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God is an Escape – Osho
The appearance of Gautam the Buddha was one of the most phenomenal events of human consciousness. Whatsoever was going on in the name of religion before he appeared stopped forever. He brought truth to...
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Balancing the Rational and the Irrational – Osho
What factors do you attribute the Western youth revolt to, and why are so many young people from the West now becoming interested in Eastern religion and philosophy? Do you have any particular message...
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The Mysterious One – Osho
Rinzai said: If you want to be comfortable independent, free from birth and death and free to go or stay, you should recognize the one who is here now listening to my expounding of the dharma. This one...
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You Are Alone – Osho
The first truth to experience is that one is alone. The first truth to experience is that love is illusory. Just think of it, just think of the enormity of it, that love is illusory. And you have lived...
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Enlightenment – Osho
Enlightenment is the greatest revolution you can conceive of because it destroys all fictions, all rituals, all gods, all traditions, all scriptures. It leaves you with only the essential consciousness...
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Samyak Shravan – Right Listening – Osho
To discipline ourselves in learning is called hearing. And Buddhists call the first step of learning, of knowing, hearing; right hearing – ‘samyak shravan’. […] Because the truth happens when you are...
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The Path is Only a Reminder – Osho
If Zen is the path, and you are the gate, then who lives in the house? Prem Michael, Zen is the path, and I am the gate, and you live in the house. You have completely forgotten – that’s what makes the...
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That Area is Meditation – Osho
Maneesha, Ryusui is pointing to a very fundamental question which Gautam Buddha raised for the first time in human history. The question is, is enlightenment something to be achieved, desired, longed...
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Sammasati – The Last Word – Osho
Friends, Before the sutras there are a few questions from the sannyasins. The first question: Gesta Ital, a former famous German actress, was the first western woman who was allowed to enter in a Zen...
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The Fundamental Remains Meditation – Osho
Not counting the discourses, is twenty minutes of meditation a day enough to see me along the path and lead me to experience the satyam, shivam, sundram you are pointing us towards? Vimal, first you...
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A Course in Witnessing Blossoms
Covid changed the entire landscape. Out of the garden of our in-person meditation gatherings, A Course in Witnessing grew. We did not have any intention to create it. But covid changed everything. We...
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The Goose is Out! – Osho
Is the goose really out? Anand Bhavo, the goose has never been in, the goose has always been out. It is a Zen koan. First you have to understand the meaning of Zen and the meaning of a koan. Zen is not...
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Today the Bird Opens Its Wings – Osho
Maneesha, this is the last anecdote in this series, and you have chosen a very beautiful, meaningful, and significant dialogue for any seeker. The words are from a great master, hence you have to be...
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Beyond the Gateless Gate: Transcending the Seven Bodies, Part 2 – Osho
Raja yoga begins with the fourth body. Only hatha yoga begins with the first body; other yogas begin from somewhere else. Theosophy begins from the second body, and other systems begin from the third....
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That is Your Pure Gold – Osho
Is it useful for those of us with you to try to understand what is happening in our meditation and growth, and to be able to articulate it? Or do we just need to watch? Maneesha, you just need to...
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A Successor Has to be a Master – Osho
Maneesha, this is the last talk on Hyakujo, and the piece that you have chosen is the strangest – a beautiful ending, showing Hyakujo at his peak. On one occasion, Isan, Goho and Ungan, were all...
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The Old Problem of the Goose in the Bottle – Osho
The official, Riko, once asked Nansen to explain to him the old problem of the goose in the bottle. The problem is very ancient. It is a koan; it is given to a disciple, that he has to meditate on it....
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No Water, No Moon – Osho
Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. “Shall I lead you on?” Ikkyu asked. Ninakawa replied, “I came here alone, and I go alone. What help could you be to me?” Ikkyu...
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In that Dancing, Death Becomes a Fiction – Osho
Basho wrote the haiku: Only the shell Of the cicada left? Did it sing itself out of existence? An old cicada tree, almost dead, no foliage left – and Basho is saying, “Only the shell . . .” The inner...
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The Deep Pit of Liberation – Osho
Do not immediately settle down in peaceful stillness. In the teachings this is called “The deep pit of liberation.” “The deep pit of liberation” – there is a danger for all seekers, for all people of...
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