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4) Beloved Osho, Are you the world teacher?
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“I am not even a primary school teacher, and You are asking about being a world teacher.” :FROM UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUS#20
5) Beloved Osho, Can I doubt you?
1)Beloved Osho, Do you think your teachings will outlive you?
“Yes! absolutely. Yes. including this statement”
“WHO CARES ?” FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM (P-492)
:SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES
6)Beloved Osho, How did you know that you were the blessed One?
2)Beloved Osho, Are you God the creator?
“Do you think, I am mad”
”How do I know when I have head ache? I know it.” it.
: DHAMMAPADA-VOL10#2
THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1(P-7)
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3)Beloved Osho, How old are you?
What is your message in short? “Take it easy”
“I am ancient.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1(P-465)
:TAKE IT EASY-VOL-II
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11) Beloved Osho, Do you consider yourself a prophet?
“No, I am not so stupid. stupid. I don’t consider myself in anyway special, extraordinary, a messenger of God, a prophet, a messiah. No, I am just an ordinary human being like you and everybody else.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1 (P-584)
Do Enlightened Masters lie out of Compassion? “I don’t know about other Enlightened people, but I certainly lie!” :FROM FALSE TO THE TRUTH.(P-375)
12) Beloved Osho, What is beyond Rebellion, beyond aloneness, beyond Meditation?
9) Beloved Osho
Is there any reason that you tell us the same things day after day?
“You!”
:FROM FALSE TO THE TRUTH
“You are the reason!”
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:FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM
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10) Beloved Osho, Are you a Yogi or a Buddha or a Gyani or a Tantrika? “ Nothing of the nonsense. Don’t try to label me; Don’t try to categorize. Look at me without any words.” THE PATH OF YOGA-VOL-7(P-40)
13) Beloved Osho, Are you from Outer space? “Of course!” :FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS (P-346)
14) Beloved Osho, What is a blessing? “I am!” FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS
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15) Beloved Osho,
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18) Beloved Osho, Who are you without your disciples?
“I am. I am whether disciples are there or not, That is irrelevant. I am not dependent on you. And my whole effort here is that you can also become independent of me.”
Do you have a master/disciple relationship with the people here? “No, They are all my friends.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-07-OCT-2003 19) Beloved Osho, What is the basic reason for the Maroon robes, for the mala the locket? What is the rationale?
:TANTRIC TRANSFORMATION (P-43)
16) Beloved Osho, A saintly man would never say ‘Fuck ‘ or ‘shit’. “Then Then after me you will have to change the definition of the saintly man.”
“There is none. It is just absurd.” But if it is absurd, then Why do you impose it?” “Precisely, That is why” why”
:PHILOSOPHIA ULTIMA(P-76)
:TANTRIC TRANSFORMATION .(P-135)
17) Beloved Osho, What is the Goal of meditation? “ There is ‘NO GOAL’ of meditation. Meditation is the dropping of all goals. Goals exist in the future; Meditation is to be in the present. There is no meeting ground between the present and the future.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN(P-230)
20) Beloved Osho Why are you so much against knowledge?
“Knowledge is destructive ofsomething. ofsomething. Immensely valuable in you. It destroys your wonder. And it is through wonder that one becomes aware of Godliness not through knowledge.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN (P-146)
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21) Beloved Osho, What happens if Osho dies? Will there be a successor? “Who cares?”
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24) Beloved Osho, How did you feel before you were Enlightened? “Just like you! Just stupid!”
:THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1 (P-106)
:THE DIVINE MELODY(P-211)
22) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between longing for the Divine and Loving another? “There is no difference at all. All desires are the same. You can can desire money. You can long for God, but you remain the same.”
25) Beloved Osho, What does the future hold for you and for Osho-ees? “I never think of the future. We are happy now.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1(P-26)
26) Beloved Osho, :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN (P-154)
23) Beloved Osho, What is Greed? “Man feels feels meaningless, empty, hollow within and wants to fill it, stuff it. It means a desire for more without seeing the total futility of it! If less is not giving you anything. Then it is not going to happen by having more of the same.
When we don’t understand you rightly. How do you feel? “I simply feel that you don’t don’t understand me. If you understand Good; if you don’t understand Good, It is not a question of feeling. I don’t feel hurt. I don’t feel frustrated, because from the very beginning NOT expecting you to understand” :BE STILL AND KNOW.
:ZEN:THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION (P-300).
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27) Beloved Osho, What do you think ? Is Jesus coming back to earth again as he had promised or not? “Once cannot Krishna Nobody going to of life.”
a man becomes awakened, he come back. Jesus, Buddha, are all promised to come back. has come yet and nobody is comeback. comeback. It is against the law
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30) Beloved Osho, Can a woman really drive a man crazy? It depends on the man. If he is wise he becomes a henpecked husband. If he is not so wise then there is no other way than to be crazy!”
:ZEN:THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION. 31) Beloved Osho, What is courage?
:WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN (P-123)
28) Beloved Osho, You said, if I must choose, “ I prefer to be Zorba rather that Buddha “ what does it mean? “It means that Zorba is the foundation and Buddha is the palace. Buddha is the peak but the foundation stones are laid by Zorba.” :
“There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past. Not to collect it. Not to accumulate it. Not to cling to it.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN (P-244)
32) Beloved Osho, Please talk about surrender and obedience?
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29) Beloved Osho. What is the Holy Fire? “I am.” :OSHO UPANISHAD (P-146)
“On the surface they appear alike, but they are polar opposites. Once who is surrendered need not be obedient. Obedience is needed only if there is no surrender.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN
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33) Beloved Osho, What do you say about divorce?
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36)) Beloved Osho, Is it absolutely inevitable that a Buddha will always be misunderstood?
“I say divorce is useless.
“Yes! If a Buddha is not misunderstood then he is not a Buddha at all. Because the Buddha lives in a state which is beyond mind and we live in minds.”
You get married for lack of judgment judgment. You get divorced for lack of patience Then, You remarry for lack of memory.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN (P-388)
34) Beloved Osho, Do you believe in God? “I don’t believe in believing. Nobody asked me, Do you believe in the Rose Flower. There is no need you can see. The Rose Rose Flower is there or it is not there. Only fictions, not facts have to be believed.” :FROM UNCONSCIOUS TO CONSCIOUSNESS#19.
35)Beloved Osho, How can we teach children to be moral and religious? “You are not to teach children Religion and morality. You have to learn from them because They are farmore closer to Godliness, than you are .”
:ZEN:THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION .
:BE STILL AND KNOW(P-39).
37) Beloved Osho, Do you consider yourself a God?
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“My God! There is no GOD So how how can I consider myself a God? God is the . greatest lie invented by man.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1 (P-8)
38) Beloved Osho, In any case do you think that you have a Big power? “I don’t have any power. I have love, Big love but love knows, No power. Power is desired by those who are incapable of love.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL I (P-760)
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39) Beloved Osho, What was the first thing that you did after you become Enlightened? “I laughed, seeing the whole absurdity of trying to be Enlightened. The whole thing is ridiculous, Because, “WE ARE BORN ENLIGHTENED!”
:ZEN:THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION(P-216)
40) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between Religion and Morality? “According According to Morality, the Good mind is Pure. According to Religion, the Empty mind is the pure mind.” :THE MESSAGE BEYOND WORDS (P-301)
41) Beloved Osho, Are they Holy scriptures just useless? And are they Holy or not? “No, the holy scriptures are not useless, they are positively harmful. And Yes they are 100% holy 50% Holy cowdung 50% Holy Bullshit.” :RAJNEESH BIBLE-VOL3-P-565
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42) Beloved Osho, How do you make an Indian laugh on Monday? “Tell him a joke on Friday.” :THEOLOGIA MYSTICA-P-126
43) Beloved Osho, Is there a difference between control and Discipline? “Discipline and control are polar opposites. Control is from the Ego. Discipline is from the nonnon-ego. Control is unnatural. Discipline is Spontaneous. Control is sort of suppression. Discipline needs only understanding.” THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING.
