Q: What do you do when you encounter a problem in life? At first, you don’t even acknowledge the problem. You act as though it’s not a big issue, pretending it’s something minor—something like a common cold—that will go away on its own. There’s no need to consult a specialist, no need for any remedy. […]
Everything that is of value is fragile. Beauty is fragile, silence is fragile, love is fragile. Look at a rose flower dancing in the wind, and in the rain, and in the sun. It seems it is strong enough for the wild wind, strong enough for the sun, strong enough for the rain. It is
HAPPINESS IS UNBELIEVABLE. It seems that man cannot be happy. If you talk about your depression, sadness, misery, everybody believes it. It seems natural. If you talk about your happiness nobody believes you — it seems unnatural. Sigmund Freud, after forty years of research into the human mind, working with thousands of people, observing thousands
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
