Q: WHY DO YOU TEACH NUDITY TO PEOPLE? Osho: DO YOU SEE ANYBODY NUDE HERE? Are you utterly blind? I teach TRUTH — truth is bound to be nude. Truth cannot hide itself. I don’t teach nudity: I certainly teach nude souls. And your clothes sometimes become a hindrance; they hide, they become defenses. Once […]
ALWAYS RELY ON JUST A HAPPY FRAME OF MIND. If you are unhappy, that simply means that you have learned tricks for being unhappy, and nothing else. Unhappiness depends on the frame of your mind. There are people who are unhappy in all kinds of situations. They have a certain quality in their mind which
A man came to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, and asked him, ”What do you say about pre-determination, kismet, fate, and the freedom of man? Is man free to do whatever he wants to do? Or is he simply a puppet in the hands of an unknown puppeteer, who simply dances the dance that the puppeteer
The Universe only pretends to be made of matter,secretly, it is made of LOVE. – Daniel pinchbeck. Do you think a man can love one person and hate another at the same time? No, it is impossible. A loving man, even when he is alone, is full of love because love is his nature; it
A WARRIOR CAME TO THE ZEN MASTER HAKUIN AND ASKED “IS THERE SUCH A THING AS HEAVEN AND HELL?” HAKUIN SAID “WHO ARE YOU?” THE WARRIOR REPLIED “I AM CHIEF SAMURAI TO THE EMPEROR.” HAKUIN SAID “YOU, A SAMURAI? WITH A FACE LIKE THAT, YOU LOOK MORE LIKE A BEGGAR.” AT THIS THE WARRIOR BECAME
There is a Sufi story…. A man was very miserable, and he was a mystic, just praying the whole day. Finally, he said to God, ” I have never asked you anything. I thought you yourself must understand, but it seems you are not looking at me. I have to make it clear to you,
There is a Zen story: Two monasteries existed side by side and both the masters had small boys to run errands. Both the boys used to go to the market to fetch things for the masters — sometimes vegetables, sometimes other things. These monasteries were antagonistic towards each other, but boys will be boys. They
I was reading a beautiful anecdote: An elderly Irishman checked out of a hotel room and was half way to the bus depot when he realized he had left his umbrella behind. By the time he got back to the room, a newlywed couple had already checked in. Hating to interrupt anything, the Irishman got
Life must be something more. To be of any value, life must have something of eternity in it; it must be something beyond death. And you can know it, because it exists within you. Life exists within you — death is only an experience of others, outside observers. It is simply like love. Can you
WHAT ROLE SHOULD CHARITY PLAY IN THE LIFE? First thing: all the religions of the world have emphasized charity – DHAN – too much. And the reason is that man has always felt guilty with money. Charity has been preached so much to help man feel a little less guilty. You will be surprised: in
