OSHO DISCOURSES
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Osho Talks
Osho has spoken on virtually every topic of concern to modern man. He answers questions submitted to him, or comments on the teachings of other mystics and religious traditions. All these talks have been recorded and many are available as books, audiobooks, or on videotape.
"So always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, "Because I say so, it must be true" -- then you will suffer, then you will not grow. Whatsoever I say, listen to it, try to understand it, implement it in your life, see how it works, and then come to your own conclusions. They may be the same, they may not be. They can never be exactly the same because you have a different personality, a unique being. Whatsoever I am saying is my own. It is bound to be in deep ways rooted in me. You may come to similar conclusions, but they cannot be exactly the same. So my conclusions should not be made your conclusions. You should try to understand me, you should try to learn, but you should not collect knowledge from me, you should not collect conclusions from me. Then your mindbody wil l grow"......Osho
Osho Discourses:
~"Love is the only miracle there is"/The Divine Melody. Chapter 9, Chapter Title: The Pause Between Two Notes, January 9, 1977 am in Buddha Hall.
~"My Awakening"/The Discipline of Transcendence, Volume 2, Chapter 11. This book is currently out of print. The title "My Awakening" has been added by Realization.org.
~From Childhood to Enlightenment, The Birth of a New Man, "Dimensions Beyond the Known" - Osho.
~Osho on What is Satori, "Zen: The Path of Paradox, Volume 2"
Osho on What is Enlightenment?
~Arhata and Bodhisattva, "Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master " - Osho
Gautam Buddha Enlightenment, “I Am the Gate” -Osho
Enlightenment of Osho's Father, "Be still and know" - Osho
Osho on Characteristics of Samadhi, " Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3 "
Total Effort and Total Relaxation for Enlightenment, “Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi” by Osho
Osho on False Buddhahood, “Zen: The Path of Paradox, Volume 3” by Osho
Help of an Awakened one is essential. Recognizing Enlightened Gurus, "The Beloved" by Osho
First Energy Becomes Formless, Desireless, and Then it Becomes Bodiless,"A Bird on the Wing " by Osho
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Osho Darshan Diary Excerpts
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Love is the Positive Part in Growing Wings.
* Love gives wings, and only love can give wings. Everything else keeps you crawling on the earth. . . . . It is only love that makes you able to fly, it is through love that you can take off. It is only through love that one can reach to the ultimate. It is a flight from the alone to the alone. And remember, it is a flight, and to be ready to fly one has to unburden oneself of many things. Love gives wings, but if you have many many stones around your neck then even wings won’t be of much help.
So two things: first, one has to grow in love – the positive part. And second: one has to drop all kinds of prejudices, religious, political, social. One has to become unknowledgeable, one has to learn how to exist in a state of no-knowledge. In short, one has to become a child again.
The child is in a constant wondering because he has no knowledge. As you become grown up you stop wondering because you think that now you already know; there is no need to wonder. This is utter nonsense. No knowledge is really enough to destroy wonder; on the contrary, real knowledge helps you to go deeper into wonder.
* The person who wants to go into the ultimate has to unburden himself of all knowledge; then one becomes weightless. Love is the positive part in growing wings. The negative part is meditation, dropping knowledge.
So grow wings of love and grow deeper into meditation so that all unnecessary luggage can be dropped.
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Sacred Yes (a darshan diary) * Chapter 10
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Existence Loves You, That's Why You Exist
Everybody is God's beloved; that's why we are. God has chosen us to be, and one only chooses out of love.
The creation is out of love. You desire a child out of loye. And God loved the world so much that he created the trees and the rivers and the mountains and man and woman. So everyone, not only man but birds and animals and trees and rocks are all God's beloveds. The love is continuously showering but it is so close and so obvious, that's why we go on missing it. We are born in it, we live in it and we die in it, like a fish in the ocean. Sometimes the fish may be wondering, 'Where is this ocean? Where should I go to find the ocean? Does the ocean really exist or is it just a myth?'
Exactly like that is God and his love: you are surrounded by it, you are breathing it in, breathing it out. It is nothing but his love. Existence loves you, that's why you exist; existence desires you, that's why you are alive. The moment you recognise this fact great gratitude arises and that gratitude is what constitutes the basic religious consciousness.
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Open Door (a 26th darshan diary)
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You Can Enjoy. Let Them Take It Seriously
You can enjoy. Let them take it seriously. In fact, a joke has to be taken seriously, otherwise it loses fun. So a real storyteller never laughs about his own joke; he has to remain serious about it. If he laughs then the whole point is lost. Let them take it seriously; it is fun!
