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CURTAIN UP
Three Minutes
to Midnight
Swami Anand Kul Bhushan
We all have just three minutes before the whole
world blows up. Yes, that’s the message from
the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which moved its
iconic Doomsday Clock on 24 January 2015.
The clock now stands at three minutes to midnight,
the ‘latest’ it’s been since 1984, when the Cold War
between the U.S. and Soviet Union was a major issue.
Why has the clock been moved?
“Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear
arms race resulting from modernization of huge
arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats
to the continued existence of humanity. And world
leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the
scale required to protect citizens from potential
catastrophe,” said Kennette Benedict, director of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These failures of
leadership endanger every person on earth.”
The Bulletin executives look at global issues regularly
and decide whether to move the minute hand of the
clock, with particular stress on the status of nuclear
arms and reaction to climate issues.
In recent years, the clock has moved the wrong
direction for humanity. After standing at 17 minutes
to midnight in 1991 - the furthest it’s ever been from
the end of the world - it’s moved closer each time
it’s been changed since, with the exception of 2010,
when it was pushed back by one minute to 11:54
p.m. The last time the clock was moved was in 2012,
when it was moved up one minute to 11:55.
Now an agreement between Iran and Western
powers signed on 2 April 2015 to curb Iran’s nuclear
program has brought new hope to lower the risk
of nuclear war. Still to be approved by the US
Congress, the agreement reduced Iran will reduce
its uranium enrichment set-up by 75 per cent and
uranium stockpile from 800 tonnes to 300 kilos. This
means Iran cannot produce nuclear weapons. When
approved by US Congress, a final nuclear deal is in
sight. Good.
Hold on! USA still has 2,100 battle ready nuclear
weapons it can launch anytime. Russia has 1,600
followed by 250 for China, around 100 each with
India and Pakistan and 80, and Israel at 80. With all
these battle ready weapons, no wonder the minute
hand moved.
Osho says, “America should stop piling up nuclear
weapons. They are pointless, and so costly, so
meaningless. You already have enough to destroy
the whole world, what more do you want? America
should declare, ‘We drop the whole idea of war. We
destroy all our nuclear weapons. We drown all those
weapons in the Pacific, in the Atlantic. We’re finished
with it.”
Let’s finish them before they finish us. After all, we
just have three minutes.
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Osho’s vision of Gandhi
comes alive during my visit to Sabarmati
mA PREM SUNAINA /Prachi Kaushik
THE SPINNING-WHEEL OF LOVE AT
SABARMATI ASHRAM
What is the deep desire? Do you want to hurt the
other in the name of truth? Then your truth is
poisoned already: it is no longer religious, it is no
longer moral – it is already immoral. Drop that truth.
I tell you, even a lie is good if it is spoken out of love,
and a truth is bad it is spoken just to hurt says, the
millennium man Osho.
The sight of the River Sabarmati, Ahmedabad was
serene and stillness was blooming out of the water
keeping aside all the hustle bustle of a metro city.
Moving ahead, I grabbed a place to feel the vibe of
that irresistible silence coming from the existence and
it was such a relaxation after an examination.I am
a nature lover and in the entire Gandhi Ashram, it
was the Sabarmati’s beauty and the trees which came
as nourishment to my soul with its unexplainable
tranquility.
The day was pleasant and I was busy exploring
the artwork in picture gallery and took a glance of
Gandhi’s spinning wheel; the only level of a technology
that he accepted. The irony here is that Gandhi is
known as a simpleton man and technology makes
things simpler. On this Osho very well quotes “He was
against the education that is available in the schools,
colleges and the universities, against things so simple
and so essential that you will not be able to believe
it — that in the twentieth century a man can be
against the telephone. Beyond that spinning wheel, all
technology was evil, all science was evil; so why send
your children to learn the devilish ways of science,
technology, logic, philosophy, and destroy their faith,
their belief in God?”
Undoubtedly Gandhi was an incredible politician
according to Osho, who belongs to the Indian mob as
he followed the mob and in politics the leader is a voice
of the common man and indeed he was intelligent
enough to analyze Indians .
Also, I found a deep connectivity in one of Gandhi’s
quotation in the huge lawn decorated with his sayings
and messages to the people. He talks in a psychological
sense about the minds and hearts of people in the
world and calls them people with same flow of
emotionsand feelings who either become one via riots
or dance and celebration. But the world vibrates with
the intensity of their emotions, laughter and feelings.
This quotation reveals to me that somewhere he has a
good knowledge about people but the mere knowledge
of the recipe and in cooking the delicacy is a different
thing.
Osho’s insights set a ground where self consciousness
holds the key towards life further beginning a deep
search within for all the questions. Here, the deciding
factor is your own awareness and not any superficial
realizations. I feel when Love dissolves in life from all
the shores and when you let it rule you then everything
already becomes non-violent leaving no traces to hurt,
to dismiss anybody or anything. I had a beautiful time
at Sabarmati Ashram which though entails story of a
Mahatma, only divine love and bliss went straight to
my heart and I celebrated with this new revelation.

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Buddha
STORY
you are all buddhas
When ego disappeared
Nobody is born otherwise - osho
We celebrate it as Buddha Purnima the full moon night this month when Buddha was born,
got enlightened and left his body. Osho explains the significance of his enlightenment and
his compassion when he left his body. More than 2,500 years after the Buddha trod this
earth, we have not really known him as Osho brings new insights in understanding this
enlightened master.
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The Buddha made a supreme vow not
to rise from meditation until attaining
enlightenment. for three days and nights he had
visions and hallucinations, including ones of hell,
demons, etcetera. what kind of effort is this?
When Buddha made that vow he was not
a buddha; he was as ignorant as you are. In
ignorance, whatever he has done, please forgive
him. Don’t take much note of it. In ignorance
everybody goes on doing foolish things. That
vow is stupid.
Truth is not something that you can force by
your willpower. Taking a vow that “I will not rise
from meditation until attaining enlightenment”
shows violence and ignorance. But Buddha was
not Buddha at that time, he was Siddhartha
Gautama – stumbling, groping in the darkness
as everybody else gropes. He was not in any
way different from you. He had himself yet not
learned the art of being in the middle; he was an
extremist. This is extremism.
For six years he tried hard and failed. That
perseverance did not yield any result; it cannot.
That’s why when he became a buddha he was
very much against a concerted effort, he was very
much against extremes.
He had lived through all kinds of extremes:
he had lived like an ascetic, tortured himself.
For six years he suffered as much as a human
being can suffer – but truth cannot be bought
by your suffering. It is not a commodity and it
is not possible to attain it just by sheer force of
willpower. You can sit for three days or three
lives under a tree, and you won’t attain it. He
didn’t attain it, remember. What he attained was
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hallucinations, visions of hell, demons, etc.
That was his punishment, so beware of it.
How he became enlightened is a totally different
story. After three days, when he was tired, utterly
tired of his effort, and he saw the frustration,
the failure... those six years’ continuous torturing
himself, and no gain, no success.
He had not moved even an inch nearer to truth;
he was still where he had started. Only one thing
had happened: he had become weaker because
he had been fasting. He had become ugly; he had
become just bones, all flesh had disappeared. He
enlightenment is not a success.
Enlightenment happens only
when you have totally failed.
Enlightenment is born out of total
failure – because if you succeed, the
ego remains. When the failure is total,
absolute, irrevocable, categorical,
when there is no going back, the
ego disappears
had become just a skeleton. He looked like he
had come out of a grave. No gain, no success... all
efforts had failed.
Then one evening he saw the futility of the
human effort. He saw the futility of human ego
– because all efforts are egoistic: “I will attain.”
The ‘I’ is always behind all your achievements,
desires of achievement.
The ‘I’ is very ambitious and pronounced: it
wants to be successful in this world, it wants to
be successful in the other world. It wants to have
money, it wants to have God too. It wants to
have power; it wants to have liberation, moksha,
truth, nirvana. It wants to have everything.
Buddha saw it and in that seeing he dropped the
mad effort and he dropped the very source of
ambition. It was a fullmoon night. He laughed
at himself, at the whole stupidity of six years.
He relaxed, he sat under a tree. For the first
time after six years, just sitting not to achieve
anything, just sitting, not meditating. Hence in
Zen, meditation is called Zazen. Zazen means
just sitting doing nothing, the spring comes and
the grass grows by itself. That evening he sat
there under the tree with no desire, because all
desires had failed. The worldly desires had failed,
the otherworldly desires had failed.
You will be surprised to know: enlightenment is
not a success. Enlightenment happens only when
you have totally failed. Enlightenment is born
out of total failure – because if you succeed, the
ego remains. When the failure is total, absolute,
irrevocable, categorical, when there is no going
back, the ego disappears. Ego lives, feeds on
success; it cannot live in failure. It deserts you.
That evening the ego disappeared. The full
moon rose. He watched the full moon, he
enjoyed the full moon. For six years he had not
seen the moon at all, he was so preoccupied with
his own spiritual attainment. The night was cool
and beautiful. The forest was silent, and just by
the side the river Niranjana flowed. He enjoyed
the reflection of the moon in the Niranjana.
He enjoyed the silence. Then he fell asleep. He
slept without any dreams, because all dreams are
by-products of desires. In the morning when it
was dawn and the birds started singing he was
awakened by their songs. Lying under the tree,
nowhere to go, nothing to do, he watched the
sun rise above the horizon; the east becoming
red and a beautiful morning and the cool
breeze.... And something happened, something
clicked. He became enlightened – not out of six
years’ effort but only one night’s effortlessness.
Not out of six years’ constant striving of the ego,
but only one night’s state of no ego, no desire.
And in the morning he was enlightened.
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Then again he laughed. He laughed because he
saw that he was always enlightened but could
not see the fact, the truth of it, because he was
so concerned with attaining it. If you are so
concerned with attaining it you will not be able
to see that it is already the case.
You are all Buddhas. Nobody is born otherwise,
everybody is born a Buddha. It is not a question
of achieving, remember it: Buddhahood,
enlightenment, is not a question of attainment.
It is a question of becoming silent, still, egoless,
desireless, so that you can see with unclouded
eyes who you are. You are a Buddha already, you
are enlightened.
He laughed at night because his whole life had
failed; it was ridiculous. In the morning he
laughed because he was searching for something
that was already inside his soul; there was no
need to seek and search for it. In fact, seeking
and searching kept him away from it.
Seek, and you will not find; seek not and it is
yours.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha,
Vol 9
Chapter #2
WHEN BUDDHA DROPPED
HIS LAST DESIRE
Buddha got enlightened in a very strange way.
The day the teacher said, “You have to move on. I
am only a teacher, not a master. I was pretending
and I am very sorry!” he was too tired. Just bones
remained, and he was sitting under a bodhi
tree in Bodhgaya. The name Bodhgaya comes
from Gautam Buddha’s becoming enlightened
there; bodh means enlightenment. Just because
of Buddha the great city came into existence,
because thousands of people wanted to live there,
meditate under the same tree where Buddha
had meditated, tried to do the same walking
meditation by the side of the temple that one
king had raised behind the tree as a memorial to
Gautam Buddha’s enlightenment.
Buddha was taking a bath by a nearby river,
Niranjana. It is a very small river; in the summer
it shrinks so small that you can walk across it,
it is not even one foot deep. And he was taking
a bath, but he was so weak that even that small
You are all buddhas. Nobody is
born otherwise, everybody is born
a buddha. It is not a question of
achieving, remember it: buddhahood,
enlightenment, is not a question
of attainment. It is a question
of becoming silent, still, egoless,
desireless, so that you can see with
unclouded eyes who you are
current he could not cross. He had to hang onto
a branch of a tree for a few moments to gather
some energy so that he could get out of the river.
That experience made it clear to him that just
by fasting you can kill yourself, but you cannot
attain enlightenment. This is a good gradual
process of suicide, but it is not a process of
samadhi.
“If I cannot pass this small stream, what about
the mythological river, a vast river, that divides
this world from the other heavenly world? If I
cannot cross Niranjana, a small river, what are
the possibilities for me? I will not be able to cross
that vast river that divides these two worlds. It
is almost like an ocean.” It is mythology, but in
his mind at that time – up to that time – there
was only mythology, philosophy; he was not yet
enlightened. But hanging onto the branch or

Just after enlightenment
the root of the tree, he thought that “I have been
wasting my time.”
He came out. It was a full moon night, and he
was so weak that he could not go into the town
that day to beg, so he remained under the tree.
But by chance one woman, Sujata – her name,
Sujata means well born or born in an upperclass
society. I have discussed with Buddhist scholars
that her name simply shows that she was born
in a lowcaste society. You can see it: in India the
blind man is called kamalnayan, lotus-eyes. If
you have eyes, nobody will call you lotus-eyes;
that is reserved for the blind man – not to insult
him. Sujata cannot be an upperclass woman,
otherwise she would not have that name.
That name suggests that she comes from the
lowest Sudra caste, the untouchables. As a
consolation they give good names.
In India, when somebody dies, they say he has
become beloved of God. And what are we all
doing here? Only the dead become beloved of
God. God seems to be a kind of cannibal! The
more people die, the happier God is of course –
more beloveds are coming.
When the corpse of a dead man is taken from his
home to the funeral pyre it is called mahayatra,
the great journey. It is not more than one or
two miles, it is not much of a great journey. The
poor fellow has died, but reading about it you
may think he has gone on a great journey. Just to
hide the truth, man has always been clever with
words.
This woman Sujata, according to me, is a
Harijan, and only Harijans would come to such
a poor place near the Niranjana river. She had
been worshipping the tree, and only the lower
classes worship the trees, not the richer. She
had promised the tree that if a boy was born to
her, she would bring for the tree many sweets,
many flowers. And this was a coincidence, just a
mere coincidence, that on the full moon night a
beautiful young man was sitting under the tree.
She thought, “The god of the tree has come out
to receive the sweets!” She was immensely happy,
because it rarely happens that the god of the
tree comes out, and she offered Buddha all the
sweets.
This way, after three months he had a right
breakfast; otherwise, living on smaller and
smaller quantities... and yesterday he had eaten
only one grain of rice. Sujata was very happy.
The son had been born and the god of the tree
had accepted. After he finished eating, Buddha
dropped for the first time.... Six years before he
had dropped the kingdom and all the material
things of the world, all possessions. He had
carried only one longing – for the truth. This
night, with the full moon in the sky, he dropped
that longing too, because that longing had
become his desire, and whenever there is even
a small desire, the mind continues. It does not
matter whether you desire money or God, it
does not matter whether you desire power or
enlightenment; desire is desire, and with desire
the mind remains alive.
That night he gave up the last desire. Six years
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he had taken all kinds of torture upon himself. It
was enough! And he slept for the first time after
six years, utterly relaxed – no desire, no longing,
no future, no hope – he simply slept without
any mind, no dreams. All were shattered. He
was finished. “There is no truth and there is
no world. It is all nonsense and I have simply
spoiled myself.”
That night he slept without a mind, and a sleep
without a mind is very close to samadhi. That’s
how Patanjali defines it: there is our ordinary
waking state, below it is our dreaming state,
below that is our dreamless sleep, and below that
is our enlightenment, our absolute awakening.
The whole night he slept in a dreamless sleep.
That created the opportunity. Just one inch
more, a aslight push more... As he opened his
eyes – for the first time without any desire
– the last star was setting, and with the last
star setting, he suddenly became aware, so full
of awareness.... The sun rose outside and the
sun also rose inside. From dreamless sleep he
had fallen to the fourth state of awakening, of
Buddhahood. This Buddhahood was attained
when he had dropped even the desire to be a
buddha. The mind has to be absolutely empty.
And the master’s function is to help you on
the way of emptiness, because emptiness is the
opportunity for fulfilment.
Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky
Chapter #5
BEFORE BUDDHA LEFT
THIS WORLD
A very beautiful story is told about Gautam
Buddha. He informed his disciples that on a
particular day, the coming full moon night, he
was going to die. As the full moon disappeared,
he would also disappear.
It is a rare coincidence that Gautam Buddha
was born on a full moon night, he became
enlightened on a full moon night, and he died
on a full moon night. Thousands of his disciples
rushed from all over the place just to see him for
the last time. There was great sadness, but people
held back their tears, not to make his departure
difficult. And Buddha asked, “If you have any
questions – because tomorrow I will not be here
– if in your heart there is some question which
you have still not exposed, just ask me. Before
I leave, I want all my disciples to be completely
alert, without any questions. I want my disciples
to become answers, not questions.” Nobody said
anything. Only Ananda said, “You have answered
us for forty-two years continually, day in, day out
– we don’t have any questions. We have come
just to be near you when you dissolve into the
universal consciousness.
“We have heard from the ancient days, that
whenever an enlightened man dies, as he leaves
his body, his consciousness spreads all over the
universe. We want to be close to you just to
have a taste of your consciousness.” And at that
moment Buddha said, “Fine, then I say goodbye
to you. I will die in four steps. First I will leave
my body; then I will leave my mind; then I will
leave my heart; and in the fourth, the turiya, I
will dissolve into the ocean of existence.”
He closed his eyes, and just that very moment
a man came running and he said, “I have to
ask something. For thirty years I have been
postponing it. Buddha has come to my town
many times in these thirty years, and I have
always thought that this time I am going to
see him and ask my question. But something
or other... and I kept postponing. Just human
stupidity – a guest has come, I was engaged with
customers, there was a marriage ceremony I had
to participate in.
So I went on postponing, thinking that there is
no hurry, that when he comes next time, then
I will ask. But sometimes my wife was sick,
sometimes I was sick... and these thirty years

have passed. Just now I heard that Buddha is
dying. Now I cannot postpone. No reason can
prevent me.”
But Ananda said, “You have come somewhat
late. He has begun his inner journey; he has
already moved two steps: we can see his body has
become utterly silent, and as far as dropping the
mind... it is just an empty mind, he must have
dropped it.
It may take a while for him to drop the
heart, because it was the heart that he used
continuously to radiate his love, his joy, his
silence. It is not right to disturb him at this
moment. Forty-two years he has been speaking;
now it is your fault if in thirty years you could
not find the time – it is your question.”
But Buddha returned. His breathing, which had
disappeared, resumed again, his heart started
beating again. He opened his eyes and he said,
“Ananda, do you want it to be remembered by
the coming generations that Buddha’s love was
so small that he could not come two steps back
when a thirsty man had come? And I am still
alive – I would be blamed forever. Don’t prevent
him, let him ask his question.” The man saw
Buddha for the first time, and in a very strange
situation: thousands of people were sitting
silently, their eyes full of tears. And Buddha
was almost half dead: he had taken two steps
inwards; just two more steps and he would
become part of the oceanic consciousness. But
a man who is love even in such a situation will
radiate love. Ananda and all the disciples could
not believe that for an ordinary man, who is not
even a disciple, who has postponed for thirty
years.... But Buddha’s love and his compassion
are infinite – he asked the man... but the man
was so overwhelmed by the situation, he forgot
his question. He said, “I am fulfilled enough. Just
your love has answered all my questions. You
were half-dead and still you came back just to
answer an ordinary man who has avoided you
for thirty years, always finding different excuses.”
He touched Buddha’s feet and said, “Let me be
your last disciple; initiate me. I had come to ask
a question, but now there is no question – before
your love, all questions disappear. And I don’t
want to miss this opportunity to be initiated by
you.”
Buddha initiated the man. And he asked again,
“Is there anyone still holding some question?
Because it will be very difficult for me... if I pass
the third stage, if I have left the heart and moved
into pure consciousness, the fourth state, it will
be difficult for me – even if I want to return. So
please, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate
– ask them.” They said, “We feel already very
sad and sorry because this man unnecessarily
disturbed you. This is not a moment to disturb
you, this is a moment to be silent – so silent
that when you dissolve your consciousness,
something of it becomes part of us, too.” He said
goodbye again and entered into the fourth state.
The story is very symbolic.... Up to this point
it is absolutely historical. But in the East it is a
tradition that what cannot be said in ordinary
ways, can be related in parables, in stories. The
story is:
As Buddha died, the trees that were dying, the
trees whose leaves had become pale, suddenly
became green; out of season, bushes, plants and
trees burst into flower. There was a tremendous
impact from his death – people who had been
with him for decades and had not become
enlightened, became enlightened in that
moment. Just as he dropped the body and his
consciousness became unimprisoned, it spread
all over. Whoever was receptive, according to his
receptivity, he was fulfilled. Even the trees were
not unaware. When he was dying the birds were
silent, and when he died they started singing
their songs of joy. Whenever an enlightened
man dies, the whole world feels a rain of love, of
consciousness, of blissfulness, of peace.
The Rebellious Spirit
Chapter #26
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7. Just live & laugh..No matter who is laughing
-Sumit Sharma, Pathankot, Punjab
8. United in vision!! The Right The Left!
-Robinson Lakra, Vadodara, Gujarat

