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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."
Love Is Your State of Being
"Love has nothing to do with somebody else, it is your state of being. A man who has known love remains unconditionally blissful."
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HIGHLIGHTS
Evolution and Consciousness – The Ultimate Journey
Man must awaken; he must make this ultimate journey with full awareness. The evolution to the human stage is the highest flowering in nature.
Rebellion Is Freedom and Hope for Humanity
Osho, What Is Your Notion of Rebellion and of a Rebel? “My notion about the rebel and rebellion is very...
From Unconscious Evolution to a Revolution in Consciousness
Unconscious evolution ends with man, and conscious evolution – revolution – begins. From now on, evolution becomes an individual process.
I Use Words for You to Become Silent
"My speaking is really one of my devices for meditation. I speak to stop your mind functioning. I use words to create silence."
From Natural Selection to Conscious Evolution to Total Consciousness
Man has now come above nature and can consciously evolve. Conscious evolution is revolution. Man is now responsible for his own growth.
The Sickness of Man’s Mind Is Created by the Family
Osho on the family: "It is the basic unit of the old society; unless the family disappears the old society will continue because its basic unit is intact."
OSHO INSIGHTS
I Feel Miserable – Why Do I Suffer?
Suffering Is Not the Problem. Clinging – That’s Your Problem What do I do if I feel miserable? “Meditation is...
Animal Habitats – the Power of Science to Destroy
Science: Conquest of Nature Should the natural animal habitats be preserved? Osho is very clear on it. “The very framework...
Equality Destroys Individual Freedom
Only Machines Can Be Equal; Man Cannot Be “If you want man to be equal, then you will have to...
Freedom Is the Ultimate Experience of Life
"The true freedom certainly comes after choiceless awareness, but after choiceless awareness the freedom is neither dependent on things nor dependent on doing something. The freedom that follows choiceless awareness is the freedom just to be yourself. And you are yourself already, you are born with it; hence it is not dependent on anything else. Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you. A sword can cut your head but it cannot cut your freedom, your being."
When Is It Time to Break up a Relationship?
There is every possibility you may decide something when it was night time, a dark moment, a low energy moment. If you decide something in that moment, it will not be wise because you have seen beautiful moments also...
Loneliness and Aloneness?
What is needed is not something in which you can forget your loneliness. What is needed is that you become aware of your aloneness, which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.
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
Watching the Mind – a Meditator’s Perspective
This is a guest post from the winning stories of A Course in Meditation – A Workout for your Consciousness by...
Open Your Life to Unlimited Ecstasy
Be more sensitive. And you cannot be sensitive in one dimension. Either one is sensitive in all dimensions or one...
Transcend Your Monkey Mind with These Simple Awareness Techniques
Practice Witnessing during Your Daily Activities and Your Awareness Will Grow in All Dimensions “You are sitting in the garden,...
Delightful – a Meditator’s Perspective
This is a guest post from the winning stories of A Course in Meditation – A Workout for your Consciousness...
A Workout for Your Consciousness
“A COURSE IN MEDITATION”— 21 simple chapters so you can learn how to meditate and integrate meditation into your daily...
Flow – 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