Birthday of Labanese poet Mikhail Naimy
17th October is the birthday of the Lebanese poet and philosopher Mikhail Naimy. He is regarded as the most significant spiritual writer of the 20th century made famous by his work The Book of Mirdad.
Osho has spoken on Naimy in His discourses. Osho says The Book of Mirdad is one of the greatest masterpieces of art, beauty, meditation and consciousness. It has been one of my most loved books. Naimy shows tremendous insight, which only a mystic is capable of. This book should made into a film and just watching that film you will feel a great upliftment. This book should be made available to every library, to every university but unfortunately it remains unknown to a vast majority of the world.
Osho says The Book of Mirdad has been created by a man who knows the inner workings of human consciousness. He was not a writer; hence, nobody ever bothered to give him a Nobel prize. He was our contemporary, he died in 1988. His book has not been translated into many lang

Osho on Tears
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT LOVE, TEARS IMMEDIATELY START RUNNING. PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
The tears are the greatest possible prayer. Don't be worried about analyzing them, don't try to interpret them; they are beyond interpretation and beyond analysis. Words will not be adequate to say anything about the tears. Tears come from a deeper source than words. And if tears are coming, all that is needed is not to think about them but to allow them, to give them an intensity, to give them a kind of totality. You will understand those tears only when you are not hesitant about going into them, when you are not somehow holding yourself back. Go into them utterly. Become tears, and when tears come, enjoy. You are overflowing.
Thinking of love if tears don't come then you were not thinking about love. Thinking of God if tears don't come then your thinking is futile, impotent. Listening to me, if your heart does not start overflowing with tears, then you were listening only through the head -- whi

Birthday of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
15th October is the birthday of the famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A man of extraordinary intellect, Nietzsche’s work as aphilosopher has had a phenomenal impact on modern intellectual history. In his short life of 55 years, he produced revolutionary pieces of work that influenced generations of philosophers to come notably Camus, Heidegger, Jung, Sartre, Weber and Yeats. Whilst his provocative ideas courted much controversy, his concept of Übermensch (Over Man) was misrepresented by his sister to fit with her German nationalistic ideology and came to be usurped by the Nazis. Nietzsche is wrongly criticised as a predecessor to Nazism since he has infact criticized anti-Semitism and pan-Germanism.
“God is Dead” is Nietzsche’s best-known remarks. Osho has spoken extensively on Nietzsche in His discourses. Osho says Friedrich Nietzsche, according to me, is one of the greatest seers of the Western world; his eyes really go penetrating to the

Osho on Laughter
BELOVED OSHO,
COULD YOU SPEAK TO US ON LAUGHTER, ITS MEDITATIVE POWERS, ITS CHEMISTRY ON THE BRAIN, ITS POWER OF TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING... ITS RELATION TO SILENCE, THE GAP, CLARITY, VISION...
ITS CONTAGIOUSNESS, ITS RELATION TO DIFFERENT EMOTIONS... ON HOMO RIDENS -- THE ESSENTIAL HUMAN CONDITION, ON HOW TO RECOGNIZE TRUE, AUTHENTIC LAUGHTER FROM HYSTERICAL, EXHIBITIONIST, OR HYPOCRITICAL LAUGHTER, ON HOW TO BE A CHANNEL OF PURE JOY?
Prem Nistal,
I have just been talking about laughter, its meditative powers and its medicinal powers. It certainly changes your very chemistry; it changes your brain waves, it changes your intelligence -- you become more intelligent. The parts of your mind that have been asleep suddenly wake up. The laughter reaches to the innermost part of your brain, to your heart. A man of laughter cannot have a heart attack. A man of laughter cannot commit suicide. A man of laughter automatically comes to know the world of silence, because when laughter cea

Osho on Mystic Rose Group
I have chosen Leela, one of my therapists, to create a new meditative therapy. The first part will be Yaa-Hoo! -- for three hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all. And whenever their laughter starts dying they again say, "Yaa-Hoo!" and it will come back. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your being. It will cut them like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three hours every day... you cannot conceive how much transformation can come to your being.
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then the second part is "Yaa-Boo." The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter -- all the inhibitions of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings a new space within you, but still you have to go a few steps more to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed so much sadness, so much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears -- they are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your grac

