Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is the business of the priest

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

WHEN IMPO TOOK LEAVE OF MA TZU, MA TZU ASKED, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?"

IMPO REPLIED, "I'M GOING TO SEKITO."

MA TZU WARNED, "THE PATH ON THE STONE-HEAD IS SLIPPERY!"

IMPO SAID, "I HAVE THE POLE OF AN ACROBAT WITH ME - I CAN MAKE A SHOW WITH IT
WHENEVER I WANT," AND WITH THAT HE LEFT.

WHEN HE GOT TO SEKITO, IMPO WENT AROUND SEKITO'S ZEN STOOL ONE TIME, SWUNG
HIS STICK WITH A SHOUT AND ASKED, "WHAT IS THE DHARMA OF THIS?"

Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is the original sinner

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is your insecurity

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is a lie

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is just like tomorrow

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is an insult to man

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

God is a puppeteer

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

It's better to be red than dead

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Osho - From The False To The Truth

You are my fellow travellers

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

NEVER HAVE YOU SEEMED SO HUMAN, DANCING, LAUGHING AND CELEBRATING WITH US.

BUT NEVER HAVE YOU TOLD IT TO US QUITE SO STRAIGHT, WITHOUT CATERING TO OUR
UNENLIGHTENED MORTAL STUPIDITIES. IS THIS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY VIBE?

You got it! This is the twenty-first century for me, and I am trying to push you towards it.

Sannyasins should live ahead of time. The people who are burdened with the past live five thousand years ago, ten

Osho - From The False To The Truth

God: the need of the old man

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

MY MEMORY OF MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS YOUNG IS SO ALIVE. MY FATHER PAINTED
AND WROTE POETRY. MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME DANCING. BOTH OF THEM WERE
AGNOSTIC, AND NEVER TAUGHT ME RELIGION. NOW DIVORCED, THEY EACH LIVE IN QUIET

DESPERATION, UNWILLING TO TAKE CHANCES. FOR ME THEY HAVE DIED AND ARE JUST
SHELLS OF FEAR. THIS MAKES ME SAD, BECAUSE ONCE THEY FLOWED WITH JUICE. WHAT
HAS HAPPENED TO THEM?

Osho - From The False To The Truth

No religions, no nations, no governments

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOUR WAY IS THE WAY OF THE HEART, AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS THE WAY OF THE
HEAD. WILL IT EVER BE POSSIBLE THAT MAN CAN FUNCTION FROM A BLEND OF BOTH
HEAD AND HEART, OR MUST THE TWO ALWAYS REMAIN TOTALLY DIVORCED? WILL IT
ALWAYS BE ESSENTIAL TO MAKE A CONSCIOUS CHOICE FOR ONE WAY OR THE OTHER?

The first thing to be understood is that there is no way, either of head or of heart. Every way leads you away, away from the truth that you are.

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Everybody wants freedom, nobody wants responsibility

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEVER OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH ALL
"ISMS." DOES THIS INCLUDE RAJNEESHISM AS WELL?

Certainly. But you don't understand one thing - Rajneeshism is not an "ism." It is just because of the

poverty of language that we had to call it Rajneeshism. It is not an "ism" because it has no theology, no ideology, no philosophy - which are basic needs for an "ism" to exist.

You are absolutely free individuals. You don't belong to a certain concept about

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Freedom from blind biology

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YESTERDAY YOU SPOKE OF SCIENCE AND HOW WE COULD PRODUCE A NEW MAN - MORE
INTELLIGENT, CREATIVE, HEALTHIER AND FREER. IT SOUNDS FASCINATING AND AT THE
SAME TIME IT IS SCARY BECAUSE OF THE FEELING OF SOME SORT OF MASS PRODUCT.

CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEAR I AM FEELING?