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Tobacco
STORY
The fatal weed
REAL KILLER: TOBACCO
The recent controversy that tobacco is not injurious to health has upset all studies to the
contrary and shocked the public as governments crack down on tobacco smoking. On
World No Tobacco Day, 31 May, Osho points out some unknown aspects of this weed.
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World No-Tobacco Day: 31 May
Public health activists were eagerly awaiting
the implementation of new health warnings
on cigarette packs that were to come into
force from, April 1. Instead, on the eve of their
implementation, the Indian government announced
that the amendments to the Cigarettes and Other
Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules,
2008, which sought to increase the size of health
warnings from the current 40% to 85% of the
packets’ surface area would be kept “in abeyance”.
The reason given was that there was no Indian
study to confirm that the use of tobacco products
leads to cancer and that this was in the interests of
bidi workers in the tobacco industry.
The enhanced labelling requirements have been
adopted by a number of countries such as Nepal
(where the ‘warning coverage’ is of 90% of
the display area on packs), Thailand (85%) and
Australia (82.5%). These amendments were passed
following the recommendations from an expert
group constituted by the Union Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare and were based on evidence
that larger warnings, with a mixture of pictures
and words, served as a stronger deterrent to
tobacco use.
There are, indeed, numerous studies including
those commissioned by the government of India’s
Health Ministry that show a link between tobacco
use and various diseases, including cancer of the
lungs and mouth. The tobacco industry’s influence
on scientific research as well as government
regulation and policy is an important part of the
tobacco story.
(The Economic Times)
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CAN’T TOLERATE
TOBACCO SMELL – OSHO
You don’t have to transcend anything. You
have to live everything that is natural to you,
and live it fully, without any inhibition –
joyously, aesthetically. Just by living it deeply, a
transcendence will come.
You are not to transcend anything. Remember
my words. A transcendence will come by itself,
and when it appears by itself it is such a release
and such a freedom.
If you try to transcend, you are going to repress,
and repression is the sole reason why people
cannot transcend; so you get into a vicious
circle. You want to transcend, so you repress,
and because you repress you cannot transcend,
so you repress more. As you repress more, you
become more incapable of transcendence.
Live it out fully, without any condemnation,
without any religion interfering with your life.
Live it out naturally, intensely, totally – and a
transcendence comes. It is not your doing, it is a
happening. And when it comes by itself, there is
no repression, there is no antagonism.
You are above all those things that you wanted
to transcend – for example, sex. But a real
transcendence does not mean that you cannot
make love. Of course your love will have a
totally different quality. It will not be sexual,
it will not be a biological urge, it will not be
animalistic; it will be simply a play between two
human energies.
If transcendence comes by itself, then many
things, more or less, disappear. But anything
that disappears – you are not against it. You
can still enjoy it. For example, in a state of
transcendence you are not a food addict, but
that does not mean that you cannot enjoy, once
in a while, going to a Chinese restaurant.
Transcendence makes you free; it does not give
you a new bondage: first you were so addicted
that you had to go, now you are so addicted
that you cannot go. Transcendence means that
now all this addiction is gone – you can go, you
may not go. You are neither against nor for.
You may be smoking. Transcendence does not
mean that once in a while with friends you
cannot smoke a cigarette. I don’t think that
a cigarette, once in a while, will destroy your
spirituality. And if it destroys it, then that
spirituality is not worthwhile.
I cannot smoke – not because of transcendence
but because of my breathing disorder. I have
no antagonism against poor cigarettes; it is
just the smell of tobacco I cannot tolerate, the
smoke I cannot inhale. But that is a problem
with my body; it is my allergy. But when I see
somebody smoking I don’t feel that this man is
condemned forever, is going to fall into hellfire.
No condemnation arises in me, because what
he is doing is simply playing a game. Being
alone, finding nothing else to do and being
told continually by his parents and the society
that it is better to do something rather than
nothing... so the poor man is doing something
rather than nothing. He is at least smoking.
Transcendence is a very childlike state.
My grandfather used to smoke cigars and
cheroots, and he would send me to get his cigar
and lighter. And rather than bringing both, I
would take the cigar in my mouth, light it and
bring it to him. He said, “This is not right.
I had asked you to bring the cigar and the
lighter.”
I said, “When I can bring one, which does the
work for both... I am not stupid.”
He said, “That I know. But remember, don’t
learn this habit.”
I said, “Don’t be worried. Seeing you cough
continually the whole night, it is enough. I don’t
have to go through the experience to learn it. I
learn from others’ experience too.”
His doctors keep warning to him, “Drop these

transcendence comes out of your experience. You see the futility of
something and the addiction drops. Then once in a while, just for a change,
if you want to smoke I don’t see any harm; if you want to make love I don’t
see any harm. The harm is in the addiction – the harm is not in the act. And
transcendence is not concerned with the act; transcendence is concerned
with the addiction
cigars.” But it was impossible for him... a whole
life’s addiction. He was prepared to suffer – to
cough and not to sleep well. I said, “Seeing you
is enough prevention for me, and just one puff
that I take when I light your cigar brings tears
to my eyes. It is enough just to experience what
kind of enjoyment you must have.”
The people you know as saints are not
childlike. They are addicted as much as others;
their addictions have just become reversed.
Somebody is addicted to sex – they are
addicted to no-sex. Somebody is addicted to
smoking – they are addicted to no-smoking.
Transcendence is a state of no-addiction... just
a childlike playfulness. There is no sin in sex.
Just living it intensely, by and by you transcend,
just the way you transcend playing tennis. One
day you discard the whole thing, “Enough is
enough!” You transcend football, you transcend
all kinds of things, and nobody calls you a saint.
To me transcendence comes out of your
experience. You see the futility of something
and the addiction drops. Then once in a while,
just for a change, if you want to smoke I don’t
see any harm; if you want to make love I don’t
see any harm. The harm is in the addiction –
the harm is not in the act. And transcendence
is not concerned with the act; transcendence
is concerned with the addiction. And to be
completely unaddicted gives one an immense
freedom and satisfaction.
Beyond Psychology
Chapter #25
SMOKE OUT TENSION
NOT WITH TOBACCO
I say change your being and then things will
start changing.
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are
tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are
released through it – you feel relaxed, you can
go to sleep; if you repress it, you remain tense.
And if you repress sex – the only release, the
only possibility of release – what will happen?
You will go mad. Where will you release your
tensions then?
You eat food; it is needed by the body, and the
body rejects only things which are not needed.
Whatever you eat is somehow needed by the
body. If you consume animal food, if you have
non-vegetarian food, your mind, your body,
your whole being is violent. And it is needed.
don’t change it otherwise your violence will
have to find another channel.
Change yourself and food will change, clothes
will change, sex will change. But change should
come from the innermost core, it should not
come from the periphery. And all turmoil is on
the periphery; deep down there is no turmoil.
You are just like the sea – go and watch the sea.
All the turmoil, all the waves clashing, is just
on the surface; deep, the deeper you go, there is
more and more calm. At the deepest part in the
sea there is no turmoil, not a single wave.
First go deeper into your sea so you achieve a
calm crystallisation, so you achieve the point
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substitute for the mother’s breast, and food is
relaxing. You cannot go to sleep on a hungry
stomach, it is difficult to get sleep. When the
stomach is full you feel sleepy, the body needs
rest. So whenever the child takes the breast
in his mouth, food is flowing, warmth, love.
He is relaxed, he need not worry; tensions are
relaxed. The thumb is just a substitute for the
breast; it is not giving milk, it is a false thing,
but still it gives the feeling.
where no disturbance ever reaches. Stand
there. From there every change comes, every
transformation occurs. Once you are there
you have become a master; Now whatever
is unnecessary can be dropped, and can be
dropped without any struggle and fight.
Whenever you drop something after a fight,
it is never dropped. You can drop smoking
by fighting, and then you will start doing
something else which will become a substitute.
You may start chewing gum, it is the same;
You may start chewing paan, it is the same,
there is no difference. You need something
to do with your mouth – smoking, chewing,
anything. When your mouth keeps working,
you feel at ease because through the mouth
tensions are released. So whenever a man
feels tense he starts smoking. Why is it that
through smoking or chewing gum or tobacco
tensions are released? Just look at a small child.
Whenever he feels tense he will put his hand
in his mouth, he will start chewing his own
hand. This is his substitute for smoking. And
why does he feel good when his thumb is in his
mouth? Why does the child feel good and go
to sleep? This is the way of almost all children.
Whenever they feel sleep is not coming they
put the thumb inside the mouth, feel at ease,
and fall asleep. Why? The thumb becomes a
When this child grows, if he takes his thumb
in public you will think he is foolish, so he
takes a cigarette. A cigarette is not foolish,
it is accepted. It is just the thumb, and more
harmful than the thumb. It is better if you
smoke your thumb, go on smoking to your
grave; it is not harmful, it is better. No harm
is done but then people think you are childish,
juvenile, then people think what you are doing
is stupid. But there is a need so it has to be
substituted.
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped,
more smoking will automatically be there.
That’s why the West smokes more than the
East – because no mother is ready to give her
breast to the child because the shape is lost. So
in the West smoking is increasing more and
more; even small children are smoking.
I have heard that one mother said to her child,
“I don’t want neighbours to tell me that you
have started smoking. Be truthful and whenever
you start smoking, tell me.” The child said,
“Don’t bother Mother, I have already stopped.
It is one year now, that I have stopped smoking.
It is one year now so don’t you bother, don’t you
get worried about it.”
Small children smoking, and the mother is not
aware that it is because the breast has been
taken away. In all primitive communities a
seven-year-old child, or even an eight or nineyear-old
child, will continue breast-feeding.
Then there is a satisfaction and smoking will

The problem is that you are tense, so the goal should be how to be non-tense,
smoking or not smoking. Meditate. Relax your tensions without any object
into the sky, allow catharsis to happen. When you are non-tense these things
will become absurd, foolish, and they will drop. Food will change, your
lifestyle will change
not be so necessary. That’s why in primitive
communities men are not so interested in
women’s breasts; there is no problem that
somebody will attack them. Nobody looks at
the breasts. If you had been given the breast
for ten years continuously, you would get fed
up and bored, you would say, “Stop now!”
But every child has been taken away from the
breast prematurely, and that remains a wound.
So all civilised countries are obsessed with
breasts. Even an old man, dying, is obsessed
with breasts, goes on searching for breasts. This
seems mad, and it is, but the basic cause is there
– children should be given the breast otherwise
they will become addicted to it, their whole
life they will be in search of it. You cannot stop
smoking directly because it has many related
things, implications. You are tense, and if you
stop smoking you will start something else and
the alternative may be more harmful. Don’t go
on escaping problems, face them. The problem
is that you are tense, so the goal should be how
to be non-tense, smoking or not smoking.
Meditate. Relax your tensions without any
object into the sky, allow catharsis to happen.
When you are non-tense these things will
become absurd, foolish, and they will drop.
Food will change, your lifestyle will change. But
my insistence is on you.
Character is secondary, behaviour is secondary,
the essential you is the primary thing. Don’t pay
too much attention to what you do, pay more
attention to what you are; being should become
the focus, and doing should be left to itself.
When being changes, doing follows.
START MEDITATING TO
STOP SMOKING
A Bird on the Wing
Chapter #6
Just the other day, because I told Hasya not
to unnecessarily struggle with dropping
cigarettes – her entire life she has been
smoking – many others who had already
dropped, they immediately jumped! And many
who had never smoked, they started smoking,
perhaps thinking that this is a device towards
Buddhahood. You are all Buddhas, but don’t be
idiot Buddhas.
Today the whole place is full of tobacco smell.
I don’t want this place to be filled with tobacco
smell. It has been so clean, and if you, many
of you start smoking, you will bring the smell
here. So those who have never smoked, simply
stop. Those who have stopped and already were
out of the withdrawal symptoms, should not
start again. It was specially meant for Hasya
and Chitten, who have been going through
withdrawal symptoms. When I entered
yesterday and looked at Chitten, he was looking
so sad, so dead. I wondered what was the
matter, because I was not aware that he was
also following Hasya. And when I said that
Hasya can smoke, and there is no need to be
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worried... What does it matter if you live two
years longer, or two years less? You will never
know the difference. Nobody will know the
difference, that Hasya lived two years less.
So except Chitten and Hasya, everybody has to
come back. Use your own intelligence.
When I told Hasya to smoke, Chitten had a
great smile on his face. I wondered what was
happening to him, because Hasya’s withdrawal
symptoms cannot affect Chitten. Later on I
got to know that he was on the same trip. Just
hearing that he is free to smoke was enough
to bring a great smile to him – he has not
smoked yet, but all the withdrawal symptoms
disappeared! Don’t be unnecessarily stupid. If
necessary, it is fine, but unnecessarily stupid,
that is too much!
And remember, I should never smell tobacco
in Buddha Hall. Even Hasya and Chitten,
they can smoke wherever they want, but before
coming to Buddha Hall they will change their
clothes, take a shower and wash their mouths.
The cigarette is not a device for Buddhahood. It
is simply a kindness, not to unnecessarily harass
you, but it is not for others to follow. They
are already good, there is no need for them to
start smoking. It is poison, it is destructive. It
cannot destroy your Buddhahood, but it shows
your unintelligent habits. But if they have been
formed a long time ago – for years – it will
take too much time to give up bad habits. I will
allow you to become a Buddha smoking, but
this is not the rule, this is only the exception.
Still you will look foolish, when you become a
Buddha with your cigarettes. You yourself will
think, “What am I doing? Being a Buddha...”
One man used to come to me about thirty years
ago. He wanted somehow to drop his smoking
habit. I said, “It is not difficult, it is simply a
question of determination, slight willpower.
What the cigarette is giving to you – a certain
poison, nicotine – that keeps you feeling a
certain well-being for a few minutes, meditation
can do for twenty-four hours without any
nicotine.” He started meditating, he dropped
the cigarettes – not with force. They dropped
on their own as his meditation became deeper.
Before you start smoking a cigarette, remember:
it is going to create unhealthiness in you,
in your lungs, and a shorter life. And most
importantly, it takes away your drive, your
urgency towards meditation. You relax with
your cigarette, then what is the need of the rest
that Hyakujo talks about. The nicotine gives
some restfulness. There is no need for any
meditation – just more and more cigarettes.
I am not a man who is dogmatic in any way,
but I will not put you in any discomfort. If you
become sad and dull, and you start losing your
zest for life, then it is fine, continue with the
cigarettes. But remember, the responsibility is
now greater on you to get into meditation. Only
if in meditation you can get a deeper rest than
nicotine can give you, will dropping cigarettes
be easy. But two fools are in trouble. Why are
other idiots, who are almost out of the trouble,
immediately jump into it? Before withdrawal
symptoms, you withdraw from the cigarettes.
So anybody who has started, stop immediately.
And anybody who has already stopped before,
and has overcome the withdrawal symptoms,
should not start again.
Always interpret whatever I say as my
compassion and my love. I don’t want you to be
in unnecessarily uncomfortable states. So if I
make somebody an exception, it does not mean
I am making a rule for everybody.
At least in Buddha Hall air, no smoke smell
should be here. This you should take as a
warning. If I smell the smell again tomorrow, I
will immediately go back.
Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen,
with Basho’s Haikus
Chapter #5

LEAD STORY
Ma Amrit Saraswati
RARE EVENT
MASTER INITIATES HIS MOTHER
Mataji, Osho’s Mother
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Osho’s mother, lovingly called, Mataji, became his disciple after her
consistent meditation and devotion.
A rare occurrence when the son becomes the guru of his own mother is given here in the
words of Mataji that provides a unique opening for all meditators.
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Amrit Saraswati, mother of Osho left
Ma her body on 17 th May. Lovingly called
Mataji, she was initiated into sannyas by Osho,
a rare event when a mother becomes a disciple
of her own son.
17 th May is celebrated as the Mahaparinirvana
day of Mataji.
During an interview, Mataji shared:
“Bhagwan never gave any hint to the members
of the family for them to take sannyas, so for
each of us it has been a spontaneous event,
born purely from our soul; it is difficult for me
to narrate that experience, because although
I know what happened to me, I will never be
capable of describing it, not even now.”
“I can say only that in that moment, when he
placed the mala around my neck and bowed to
my feet, I had the clear sensation that he was
no longer my son but only my Master. Our
primogenital relationship had ended, and now
another relationship was taking place, the one
between disciple and Master. He blessed me
in that moment, and lifted my hand so that I
could bless him too, and then it was all over; it
was a sort of farewell between son and mother,
and from now on another story was starting.”
It is a strange phenomenon. Very rarely does
it happen that a mother comes to become a
disciple of her own son.
Osho says “When my mother came to be
initiated by me, I touched her feet because she

proved to be a rare mother. To bow down to
your own son is really arduous and hard. It
is almost impossible to touch the feet of your
own son – it needs great courage. It needs great
risk to drop all your ego. I touched her feet
not because she is my mother, I touched her
feet because she dared! It is rare, happens only
once in a while. And I touched her feet also for
another thing: because after that she would
not be my mother and I would not be her son.
The account has to be closed as beautifully as
possible.”
A MIRACLE IN WOMB
My mother was just telling me yesterday... that
when I was five months old in her womb, a
miracle happened.
She was going from my father’s house to her
father’s house; and it was the rainy season. It
is customary in India for the first child to be
born at the maternal father’s home, so although
it was the rainy season and very difficult - no
roads, and she had to go on a horse - the sooner
she went, the better; if she waited longer then it
would have become more difficult, so she went
with one of her cousin-brothers.
In the middle of the journey was a big river, the
Narmada. It was in flood. When they reached
the boat, the boatman saw that my mother was
pregnant, and he asked my mother’s cousinbrother,
“What is your relationship?”
He was not aware that he would get into
trouble so he simply said, “We are brother and
sister.”
The boatman refused; he said, “I cannot take
you because your sister is pregnant - that means
you are not two, you are three.”
In India, this is a custom, an old custom -
perhaps it started in the days of Krishna - that
one should not travel on water, particularly in
a boat, with one’s sister’s son. There is a danger
of the boat sinking. The boatman said, “What
guarantee is there that the child in your sister’s
womb is a girl and not a boy? If he is a boy I
don’t want to take the risk - because it is not a
question only of my life, sixty other people are
going in the boat. Either you can come or your
sister can come; both I won’t take.”
On both sides there were hills and jungle, and
the boat used to go only one time a day. In the
morning it would go - and the river is really
vast at that point - and then it would return
by the evening. The next morning it would go
again, the same boat. So either my mother had
to remain on this side, which was dangerous,
or go on that side, which was just as dangerous.
So for three days they continued to ask him,
beg him, saying that she was pregnant and he
should be kind.
He said, “I can’t help it - this is not done. If
you can give me a guarantee that it is not a boy
then I can take you; but how can you give me a
guarantee?”
So for three days they had to stay in a temple
there. In that temple lived a saint, very famous
in those days in that area. Now, around that
temple there has arisen a city in the memory
of that saint, Saikheda. Saikheda means “the
village of the saint.” Sai means the saint; he was
known as Sai Baba. It is not the same Sai Baba
who became world-famous - Sai Baba of Shirdi
- but they were contemporaries.
Sai Baba of Shirdi became world-famous
because of the simple coincidence that Shirdi is
near Bombay, and all the celebrities and the rich
people of Bombay started going to Sai Baba
of Shirdi. And the richer you are, the more
famous you are, the more successful you are, the
more you are in need of something to give you
fulfilment, because all your success, your riches,
your fame has brought you nothing. These are
the emptiest people in the world, the hollowest.
And because of Bombay being a world center,