And when I say it is fun, I don't mean it is lower than seriousness; it is higher than seriousness. When I say it is play, it is higher than work. Don't think that you cannot be dedicated to fun; in fact, how can you be dedicated to work? Work is ugly; how can you be dedicated to it? You can only be dedicated to fun. Religion is fun. And when I say that religion is fun I am not condemning religion; I am praising it like anything.
A dedication will come, and it will be playful, it will be non-serious, but non-serious does not mean non-sincere. Fun also has a sincerity to it. Have you not seen chess players playing so sincerely? -- and the whole thing is fun . . . and they know it! But when you are in it you play it sincerely.
Don't make it a burden on your head. If you can laugh, then there is no problem. You can go in orange and let people enjoy it. Enjoy it and laugh and let them laugh, mm?
And nobody there has heard of sannyas, and people who have started coming are coming not for sannyas; they don't know anything about it. But some inner urge to search, maybe unconscious, is there. Life has lost meaning and there seems to be no reason to live. It seems so irrational to live, to go on living and to go on doing the same thing again and again.
Suicide is becoming very very meaningful; it seems the only thing worth doing. Sannyas is an alternative to suicide. The more people think of suicide, the more people will become sannyasins. It is an alternative. It is a dying without dying. It is committing suicide without killing the body. It is dropping the ego, and you can drop the ego more easily if you take it as fun. If you take it as serious then the ego cannot be dropped, because the ego thrives on seriousness.
So you are perfectly ready for sannyas! Just take the jump!
These two things you have to be mindful of: keep yourself as cheerful, as blissful, as possible, because much happens when you are cheerful; you are open. Life happens only when you are cheerful because you have hope and you are expectant. You look for something to happen; you are available and you are not closed. To sad people nothing happens, and when nothing happens they become more sad. When they become more sad, it becomes even more difficult for anything to happen to them; it is a vicious circle. Break that vicious circle. Be more cheerful and then you will see many things coming on your way.
Each small act attracts new things. If you laugh, you will attract a few people who can laugh. If you weep, you will attract a few people who are in search of sympathising with someone, who enjoy sympathising. They will be the wrong people. They would like you to remain sad so they can go on sympathising. There is investment in your sadness; they enjoy the trip. If you laugh, you will attract people who are finding a way to laugh, not sympathisers; you will find friends, not missionaries. If you laugh, you will find sooner or later that the whole existence laughs with you.
The first thing: bliss, cheerfulness; and the second thing: peace, silence. To live outside, to relate, one should remain cheerful, and to go inside, to relate with oneself, one should become peaceful. Peace is to the inner journey as cheerfulness is to the outer journey. And these two things have to be remembered together so that balance is not lost. Otherwise there are people who are cheerful but shallow because they never go in; they are just extroverts. Mm? you will find them in the clubs and the moviehouses and in the hotels. They are always laughing and cheerful but their laughter has no depth, it is always phony. They are always chattering but their chattering has no significance because there is no silence; their words are empty. And there are people who are silent but closed; they don't relate. They become monks, they move to the monasteries. Or even if they live in the world they live in a closed way, windowless.
Both are lopsided. A real life arises only when both are balanced. These are the two wheels of life's cart . . . .
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Open Door (a 26th darshan diary) * Chapter 21 *
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Man is Just Like a Bridge, Between Two Shores
A human being is a great problem. It is not specific to you, it is so of all human beings, and that is the most fundamental thing to understand -- that a human being is just a passage between the animal and the divine. You cannot make your house on the bridge, you should not make your house on the bridge. The bridge has to be passed.
Man is just like a bridge, between two shores, just a link between animal and divine.
Physical problems are different. Psychological problems are not so different. Spiritual problems are not different at all. The deeper you go, the closer does the universal come. On the periphery there are differences: you have a different kind of body, somebody has a different kind of body . . . he may have some other problems, you may have some other problems, or may not have, but there are differences.
In the psychological, lesser differences; in the spiritual no differences.
You don't have any physical or psychological problem as such, but the spiritual problem is there. And when there is no physical and no psychological problem then only does the spiritual problem become very predominant. There is a kind of hierarchy: the physical needs, the psychological needs, the spiritual needs. The lowest are physical needs, the highest are spiritual needs, in the middle are psychological needs.
Become more consciously a seeker. Become more and more alert of the situation in which you are, and use the situation to create more awareness, more consciousness. If you look, then the whole evolution is nothing but an effort of consciousness to become more and more. The rocks have no consciousness, not at all; they are completely asleep. The trees have a little bit, a very little bit. Animals have a little more; man has a little more than the animals. And a Buddha or a Christ goes higher than ordinary human beings. They have more concentrated awareness, they are awareness. They are the highest evolved points.