It is absolutely fascinating, and there is no need to feel any fear about it. In fact, what we have been doing for millions of years

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Death never happens

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

A MAN LIKE YOU COMES ALONG ONCE IN ETERNITY. WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND
SAYING IS UNIQUE. I'M INDEED FORTUNATE TO BE HERE AND I MAY NEVER HAVE THIS
OPPORTUNITY AGAIN. YET EVERY MORNING I COME TO DISCOURSE, I FALL ASLEEP. AM I
MISSING? SHOULD I ALSO GO AND JUMP IN KRISHNAMURTI LAKE?

It is just great - have a good sleep! Sleep is not contradictory to enlightenment. You will make history by becoming enlightened in your sleep. And there is no

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Chase the woman gently

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE NOTICED THAT THE WOMEN HERE ARE BECOMING JUICIER AND MORE ACTIVE,
WHILE WE MEN ARE BECOMING LAZIER AND LAZIER. WOULD YOU COMMENT?

The women is not the weaker sex, as it has been said by man for centuries. The woman is the

stronger sex. She is made weaker. For centuries upon centuries she has been conditioned; she has been told she needs a protector.

The Indian scripture of Manu, which has dominated the Hindu

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Enlightenment is you completely gone

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

SEEING THAT EVERYONE WANTS SO MUCH TO BE ENLIGHTENED, ISN'T IT ALSO TRUE THAT
WE ARE ALL SCARED TOO? WHAT IS THE FEAR THAT PREVENTS US FROM RELAXING INTO
OUR OWN SELF?

There are many fears, not one.

First, if you want to be enlightened, you have to die a psychological death. You have to be reborn as a new spiritual being, and you don't know anything about spirituality. All that you know about yourself is your mind, centered around the ego.

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Seeing the fact, drop the fiction

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

ALL OUR LIVES WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO LEARN GRACE, BEAUTY, ETIQUETTE. BUT
NOW, WHEN YOU ARE TEACHING US GENUINE GRACE AND BEAUTY, A LOT OF US ARE
SO INSENSITIVE TO GRACIOUSNESS AND AESTHETICS THAT EVEN COMING CLOSE TO
YOU, IN THE PRESENCE OF YOU, WE CONTINUE THE RESENTMENTS OF FORCED GRACE,
BEAUTY, ETIQUETTE, ETC. WE BEHAVE WITHOUT RESPECT, LOVE, DIGNITY TOWARDS OUR
BELOVED MASTER - YOU, OSHO.

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Go to your bathroom dancing

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHEN YOU SAID THAT YOU ARE NOT CELIBATE, I WAS SHOCKED. I GUESS I THOUGHT YOU
HAD TRANSCENDED SEX. WHY DID THIS DISTURB ME?

I was also shocked, because I was thinking you all would be shocked and only one camel got the shock. But his question is meaningful.

You were shocked, Mr. Camel, because you had certain expectations of me. It is strange - I don't expect anything from you, and you go on expecting how I should be, what I should do, what I should not. I am

Osho - From The False To The Truth

Persecution cannot do any harm to you

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

THE WAY YOU WALK, IT SEEMS AS IF YOU ARE DRUNK. WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

Man, I am drunk! But not drunk with ordinary alcohol, marijuana, hashish, opium, LSD. I grow my own marijuana within me. No government can interfere with it. My source of drunkenness is my

silence, my love, my centeredness, my rootedness in myself. Yes, I walk like a drunkard because I am a drunkard. You have observed truly.

Once you know the inner serenity, a gap between you and your body arises, a gap between you and your mind arises. That

Osho - From The False To The Truth

You are the only hope

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

ARE YOU A MESSIAH, A PROPHET, OR A REINCARNATION OF GOD?

I have never expected that one of my sannyasins would ask such a bullshit question!

I am simply myself. I am not a messiah, because there is no God to send messengers to the world. Moreover, I don't want to be

crucified. To prove that you are a messiah of God, crucifixion is absolutely necessary. Not that I am afraid of death, but I would like a comfortable, luxurious death.