soon Sai Baba of Shirdi’s name started reaching
outside India, and so many miracles were
created around him.
The same was the situation with this Sai Baba
who lived in that temple. Finally my mother
had to ask Sai Baba, “Can you do something?
For three days we have been here. I am
pregnant and my brother has told the boatman
that he is my brother, and he won’t take us in
the boat. Now, unless you do something, say
something to that boatman, we are in a fix.
What to do? My brother cannot leave me here
alone; I cannot go alone to the other side. On
both sides are wild jungles and forests, and for
at least twenty-four hours I will have to wait
alone.”
I never met Sai Baba, but in a way I did meet
him; I was five months old. He just touched my
mother’s belly. My mother said, “What are your
doing?”
He said, “I am touching the feet of your child.”
The boatman saw this and said, “What are you
doing, Baba? You have never touched anybody’s
feet.”
And Baba said, “This is not anybody; and you
are a fool - you should take them to the other
side. Don’t be worried. The soul that is within
this womb is capable of saving thousands of
people, so don’t be worried about your sixty
people - take her.”
So my mother said, “At that time I became
aware that I was carrying someone special.”
I said, “As far as I understand, Sai Baba was
a wise man: he really befooled the boatman!
There is no miracle, there is nothing. And boats
don’t sink just because somebody is traveling
with their sister’s son. There is no rationality
in the idea, it is just absurd. Perhaps sometime
accidentally it may have happened and then it
became a routine idea.”
My own understanding is that because in
Krishna’s life his mother’s brother was told by
the astrologers that “one of your sister’s children
will kill you,” he kept his sister and his brotherin-law
in prison. She gave birth to seven
children, seven boys, and he killed them all.
The eighth was Krishna, and of course when
God Himself was born, the locks of the prison
opened up, and the guards fell fast asleep, and
Krishna’s father took him out.
The river Yamuna was the boundary of Kansa’s
kingdom. Kansa was the person who was
killing his sister’s sons in the fear that one of
the sons was going to kill him. The Yamuna
was in flood - and it is one of the biggest rivers
in India. The father of Krishna was very much
afraid, but somehow the child had to be taken
to the other side, to a friend’s house whose wife
had given birth to a girl so he could exchange
them. He could bring the girl back with him
because the next morning Kansa would be
there asking, “Where is the child?” and planning
to kill him. A girl he wouldn’t kill - it had to be
a boy.
But how to cross this river? There was no boat
at night, but it had to be crossed. But when
God can open locks without keys, without
anybody opening them - they simply opened
up, the doors opened up, the guards fell asleep -
God would do something.
So he put the child in a bucket on his head and
passed through the river - something like what
happened to Moses when the ocean parted.
This time it happened in an Indian way. It
could not have happened to Moses because that
ocean was not Indian, but this river was.
As he entered the river, the river started rising
higher. He was very much afraid: what was
happening? He was hoping the river would
subside, but it started rising. It went to the
point where it touched the feet of Krishna, then
it receded. This is the Indian way, it cannot
happen anywhere else. How can the river miss
such a point? When God is born and passing
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house, but in the rainy season so much water
came that the road was completely like a river,
and the lake and the road became merged into
one. It was almost oceanic; as far as you could
see it was all water. And that year perhaps India
had the biggest floods ever.
Floods ordinarily happen every year in India,
but that year a strange thing was noted, that
floods started reversing the rivers’ flow of water.
The rains were so heavy that the ocean was
not able to take the water as quickly as it was
coming, so the water at the ocean front was
stuck; it started flowing backwards. Where
small rivers fall into big rivers, the big rivers
refused to take the water, because they were not
able even to contain their own water. The small
rivers started moving backwards.
Osho’s Parents both Sannyasins
through her, just giving way is not enough, not
mannerly.
Since that time there has been this idea that
there is a certain antagonism between a person
and his sister’s son, because Krishna killed
Kansa. The river was crossed, it subsided; it
favoured the child. Since then rivers are angry
against maternal uncles - all the rivers of India.
And that superstition exists even today.
I told my mother, “One thing is certain - that
Sai Baba must have been a wise man and had
some sense of humour.” But she wouldn’t listen.
And it became known in the village what had
happened, and to support it, after one month
another thing happened. In life there are so
many coincidences out of which you can make
miracles. Once you are bent upon making a
miracle then any coincidence can be turned into
a miracle.
After one month there was a very great flood,
and in front of my mother’s house in the rainy
season it was almost like a river. There was a
lake, and a small road between the lake and the
I have never seen it - that one also I missed
- but my mother says that it was a strange
phenomenon to see the water moving
backwards. And it started entering houses;
it entered my mother’s house. It was a
double-storeyed house, and the first storey
was completely full of water. Then it started
entering the second storey. Now, there was
nowhere to go, so they were all sitting on the
beds, the highest place that was possible there.
But my mother said, “If Sai Baba was right,
then something will happen.” And it must have
been a coincidence that the water came up to
my mother’s stomach and then receded!
These two miracles happened before I was
born, so I have nothing to do with them. But
they became known; when I was born I was
almost a saint in the village! Everybody was so
respectful; people were touching my feet, even
old people. I was told later on that “the whole
village has accepted you as a saint.”
When I must have been nearabout four I was
the only child in the house - nothing to do, no
school, no place to go. My maternal grandfather
had a multipurpose shop, of all kinds of things.

That was the only shop in the village so every
kind of thing... a very miniature market it
was rather than a shop. So I started playing
with sweets and things, and I don’t know
how it occurred to me... but soon people were
continually coming who were sick; and there
was no doctor, no physician, no hospital, even
for hundreds of miles, no hospital. Somehow
it came to me that if people think of me as a
saint, and they touch my feet, I would start
giving them medicines. And the medicines were
nothing but mixtures of a few sweets, ground
well, powdered, and kept in bottles of different
colours. And of course, people who get fever
or headache or a stomachache don’t die. And
they started getting cured. They were going to
be cured anyway - that was not a miracle, but it
became a miracle.
My nana, my maternal grandfather, started
saying, “You will spoil my shop - now it is a
hospital! The whole day people are coming and
sometimes I even have to give your medicines,
and I have no idea what those medicines are!
You are destroying my sweets and my shop.
But they are getting cured, so no harm, you
continue.”
When I moved after seven years to my
father’s house I dropped that business of
giving medicines, but people from that village,
whenever they used to come, would remind me.
They had already started calling me Doctor
Sahib, and I would say, “Please don’t use
that word here, because I have stopped that
profession completely. In the first place there
are no sweets here; my father has a cloth shop,
I cannot make medicines out of cloth. And
here nobody knows that I can do miracles. First
people have to know, then you can do them;
otherwise you cannot.”
From Misery to Enlightenment
Chapter #14
OSHO’S MOTHER SPEAKS:
CLEAR SENSATION, HE WAS NO
LONGER MY SON
When after two thousands years another Cecil
B. DeMille makes a movie about Bhagwan, very
likely with the title “The Master of Masters”, he will
certainly never use an actress for the character of
the mother who looks like this woman. If Amrit
Saraswati, the mother of our Master would come for
an audition, the director would certainly say: ”Too
ordinary, she is not the right type!” We therefore
hope for another Pasolini who perhaps will be able
to see the mother of Christ in this little woman
who has abandoned every pose, every pretension,
every attitude, and is naturally innocent, luminous,
transparent, and utterly simple.
Why the mother of a Christ is supposed to be
pleasant and shining like a doll is something that has
always completely eluded me (but perhaps works
for the production and sale of the sacred images?).
Even more I should hope for a Miklós Jancsó
or another Akira Kurosawa and their cinematic
technique which in their jargon is called “long
sequences”. This woman in fact does not act, not
even unconsciously, she probably wouldn’t be able
to … She can merely come in and out from a
“sequence plan”, showing only her intense face that
annihilates every language, any word.
She speaks only in Hindi, and she offers you only a
few timeless sentences, with no trace of any artifice
or compliance, to the point that in front of her all
my questions vanish completely, every tentative
attempt to verbalise breaks down miserably, even
worse, it becomes a sort of exercise in futility and
more and more unbearable… I am painfully divided
between the desire to know, to ask her for more
details, to steal (as we usually say) some more
words from her… and the impulse of bowing down
at her feet and to rest there in silence… and today I
will do both these things.
“I have not been the first person of the family
to take sannyas, because my daughters have
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done it long before me….” Amrit speaks with
a feeble voice, almost transparent, but with an
incredible emotion.
“The day I took sannyas wasn’t because of
a decision, but because on that morning
something happened to me. My son never
asked me to take sannyas, so that morning
I told to those present what was happening
to me in that moment, and someone went
immediately to inform Bhagwan, telling him
that his mother was ready to be initiated, to
which Bhagwan just answered, “Good!”
“Then he sent somebody to bring me into his
presence, but I told him that I wasn’t quite
Once somebody asked Bhagwan
why he bowed to his mother before
initiating her into sannyas. The
Master answered that he simply
wanted to thank her in this way, and
that this was a way to say goodbye
forever, because in that moment she
ceased being his mother.
ready, because I had not taken a shower yet, and
I would need to change my clothes; Bhagwan
sent word that it didn’t matter, and that I
should see him without wasting any time, and
so I went....”
The room seems filled with a palpable emotion,
and in this silence one can only hear the slow
breathing of those present, while I bow at the
feet of the mother and stay there for an eternal
time, crouched at her feet till she speaks again:
“Bhagwan never gave any hint to the members
of the family for them to take sannyas, so for
each of us it has been a spontaneous event,
born purely from our soul; it is difficult for me
to narrate that experience, because although
I know what happened to me, I will never be
capable of describing it, not even now.
I can say only that in that moment, when he
placed the mala around my neck and bowed to
my feet, I had the clear sensation that he was
no longer my son but only my Master. Our
primogenital relationship had ended, and now
another relationship was taking place, the one
between disciple and Master.
He blessed me in that moment, and lifted my
hand so that I could bless him too, and then it
was all over; it was a sort of farewell between
son and mother, and from now on another
story began.”
Q.: “Please talk to me about his childhood…
which one is the fondest memory that you have
about “your child”, about little Mohan?”
A.: “My memories are of a child that never gave
me any problem, never something to worry
about. I took care of many children in my
village, I was like a second mother to many of
them, and sometimes I had to beat them up,
but then little Mohan would come and scold
me, saying that I should not punish them,
that I should never punish any child!” Once
somebody asked Bhagwan why he bowed to
his mother before initiating her into sannyas.
The Master answered that he simply wanted to
thank her in this way, and that this was a way
to say goodbye forever, because in that moment
she ceased being his mother.
The womb that his soul had searched for seven
hundred years (that much time had passed
from his previous reincarnation…) had now
exhausted it’s obligation, and as one day she
had given life to him, now he, her Master, was
initiating the mother to a new life, the life of a

disciple. On that day their earthly connection
was broken, and another deeper spiritual
connection had begun, yet I have the feeling
that the mother is not totally free from her
past, from her function; that she tries to hide
this sentiment with her innocence and infinite
modesty behind the veneration for the Master,
touches me to the bottom of my heart…but I
swallow my tears and I ask:
Q.: “How do you feel when the Master is sick
in his body and can’t leave his bed to come out
and sit with us? Who do you think about then,
about your Master or your son?”
A.: “Yes, sometimes I still have this feeling of
being his mother, and I cannot forget that I
have created his body; when I see his body
so fragile, when he doesn’t come to give his
discourse because his body is not well…then
I cannot help remembering that he is my son.
But even in those moments the palms of my
hands fold in prayer, and I bow in front of him
with my heart in turmoil, incapable as I am to
contain both these emotions: the one of the
mother and the one of the disciple … and then
I cry, I try to hide it…but I cry, and not only
about the delicate health of my Master, but
because my son is sick….”
Again we can feel this silence in the room…
and who will dare to break it? Now you can’t
even hear the people breathing; the intensity of
these feelings has created an instant of absolute
immobility, as if suddenly grace had descended
in this room to dispense a fragment of eternity.
Will you ever forgive me, oh mother, to have
dug out your secret?
My body finds itself bowing again at her feet,
while the presence of the mother seems to
enlighten the first shadows of the night, and
everything, just everything, is frozen in this
moment.
I wish to say thank you, I wish that this instant
would never end; I would like to pray silently at
her feet, I would like to cry and laugh, I would
like to say something to express my gratitude,
I would like to carry with me always this
emotion, this grace, but I don’t do anything at
all, I won’t say a word…
I just stay there, in absolute stillness for an
endless time, to let my head be caressed by
those hands that had caressed His head so
many times; I listen simply to the silent music
of the womb that has created him, the soft
breath of the woman who gave birth to my
Master….
–Swami Svatantra Sarjano
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OSHO’S INSIGHT
Tantra
merging with
your other half
Tantra misunderstood and tarnished with wrong concepts of black magic and evil.
Osho points out the real meaning and purpose of Tantra for enlightenment.
Man is bisexual – every man, every woman.
Half of you is male and half of you is
female. If you are a woman, then the female
part is on top and the male part is hidden
behind, and vice versa. Once you have become
aware of this, then a new work starts: your
inner woman and inner man can have a meeting
and that meeting can remain absolute. There is
no need to come back from the peak. But the
first vision comes from the outer.
Hence Tantra uses the outer woman, the outer
man, as part of inner work. Once you have
become aware that you have a woman inside
you or a man inside you, then the work takes on
a totally new quality, it starts moving in a new
dimension. Now the meeting has to happen
inside; you have to allow your inner woman and
man to meet.
In India we have had that concept for at least
five thousand years. You may not have seen
the statues of Shiva as Ardhanarishwar:
half man, half woman. That is the picture of
everybody’s being, inner being. You must have
seen Shivalinga: it symbolises the male. But

Man is bisexual – every man, every woman. Half of you is male and half of you
is female. If you are a woman, then the female part is on top and the male part
is hidden behind, and vice versa
Shivalinga is placed in the female sexual organ,
it is not alone; they are together. That again
represents the inner duality, the inner polarity,
but the polarity can meet and merge.
With the outer, the merger will be only for
the moment. Then great frustration and great
misery... and the higher the moment, the deeper
will be the darkness that follows it. But the
meeting can happen inwardly.
First learn that the peak is possible, and then
feel grateful to the woman who has given
you the peak, feel grateful to the man. Tantra
worships the woman as the goddess and the
man as the god. Any woman who helps you
to attain this vision is a goddess, any man that
helps you to attain this vision is a god. Love
becomes sacred because it gives you the first
glimpses of the divine. Then the inner work
starts. You have worked without, now you have
to work within.
Tantra has two phases, two stages: the outer,
the extrovert Tantra, and the inner, the
introvert Tantra. The beginning has to be
always from the without; it is because we are
there, so we have to start from the place we are
and then move inwards. When the inner man
and woman have met and melted, and when
you are no longer divided inside, you have
become one – integrated, crystallised, one –
you have attained. This is enlightenment.
But for the present, right now everything is
upside down. You have completely forgotten
the inner; the outer has become your whole life.
This is as if somebody is standing on his head
and has forgotten completely how to stand
on his feet again. Now, standing on your head
your life will be really difficult. If you want to
go somewhere, if you want to do something,
everything will become very difficult, almost
impossible.
And that is what is happening. People are
upside down, because the without has become
more important than the within. The without
has become all-important, and the within is
completely ignored, forgotten.
The real treasure is within. From the without,
you can get only hints of the inner treasure;
from the without, only arrows pointing to the
innermost core of your being; from without,
only milestones. But don’t cling to a milestone,
and don’t think that this is the goal and you
have arrived.
Remember that the ordinary man is lives an
abnormal life, because his values are topsy turvy.
Money is more important than meditation,
logic is more important than love, the mind is
more important than the heart.
Power over others is more important than
power over one’s own being. Mundane things
are more important than finding some treasures
which death cannot destroy.
The Book of Wisdom
Chapter #26
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SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT
WITH TANTRA
Tantra believes, not in gradual development of
the soul, but in sudden enlightenment. Yoga
believes in gradual development: inch by inch,
step by step, you progress towards the final.
Yoga is very arithmetical: for each sin that
you have committed you have to balance
it by a virtuous act; your account has to be
closed completely. Without completing the
account with this world, you cannot become
enlightened. It is a mathematical conception,
scientific, and the mind will say, “Of course,
it has to be so. You committed sins – who is
going to suffer for them? You committed sins,
you have to suffer for them. And only through
suffering can you become liberated. Evil have
been your acts; you have to balance them, you
have to pay for them, and you have to move in
good acts. When the balance is complete, then
only liberation is possible; otherwise, you will
have to be thrown repeatedly to the earth, to
be reborn, to move, to grow.” That is the whole
philosophy of transmigration, rebirth.
Tantra says just the opposite. Tantra is a very
poetic approach, not arithmetical. And tantra
believes in love, not in mathematics; it believes
in sudden enlightenment. And it says that
small teachings teach you about action; great
teachings don’t teach you about how to act, they
teach you what to be, how to be.
Actions are millions, and if you have to pay
for all the actions, it seems almost impossible
that you are ever going to be liberated. You
have lived millions of lives; in each life, millions
of acts you have committed. If you are going
to pay for all those acts, suffer, and you have
to balance each bad act with a good one, it
will take again millions of lives for you. And
meanwhile, in the complex relationship of
life, you will commit many more actions. So
where will this chain end? It seems impossible.
Liberation becomes almost impossible – it
cannot happen.
If this is the way, that inch by inch one has to
grow, then growth seems an impossible dream.
If you understand the attitude of yoga, you
will feel really hopeless. Tantra is a great hope.
Tantra is like an oasis in a world of deserts.
Tantra says this is not the point at all: acts
are not the question. You committed them
Tantra is a very poetic approach, not
arithmetical. And tantra believes in
love, not in mathematics; it believes
in sudden enlightenment. And it
says that small teachings teach you
about action; great teachings don’t
teach you about how to act, they
teach you what to be, how to be
because you were ignorant, they came out
of your ignorance. In fact, tantra says you
are not responsible for them. If somebody is
responsible, then the whole – you may call
it God – God may be responsible, but you
cannot be responsible. Tantra says that even to
take this responsibility is very egoistic. To say,
“I will have to balance, I will have to do good
acts, I will have to liberate myself inch by inch
and step by step,” this too is a very egoistic,
ego-centred attitude. Why do you think you
are responsible? Even if responsibility has to
be somewhere, then it has to be with the divine
himself, with the whole. You have not created
yourself, you have not given birth to yourself.
You have been given birth, you have been
created – then the creator must be responsible,
not you.
And you committed all your actions in

ignorance, you were not aware of what you
were doing, you were completely drunk with
ignorance. You groped in darkness, in darkness
you came into conflict with others, in darkness
you stumbled upon things and something
happened. Tantra says the only thing that is
needed is light, awareness. Not millions of acts
have to be answered; only one thing has to be
done and that is: don’t remain ignorant, become
aware.
Once you become aware, all that belongs to the
world of darkness disappears. It will seem like a
dream, a nightmare. It will not look like reality.
And it has not been a reality, because when you
are deep down unconscious, only dreams can
exist, not reality. You have been dreaming that
you loved. You cannot love.
You are not there to love. You still don’t exist,
Tantra looks at you, at the very
center of your being from where it
comes. Out of the poison of your
ignorance, life cannot come, only
death. Out of your darkness, only
darkness is born. And that seems to be
absolutely natural
you don’t have any centre. How can you love?
You only believe that you love, and then your
love life and the acts concerned with it... it
becomes a dream.
When you awaken out of this dreaming, you
will simply say, “How could I have loved?
Impossible! I was not there in the first place. I
was non-existential in fact.” Without awareness,
what does it mean to say, “I am”? It means
nothing. You are fast asleep, so deeply asleep, as
if you are not there. A person fast asleep, in a
coma in the house – is he really there? There is
no distinction to be made. Whether he is there
or not makes no distinction – he is in a coma.
If thieves come and rob the whole house, will
you call that man responsible who is lying in
a coma, unconscious? Will he be responsible?
Will he be asked and judged: “Thieves came!
What were you doing here?” How can you
make a man responsible who is in a coma,
unconscious?
Tantra says in all your lives you have remained
in a coma – you are not responsible. This is the
first liberation that tantra gives you. And on the
basis of it, many things immediately become
possible. Then you need not wait for millions
of lives – this very moment the door can
open. It is not a gradual process, it is a sudden
awakening – and it has to be so.
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
Chapter #6
MORAL OR IMMORAL? TANTRA
DOESN’T BOTHER
Tantra is a great teaching. It doesn’t teach about
acts, it teaches only about your being. Who you
are is the point – fast asleep, snoring, or awake?
Who are you – alert, conscious, or moving in
a hypnosis? Are you a sleepwalker? or are you
awake, alert, whatever you do? Do you do it
with self-remembrance? No. It happens – you
don’t know why, from where it comes, from
what part of the unconscious comes an urge
which possesses you, and you have to act.
This act, whatever the society says about
it – moral or immoral, sin or virtue – tantra
doesn’t bother about it. Tantra looks at you,
at the very centre of your being from where it
comes. Out of the poison of your ignorance, life
cannot come, only death. Out of your darkness,
only darkness is born. And that seems to be
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absolutely natural. So what to do? Should
we try to change the acts? Should we try to
become more moral, virtuous, respectable? Or
should we try to change the being? The being
can be changed. There is no need to wait for
it for infinite lives. If you have the intensity of
understanding, if you bring your total effort,
energy, being, to understand it, in that very
intensity, a light suddenly burns in you. A
flame comes up from your being like lightning,
and your whole past and your whole future
is suddenly in your vision – you understand
what has happened, you understand what is
happening, you understand what is going to
happen. Suddenly everything has become clear;
as if it was dark and somebody brought a light,
and suddenly everything is clear.
Tantra believes in burning your inner light. And
tantra says that with that light, the past simply
becomes irrelevant. It never belonged to you.
Of course, it happened, but happened as if in
a dream and you were fast asleep. It happened
– you did many things, good and bad, but they
all happened in unconsciousness, you were not
responsible. And suddenly everything of the
past is burnt down, a fresh and virgin being
arises– this is sudden enlightenment.
Yoga appeals to people because it seems very
businesslike. You can understand Patanjali
easily because it fits with your own mind, the
logical mind, the mathematical thinking. Tilopa
is difficult to comprehend, but Tilopa is rare.
Patanjali’s understanding is common – that’s
why there is so much influence of Patanjali
all through history. People like Tilopa have
simply disappeared without leaving any trace
on the human mind, because they couldn’t find
affinity with you. Patanjali may be very great,
but still he belongs to the same dimension. You
may be a very small thinker, and Patanjali may
be a great thinker, but you belong to the same
dimension. If you make slight effort you can
understand Patanjali; if you make an effort you
can practise Patanjali. Only an effort is needed,
nothing more.
But to understand Tilopa you have to enter
into a completely unknown dimension. To
understand Tilopa you have to move through
chaos. He will destroy all your conceptions,
all your mathematics, all your logic, all your
philosophy. He will simply destroy you
completely. He will not be satisfied unless
you are completely destroyed and a new being
arises. With Patanjali you will be modified,
you will become better and better – and the
process is infinite, you can go on for many lives
becoming better and better. With Tilopa, in a
second, you can reach the ultimate. “Better” is
not the question because he doesn’t think in
degrees.
It is just as if you are standing on top of a hill:
you can take the path of the steps and one by
one you go downwards to the valley, or from
the valley you go to the hill, but by steps. With
Tilopa you simply jump into the abyss, there
are no steps; or you simply spread your wings
and you start flying. With Patanjali you move
in a bullock-cart, very slowly, safe, secure, no
fear of any accident, the bullock-cart always in
control. You can step down any moment, you
can stop at any moment; nothing beyond you,
you remain the master. And the dimension is
horizontal: a bullock-cart moves from A to B,
from B to C, from C to D, but the dimension
is the same, the same plane. With Tilopa, the
dimension changes: it becomes vertical; it is
not from A to B, from B to C; no, it is just like
an aircraft, not like a bullock-cart, not moving
forward but moving upward. With Tilopa you
can transcend time.
With Patanjali you move in time. With Tilopa
eternity is the dimension.
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
Chapter #6

