Osho - Hallelujah

Love has never failed

Deva means divine, prapata means a waterfall. The waterfall is symbolic of many things. The first: it seeks depth, it is always moving towards the depth. And that should be the search. God is not there high in heaven but deep in you. Your consciousness has to become a waterfall, to seek the deepest valley in your being - and you will find god there.

Secondly: water is liquid, fluid, flowing. Life should never be rigid. Rigidity is death and fluidity is life. So when the waterfall is there, there are

Osho - Hallelujah

Bliss is a by-product of losing Yourself

Prem means love, saburo means waiting - waiting is love. And that's really what meditation is:

waiting for the unknown to happen. We cannot make it happen. Whatsoever we do will always be a

repetition of the known, because we are the known. There is no way for us to make the unknown happen. Whatsoever we try to do will be a continuity of our knowledge, a projection of our past - it can't be new. And god is new, utterly new. God is that which is still unknown.

Osho - Hallelujah

Meditation is the Path of Ecstasy

Anand means bliss, aikanto means aloneness - the bliss of being alone. There is a kind of bliss which arises in relationship, in love, with people. But there is also a blissfulness which arises when you are simply, utterly alone. The first bliss can only be momentary because it

depends on the interaction of two persons. And two persons are two worlds apart; if they meet for a few moments, if really the meeting happens, it is a miracle. But it cannot be a constant state of your being; it will come and it will go. There will be ups and there will be downs, and the higher the ups,

Osho - Hallelujah

Love is Madness with a Method

Prem means love, parijato is a flower, the name of a flower. Prem Parijato will mean a flower of love.

Man never blooms without love. Love is like spring: once you are in love, hidden possibilities start manifesting themselves, that which was latent before starts arising,

surfacing. All the colours and all the fragrance that one contains are released. Love releases the potential. Without love a man is only a possibility; with love man becomes actual, real. Love is realization.

Osho - Hallelujah

Prayer is a Love Affair with Existence

Prem means love, gitama means a song - a song of love. Life cannot be more enriched by anything, except love. Life remains poor without love and life remains a hell without love. Love is the only quality that transforms life from misery to bliss. Love brings the transformation. So

if one can love then the impossible becomes possible, then each moment is joy and each breath is a song. Then just to be is enough... nothing else is needed. So let this secret become your very foundation of life.

Osho - Hallelujah

Aloneness is Celebration of Being

Deva means divine, gariba means poverty. Jesus says 'Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of god.' To be poor in spirit means to be egoless. It means to be humble. It means to be a nobody. To be poor in spirit does not mean tolive in poverty - because one can practise poverty and can be very egoistic about it. That's what

happens to people who renounce the world: they start having a pious kind of egoism, which is far more dangerous and poisonous than the ordinary kind.

Osho - Hallelujah

Love is the Soul of the dance, dance, the Body of Love

[To Ma Anand Christa]

Anand means blissful; and Christa is not Christ's name but a state of consciousness, what in the East we call Buddhahood - the ultimate state of consciousness where all darkness has disappeared, where all is light, when man is no more identified

with the body but knows himself as the supreme self, where one can say 'I am god!' That state of consciousness is Christ-consciousness.

Osho - Hallelujah

Sannyas is the Dimension of the Festive

Prem means love, paribhasho means definition. There is no definition of love, but one can become it. Life can become the definition of it. There is no possibility of defining love in words, but one can live in such a way that one's whole being becomes its

definition. And. each one has to find the definition on his own. Nobody can live somebody else's definition, otherwise one has missed one's life.

Osho - Hallelujah

Bliss is a Shadow of God

Prem means love, sandhan means enquiry into... enquiry into love. Life is an enquiry into love. All else is secondary; the primary thing is love. Those who miss love, miss all. So remember it always, that only a life of love is a fulfilled life. Love immensely.

And this is the right time to start the enquiry. Once habits of non-loving become settled it becomes more difficult. Every child is born loving but soon we teach him not to love. On the contrary we teach him to be ambitious, to be jealous, to be possessive. By

Osho - Hallelujah

Love's madness takes one beyond all insanity

Anand means bliss, veetkam means beyond sex. Bliss is the same energy as sex. If the energy remains completely involved in sex it cannot become bliss. Even in sexual orgasm that little bit of bliss comes to you because in that moment you are free of sex. This will look strange, but while you are making love, when the moment of orgasm comes you are free of sex for a

moment. That freedom from sex brings bliss.

Osho - Hallelujah

Music is a short-cut to God

Deva means divine, abhavo means absence. The moment you are absent, god is present; and god is present only when you are not. There is no co-existence possible - man cannot encounter god.

