March 31, 2020

Osho - From Misery To Enlightenment

Your birthright: to take flight

Question 1:

OSHO,

SEEING AND HEARING YOU SPEAK, ONE THING CONTINUES TO STRIKE ME: FROM YOUR
EARLIEST CHILDHOOD, UP UNTIL THE LATEST SPLIT SECOND, YOU HAVE ALWAYS HAD SO
MUCH SELF-RESPECT AND SO MUCH SELF-DELIGHT. ARE WE ALL CAPABLE OF SO MUCH?

MAN is not aware of what he is capable unless he comes to realize it.

It is just like a small young bird. The bird, sitting in the shelter the mother and the father have

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

IT is the most important question as far as my religion is concerned.

Meditation is the very center of my whole effort.

It is the very womb out of which the new religion is going to be born.

But it is very difficult to verbalize it. To say something about meditation is a contradiction in terms.

It is something which you can have, which you can be, but by its very nature you cannot say

Surrender: the ego upside down

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS THE PLACE OF SURRENDER IN YOUR RELIGION?

I do not teach the ego, hence I cannot teach surrender, because surrender is nothing but the subtlest form of the ego.

Surrender is not against the ego, it is in fact an act of the ego. Who surrenders? And by surrendering, who becomes humble? Who becomes meek? It is the ego standing upside down. It makes no difference whether the ego is standing on its legs or on its head. In fact it is more

Positive thinking: philosophy for phonies

Question 1:

OSHO,

I AM A FIRM BELIEVER IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF POSITIVE THINKING, AND IT WAS A GREAT
SHOCK TO HEAR YOU SPEAK AGAINST MOTHER TERESA AND HER PHILOSOPHY OF
POSITIVE THINKING.

I am pleased that at least someone was listening, someone was awake, someone was not asleep.

This is what positive philosophy is: you are shocked and I am happy!

Science plus religion - the dynamic formula for the future

Question 1:

OSHO,

IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE PIONEERS IN ART AND SCIENCE HAVE REACHED THE UNKNOWN
SPACES THROUGH SOME KIND OF OBSESSIONS. WHAT KIND OF OBSESSIONS HAS THE
NEW RELIGIOUS MAN?

SCIENCE, art, and other dimensions open to the human mind are all one-dimensional - hence the obsession. The mind moves in one direction, dropping all others. It chooses a single point to be focused on, against the whole of life, hence the obsession.

Baptism: wating for godot

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT DO YOU WANT MAN TO DO? WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG ACCORDING TO YOU? IS
THERE SOMETHING LIKE SIN AND ITS PUNISHMENT TOO?

MY concern with man is not about his doing, but about his being. And this is a very fundamental issue to be understood by you.

All the religions have been concerned about man's doings. They have been labeling a few acts as wrong, a few other acts as right, a few acts good, a few acts bad. They have not at all pondered over the real problem.

Meditation: watchfulness, awareness, alertness - the real trinity

Question 1:

OSHO,

HOW DOES ONE EXPLORE THE HIGHER STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS?

THERE are not many ways, there is but one: the way of awareness.

Man is almost unconscious. I say "almost" - there are moments, situations where he becomes conscious, but they are momentary.

For example, suddenly your house is on fire. You will feel a flare-up within you, a sense of alertness that was not there before. You may have been tired, you may not have slept for a few days, you may have been

Jesus - the only savior who nearly saved himself

Question 1:

OSHO,

YESTERDAY AFTER DRIVE-BY WE WERE MET BY FIVE BIBLE-PACKING CHRISTIANS WHO
HAD COME TO SAVE US. WHAT DO YOU SAY? CAN WE BE SAVED?

THESE idiots are all over the world, perhaps more so in Oregon. The very idea of saving somebody is violent. It is interfering, trespassing on somebody's life. Nobody has the right to save anybody.

He can save himself... but there is a psychological reason why these Bible-packing people start saving others: they are not

Imitation is your cremation

Question 1:

OSHO,

YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT DISOBEDIENCE IS A RELIGIOUS QUALITY IT SUDDENLY
MEANS I HAVE TO DISOBEY YOU, THE COMMUNE AND THE DISCIPLINE OF SANNYAS. I
CANNOT EVEN PARTICIPATE IN OUR PRAYER, THE GACHCHHAMIS.

THE questioner is certainly an Oregonian, a born Oregonian, not just twenty days resident in Oregon. As far as I am concerned it is enough to breathe Oregon's air for twenty minutes to become an Oregonian!

Conscience: a coffin for consciousness

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS THERE ANY POINT IN LIVING?

MAN has been brought up by all the traditions in a schizophrenic way.

It was helpful to divide man in every possible dimension, and create a conflict between the divisions.