OSHO’S INSIGHT
Caste System
MANU STARTED IT ALL,
AND IT WENT WRONG
The four castes
OSHO
Caste System has created many social problems, tensions, hatred and violence in India.
Osho explains the origin and purpose of caste system and how it was
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Manu has for five thousand years ruled
over India, particularly its morality, its
caste system, and the harm that he has done to
this country is incalculable. Millions of women
have burned themselves alive because of Manu,
because he prescribes that every wife who is
sincerely faithful to her husband should jump
into the funeral pyre when her husband dies; she
has no right to live any more. Because of him
millions of women down five thousand years have
burned themselves alive. This is so ugly.
It is because of Manu that one fourth of India
has remained untouchable. They are called
the Sudras; they are not accepted as human
beings... subhuman beings. Even their shadow is
considered to be untouchable. If a Sudra passes
by and his shadow falls on you, you have to
immediately bathe to purify yourself.
These Sudras have been killed for any small
reason: if they have entered into a street which is
prohibited to them, if they have heard even words
of Hindu scriptures, the Vedas.
They were killed because it is prohibited that
they should be educated and they should know
anything about the Vedas; because the Vedas
would become unclean if these poor people know
anything about them.
These Sudras have not been accepted in society.
They cannot live inside the city; they have to live
outside the city. They have remained utterly poor,
and they have been doing all the dirty work of the

society. They don’t have any dignity, or respect.
They are not accepted in any way to be human
beings. You don’t see them. They live outside the
city in their small bamboo huts, which any time
– and this happens even today, any day... Hindus,
high-caste Hindus, go to their villages, burn their
bamboo cottages, burn living beings, rape their
women and kill all of them. And it is because of
Manu.
And if I have put Manu, Krishna and Adolf
Hitler in the same category, then anybody who
says I am wrong, I am prepared to accept the
challenge. Rather than writing to that newspaper
editor – and that cowardly editor immediately
has written an editorial asking for forgiveness,
that it was his fault that he published my
statement. It is not his fault.
My statement is my statement, and I stand by it.
And anybody who thinks that I am wrong I am
ready for any public discussion on the point.
But just conditionings, nobody is ready to look at
the actual facts. No Christian will be hurt by this
because it is not his conditioning. No Muslim will
be hurt by this because it is not his conditioning.
Your only problem in life is the religion in which
you were born, the society in which you were
born, the family in which you were born. But it is
unfortunate there is no other way, at least up to
now; this is the only way.
And because you are born in a certain religion,
in a certain ideology, in a certain morality, you
become so conditioned and so attached to all
these ideas which are not yours. You become
absolutely incapable of seeing what is right and
what is wrong. This is the problem which keeps
you unenlightened; otherwise there is no other
problem.
The Invitation
Chapter #30
ONE OF THE HIGHEST THING–
EXISTENCE
I purposely choose the politicians and the priests.
There are many other things to be remembered.
The priest knows perfectly well that there is no
God. In this world the priest is the only person
who knows there is no God, but his whole
profession depends on this non-existential God.
He cannot tell the truth because all his vested
interests will be lost – not only his, but for
generations to come he will be spoiling the whole
game. He knows the rituals are just hocus-pocus,
that the mantras carry no power, that his theology
is just a cover-up. Nobody else knows it better;
he has studied the scriptures and he knows there
is no evidence of God anywhere. He interprets
the scriptures in such a way that they help his
profession. He goes on making commentaries
on the ancient scriptures, adding more and more
things that are helpful for his profession.
As times change he has to make new additions.
For example, Manu, a five thousand–year–old
thinker, priest, the father of priesthood, in his
Manusmriti – the memoirs of Manu which
Hindus follow word for word – he created the
caste system, one of the ugliest things in existence.
Because of it one-fourth of Hindus have
suffered a long period of slavery, exploitation
and humiliation. They have been turned almost
into subhuman beings – they are called achhoot,
untouchables. They have fallen so much that you
cannot touch them; otherwise you have to bathe
immediately. Even their shadow touching you is
enough to make you impure. Manu reduced onefourth
of the Hindus to eternal slavery it seems.
He managed the highest position in the society
for the priesthood, but he was really shrewd and
clever: he gave all the superiority to brahmins,
but he has not given them riches, nor material,
temporal power. He has divided the castes so
there is no conflict. Temporal power he has
given to the second highest caste: the warriors,

Kshatriyas. They are going to be the kings, they
are going to be the generals, the soldiers, the
fighters, and they will be the second highest
class. And money he has given to the third: the
businessmen, the Vaishyas. To the fourth he has
given nothing – except slavery.
You can see the duplicity... he divides. He does
not give money to Brahmins, or temporal power,
because then three-fourths of the society will
be against them, and it will not be possible to
control. And if they have also spiritual power,
material power, money, then there will be
resentment, anger, violence – there will be riots.
So to Brahmins he gives the holy power – they
are the highest, the holiest – but he does not give
anything temporal to them.
He gives the temporal power to the warriors. It is
satisfying, because they are going to be the kings;
Brahmins cannot be the kings. And who cares
about spiritual power? So let them have spiritual
power; it is almost like having nothing, just a
nominal quality of being superior, so the warriors
are not angry about it. On the contrary, they are
happy that one-fourth of the society will never be
in conflict with them – they are already higher,
they have nothing more to gain. And the warriors
are the most powerful people.
To the third he gives money and all other worldly
things. These are the people who cannot fight,
who are not warriors – but they can earn money,
they can produce wealth.
You will be surprised to know that in India all the
kings, before India became a slave country, were
indebted to the rich people. From where are they
going to get money? – just by borrowing. They
can pay when they invade some other country;
otherwise they have to borrow from the business
people. And the business people are happy;
they have all the material things, money... Not
only that, kings borrow from them, Brahmins
have to depend on them for everything – so let
them believe that they are higher... but basically
the business people weild power, they have the
money. And against these three classes the poor
fourth has no power to fight. They are deprived
of all education, deprived even of living in the
city; they have to live outside the town. They
cannot draw water from the city well – they have
to make their own wells or carry water from
the river. They are completely cut off from the
society. They have just to come and serve, and
do all the ugliest things that nobody else wants
to do. And three powerful sections are there
to keep repressing them; they have money, and
power, they have spiritual heights – they are the
representatives of God.
For five thousand years they have maintained
this – and they have made the fourth, the slaves,
believe that you are born slaves because of your
evil acts in the past life – this is the punishment.
The Brahmin enjoys his position because of good
acts in his past life. And there is no mobility; one
cannot move from one caste to another caste.
Since Manu, the priests in India have remained
the most anti-revolutionary element – naturally,
because they will lose their superiority. Kings
come to touch their feet, the super rich come to
touch their feet – their ego is fulfilled. And the
same is true around the world – everywhere the
priesthood has maintained its superiority. It is
not so clear-cut as in India, but a subtle division
exists. The priest is superior everywhere, the
warrior is everywhere number two, and the rich
man is number three everywhere. The fourth, the
slave, the servant, is the same everywhere.
These priests go on preaching to every child
a certain kind of mind that keeps the society
running – or stuck. The politicians are in a deep
conspiracy with the priests. The politicians are
full of greed for power, and if they want power,
they want blessings from the priests, because
the priests have a spiritual hold over humanity.
And if a politician goes and touches the feet
of a priest, the followers of the priest will vote
for the politician. There is a conspiracy: the
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politician goes on praising the priest, his religion,
his ideology, and the priests keep blessing the
politician and his ideology. And between these
two powerful groups the whole society is crushed,
sucked.
I know everybody is responsible, but not
everybody is powerful enough to break the circle;
hence I am hitting constantly at the priests and
the politicians.
Beyond Psychology
Chapter #26
SUFFERING UNNECESSARILY,
REBEL AGAINST CASTE
You suffer unnecessarily from the caste system,
rebel against it. These same people have
often tried to kill me. They have disturbed
my meetings, they have thrown stones at me,
they have even stopped my train. They would
not allow the train to go ahead unless I was
thrown out of the train. The same poor people
are so conditioned.... They suffer from their
conditioning, and I am fighting against that
conditioning, and they think I am fighting
against them.I am fighting for them against their
conditioning, but they are so identified with
their conditioning that it is almost impossible to
make them aware of the distinction: that your
conditioning is not you. And by birth nobody is a
Brahmin.
I am reminded of a beautiful old story: One great
seer in the Upanishads is Uddalak. His father
sent Uddalak to a forest university where only
seers were the teachers, and meditation was the
basic teaching. And when Uddalak came back
home after ten, twelve years, his father – who was
a learned scholar, well-respected and well-known
– saw him coming and he ran away out of the
back door. His wife asked, “Where are you going?
Your son is coming.” He said, “I cannot face him;
moreover, I cannot allow him to touch my feet; it
will look very awkward. He has really become a
Brahmin He has become a Brahmin because he
has known the Brahma.” Brahma is the ultimate
life source. “I am only a Brahmin by birth; he has
earned it. If he does not touch my feet, that will
look awkward, if he does touch my feet, that will
look awkward, if I touch his feet that too will
look awkward. It is better for me to escape. I am
not leaving you alone – your son is back. I will
come back home only when I am also a Brahmin
not only by birth, but by experience, by my own
realisation.” Nobody is born a Brahmin, and
nobody is born a warrior, and nobody is born a
Sudra, an untouchable.
The poverty in this country exists because the
religions of this country have been consoling the
poor, just as they have been consoling the poor
in other countries. Their explanations may be
different, but the ultimate result is to console
them: your poverty is not something bad; if you
can patiently go through this fire test, in the
afterlife you will be rewarded a millionfold.
The Rebellious Spirit
Chapter #27
‘HARIJANS! PLEASE ENTER OUR
TEMPLES!’ OSHO
I am simply amazed that Harijans continue to
remain part of Hindu society. For ten thousand
years at least they have been exploited; they
are the most exploited and oppressed part of
humanity. They should get out of Hinduism,
there is no need of any ‘ism’. They don’t have to
be Hindus. It is so undignified that the Hindu
scriptures deny them the right even to read the
scriptures; the Hindu scriptures forbid them to
worship in the temples; they are even forbidden
to touch Hindus. Not even their shadow should
touch any Hindu; otherwise the Hindu has to
bathe to cleanse himself.
And still those poor people go on remaining

part of Hindu society. It seems to be a certain
conspiracy between the Hindu priests and the
government, that the priests are out to protect
their temples and the Harijans, who were
trying ... what harm could they have done? Just
worshipping in the temple ... and if a Hindu
temple does not allow a certain section of society,
then certainly that section should separate
itself from such humiliation.Hindus will realise
the situation only when the Harijans separate,
because they are one-fourth of Hindu society and
they serve the ugliest purposes. Once they leave
the Hindu fold, then the Hindus will understand
who is going to clean their toilets, who is going
to kill, murder and butcher animals, and who is
going to make shoes, and who is going to sweep
the streets. All that is ugly has been imposed on
Harijans.
In fact this gives them great power. Nobody
has ever told them that the work they are
doing is such that if they stop even for seven
days the whole of India will stink. And then
let the Brahmins clean the toilets and the
Shankaracharyas clean the streets – just seven
days will be enough for Hindus to learn the
lesson. Hindus will come to the Harijans and ask
them, “Please enter our temples; without you our
temples are not temples. Purify our temples by
entering them, otherwise the whole society will be
in such a difficult situation.”
Brahmins cannot do such things, nor can other
highclass Hindus. Only one man, Gautam
Buddha, really denied the caste system. And
because of denying the caste system, Buddhism
had to disappear from India. Another person who
denied the caste system was Mahavira, but he
was more diplomatic than Gautam Buddha. He
denied the caste system but continued to use the
Harijans for the same purposes as other Hindus.
That is the reason why Jainism became a small
religion, confined only to the business class.
They could not be Brahmins; Brahmins wouldn’t
allow them. They could not be warriors, the
second highest class, and they did not want to
be Harijans, the fourth class, so only the third
class, business people, was possible. Jainism
compromised, and because of this I call Jainism a
coward’s religion; they cannot exist on their own,
they have to depend on Hindus.
Buddha was absolutely uncompromising. As
long as he lived people gathered around him, his
personal charisma ... but the moment he was
gone people were butchered, murdered, burned,
or driven to become sudras. Most of the Sudras,
the untouchables, come originally from the
followers of Buddha.
In Hinduism there is no possibility to enter any
other class. If you want to enter Hinduism, you
have to become a sudra. Only the fourth class
is available, the higher classes are closed for any
conversion. I hate to say that Jainism proved a
coward’s religion, but if you are certainly different
from Hindus and you don’t believe in the caste
system, then you should not use it.
You should find your own shoemakers; amongst
yourselves you should find the toilet cleaners.
Without this, you don’t matter; you are a
dependent shadow of Hinduism, your revolution
is not great enough.
It is just in the scriptures that you deny the caste
system, but in your life you believe it exactly like
Hindus. Because Buddha did not compromise ...
that is one of the reasons for my respect for the
man. Humanity is one, and anyone who wants
to create divisions of superiority and inferiority
should be put into a psychiatric hospital. He
needs good electric shocks to bring him to his
senses so that he can see that two plus two is
really four.
Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt
Chapter #3
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children
COPYING PARENTS MAKES
CHILDREN SUFFER
Seeking comfort
Child Welfare and Child Labour make constant negative news.
Osho explains how children should be raised and educated and not exploited.
The parents should be aware of what they
are conditioning their children because
they have lived through that conditioning. What
was their achievement? One thing is absolutely
certain: that they have failed, that their life has
been just a long period of misery and suffering.
So one thing is certain that they should make
the children aware: that, “Don’t copy us, we have
failed. Do anything, but don’t copy us. At least
try something new. Don’t copy us.”
But parents are doing just the opposite. That
is their projection of the ego. The father wants
the child to represent him to the world– to be
more respectable, to be more honoured, to be
more rich– so that the world knows whose son
he is. Even after death the world will remember
him through his son. He is not interested in the
individuality of his son; he is interested in his
own ego projection. That’s why he completely
forgets that he has lived in hell and now he is
preparing his son also to live in the same hell.
Parents have to be very alert and aware. This is
the first thing.
The second thing is that the children should be
protected, watched that they don’t go astray, that
they don’t commit suicide or become addicts

to drugs. They should be protected, but very
delicately and very understandingly.
I asked my father, that “I want to start smoking.”
And I was only thirteen years old. And he said,
“What?– smoking? And you have some guts–
you are asking me? If people want to smoke, and
particularly children, they hide somewhere and
smoke; and you are askingfor my permission?”
I said, “Yes, because I don’t do so many wrong
things. First, smoking; then lying, cheating,
hiding– and if I am caught, then what face will I
Parents expect respect from the
children, but they forget that this
is something mutual. You respect
the children and they will respect
you. You trust the children and they
will trust you. And then there is a
possibility of communication
show to you?
“People are smoking all around. I want to know
what is in it. And I don’t have money for it, and I
want to have the best kind of cigars, cigarettes....
You manage.”
He said, “I have to manage it too?” I said,
“Certainly, do you want me to steal? Do you
want me to beg from neighbours? You have to
arrange it.” He waited for a moment, then he
said, “Yes, perhaps that is the right way. Perhaps
you are right.”
And he arranged, and that was my first and last
experience with smoking. It was simply stupid
and silly to take the dirty smoke inside and out
when pure oxygen is available. And particularly
in my place, it was so beautiful and so windy.
Polluting your own breathing and paying for it,
destroying your own lungs and paying for it.... I
told my father, “It is finished forever. But if you
had not allowed me, perhaps I may have got into
the habit of it. It becomes a challenge. If you say
no, then it becomes a challenge. Then I have to
prove myself.”
Every child has to prove his individuality some
way or other. And perhaps if I had started
smokingfor a few days, I may have become
accustomed to it, addicted to it.
The children should be protected, but given all
opportunities and freedom. That is my second
thing. And the children should be given every
freedom to experience the good, the bad, so they
can decide on their own. You need not have to
say it to them. You need not have to force them
to follow certain rules, regulations. Let them
find their way. You simply watch carefully that
they don’t fall into a ditch.
And third thing: never say anything to your
children that is not your existential experience.
Accept your ignorance. That will give you more
respect, more trust in you, but the parental ego
wants to pretend that they know everything:
they know God, they know heaven, they know
hell. They know everything, and they know
nothing. Sooner or later the children are going
to discover that their parents were lying about
such ultimate things that they... all their trust
and all their love will disappear into their
revenge, hatred.
So the third thing is just tell the children what
you have experienced. And tell them that you
don’t know anything about God. You want to
know, but you don’t know. You are a seeker, and
tell the children, that “You are also to be seekers.
If I find it before you I will tell you. If you find it
before, you tell me. We can always be available to
communicate.”
This is one of the difficult things in the world.
Parents and children are almost living with
such a gap that communication is impossible.
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Whatever the parents say to the children it
seems like rubbish. Whatever the children say to
parents appears childish.
The third thing means that the parents should
be friends with their children. It is their
responsibility to bridge the gap. Be respectful
to the child. Parents expect respect from the
children, but they forget that this is something
mutual. You respect the children and they will
respect you. You trust the children and they
will trust you. And then there is a possibility of
communication, and a great communication is
needed. But that is possible if the parents are
not lying.
The Last Testament, Vol 2
Chapter #12
SEEING THROUGH PARENTS
Children see very clearly; their eyes are
transparent. But soon they have to lose their
innocence. We force them to lose it. We fill their
heads with such rubbish that their eyes stop
seeing. Every parent is trying, every society is
trying, every church is trying to fill the child’s
mind with inane ideas before he starts becoming
aware on his own; otherwise he will be a rebel.
So by the time you are three or four years old,
things have already started being poured into
you. You are sent to church, you are being taught
religion– as if religion can be taught.
Religion cannot be taught, it can only be
caught. You can catch it only when you are in
the company of a man like Jesus or Buddha.
When you are in the company of a man like
Yoka, Rinzai, Bodhidharma, you can catch it; it
is infectious. But it cannot be taught. A religion
that is taught– it is rubbish. But we are very
interested in making our children Christian,
Hindu, Muslim as soon as possible.
In a better world, in a more human world, at
least up to the age of twenty-one, children
should not be taught any Christianity,
Hinduism, Jainism or Judaism. Up to the age
of twenty-one– when they become capable of
voting– they should be left to inquire on their
own. And I assure you, Christianity, Jainism,
Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, will all disappear
from the world. Just leave children to themselves
up to their twenty-first year and then try to
teach them Christianity. They will raise such
questions that even you will start suspecting
whether Christianity is worth while. But you
force poor children three years of age... They
cannot resist, they cannot protect themselves.
They depend on you for their survival, so you
can do anything.
And this is the greatest crime that can be
done to children. Parents have been criminals
throughout the entire past, and the greatest
crime is that you condition your children’s
minds and you don’t allow them the freedom
to seek, search and inquire for themselves. Of
course, parents have not done it knowingly; their
parents had conditioned them and they were
simply repeating a pattern. And they think that
they are doing it for your own good. In fact, the
greatest crimes have been committed for your
own good. Whenever somebody says, “I am
doing it for your own good,” beware, because
nobody needs to do anything for your own
good.
Yes, parents need to feed you, to clothe you, to
support you, to make you strong in body, to
support you in your inquiry, in your questioning,
to give you every kind of support and protection
so that you can freely inquire. The whole world
will be full of agnostics, inquirers, and that will
be the beginning of a true religion on the earth.
And it has to happen from the very childhood
because it is such a ridiculous waste of time
to first destroy their minds, because then it
becomes very hard, very difficult to uncondition
them. They start resisting because then they
start identifying with their own minds.