44) Beloved Osho, What is the problem with going to a living Master? “The Ego is the only difficulty. Camels avoid mountains! And people also avoid going to a Master. They are so afraid that he may change the whole direction of their lives and the ego is the cause of this fear” :MESSAGE BEYOND WORDS-P-259
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45) Beloved Osho, When I feel Enlightened a) Do I tell you? b) Do you tell me? c) Is my ego asking this question? “No for all the three. When you become Enlightened. The Enlightenment says everything, shows everything. It is selfself-evident. evident. It needs NO certificate.”: YOGA-THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA- VOL 8(P-168)
46) Beloved Osho, I want to ask something from God, what should I ask? “Asking is not a dignified thing. Don’t go to God’s door as a beggar. “WITHOUT ASKING PEARLS ARE RECEIVED. RECEIVED. ASK, AND YOU SHALL NOT RECEIVE A GRAIN.” :YOGA- THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA VOL-8(P-168)
47) Beloved Osho, Are you not the Greatest, the Most daring iconoclast of all time? “Unfortunately, I am!”
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48) Beloved Osho, Is Buddha or Christ only born as such? “No, nobody is born as such. We are all born alike. You can also become a Buddha; Buddha; it is your birth right. Don’t be tricked by your mind remain Alert, Aware!” BE STILL AND KNOW (P-27)
49) Beloved Osho, Is Osho going to be like the Coca-cola Advertisement all over the world? “Why not….?” :THE TANTRA EXPERIENCE-P-235
50) Beloved Osho, Respect, Love are they the same? “No, “No, they are not the same. Respect is a poor substitute for love a plastic substitute for the real rose. It may appear like the real rose, but it is not. Those who have never seen any Real rose may think that the plastic flower is the REAL ROSE!” :BE STILL AND KNOW (P-47)
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51) Beloved Osho, Can you also make mistakes? “Not Not a few but b t many..........Plenty! But I am not deterred by them. I go on committing them because the TRUTH. That I have known can only be related. If I am ready to commit many mistakes.”
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54) Beloved Osho, Isn’t a moral character necessary for a spiritual life? “My whole effort is to give you a consciousness not a character. Character Character is needed by those who don’t have consciousness. I can only give you Insight, Awareness.”
:BE STILL AND KNOW(P-167) :BE STILL AND KNOW.(P-183)
52) Beloved Osho, Don’t we believe yours is the only way?
55) Beloved Osho, Is there No-end to this journey?
“I am not teaching a way, I am not giving you a Goal, I am taking all ways away, all goals goals away, I am simply waking you up to, the reality of Godliness!”
“There is neither any beginning to this journey nor any end, we are part of the Endless, the infinite, the eternal. We have always been and we will always be.”
:BE STILL AND KNOW (P-172) :THE DIAMOND SWORD.
53) Beloved Osho, Why are not the primitive people Enlightened? They don’t have any personalities yet.
“unless you have a properly developed mind, you cannot enter into the state of NONO-MIND. unless you have an ego, mature you cannot surrender.” :BE STILL AND KNOW (P-92)
56) Beloved Osho, What do you say about Divorce? “II am against Divorce. I want divorce to disappear from the world absolutely; But the only way to do it is to destroy Marriage completely.”
:WALKING
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57) Beloved Osho, What is the unchanging Nucleus in your vision? “My CONSCIOUSNESS, My AWARENESS. But that you cannot find in the books. That you can find only in yourself!”
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58) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between madness and Enlightenment?
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60) Beloved Osho, Did you have an awareness of your past lives before you were Enlightened?
“YES!” :THE TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP .(P-93)
61) Beloved Osho, You are so crazy!! How does it feel to be totally crazy? “Just far out!!!!” :SUFIS THE PEOPLE OF THE PATH-VOL-2.
“Madness is below The MIND Enlightenment is above the mind but both are BEYOND THE MIND!” :THE RAJNEESH BIBLE-VOL3- (P-536)
59) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between obeying and surrender? “There is a great difference. Obeying you remain separate. separate. In surrender you are no more separate. Surrender is a spiritual value. Obedience is a political value.” :PHILOSOPHIA PERINNEIS-VOL1
62) Beloved Osho, I have fallen in love with you, Why? “I am sorry. This is the only question which cannot be answered, hence the beauty of it.” :PHILOSOPHIA PERINNIS-VOL1-p-323
63) Beloved Osho, When is mind against itself? “ALWAYS” :TAKE IT EASY-VOL 1(P-547)
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64) Beloved Osho, If you were in a desert instead of being here would you feel the same? “I am in the desert! To live with unconscious people is to live in a desert. To live with people, who are not flowering is to live in a desert. It is a human desert!”
:BE STILL AND KNOW:(P-290) 65) Beloved Osho, What is your wish? “I have only one wish. That what has happened to me should happen to all” :A CUP OF TEA
66) Beloved Osho, What are you preparing us? “I am preparing my people for everything and nothing. The second is more important. The first is only a preparation for the second.” :RAJNEESH BIBLE.VOL-3(P-472)
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67) Beloved Osho, How do you differ from others? “All the religions teach you to believe. I teach you to doubt. They teach you to have faith. I teach you to Enquire. Enquire. They give you everything readymade readymade and I am telling you that unless you attain it by your own effort, effort, It is absolutely useless!”
:RAJNEESH BIBLE-VOL-3(P-473) 68) Beloved Osho, Why do you think that the Politicians are stupid? “I don’t think: THEY ARE! You can look at the world you can look at the history, history, And you will find proofs in abundance.” :PHILOSOPHIA PERINNIS-VOL1
69) Beloved Osho, What is Prayer? “Bowing down before a statue made by man, Manufactured by man and you think you are in prayer? It is God who has made us. How can we make God? But we are praying to manman-made Gods.”
:BE STILL AND KNOW
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70) Beloved Osho, Why do you speak a strange kind of English?
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73) Beloved Osho, Is not life nothing but misery? “It depends on you . Life in itself in an Empty canvas. It becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint Misery You can paint Bliss!”
“I don’t don’t know English at all. Infact, I don’t
know any language really. That’s why I can go on speaking so easily unafraid, unworried, undeterred by language grammar etc.”
:THE SECRET(P-193) :BE STILL AND KNOW (P-192)
71) Beloved Osho, Why do saints live in quiet places?
74) Beloved Osho, How are you? “I am the same. And you also are the same. That which changes is not our real face, is not Our soul, that which does not change. Neither in life nor in deathdeathThat alone is our reality.”
“Because they are still not saints. They are seekers not siddha’s. They have not reached. Noise will distruct them, the crowd will disturb them.” :BOOK OF SECRETS.-P-1129
72) Beloved Osho, Is the Master-Disciple relationship accidental or is it a conscious choice?
“It is both. As far as The master is concerned, concerned, it is absolutely a conscious As far as the disciple is choice. concerned, concerned, it is bound to be accidental. He is not conscious yet.”
:THE DIAMOND SWORD(P-2) .
75) Beloved Osho, Why do you talk only to your disciples? Why not to the masses? “There is a Beautiful Zen sayingsayingLet that be the Answer I sing my songs to him, Who understand them I drink my wine with the friend who knows me well. :THE FIRST PRINCIPLE.(P-327)
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76) Beloved Osho, How can one learn to recognize unreal problem as unreal? “When you are real, All problems disappear. When you are unreal, a thousands and one problems arise.”
:THE ESSENCE OF YOGA. 77) Beloved Osho, Why is it that we hear of fewer Enlightened woman than man? “The basic reason is that man is an
expert in bragging; woman woman or not, they don’t brag much. If they attain, they enjoy it, they don’t make much fuss about it.” it.” :THE ESSENCE OF YOGA.
78) Beloved Osho, What is a good sannyasin?
“ I have never come across one because it is a contradiction. A good sannyasin what do you mean? Can there be a bad sannayasin too? To be a sannyasin is to be goodness itself.”
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79) Beloved Osho, Can’t you take anything seriously?
“I take one thing very seriouslyseriously- JOKES Besides Jokes, there is nothing serious in the world.” :THE ESSENCE OF YOGA. 80) Beloved Osho, What is Gautham the Buddha’s message in short? “All things Being equal, You Lose; All things Being in your favor you still lose; Win or Lose, you lose!”
:WALKING IN ZEN, SITTING IN ZEN(P-213)
81) Beloved Osho, Could you please explain the relationship between spontaneous living with awareness and the conditioning of the mind? How can one be certain that something is one’s nature and not conditioning? “If you are are in doubt, it is conditioning. If there e is no doubt, it is Awareness, It is a ther very simple criterion.”
:FROM FALSE TO THE TRUTH.(P-113)
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Why are people so much against you? “Out of fear they are against. But Root cause is Fear. It happens happens, it is bound to happen. It is nothing new.”
“You are asking me. A man who is an utter Failure? The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” : WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN, (P-253)
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85) Beloved Osho, What is the secret of success?
