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Don’t Be Worried About Nothing – Osho

Though you have infused the sutras with life and humor, for me, Zen remains the stark beauty of the desert, and I long for something else. Why can’t I drop the idea that my way is not via emptiness,...

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Nothing is Unique – Osho

How can I be nothing and unique? You can be unique only when you are nothing. If you are something, you are comparable. If you are somebody you can be compared with others, and that which can be...

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Entering Into Your Veryness – Osho

Is this just my refusal to grow up? Am I fooling myself? Are we all to embrace the Zen Manifesto no matter what ‘type’ we feel we are? There is no question of type. All types are just superficial. At...

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A Being Energy – Osho

We all think we are aware; that is one of our unawarenesses. We are only functionally aware. We have learned to do things, to go to bed, to get up early in the morning, to go to the job. Everything has...

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The Choice is Yours – Osho

I am energy that becomes thoughts and emotions. I am the expression of those thoughts and emotions. I am the witness of those thoughts and emotions. Which of this holy trinity is the closest to the...

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Zorba and Zen – Osho

What is the relationship between Zorba and Zen?  The whole past of humanity has tried to keep them separate, and this has been an unfortunate experiment. The Zorba has remained incomplete, just...

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All Dreams Must Cease – Osho

Mind has only one capacity and that is to dream. And this dreaming continues even while you are awake. That’s the reason Sosan or Jesus won’t believe that you are ever awake, because dreaming has one...

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Hara, the Third Eye and Zen – Osho

I heard you say that the center of our Buddhahood is at the hara  point inside the body. Is there also a sleeping buddha energy in our hearts and in the third eye?  Do we all have the same potential of...

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What Does “I” Mean – Osho

Please, in the question “Who am I?” What does “I” mean? Does it mean the essence of life? “Who am I?” is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a...

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Awaiting Its Discovery – Osho

What is satori and how to attain it? Pratima, satori is exactly your ordinary nature; it is not anything special. Hence there is no question of attaining it – it is already the case. You are in it, you...

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Gradual or Sudden Enlightenment – Osho

Do wisdom and understanding increase gradually or do they come as explosions? Understanding never comes, neither as a sudden phenomenon nor as a gradual one, because it is always there. You have it...

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Witnessing-The Nourishment for Your Buddhahood – Osho

How is anxiety related to desire? It seems easier to see that one is desiring than to see that one is ‘anxieting’ – In fact, there is no verb form for anxiety, at least not in English. Am I desiring my...

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This is Called Turning In – Osho

What is turning inwards? Turning inwards is not a turning at all. Going inwards is not a going at all. Turning inwards simply means that you have been running after this desire and that, and you have...

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Cut the Very Root – Osho

You tell us to be here-now, without goals and without purpose, but then you allure us also by talking about ecstasy, enlightenment, freedom and the possible fulfillment. It looks contradictory. Please...

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Zen: Twenty-four Carat Gold – Osho

Maneesha, perhaps Zen is the only path that has led thousands of people to the ultimate reality. And in a way, it is so simple. There have been arduous ways, there have been self-torturing systems of...

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What is Satori – Osho

What is satori and how to attain it? Pratima, satori is exactly your ordinary nature; it is not anything special. Hence there is no question of attaining it – it is already the case. You are in it, you...

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The Choice is Yours – Osho

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Osho on OSHO – Osho

Tokusan, holding up his kneeling cloth, said, “OSHO!”  ‘Osho’ is a word signifying great respect, love and gratitude. It also sounds beautiful. -Osho From Zen: the Diamond Thunderbolt, Chapter Two To...

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Awareness Plus Action – Osho

The reality is always there waiting just near your heart, near your eyes, near your hands. You can touch it, you can feel it, you can live it – but you cannot think it. Seeing is possible, feeling is...

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What is this You in Yourself? – Osho

So we have to understand what meditation is. Gautam Buddha, the founder of Zen, the founder of all great meditative techniques in the world, defines it in one word. Somebody asked him one day,...

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