A collection of quotes of Osho on mind, purity, philosophy, truth, courage, silence, merger and happiness. The thoughts are from books, speeches, newspapers and online. Osho Quotes on Mind A man who is spiritual has tremendous experiences but he never accumulates them. Once they have happened he forgets about them. He is finished with them and he moves away from them. He is always available for the new, he never carries the old. If you don't carry the old you will find life absolutely new at each step. Life is new, only the mind is old; and if you look through the mind, life also looks like a repetition, a bore. Mind means your past, accumulated experiences, knowledge and everything. Mind means that through which you have passed, but which you are still hanging on to. Mind is a hangover, dust from the past covering your mirror-like consciousness. Then when you look through it everything becomes distorted. Purity Purity simply means an uncontaminated state of min...

A collection of quotes and teachings on Lord Krishna by Osho. There are thousand statements about who Krishna is and Krishna belies all the statements. How does one understand a man with so many sides to him? No statement however severe and astute can wholly encompass Krishna 's wholeness. It lies in the fact that he has no personality of his own, that he is not a person, an individual – he is existence itself. You can say that he is like a mirror; he just mirrors everything that comes before him…and when you see yourself mirrored in him, you think Krishna is like you. But the moment you move away from him, he is empty again. That's leadership. One wants to see in Krishna what one wants to see in him. Nothing more nothing less. It is really arduous to understand Krishna. It is easy to understand that a man should run away from the world if he wants to find peace, but it is really difficult to accept that one can find peace in the thick of the marketplace. It is un...

A collection of teachings from the talks of Osho. In this world, there is only one happiness and that is to be yourself. Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation. Life is an art -- or it would even be better to call it a hunch. You have to feel it. You will find meaning in life only if you create it. Your home is within you. And you are not to search for it anywhere. You are your home. A stone on the path can either be a stepping-stone hindering the path, or it can be a stepping-stone helping you to go higher on the path. The stone is the same, but how you use it all depends on you. Silence is the space in which one awakens, and the noisy mind is the space in which one remains asleep. It is not the distance that takes time, but the barriers, particularly those you create for yourself. Spiritual experience is an experience of no thought. A drop cannot know what an ocean is, until it dissolves ...

Osho answers the importance, meaning, symbolism and significance ringing bells in Hindu Temples. When you ring the bell of a temple – not half asleep but with alertness – that creates a discontinuity in your thoughts, a sort of break in the chain of your thoughts, and you become aware of a changed atmosphere. There is a similarity between the sound of the bell and the sound of OM; in fact there is some inner relationship. The sound of the bell continues charging the temple all the day long and the sound of OM also charges the temple with its vibrations. No one should enter the temple through that door of doors without ringing the bell, for only through the sound itself can you enter. The uniqueness of a bell is that it keeps resounding long after you ring it, so the resonance keeps sounding as you enter the main entrance. In that sound alone is the key to your entry into the temple. Through the sound, as it were, you enter into God's abode. The temple is a symbol of God...

Osho (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh or Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was one of the greatest spiritual leader and teacher of the 20th century. Osho thoughts are mostly from books, magazines, newspapers and videos. These collections of 108 thoughts are based on Osho’s views and teachings and have been collected over a period of 12 years. Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery. I am all for jokes, I am all for laughter. Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars...and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going t...

A collection of Osho Quotes and Teachings on awareness, Brahman, Ardhanariswara etc. The Quotes and Teachings of Osho are from books, speeches, newspapers and online. Nature gives everybody energy that is creative. It becomes destructive only when it is obstructed, when no natural flow is allowed. People don’t like to do easy things. Before they can do them they want to make them hard, difficult. People enjoy hard things. Why? Because when you face hard thing, your ego becomes subtle, sharp, there is a challenge. Try to make something perfect and it will remain imperfect. Do it naturally and it is always perfect.  Nature is perfect, effort is imperfect. So whenever you are doing something too much, you are destroying it.  ( Source: Creativity Unleashing the Forces Within) Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life. It is your fear that makes you a slave. A man who is fearless is n...

Osho Thoughts on Shivnetra - the third eye of Shiva. Modern physiology says that between the two eyebrows is the gland that is the most mysterious part of the body. This gland, called the pineal gland, is the Shivnetra, the eye of the Shiva, of tantra. Between the two eyes there exists a third eye, but it is non-functioning. You have to do something to open it. Otherwise, it remains closed. Close your eyes and focus both eyes on space in the middle of your eyebrows. Give total attention to it. This is one of the simplest methods of being attentive. You cannot be attentive to any other part of the body so easily. This gland absorbs attention like anything. If you give attention to it, both your eyes become hypnotised with the third eye. They become fixed; they cannot move. The third eye forces attention. It is magnetic. Your attention is brought to it forcibly. It is absorbed. It is said in ancient tantra scriptures that for the third eye, attention is food. And once you...

Quotes on death by Osho If death is ugly, that means your whole life has been a wastage. Death should be a peaceful acceptance; a loving entry into the unknown, a joyful goodbye to old friends, to the old world. There should not be any tragedy in it. The mind goes on dividing on every level of being. Wherever the mind looks, immediately it divides; division, to divide, is the nature of the mind. So we say, ‘above and below;’ we say ‘up and down;’ we say ‘this world and the other world’; we say ‘life and death; we say in and out’; ‘extroversion and introversion – but all the division are of the mind. The below is part of the above, the beginning of the above; up is nothing but the extension of down. Life and death are not two, but the same energy arising is life, the same energy dissolving is death. Our mind in are not two; the division is only mental. Purity simply means an uncontaminated state of mind, where only your consciousness is and nothing else. Nothing else really en...

The birthday of Osho falls on December 11. Some admirers are of the opinion that celebrating December 11 as the birth date of Osho is against his teachings as he never wanted to make a religion out of him, or worship him as a cult figure. These are the opinions of admirers and students of Osho but vast majority of common people still considers Osho as a mystery figure and associate him with free sex and Rolls Royce cars. Forget the skeptics, forget the students and admirers and their views on Osho’s birthday – for a true seeker what matters is his thoughts and teachings which has the power to remove the thick dust which is hiding the Supreme Truth in us. And his teachings are available 24x7 so you don’t need to wait for his birthday for it. So what did Osho think about his birthday – here is a small quote from his speech (book) - This Very Body the Buddha, Ch 1 "The Lions Roar" I was thinking what should I give to you today? Because this is my birthday, I was ...