Aditya Shah

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

Let-Go Is My Only Approach

The first question:

Osho,
I have been here now for almost two and a half years, but I still feel that something in my life goes basically wrong. Except for short glimpses, I am unable

Laughter Is The Highest Spiritual Quality

And I think as the pressure of death, destructiveness, nuclear war, becomes more and more heavy, the quantum leap will also become more and more possible, because it

Kundalini: The Discipline Of Transcendence

The ego disappears in the fifth body and thus the strongest link in the chain of bondage breaks. But the feeling of “I-ness” remains – free, independent, boundless and

Known, Unknown, Unknowable

I am against cultivating a moral character, because cultivating a moral character does not give you real morality. That’s why I am against it. The real morality has not to be c

Existence Is In The Present

Osho,
This is my fifth visit to Rajneeshpuram. I came to see members of my family who live here. I can see how happy my former wife is, living so close to you. I feel very happy and am