Unless you become that -- and everybody becomes that -- misery will remain. One can be lost in comfort, luxury, pleasures, but again and again one is thrown back to the basic problem.
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Open Secret (a 25th darshan diary) *
Love is Very Unearthly
Love is always thankful. If love complains, then it is not love. Love basically is gratitude. Complaints arise when there are desires and they are not fulfilled; gratitude arises because all that is needed is already fulfilled. So much is given that more cannot be asked, then there is gratitude. Complaints arise because this has to be there and it is not and that has to be there and it is not. The desiring mind complains; the loving mind thanks.
That's why one very fundamental thing has to be understood: love is not a desire, because desire is complaint, desire is ungratefulness. Love cannot be a desire; it is fulfillment. It has no demands, it does not ask for anything. It only gives, and gives out of thankfulness. Love is a sharing, not a desire. And people who think love is a desire go on missing; they will never know what love is. They will know passion but they will never know love. They will know lust but they will never know love.
Love is very unearthly. It is of the sky! Love exists in time but does not belong to time; it comes from eternity. Learn to become more and more grateful for small things. Just for the sheer joy of breathing, feel grateful to God . . . just for the sheer joy that you can see rainbows and flowers and the clouds. What more is needed? Just for the sheer joy that you can love and that you can be loved, be thankful, and out of that thankfulness a person becomes religious. Not by going to a church or by becoming a Christian or a Hindu but by becoming grateful, does a person attain to religiousness.
*OSHO VISION excerpted from: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) * The Open Door (a 26th darshan diary) * Chapter 28
OSHO DISCOURSE
Osho - Understanding The Responsibility Of Being Free
"For thousands of years there have been people who have understood that God’s existence is the greatest barrier to man’s freedom – they removed God. But still man is not free.
What I am trying to help you understand is that just by making God dead you cannot make man free. You will have to make one more thing dead, and that is religion.
Religion also has to die; it has to follow God. We have to create a religiousness that is godless and religion-less, which has nobody above, more powerful than you, and no organized religion to create different kinds of cages – Christian, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist, beautiful cages…
With God and religion both dead, one more thing dies automatically, and that is the priesthood, the leader, the different forms of religious leader. Now he has no function. There is no organized religion in which he can be a pope or a shankaracharya or ayatollah Kohmeni. He has no God whom he can represent; his function is finished.
Buddha, Mahavira, and Lao Tzu dropped God in the same way as Friedrich Nietzsche – not knowing, not aware that if religion remained, then even without God, the priest would manage to keep man in slavery.
To complete the insight of Friedrich Nietzsche, religion has to die. There is no point to an organized religion if there is no God. For whom does the organized religion exist? The churches, the temples, the mosques, the synagogues have to disappear. And with that the rabbis and bishops and all kinds of religious leaders become simply jobless, they become futile. But then a tremendous revolution happens: humanity becomes utterly free.
But before you can understand the implications of this freedom, you have to understand the limitations of Friedrich Nietzsche’s insight. If his insight is complete, then what kind of freedom will be available? God is dead, man is free… free for what?
His freedom will be just like any other animal’s. It is not right to call it freedom – it is licentiousness. It is not freedom because it does not carry any responsibility, any consciousness. It will not help man to raise himself upwards, to become something higher than he is in his slavery.
Unless freedom takes you higher than what you were in your slavery, it is meaningless… it has not given any quality of consciousness that you can appreciate… In the name of freedom he may lose his path towards higher states of consciousness...
When God is dead, religion as an organized body is dead – and man is free to be himself. For the first time he is free to explore his innermost being with no hindrances. He is free to dive into the depths of his being, rise to the heights of consciousness.
There is nobody to hinder him, his freedom is total. But this freedom is possible only if we can save something that I call the quality of religiousness, so that a quality of religiousness is alive and is perfectly harmonious with human freedom; it enhances human growth…
So I use the word religiousness just to remind you that God can die, religions can disappear, but religiousness is something interwoven into existence itself. It is the beauty of the sunrise, it is the beauty of a bird on the wing. It is the beauty of an opening lotus. It is all that is truthful, all that is sincere and authentic, all that is loving and compassionate…
So it is a great responsibility – which is not possible for one who believes in God, which is not possible for one who believes in the priest, who believes in the church, because he wants to give his responsibility to other people… Freedom simply makes you absolutely responsible for everything that you are and that you are going to be...
By "religiousness" I mean that the human being , as he is, is not enough. We can be more. We can be enormously more. Whatever the human being is, is only a seed. We do not know what potential we are carrying within ourselves."
....Osho, The Book Of Understanding: : Creating Your Own Path to Freedom