Aditya Shah

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

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin

Sarai

There was a king, Ebrahim. One night he heard a noise on his roof,

The knowledge in holy scriptures is like a huge sea. For a man with busy life it will not be possible to read and understand everything. He must act like a swan i.e. attain what is useful and leave the rest.
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Every moment has love in it. Every hour has happiness in it. If you lose it, it becomes memory; And if you live it, it becomes life.

Love

If your path is love, then you must be prepared to be mad. Then who the

Happiness & sadness, pride & shame, and willfulness are the factors that deviate a person from his aim of life . One who remains unaffected from those is referred as intelligent.
– Vidur

Matter Is Finished

We

He who fails to prepare prepares to fail.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

This proverb stresses the fact that it is easier to prevent a problem than to spend time / money / energy to find a