is the fear of inner emptiness. One is afraid of being empty and one wants somehow to possess more and more things.

--OSHO

'The Guest, Chapter-2'

Guilt:

Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy to keep humanity in deep slavery forever. They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin.

--OSHO

'The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol-7, Chapter-3'

Health:

Whole, health, healing, holy, all come from the same root. To be healed means to be joined with the whole. To be ill means to be disconnected with the whole. An ill person is one who has simply developed blocks between him and the whole, so something is disconnected.

--OSHO

'Beloved of My Heart Chapter-19'

Jealousy:

Love is destroyed by jealousy, possessiveness. The moment you try to possess your love-object, you have denied love, you have already denied. You have declared that you don't love. Love is possible only if there is no possessiveness and no jealousy.

--OSHO

'The Path of Love Chapter-7'

Laughter:

If you really want to laugh you will have to learn how to weep. If you cannot weep and if you are not capable of tears, you will become incapable of laughter. A man of laughter is also a man of tears -- then a man is balanced.

--OSHO

'A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter-2'

Meditation:

Meditation brings transformation from the inside. It is not an imposition of morality and commandments from outside. Anything that comes from outside is worthless -- morality, religion, spirituality, whatever you call it. Only that which blossoms within you like a lotus has ultimate value. Out of that arising of consciousness, you cannot do evil. Your every action will be spontaneous; it will come from your deepest being, and the deepest being cannot do any harm.

--OSHO

'Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind, Chapter-3'

Money:

Use money, but never be greedy. As a means money is perfectly good; it is a great means of exchange, very utilitarian. Use it but don't be used by it possess, it but don't be possessed by it -- remain the master.

--OSHO

'The Discipline of Transcendence Vol-4, Chapter-10'

Politics:

The universities, the colleges, the schools should not only teach political science but also teach political art, because science is of no use; you have to teach practical politics. The professors in the universities should prepare politicians, give them certain qualities. Then you will find rulers well-trained, cultured, knowing the art and the science of politics, and always ready to go to the professors, to the scholars. And slowly it may be possible that they can approach the highest level of meritocracy; the intuitive people.

--OSHO

'From Misery to Enlightenment Chapter-7'

Prayer:

If you pray to ask for something, it is not prayer. When you pray to thank him for something, only then is it prayer. Prayer is always a thanksgiving. If you ask for something then the prayer is still corrupted by desire. When you realize what you have been given, what infinite sources have been given to you, a prayer arises, and you would like to say to God, 'Thank you.'

--OSHO

'The Art of Dying, Chapter-7'

Relationship:

Relationship cannot grow out of need. Relationship grows only out of overflowing energies, never out of needs. If one person is needy and the other is also needy, then both will try to exploit the other. The relationship will be that of exploitation, not of love, not of compassion.

--OSHO

'The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty, Chapter-2'

Science:

I am all for science and I am all for religion too, because I can see a possibility of a great synthesis arising in the future. The world can be made rich outwardly with technology and science, and the inner world can be made rich by meditation, by prayer, by love, by joy. We can create a new human being, fulfilled both within and without.

--OSHO

The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol-6, Chapter-5

Sex:

Sex is not wrong. You are wrong if you are stuck there. Move higher. The higher is not against the lower; the lower makes it possible for the higher to exist.

--OSHO

'The Tantra Vision, Vol-2 Chapter-4'

Stress:

Stress in itself can be used as a stepping stone, it can become a creative force. But ordinarily we have been taught down the ages that stress is bad, that when you are in any kind of stress you become afraid. And your fear makes it even more stressful; the situation is not helped by it.

--OSHO

'Don't Bite my Finger, Look Where I am Pointing Chapter-9'

Terrorism:

Until we change the basic grounds of humanity, terrorism is going to become more and more a normal, everyday affair. It will happen in the airplanes, it will happen in the buses. It will start happening in the cars. It will start happening to strangers.

--OSHO

Beyond Psychology Chapter-18

Women:

Woman is the source of life; man seems to be in the service of death. And of course the source of life has more creative possibilities than man can ever have. It is not a coincidence that even those few men who have been great musicians or dancers or poets or painters, in some way became as graceful as women.

--OSHO

'The New Dawn Chapter-31'

Work:

You work if you love it. Don't ask for recognition. If it comes, take it easily; if it does not come, do not think about it. Your fulfillment should be in the work itself. And if everybody learns this simple art of loving his work, whatever it is, enjoying it without asking for any recognition, we would have a more beautiful and celebrating world.

