Osho, After your three years of silence, has your work changed? “This speaking is totally different from the speaking that was there three and a half years ago. I was speaking to people who were listening through the head. I was arguing, I was rationalizing, I was doing everything to convince their heads. Now there is no need of that. I have got people with whom I can talk heart to heart. My words don’t pass their heads. There is no scrutiny in their heads when they hear my words. My words simply penetrate directly into their hearts.” Osho, The Last Testament, Talk #20 – Everything Is Love You ..read more

This article is part 2 of “The Art of Witnessing – Turn Your Suffering into Moments of Meditation“. “This is the initial preparation. Once this preparation is complete, then it is easy to enter death with awareness. Not only easy, but it will happen most certainly. “As such, we are not afraid of death really. After all, even to be afraid of death, one needs to be familiar with death. How can we feel afraid of something we know nothing about? “So, we have no fear of death really; rather, in our minds death exists in the form of a disease. That’s the idea we have of it. “When even minor illnesse ..read more

“The greatest preparation for entering death in a conscious state is to first enter pain consciously, because death does not occur often, it does not come every day. Death will come only once, whether you are prepared for it or not; there cannot be a rehearsal for death. But pain and misery come every day. We can prepare ourselves while going through pain and suffering – and remember if we can do so while facing them, it will prove useful at the time of death. “Hence, seekers have always welcomed suffering. There is no other reason for it. It is not that suffering is a good thing. The reason i ..read more

Osho, What is love? “What you call love is not love. What you call love may be many other things, but it is not love. “It may be sex, it may be greed, it may be loneliness, it may be dependence, it may be possessiveness. It may be many more things, but it is not love. Love is nonpossessive. Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. “Love is not a relationship. A relationship is possible but it is not relationship; a relationship can exist but it is not confined to it. It is beyond it, it is more than that. Love is a state of being. “When it is a relationship, it can ..read more

Osho, Alan Watts once described the universe by saying, “It is as if God is playing a game.” If there is no God, who is playing and what is the game? “Alan Watts was a nice guy but that statement he made was stolen from Hindu mythology. That’s what he was doing his whole life, although to the West it appeared as if he was giving original insights. “Basically he was trained as a Christian priest and, like every Christian priest, acquired a certain knowledge about all the religions so that he could prove Christianity to be the best, the highest, the truest religion. “But Alan Watts – that’s why ..read more

“I am not an infallible pope, I don’t have any divine authority to impose a belief on you; I hold no power, and I am not in any way programming you. I am simply trying to create a longing in you that is sleeping, dormant. I am trying to wake it up so that you start inquiring. “The people who say to you to believe and to have faith are the people who themselves do not believe and do not have faith. Because I know what I am saying to you is my experience, I can challenge you to doubt, to be skeptical, to try in every possible way to prove that it is wrong – because I know you cannot prove it wro ..read more

Read the article in… English हिंदी “The heinous acts that have taken place in the name of religion have not happened in any other name and cannot happen. Ugly deeds need the cover of a good name, a beautiful curtain is needed, so that the ugly can be hidden. No evil action has been committed in the name of unrighteousness. “Even if someone wants to do it, how will he do it? The very mention of unrighteousness will spoil the situation. Religion is a beautiful cover. What has not happened behind that facade? All sorts of things have been happening under this guise for centuries. Pandits fl ..read more

Read the article in… English हिंदी This is the second part of the post “Religious Scriptures as Bait – Their Words, My Meaning“, from the same talk. You can see clearly now why I had to use religious language, and why now I am continually telling you to flush God down the toilet, to forget all about heaven and hell, and that the law of karma is nothing but boo boo. “I am no longer showing any respect to Jesus, or Buddha, Mahavira, Krishna. “I am just treating them as a headmaster treats his children. If they behave rightly then they will not be punished, that’s all. “If they don’t behave ..read more

As we have described in “Why Are We Rushing toward Oblivion?” the business of contemporary people is busyness. It is the disease of modern humans. As Osho puts it so succinctly: I am dealing with the contemporary man, who is the most restless being that has ever evolved on the earth.” 1 Why is this issue significant? Because most people are so busy “doing,” that their whole life swirls past them in a flash and they haven’t stopped and even savored the joy of just being alive, of living, of enjoying a morning walk, or a sunrise….  More significantly, if you have children to take care of, y ..read more

Read the article in… English हिंदी Osho, Wouldn’t it have been much easier for you to work without being associated with the word religion? What is the secret behind your choosing to do it this way? “I would have loved not to be associated in any way with the word religion. The whole history of religion simply stinks. It is ugly, and it shows the degradation of man, his inhumanity, and all that is evil. This is not about any one single religion, it is the same story repeated by all the religions of the world: man exploiting man in the name of God. I still feel uneasy being associated wit ..read more