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Osho Insights

Osho on God – God itself is indefinable, likewise its reflection is indefinable

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Osho – We love many things but essentially in all our love we are searching for god. Of course the search is unconscious, that’s why you cannot give any explanation if it is asked ‘Why do you love a rose flower?’ At the most you can say because it is beautiful, but that is not [...]

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Osho – Beware of the mind. The mind knows all without knowing at all

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Osho – Beware of the mind. The mind goes on quoting, the mind knows all without knowing at all. The mind is a pretender. See into this phenomenon: this I call insight. It is not a question of thinking. If you think about it, it is again the mind. You have to see through and [...]

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Osho – Whenever a buddha appears you are very much annoyed by him, by his presence9

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Osho – Desire makes a fool of everybody. But because everybody else is also in the same boat you never become aware of it. And if, once in a while, a Buddha appears in your boat, you throw him out of the boat because he becomes a disturbance, a nuisance. He starts telling you that [...]

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Osho – You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present

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Osho – You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments where you are simply delighting. Looking at the trees, just be the look. Listening to the birds, just be a listening ear. Let them reach to your deepest core. Let their [...]

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Osho on Dreamless Sleep – If you can be aware in your deep sleep you are a Buddha.

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Osho – The only difference between deep, dreamless sleep and the awakened state, the enlightened state, is that of awareness. If you can be aware in your deep sleep you are a Buddha. You are not aware even while you are awake, and the Buddha is one who is aware even while he is deep [...]

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Osho – Only by giving do you become the possessor. If you cannot give, then you are not in possession

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Osho – Whenever you are unable to share, whenever you are unable to practise charity, note down — you must be poor. You may have much in the eyes of others, but deep down you must be poor if you cannot share. You possess only that which you can give. Only by giving do you [...]

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Osho – When Buddha talks about a poor man, he means a man who is not rich inside

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Osho – Unless you have it, how can you share it? To share something with somebody else you must have it first. In the first place you must have it; only that can be shared which you have. And this is something that we go on forgetting continuously. I see so many people trying to [...]

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Osho – With the dropping of anxiety and fear, one is free of the future.

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[A sannyasin leaving for Scotland said he was feeling apprehensive about going home. Osho said it was good to pass through different situations, changes, otherwise one began to stagnate and to have a false sense of security. Life takes care of one, and though there may be change and upheaval, things always settle again, and [...]

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Osho on Totality in Action – If you do it totally, it becomes meditation

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Osho – Be total in everything that you are doing. What you are doing is immaterial. Cleaning the floor, cooking the food, taking a shower — it doesn’t matter what you are doing. My emphasis is not on what you have to do, my emphasis is on how you do it. If you do it [...]

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Osho on Ego – Your ego is your hell, your ego is your misery

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Osho – Everybody has grown a certain ego, and the ego goes on dominating you in every sphere of life. It dictates to you the style in which you should live. It dictates to you what is right and what is wrong. And if you look deeply, the day you will be able to see [...]

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