Every day I receive questions– rude questions,
ugly questions– because whenever somebody
feels hurt, immediately his conditioned mind
reacts and he writes something in anger.
I am trying to help you to be on your own, to be
free, and you get angry because you don’t want
to be free. You have become accustomed to being
slaves. But you don’t think it is slavery; you
think it is knowledge, it is wisdom. You think
you know the Bible, you know the Gita, you
know the Koran. And when I keep destroying,
negating, you become scared. If all your
knowledge is taken away, what is left? You are
very afraid of nothingness– and that is the true
beginning, that is the beginning of a new birth.
Everybody has to become again a nothing, again
a child, again innocent; only then will you be
able to understand truth.
Children are capable of understanding it, but
they are not capable of understanding that they
understand it. For that you have to wait. But
we can prepare the children. We can use their
capacity to understand to make them more freer,
to make them more adventurous, to make them
more courageous.
If you really love your children you will help
them to go on an adventure so that they can find
God by themselves. It is beautiful to find truth;
it is ugly to carry somebody else’s truth on your
shoulders. It is simply a dead weight. It cripples,
kills; it poisons you.
Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen
Chapter #3
GOING AGAINST NATURE RUINS
CHILDREN
A child feels alive, active; he wants to run and
dance. The mother tries to force him to go
to sleep. Have you ever thought that this is
asking for the impossible? Can you deliberately
go to sleep– even you? Can even the mother
deliberately go to sleep? When there is no sleep,
what can be done? The child will pretend, he
will close his eyes and pretend, only to open
them as soon as the mother has gone. This is
training him for pretensions and making him
a hypocrite all for absolutely useless things.
Sleep cannot be forced– there is no way to do
it. Otherwise why is there so much insomnia?
Why are so many tranquillisers needed? Why
do people spend the whole night tossing and
turning in bed? And a child is expected to go to
sleep on order, and wake up on order, in order
to be a good child– a perfect child otherwise he
is a bad guy. All those who are natural are bad
guys, and all those who are artificial are perfect.
Now the whole life of this being will suffer. He
will go to this priest and that, this swami and
that, from this master to that, and they will go
on giving him things to do– this and that– but
nothing will be of much help or use because his
entire lifestyle is wrong, nothing can be added
because the whole structure is wrong. The whole
structure has to be dropped and a fresh start
made.
When the Shoe Fits
Chapter #2
MORE IMPORTANT THAN MATHS:
MEDITATION
Certainly, children have to be educated in
mathematics and in logic so that their brains
becomes clear and capable, their genius grows.
They are not to be left like animals. There is
something in the lives of animals but a lot is
missing. There is an innocence in the lives of
animals, but it is of idiocy not of saintliness.
There is a simplicity, but it is compulsive, not
an attainment. Animals are simple because
they cannot become cunning; a saint is simple,
but not because he cannot become cunning
but because he does not become. It is his own
choice. And whatever is your own decision, only
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of life that are available only to the losers. The
world is gained by those who know how to
win, but the divine can only be attained by
those who also know how to lose. Wealth may
come to those who are the winners, but love
is only for those who are losers. Defeat has its
own victory. But mathematics and logic teach
only how to win; meditation teaches how to
lose. Logic and mathematics offer us the skill
to increase our wealth and possessions in the
world and to expand our empire. Meditation is
the art of expanding the kingdom of the soul, of
expanding the consciousness so that it embraces
the whole universe.
Beyond Thoughts
that puts soul in your life. Animals have souls,
but not in the sense in which man has a soul,
because man makes his own decisions. If you
had not the capacity to be a thief, then what
value is there in you non-stealing? If you had not
the capacity to be angry, what meaning is there
in your compassion? No, you are capable of
doing the opposite but you are not doing it, and
this very decision of yours not to do it, sharpens
and polishes your soul, brings a radiance to it.
So the innocence of the saint is needed, not that
of the animals.
The child has to be educated so that he becomes
aware of all the duplicity and shrewdness of
man, so that he becomes acquainted with
the entire troublesome world of man and
experiences it. But if only this much is done,
an unbalanced personality will be created; the
intellect will be sharp, but his heart will be
empty; mathematics will be clear to him, but
love will be a mist. He will be able to destroy but
he will not be able to create. He will be able to
win but he will not be able to lose.
A man who only knows how to win is not a
total man, because there are certain dimensions
If only the child’s intellect is educated he will
be partially paralysed; there will be no fullness,
no totality in his life. One of his legs will always
be crippled, and his life will be a limping. It is
only because all the others are lame too that no
one recognises the fact. Children have a game
called lame race in which one of their legs is tied
to another child’s leg, so only one of their legs
can run free. This is virtually the way our life is
organized, so that we are running on one leg It
is hardly surprising that we fail, collapse, break
down only. Meditation is the second leg.
We should teach children meditation as we
start educating their intellect. Just as the child
comes to understand science, he should come to
understand religion simultaneously. As his head
grows brighter let his heart also grow full of
light. Let him not grow up only to know about,
let him grow up also to be. Let it not be only his
possessions that grow, let him grow too! Let not
only his exterior expand, let his interiority also
have a depth, just as the trees rise in the sky but
their roots go deep underground. The deeper
the roots go underground the higher the tree
rises in the sky.
Nowhere To Go But In
Chapter #10

OSHO’S INSIGHT
youth
young strong
start meditating
Going Within
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Buddha was the first in India to introduce
the idea of a young sannyasin. His
emphasis was that youth is the best time to be a
sannyasin because it is great energy that will be
needed for the inner transformation, for inner
work. It can’t be postponed. And who knows
about the future? Who knows about even
tomorrow or even about the next moment? He
says: You are young, you are strong – then this
is the time. It is time to arise. Don’t postpone
the moment.
There is no need to postpone. Don’t say that
“I will wake up only after seventy-five years
of age.” A person who has been dreaming for
seventy-five years will find it very difficult
to wake up after so many years of dreaming.
Dreaming would have become almost second
nature to him. As you grow old you become
increasingly stubborn, less and less flexible.
As you grow old you become more and more
mechanical, less and less alive. Your ways of
life become so settled, your ways of thinking
become so fixated, that it becomes impossible
to change them. That’s why it is so difficult for
an old man to learn any new thing. They say:
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Children
learn very easily; old men find it very difficult
to learn because they already think they know.
Their whole life’s experience is there, and their
life’s experience starts dominating them; it
keeps dominating them to the very end.

Your whole life, if you are miserly... even in
death you will be the same. As you grow old
you become more and more settled and rigid.
Youth is the best time for inner transformation
because it is the most flexible time. Children
are more flexible than young people, but they
are not so understanding. They need some
experience. Youth is exactly the middle; you are
Buddha says: YOU ARE STRONG, YOU
ARE YOUNG. IT IS TIME TO ARISE. To be
youthful, to be young, to be fresh, is
a great benediction. It is the time of
rebellion. And if you miss your youth,
it will be more and more difficult
later on
no longer a child, no longer ignorant of life and
its ways and not yet settled as an old man. You
are in a state of transition, and this state is the
best time that you can jump out of the wheel
of life and death. Youth is the most significant
time to take any jump, because the jump needs
courage, it needs energy, it needs an element of
risk, it needs daring.
Buddha says: You are strong, you are young. It
is time to arise.
To be youthful, to be young, to be fresh, is a
great benediction. It is the time of rebellion.
And if you miss your youth, it will be
increasingly difficult later on. Not that it is
impossible – it can happen even when you are
old – but it will take more arduous effort and
things will not be so easy. It is just like climbing
a mountain: when you are young it is easier,
when you become old it becomes difficult.
Breathing is hard, rising is tiring, you perspire,
you feel exhausted very soon, you will need
more rest and the journey will seem very long.
When you are young you can run up; you can
run up to the peak and each step will release
more energy in you, because to be young is to
be a reservoir of energy.
Many people come to me and ask why I am
giving sannyas to young people. ... Because of
this: youth is the time for sannyas, because
sannyas is the greatest rebellion; no other
rebellion is so great. Don’t waste your
youthfulness on other ordinary revolutions –
political, social, economic. Don’t waste your life
energy on those stupid games. Put your total
energy, focus your total energy, on a single point
– the spiritual revolution – because that is a
radical change, and other changes can follow
that change.
If your inner being changes, your whole outer
life will be completely different. It will have a
different fragrance, a different beauty, a different
grace. And when your inner being is changed
and becomes a flame of light, you will become
a light unto others too. You will become a
beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn.
Your very presence will trigger revolutions in
other people’s lives.
Buddha says: So arise! Don’t waste a single
moment! – Lest through irresolution and
idleness you lose the way.
The only danger is irresolution. A life
uncommitted, uninvolved, is not worth
calling life. It is only through commitment,
involvement, that your life attains sharpness,
your intelligence becomes a sword. Through
idleness you gather rust; your sharpness
disappears. You become old even while you are
young.
And if you remain sharp and you remain
rebellious, even when you are old you will not
be old. Only physically you will be old, but your

inner being will remain young. And that is one
of the greatest experiences of life: when your
body becomes old, but your inner being keeps
its youthfulness. That means you have not lost
track of life, that you keep in step with life. You
are not left behind, you are not lagging behind.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha,
Vol 8
Chapter #1
MIRACLE BODY REMAINS YOUNG
AS LONG AS IT DOES
There is one kind of youth that is dependent
on the body. It carries a certain intoxication
with it because youth is a novel thing. Old age,
on the other hand, is like a river when the tide
has gone out.
Have you ever noticed a river just before
monsoon, just before the rainy season? It looks
dried up. It is always broken into several tiny
streams and a great area of sandy bottom is
always visible. It is as if the river itself has
departed. There is no trace of the once-swollen
river; there is only the rubbish it has deposited
in its wake. It is as if some event had once taken
place but there is no longer any trace of it and
everything seems desolate.
Have you ever seen a river flooded by the
monsoon? Then there is a sort of mischief in
its flow – it is as if it is drunk with wine, as if
it is unable to walk straight. A river in flood is
intoxicated; a river in flood is in its youth.
The youth of the body is exactly like this.
When all the energies of the body are in flood
a young man has no faith in God. He seems to
have great faith in himself then – he does not
worry about anything at all. He contains so
much excess energy he is drunk with it. There
is no question of bowing down to anyone,
no question of surrendering to anybody. In
youth a man is mad, blind, but his condition is
pardonable, the situation is out of his control;
he is in flood.
The youth of the body comes and then it passes
on. It is like the water from the mountains
flowing through the riverbeds – the water
comes and goes, it does not remain. The energy
of the body is like this because the body is a
momentary thing, it cannot last for long. It is a
miracle that the body remains young as long as
it does.
It is a mystery of mysteries how a rushing
mountain flood can overflow so suddenly and
then drop again so quickly. The flood of energy
to the physical body will subside too. The light
that illuminates the body will soon become
darkness; the sweet music of the body will soon
become a cacophony, and the beauty of the
physical will surely vanish like a dream. The
body you saw as a beautiful oasis will turn into
a desert. It was all a transitory intoxication, all
an illusion you took to be something else. This
is why old age is filled with sadness. What was
once, has disappeared.
The whole phenomenon of youth is like a
dream you see during the night. You dream
of becoming an emperor, of possessing huge
palaces and great piles of gold coins, of ruling
an empire that stretches to distant places – and
suddenly you awaken and the dream vanishes.
For a moment you hardly trust the sorrowful
state you find yourself in – only a moment
before you were a monarch with gold, palaces
and hundreds of servants. But now all that has
disappeared.
Old people always seem somewhat surprised
and puzzled; they cannot grasp what has
happened. Where has all that energy gone?
Where have those sturdy legs gone? Where has
all that self-confidence gone? Where has that
dynamic personality gone? Their life-energy
is at a low ebb; they only see emptiness all
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around. Old people feel empty inside, hollow
within. Only the skeleton of the body remains,
and soon the time of departure will come. An
old man stands in the queue, waiting for death.
The youth of the body is transitory. The
man who puts his trust in it is heading for
disappointment because the death of the body
is a certainty. You will live in deception as long
as you put your faith in the body. And you will
be filled with sorrow when that trust is finally
and positively broken.
Youth is the kind of thing that not only
torments you in youth but in old age as well.
The presence of youth bothers you while you
are young; its absence bothers you when you
are old. And every now and then an old man’s
mind will want to return to the days of its
youth.
There is another kind of youth, the kind about
which Kabir is speaking. It is the youthfulness
of the soul. And there is yet another kind of
youth, the youth of the supreme soul – and that
is everlasting. There, the river never floods and
the water never ebbs, it is always the same.
There is no change; there is perpetuity. And
the intoxication of perpetuity is altogether
different. It is so different, it is of such a
different kind, that no matter how you try to
understand it in relation to the intoxication you
know, you will be wrong. Not only will your
idea be wrong, it will be quite the reverse of the
real thing. It will not only be different, it will
be exactly the opposite of whatever notion you
have.
The Great Secret
Chapter #3
IN OLD TIMES, NO YOUTH
The truth is that youth itself is a new
phenomenon. This youth did not exist in the
old world. In old times there was the child
and then there was the old man, but there was
no youth. Before one attained youth he was
married, married in his very childhood. So the
phenomenon of youth and its problems simply
did not arise in the past, because youth was
bypassed and one entered old age directly from
childhood. Being married at the age of ten, one
did not have the opportunity to be a youth. He
will have been a father of two children by the
time he turns twenty. So he is already saddled
with the responsibilities of an old man. A father
is never young; he is always an old man. This
was the answer that the old days had for the
problems of youth – it just did not allow the
child to go through the period of youth. And
then the children lived with their parents, and
so again there was no problem. Now twenty
to twenty-five thousand – at places, even a
hundred thousand young people live together.
Evidently an altogether new problem has
arisen. So what can we do?
The exponents of sarvodaya suggest that the
universities be disbanded and youngsters
sent back to their villages where they should
receive only primary education – what
Gandhi calls “basic education.” This much
education is enough – that they learn carpentry,
shoemaking, weaving and things like these.
Nothing more is needed.
This country will be ruined if it accepts
Gandhian teachings. Is basic education really
education? It is not education at all, it is really
an escape from education. But for them the
problem is solved; they say that this is how we
can get over the trouble.
We have to grapple with the problem; we
cannot escape it. Now that a new problem has

arisen, it will have to be solved in a new way.
But since the exponents of decadent wisdom
have no answer they plead for a return to the
times when these problems did not exist. I say
that not only India, but the whole world faces
this problem of young people.
All over the world they come together and
have become a class. The old people are not a
class. So we have to think it through and find
a solution. And we have to think some new
thoughts.
My understanding is that going back to the
village and resurrecting the gurukuls – teachers’
family schools – and asking the youngsters
to sit at the feet of the old gurus will not do.
Those times are past, and what the teacher
of old taught is of no use now. We have now
so much to learn that small gurukuls cannot
handle it.
Even the existing universities are proving
inadequate for the task, which is so vast. We
need still bigger universities. We need much
bigger libraries. Vast knowledge has been
coming into being and with such speed that it
has become difficult to communicate it to the
new generation. The gurukul of old cannot do
it; a single old teacher cannot do it. It is just out
of the question.
So the question remains – the question of
educating thousands of tens of thousands of
students. What can we do? The cry of the
obscurantist, the escapist, is: “Just close the
universities and go back to the past.” Gandhi
was very much against universities. He did not
send his own sons to schools and colleges, his
sons remained uneducated. He was so opposed
to universities. He thought that the university
and modern education were diseases to be
shunned.
This whole outlook is the result of inadequate
new thinking on their part. But I say: Work
hard, grapple with the new questions and
find new answers. In my understanding, it
is necessary to bring the new and the old
generations together. Wherever there is a
university campus, a campus of retired elders
should be attached to it. When elders retire
from their active life let them become residents
of a university campus. If there are ten
thousand young people in a university, let there
be ten thousand elders too, and let the two
classes live face-to-face with each other.
Undoubtedly the youngsters will bow down
before the understanding, the experience and
the knowledge of a lifetime that the elders will
bring with them. That is why I say, instead of
escaping, let the elders live together with the
young. It will yield valuable results.
In a university where ten thousand elders,
with the experiences of a lifetime, live with the
young, teach them, play with them, mix with
them and converse with them, there can be no
problems of youth. Let the two generations
encounter each other directly.
There is a great difficulty in this matter. We say
that there are two generations – the old and the
new. But while the new generation is a fact, the
old is not.
The old generation is not gathered together;
it is scattered all over. You can meet the new
generation living together in thousands at one
place, but where can you meet the old? So
bring the old generation together. But then new
questions will arise because the problems are
new. And they will again call for new thinking
and new answers. The difficulty is that we
prefer to go back to the past rather than do
hard work.
Beware of Socialism
Chapter #5
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OSHO’S INSIGHT
DISEASE
CANCER AND MEDITATION
DYING WITH JOY
Treating fatal diseases like cancer with meditation and laughter:
Osho’s insights on why they are caused and how should be treated.
The pseudo masters speak the language of
your desires. They say, “If you meditate,
you will become rich, you will become
successful.” That is absolute nonsense.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says to people, “If you
meditate you will become healthy, you will
become rich, you will become successful, you
will become famous. In whatever line you are
working you will be at the top.”
That’s what you want, so you say, “Okay, then it
is not much of a problem to meditate. Fifteen
minutes in the morning, fifteen minutes in the
evening...” just half an hour lost and all success
is yours. This is the most successful formula for
success – and you want to succeed. You want a
thousand and one desires to be fulfilled.
Now, there are masters who say, “Whatever
you want, you will get it through meditation.
Money will pour in. Just ask in deep meditation
and it is going to happen.”
This is speaking the language of your desire.
The truth is just the opposite. If you ask me, if
you really meditate you will be a failure in life,
an utter failure. If you are succeeding, even that
success will disappear because meditation will
make you so relaxed, so non violent, so loving,
so non competitive, so non egoistic, that who
cares for success? Meditation will make you
so joyous that who wants to bother about the
tomorrow? Who wants to stake today for the
tomorrow?
Meditation will make you inwardly rich,
certainly. Inwardly you will become ecstatic, but
outwardly it can’t be guaranteed that you will
become rich, that you will become successful,