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84) Beloved Osho, Where is my heart? Where before I could feel it even physically with a lot of warm energy And an expansion inside my chest, . Now it feels empty most of the time, or like a heart. There or I ca nnot locate it?
“Your heart heart is with me, I am a Master thief” :OSHO UPANISHAD.
86) Beloved Osho, How can Trust and Doubt go Together? “There is no difficulty. ‘Just trust in doubt.’ ” :FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM-P59
87) Beloved osho, When do we gain anything? “Only that is gained, which is gained in Being.”
:AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED (P-28)
88) Beloved Osho, Which is the Best country in the world and which do you believe to be the worst country? “INDIA” is both!”
:THE DIAMOND SWORD
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89) Beloved Osho, What do you think of life?
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93) Beloved Osho, Is there is difference in the relationship of the Master to his Male disciples and his relationship to his female disciples?
dead!” :THE PATHLESS PATH –VOL-1(P-110)
90) Beloved Osho,
What is thought?
“Thoughts are outsiders, Not yours. You are only a passage. The whole universe is filled with thoughts and things.” :TANTRA : THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING (P-32/33)
91)Beloved Osho, Who is a Fool? “He who is not aware of himself.” himself.”
:THE TRUE SAGE #5-P-329 92) Beloved Osho, It took you seven hundred years to get here what happened?
“Don’t you know the Indian trains?” .
WALKING IN ZEN SITTING IN ZEN p-378
“All disciples are Female. All Masters are Male.” :OSHO UPANISHAD (P-484
94) Beloved Osho, I recall you saying that when we relax the body, the mind the heart and the being. We will be home. .It sounds easy but when I succeed in getting the body relaxed . I promptly fall asleep. How to relax and stay awake? “Don’t be worried. You are already one third Enlightened.” :FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESSP-440
95) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?
“Not much. An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears. This is true.” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN. P(220)
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96) Beloved Osho, So it is clear that God doesn’t exist and witches do not exist. What about the Enlightened one? “Never heard of any”
:PATH OF PARADOX-VOL1. 97)Beloved Osho, Do those of us who are not acharyas, siddhas, arihants, bodhisativas, mahasattvas or Sambuddhas have any chance of becoming enlightened in this life? “More chances! If you are nobody you more chance of becoming have Enlightened. The moment you become somebody the doors close.”
:FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 98) Beloved Osho, What is the whole art of Religion? “The The whole art of religion is how to transform your life life into a constant celebration, into an unending celebration. Celebrate Everything, then then Meditation comes of its own Accord. It follows you like a shadow!”
:YOGA –THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA.
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99)Beloved Osho, In poona, I remember you would sometimes say to sannyasins, “Good! Finally you have come, I have been waiting for you”. Osho , Do you know our past lives? “if I want to know, I can know but ordinarily I avoid knowing because your present is Enough.” :THE TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMPP-152
100) Beloved Osho, what is right meditation and what is wrong meditation? “If the meditator exists then it is wrong meditation. If the meditator is lost in mediation then it is a right meditation.” THE DIAMOND SUTRA#1/P-13
101) Beloved Osho, Is J.Krishnamurti Enlightened? “Yes, he is enlightened and he is not orthodox- But he has gone to the other orthodox extreme; He is AntiAnti-orthodox. He hates hates Orthodoxy, he hates religion.Remember, religion.Remember, I criticize it but i don’t hate it.” :THE RAJNEESH BIBLE..VOL-3 (P-214
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102) Beloved Osho, You said, “ I am a simple man”, But why do 1000 and 1000’s of people follow a simple man?
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105) Beloved Osho, I have heard that when you walk your feet don’t touch the ground. Have you something to say about it?
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These people have been attracted towards me just because of my simplicity, Humanity. They have fallen in love with an innocent man who has no secrets and no privacy who is Absolutely Open, Available.
“That’s true. When I walk my feet, don’t touch the ground but there is nothing miraculous about it.They don’t touch the ground because “ I ALWAYS WEAR SHOES’!” :THE PATH OF LOVE-P-57.
:THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL I
103) Beloved Osho, I am always worried about what others are thinking about me, what should I do? “There is no need to do anything because I know about those others. They are constantly worried about about what you are thinking about them.”
106) Beloved Osho, What is your message for us? “Drop seeking, Drop searching, Drop mentation mentation. Dropping mentation is meditation and accept nothingness. Be nobody. And in that very no bodiness, Something will sprout. Be nothing and in that very nothingness Godliness flowers.” THE GREAT NOTHING-SEP-19TH
:WALKING IN ZEN, SITTING IN ZEN (P-273)
104) Beloved Osho, It has been said: “You live only one, but if you live it right once is enough?
“Once is more than enough.” :SUFIS THE PEOPLE OF THE PATHVOL2 (P-244)
107)Beloved Osho. Have you Ever been Wrong? “Just this time, Answering you! SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES p-220
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108) Beloved Osho, Who is the wise man and who is the fool? “The only who is ready to lose lose for all the one is a wise man. He who has lost himself and purchased ordinary things, things, who has sold the master, And filled his house with useless things. He is the fool” fool”
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111) Beloved Osho, When will a man become mature? “In fact the day a person decides not to ask for things he likes. likes. But starts to like things which happenshappens- the day a man becomes mature.”
:A ROSETHIS A ROSE IS A ROSEJULY-26
:THE MUSTARD SEED-P-148.
109) Beloved Osho, What is the range of intellect, Feeling, and Being? “Up to your intellect, The whole world can come and make contact. Up to your feeling, only love and friendship can come and make contact. Up to your Being, Only you; not even your lover can come!” :BELOVED OF MY HEART-MAY 11TH
110) Beloved Osho, Is there any Golden Rule for the disciple? That there are ‘NO GOLDEN RULES.”
112) Beloved Osho, How can I know if detachment or indifference is growing within? “When you are growing in detachment you will become healthier, happier, your life will become a life of joy. Joy is the criterion of all that is good. With indifference indifference there is no possibility that joy can grow. Infact if you have any joy. That That will disappear.”
:DANG DANG DOKO DANG P-141. 113) Beloved Osho, What is the original sin? “The original sin is to become knowledgeable.To exit from the tree of knowledge.”
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114)Beloved Osho, Even given the limitations of our socalled love has anyone in the world ever been loved as much as you?
“That’s true. Nobody has ever been loved as much as I am loved by you. But remember, Nobody has ever been hated as much as I am hated by the others. This is is natural. Love and hate balance. : PHILOSOPHIA PERINNES-VOL-1 (P-284)
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117) Beloved Osho, I do not know the question, but would you please still answer it? “I will answer it. And I Will answer it three times .YES! YES! YES!”
:FROM BO NDAGE TO FREEDOM –P-420.
118) Beloved Osho, Is there any proof for God? “I am,
115) Beloved Osho, Have not Religions done any good to humanity? “Corpses cannot do any Good to anybody, unless you like stinking things.”
You are, Everybody Everybody is!”
:THIS VER \Y BODY THE BUDDHA 119)Beloved Osho, Why am I afraid of other people?
:FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM (P-375)
116)Beloved Osho, For the first time, I feel like meditating. I don’t want to believe in anything. I don’t understand anything. There is nothing to hold onto. I just want to experience your silence. Is this the point?
“If you are afraid of yourself only then you are afraid of other people, If you love yourself you love others, because in relationship with others, If you hate your yourself, You hate others, because in relationship with others it is only you mirrored. The The other other is nothing but mirror.”
“EXACTLY!”
:THE TRUE SAGE-P-130. :FROM
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120)Beloved Osho, What is spiritual Bullshit?
“All bullshit is spiritual and All spirituality is nothing but bullshit.” :FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESSP-346
121) Beloved Osho, Organizations have always frightened me because I Felt there is a built-in evilness and may be a Necessary evil. Osho international is a organization and has every possibility of becoming a very Powerful organization. Can you tell me why the organization Is necessary?
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123) Beloved Osho, What does it mean- Be virtue? “Virtue will be surrendering the knowledge. Vomiting the knowledge, Cleaning your head completely Throwing all knowledge out. The apple that Adam swallowed is stiching in everyone’s throat.” :DANG DANG DOKO DANG –P-175
124)Beloved Osho, How should a sannyasin has to live?
“YES, YES, because Evil is necessary.”
“Be simple, Be natural, Be spontaneous follow your own light. Don’t be bothered by others should and should not. That’s the freedom a sannyasin has to live.”
