This is a story told by Lin Chi, which a close friend sent to me a while ago, and now I feel the urge to pass it on. For me, it is the best thing I have ever encountered regarding how we can stop taking life’s events personally. “When I was young, I used to […]
“The warrior of Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favour; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking. By walking slowly, he becomes aware of the firmness of his step. He knows that he is taking part in a decisive moment in the history of humanity and that […]
There is a story about a samurai that I like very much. I am retelling it here from memory. Once upon a time, there was a samurai whose master had been killed. He set out to find his master’s murderer, as his samurai duty commanded him to kill the man. When he finally found him, […]
Osho’s books are the product of what he spoke in conversations with his sannyasins—discourses on particular themes or responses to questions.In one of these encounters, a person addresses him, sharing that he often finds himself completely filled with a feeling he cannot explain: “There is a deep love there—but the very same feeling often comes […]
According to Osho: “Confusion is a great opportunity. The problem with people who are not confused is a big one—they think they know, but they actually do not know. People who believe they have clarity are in real trouble; their clarity is very superficial. In reality, they do not know what clarity means; what they […]
James Hillman’s The Soul’s Code is an extraordinary book. It is imbued with pathos and passion, poetic imagery and soul-healing symbolism, through which Hillman “declares war” on traditional psychology—one that kills the human soul with dry reports, reductionist theories, and diagnoses that pathologize the human spirit. “I intend to declare war on the tradition of […]
A friend once shared with me how he dealt with his constant irritability and outbursts over “drivers who drive like idiots.” The thought occurred to him that if he is a better driver than they are—because he can drive in a way they cannot—then getting angry at the fact that they can’t is simply foolish. […]
Below is an excerpt from Osho’s book The Art of Dying, which is so poetic and so precise that I translated it with great pleasure. The longer I live, the more I discover the truth and the beauty of what he says. Based on everything I know from my personal experience and from spiritual teachings […]
Here is another article by the creator of the Russian website “Self-Knowledge – the path of enlightenment“.* Fear is a basic emotion that everyone experiences to one degree or another. However, when it takes center stage in a person’s emotional life and begins to dominate it, it means the time has come for a spiritual […]
And they told us that love was supposed to be a joyful experience For the sake of “fairness,” the sun that illuminates the opposing ways of dealing with painful emotions now casts its other ray as well. Understandably, this ray is the exact opposite of unleashing the storm outward, as suggested in the previous article. […]
Very often, women are crucified within themselves—torn between showing their feelings to the men who anger them or holding those feelings in. Unfortunately, there is no single right answer. Both are true. Both are rays of a “just sun” that is fair precisely because it shines in both directions. Today, I am sharing only one […]
“– My partner is very jealous and seems to make me more important than I really am.” This is a question addressed to Osho. Here is how he responds: “– Not jealous — I think he feels that he is inferior. You are using the wrong word. He thinks that you are a goddess and […]