that you will become very healthy, that no
disease will ever happen to you. That is all
sheer bullshit!
Maharshi Raman died of cancer, Ramakrishna
Paramahansa died of cancer. Can you find
greater meditators? J. Krishnamurti suffers
from many illnesses; he has been suffering from
severe headache for almost twenty years. The
headache is so severe that sometimes he wants
to hit his head against the wall. Can you find
a greater meditator? Can you find a greater
buddha alive? If J. Krishnamurti suffers from
a headache, if Raman Maharshi dies of cancer,
if Ramakrishna dies of cancer, do you think
meditation is going to give you health? Yes, in
a way it will make you more healthy and more
whole, but only in a very inner way. Deep down
you will be whole, deep down there will be an
inner spiritual health.
Raman is dying of cancer, but his eyes are full
of joy. He dies laughing. This is real health. His
body is in deep agony, but he is just a witness.
This is meditation.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha,
Vol 9
Chapter #5
MEDICINE AND MEDITATION:
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOUL
The word ‘medicine’ comes from the same
root as ‘meditation’. Both come from the same
root – that’s very good; both have something
in common. ‘Medicine’, ‘meditation’, both
come from a root which means to take care
– a caring, loving care. Medicine takes care of
your body, meditation takes care of your soul.
Certainly the Master is a physician, Buddha
used to call himself ‘the physician’. When people
would come and ask him great philosophical
questions he would simply put them aside and
he would say ‘Don’t talk nonsense. I am not
a philosopher, I am a physician.’ Nanak also
used to say ‘I am a Vaidya, I am a physician.
I don’t answer questions, I treat people. I
am not concerned about their questions, I
am concerned with their illnesses, with their
disease.’
In Taoist circles the presence of the Master
is called ‘medicine’, ‘the medicine’. You cannot
find a more medicinal energy anywhere else.
Whenever a man becomes enlightened his
surrounding is therapeutic. Just being in close
contact with him you will be healed. Not that
The word ‘medicine’ comes from
the same root as ‘meditation’. Both
come from the same root – that’s
very good; both have something in
common. ‘Medicine’, ‘meditation’, both
come from a root which means to
take care – a caring, loving care.
Medicine takes care of your body,
meditation takes care of your soul.
he will do something – no, a Master never
does anything: he has forgotten all doing. But
because he is a non-doer healing happens,
because he is a nobody he gives you space: in
that very space you become integrated, you
become centred.
Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 1
Chapter #13
SERIOUSNESS IS A DISEASE
Meditation is not a serious phenomenon.
Of course for centuries people have taken it
very seriously. That’s why millions have tried
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meditation but very few have achieved it.
Seriousness kills the whole thing. Seriousness is
a disease.
One should go into meditation cheerfully,
joyously, blissfully, with a deep longing to
enquire, a sincere longing to enquire, but no
seriousness about it
The moment you start taking life seriously you
become burdened; and religious people have
been very much burdened. Look at the faces of
your saints – Christian, Hindu, Muslim. They
look so serious, so deadly serious, as if life is a
torture, as if they are burdened with mountains,
as if they are carrying the whole responsibility
of the world. That is sheer foolishness.
Learn the art of being a child. Take life as fun,
and meditation comes very easily. And when it
is possible to enter into the world of the divine
dancing, singing, laughing, why go with a sad
face, with a long face? I don’t think that your
so-called saints have ever reached heaven. God
won’t allow them there. They are not worthy of
being allowed in heaven. Their company would
be absolutely boring. They don’t know how to
laugh, they have forgotten all laughter.
If God has been surrounded with all those
so-called saints, he must have committed
suicide. Just looking at those saints must be
such a boring affair. He must have taken shelter
in hell! Your so-called saints are not good
company at all. I have lived with them, I have
been with them, and I know: they are not good
company at all. They are like rocks, dead people
– rotten, stinking.
One has to be full of laughter then life comes to
its totality. And in laughter the ego can be put
aside so easily. In fact in laughter it disappears.
When you really laugh there is no ego.
So be cheerful and be meditative. And
meditation simply means silence – but a
laughing silence, a dancing silence, a singing
silence, a silence not cold but warm.
Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Chapter #15
CAN MEDITATION BE USEFUL FOR THE
COMMON PEOPLE TO BE HEALTHY?
It is the best thing to help people to be healthy,
because it gives you the taste of eternal life. It
leads you into the shrine of your own being
which has never known any death or any
sickness. And when you become identified
with it – which you really are – your resistance
to sickness, to disease, even to death, is
tremendously powerful. Yes, meditation can be
a great help for people for health.
Every medical institute or hospital must have
a special section, a division for meditation.
Anyone who is in hospital should also be
meditating. While he is taking medicines he
should also be meditating.
By the way, you will be surprised to know that
the words medicine and meditation both come
from the same root, which means that which
gives you health. Medicine is the physical way,
meditation is the spiritual way. The spiritual is
certainly higher, stronger.
MEDICAL DOCTORS ARE NOW TRYING
TO USE THE MEDICAL AUTOGENIC
TRAINING TO HELP PATIENTS. WHAT IS
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDITATION
AND AUTOGENIC TRAINING?
Autogenic training is good, but it is not
meditation. Autogenic training is a very
superficial relaxation, but it is basically the
mind over the body, the mind telling the body,
“Relax.”
You lie down silently, you close your eyes, and
you start feeling where the tense points are in

your body. Your knees are tense and you order
the knees to relax; your hands are tense, you
order the hands to relax. And this way you go
on all over the body, giving each part which
feels tense the order to relax. Slowly, your whole
body feels absolutely relaxed.
This is good. This is helpful for the body, but it
is not meditation because it is still the mind in
control; it is the mind dominating the body.
Meditation is the mind no more in control.
Something beyond the mind, your being has
taken control of both the mind and body.
Autogenic training can be helpful for physical
relaxation; it can also be helpful to enter into
meditation. First use the mind to relax the
body, and then finally say to the mind, “Now
you relax. I am here to take care; you just relax.”
When the mind also relaxes and there is
no mind, no thought, but absolute serenity,
silence, a tremendous blissfulness arises in you.
Meditation is the ultimate....
Autogenic training is just the beginning, but
it is not bad – it is perfectly acceptable. And it
is an encouraging sign that medical doctors all
over the West have accepted autogenic training.
That is a positive sign. Sooner or later they will
have to accept meditation too.
WHAT DOES HOLISTIC HEALTH MEAN?
Man can be divided, just for this explanation,
into three parts: the body, the mind, the soul.
If all three are perfectly in tune and there is
a well-being in all three, it becomes one wellbeing
of the total organism – from the physical,
psychological, to the spiritual. Then it is holistic
health. Your whole being has to be healthy.
There are people with healthy bodies like
Muhammad Ali, but these people don’t have
any sense of something beyond the mind.
They have trained their bodies; their bodies
are perfect animals. Their minds are not so
evolved. No Bertrand Russell will be ready for
boxing; the whole idea is ugly, it is barbarous.
Their bodies are in health, and strong, but just
like animals. Their minds are very retarded;
otherwise they would not be in such an ugly
and violent profession.
There is no question of their being meditative
or their being in touch with the beyond. The
holistic person is whole, undivided, one.
His Zorba and his Buddha have become one.
His hedonism and spiritualism have become
one.
Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries
Chapter #20
DEALING WITH CANCER
AND DEATH
[A sannyasin says she has just heard that her
father has cancer, and that he has not yet been
told that he may not have long to live.
Osho says that the father should be told of his
imminent death. The idea that one is going to
die can change one so dramatically that in fact
one’s life is prolonged, because death is also part
of our mind.... ]
Psychologists have come to feel – and medical
people feel the same too – that man lives up
to seventy years not because there is some
boundary to his life, but because for thousands
of years it has been said that man’s life consists
of seventy years – this is an auto-hypnosis:
three score and ten, the Biblical idea.
From the days of the Bible it has been repeated
that man lives three score and ten; seventy years
is the law. So by the time one is fifty, one starts
thinking that death is coming close. By the time
one is sixty one feels ‘Now I am just on the
verge’; by the time one is seventy, one is ready.
This is a repetition of an idea. Continuously
repeated for thousands of years it has become a
great force – it is an auto-hypnosis – and man
dies.
The modern research shows that there is no
need for man to die at seventy, in fact there is
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no limit to his life. He can live one hundred and
fifty years or two hundred years or even more
once this auto-hypnosis is broken.
So it is better to tell him the truth: that may
break his pattern of life, may change his
lifestyle. I have heard about a man who was
going to die; the doctors gave him a limit of
six months. He was a very rich man but a
very miserly one – he had never lived. He was
always thinking of making love to this .woman,
to purchase that car, but he would never do
it, he would continue in his old Ford. And he
was really a miser – about each single penny
he would think a thousand and one times. But
now six months hence he was going to die, so
he thought ‘What am I to do ?’
He ordered all the beautiful clothes he could
order – all custom-made, he purchased all the
beautiful cars that were available – not one,
but all – and he started falling in love with any
woman he could find. He’d always wanted to
have a world trip so he went on a world trip.
He took everything that he wanted to and he
started enjoying himself.
He forgot about life because after six months
he was going to die... and he had enough money.
After six months when he came back from his
world tour, his cancer had disappeared, and the
doctors were puzzled. They said ‘No trace of
cancer! What happened? What did you do?’
He said ‘I have not done anything – it is you!
During these six months I have lived for
the first time!’ That living for the first time
destroyed his stress – he relaxed. He went to
the Himalayas, he went to Switzerland, he
visited beautiful places. Now there was no point
in denying himself. He indulged himself –
death was coming. Maybe it would come in six
months; if he indulged too much it might come
in three months, so what? Let it come, but let
him have his day!
He uncoiled – his energies started flowing, his
blocks disappeared...
Go after one month, and first write to your
sister to give you all the details. Then go and
persuade the doctors to release the news to
him. This is not fair at all.
A man needs to be informed. This is such a
major thing in his life, it should not be kept
secret. His death is his death – he has to know
about it.
This Is It
Chapter #21

OSHO’S INSIGHT
DRUGS
a VIOLENT EFFORT
TO AWAKEN THE IDIOT
Shortcut to false Samadhi
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These two words are very meaningful:
“extent” and “intensity”. When you see
the world through the senses, the brain and
the mind, the world is very dull. It has no
luminosity in it, dusty, and soon it becomes
boring, and one feels fed up: the same trees, the
same people, the same actions – everything just
monotonous and a rut. It is not so.
Sometimes in LSD, or marijuana or hashish,
suddenly the tree becomes more greener. You
have never known it, that the tree was so green
or the rose was so rosy.
When Aldous Huxley first took LSD, he sat
before a chair. Suddenly, the chair became one
of the most beautiful objects in the world, and
that chair has remained in his room for years
and he had never looked at it. It was like a
prism, many shades, many colours coming out
of it; it was like a diamond. The chair was no
more the same chair. Huxley was fascinated
with the chair. He couldn’t believe what
happens when somebody takes a drug.
Drugs are a violent effort to awake the idiots.
So you shock them, and they just open their
eyes a slightly, and just look... “Yes!” And yet,
the world is so beautiful, unbelievably beautiful,
and then you are hooked, because then you

think that it is because of the drugs that the
world is so beautiful. Now, when you are
back and the trip is over, the world will look
even dirtier and duller than ever, because now
you have a comparison in mind. For certain
moments it became a beautiful phenomenon; it
was paradise itself. Even a person like Aldous
Huxley got mixed up, and he thought that this
was the samadhi Patanjali is talking about, and
Kabir attained, and Buddha, and all the mystics
of the world considered this is the samadhi.
Drugs can give you a false sense of samadhi,
but you are still in the prison. Only because of
the drug shock your mechanism functions with
alertness, but this alertness will not be for long.
If you use it more and more, then the quantity
of the drug has to be raised higher and higher,
because with the same amount you cannot
shock the idiots again. They become attuned to
it, then more and more quantities are needed.
Drugs work only just like this.
Once Mulla Nasruddin purchased a mule, and
he would not move, and he did everything...
And the man from whom he purchased it
told him not to beat the mule because he was
very sensitive. So he prayed, pursued and did
everything, whatever he could do: it would
not move, it would not listen. So he called the
man: he said, “What type of mule have you
given to me?” The man came with a stick and
hit the mule hard on the head. Nasruddin said,
“This is too much you had told me not to hit
him.” The man said, “I am not hitting it. Just to
get his attention...” and immediately the mule
started.
The idiots are there: LSD hits like a stick. For
a few moments you get their attention, you
have shocked them. The whole world becomes
beautiful. But this is nothing, absolutely
nothing. If you can attain a single moment of
nirvichara, then you will be able to know. The
world becomes a million times more beautiful
than any LSD can give you a glimpse. And it is
not because you hit the mules on the head, it is
simply that you are no more inside the mules,
you have come out, you have dropped the
idiots. You face reality with your total nudity.
With no thoughts, you are nude. With no
thoughts who are you? – a Hindu, a Muslim, a
Christian, a communist? Who are you without
thoughts? – a man, a woman? Who are you
without thoughts? – religious, irreligious?
You are nobody without thoughts. All your
clothes have dropped. You are simply a nudity,
a purity, an emptiness. Then the perception is
clear, and with that clarity comes extent and
intensity. Now you can look at the vast expanse
of existence. Now there is no barrier to your
perception; your eyes have become infinite.
Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3
Chapter #9
VISIONS, HALLUCINATIONS
NO REALITY
Drugs cannot give you reality. They can
only give you very beautiful dreams. Or
even horrible dreams – it depends on you,
the dreamer. You can hypnotise yourself
into a particular dream; there are hypnotic
techniques. If you use them you will be in a
state of autohypnosis, you will start feeling
things, many things, but once you stop the
technique, the whole thing will disappear. It
was just a mental trick you were playing: you
were dreaming, it was your imagination.
If you really grow into awareness, it cannot
be lost. That is the distinction between real
methods and false methods. A real method is
a growth method; it is not simply a vision. You
grow in it; the vision comes because you have
grown to a new state of mind.
With drugs, or with a false technique, you never
grow. A certain vision comes to you, but you

emain the same. When you are not using the
drug, or the technique, the vision will disappear.
It was produced chemically; it was not coming
through your own growth. Remember always,
only growth matters. Visions are of no use.
Even if you see God, it is meaningless. If you
remain the same, then your God is nothing but
a by-product of your own imagination. Visions
are not meaningful. Christianity has placed too
much emphasis on them.
That’s why drugs have become so prevalent
in the West – because they can create visions
easily. If you are looking for visions, then I will
say that meditation is a waste of time; drugs
are better. They give you visions easily. But you
remain the same. Or, rather, you may even fall
down from your ordinary state of mind; you
may deteriorate.
With meditation, whatever is attained remains
with you. If you stop the technique you will not
proceed further, but whatever you have attained
will remain with you. It cannot be lost; a real
growth can never be lost. It is not something
added to you that you can lose. It is you who
has grown.
For example, if you have become a young man
you cannot revive your childhood again. It is a
growth. But if a child is simply dreaming that
he has become a young man, he will fall down.
When he awakens from his dream he will be
a child again. That is the criterion to judge
whether something has been a growth or it is
just a dream. If it is a dream, it will be lost. If it
has been growth, it will remain with you.
The Eternal Quest
Chapter #3
FALSE ILLUSIONS OR
REAL AWARENESS
I am against his supporting drugs to transform
man. That is dangerous.
In fact, politicians are idiots; otherwise they
would have used this man; he would have
proved of immense help to them. He would
have shown them how to enslave people forever.
Drugs can be created – and people can be made
addicted to those drugs – which will cancel all
revolutions, all rebellions. Anything that goes
against the status quo, the drug will prevent it.
I am against him for other reasons too –
because drugs can only change the mind,
and man is not only the mind. He is
something more. The real transformation
has to happen in that something more – in
consciousness. And no drug can even touch
consciousness. It can change the mechanism
of the mind, the chemistry of the mind. It
can give you hallucinations of samadhi, of
nirvana, enlightenment; but those are only
hallucinations, they are not true.
One day you miss your injection and they are
gone and you are back in the dumps. And when
somebody falls from nirvana, he is going to
have multiple fractures – everything destroyed.
If you are going to fall, it is better never to try
climbing so high. It is better to crawl on the
earth if you are going to fall; at least you won’t
have any fractures. Drugs can take you very
high but you will have to come back down; it
was the drug, not you.
Meditation changes not your mind, but you,
your consciousness.
And the change comes with your own
awareness. Nobody can fall from awareness.
The greater the awareness, the less is the
possibility of falling. When awareness is
complete, entire, then there is no way you can
fall.
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You have arrived. This feeling of arriving can be
given by drugs; hence the influence of alcohol,
marijuana, LSD, opium – and there have been
hundreds of other drugs around the world.
They have always been used. And Timothy
Leary is not saying anything new: for thousands
of years there have been people who have not
only been talking about them, but have been
using them and thinking that they are reaching
closer and closer to paradise.
In India you can find thousands of Hindu
sannyasins taking all kinds of drugs, to such
a point that they become so accustomed to
drugs that drugs don’t affect them. Then they
start keeping dangerous snakes, cobras and
other kinds, with them, because only a cobra
bite on their tongue will give them a little bit
of hallucination. A cobra bite will kill you; to
them it is just a drug – for a few hours they fly
high. In fact there are monks in India – if they
bite you, you will die, their whole body, their
whole chemistry has become so poisoned.
FROM FALSE SAMADHI
TO REAL BLISS
From Darkness to Light
Chapter #15
The drugs are as old as humanity itself, and
they certainly fulfill something of immense
value. I am against drugs, but my being against
drugs is for the same reason as for thousands of
years people have been addicted to the drugs.
It may seem very strange. The drugs are capable
of giving you a hallucinatory experience beyond
the mundane world. That is the experience that
is being searched through meditation.
Meditation brings you to the real experience,
and drugs give you just a hallucination, a
dream-like experience but very similar. To
meditate is difficult. The drug is cheap. But the
attraction for drugs is spiritual.
Man is not satisfied with his mundane
existence. He wants to know something more.
He wants to be something more. Just the
ordinary life seems so flat, so meaningless, that
if this is all then suicide seems to be the only
way out of it. It gives no ecstasy, no joy. On the
The drug experience is so cheap
and the meditation experience is
so costly, because you have to go
through such effort. Then by and
by the mind starts choosing the
cheaper one
contrary, it goes on piling you up with more
and more misery, anxiety, disease, old age and,
finally, death.
From the cradle to the grave, the ordinary life is
just a drag. People go on living it because they
are cowards. Otherwise they would commit
suicide. They don’t have enough courage to
commit suicide. But this is not something one
can rejoice in.
You can drag on but you cannot call it living.
There is no dance or vitality in it, no colour in
it. It is just a vast desert spreading as far as you
can see, with no oasis anywhere.
I am reminded of one of dreams Leo Tolstoy’s.
It is a rare dream. It is also unique that it went
on repeating continuously almost his entire life.
As long as he could remember, the dream was
happening. And the dream is very strange.
In his dream he sees a vast desert and two
gumboots without anybody in them, just the
two gumboots without any feet inside them, are
walking, and they go on walking, and there is

no end to this walk. The desert is endless. And
he always woke up perspiring, his heart beating
louder, gripped* with great fear. Without going
to any psychoanalyst, he knew the meaning. He
himself was a genius. He knew that this is his
life, this is not a dream. It is not even symbolic.
It is exactly his life. Where he is going?
Wherever he goes he will end in the grave.
Who is going he does not know. The gumboots
are empty.
He is unaware of anybody inside. He is
unacquainted with the person who is wearing
the gumboots. He is invisible. All that is visible
is the gumboots and the desert, and the tedious
journey, pointless, meaningless.
This is the reason that drugs have attracted
man since the very beginning. And they have
at least given him temporary relief. Only a
few people tried meditation. And my own
understanding is, these people also tried
meditation because drugs at a point become
useless. You become immune.
Initially they give you tremendous experiences,
but soon they become almost part of your body
chemistry. Then if you don’t take them you are
in trouble. Your whole chemistry wants them.
If you take them, you gain nothing. You go on
increasing the doses.
In India where the experiments with drugs
must have been the oldest, because the oldest
scripture in the world is the Rigveda*, the
religious source book of the Hindus, it talks
about a certain drug, Somras*. Because of
this Somras*, Aldous Huxley has called the
ultimate drug one day, when LSD is refined and
there is no side effect, it will be called Soma.
The name is from the Rigveda*.
The Rigveda* according to Hindus is ninety
thousand years old, and nobody has been
able to prove that they are wrong because
their arguments for its old age are almost
irrefutable. They are not logical, otherwise it
would have been easy. They are astronomical.
In the Rigveda* there is a description of a
certain combination of stars that had happened
according to modern astronomers also ninety
thousand years before. Now there is no way for
the people who were writing the the Rigveda*
to describe it in absolute detail unless they have
seen it.
Now this is such an evidence that you cannot
do anything about it. The astronomers say for
ninety thousand years that combination has not
been again in the sky. So certainly whoever was
writing it was fully aware of the combination
of stars at that time. For ninety thousand years
Hindus have accepted drugs almost as part of
their religious ceremonies. It was only under
the British regime that drugs created trouble,
but because they were part of a religious
ritual, which is the ancientmost religion in
the world, even the British government was
afraid to interfere with it. It continued. Even
in my childhood all drugs were available in the
market. There was no question of any illegality.
And every school of Hindu religion was using
drugs, but they were using it in a very scientific
way.
They will give the drug in a certain quantity,
create a certain experience in the man, and then
when he comes out of it will tell him that, “This
was only an illusion. It was simply because of
the drug, because of the chemistry, your mind
experienced. “Would you like to experience it
in its reality? If the illusion is so beautiful, you
can think how much more the reality would
be. And the experience created by the drug lost
for a few hours, and again you are back to the
same old rotten world. But if the experience is
real, it is yours forever. You never lose it. It is
not something that has happened to you, it is
something that was already in you; you have
discovered it.” So I don’t see that it was wrong
to use drugs in this way. In fact, this should be
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The drugs are as old as humanity itself, and they certainly fulfill something
of immense value. I am against drugs, but my being against drugs is for the
same reason as for thousands of years people have been addicted to the
drugs.
the approach around the world for the modern
man. And now we have more advanced drugs,
synthetically made, and we are capable of
purifying them even more. We can make drugs
which have no negative effects at all. We can
make drugs which are not addictive.
And we can have in every hospital, in every
university, a certain department which teaches
people how to move from drug to meditation.
Just to talk about meditation remains simply
verbal. There is no way through words to give
you any experience. But drugs are immensely
useful.
The words can explain to you what meditation
is, the drug can give you an hallucinatory
experience of it. And then you can be initiated
into a method. And now you will not be
moving in darkness. Now you know that
something... if an ordinary drug can do so
much, then there must be some way to find
an authentic transformation, to experience it
without any dependence on anything.
So the drug simply opens up a door and helps
you to understand that man’s life and his
experience need not be confined to the ordinary
mundane world – he can fly high towards the
stars – that he is capable of knowing things
which are not ordinarily available.
Under proper guidance – medical, meditational
– drugs can be of immense help.
I said I am against drugs because if they become
addictive then they will be the most destructive
for your journey towards the self. Then you
become enchanted into hallucinations.
The Last Testament, Vol 4
Chapter #6