:THE PATH OF LOVE.P-165
:THE WILD GEESE AND THE WATER. P-214
122) Beloved Osho, I would like to ask you … I am requesting about being killed? “That will do… Don’t request it. That I will do without request, Don’t be worried about it.That’s the only thing I know how to do !” :BE REALISTIC PLAN FOR THE MIRACLE.P-13.
125) Beloved Osho, Did you have an awareness of your past lives before you were Enlightened? “YES”
:THE TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP
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126)Beloved Osho, MeherBaba remained silent for the last forty five years of his life. Please comment on its implications? “There is nothing much in it. He just got fed up with the questions of his disciples. And sometimes the Idea arises in me too! So watch!!” watch!!”
:THE SECRET OF SECRETS. 127) Beloved Osho, Who, According to your opinion is the most important contemporary? “J.KRISHNAMURTI” J.KRISHNAMURTI” :SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES(P-221)
128)Beloved Osho, How can you enlightenment be catching? “Just like a cold! It is catching, How does laughter catch? Why suddenly do you all start Laughing together? Enlightenment happens just the same way. Just wait.It is going to happen to you too!”
:FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS.
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129) Beloved Osho, What is spirituality? What is Enlightenment? t “All Bull shit! There is no spirituality. There is no Enlightenment. To know this is to be enlightened.” :PHILOSOPHIA ULTIMA-P-31
130) Beloved Osho, Do we have to transcend Sex before getting Enlightened? “You don’t have to transcend transcend anything. You have to live everything. everything. That is natural to you and live it fully, without inhibition joyously, aesthetically. Just by living it deeply transcendence :BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY
131) Beloved Osho, How to live Authentic life? “If you want to live authentically and sincerely then just be ordinary. Then nono-body can compete with you, You are out of the race of competition which is destructive!”
:THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING (P-176)
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132) Beloved Osho, What is knowing?
“Knowing happens when there is no knowledge. Knowing is your Quality. The Quality of consciousness.” :AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED. (P-29)
133 )Beloved Osho, My parents are so disappointed in me. How can i turn away from them? “II am not saying turn away from them. I am saying don’t follow them. They have helped you physically, you have to help them spiritually.That will be the only way to repay them.” :I AM THAT (07-NOV-2006)
134) Beloved Osho, In what form existence has come to me? “Existence has come to you as life in millions of ways. When a woman smiles at you Remember it is existence smiling at you in the form of a woman. When a flower opens its Petals look watch existence has opened its heart in the form of flower.” :YOGA-THE SUPREME SCIENCE OSHOTIMES-FEB 2006.
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135)Beloved Osho, What is the greatest gift we can share to people? “There is nothing more valuable in life than to share your love, your meditation And your understanding. That’s the greatest gift we can give to people. Buddha has said, “The greatest gift gift is to give dhamma to people.”Dhamma people.”Dhamma simply means, “The ultimate law.”
:BELIEVING THE IMPOSSIBLE BEFORE BREAKFAST –p-189
136)Beloved Osho, To prove the Truth-Argument is need or not? “If you have a Direct communication with existence, No argument is needed to prove it. You know it. Argument is needed only when you don’t know it. Do you need any argument. argument.For the sun, for the moon, for the starry night? Do you need any argument for things that you know? know? You need arguments for Hell.You need arguments and great theological systems to prove heaven.” :THE CHRISTIANITY AND ZEN-P-13
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137) Beloved Osho, Why are you so much against the followers?
“The follower is stupid; He follows out of his stupidity, Because he cannot depend On himself. He starts depending on somebody else. But he is a slave, a psychological Slave. And psychological slavery is a deeper slavery than all other slaveries.” slaveries.”
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140) Beloved Osho, What is the Greatest Adventure? The Greatest Adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to nono-mind. The movement from personality to Individuality.” :THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING (P-163)
141) Beloved Osho, Why you don’t dream?
:OSHO CALENDER-APR-2003 138)Beloved Osho, Why was Buddha walking so cautiously? “Buddha had something tremendously fragile which could be dropped in any moment of unawareness and be lost.”
:DANG DANG DOKO DANG –p-259. 139) Beloved Osho, Are you ever bored with us? “ Sure. But only when you ask such stupid questions?” :FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOMP-482.
“I never sacrificed anything. I have never done anything against myself. Whatever I want to say I say; Whatever I want to do, I do. I have never followed anybody, I have never taken anybody’ advice. I have lived a very innocent, primitive simple life. That’ s why there are “NO DREAMS”.
:THE MAN OF TRUTH-P-269. 142)Beloved Osho, Do you do any Art work? “My whole work is ART! I don’t do anything else EXCEPT ARTWORK!” :THE MAN OF TRUTH(P-225)
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143) Beloved Osho, Does Mind exist?
146)Beloved Osho, Some people look at you as a Guru, and feel that they can see themselves through you.That you can mirror themselves to themselves?
“Millions of thoughts give you the illusion that mind exists.Mind does not exist as an entity. Only thoughts Exist.”
“That is their fault……. Because I am nobody’s Guru!”
:TANTRA THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING (P-30-31)
:THE LAST TESTAMENT. O7-OCT-2003
144)Beloved Osho, Do you have Children? Do you want children?
147)Beloved Osho, In the past, you’ve always said that our love is what keeps you in your body. Is all this negativity and everything that’s been happening recently affecting you?Will we lose you?
“ I don’t have children, but I love children and I want it to be known that it is good to love children children but it is not good to have children.” SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES P-215
145) Beloved Osho, What is Holy and what is unholy? “Nothing is unholy! Everything is divine, Holy. In fact your sleep is divine and holy. Your awareness is divine and holy. These are two ways of Being Unaware or aware.But the being is always the sacred the holy. Remember, the taste of life, The whole life is ONE.” :PHILOSOPHIA PERINNIS-VOL-1
“There There is every possibility” possibility : FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM (P-247)
148)Beloved Osho, How seriously do you take yourself? “I don’t take seriously either myself or anybody else” SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES P-220.
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149) Beloved Osho,. I want to go within but there are problems? “You think because of the problems you are not going within. The real case is just opposite. Because You dont want to go within, You are creating problems.”
:YOGA THE PATH OF LIBERATION 150) Beloved Osho, Is it possible to be as juicy as Zorba and as silent as Buddha at the same time? “Yes, It is possible. But Zorba Zorba alone without being a Buddha is very superficial. Buddha alone without being Zorba has depth NoNo-life. Together there will be depth. There will be playfulness. Don’t choose one.”
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152) Beloved Osho, What is unhappiness? “Unhappiness is the incapacity to understand life. The incapacity to understand oneself. The incapacity to create harmony between you and existance.” DANG DANG DOKO DONG-P-85.
153) Beloved Osho, When will I become original and authentically my own? “You become original only when you transcend Mind. When consciousness faces Existence directly, Contacts Existence moment to momentmoment- then you are authentically your own.” :AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED. (P-28)
:THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING.
151) Beloved Osho, What do you say about drinking? “A A difficult questionquestionDon’t take it seriously, A drink in time is fine.”
:THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1-P--227.
154) Beloved Osho, You say, Start living your ordinary life in an Extra ordinary way. What is The extra-ordinary way? “To bring Awareness, whatsoever you do, let it be soaked in Awareness. Let it be showered with Awareness.” :THE FIRST PRINICIPLE#10(P-338)
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155)Beloved Osho, Human nature is tricky. It will create a simple institution to begin with and then turn it unto an establishment so as to control it and the people it is there to serve. In such a situation can an Enlightened Master create an institution or a flexible fluid relating where the emergence of an authoritarian, organization is not possible?
“And what do you think I am doing here!” :FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM-P-248.
156) Beloved Osho, What is peaceful mind? “There is nothing like that. Mind itself can never be peaceful. No mind is peace.” :TANTRA- THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING.. (p-29)
157) Beloved Osho, Do Masters ever yawn? “Yes, Yes, they yawn but they yawn totally. When you yawn, you are there. When a Master yawn only the yawn is :YOGA:THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL.-
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158) Beloved Osho, Please define Friend and Fraud? “If somebody wants you to have faith in him. He is a Fraud. And if somebody helps you to have faith in yourself ,He is a Friend.”