--OSHO

'Beyond Psychology Chapter-32'

NEW MAN 2010 – 2020

The new man is no battle ground, no split personality, but an image of man unified, unique, fully synergistic with life in its totality. The new man embodies a more viable, mutant image of man, a new way of being in the cosmos, a qualitatively different way of perceiving and experiencing reality. So please don't mourn the passing of the old. Rejoice that the old is dying, the night is dying, and the dawn is on the horizon. Religion has been in a mature state for almost five thousand years. Science is still growing, coming to maturity. Hence I say this time is one of the most precious times. You are fortunate to be alive today, because something immensely great is going to happen -- and that is the meeting of science and religion, the meeting of West and East, the meeting of the extrovert mind and the introvert mind. It will create the new man who will be able to move easily to the outside or into the inside, who will be able to move easily into the extrovert world of science and into the introvert world of religion.

--OSHO

Now, in fact there is no need to be afraid; even nuclear weapons can be used creatively. And I have a deep trust in life, that they will be used creatively. Life cannot allow itself to be destroyed so easily, it is going to offer tremendous resistance. In that resistance is hidden the birth of a new man, of a new dawn, of a new order, of the whole of life and existence.

--OSHO

Author is Not Important: Only His Words

In India we have many books written by one man, Vyasa. The Mahabharata is enough. To write a book like The Mahabharata is enough for one author. It is an Encyclopedia Britannica. It will make one man famous for ages to come. And that is only one of the books that he has written — there are hundreds of books in his name. Now Western scholars cannot believe that one man can write so many books. I can understand. It does not seem possible. And these books are not written in one age — one book was written 5,000 years ago, another book 3,000 years ago, another book 2,000 years ago. So this man existed for thousands of years? But in the East we have never worried about it. Don't we see the problem? We can also see the problem but our approach is different. We say, What does it matter who wrote them?' The books are beautiful, very beautiful, tremendously significant. We have enjoyed them down the centuries, we have loved them, we have contemplated over them. The authorship is irrelevant. And why one man? In fact, the case is this. Once Vyasa's name became famous then other authors simply did not bother to write their own name. They said, 'It will do. Vyasa's name is good and it is a well-known name, it will do.' So down the centuries anybody who wrote a beautiful book and thought that it was worthy of a Vyasa, signed it Vyasa. It was worthy of the man who wrote The Mahabharata so how could he sign his own name? That would not look right. In fact, it was so beautiful that only Vyasa could write it — so the author signed with the name of Vyasa. These people were beautiful, they had no egos of their own. They were just vehicles. In fact, later on the name 'Vyasa' became synonymous with 'the author'. 'Vyasa' means 'the author' — written by the author. It does not mean anything else. In the East we know that when a book is written by Vyasa it means: written by the author. Naturally, every book has to be written by the author. 'Vyasa' became synonymous with 'the author'. Lieh Tzu is suspicious. He does not seem to be a historical person at all,he has not left any trace. Either he was not a historical person or he was a great horse. My preference is for the second. He was a great horse who never raised any dust and who never left any track behind. He effaced himself completely. Only this small book exists — the book of Lieh Tzu -with these small parables. It says nothing about Lieh Tzu.

--Osho

'Tao the Pathless Path # 14'

Masters Never Write Books

Remember, these Upanishads were not written by the Masters themselves; these are notes of the disciples. The Masters have always believed in the spoken word; there are reasons for it. The Masters have never written books. The spoken word has a lively quality to it; the written word is dead, it is a corpse. When I am speaking to you it is a totally different thing than when you will be reading it in a book, because when you are reading in a book it is only a word; when you are listening to the Master it is more than the word. The presence of the Master is overpowering! Before the word reaches you, the Master has already reached; he is already over flooding you. Your heart is breathing with the Master, beating with the Master in the same rhythm. You are breathing in the same rhythm. There is a communion, an invisible link, the presence of the Master, his gestures, his eyes... the words spoken by him are ordinary words, but when spoken by a Master they carry something of the beyond; they carry some silence, some meditativeness, some of his experience, because they come from his innermost core. It is like passing through a garden: even though you have not touched a single flower, but when you reach home you can still feel the fragrance of the garden; your clothes have caught it, your hairs have caught it. The pollen of the flowers was in the wind. You have not touched anything, but the fragrance was in the air; it has become something part of you.

--Osho

'I Am That # 9'

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