IN DISCOURSE WHEN YOU SAY THINGS LIKE, “LIVE TOTALLY IN THE MOMENT,” I ALWAYS THINK, “OF COURSE!… THAT’S IT! FROM NOW ON I AM ALWAYS GOING TO DO THAT.” AND OF COURSE, A MOMENT LATER I HAVE FORGOTTEN ALREADY. IN EVERY DISCOURSE I DECIDE THE TIME HAS COME TO BE MORE MEDITATIVE, MORE RELIGIOUS, MORE […]
No man of truth ever contemplates the consequences. These are the people: Socrates, Mansoor and Jesus, who have raised the human consciousness by sacrificing themselves. They knew perfectly well that to say the truth was inviting death, but death does not matter to the man of truth. He knows there is no death – the
Zen masters used to tell his disciples the story of a master thief who became enlightened…Zen Masters have loved it tremendously. When you come across it for the first time you will feel puzzled about the story — it is about a master thief. So don’t be worried about being a judge or a doctor
I BELIEVED I WAS UNCREATIVE. WHAT ELSE CAN BE CREATIVITY BESIDES DANCING AND PAINTING AND HOW TO FIND OUT WHAT MY CREATIVITY IS? CREATIVITY has nothing to do with any activity in particular — with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. Anything can be creative — you bring
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I have heard: It happened in Japan. Once a mother visited her son at college and was pained to see suggestive pictures on the walls of his room. She said nothing but hung a picture of Buddha among the others. When she came again to see the boy the other pictures were gone, only the
OSHO, WHY ARE YOU NOT CONSISTENT IN YOUR STATEMENTS? I cannot be. The purpose of my statements is totally different from that of ordinary statements. I am not telling the truth, because truth cannot be told. Then what am I doing here? If you take my statements as true or untrue, you will miss the whole
“THE MIND DISTRACTS ME EVEN WHEN I AM SITTING IN DISCOURSE.” So let it distract; you simply watch. You don’t interfere. You don’t try to stop, because any kind of action on your part is going to give energy to the mind. So, whenever you can manage, you listen, and whenever mind wanders and takes
The power of family is not measured in grand gestures, but lies in the invisible threads of love, bonds, and relationships that hold us together. It is what turns ordinary moments into lifelong memories, and what carries us through life’s deepest valleys. Like every family, ours too has its share of likes and dislikes, gossips
If you look ‘without’, the world of the ‘many’ exists; if you look ‘within’, then the world of ONE. If you go outside, you may achieve much, but you will miss the one. And that one is the very center; if you miss it, you have missed all. You may attain much but that much
I have always loved an ancient story: A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling into the mountains. He stayed in a caravanserai for the night. He was amazed that in the caravanserai there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating, “Freedom! Freedom!” And the serai was in such