This way man becomes weak, shaky, fearful, ready to submit, surrender; ready to be enslaved by the priests, by the politicians, by anybody.

This question also arises out of a schizophrenic mind. It will be a little difficult for you to

The commune: the distillation of rebellious spirits

Question 1:

OSHO,

YOU HAVE BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ONESELF. COULD YOU

TALK ABOUT THE PARADOX OF BEING AN INDIVIDUAL AND MELTING INTO THE COMMUNE?

THERE is no paradox as such, as far as the individual and his melting into the commune is concerned. The question has arisen out of a confusion between two words: individuality and personality.

Yes, with personality there is trouble. The personality cannot melt into anything - into love,

Personality: the carbon cop-out

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHY WERE YOU SO MISCHIEVOUS IN YOUR CHILDHOOD?

Do you think I am different? Not a bit. I am still the same. I did not allow my childhood to be spoiled by anybody. And what you think of as mischievous, I have never thought about it in that way. Even today I don't think that anything I have

ever done was a mischief I had my reasons, and very valid reasons.

For example: the first day I entered high school from my middle school.... In high school they used to have a prayer at the beginning of the day. It was a

Surrender: the ego upside down

This tapes of this discourse were erased the day after it was given, this transcription appeared a week later.

Question 1:

OSHO,

ISN'T ORGANIZATION A NECESSITY FOR A RELIGION TO SURVIVE?

UNFORTUNATELY, it is.

Religion needs some kind of organization, but the problem arises. Organization in itself is a political entity; organization does not need religion at all.

Religion is rebellion

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY WAY TO PRESERVE YOUR LIVING RELIGION AND NOT LET IT
BE REDUCED TO A CULT LIKE CHRISTIANITY? THE VERY IDEA OF YOUR RELIGION BEING
REDUCED WITH TIME TO A CULT IS UNBEARABLE.

IT is almost impossible to preserve a religion as a religion. Up to now nobody has succeeded in doing it.

One god, one messenger, one book - one big lie

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RELIGION AND A CULT? - BECAUSE THE
CHRISTIANS GO ON CALLING US A CULT. IT SEEMS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO ACCEPT US
AS A RELIGION. WHAT COULD BE THE REASON BEHIND IT?

IT is a complex question. You will have to understand many things before the question can be answered.

Jesus, the only forgotten son of god

Question 1:

OSHO,

YOU SAY GOD IS NOT A HYPOTHESIS NOR AN IDEA. THEN WHAT IS GOD? HAS ANYONE
EVER MET GOD OR NOT?

GOD certainly is not a hypothesis.

A hypothesis can only be part of an objective science. You can experiment upon it, you can dissect it, analyze it.

Let's not face it - you're absolutely alone

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS THE HYPOTHESIS OF GOD NOT USEFUL IN ANY WAY? - BECAUSE THE VERY IDEA OF
DROPPING THE IDEA OF GOD MAKES ME IMMENSELY AFRAID.

IT is already too late. The moment one starts calling the idea of God a hypothesis, the idea of God is already dropped.

They say believe; I say explore

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A POLITICIAN TO BE A RELIGIOUS MAN OR FOR A RELIGIOUS MAN TO
BE A POLITICIAN?

IT is absolutely impossible for a political man to be religious, because the ways of politics and religion are diametrically opposite.

Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHY, IN THE FIRST PLACE, HAVE PEOPLE BEEN DISTRACTED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL SELF?

MAN is born with an unknown, an unknowable potentiality.

His original face is not available when he comes into the world. He has to find it. It is going to be a

discovery, and that is the beauty of it. And that's the difference between a being and a thing.

Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IN YOUR RELIGION - TO BE THYSELF OR TO KNOW THYSELF?

Do you think they are different? How can you know yourself if you are not yourself? And vice versa - how can you be yourself if you don't know who you are? To be thyself

Faith: the suicide of intelligence

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS THE GREATEST HARM THAT THE SO-CALLED RELIGIONS HAVE DONE TO HUMANITY?

THE greatest harm that the so-called religions have done to humanity is to prevent humanity from finding the true religion.

Truth: not a dogma but a dance

Question 1:

OSHO,

ARE YOU AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS? WHAT IS THEIR MOST FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE?

YES, I am against all the so-called religions because they are not religions at all. I am for religion but not for the religions.

The true religion can only be one, just like science. You don't have a Mohammedan physics, a Hindu physics, a

God - the nobody everybody knows

Question 1:

OSHO,

GOD DID NOT CREATE PEOPLE LIKE ADOLF HITLER IN HIS OWN IMAGE. HE CREATED
PEOPLE LIKE JESUS CHRIST, HAZRAT MOHAMMED, KRISHNA AND BUDDHA.