OSHO’S INSIGHT
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
IMPOSSIBLE TO DESTROY NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
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Existence is enough unto itself; it does not
need any outside agency. It has its own
energy, it has its own intelligence, it has its own
life.
Existence needs no hypothetical God.
And God doesn’t help anything.
Remember one fundamental principle of all
sane thinking: Don’t bring in a hypothesis
which doesn’t help to solve anything. On the
contrary, because of the hypothesis a thousand
other problems start arising. A hypothesis is
brought in to solve problems, not to increase
them.
God is the most useless hypothesis ever
propounded by man. Because of Him there
has been so much trouble, so many crusades, so
many butcherings, so many people slaughtered,
so many women raped – in the name of God.
Please just flush him down the toilet.
Forget about God.
Existence is enough unto itself.
That’s what I teach.
And then we cannot throw the responsibility
on someone else: there is no God, then the
whole responsibility falls on us. That is my
hidden desire.
Why am I throwing God down the toilet?
Because I want man to understand that he

is responsible. Because man has the highest
consciousness in the whole existence, you
should accept the greatest responsibility. Stars,
trees, animals, birds are far below you; you
cannot throw the responsibility on them.
To be conscious means you are mature enough
now to accept all responsibility for yourself and
for the existence that surrounds you.
Then the explosion in the gas factory in
Bhopal is our responsibility. It was some stupid
people there who were not careful enough; it
was carelessness. And I would not like these
people to be punished in hell – no, there is
no hell – they should be punished herenow
such an accident does not happen again. There
are thousands of similar factories around the
world: if it can happen in one factory it can
happen in any factory. And this was only a
poisonous gas. Now there are nuclear plants:
just one man’s carelessness and the world can be
finished and destroyed.
You have created things which are so
dangerous, but you have not created a
comparable consciousness which can be careful
about these things.
If you create nuclear weapons... I am not
against them because those nuclear weapons
can prove creative, immensely creative.
Anything that can be destructive can always be
creative – it all depends on you. The sword in
your hand can kill somebody and can also save
somebody. The sword is neutral; it is up to you
how you use it.
I am not against atomic, nuclear, and other
weapons. Though they are tremendously
dangerous in the hands of man as he is today,
but still I say we cannot go back: we cannot
dispose of nuclear weapons. That is impossible,
because movement backwards is impossible;
we can only go forwards. Then what has to be
done?
All over the world great concern is being shown
by politicians, the intelligentsia, and other
humanitarian people that there should be some
stop put to it: no more piling up of weapons.
Nobody can stop it, it is impossible, and what
they are saying is not the right solution. I don’t
agree with it.
I say: Increase man’s awareness in the same
proportion as he has increased his dangerous
powers, and there is no problem.
Don’t put a sword in a child’s hand – that’s true
– but let the child learn with a wooden sword.
Let him mature, let him become more aware. I
am not in favour of disposing of the sword. It
cannot be done in the very nature of things.
In the whole history of man is there any
precedent where we have gone back a single
step on anything? It is against the law of
existence to go backwards.
So don’t just hit your head against a wall, do
something else. Increase man’s consciousness,
his awareness.
From Personality to Individuality
Chapter #11
NEW MAN, NEW WAY TO DEAL
WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The new man contains the whole future of
humanity. The old man is bound to die. He has
prepared his own grave – he is digging it every
moment, deeper and deeper. What do you
think Ronald Reagan is doing? Digging a grave
for humanity as deep as possible. These people
seem to be afraid even of dead people – that if
the grave is not deep enough, they may come
back; they may come back alive.
Nuclear weapons and all destructive measures
are a preparation for a global suicide. The
old man has decided to die. It is up to the
intelligent people in the world to disconnect

from the old man before he destroys you too...
to disconnect yourself from old traditions, old
religions, old nations, old ideologies.
For the first time, the old is no longer gold. The
old is the rotten corpse of an ugly past. It is a
great responsibility for the new generation, for
the young people to renounce the past.
In the past, religions used to renounce the
world. I teach you to love the world so that it
can be saved, and to renounce the past totally
and irrevocably, to be discontinuous.
The new man is not an improvement upon the
old; he is not a continuous phenomenon, not
a refinement. The new man is the declaration
of the death of the old, and the birth of an
absolutely fresh man – unconditioned, without
any nation, without any religion, without any
discriminations of men and women, of black
and white, of East and West, or North and
South.
The new man is a manifesto of one humanity.
It is the greatest revolution the world has ever
seen.
You have heard about the miracle that Moses
parted the sea in two parts. That miracle is
nothing. I want to part humanity, the whole
ocean of humanity divided in two parts: the old
and the new.
The new will love this life, this world. The new
will learn the art of living, loving and dying.
The new will not be concerned about heaven
and hell, sin and virtue. The new man will be
concerned about how to increase the joys of
life, the pleasures of life – more flowers, more
beauty, more humanity, more compassion. And
we have the capacity and the potential to make
this planet a paradise, and to make this moment
the greatest ecstasy of your life.
Let the old die. Let the old be led by people like
Ronald Reagan. Let the blind people follow the
blind.
But those who have a younger spirit – and
when I say “a younger spirit,” it includes even
those old people who are not old in spirit; and
it does not include even the young people who
are old in spirit. The spiritually young are going
to be the new man.
The new man is not a hope: You are already
pregnant with it. My work is just to make you
aware that the new man has already arrived.
My work is to help you to recognise him and to
respect him.
You are asking, Maneesha: “What is our
relationship to the new man?” There is no
relationship between you and the new man
because you are the new man. You just have to
drop all the dust that has gathered down the
ages on the mirror of your consciousness.
The new man is not someone from another
planet. The new man is you in your freshness,
in your silences of the heart, in your depth of
meditation, in your beautiful spaces of love,
in your songs of joy, in your dances of ecstasy,
in your love of this earth. No religion teaches
you to love this earth – and this earth is your
mother, and these trees are your brothers, and
these stars are your friends.
You are not going to have a relationship
with the new man because that would be a
separation; all relationships separate. You will
be the new man. In my vision you are already
on the path of the new man. You have started
the journey, although you are not fully awake;
but as you will see the old man moving more
and more towards the graveyard, it will become
easier for you to renounce him and his ways of
life, his churches, his synagogues, his temples,
his gods, his holy scriptures.
Your holy scripture is your whole life,
and nobody else can write it – you have to
write it. You come with an empty book, and it
depends on you what you make of it. Birth is
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not life; it is only an opportunity given to you
to create life... to create a life as beautiful, as
glorious, as loving as you can imagine, as you
can dream.
The new man’s dreams and his reality will be
one because his dreams will be rooted here in
this earth. They will bring flowers and fruits.
They will not be just dreams – they will make
the world a dreamland.
The Golden Future
Chapter #32
STOP BEFORE GLOBAL SUICIDE,
MEDITATE!
The world is certainly preparing for a global
suicide; about that there are not two opinions –
it is becoming more and more certain every day.
Naturally you think you have to do something
to prevent it. It is beyond your doing; whatever
you do will bring it closer.
What can you do? The power is not in
your hands; the power is in hands which
are absolutely stubborn, and they don’t care
what happens to humanity. Their ego is their
supreme value, the only value. Even though it
means their own destruction, they will take
the risk; they will destroy whoever they think is
their enemy.
Initially, when this kind of war material was in
the hands of two countries, the Soviet Union
and America, there was some possibility that
they could come to some negotiation. Now
with the power of nuclear weapons in five
countries, the possibility of negotiation has
become more difficult, more complicated. And
by the end of this century, the power will be in
twenty-five countries’ hands. Then the question
of negotiation does not arise.
My suggestion is: time is certainly very short,
but it is enough to become enlightened, and it
is enough to spread an enlightened atmosphere
around the world. That is the only possibility.
If we can make the people of the world ... not
the politicians, leave them aside; they have the
power but without the consent of the people
of the world, their power is not of much use.
If armies simply say, “No, we are not going to
use nuclear weapons,” if the scientists simply
say, “No, we are not going to produce any more
nuclear weapons,” if the whole intelligentsia of
the world unanimously creates a great uproar:
“It is not a question of war; wars we have seen
in thousands – they have been destructive, but
they have not destroyed all life. This is not war,
this is simple suicide!”
But these people: the scientists, the armies,
the intelligentsia, the poets, the musicians, the
mystics, the painters, the actors – the people
who have a certain impact on the masses,
although they don’t have any power except
their individuality and their creativity – if they
join hands together, this global suicide can be
avoided. Not only can suicide be avoided, but
with the same energy that was going to destroy
all life, the planet can be turned into a paradise.
Energy is neutral – it can destroy, it can create.
Nobody has thought: What can be the creative
use of atomic energy? What can be the creative
use of nuclear weapons? If the destructive
power is so great, the power for creation will
be equally great. Hence, I say not only can
global suicide be avoided, but we can bring
into existence a new dawn, a new man, a new
humanity.
Perhaps for the first time there can be an
authentic civilisation which loves peace, which
is compassionate, which is creative, which drops
all discriminations of nations, religions, races,
and makes this whole globe one family.
Once there are no discriminations of religions,
races, nations, war becomes impossible.
We have to avoid the suicide that is oncoming
and we have to change the whole structure of

the world so that war itself becomes impossible.
All our efforts, all our energies ... seventyfive
per cent of human energy is pouring into
creating war material. We are living only on
twenty-five per cent of our energy. If that
seventy-five per cent is also released for living,
there will be no poverty, there will be no
sickness. Life can be prolonged. People can
live young till their last breath; they need not
become old.
All this is possible, and for this, there is enough
time. But you have to understand perfectly well:
anything on your part as a protest is not going
to help. You will be simply crushed, ignored ....
Pacifists have existed for centuries; they have
not been able to avoid any war.
In fact I have seen so many processions of
protest and I have always wondered ... the
people who protested were all violent: their
slogans were violent, their gestures were violent.
If they had power in their hands, they would
start killing those people whom they think are
warmongers. They are doing the same thing,
they are not peaceful people; they may be
pacifist in ideology, but they don’t know what
peace is.
I want my people to know the peace, to know
the silence, to know the beauty of their inner
being, the blissfulness and love and light, and
spread it. And spreading it is not going to be
a missionary thing – you are not to convert
anybody. Just your very presence, just your
loving eyes, your peaceful existence – the
charisma that arises with enlightenment,
a certain different wavelength that the
enlightened man starts radiating around him,
changes people’s hearts without their knowing.
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You cannot find a better situation in which to meditate than while flying at a high
altitude. The higher the altitude, the easier is the meditation. Hence, for centuries,
meditators have been moving to the Himalayas to find a high altitude.
When gravitation is less and the earth is very far away, many pulls of
the earth are far away. You are far away from the corrupted society
that man has built. You are surrounded by clouds and the stars and
the moon and the sun and the vast space. So do one thing: start
feeling one with that vastness, and do it in three steps. The first step
is: for a few minutes just think that you are becoming bigger….you
are filling the whole plane. Then the second step: start feeling that you
are becoming even bigger, bigger than the plane, in fact the plane is
now inside you. And the third step: feel that you have expanded into the
whole sky. Now these clouds that are moving, and the moon and the stars
– they are moving in you; you are huge, unlimited.
This feeling will become your meditation, and you will feel completely relaxed and non-tense.
Osho
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
Chapter #20
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CHINA
CONFUCIUS, MAO AND LAO TZU
WHO REPRESENTS CHINA?
Lao Tzu
Ancient spiritual China of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu and today’s modern, aggressive and
world power China. Osho’s comments on ancient China and
how they compare with today’s China.
Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, were certainly
great Masters who have walked on the earth
– rare human beings – but they have not made a
clear-cut way so that others can also follow. No
religion came into being because of these three great
Masters. It remained a philosophy. They attracted
people, but the attraction never went beyond
intellect. And there is a reason for it.
China has lived under the influence of Confucius,
and Confucius was exactly an ancient Karl Marx,
a sociologist of great insight, but he was not a
religious master. He gave China its social structure,
he gave China the principles of behaviour and
etiquette, but he never gave anything that leads to
interiority. And Confucius’ influence is the greatest
in China.
It is because of Confucius that communism
became important. They fitted with each other very
intimately, with no contradiction.
Communism cannot fit with Hinduism,
communism cannot fit with Jainism, but it can fit
with Confucianism, because Confucianism is not
a religion; it is only a sociology, and there is no
conflict between Confucius and Karl Marx. Now
Confucius is twenty-five centuries older than Karl
Marx, but he has said everything essential that Karl
Marx repeats after twenty-five centuries. And the
moment China discovered communism it felt that it
was just what they had always been thinking about.
So communism is not just accidental, and not
imported. Although it looks like it is imported, it
is not imported; it is Confucius and his teaching,

turning and taking a new phase, a new colour.
This is the reason why China and Russia could not
stay together. Both are communist countries, both
believe in Karl Marx and Das Kapital, but Russia
does not have the background of Confucius, while
China has a long tradition of Confucianism. So
Russian communism is pure Marxian. Chinese
communism is just communism for name’s sake, it is
basically ninety per cent Confucianism.
And these three great Masters remained individuals.
Once in a while somebody was impressed by their
writings, but it remained cerebral, so there is no
hope in the near future of Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu
or Lao Tzu being born again in China, or their
influence in any way changing the course of China’s
history, because in fact they have never been of any
great importance in China’s mind.
Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries.
Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because
Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous
qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only
a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner
consciousness is concerned, no experience, no idea
who he was, but he had planned for the society
perfectly well, a very mannered, cultured society.
Hearing that Lao Tzu was nearby, living in a cave
beyond the lake, he went to see him. A few of his
disciples also went, but he told them, “You wait
outside the cave.” They said, “Why? It will be good,
we can listen.” He said, “You don’t understand. I will
tell you the reason later on. Let me go first. If I feel
it is right I will call you in.”
They stayed outside, Confucius went in. Lao Tzu
was sitting silently. He did not even tell Confucius
to sit down, and Confucius was a man of manners,
etiquette. He had not expected that a great sage,
Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not even
greet confucius. He simply sat down, looking at
Confucius, and Confucius said, “Sir, don’t you
believe in good manners?”
Lao Tzu laughed. He said, ‘I thought you knew
about manners – what is the need for me to tell
you? If you feel like sitting, you will sit down! You
are not a man who does not know about manners.
If you wish to stand up, it is my etiquette not to
disturb you. You can stand up!” Confucius said,
“But you... you did not even say hello.” Lao Tzu said,
“I said it. You could not hear it. It was a test: I said
it silently. I wanted to know whether the famous
philosopher Confucius understands silence or
not. So you understand only words – that much is
decided! And you have expectations. You cannot sit
down on your own, you have to be told.
“This cave does not belong to me. When I came
here, nobody said ‘sit down,’ because nobody was
here. Why should I say it? It is not my cave, nothing
belongs to me. Just the way I am sitting, you can sit
down. You are not a child to be told.”
Confucius had never met such a man. And on each
point he was rebuffed badly. Then Lao Tzu said,
“If you really want to learn anything, first go and
renounce all the idiots you have collected as your
disciples. You don’t know anything and you have
thousands of disciples. It is hilarious! You just
go and tell them the truth, that you don’t know
anything, and then come, because I teach only if
somebody does not know. If he knows it already,
why should he bother me? An old man... Leave me
alone!”
Confucius came out, and he had not the courage to
say to his disciples that he did not know. He had
thousands of disciples, he was the most famous man
at that time. Very few people knew about Lao Tzu.
Confucius has remained a shadow over the whole
of Chinese history. It is only somewhere in the
footnotes that you can find the name of Lao Tzu.
Confucius was not courageous enough to say “I do
not know.” The disciples said “You didn’t ask us to
come in. He said, “It was good that I didn’t ask you
to come in. And please don’t ask the reason. That
man is not a man; he is a dragon. He is dangerous,
avoid him as far as possible. This is my first and last
meeting with that old man!”
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the cave was very cool, but he was perspiring. The
disciples said, “But why are you perspiring?” He
said, “I am alive – that’s enough! Just take me away
from here.” Lao Tzu has never been a great influence.
He was a silent man. Once in a while somebody
would come who was courageous enough to be with
him He was not prepared to come down to meet
you, to be with you and to be amongst you. It simply
was not his characteristic. He would remain on top
of the hill. You would have to go to the hilltop, he
was not going to come into the valley. He was not
like a man, which I am.
I can come to any depth where you are hiding and
hold your head and pull you out. He was not that
kind of man; he would simply sit on top of the hill.
Anybody who wants... but who wants to go that far?
He never wrote a single word, he never gave a
single speech – just a few conversations at random,
and only if somebody asked something. And then
too, he was not civil, as is expected of Masters.
Confucius was right that he was a dragon. He
would kill you!
Chuang Tzu is a very important person in the
history of the whole world, not only China. There
is not a single person in all history who can be
compared with Chuang Tzu.
He wrote the most absurd parables. To understand
his parables you will have to be something close to
his consciousness, otherwise you will understand
those parables as jokes. Those parables are the most
significant religious stories, but they are absurd.
They contradict – the same story goes into so
many contradictions, you are at a loss to figure out
what he wants or where is the conclusion, or what
is the meaning of it all. But if you can meditate
and with meditative eyes look at his stories, you
will be surprised: he is saying things which cannot
be said through words, and just to say them he
has created all those contradictions. Figuring out
those contradictions you will suddenly come to
understand a truth which was not said in the story
at all, but if you try to figure out the contradiction
meditatively, that truth is bound to be revealed to
you. It is just there, but he has not said it.
He was certainly the strangest creator of parables.
There are parables of Aesop; in India there are
parables of Panchatantra – beautiful stories – but
all have simple mottos, simple teachings, there is
nothing great about them. They explain to you a
certain truth. But Chuang Tzu seems mad to anyone
who reads him, hence he was never an influence.
How could he be an influence? People were even
afraid to go to him because he would say things that
if they got into your head, you would become crazy.
What to do about those things?
For example, he would say, “Last night I slept and
dreamed that I had become a butterfly. I have been
wondering since I woke up in the morning: perhaps
the butterfly has gone to sleep and is dreaming that
she has become Chuang Tzu. What is your opinion?
Which is true? Chuang Tzu dreaming himself as a
butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming herself as Chuang
Tzu – what is the truth?”
Now, if this gets into your mind, you are going to be
puzzled, and you had not come to get puzzled. You
are already confused and this man is confusing you
even more.
So only very rarely a person would be able....
When he used to tell this story to anybody, that
was enough, and the man would escape. “Nobody
knows. Even I don’t know whether I am dreaming
you are here or you are dreaming I am here. This is
beyond me. And I am not such a philosopher. You
meditate over it. If you come to any conclusion, I
live just nearby, and you can inform me. This is my
name, but please don’t harass me.
Just one young man, when he told this story,
said, “Wait. I have the answer.” Chuang Tzu said,
“Really?” He said, “Yes.” He went out. He had
brought a bucket of ice-cold water and he poured it
on Chuang Tzu and said, “Wake up!”
Chuang Tzu said, “Really great! I was waiting for
something like this answer. You are accepted as my
disciple. You are the right man.”

