Aditya Shah

Don’t Do Nothing

Osho,
Is not the search for enlightenment a selfish search?

Yes, it is. And the most selfish. There is nothing like it, it is incomparably selfish.

And one has to be selfish, there is no o

Don’t Throw Responsibility

When man is relieved of the burden of humanity he becomes light. You may not have considered this, but the peace that one finds in going to the mountains is not caused by the mountains,

Don’t Search For A Home, Search For Yourself

Osho,
In these times of uncertainty, the best – and the worst – seems to be coming out in those of us who are around you. Would you comment on this?

There are no

Dissolved In The Universal Soul

This world would become very silent if people would say only what cannot be avoided and stop all their mechanical talking. People create unnecessary problems with their useless

Dissolution Into The Cosmic – II

Osho,
You said last night that those who have become void, valley-like,
do not react but they respond, and that the responses of these
different enlightened ones will be different

Dissolution Into The Cosmic

Intellect is always an onlooker standing out – never in. So the more intellect grows in the world, the more we become just passive observers, in everything. You will not dance, but you

Die To The Future

Sthitpragya is a very beautiful word. Its meaning is: one whose wisdom has become stable in himself, one whose wisdom has become self-contained, one whose consciousness does not leave him and

Devices To Transcend Dreaming

Will you please explain to us what are some of the other factors which can make one conscious while dreaming?

This is a significant question for all those who are interested in

Death Is Life

The eighth sutra of yoga. When I talked about the seventh sutra I told you that conscious life has two forms: self-conscious and self-unconscious. The eighth sutra is:

Yoga begins with

Creativity

I  BELIEVED  I WAS UNCREATIVE. WHAT ELSE CAN BE CREATIVITY BESIDES DANCING AND PAINTING AND HOW TO FIND OUT WHAT MY CREATIVITY IS?

CREATIVITY  has nothing  to do with any  activity in particular  —

Consciousness Is Contagious

They should go hand in hand, but you have to understand that neither science can become meditative nor meditation can become just science. They are two dimensions of human existence. A

Centering Through The Body

Your body has its own wisdom – it carries the wisdom of the centuries in its cells.

Your body is feeling hungry and you are on a fast, because your religion says that this day you h

Catalyst

Osho,
Will you be my catalyst towards God-realization?

My approach is that the more you forget about God, the better. Leave him alone. Realize yourself. This is again an escape from your problems.

Buddha In The Supermarket

Self-consciousness is human. If you fall from consciousness you will have a certain forgetfulness of anxiety. If you rise from the self you will not only have a forgetfulness of anxiety;

Blissfulness Beyond Ignorance

So if you are not aware of beauty, you will not be aware of ugliness. If you are aware of beauty, you have become aware of ugliness. You will enjoy and you will feel the bliss of

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