:THE GREAT ZEN MASTER TA-HUI. 159) Beloved Osho, What were you doing when you were a kid? “I did nothing when I was a kid, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up and I practiced for it “ :THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1-P-226
160)Beloved Osho, Does anyone or anything need correction? It puzzles me? “No correction Just is needed. is needed. Become more awareness alert. No character is needed because all character is false. If you are not conscious. All morality is hypocrisy. If you are not aware, if you are not conscious.” :TAKE IT EASY-VOL-1(P-219)
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161) Beloved Osho, What is Blocking the Awakening in most people? “Just a continuous flow of thoughts.” : THE MAN OF TRUTH (P-163)
162) Beloved Osho, What is hell? Is there really such a place? “Religion has survived upto now because of your Fear and Greed. Hell is to create Fear and Heaven is discovered by the priests to dominate you to oppress you, to exploit you.” you :BE STILL AND KNOW(P-264)
163) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between imagining one is Enlightened and being Enlightened? “What is the difference between you and me? That’s exactly the difference between between being really enlightened and Just imagining to be enlightened.” :TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP: P-85.
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164) Beloved Osho, I cannot trust anybody-why? “If you can’t trust anybody that means you must be deceiving others. It is not question of others. It is a question of you. You must be deceiving, and if you are deceiving how can you Trust? You can Trust only If you allow others to Trust you. without Trust, Neither Love is possible nor prayer is possible, possible, nor Godliness is possible.
:DHAMMAPADA-VOL4#2 165) Beloved Osho, Can machines help us become meditations? “May be . But be careful. Not to put the cart before the horse.” :INTERNATIONAL OSHO TIMES -JUNE 1997
166) Beloved Osho, What is Prayer? “Prayer Prayer is sending, blessings to all, sending your compassion to all. It is creating an antidote to negativity; (ie) positivity.” :TANTRA . THE SUPREME
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167)Beloved Osho, What is a Mystic?
“Don’t know. And nobody else knows either .That’s why a Mystic is called Mystic. Something Indefinable, Something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped, That cannot be comprehended.” :TAKE IT EASY-VOL1-P-523. 168) Beloved Osho,
Are some people more stupid than the others? “Mind is stupid, unless you go beyond mind, you don’t go beyond stupidity; Mind as such is stupid.” :THE ESSENCE OF YOGA.
169) Beloved Osho,
What can a living Buddha of the Twentieth century give to People? “The Buddha can always give the samething . Centuries don’t matter. He can teach you how to SPACE IN!” OT-07-SEP-2001
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170)Beloved Osho, Do politicians have Brains? “I am sorry, I doubt it. If one has brains there are so many beautiful things in life to do; It is impossible for such a man to be interested in politics at all.” :FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT#28
171) Beloved Osho, What is simplicity? “Simplicity means to be just yourself whosoever. You are in tremendous acceptance. It doesn’t mean to live a life of poverty. That is utterly stupid.”
:THE SECRET(P-330) 172) Beloved Osho, Is there a person you would like to meet that you have never met? Can you name a personality? “There was a person I wanted to meet. I met him thirty five years ago; MYSELF. Since then I have not had any desire to meet anybody.” SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES P-76.
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173) Beloved osho, How come I am crazy about you? “II attract crazy people. I am crazy that’s why. But crazy people are beautiful people. They are the only sane people in the world.” :BAULS-THE BELOVED.
174)Beloved Osho, How to trust one Hundred Percent? “Accept Accept life whatsoever it brings, Trust, Mistrust, Love, Hate, God , Devil, Good, Bad. You don’t try to change anything. Don’t try to correct anything. Be in in a letletgo. That is 100%. TRUST” TRUST” : TAKE IT EASY-VOL-1 (p-230)
175) Beloved Osho, I have visited many ashramas, but everywhere men and women are kept apart-except here, why?
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176) Beloved Osho, I want to be change, what to do? “Just look at what you have been doing to yourself to your life. What have you made of yourself? What have you gained, What meaning have you attained, what significance have you experienced? People don’t ask such embarrassing questions because then they feel Very depressed. But these questions have to be asked. Unless you ask those questions, you are not going to change.” :WALKING IN ZEN, SITTING IN ZEN07-JUL-08
177) Beloved Osho, You said today, “Ask a Buddha why he is happy and he will shrug his shoulders. Please, Osho, Why are you happy? “I will not even shrug my shoulders.” :THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1 P-284
“ Because this is an ashram for human beings. NOT for men, not for women We don’t make any distinction. Differences are there between men and women But there are no distinctions.”
:ZEN:THE PATH OF PARADOX-VOL II
178) Beloved Osho, What is the basic thing in spirituality? “It is the concept of freedom. Whether man is free to go beyond humanity or not.”
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179) Beloved Osho, Is There an intellectual path to Enlightenment? “There Is no need for any path for Enlightenment Because Enlightenment is being here. Follow any path and you will following a wrong path.” :THIS VERY BODY THE BUDDHA (07-JUL-2008)
180) Beloved Osho, It feels to me like after all those years of being with you and working right this moment, There is nothing else to do but to relax and let life take over. Is it so-or Am I just getting lazy? “It is both. It is so, and you are getting lazy! But to to be Lazy Lazy is my whole teaching. I am the lazy man’ s guide to Enlightenment.”
:OSHO UPANISHAD. 181) Beloved Osho, Am I right or wrong?
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182)Beloved Osho, You say: Be thankful to someone when he accepts the love you bring but the seeds of my love fall Mostly on stony ground? “Be thankful to the stony ground.” :THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL -P-48(DOUBT)
183) Beloved Osho, When do I fail to remember my consciousness? “When you see a flower, you say “What a beautiful flower!”You never say, “What a beautiful consciousness that you can experience this fragrance.” You simply fail to remember that which is hidden within you!” :THE MESSAGE BEYOND WORDS.
184) Beloved Osho, What is an essential law of life? “what you see within yourself, You start seeing the same within others.” This is an essential law of life.”
If you are joyful you are right.” :THE MESSAGE BEYOND WORDS. GOLD NUGGETS-P-57.
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185) Beloved Osho, Why Don’t I Trust you? “Trust is possible only if first you trust in yourself. If you trust in yourself, you can trust in me, you can trust in people, You can trust in existence. : BOOK OF WISDOM (P-43)
186) Beloved Osho, I want to study Zen “you cannot study Zen. You can have it. But you cannot get it. From someone else, And the simple reason is that you have already got it.It is just a question of forgetfulness.”
:THE GREAT ZEN MASTER TA-HUI 187)Beloved Osho, Who is the untrue sage?
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188)Beloved Osho, What does it means when you say, “Just be yourself?” “When I Say “Just be yourself” I am saying to you just be unprogrammed, Unconditioned awareness.” That’s how you have come with the world and that’s how the enlightened person Leaves the world.” :THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANING P-93
189) Beloved Osho, My mind has difficulty understanding the existence of Beginninglessness. “Reality Reality is indefinable. Reality simply is. There is no way to say What it is,It is not not even a “that.” It is “This”.It “This”.It is ThisThis-ness: you can experience it, but it cannot be explained.”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-121) “He He who thinks that he has been doing so many virtuous acts. So many austerities, fasting, chanting who thinks That he has been living a religious life and thanks himself. “It is me”.” :THE TRUE SAGE-P-338
190) Beloved Osho, I am very afraid of dying. Can you tell me what the secret of achieving a long life is? “Keep Breathing………….!” :SUFIS THE PEOPLE OF THE PATHP-320.
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191) Beloved Osho, Are you en egoist or a humble person? “Neither. I cannot be either. Humbleness is an expression of Ego. I am neither. I am simply whatsoever I am, am, neither humble nor egoistic.”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM. 192) Beloved Osho, How to stop the Desire? “THINGS ARE THE WAY THEY ARE” Once the simple statement is understood you stop Desiring. You stop willing that things should be patient.”
:THE GREAT ZEN MASTER TA-HUI. 193) Beloved Osho, Do you have children? “No. How could I have children? I don’t want my child to be in this world with Ronalds Reagan,The Soviet Union, Ethiopia, India. In this starving world, Where people are piling up nuclear weapon to destroy the whole planet. I would not like my child to be in this world. NO.” :THE MAN OF TRUTH:-P-121
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194)Beloved Osho, Why are you going to Italy? “I don’t believe in nations. The whole of humanity is one. I am going to Italy because Italy is there.” :SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN. .-P-117.
