Chandni Samani

Possessing Nothing, Wanting Nothing

Only a meditator becomes adult. Otherwise, your chronological age may be seventy, eighty or ninety, it does not matter – you are only an old child.ninety years old but still

Pick Up The Roses And Avoid The Thorns

Osho,
When you were responding to Sarjano’s question, I heard you say that a disciple can say no to the master if the love is deep enough.
I can understand your saying no t

Out Of The Mud And The Mire

In Indian villages women say to their children, “Don’t laugh too much otherwise you will start crying.” And that happens. If a child laughs too much he starts crying. Tears and smile

No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, No Today

But society pays you enough to be moral, gives you as much ego as it is possible to give – not only here but in the afterworld too. There are also places, special places

Go On Moving

To accept yourself wherever you are.and don’t think in terms of competition. You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are, if you can be happy there, you have become religious, you have become s

Freedom And Love: The Centre And The Circumferences

Relatedness works but not relationship, and you have to understand the difference between the two. Love, the moment it becomes a relationship, becomes a

And A Perfect Liar At That

The first question:

Osho,

Will your disciples attain by sudden enlightenment, or by a slow, step-by-step growth? And is your pathless path for anybody, or only for rare

My Religion Is A Godless Religion

Yes, it is okay – “How to Repair a Car”; you will have to do something. But there is no doing as such as far as relaxation is concerned. Just don’t do anything. I know you will

Music Will Remind You Of Me

Osho,
Why do I allow habit to dominate consciousness?

Almost everybody does it, unless one becomes enlightened.

The habit is the easier way to do a thing. The whole mechanism of a

Most People Return Unopened

What is the need of repeating them? One repeats a thing because one wants to make it mechanical. In your mind, there is a robot part; if you repeat a certain thing, the robot part

Meditation: The Art of Celebration

We train a child to focus his mind, to concentrate, because without concentration he will not be able to cope with life. Life requires it; the mind must be able to concentrate.

Love Cannot Deliver The Goods

Then what to do? Let your sadness in love become a pilgrimage into prayer. Let this experience of sadness become a great meditation in depth. First you have to dissolve the ego in

Living In Fear

All your fears are by-products of identification.

You love a woman and with the love, in the same parcel comes fear: she may leave you – she has already left somebody and come with you. There is a

Life, Death And Love

Don’t move ahead of yourself into the future because that is not possible to do. The future remains unknown; that is its beauty, that is its grandeur, glory. If it becomes known, it will be u

Life: Uncharted And Unknown Possibilities

So there are three things to be understood. The first is that we do not have a single mind; we have many minds. Secondly, these minds are our past experiences. And

Life Is An Opportunity

Remember, one who does not know about his birth will have great difficulty in knowing about his death while dying. They are interconnected. Death has happened many times, but you have died

Life Is A Luxury

It started raining, and as it started raining the driver speeded up. The wipers were not working. The hippie could not see at all through the windshield so he told the driver, “The wipers are n

Lie Down And Witness

I am not a Zen adept simply means I have dissolved myself into the existence. I have not kept my identity and my separation. I am no more, only existence is. Secondly: I have not a single

Letters

There is a difference between knowledge and knowing. One is the amassing of information, simply an intellectual understanding; and the other is a knowledge which is experience, knowing, a living