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,...
View ArticleNothing 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...
View ArticleEntering 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleZorba 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...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleHara, 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleAwaiting 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...
View ArticleGradual 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...
View ArticleWitnessing-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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleCut 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...
View ArticleZen: 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOsho 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...
View ArticleAwareness 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...
View ArticleWhat 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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