195) Beloved Osho, I understand everything that you say but why does my life still remain unchanged? “To understand something intellectually is really to deceive yourself. You have not understood. The mind has only pretended to have understood. This is a trick. Because if you really understand understand it, then change to bound to happen. And mind doesn’t want any change.”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-275)
196) Beloved Osho, The human civilization is collapsing all around the world. What do you have to say about it? “Rejoice in its collapse!” :WALK WITH OUT FEET--P-108
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197) Beloved Osho, All my dreams feel fulfilled, My master is dancing. My heart has wings. How can there be anything More after this? Beloved Osho, Thank you. “There There is much more. There is no end to it. Soon your master will be drinking wine with you. Soon your master will be dancing in the disco. You have got a very unreliable man here. I can do anything and I am going to.” :FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS-P-11.
198) Beloved Osho, What is the Way? “Whatsoever Whatsoever gives you a feeling of Egolessness is the way.”
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200)Beloved Osho, Who really we are? “Drop Drop christianity, Drop Islam, Drop Buddhism, Drop hinduism. That which has been given to you by the society, by birth, by association, association, by culture, by country. Drop all that, so that you can find out who you really are.” :DANG DANG DOKO DANG
201)Beloved Osho, You say that you are “ALL LIGHT”. What about your name ‘ Lord the night(Rajneesh)? “Just Just one of those consistent inconsistencies of mine.” :THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1-P-400
:AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED (P-28)
199)Beloved Osho, You seem to delight in contradictions? “Yes, I am always contradicting contradicting myself knowingly. So that nobody can make a consistent philosophy out of me.”
202)Beloved Osho, Why you can manage to be against the whole world? “Because I have found my own life source. I don’t depend on anyone, I don’t need any admiration any compliments, any Rewards, any Nobel Prizes. I am enough unto myself.”
: THE MAN OF TRUTH (p-124)
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203)Beloved Osho, What is maturity? “ My act is my reward and my act is my punishment and I am totally responsible for Whatever I am doing. This is maturity.” :LIGHT ON THE PATH-P-377.
204) Beloved Osho, When does the boat reach the other shore? “There There is no other shore. This is the only shore. There is. And it is not a question question of reaching somewhere else. It is a question of Awakening. HERE AND NOW. It is never there, It is always ‘HERE’, ‘HERE’, It is never then, it is always ‘NOW’ This moment contains the totality of Reality.” :THE BOOK OF WISDOM. (P-139)
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206) Beloved Osho, Who is a Bad Man? Who is a Good man? “ The Bad man is one who inconsiderate of others, he is one who uses others and has nono-respect for others. And one who thinks he is the centre of the world and Everybody is just to be used. Everything exists for him. GoodGood-man--man--just opposite of the Bad man.”
:THE DISCIPLINE OF THE TRANSCENDENCE.
207)Beloved Osho, Is it fair to put politicians with the dogs? “II am sorry. I apologize. Because dogs are so innocent, It is not fair at all.”
:THE SECRET OF SECRETS PO-324 208)Beloved Osho, Why do you admire Absurdity?
205) Beloved Osho, Have you ever wandered, why you have come into such and Luck? “No. I have simply accepted everything that has come my way. Good or Bad, I have accepted it.”
:THE MAN OF TRUTH-P-136.
“ Because Life is absurd. To search for meaning in it. Is going to frustrating. Life is an absurdity. It is a Mystery. You need not search for Meaning. You have just to live it enjoy it.”
:THE MAN OF TRUTH. (P-123)
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209) Beloved Osho, How can I get rid of doubt? “Doubts have been created by people who are giving you beliefs. If you don’t have any belief, You do not have any doubt.” :OSHO TIMES –MARCH -2009
210) Beloved Osho, Is Diet Important to Awaken? “No, It is not important. But once you are awakened. awakened.It ned.It is difficult to destroy life for your food. So Before Enlightenment it is not important but after Enlightenment it is immensely important.”
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212) Beloved Osho, Is there such a Thing as Right or Wrong? “There There Is no such thing as Right or Wrong because something may be Right this moment and it may not be Right the next moment. Something may be wrong today and may not be wrong tomorrow.” tomorrow.” THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-457):
213) Beloved Osho, Why is the whole world against you? “They are all powerpower-addicted people and I am trying to make man a pool of serenity, peace and silence and love and Ecstasy.”
:THE MAN OF TRUTH (P-192) :THE RAZOR’S EDGE
211) Beloved Osho, I love my parents very much and now that they are getting older.I am afraid of losing them? “If you have really loved a person, when he is gone. gone. He is gone; you will not grieve much. If you have not loved the person deeply, Then you will grieve much.” :A SUDDEN CLASH OF THUNDER (FEB-2006-07)
214) Beloved Osho, What is tension? “Tension means Hurry, Fear, Doubt, a constant effort to protect, to be secure, To be safe. Preparing for tomorrow, now or for the after life. Tension means the past that you have not really lived but only somehow byby-passed. It hangs. It is a hangover. It surrounds you.” :THE DHAMMAPADA.
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300)Beloved Osho, What does it means when you say, “Just be 215) Beloved Osho, yourself?”
is Life? “WhenWhat I Say “Just be yourself” I am saying be unprogrammed, “Lifetoisyou notjust something. That can be Unconditioned awareness.” That’s defined. No definition will do justice to it. Yes, ityou can have be lived, It can be tasted but it how come with the world cannot be defined.” and that’s how the enlightened person Leaves the world.” BOOK OF WISDOM :THE BOOK:THE OF UNDERSTANING P-93(P-455)
:TH 216) Beloved 140) Beloved Osho, Osho, Why can’t I feel any wonder in My mind has difficulty understanding the existence Existence? of Beginninglessness. “Reality Reality is indefinable. Reality simply “You are too knowledgeable. You know is.There is no way to say What it is, too much. And all that you know is just It is not even a “that.” It is “This”. HOLY COW DUNG. All knowledge It is This-ness: you can experience Thisis. always Knowledge is worthless. it, but itWonder cannotisbe explained.” precious.” :THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-121) 193) Beloved Osho, :THE BOOK OF WISODM (P-277) What is unhappiness? “Unhappiness is the incapacity to 217) Beloved Osho, understand life.The toifunderstand What incapacity would happen suddenly now oneself.The incapcacity to create harmony during discourse a crazy zen master between you and existance.” arrived On a moter-bike and climbed on to your stage? :DANG DANG DOKO DONG-P-85. “I will hit the Zen Master and kiss the motermoter-bike!” :ZEN-THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSIONP-115
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218)Beloved Osho, If you were to come here now to this ashram as a young unenlightened man, How would you respond? Would you become part of the ashram? What work would you do? Where would you sit? “Even if I was unenlightened I would not be so unenlightened to come to this ashram. That much is certain. Even now I am not part of the ashram. I cannot be part of any Institution or any organization, even my own. I have never done any work. I am the laziest laziest man in the world you can find. And the last you ask , “Where would you sit?” I would escape immediately! I would see some organization some ashram and I would run! You are asking Where will you sit? I will not sit at all.” :THE FIRST PRINCIPLE #8-P-257.
219) Beloved Osho, What is curiosity? “Curiosity Curiosity is a good beginning but not the end. It is not hot enough to transform your life. It is superficial. You will have to create a longing to know truth, an immense, immense, intense passion passion for truth.”
:THE SECRET(P-342)
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220)Beloved Osho, Please comment, “the way of an Enlightened man.” “The The enlightened man cannot do wrong, cannot do evil. His every every breath is in the service of Good, his every act is in the service of the divine. He himself is totally surrendered To the whole. Allowing the whole to use him in whatever way it wants.”
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223) Beloved Osho, Why is India so poor? “The The soso-called saints are responsible. They teach that the world is illusion obsession. It has to learn to love this And only the other world is true. India has to get rid of its other worldly world too; It has to learn that this world is also real. The very moment that happens will be a Great change in India’s Life.”
:THE GREAT ZEN MASTER-P-42.
221) Beloved Osho, Life is tremendously serious….. “ No life is not serious! You are serious. Life is very nonnon-serious. Nothing can be more nonnon-serious than life. Life is absolutely NONSERIOUS!”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-498) 224) Beloved Osho, You often say that life is fun still sometimes, you seem to be taking things very very seriously. “That too is fun”
:ECSTASY THE FORGETTEN .LANGUAGE-p-244.
:THE ETERNAL QUEST(P-112) 222) Beloved Osho, Why do you tell women sannyasins not to have babies? “Because I cannot tell it Men sannyasins.” :SUFIS THE PEOPLE OF THE PATHVOL-2 -P-245
225) Beloved Osho, Why does the Buddha always say “ Be a light unto yourself”? “Simple. Buddha says Be a light unto yourself because you cannot trust Indian Electricity!” :DHAMMAPADA.
