"I had always wanted not to be a master to anybody. But people want a master, they want to be disciples; hence, I played the role. It is time that I should say to you that now many of you are ready to accept me as the friend."
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The Art of Witnessing – Illness and the Fear of Death
"It is beside the point that a man dies following an illness, but one need not be mistaken and think that illness causes death. Perhaps the reverse is the case."
The Art of Witnessing – Turn Your Suffering into Moments of Meditation
"Moments of pain can become moments of spiritual discipline, can be turned into moments of meditation."
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What Does It Mean to Be Authentic?
"Ordinarily everybody is living as a personality; hence his life is not authentic. It is false, it is deceptive, it is a hypocrisy. He is not only cheating others, he is cheating himself. He is deceiving others and he is deceiving himself too." Osho
Why Is No-Mind So Relevant to Today’s World?
Use the Wisdom of the Body to go from Mind to No-mind. To be in the present is the only way to experience the herenow.
Healthy Life – Healing Begins When You See Your Insanity
“The First Step Toward a Healthy Life Is to Accept One’s State of Unhealthiness The concept of healthy life is...
Use Times of Crisis to Be Transformed
Use this time of crisis, use this door, this opportunity, and be transformed. That's why my emphasis is on individual revolution.
Remove Lines from the Earth
The Whole Earth Is One “Only on the maps do you go on drawing lines, and over those lines you...
We Are the Problem
"It is man himself who lies at the root of all the catastrophes, but the trouble is, it goes against man's ego to accept it." Osho
OSHO INSIGHTS
Use Meditation to Unlock Your Creative Energy
The Quality of Meditation Transforms Our Actions so That Creative Energy from Our Being Can Manifest in the Physical Reality...
Cathartic Release Goes Hand-In-Hand with Meditation
In a recent Hindustan Times article, Indian actress Prajakta Mali, who has a stylish “Osho” tattoo on the back of her hand,...
Why Don’t I Want to Be Alone?
In a world getting busier by the minute it can be very appealing to get away from it all, to...
Simply Trust!
Have you ever seen any of those documentaries on the origins of planet earth from about four and a half...
What Is Beauty?
We all know what the phrase “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” means, that what I find beautiful,...
Between Life and Death
Death is already happening. Whether you face it or not, whether you look at it or not, it is already...
SEX GURU
Sex, Love, and Sleep – Being in the Present Moment?
Man got the idea of samadhi from two things: sex and sleep. because in both these moments, time disappears, time stops, the mind stops.
Orgasm Is Freedom and the Root of Meditation
A man like Gautam Buddha is living every moment of his life in orgasmic joy – it has nothing to do with sex.
The Reality Is: There Is No Vaginal Orgasm
“One of the most significant findings was that women have a capacity of multiple orgasm. A man has the capacity...
Meditation – a Deep Sexual Orgasm
“In deep meditation, a sexual orgasm happens – not with someone outside you, but with your own polar opposite within…...
Sex Is Natural, Sexuality Is Not
Sex Is Beautiful, Sexuality Is Ugly, and the Difference Has to Be Understood. “Sex Is a Natural Phenomenon. Sexuality is...
Love or Mutual Masturbation!
“In India, we have pictured Shiva as Ardhanarishwar: half-man, half-woman.” “That is the only symbol of its type all over...
MEDITATION 101
Melt into the Oceanic Energy of the Other
“Go to the sea, there are millions of waves. You never see the sea, you always see the waves, because...
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...
The Art of Listening
Listen to What Comes, Don’t Repress “In the twenty-four hours of a day you need to be silent for an...
Use This Meditation Technique to Transform Sex into Ecstasy
Before you move into making love, just sit silently together for fifteen minutes holding each other’s hands crosswise… “Sit in...
Use Your Sadness and Transform It
Use Awareness to Make Your Sadness Very Very Enriching “You have to work on it. It is easy to escape...
The Whole – a Meditator’s Perspective
This is a guest post from the winning stories of A Course in Meditation – A Workout for your Consciousness...
OSHO VIDEOS
You Can Run but You Can’t Hide
“And the moment you are no more conditioned, you will not ask what is the goal of life. Your whole...
He Was Not a Thief. He Was a Kleptomaniac.
“In my university days, I used to happen to partner with a student who was a kleptomaniac. He was...
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The Child Is the Mother of Humanity – So Listen Carefully
"Dance with the child, sing with him, sit in silence with him. By and by he will start imbibing it. Help him to play meditation... Let it be a game"
How to Discover the Magical Art of Allowing?
Now we are going to give you a simple way to discover the art of allowing – what it means not to be restless, and instead just do nothing.
What Does It Mean to Do Nothing?
To do nothing, non-doing, allowing, is the essence of meditation. As Basho says: "Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
Why Are We Rushing toward Oblivion?
Man is rushing toward oblivion, caught in erroneous beliefs, restless. Everything is interwoven, maturity knows only interdependence.
OSHO No-Mind – Sanity in the Age of Madness
OSHO No-Mind bypasses this process of verbalization called the mind, allowing old wounds to come to the surface, releasing them permanently.
The Habit of Avoiding Pain – The Dynamics of Addiction
Instead of avoiding pain through all forms of addiction, allow yourself to experience it, embrace it with totality.
Media
Bombay High Court Agrees with Foundation:
The April 25th clarification clearly states that visits to the Osho International Meditation Resort and Osho’s bedroom are only possible “in accordance with the rules, conventions and traditions” of the meditation resort.
Osho “Lovers” Hate Osho’s Guidance
The prime motivation for the protests is that this offers its leaders an opportunity to display their long-standing animosity against the management team. In the past, these same people have invented endless rationalizations to provoke a rent-a-crowd phenomenon.
Sheela’s Crimes and Deceptions – A Documented Summary
Sheela's documented crimes and deceptions include conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assassination plots, kidnapping and poisoning.
General Meeting – Buddha Hall – May 1989
"We are not just a religious center, religiousness will be our very atmosphere, but we are now going to make a greater expansion."
Misleading Content in Anando’s book “Osho: Intimate Glimpses”
"The first commune was destroyed because of women's jealousies. They were fighting continuously. The second commune was destroyed because of women's jealousies. And this is the third commune – and the last, because I am getting tired." Osho