That is impossible, as impossible as darkness encountering light. Darkness is possible only when light is not. If the light is, darkness is not. Man is a darkness. So the more

capable we are of losing ourselves, the more full of god we are; and the more full of ourselves we are, the less is the possibility of god penetrating us.

Osho - Hallelujah

Only in Bliss are you Close to Me

Avoda means service out of ecstasy. The Christian idea of service is that service has to be first then ecstasy follows. The Eastern idea is just the reverse: ecstasy has to come first then service follows.

If service comes first it will be just a duty - imposed, cultivated,

practised; it is impossible for ecstasy to arise out of it. It will create only a hypocrite, and that's what the Christian missionary has become in the world.

Osho - Hallelujah

The Taste of God is Love

Kusum means flower, swarna means gold - a golden flower. It is still in the seed but it can come; it has to be provoked, it has to be ca]led forth. One should not dissect the seed. If you dissect the seed you will not find the flower. That's what people are doing all over the world.

If you dissect man you will not find god... and then they think there is no god.

Man is a seed, god is a flowering. You cannot find the flower in the seed if you search for it directly.

Osho - Hallelujah

Love is a Jumping Board

Prem means love, mouna means silence. So learn two things: be loving to everybody - to people, to trees, to animals, even to the rocks - and the second thing: learn to be silent. Whenever you have time just sit silently with closed eyes. If these two things are attained you become a sannyasin!

Deva means divine, vasant means spring - divine spring. Sannyas is divine spring, and the colour orange is traditionally the colour of spring in India,

Osho - Hallelujah

Sannyas is Initiation into Light

Love is a breakthrough; a breakthrough from the ego, from all boundaries, from all limitations. Hence love becomes the sky, the inner sky. And the outer sky is nothing compared to the inner; the outer is just a pale reflection of the inner. Once one has looked into the inner then for the first time one

feels that even this sky that we have known always is not so unlimited; it has its own limitations. And modern physics says that it is limited. But the inner sky has no limitation.

That inner sky has been called by many names. Buddha called it 'nirvana': cessation of the ego.

Osho - Hallelujah

To become a Song is to become a Saint

Anand means bliss, astika means one who trusts, one who believes, one who trusts in bliss; and that's my definition of a religious man. I don't say to trust in god, because that is very far-fetched.

God is very abstract - it is only a word; you don't have any experience of it. To believe in it will be dishonest. You cannot honestly believe in god. It will be deceiving yourself - a kind of self-deception, creating an illusion around yourself. And if you start with illusion you cannot end with truth. If you begin in dishonesty, you will end in dishonesty. The first step has to be very true, authentic; only then can the last step be in

Osho - Hallelujah

Whenever you are Total you are with Me

Prem means love, unmado means madness - a loving madness. And that is the greatest sanity in the world. One who is not capable of loving madness is not even capable of living. He only thinks, never feels. And life is not a thought; it has to be felt, lived. Those who cannot

live and feel remain hung-up in the head. Their life becomes only a dream phenomenon - it has no objectivity. It is all thought stuff, and thought is nothing but a form of dreaming. Dreaming is thinking visually, and thinking is dreaming

Osho - Hallelujah

Joy is Intunement

[To a sannyasin with his wife and child who is afraid to 'burn all his bridges' in the West in order to be with Osho]

Because of that fear.... Fear always holds one back, keeps the past safe so that one can fall upon it if the moment arises. But then the whole journey remains half-hearted and

lukewarm. Better than being cold, but the evaporation comes only when you are totally with me, and to be totally with me means burning all the bridges. That is trust. Otherwise yoU go intelligently. You see, you judge, and you go so far; you follow yourself really. And whenever something arises about which

Osho - Hallelujah

Prayer is the Highest Form of Play

Anand means bliss, vandano means prayer - bliss is prayer. Whether one believes in god or not does not matter. A blissful man is a religious man. A blissful man is in prayer, because out of bliss, gratitude naturally arises, and gratitude is prayer... and out of gratitude, the vision of god.

But the so-called religions start upside-down. They say 'First believe in god, then you can pray, and out of prayer you will find bliss.' This is just a falsification of the whole process.

Osho - Hallelujah

Religion: Allowing God to Find Us

Deva means god, svarupo means self-nature. God is our self nature. God is not separate - god is our very being. He has not to be attained, only discovered. He is hidden in us; there is no need to go anywhere else to find him. One has to be silent enough and relaxed enough to feel

him. It is not a journey, it is already the case: we are in god, god is in us. And god is not a person - you cannot worship him; there is nobody to be worshipped. The worshipper is the worshipped. The arrow has to turn inwards.

