Chandni Samani

Black Nose Buddha

A nun who was searching for enlightenment made a wooden statue of Buddha and covered it with gold leaf. It was very pretty and she carried it with her wherever she went.

Years passed, and still

Beyond Acceptance And Rejection

Osho,
The vision “neither this nor that” feels so negative, so absolutely negative. How can I be accepting or even creative with this? I feel totally confused.

Mind lives in the

Being With The Body

So today, the first thing I would like to say is that the thirst of which I spoke last night will arise only when you see, when you realize that the life you are leading right now is wrong.

Befriending Feelings

Somewhere there is that fear which makes me closed and hard and sad and desperate and angry and hopeless. It seems to be so subtle that I don’t even get really in touch with it. How can I s

Become One Unity

Beloved Osho, you are the greatest marketing person of a product that gratifies the soul.

We are in the business of selling a product that gratifies the mind; there are others who sell products

Be A Hollow Bamboo

“This is one of Tilopa’s special methods. Every master has his own special method through which he has attained, and through which he would like to help others. This is Tilopa’s speci

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Osho,
Is God overhead in the sky, in heaven?

God is everywhere. God is everywhereness. God is not a person. You cannot locate him. God is the totality of all beings, of all things.

Always On The Rocks

Go as deeply as possible in your relationships with women – don’t be worried. Soon you will see that there is a different kind of relationship that can exist only between polar opposites. T

Aloneness Is The Last Achievement

Nothing happens before its right time; truth, at least, never happens before its right time. And if I try to give it to you, it will never reach you in the first place. Even if

Aloneness

SINCE EACH OF US IS BORN ALONE AND DIES ALONE,AND ALONENESS IS THE STATE OF OUR BEING, WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE COMMUNE?

THE function of the commune is exactly that: to make you aware of your

All Problems Are Unreal

Osho,
You said man is a bridge between the animal and the divine.
Where are we on this bridge?

You are not on the bridge, you are the bridge. This has to be understood. If you think that

All Is Not Lost, But Time Is Running Short

A man is taking a walk in a park late at night. Suddenly, behind some bushes he hears strange gasps and muffled screams. Alarmed, he shouts, “Is anybody being killed i

A Tree Grows

When you cannot be silent, when you have to speak and you cannot do otherwise, then your words are meaningless, gibberish. Then there is no poetry, then they are very ordinary. Have you not watched

A Small Fragment From The Past

Also, if it becomes a scientifically proven fact – which I have no doubt it will once science starts moving in that direction and drops the Christian or the Jewish or the Mohammedan

A Slave In Your Own House

For example: if you are eating, Buddha says to eat with full awareness – samyak ahar. Then whatsoever you eat is right – just be aware. Now see the difference: other religions say,

A Questionless Silence

You have always stressed that there is so much misery in the world because we have been trained to look at the darker side of things. Either one can feel happy, seeing that there is a day

A Milestone Marked Zero

Zero is the symbol, the image, of the perfect. It is a geometrical image of the perfect. We carry this zero, this image of the perfect, within us. If you can come to understand God through

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
– Norman Cousins

Death

It happened in an Arabic story that a king dreamed in the night that somebody – a very d

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
– Lou Holtz

The Fall and Rise of a Merchant

In a city called Vardhamana, lived a very efficient and prosperous merchant.

The king was aware