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226) Beloved Osho, I enjoyed very much your coining the word ‘etceteranandas: I wonder how you did it? “It is simple. You can go and see many saints In India and you will find that they have no Individuality, no uniqueness, no originality, No flavor of their own. They are Gramaophone Records. Just quoting scriptures like parrots.
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229) Beloved Osho, I believe that nothing is impossible. What do you say about it. “Then try to strike a match on a cake of soap.” THIS VERY BODY OF BUDDHA.
230) Beloved Osho, I have a deep desire to help others. In what way I should do?
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM-P-335
227) Beloved Osho, I am addicted to telling lies, What do I do it? “It maybe just to feel superior, People start telling lies because that gives them a Speciality; They can pretend that they know things which nobody else knows!”
“Remember, In any way the desire to impress the other, the desire to change the other, The desire to do good to the other, is violence! violence! There should be no desire, And this is the beauty. When you don’t desire, to help help the other, others others are helped. And when you don’t desire to impress them, they learn out of their own Insight!”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-350) THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1-P-373
228) Beloved Osho, Why was the religion of Buddha utterly uprooted from India? “A simple Reason. Because The public can forgive everything except Genius.” :THIS VERY BODY OF BUUDHA-P-47.
231) Beloved Osho, What is the first priniciple? “If I were to tell you it would become the second principle.”
:THE FIRST PRINCIPLE.P-344
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232) Beloved Osho, Can I rely on my own experience? “Experience Experience comes and goes don’t rely on It. Unless you have found the experience who is feeling The joy, who is feeling pain, who is feeling well being, who is feeling sad, who is this Consciousness.” :GOLD NUGGETS.
233) Beloved Osho, How much longer will I have to run after you? “It It depends on you . You can run by my side or you can even ahead of me, But just don’t run away.”
:OSHO UPANISHAD. 2 34 )Beloved Osho, I have a feeling that you already have two thousand enlightened people. Is it true? “It is true. But Please keep it a secret!” FROM DARK TO DEATHLESSNESS -P-99.
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235) Beloved Osho, How would you describe yourself? “IMPOSSIBLE! Description is applicable only to objects. I am always witness. If I describe myself in the very nature of things that description becomes false, because I am again Witnessing it .I am always the witness which cannot be reduced to an object.” :THE MAN OFTRUTH:P-117
236) Beloved Osho, How would you like to be remembered? “I wo ul d simply lik e to be forgiv en and forg etten. T her e is no n eed to r emember me. The need is i t. Remember yoursel f.”
:THE TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP 237) Beloved Osho, When should children obey their parents? “Nobody should obey anybody, unless their intelligence says it is Right. But that is you obeying your intelligence. Not your father, not your mother.”
:THE MAN OF TRUTH (P-139)
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238) Beloved Osho, Why does so much controversy surround you? “If it were not so, it would have been a surprise. Truth creates really controversy because it shocks people it shatter their illusions. They don’t want to leave their dreams. They are not ready to drop their investments in all kinds of foolish people.” :THE BOOK OF WISDOM-P-201.
239) Beloved Osho, What do you call an Indian with half a brain? “LUCKY”
:THEOLOGIA MYSTICA-P-126. 240) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between imagining one is Enlightened and being Enlightened? “What is the difference between you and me? That’s exactly the difference between being really enlightened and Just imagining to be enlightened.” :TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP P-85.
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241) Beloved Osho, You come every day dance with us, steal out hearts smile and disappear. Are you a Gypsy or something? “I am a Gypsy or Nothing!” :FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS-P-66
242) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between You and Me? “The The only difference is that I recognize my Godhood and you don’t recognize yours. Otherwise there is no distinction. I am as Imperfect as you are! The difference is that I enjoy my imperfection and You don’t enjoy yours. I am perfectly happy with all my imperfections and you are not happy with yours. You have a notion of perfection and I have none.”
:THE FIRST PRINCIPLE. 243) Beloved Osho, Who is the person who believes himself Extra-ordinary? “The The person who suffers immensely from an Inferiority complex.” :THE BOOK OF UNDERSTANDING.
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244)Beloved Osho, What you have talked about seems Quite Modern? “What I am saying is not Modern, What I am saying is the Eternal Truth. It has always been said,it has always been felt, Buddha felt the same, Christ felt the same, Krishna felt the same. Only the way of EXPRESSING it is modern. But the Expressed or the unexpressed unexpressed is still ancient.”
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247) Beloved Osho, Why you criticize the Buddha, The Jesus? “If I see that something is not correct then it does not matter who the person is;I is;I will criticize it.I it.I have praised Christ, i have Criticized Christ. I have praised Buddha, I have criticized Buddha Because No human being is perfect. Perfection is not possible.”
:TRANSMISSION OF THE LAMP :THE ETERNAL QUEST (P-134)
245) Beloved Osho, What is your Teaching? “To Accept life in its Totality and not to divide it. There is nothing Good and Nothing Bad, Whatsoever Happens, Let it happen, Allow it. Don’t struggle.”
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248) Beloved Osho, I have many questions but each time a voice inside me says “ Don’t ask –find out for yourself”.But now it is too much because I don’t know where this voice is coming from? “Can’t Can’t you recognize my voice?”
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:THE TANTRIC TRANSFORMATION-P-59. 246) Beloved Osho, What were you doing when you were a kid? “I did nothing when I was a kid, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up and I practiced for it “
249) Beloved Osho, Do you know why you don’t have any sannyasins in Spain? “The The Bulls don’t like them!” :ZEN:THE SPECIAL TRANSMISSION-P-246
:THE PATHLESS PATH-VOL-1-P-226
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250) Beloved Osho, Please comment, “Worship the dead!”. “It is such an absurd effort to force living human beings to worship the Dead rather than finding the deeper layers of life ‘WITHIN’ themselves. Giving them teddy bears outside, consolations. consolations. Ugly consolations. Degrading consolations is stupid.”
:CALENDER-AUG-2003. 251) Beloved Osho, What is the difference between human beings and other animals except for the bodies? “The form of your body is different, but no form. consciousness consciousness within you is the same”
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253) Beloved Osho, Last night I dreamed of thousands of orange elephants all wearing mala’s their white elephant king What can this mean? “This simply shows that not only man but elephants can also go mad!” THE DISCIPLINE OF TRANSCENDENCE -VOL- 3-P-108
254) Beloved Osho, What should happen to all this after you are dead ? “I don’t care. The connection finished. The world is no longer there for me. Just as I am no longer There for you. I become absent to you. You become absent to me.”
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I love my work and I feel totally absorbed in it. Does that make me a workaholic? “A workaholic is not total in his work. A workaholic is addicted to work. He cannot sit silently. He has to do something; :CHRISTIANITY AND ZEN
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:THE MAN OF TRUTH.P-155. 255)Beloved Osho, The other day you said that you are a mirror. What do you see when you look at yourself in your Bathroom mirror in the morning? “Just nothing”
:SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN …P-113.
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256) Beloved Osho, No matter what i am doing after a while I become bored. How can i maintain excitement about my worship? “Anybody who wants to maintain excitement is bound to get bored Just remember:”THIS TOO WILL PASS!”
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259) Beloved Osho, Are you really the first Buddha who jokes? “I am not only the first Buddha who jokes but the last too…..Because I am going to tell all the jokes! I am not going to leave a single joke untold!” BE STILL AND KNOW-P-103
:FROM DEATH TO DEATHLESSNESS (P-501)
257) Beloved Osho, What did we do to deserve you as our Guru, our Master? “I didn’t know anything about you. But I must have done terrible karma to deserve you.” you
260) Beloved Osho, What has an Indian got inside his skull? “A A piece of paper with ‘BRAIN’ written on it.” :THEOLOGIA MYSTICA
261) Beloved Osho, Why do you Jaina monks live naked?
:THE DISCIPLINE OF TRANSCENDENCE-
258) Beloved Osho, How to be a good Christian? “I don’t want you to become Christians. That is useless. That is a lie. lie. I would like you to become Christs. Christs. And you can become Christs Because you have the same seed.”