IT is not a question. It is a statement, an answer, but I have not asked the question. The person seems even to know whom God created in His own image and

I teach a religionless religion

Question 1:

OSHO,

I WAS SHOCKED TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST. THEN THE QUESTION
AROSE IN ME: HOW CAN THERE BE ANY RELIGION WITHOUT GOD? ISN'T GOD THE CENTER
AND RELIGION THE CIRCUMFERENCE?

IT is fortunate that you were shocked. It needs intelligence to be shocked Millions of

God is not a solution but a problem

Question 1:

OSHO,

DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST?

I do not believe that God does not exist, I know for sure He does not exist. And thank God that he does not exist - because the existence of God would have created so many problems, difficulties, that life would have been almost impossible.

Shame is the name of their game

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHY HAVE ALL THE RELIGIONS USED REPRESSION AS A BASIC STRATEGY?

RELIGION has passed through many phases. The first phase of religion was magical; it has not died yet. Red Indians in America are still living in the first phase of religion. In South Africa, amongst the aborigines of

Renunciation: mortgage today for a tomorrow that never comes

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS THERE REALLY ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE FOR RENUNCIATION IN YOUR RELIGION? THE
QUESTION ARISES BECAUSE SINCE I CAME IN CONTACT WITH YOU, MANY THINGS IN MY
LIFE HAVE DROPPED AWAY. I CANNOT EVEN RELATE TO MY OLD SELF.

THERE is really absolutely no place for renunciation in my religion.

Ecstasy is now - why wait?

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS RENUNCIATION? WHAT IS ITS PLACE IN YOUR RELIGION?

THE idea of renunciation is one of the fundamentals of all pseudo-religions. Its phenomenology has to be understood very deeply.

Danger: truth at work

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHY ARE THE COMMON MASSES AGAINST YOU, WHEN WHAT YOU SAY APPEARS TO US
THE VERY TRUTH?

THAT'S precisely why - because it appears to be the very truth.

Truth is dangerous, dangerous to all those people who have been living in fictions, beautiful lies, nice dreams, utopias.

The nuclear family - the imminent meltdown

Question 1:

OSHO,

SENATOR BOB SMITH HAS QUOTED YOU AS SAYING THAT ALL OREGONIANS ARE IDIOTS.

PLEASE COMMENT.

I am not disappointed. He has proved my point. I have never said what he is telling people that I have said. What I have said is so clear

The other cheek: the masochist's slap-up feast

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF NONVIOLENCE AND PARTICULARLY
ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN DOGMA OF TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK?

I am not a philosopher. The philosopher thinks about things. It is a mind approach.

My approach is a no-mind approach. It is just the very opposite of philosophizing.

Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHY IS HUMANITY TODAY BECOMING MORE AND MORE MISERABLE?

THE cause is very simple, perhaps too simple. It is very close, very obvious, and this is the reason why most of the people go on missing

Question 1:

Darshan 30 September 1979

Anand Upale... Bliss is the object of our search...

The problem is that the more you seek it, the less you have it; everybody is seeking it, hence everybody is missing it. It is not something to be sought, it is not something that can be sought, it

Darshan 29 September 1979

[A sannyasin asks of her three-year-old daughter, that she hates going to school and what to do?]

That's very good! Every alive child hates school and education... just teach her whatsoever you can; no need to send her to school. In fact if all the schools, colleges and

Darshan 28 September 1979

Prem means love, but love with a difference - not the love that we know but a love that is almost unknown to people.

People misunderstand their lust as love. The biological urge is not equivalent to love. Love is not biological, but spiritual. The

Darshan 27 September 1979

Anand Norbert... The three dimensions of bliss The first dimension is peace, absolute peace, as if the lake of consciousness is without any waves, without any ripples even.

The second dimension is joy: joy for no reason at all, joy not caused by anything from the outside, joy

Darshan 26 September 1979

[Benoit... God's giving and our ingratitude.]

Each moment is so precious and brings so many surprises, but we are fast asleep. The guest comes, but the host is asleep. The guest knocks at the door, but the host is deaf. Otherwise the whole existence is continuously giving us a thousand and one gifts, and we are not even thankful to it; we go on

Darshan 25 September 1979

Bodhi Patricia. We are all somnambulists unless bodhi happens, unless enlightenment happens. We are only awake for the name's sake. Deep down there is sleep, an undercurrent of sleep continues, because an undercurrent of dreaming continues. You can

Darshan 24 September 1979

[Osho gives sannyas to two boys and addresses the parents]

Anand Binghi: bliss brother... Anand means bliss, and that has to become his education. Help him to be more and more blissful; avoid anything that creates misery. If we are a little more conscious, ninety

percent of misery-creating patterns can be avoided by children. But because we are not conscious, we go on perpetuating the same patterns that make us miserable, that have made our parents

Darshan 23 September 1979

Anand Gulab... Anand means bliss; gulab means a rose - a rose of bliss. Bliss is a flowering.