Osho on Mystic Rose
Evolution needs to be not of the body but of consciousness; then it becomes a spiritual progress. But Darwin had no idea of any spirit in man. To him, man was just the body and nothing more. I propound a theory of spiritual evolution, and that has been the basic of all mysticism in the world.
Man is born as a seed. To accept the seed as your life is the greatest mistake one can commit. Millions of people are born as seeds, fresh, young, with tremendous potential of growth. But because they accept the seed as their very life, they die as a rotten seed; nothing happens in their life. The symbol of the mystic rose is that if man takes care of the seed that he is born with, gives it the right soil, gives it the right atmosphere and the right vibrations, moves on a right path where the seed can start growing, then the ultimate growth is symbolized as the mystic rose -- when your being blossoms and opens all its petals and releases the beautiful fragrance.
Unless you blossom into a myst

Osho on Enlightened Saint Francis
Born in the town of Assisi in 1181 to rich parents, Francis’s early life was marked by privilege and luxury. As a youth, he was handsome, witty, gallant, and delighted in fine clothes. He spent money lavishly Even so, there is the story of how one day, having worked in the local marketplace selling his father’s silk merchandise he was so moved by the poverty of a beggar seeking alms, that he gave all the profits of the day away to this poor man. His father and his rich friends were none too impressed! Later he left the comforts of home to join a military expedition to Perugia as a young man of twenty-one. Subsequently he experienced a long period of illness, which it is believed caused him to re-evaluate his life. He devoted his life to the poor and the sick and in gathering around him a group of like-minded individuals who devoted their lives to prayer, preaching and service of the poor. At that time his preaching was unusual because he was not an ordained priest and had

Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Ummon
Zen Master Ummon, one of the most eloquent of the Zen Masters, lived from 864 – 949 CE. He founded the Yunmen school, one of the five major schools of Chinese Zen. Ummon was renowned for his forceful, direct and yet subtle teaching, often expressed through sudden shouts and blows with a staff. He was also known for his wisdom and skill with words.
“However wonderful a thing is, it may be that it is better not to have it at all.” A saying from Zen Master Ummon. He had a fondness for speaking in koans and loved to shock people to wake them up. He did not like people to note down his words. Whenever he saw someone doing this, he chased the person out of the hall with the words, "Because your own mouth is not good for anything you come to note down my words. It is certain that someday you'll sell me!"
Osho says, “Ummon had thousands of disciples and he had many devices to work with them. And he was a man like Gurdjieff -- he would create situations, because only situa

Osho on Sufi Mystic Jabbar
Born in the 10th Century, Jabbar was an enlightened Sufi mystic. Nothing is known of the place or date of his birth, but it is assumed that he is from or associated with the town of Niffar in present day Iraq, or the city ofNippur.
One of the major contributions by Jabbar was Gibberish about which psychologists have noticed how Gibberish is immensely cathartic and a relaxing way of venting out tensions, or releasing bottled up emotions without hurting anybody, because people will not understand what you are trying to say. It is actually speaking in the language you don't know. It is a wonderful potion for the modern mind, which is trained to think logically, rationalise every act, or accumulate thoughts like a heap of garbage. The modern man is bombarded with much information from the electronic gadgets and media. This unprocessed information creates stress and he feels bogged down by it. The cultured cultivated mind needs ventilation so that it can remain sane. Gibberish fulf

Osho on Work and Celebration
This whole universe is a temple, and the whole existence is trying to reach you in so many ways -- through the sun rays, through the trees, through the birds -- these are all messengers…When in the early morning, the birds start their song and the flowers open their petals and the dewdrop shines like any great pearl on the lotus leaf; when so many colors are spread all over the horizon in welcoming the new day -- these are all messengers of existence. If you can be sensitive to these you will not feel sad, you will feel immensely grateful, understanding, fulfilled. You will feel at home, you will feel at peace.
I have not gone to the sun and I don't know what it means not to be in peace.
Peace is not something that has to be achieved, it is something that you are carrying always but never giving it an opportunity to blossom. It is a rose within your heart. It is a fragrance of your being. It is a sense of immense freedom and joy and celebration.
Peace is not a very goo