:THE MUSTARD SEED-P-498
“The suffer from clothestrophobia.” :WALKING IN ZEN SITTING IN ZEN
262)Beloved Osho, Who are the people you admire most? “I certainly admire my people most.” :SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES—P-209
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263) Beloved Osho, What you meant by Authentic living? “Learn sitting silently, become a mirror. Silence makes a moment to moment. You reflect life. You don’t carry an album within your head. Then your eyes are clear and innocent. You have clarity. You have vision. And you are never untrue to life.” DHAMMAPADA-JULY-072008 (OSHOTIMES)
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Beloved Osho, What would you do if by some crazy twist of fate you became prime minister of India? “I will resign immediately.” :UNIOMYSTICA-VOL-1-P-65.
267) Beloved Osho, Do you ever tell lies? “I am a liar and a perfect liar at that and this too is a lie.”
264) Beloved Osho, What kind of a man are you? “Just crazy. Nothing” When you say,”Just a crazy man…” What does that mean?“
:YOGA THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA-P-58.
268) Beloved Osho, Is Osho going to be like the Coca-cola Advertisement all over the world? “Why not….?”
Exactly what it means!” :CHRISTIANITY AND ZEN. :THE LAST TESTAMENT-VOL-1 P-755.
265) Beloved Osho, Why did you decide to speak Why did you decide to speak instead of writing your philosophy? “My My spelling is far worse than my pronunciation.” pronunciation. :THE DHAMMAPADA-VOL-9#10
269) Beloved Osho, What is a miracle? “To me everything is a miracle. I never come across anything that is not a miracle. Only miracle exist. Everything is such a surprise. surprise. It is so unbelievable.” :THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-297)
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270) Beloved Osho, Are you really crazy ? “How can I be crazy? I have no mind out of which to go !”
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274) Beloved Osho, Are all enlightened Masters Rascals like you? To me your rascaliness is even more predominant Than your joke telling. Are you trying to trick us all into enlightenment?
:THE FIRST PRINICIPLE-P-331.
271) Beloved Osho, Jokes aside, Please tell me Who am I?
“A thousand and one thanks for the compliment!” :BE STILL AND KNOW –P-241.
“Swami Swami satyananda!” satyananda :FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM -P-159.
272) Beloved Osho, Is your Big smile the only Answer? “I think you have found it.” :OSHO UPANISHAD
273) Beloved Osho, I want to get married. Please give me your blessings? “II can bless your love, but i cannot bless your marriage If love itself is your marriage, then all of my blessings are there for you Otherwise wait. It is better to wait than to repent later on.” :THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-340
275) Beloved Osho, Who is sinner and who is a saint? “The The sinner exists because of the saint, The saint exists because of the sinner. They are relatives. So if you want to be a saint, you will create a sinner.So be aware don’t become a saint.”
:AND THE FLOWER SHOWERED (P-35)
276) Beloved Osho, How do they catch a lion in Russia? “Please don’t ask such difficult question. They arrest cat and torture him until he admits, He is a lion” :WALKING IN ZEN,SITTING IN ZEN.P-253.
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277) Beloved Osho, Why is there so much misunderstanding in the world? “Because People are unconscious, Because people are fast sleep. Because People are Robots, Communication is impossible. The only way to communicate is in Love,through silence. But Nobody knows how to be in love, in silence.” :This is very body the Buddha- chap 5
278) Beloved Osho, Who are you? “I don’t know at all. If sometime you come to know please tell me.” :
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279) Beloved Osho, What is beyond the Mind? “You, Consciousness, Truth, Bliss.”
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280) Beloved Osho, What exactly is the difference between Vision and illusion. Can only an Enlightened person have a vision? “Yes!” Yes!” :FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM .(P-159)
281) Beloved Osho, Why is that you are not prepared to answer any question? “Because they belong to the past, which is finished.” :SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES (P-33)
282) ) Be l ov ed O sh o, It is obvious that you are in love with maroon but they. Why don’t you yourself wear maroon? “I…… and in love with maroon? God Forbid!.I hate it! That’s why I force you to wear it. It is a sort of punishment for not being enlightened yet!”.
:THE TANTRA EXPERIENCE. :TANTRA THE SUPREME UNDERSTANDING. (P-198)
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283) Beloved Osho, Which term is most characteristic of you… Philosopher, Thinker, Messiah, Rebel, Revolutionery or Genius? “None None of these terms categories me, because I am a simple human being awakened, alert, self Realized. Remember me just someone amongst you .. Not holier, not higher. I don’t belong to those Big categories. I belong among the very ordinary human beings who have no categories”
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286) Beloved Osho, I was really touched when I heard you talking about your ordinariness. And in the same moment I realized that I don’t want to see that you are ordinary. I see such a big distance between me and you Please comment: “I am not! Who told I am ordinary? I don’t take care about yesterdays. I am an extraordinary person! So rejoice…… You are right. I was wrong!”
:FROM UNCONSCIOUSNESS TO CONSCIOUSNESS.
284) Beloved Osho, What are the three things common in all Government programs in India? “ A beginning, a Muddle and No end…..”
:FROM FALSE TO THE TRUTH P-301
287) Beloved Osho, Do you smile when we are serious and long faced in your audience? “What else can I do?” :YOGA THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA-VOL#6 -P-3
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285) Beloved Osho, You look very crazy to me.
288) Beloved Osho, Can enlightenment happen to a lazyman? “It happens only to a lazyman.”
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289)Beloved Osho, What is the real meaning of “Christians Cross”? “Jesus hanging on the cross become a symbol symbol and it is an extra ordinary symbol. That, those who want to reach the divine should should have the courage to hang. Their ‘EGO’, their ‘I’ on the cross.”
:NINESUTRAS-P-130 290)Beloved Osho, Do you love me? “No, never Because I don’t do anything, if you feel my love. It is because “I AM LOVE”.”
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292) Beloved Osho, I wonder… What is Hassidism? “I also wonder” :THE TRUE SAGE-P-393
293) Beloved Osho, Why am I so afraid of being free?
“Everybody is. Freedom is a great risk. People talk about freedom, freedom, but nobody really wants to be fre free ree. It is pure talk. Everybody wants to be dependent, everybody wants somebody to take the responsibility. In freedom, you are responsible for every act every thought, every movement, you cannot dump anything on anybody else.” else.”
:THE TRUE SAGE-P-68. :FROM FALSE TO THE TRUTH#7
291) Beloved Osho, Is there anything special that People should know about you or is there anything Unknown about you? “There There is nothing unknown about me. But one thing you must make Swiss people Aware of about me: I AM A DANGEROUS MAN!” :SOCRATES POISONED AGAIN AFTER 25 CENTURIES P-231
294) Beloved Osho, What is best Government? “No Government. The very idea of somebody else is inhuman. Government is a game. The ugliest and the dirtiest game in the world” :FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT#14
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295)Beloved Osho, What is the difference between you and Me? “I am a being. You are a becoming. Not that I am special and you are ordinary That is utter NonNon-sense. If I am special then everybody is special. If you are ordinary, then I am ordinary. We belong to the same reality.” :THE SECRET OF SECRET
296) Beloved Osho, How do you keep an Indian busy all day? “Give Give him a piece of paper with P.T.O written on both sides.”
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298)Beloved Osho, How many idiots are here? “It is a very simple question. There are only two types of people in the world either you are ENLIGHTENED OR ………!”
:FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM-P-353. 299) Beloved Osho, Why do you emphasize the importance of HERE AND NOW so much? “HERE HERE is the only space. NOW is the only time. Beyond the herehere-now There is nothing.”
:THE BOOK OF WISDOM (P-296)
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297) Beloved Osho, You have the champagne, I have the water. You say you are the ordinary man.Where does that place the rest of us? “You will be drinking water and I will not be touching the champagne. There is the difference.” :THE LAST TESTAMENT VOL-1 P-367
300) Beloved Osho, What is Enlightenment? “To To be just ordinary, to live, to enjoy, to love, to dance, to sing, to create The very ordinary existence with an extraordinary intensity with passion. That is Enlightenment.” :PHILOSOPHIA ULTIMA-P-31
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Beloved Oshjo Should we take your advice not to take anyone’s advice? Advice is the only thing in the world which everybody gives and nobody takes . I will never give you any advice. Because who am I to give you advice?. You are unique. Every individual is unique. My advice will be my experience. That may distract you from your our own life. Do not ask anyone for advice either. Enough to experience on your own .The moment you ask for advice you become a slave. And if you follow it, you have committed suicide. I don’t want you to commit suicide, I want you to grow higher and higher into life, into love. Into light. :from false to the truth#21 Complied by
