Aditya Shah

The Golden Flower Is Opening

You see a beautiful flower and you suddenly say something: “It is beautiful.” Watch whether it is a reaction or a response. Go deep into it, scrutinize it. What you have said – tha

The Future Belongs To The Creative Man

Trust is the outcome of deep meditation. Fate is the outcome of your failures, and a mind consolation. They are totally different.

Osho,
Why do I like so much to criticize

The Fundamental Rule

Be a little more aware when you make such assumptions. You think that somebody is mad? Don’t be in such a hurry. He may not be mad; on the contrary, you may be mad. Don’t judge. You imm

The Eight Limbs Of Yoga

And he said, “It came to pass that many times I tried my grandfather’s formula, and by and by anger disappeared” – and not only anger – by and by he became aware that the same techn

The Challenge Of The Buddha

Very difficult. We go on unconsciously expressing our opinion about others. Do you know others? You don’t know even yourself. How foolish it is to express opinions about others. You m

The Brash Student

When Yamaoka was a brash student he visited the master Dokuon.
Wanting to impress the master he said: “There is no mind, there is nobody, there is no buddha. There is no better, there is no w

The Art Of Living

The best swimmer simply floats. The ultimate swimmer just goes like a dead body with the current, wherever the river leads – it always leads to the ocean. Every river leads to the ocean, so you

Techniques To Become One With The Whole

Swami Ramateertha used this technique for his own sadhana. A moment came when he started saying, “The whole world is in me, and the stars move in me.” Somebody was tal

Selling Water By The River

Withdrawal brings a peace that is suicide. Yes, you go to the Himalayas, you live in a cave, you are peaceful – because there is no possibility to fight with anybody. You have not

Selfishness: The Only Unselfishness

“How is growth possible without this hope?” Growth is possible only without hope.

I understand your problem. You are saying, “If we don’t hope then we will not hope about g

Sannyas Is For Lions

But if you are effacing yourself you will become more and more sad and heavy, you will become more and more dull and dead – because effacing oneself is nothing but a slow suicide. Beware of

Religion and Science

If all these religions disappear from the earth you all will become inquirers. And there is so much to inquire – life is such a deep mystery, almost fathomless. And to enter into that e

Real Love Is Real Wild!

Osho,
You say that love and hate are one; but I see more hate in the world than love. At the same time, you say that enlightenment is neither love nor hate. Are you speaking of two

Raw, Cooke, Burnt

If you really want to be in a state of prayerfulness, have done with words. You have been taught as Christians, as Hindus, as Mohammedans, how to pray, what words to use, what is proper prayer.

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