Osho - Hallelujah

Love is The Introduction to The Book of Bliss

Deva means divine, dharia means patience - divine patience. God is not available to those who are in a hurry. God is not instant, and the more you are in a hurry, the less is the possibility. Patience is a very basic requirement... infinite patience. Only when you are in a deep state of patience are you

silent; otherwise the mind is tense. When there is hurry, there is tension. Then the mind is constantly longing, and because it is not happening the mind feels frustration.

Osho - Hallelujah

The Night is over

Prem means love, devayan means divine vehicle - love, the divine vehicle. Love takes you to the ultimate and love also brings the ultimate to you; it is a double-edged sword. It is like a ladder: you can go up and down by the same ladder. And the meeting happens somewhere in the middle. Man starts moving in love, god starts

moving in response to man's love, and just exactly in the middle, somewhere half-way, the meeting happens. Man disappears into god and god disappears into man.

Osho - Hallelujah

Sannyas is The Apprenticeship in Bliss

[to a sannyasin returning to her husband in the West]

Just be there and be totally there. It is not a question of where you are; the question is always of being total or partial. Whenever you are partial, something goes on missing. But my feeling is that you will be partial there too - because you

could not be total here, so how can you be total there?

Here you have been thinking of somebody who is there; there you will think of me and things that are here.

Osho Hallelujah

A Sufi story...

A man went to seek and search. He asked the first man outside the town, sitting under a tree 'How to find a master?' The man described him, saying 'These are the signs. he will be sitting under such- and-such-a tree, he will have certain eyes, such-and-such-a vibe'... and all that. The man was very happy - now he

had a criterion - and for thirty years he searched. He came across many masters, many people, and he became tired,

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Surprise Me!

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHO NEEDS GOD WHEN WE ARE BLESSED WITH THE BEAUTIFUL FEET OF A BEAUTIFUL
MASTER TO SIT UNDER?

Sheela,

YOU FOOL! That is the surest way to find God - one cannot miss. The

Master is only a window. The Master simply opens into God, just as the window opens into the sky. What you see in the Master is not of the Master himself - he is no more. What you see through the window is not of the window; it is of the sky, the stars, the sunrise, a bird on the wing, the flowers.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Kiss or Kill

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

THERE IS DEEP IN MYSELF A YEARNING FOR THE PERMANENCY OF LOVE. IS THAT STUPID?

Prem Anna,

LOVE CAN EXIST in two dimensions: either as horizontal or as vertical. We are acquainted with the love which is horizontal. That is also the dimension of time; the

vertical is the dimension of eternity.

The yearning in the heart is not for permanency; there you have misunderstood. But that misunderstanding is almost

Osho - Guida Spirituale

The Only Miracle

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS SURRENDER? I USED TO THINK I KNEW. NOW IT IS A MYSTERY.

Prem Prabhat,

THE FALSE KNOWLEDGE de-mystifies existence; the true

knowledge re-mystifies it. Knowing, if authentic, makes life more of a mystery than it has ever been before. Knowledge certainly covers your eyes with dark clouds, creates a wall of thick smoke, and you start feeling you know. In fact, you

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Child of the Universe

"BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. YOU ARE A CHILD

OF THE UNIVERSE NO LESS THAN THE TREES AND THE STARS; YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO
BE HERE. AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU, NO DOUBT THE UNIVERSE IS
UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD.

"THEREFORE BE AT PEACE WITH GOD, WHATEVER YOU CONCEIVE HIM TO BE. AND
WHATEVER YOUR LABORS AND ASPIRATIONS, IN THE NOISY CONFUSION OF LIFE, KEEP
PEACE IN YOUR SOUL.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

The Total Man

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

IN REFERENCE TO YOUR ADVISING INDIRA GANDHI TO IMPOSE A STRICTER EMERGENCY
AND SUSPEND ELECTIONS FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, Mid-Day CARRIES THE HEADLINE: "STICK
TO YOUR RELIGIOUS PURSUITS, MR. RAJNEESH!"

DO YOU HAVE ANY RESPONSE, OSHO?

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Beliefs are Lies

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

IS THERE QUALITY IN NOTHINGNESS?

Anudeya,

NOTHINGNESS CAN EITHER BE just emptiness or it can be a tremendous fullness. It can be negative, it can be positive. If it is negative it is like death, darkness. Religions have

called it hell. It is hell because there is no joy in it, no song in it, there is no heartbeat, no dance. Nothing flowers, nothing opens. One is simply empty.

