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No Question Means the Answer

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I FEEL TOO LAZY TO THINK OF A QUESTION. WHAT TO DO?

Anand Chinmaya, it cannot be true that you really feel too lazy; otherwise who has written this question?

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The Forgotten But Not the Lost

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHY DOES EVERYBODY THINK ENLIGHTENMENT IS A JOKE?

Sarito, it is! But only a child can ask such a beautiful question -- Sarito is only twelve years of age. Enlightenment is a joke because it is not something that you have to achieve, yet you have to make all possible efforts to achieve it. It is already the case: you are born enlightened.

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Of Course the Grass Grows by Itself

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

PEOPLE OF ALMOST ALL THE RELIGIONS TRY TO CONVINCE OTHER
PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THEIR RESPECTIVE RELIGIONS. BUT I HAVE MET
MANY OF YOUR FOLLOWERS AND THEY ALWAYS DISCOURAGE ME FROM
ADOPTING THE WAY YOU ARE PREACHING. WHY SO?

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From Italy to Nirvana

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I FELT SO MUCH LOVE POURING FROM YOU WHEN I COULD NOT GET THE
MICROPHONE TO WORK THE OTHER DAY. WITH MY HANDS SHAKING, AND
MY HEART THUMPING, I KNEW I HAD TO DO SOMETHING -- YET

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The Suchness of Things

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

LAO TZU IS SAID TO HAVE SAID:

"KNOWING THE NOT-KNOWING --
THAT IS HIGH.

NOT KNOWING THE KNOWING --
THAT IS AN ILLNESS.

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Everybody Can Laugh

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU SAY FEAR IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE. HAVE YOU ANY PRACTICAL OR
IMPRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS HOW ONE CAN DROP FEAR?

Atta, love is existential; fear is only the absence of love. And the problem with any absence is that you cannot do anything directly about it.

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The Very alphabet of Love

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I LOVE YOU, AND I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE BEFORE AND BEEN HURT. I AM
AFRAID. WILL YOU HELP ME?

Mimi Levinson, love never hurts anybody. It is something else pretending to be love which feels

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Silence and Song Meet

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHEN I AM AMONG PEOPLE, AFTER A WHILE I WANT TO BE ALONE. WHEN
I AM ALONE, AFTER A WHILE I WANT TO BE AMONG PEOPLE. SO I CANNOT
ENJOY ONE OR THE OTHER FULLY. SHOULD I LIVE ON THE INSIDE OR ON
THE OUTSIDE?

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Aes Dhammo Sanantano

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED? IF IT IS THE CASE,
WOULD THAT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE FOR ME?

Devaprem, it is not only possible, it is absolutely certain that I am not enlightened!

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A Thousand and One Ways to Laugh

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

THE OTHER DAY IN DISCOURSE YOU MENTIONED THAT WHEN A WOMAN
WEARS RED LIPSTICK IT IS UGLY, BECAUSE IT IS NOT NATURAL. I AM
FROM NEW YORK WHERE IT IS REQUIRED THAT WOMEN SHAVE

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Let Sannyas Happen

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

EVERY TIME I HEAR YOU PRAISING CAPITALISM I GET ANGRY. YOU SAY
SANNYAS MEANS TO GET RID OF ALL CONDITIONING AND TO ESCAPE OUT
OF EVERY CAGE WHETHER IT IS RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL OR
POLITICAL. BUT ISN'T CAPITALISM A CAGE TOO? WHY CAN'T WE LIVE

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You Are the Question

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

THERE ARE NO ANSWERS.

Anand Shari, yes, there are no answers, because there are no questions either. Life is not a problem. Had it been a problem there would have been no need for religion -- philosophy would have

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A Flute on the Lips of God

BELOVED OSHO,

THIS POEM IS BY ROBERT GRAVES:

THOSE WHO DARE GIVE NOTHING ARE LEFT WITH LESS THAN NOTHING; DEAR HEART, YOU GIVE ME EVERYTHING, WHICH LEAVES YOU MORE THAN EVERYTHING -- THOUGH THOSE WHO DARE GIVE NOTHING MIGHT JUDGE IT LEFT YOU NOTHING.

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From the Body to the Soul

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

JESUS SAYS, "SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND." DOES A DESIRELESS SEARCH EXIST?

Bernd, Jesus was in a very unfortunate situation: he had learned all the secrets in the East and he was introducing something that had never existed in the Jewish tradition before -- that was his crime. The orthodox, the traditional, the conventional mind could not understand him.

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Whoever Knocks is a Welcome Guest

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I AM A SINNER. CAN I ALSO BECOME YOUR SANNYASIN?

Govind, yes, absolutely yes! In fact, only a sinner can become a sannyasin. Those who think

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Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others call a conditioning of the behavior. The child is brought up by