Without bliss a man remains a tree without flowers. Only when you become blissful do you come to fulfillment - so remember it. This is the right time to begin remembering it, then it goes very deep.

To become a sannyasin in childhood is the most significant thing,

Darshan 22 September 1979

[Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes]

But there are things which cannot be achieved through effort, which are achieved only through effortlessness. Those are the things of the inner world the other world; they don't belong to this shore. Bliss, love, prayer, God - they can't be achieved through human effort.

Darshan 21 September 1979

[Veet Richard - to go beyond all hardness. Hardness has been revered in the past, but all it does is desensitize you... ]

It creates a good soldier but does not create a good human being. It makes a man violent, and to be

Darshan 20 September 1979

[Prem Paula]

The moment you say God, it creates an idea of a person, which is dangerous because there is no person, there is no God as a person. When you say love it does not give you any idea of a person; it simply gives you a vision, a vision of loving energy - a presence, not a person.

Darshan 19 September 1979

Anand Gerard. Anand means bliss; gerard mean brave, courageous, and it also means a loyal heart - a blissful, courageous, loyal heart. And these are the basic qualities of a religious consciousness.

Religion has nothing to do with seriousness; seriousness is pathology. Religion is playful,

Darshan 18 September 1979

[We are trying to grasp that which we already have.]

Everyone is blessed by the divine. A few know it; many more remain oblivious of the fact, hence there is so much misery. Misery is fictitious, it is not real. It is only there because we have not known our

Darshan 17 September 1979

[The church equates sadness and sobriety with saintliness]

Because of that, religion become more and more crowded by pathological people. Healthy people started avoiding religion, because health is bliss and health is cheerfulness. It is only the unhealthy - physically or

Darshan 16 September 1979

[Dhyan Andrea: great courage is needed for meditation]

In fact the greatest courage, because it is the journey into the unknown, the uncharted, and one has to go without any map and one has to go without any guide. One has to go utterly alone, because it is an inner journey: you cannot take any

Darshan 15 September 1979

Become a prayer of rejoicing. Jesus says again and again to his disciples: Rejoice, rejoice, I say unto you, rejoice! He is telling them the true meaning of prayer: dance it, sing it, let it be a gratitude, a great thankfulness. Then it reaches, it succeeds, it is heard. Then it

Darshan 14 September 1979

[Blanka means white, the most paradoxical of colors]

In one sense it is a color and in one sense it is not. It is a color because it contains all the colors; the whole spectrum of the rainbow is contained in white. And yet it is not a color at all because it is neither red nor blue, nor green - it is a

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March 31, 2020

Your birthright: to take flight

Question 1:

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

Surrender: the ego upside down

Question 1:

Positive thinking: philosophy for phonies

Question 1:

Science plus religion - the dynamic formula for the future

Question 1:

Baptism: wating for godot

Question 1:

Meditation: watchfulness, awareness, alertness - the real trinity

Question 1:

Jesus - the only savior who nearly saved himself

Question 1:

Imitation is your cremation

Question 1:

Conscience: a coffin for consciousness

Question 1:

The commune: the distillation of rebellious spirits

Question 1:

Personality: the carbon cop-out

Question 1:

Surrender: the ego upside down

This tapes of this discourse were erased the day after it was given, this transcription appeared a week later.

Question 1:

Religion is rebellion

Question 1:

One god, one messenger, one book - one big lie

Question 1:

Jesus, the only forgotten son of god

Let's not face it - you're absolutely alone

Question 1:

They say believe; I say explore

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Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd

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Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand

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Faith: the suicide of intelligence

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Truth: not a dogma but a dance

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God - the nobody everybody knows

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I teach a religionless religion

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God is not a solution but a problem

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Shame is the name of their game

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Renunciation: mortgage today for a tomorrow that never comes

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Ecstasy is now - why wait?

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Danger: truth at work

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The nuclear family - the imminent meltdown

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The other cheek: the masochist's slap-up feast

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Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul

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Darshan 30 September 1979

Darshan 29 September 1979

[A sannyasin asks of her three-year-old daughter, that she hates going to school and what to do?]

Darshan 28 September 1979

Darshan 27 September 1979

Darshan 26 September 1979

[Benoit... God's giving and our ingratitude.]

Darshan 25 September 1979

Darshan 24 September 1979

[Osho gives sannyas to two boys and addresses the parents]

Darshan 23 September 1979

Darshan 22 September 1979