This empty nothingness has created great fear in people. That's why in the West

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Doubt is a Sword

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHEN MY CHILDREN KNEW I WAS COMING TO SEE YOU, THERE WAS NO REQUEST FOR
GIFTS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING THEY WANTED FOR ME TO BRING BACK SOME OF
YOUR JOKES. THEY TOLD ME THAT ALL THE STUFF BETWEEN THE JOKES WAS GOOD FOR
GROWN-UPS, BUT FOR THEM JUST THE JOKES. SO COULD YOU TELL US SOME JOKES
FOR THEM? NATHAN, TWELVE YEARS; ANDREW, ELEVEN YEARS; ROSEMARY, TEN YEARS;
AND BENJAMIN, FIVE YEARS. THEY ARE SUCH LOVELY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, BUT I HAVE A

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Be Yourself

"BE YOURSELF.

ESPECIALLY DO NOT FEIGN AFFECTION. NEITHER BE CYNICAL ABOUT LOVE; FOR IN THE
FACE OF ALL ARIDITY AND DISENCHANTMENT, IT IS AS PERENNIAL AS THE GRASS.

"TAKE KINDLY THE COUNSEL OF THE YEARS, GRACEFULLY SURRENDERING THE THINGS
OF YOUTH.

"NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE. BUT DO NOT
DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH DARK IMAGININGS. MANY FEARS ARE BORN OF FATIGUE AND
LONELINESS."

Osho - Guida Spirituale

I say, Rejoice!

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO,

WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE?

Pritam,

MY MESSAGE IS VERY SIMPLE Live life as dangerously as possible. Live life totally, intensely, passionately, because except for life there is no other God.

Friedrich Nietzsche says God is dead. That is wrong because God has never been there in the first place. How can he be dead? Life is, always has been, will always be. Allow yourself... and I repeat again, allow yourself to be possessed by life.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Create a Context

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO, I WELCOME YOUR STERN STEPS TO GUIDE A COUNTRY LIKE INDIA FROM SLAVERY
AND POVERTY, ETC. HOWEVER, I FEEL VERY SORRY TO HEAR YOU QUOTED AS SAYING:

"FOR FIFTEEN YEARS THIS COUNTRY NEEDS NO DEMOCRACY. IT HAS NOT THAT MUCH
INTELLIGENCE." PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY THIS.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

The Virtuous Circle

The first question

Question 1:

OSHO, IS MY NAME AN ESSENTIAL OR SOMETHING NON-ESSENTIAL?

Premananda,

Existence is nameless. We are all nameless, but the name has a

certain utility; without it life will be impossible. When the child is born he comes as a nobody, as pure nothingness - that's the beauty of a child - but it is a necessity that he should be given a name. Once the name is given, slowly slowly the child becomes autohypnotized by his own name; it becomes almost a reality to him. In fact, he can even sacrifice himself for the

Osho - Guida Spirituale

God Never Repeats

"AVOID LOUD AND AGGRESSIVE PERSONS; THEY ARE VEXATIOUS TO THE SPIRIT.

"IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, YOU MAY BECOME VAIN OR BITTER, FOR
ALWAYS THERE WILL BE GREATER AND LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF.

"ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS YOUR PLANS."

"KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR OWN CAREER, HOWEVER HUMBLE; IT IS A REAL
POSSESSION IN THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF TIME."

"EXERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS, FOR THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRICKERY.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Don't Compare

The first question

Osho,

Question 1:

SITTING NEAR YOU I INCREASINGLY FEEL DEEP SILENCE AND WHAT SEEMS TO BE
EMPTINESS, BUT THERE IS NO BLISS IN IT. I TEND TO REGARD THIS AS AN INDICATION
THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG, ESPECIALLY AT DARSHAN WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE

SO BLISSFUL. I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY IDEA WHETHER I AM ON THE RIGHT TRACK OR
NOT. SOMETIMES I THINK I AM BECOMING MORE MEDITATIVE AND OTHER TIMES I THINK I
AM TOTALLY OFF BEAM AND LOST.

PLEASE COMMENT.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

The Feel of It

Question 1:

OSHO, MY PROBLEM IS THAT I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME. IF I THINK
THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM THEN I REALLY DO HAVE ONE. IN FACT, THINKING SEEMS TO BE
JUST THE MAKING UP OF PROBLEMS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Deva Saguna,

I don't think at all! That's why I have no problems, only answers and answers - no questions at all.

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Going Essential

The first question

Osho,

Question 1:

CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE ESSENTIAL?

Prem Samadhi,

Man is also a seed, a possibility, a potential, a hop, a promise. But the seed is not yet the flower.

In essence it has the capacity of millions of flowers, but not in reality. Those flowers have to be actualized. The essential is that which you are born with, which is your very being.

