We easily speak of life, dreams and goals, but hesitate to acknowledge death. We live in a death-denying society, despite the fact that all of us will die, its reality is put off until the last minute. Whereas we do talk about how to prevent death but people are certainly uncomfortable to talk about death...
Life is man's project. We are our life's creators. God has created man, but as freedom. So there is an essential freedom inside; now it is up to you to choose what you would like to happen to you in life and then you will see that it starts happening. One thing is linked with another...
Nothing is an actual experience. Either you can experience it in deep meditation, or when death comes. Death and meditation are the two possibilities of experiencing it. Yes, sometimes you can experience it in love too. If you dissolve into somebody in deep love you can experience a kind of nothingness. That's why people are afraid of love -- they go only so far, then panic arises, then they are frightened...
I do remember very vividely that evening in Pune in April 1981.
I was sitting next to the swimming pool of the Blue Diamond Hotel with a small piece of paper I just collected in a small box inside the Ashram. At that time, when you were writing to Osho, the answer was received in such a way and, that evening...
I am probably closer to death than most of you and I would guess that I think about it more too. A Chinese Phrenologist, reading my head-bumps in Malacca 40 years ago told me I would die in my mid-eighties and I’m not far off. Most of his other prophesies have...
December 11 is Osho's birthday. The disciples and friends will be celebrating the birthday of their beloved Master who was never born.Osho left his body on 19 January and this date will be celebrated as Osho Mahotsav of Mahaparinirvana day. It will be now 20 years since he left his body...
The anticipation of December’s arrival seems to attract a deep inner-going movement, somewhat womb-like. For years, mostly when I lived in cold climates, I became more introverted, often gloomy in December and when I look at the poems...
Seeing my beloved mother's body lying lifeless when I was eight years old, was when I first ever saw death. And yet, looking at a rather faint smile on her serene and beautiful face I still could not accept she was no more. Ever since then I have never had any particularly fearsome or negative feeling about...
One of the most valuable life lessons I have learned is “Surrender”. To ‘give up’. But not in a huffy, petulant way. In a loving, living moment to moment, accepting way. Surrendering, giving up to the Higher Power (or whatever else we choose to call...
Deep within us all nestles the knowing that consciousness is eternal. This knowing challenges any fear concerning the eventual death of the physical body. As the petals of a flower fall at the end of its bloom only to come back as a bud in due course, so does the body appear and disappear...
I have always loved the beautiful Sufi story...A king dreams in the night that a dark shadow is putting her hand on his shoulder. He looks back. He is horrified. It is just a dark shadow, but the shadow speaks and says, "There is no need to be worried...
What are the reasons for man's insensitivities and can Tantra help remove them?
The reason for human insensitivity is because we have a tendency to fear both physical and psychological pain. In order to protect ourselves from such pain, we create layers of protection and armoring. Naturally, when one is living in fear and protection...
These trees have helped you, this sky has helped you, this water has helped you, this earth created you. Nature is your mother. How can the mother be against you? You have come out of her. But you think I am as an individual, and then the fight arises. It is one-sided. You start the fight, and nature goes on laughing, God goes on enjoying. Even in a small child, the moment he starts feeling I, the fight arises. OSHO The Empty Boat, Chapter-10
Live naturally. Live peacefully. Live inwardly. Just give a little time to yourself, being alone, being silent, just watching the inner scene of your mind. Slowly, slowly thoughts disappear. Slowly, slowly one day the mind is so still, so silent as if it is not there. Just this silence... in this moment you are not here, as if the whole Buddha Hall is empty...
Waste heat refers to heat produced by machines, electrical equipment and industrial processes for which no useful application is found, and is regarded as a waste by-product...
A 4-day meditation camp “Meditate and Celebrate” was conducted at Oshodham in New Delhi from October 20 to 23, 2009, facilitated by Swami Ravindra Bharti. This camp was followed by “Osho Maun Dhyan Shivir”, a 5-day meditation camp, facilitated by Swami Narendra Bodhisattva and Ma Amrit Mukti from October 24 till 28...
Our life is a series of changing situations. Every moment heralds some change or the other... So, do we give into change or adapt ourselves to it? Osho, tells us more...
This book will take you step by step on an enchanting journey of words, silence, laughter, tears and pictures. This is the series where Osho walks out of the assembly one stormy evening, maybe never to return. This is the series where Osho introduces us to the experience of let-go at the end of every talk to deepen the silence...
Open up! Throw your doors and windows open. Let wind and rain and sun come in. let people enter into you and you enter into people's lives. That is the only way to become aware of the tremendous mystery of life, says Osho, the Zen master.
“Crying and laughter are deeply related. Whenever you are overwhelmed by something, either you cry or you laugh. Crying is not necessarily sad, laughter is not necessarily joyous...