The conditionings by society are a hindrance, a distraction, a misuse of a natural longing for growth. Every child is born to grow and to flower. This flowering has nothing to do with power, nothing to do with money, nothing to do with politics. It has something to do absolutely with you; it is an individual progress.
Excerpts from an Interview with Mike Wolfe KBND Radio, Bend, Oregon.
"I am destroying the whole idea of the separation, of a split between matter and mind, body and soul, materialism and spiritualism." - Osho
Excerpt from an interview with Howard Sattler, 6PR Radio, Australia. "Freedom, to me, is the ultimate value. There is nothing higher than freedom." -Osho
What happened to love? Everybody is looking for love, but the world is full of hate. With love something very drastic has happened. This OSHO TALK goes deep into the psychological understanding how our authenticity about love was spoiled. - Never judge anybody by his act, because the real thing is not the act but the consciousness through which that act has been performed.
No philosopher has ever been able to know the truth. All the philosophers have been thinking about the truth. But thinking about the truth is an impossibility. Either you know it, or you don't.
Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
I Love to Disturb People. In a series of excerpts from an interview with Jeff McMullen of Australia's "60 Minutes" Osho offers a series of one-liners about Gandhi, Hitler, the Pope and Mother Teresa -- and goes on from there to talk about his reputation for being controversial, contradictory, and, in the words of the interviewer, "one of the funniest people I've ever met."
Osho speaks about the understanding that we are guest here on this planet Earth and should treat the environment with respect. Existence has been so kind to invite you here.
How to select a meditation technique. All the techniques that I have developed are for contemporary people. People need first cathartic meditation methods -- like OSHO Dynamic meditation - then they can move to silent methods..
What is the need of Nations? The whole earth is one. This whole earth belongs to us. On the maps people go on drawing lines, and over those there is fighting, killing and murdering. Listen to this excerpt from an OSHO TALK
Buddhists are trying to escape the circle of life and death. Jesus dies for our sins and tries to come back from death. Listen to this excerpt from an OSHO TALK to learn that only escaping the minds conditioning -- self-discovery - can bring freedom. And humor is important as well.
OSHO TALK: All the religions are based on God. Their morality, their commandments, their prayers, their saintliness -- everything points towards God, and you say that God is dead. Then what will happen to all these great things that are dependent on the concept of God?