That's exactly the purpose, or should be the purpose, of education: to help you to seek and search your essential, to

Osho - Guida Spirituale

Go Placidly

HEAR THEN THE WISDOM OF THE WISE: "GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND THE HASTE,

AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE.

"AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER, BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS.

SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY AND CLEARLY; AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN TO THE DULL

AND THE IGNORANT; THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY."

Osho Guida Spirituale

Buddha says, "Don't believe because I say so; believe only when you know. Don't believe because it is written in the scriptures; believe it only when you know."

And I say to you, too, if you are a real seeker of truth you will not believe in knowledge. Knowledge is very superficial. One can talk about God without knowing anything of

God, without ever tasting anything of God. One can talk about love without ever knowing through experience what love is.

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 7 November 1976

[To a sannyasin, recently-arrived from the West:] These groups are just processes to unburden you a little, because God is not very far away; you just need a weightlessness. All that is needed is wings. He is very close, but everybody is so burdened - rocks upon rocks, and we cherish those

rocks as if they are treasures. And underneath those rocks our wings are becoming destroyed and we cannot fly.

Man's destiny is to fly, to ascend as high as possible. Man has not been given wings as far as the

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 6 November 1976

[To a sannyasin leaving for the West.] Continue to meditate. There are many temptations for dropping meditation, and they are not all from the outside; many are from the inside. The mind tends to be lethargic and it can always find good reasons, so don't listen to the mind. Even if the reason seems to

be perfectly right, be irrational but continue to meditate, because only those moments which have been used for meditation are the saved moments - all else is lost. This

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 5 November 1976

Deva means divine, natya means drama - a divine drama. And that's what life is. It should not be taken seriously. The moment you take it seriously, you miss. It is a drama. Taken as a drama it is tremendously beautiful. One has nothing to lose in it and nothing to gain; it is simply fun.

And once you start looking at life as fun, as humour, as joy, as play, all worries disappear on their own accord; all problems by and by become irrelevant. Because whenever there is a wound of seriousness surrounding that wound,

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 3 November 1976

Deva means divine and arpita means offered - offered to the divine, an offering to God. And that's how life has to be. If it is not an offering one remains miserable. If it is not an offering one can never feel any meaning. Meaning comes only when you are joined together with something bigger than

yourself; then suddenly there is meaning. When you are alone you are meaningless. So there is some meaning in love, there is some meaning in prayer,

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 2 November 1976

[The mother of a sannyasin said that Osho's discourses had helped her to understand Jesus teachings: But when I go back, catholic students will ask me the difference between Osho Christ's teaching and Jesus Christ's teachings. And there is one point, if I may ask, I would like enlightenment on

We are taught that the kingdom of heaven flowers in a love which shows itself in good works, in caring for the poor and the sick. Sometimes I get the impression with your lovely

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 1 November 1976

[A sannyasin says: I feel if I don't ask you whatever comes up - every week almost something new comes up - I'll go off the track; I'll go off on some incredible ego .] Mm, mm. Even the fear of going in a wrong direction is an ego trip. Why are you so afraid of being in a wrong situation? - because the wrong

situation is very ego shattering and the right situation is very ego enhancing. In fact to think of the future is to think in terms of the ego. So remain with the

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 31 October 1976

This will be your name... and to explain this a few things have to be understood. There has been a perennial debate down the centuries about man's being - whether man comes into the world with an essence or just comes without any essence and

accumulates essence through actions, through lifestyles, through experience... whether man comes like a seed or comes empty. The seed has the whole tree existing in it already - i

may not be visible but in essence the whole tree exists in the seed. The growth of the tree is not

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 30 October 1976

Anand means bliss and shantam means silence. So you have to be blissful and very silent.

Happiness has a fever in it; it is never silent That's the difference between happiness and bliss.

Happiness is tense. One really gets tired of everything - even

happiness. One cannot remain happy for a long time; you will get fed up with it. You would like to relax - you would like to move to the opposite. Hence misery follows happiness. It is a must; it is a necessity - just as night follows the day. The day you work hard; in the night you relax into oblivion.

Osho - God is Not For Sale

Darshan 29 October 1976

Prabhu means divine, and vairag means renunciation - divine renunciation. And renunciation can either be human Qr it can be divine. When it is human it is futile. When it is your doing it is not of much worth. But when it is God's doing it has tremendous value. So I don't teach that you have to practise renunciation. I simply teach

surrender and to just start moving with His will. Wherever He leads is the destiny. Even when His ways are sometimes contradictary, inconsistent, don't mistrust.