“Bodhidharma stands far above the moralists, the puritans, the so-called good men, the altruists. He has gone to the very bottom of the problem. If awareness doesn’t arise in you, your whole morality is bogus, your culture is simply a thin layer which could be destroyed by anybody. But once your morality has come out […]
Osho
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931–1990), was an Indian spiritual teacher known for his radical and unconventional approach to religion, consciousness, meditation, and inner freedom.
In his talks and writings, he combined elements of Zen Buddhism, Tantra, Sufism, psychology, and Western philosophy to explore questions of inner truth, love, desire, and liberation from the conditioning of the mind.
In his talks and writings, he combined elements of Zen Buddhism, Tantra, Sufism, psychology, and Western philosophy to explore questions of inner truth, love, desire, and liberation from the conditioning of the mind.
- 29-Day Program
- Alchemy
- Anger
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Death
- Depression
- Desire
- Differentiation
- Duality
- Enlightenment
- Fear
- Feelings
- Good and evil
- Healing Stories
- How Change Happens
- Jealousy
- Lessons of Love
- Loneliness
- Relationships
- Sadness
- Spiritual Teachers
- Spiritual Transformation
- The Mind
- The Pain
- Thought of the Day
11.01.2023
Nothing is as serious as it seems
“Take life joyfully, take life easily, take it relaxedly, don’t create unnecessary problems. Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously. Seriousness is the root cause of the problems. Be playful… just be alive, be anbundantly alive.“ Osho
“There is some pain in the body. Do one thing: forget about the body. Concentrate on the part of the body where the pain is. Then you will notice something strange. When you concentrate on the part where the pain is, that part becomes smaller. At first you may feel the pain in the whole […]
15.03.2015
Osho: First Compassion, Then Enlightenment
Below is a very valuable commentary by Osho, in which he draws a distinction between two spiritual goals: the attainment of enlightenment and the cultivation of compassion. Before reading this, I myself believed that the two were inseparable, but it turns out this is not the case. According to him, one can be enlightened and […]
According to Osho, “There are two ways to disassociate yourself from false identities. You are not what you have been thinking, feeling, imagining, projecting. What you are is simply the fact of being aware. Whatsoever happens, you remain just the awareness. You are awareness – that identity cannot be broken. That identity cannot be negated. All else […]
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 […]
16.04.2014
Osho: Where Is the Only Problem?
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 […]
07.08.2013
Osho on Jealousy and Pedestalism
“– 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 […]
10.10.2012
Osho on Not Deciding in the Night
Below is Osho’s response to a man who says he is having difficult relationships with his girlfriend and is wondering whether to continue the relationship or not. “Don’t be in a hurry, because what happens is that the mind has light moments and dark moments, day moments and night moments. When it is a day […]
12.07.2012
Change Comes Through Understanding
Below is Osho’s response to a follower who shares that he feels depressed and self-judging, but does not know why. “This is the way to remain the same… this is a trick of the mind. Instead of moving toward understanding, the energy begins to move toward judgment… and change comes through understanding, not through judgment. […]
06.06.2012
Osho: Relax into this
This is something by Osho that is closely related to the previous article on the dark night of the soul. Question to Osho: I feel that I do not allow my heart to open. When I was very young, I rejected my parents. I felt good being a little bad boy. Now I realize that […]
17.04.2012
Osho: love needs two things
“Love needs two things: for its roots to be in freedom and to know the art of trust.” — Osho