That’s what has to be done: if somebody is talking
about dream and he became a butterfly or a
butterfly became a dream, all that he needs is to
have a bucket of ice-cold water thrown on him so
he wakes up, whoever he is. If he is Chuang Tzu, he
will be Chuang Tzu. If he is a butterfly, he will be a
butterfly. Things will be cleared. “Anyway, the sleep
has to be broken.” He said, “This answer was so
close to the story but it never happened to anybody.
Thousands have heard the story, and they laugh and
they talk about it and they tell it to each other, and
it has spread all over the country; but not a single
man thought of a single solution. All that is needed
is to wake the man up, whoever he is. Waking up
will be decisive.
Only that can be decisive.” So the young man said,
“Have I to do anything more or are you satisfied?”
Chuang Tzu said, “I am perfectly satisfied, because
more will be too much. You just sit down. You are
accepted.” He said, “I had come to be accepted. I
have listened to great masters, but I have not found
anything great. I have been to many monasteries,
but all is ordinary. Then I heard about your
story and then I thought, ‘Here is something
extraordinary. Now I have to find this man.’”
And all his stories are like that.... Now how many
people can you influence?
So these people remained peaks, reaching to the
stars, but beyond human intelligence. They were
never influential in China. In fact, listening to me
you have become aware of their names. Otherwise,
ordinarily nobody bothers about Chuang Tzu, Lieh
Tzu or Lao Tzu. Nobody has written commentaries
on these people. I am the only man who has spoken
for years continuously...
I spoke for one year continuously on Lao Tzu, every
day. His book is very small, he wrote it in three
days. I spoke on it one year in Hindi, and then
when people from outside started coming, I spoke
again on a few chosen parts. And you know me –
my memory is not good, so I forgot what I said in
Hindi – I had to interpret it again. So the Hindi
books are being translated and you will be puzzled,
because what I have said in Hindi I have not said
in English, and what I have said in English I have
not said in Hindi. In fact, there was a gap of four,
five years between the two series, and I never look
back to what I said yesterday, and I don’t feel any
obligation to remain consistent with it.
Certainly, what I said in English is more up to date,
because it is five years afterwards. And this gives me
an immense freedom. Any day if it happens to me, I
can start speaking on Lao Tzu again, because I don’t
know now what I have spoken on him – whether in
Hindi or English. Both are forgotten. I can give you
a third commentary.
Otherwise, these peoples’ names are not known –
what to say about their influence.
So in China it seems very difficult. The meeting of
Confucius and Karl Marx is very dangerous. They
are both materialists, they both believe only in
certain moral rules, and they don’t think that there
is anything beyond this life.
In Russia, there is more possibility that we may have
many more sannyasins. China seems to be far away;
it is more difficult to penetrate the Chinese skull. It
is made hard, first by Confucius and now it has got
a new coating – more modern, more contemporary
– of Marxism.
But nobody can deny the fact that perhaps, if China
becomes richer, more affluent, more educated, more
open to the outside world – as is happening, it is
opening its doors to the outside world-then there
is a possibility sometime in the future that the
Chinese youth can be approached.
But China is the most difficult country of all the
countries for the transformation of man.
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RARE BEINGS
Nikos Kazantzakis
EXPRESSING HIS SUPPRESSION IN
ZORBA THE GREEK
The author of Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis, was totally different from the carefree,
singing, dancing, loving and laughing character that he created, says Osho.
Nikos Kazantzakis represents you – each human
being. He was a rare man, but a victim of the
entire past. He was a very sensitive man – that’s why
the split became very clear; a very intelligent man, he
could see he was divided. That created great inner
torture for him.
To be divided against yourself is hell, fighting with
yourself is continuous torture. You want to do
something – that is one part of you – and the second
part says, “No, you cannot do it. It is sin.”
How can you be at peace with yourself? And one
who is not at peace with himself cannot be at peace
with society, with culture, and finally with existence.
The individual is the very brick of the whole
existence.
It is very significant to understand Nikos Kazantzakis.
He was a Greek, and the Greeks have always been
very much body-oriented. The whole history of
Greece is full of love for your own body.
Do you know that the woman in Greece was not
thought to be beautiful? Just as everywhere else men
managed and dominated societies, Greece was also
male chauvinist, but with a difference. Women have
been condemned everywhere, but not as much as
in Greece. All Greek statues are of men. The whole
sculpture is devoted to the beauty of the male body.
You are bound to be surprised that this caused
even people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle – the
highest you can conceive in intelligence – to become
homosexuals. If a man loves his body, naturally he
will love another man’s body. The woman is so
condemned that she is almost treated as subhuman.
In Athens perhaps democracy has flowered the best,
but it was only for men; women had no votes.
Nikos Kazantzakis represents both the things. One
is his Greek mind, which is self-loving, materialist.
In the West only Greece has produced materialistic
philosophies, and Epicurus is the peak. So his Greek
mind is Zorba – that’s why he calls his book Zorba
the Greek.
But Christianity contaminated the whole Greek
mind. Jesus never knew the word `Christ’, never
knew the word `Christian’. These are Greek words

and Jesus was not acquainted with Greek, not even
with Hebrew. He spoke the language of the common
masses. Hebrew was the language of the priests,
rabbis – the common people spoke Aramaic, which
is an unrefined form of Hebrew. He used the word
`messiah’ which becomes `Christ’ in Greek, and the
followers become “Christians.”
Jesus influenced the Greek mind tremendously, for
the simple reason that they were leaning too much
towards the material – they were not balanced
people. They thought themselves only bodies; the
soul was just an invention. But man is not only body.
The Greeks had no religion, and Christianity filled the
vacuum. The Greek personality became split.
The Greek is materialistic, Epicurean – loves the
body, loves good food, good wine, beautiful women,
beautiful men – and is not concerned at all what
happens after death. According to Epicurus you die
with your death, nothing happens afterwards. There
is nothing after death, there is nothing before birth.
You are an accident, without any planning – a small
lifespan of seventy years. Don’t waste it, enjoy.
Nikos is half Greek and half Christian. He cannot
intelligently deny that there is something more to
you than your physiology. He cannot deny his mind,
he cannot deny even the witness of the mind – which
are not physiological phenomena.
That was his continuous torture. He was one of the
most tortured artists of contemporary life – one of
the best, but that is the curse. When you have the
best intelligence, you want to become one organic
whole. The idiots don’t get into self-torture – they
don’t think at all. Torture needs thinking.
Nikos is torn apart – his Greek heritage is materialist
and his Christianity is anti-materialist. He cannot live
as a materialist because his Christianity continuously
condemns him. He cannot live as a Christian because
that is only an idea, his reality is his Greek heritage.
He is pulled apart – that is his torture, continuously.
And the man who goes through self-torture
automatically becomes guilty.
The greatest guilt Nikos feels is against his own
life. Whatever he does is wrong. If he follows his
materialist tendencies, the Christian is there to
condemn him, to send him to hell. If he tries to be a
Christian, his Greek heritage is against it. He cannot
do anything, he is in a fix.
A sensitive man, an intelligent man is bound to feel
guilty, that he is wasting his life fighting with himself.
The man of guilt is of course obsessed with death –
because he is not living and death is coming closer
and closer every moment. Perhaps he may not be
able to live – and death will finish him.
A man who lives totally never bothers about death.
His life is so full, death cannot even touch him.
Death will come only to the body, not to him.
He knows his inner organic consciousness.
That was impossible for Nikos to know. He was
obsessed with death, continuously afraid of death. He
has not lived yet and death can come any moment.
Nikos was a very troubled soul – whether to follow
his materialist tendencies, which were natural to him,
or to follow the ideology that Christianity preaches,
which was just a superficial mind thing. He could not
follow it; but he could not follow his natural instincts
either. He was stuck. And death was approaching
closer and closer. Naturally he became obsessed with
religion. Religion became the shelter.
The question is how he managed to create one of the
greatest art works, Zorba the Buddha... the Greek.
He could create it because it was one of his sides,
which he had neglected, ignored, repressed.
Zorba the Greek is Nikos repressed. He allows in
the novel his repressed part to have full expression.
And Zorba is so beautiful.... Expressiveness is always
beautiful; repression is always ugly. Yes, Zorba is one
of his basic parts. He had to give it a reality. He could
not live it – but at least he could write it.
Nikos suffered very much. He was a world-famous
writer. He has written beautiful novels of tremendous
importance, of great meaning. He was not confessing
to a priest; he confessed in his own way. Nobody will
think that Zorba the Greek is his confession. This is
what he has been repressing, this is what has been
continuously hammering him: “You have to do it.” He
makes an individual, Zorba; he gives him reality, blood
and flesh, and allows him to do everything that he has
not allowed himself.
Zorba the Greek is not a Christian. Zorba the Greek
has nothing to do with churches. Zorba the Greek is
a very practical, pragmatic, natural human being.
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MEDITATION TECHNIQUES
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
In the Book of secrets Osho reveals the most
mysterious and mystical ancient techniques of
realizing the ultimate state of bliss as explained
by Lord Shiva to his consort Parvati. These Tantric
secrets have been guarded most carefully by a few
and never made public. But Osho has distributed
this treasure without restraint and that’s why this
book remains the top seller by people who want
to learn the techniques and not just the theory.
THIS IS REALITY. NOT lsd
eel The Cosmos As A Translucent Ever-
“FLiving Presence.”
This again is concerned with light: “Feel The
Cosmos As A Translucent Ever-Living Presence.”
If you have taken any drugs such as LSD or some
such thing, the whole world around you becomes a
light phenomenon of colours that are translucent,
alive. This is not because of LSD. The world is
such, but your eyes have become dull. The LSD
is not creating a colourful world around you; the
world is already colourful, nothing is wrong with
the world. It is a rainbow of colours – a mystery of
colours and translucent light. But your eyes have
become dull. That is why you can never feel it in
such colourfulness.
LSD is just clearing your eyes. It is not making the
world colourful; it is just helping your dullness to
go chemically, and then the whole world erupts
before you. It is a new thing. Even an ordinary
chair becomes a marvelous phenomenon. Just a
shoe on the floor takes on new colours, a new
youth. Ordinary traffic noise becomes musical.
Trees you have always seen but never looked at
are born anew though you have always passed
them by and you know you have seen them. Every
leaf of a tree is a miracle.
And this is how reality is. It is not LSD which is
creating this reality. LSD is just destroying your
dullness, your insensitivity, and you look at the
world as one should really look. But LSD can give
you only a glimpse, and if you depend on it, sooner
or later even LSD will not be able to remove your
dullness. Then you will need greater doses, and
then you will become immune to greater doses.
And, really, if you then give up LSD or other drugs,
the world will be duller than it has ever been.
Then you will become even more insensitive.
LSD will make you dull ultimately because with

They are there; the whole rainbow is there.
Wherever light is, the rainbow is there because
light is all colour. You need a subtle sensitivity. Just
feel it and go on looking at it. Even if tears start
flowing, go on looking at it. Those tears will help
your eyes to be fresher. Sometimes you may feel
that the flame, the candle, has become mysterious.
It is not the ordinary candle you brought with you;
it has taken on a new glamour, a subtle divineness
has come into it. Go on doing this. You can also
do this with many other things.
Inner Space
it you are not growing. If You grow, then it is
a different process. Then you become more
sensitive, and as you become more sensitive the
world becomes different. Now you can sense
many things you never sensed before because
you were not sensitive. This technique is based
on inner sensitivity. First grow in sensitivity. Just
close your doors, make the room dark and light a
small candle. Sit near the candle with a very loving
attitude – rather, with a prayerful attitude. Just
pray to the candle, “Reveal yourself to me.” Take a
bath, throw cold water on your eyes, then sit in a
very prayerful mood before the candle.
Look at it and forget everything else. Just look at
the small candle – the flame and the candle. Go
on looking at it. After five minutes you will feel
that many things are changing in the candle. They
are not changing in the candle, remember; your
eyes are changing. With a loving attitude, with the
whole world closed out, with total concentration,
with a feeling heart, just go on looking at the
candle and the flame. Then you will discover new
colours around the flame, new shades which you
were never aware were there.
One of my friends was telling me that a group
of five or six people had been experimenting
with rocks. I had told them how to experiment,
and then they reported to me. They were
experimenting with rocks on the bank of a lonely
river. They were trying to feel them with their
hands, with their faces, touching the rocks with
their tongues, smelling the rocks. In every way
possible they were feeling the rocks – just ordinary
rocks which they found on the bank.
They tried this for a whole hour, everyone with
a rock. And then, my friend reported, there was
a miracle. Everyone said, “Could I keep this rock?
I have fallen in love with it!” An ordinary rock!
If you have a sympathetic relationship with it,
you will fall in love. And if you don’t have that
sensitivity, then even with a very beautiful person
you are with a rock; you cannot fall in love.
Sensitivity must grow. Your every sense must
become more alive. Then you can experiment with
this technique. “Feel the Cosmos as a Translucent
Ever-Living Presence.” Everywhere light is – in
many shapes, forms, light is happening everywhere.
Look at it! And everywhere light is because the
whole phenomenon is based on the foundation
of light. Look at a leaf or a flower or a rock, and
sooner or later you will feel rays coming out of it.
Just wait patiently.
Don’t be in a hurry because nothing is revealed
when you are in a hurry. In a hurry you are dull.
Wait silently with anything, and you will discover a
new phenomenon which was always there, but of
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“Feel the Cosmos as a Translucent Ever-Living
Presence,” and your mind will become completely
silent as you feel the presence of the ever-living
existence. You will be just a part in it, just a note
in the great symphony. No burden, no tension...
the drop has fallen into the ocean. But great
imagination will be needed in the beginning, and if
Sensitivity must grow. Your every
sense must become more alive.
Then you can experiment with
this technique. “FEEL THE COSMOS
AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING
PRESENCE.” Everywhere light is – in
many, many shapes, forms, light is
happening everywhere. Look at it!
And everywhere light is because the
whole phenomenon is based on the
foundation of light.
you are also trying with other sensitivity training
it will be helpful. You can try many ways. Just take
someone’s hand into your hand. Close your eyes
and feel the life in the other. Feel it, and allow it to
move towards you. Feel your own life and allow
it to move towards the other. Sit near a tree and
touch the bark of the tree. Close your eyes and
feel the life arising in the tree, and you change
immediately. I have heard about one experiment.
A doctor was experimenting with people to see
whether their feelings changed their biochemistry.
Now he has reported that feeling changes
biochemistry immediately. He experimented with
a group of twelve persons. He collected their
urine before the experiment, and the urine was
ordinary, normal.
Each person was put under a different stress.
One was shown a film of horror, anger, violence,
cruelty – it was just a film – for thirty minutes he
was shown a film of horror. Of course, with the
film his emotions changed. He felt stress.
To another a very joyful film was shown. He felt
happy. And so the experiment continued for
twelve people. Then their urine was taken again
and the urine analysis showed that everyone’s
urine was different now. The chemicals had
changed in the body. The person who felt horror
was ill now; the person who felt hope, happiness,
joy, was healthy now.
His urine was different, the chemicals of the body
were different. You are not aware of what you are
doing with yourself. When you go to see a murder
film, you don’t know what you are doing. You are
changing your body chemistry. If you are reading
a detective novel, you don’t know what you are
doing. You are killing yourself.
You will become excited, you will become afraid,
a tension will come to you. That is how you
enjoy the detective novel. The more tense you
become, the more you enjoy it. The more the
suspense over what is going to happen, the more
you get excited – and you are changing your body
chemistry.
All these techniques also change your body
chemistry. If you feel the whole world as filled
with life, light, then you are changing your body
chemistry. And this is a chain reaction. When your
body chemistry changes, you can look at the world
and it will look more alive. And if it looks more
alive, your body chemistry will change again, and
then it becomes a chain.
If this method is done for three months, you will
be living in a different world because you will be
different now.
OSHO
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2
Chapter #07
Full Discourse on
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BOOK SERIALISATION
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
From Osho’s landmark book, this extract
explains the techniques of one of the sixty
meditations that he advocates. Step by step,
Osho guides the seeker for every one of these
meditation techniques and also answers
questions put to him about these meditations.
This extract can serve as a spring board for
reading and understanding the entire book
to get an overview of Osho meditations and
practise them.
HOW TO START MEDITATING
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Enough Space
When you are trying to meditate, put the phone
off the hook, disengage yourself. Put a notice on
the door that for one hour nobody should knock,
that you are meditating. When you move into the
meditation room take your shoes off, because
you are walking on sacred ground. And not only
take your shoes off, but everything that you are
preoccupied with. Consciously leave everything
with the shoes. Go inside unoccupied. One can take
one hour out of twenty-four hours. Give twentythree
hours for your occupations, desires, thoughts,
ambitions, projections. Take one hour out of all this,
and in the end you will find that only that one hour
has been the real hour of your life; those twentythree
hours have been a sheer wastage. Only that
one hour has been saved and all else has gone down
the drain.
(The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2, Chapter #1)
The Right Place
You should find a place which enhances meditation.
For example, sitting under a tree will help, rather
than going and sitting in front of a movie house
or going to the railway station and sitting on the
platform; going to nature, to the mountains, to
the trees, to the rivers where Tao is still flowing,
vibrating, pulsating, streaming all around. Trees are
in constant meditation. Silent, unconscious, is that
meditation. I’m not saying to become a tree; you
have to become a Buddha! But Buddha has one thing
in common with the tree: he’s as green as a tree,
as full of juice as a tree, as celebrating as a tree, of
course with a difference – he is conscious, and the
tree is unconscious. The tree is unconsciously in Tao,
a Buddha is consciously in Tao. And that is a great
difference, the difference between the earth and the
sky. But if you sit by the side of a tree surrounded by
beautiful birds singing, or a peacock dancing, or just a
river flowing, and the sound of the running water, or
by the side of a waterfall, and the great music of it...
Find a place where nature has not yet been disturbed,
polluted. If you cannot find such a place then just
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close your doors and sit in your own room. If it is
possible have a special room for meditation in your
house. Just a small corner will do, but especially for
meditation. Why especially? – because every kind of
act creates its own vibration. If you simply meditate
in that place, that place becomes meditative. Every
day you meditate it absorbs your vibrations when you
are in meditation. Next day when you come, those
vibrations start falling back on you. They help, they
reciprocate, they respond.
When a person has really become a meditator, he
can meditate sitting before a picture house, he can
meditate on the railway platform.
For fifteen years I was continuously travelling around
the country, continuously travelling - day in, day out,
day in, day out, year in, year out - always on the train,
on the plane, in the car. That makes no difference.
Once you have become really rooted in your being,
nothing makes a difference. But this is not for the
beginner.
When the tree has become rooted, let winds come
and let rains come and let clouds thunder; it is all
good. It gives integrity to the tree. But when the tree
is small, tender, then even a small child is dangerous
enough or just a cow passing by - such a holy animal -
but that is enough to destroy it.
(The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2, Chapter #1)
Be Comfortable
A posture should be such that you can forget your
body. What is comfort? When you forget your
body, you are comfortable. When you are reminded
continuously of the body, you are uncomfortable. So
whether you sit in a chair or you sit on the ground,
that’s not the point. Be comfortable, because if you
are not comfortable in the body you cannot long for
other blessings which belong to deeper layers: the
first layer missed, all other layers closed. If you really
want to be happy, blissful, then start from the very
beginning to be blissful. Comfort of the body is a
basic need for anybody who is trying to reach inner
ecstasies.
(Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6, Chapter #7)
Begin with Catharsis
I never tell people to begin with just sitting. Begin
from where beginning is easy, otherwise you will
begin to feel many things unnecessarily – things that
are not there. If you begin with sitting, you will feel
much disturbance inside. The more you try to just
sit, the more disturbance will be felt; you will become
aware only of your insane mind and nothing else. It
will create depression, you will feel frustrated. You
will not feel blissful; rather, you will begin to feel that
you are insane. And sometimes you may really go
insane.
If you make a sincere effort to “just sit,” you may
really go insane. Only because people do not really
try sincerely does insanity not happen more often.
With a sitting posture you begin to know so much
madness inside you that if you are sincere and
continue it, you may really go insane. It has happened
before, so many times; so I never suggest anything
that can create frustration, depression, sadness –
anything that will allow you to be too aware of your
insanity. You may not be ready to be aware of all the
insanity that is inside you; you must be allowed to
get to know certain things gradually. Knowledge is
not always good; it must unfold itself slowly as your
capacity to absorb it grows.
I begin with your insanity, not with a sitting posture; I
allow your insanity. If you dance madly, the opposite
happens within you. With a mad dance, you begin
to be aware of a silent point within you; with sitting
silently, you begin to be aware of madness. The
opposite is always the point of awareness. With your
dancing madly, chaotically, with crying, with chaotic
breathing, I allow your madness. Then you begin to
be aware of a subtle point, a deep point inside you
which is silent and still, in contrast to the madness
on the periphery. You will feel very blissful; at your
center there is an inner silence. But if you are just
sitting, then the inner one is the mad one; you are
silent on the outside, but inside you are mad.
If you begin with something active – something
positive, alive, moving – it will be better; then you will
begin to feel an inner stillness growing. The more it
grows, the more it will be possible for you to use a
sitting posture or a lying posture – the more silent
meditation will be possible. But by then things will be
different, totally different.
A meditation technique that begins with movement,
action, helps you in other ways, also. It becomes
a catharsis. When you are just sitting, you are
frustrated; your mind wants to move and you are just

sitting. Every muscle turns, every nerve turns. You
are trying to force something upon yourself that is
not natural for you; then you have divided yourself
into the one who is forcing and the one who is being
forced. And really, the part that is being forced
and suppressed is the more authentic part; it is a
more major part of your mind than the part that is
suppressing, and the major part is bound to win.
That which you are suppressing is really to
be thrown, not suppressed. It has become an
accumulation within you because you have been
constantly suppressing it. The whole upbringing, the
civilisation, the education, is suppressive. You have
been suppressing much that could have been thrown
very easily with a different education, with a more
conscious education, with a more aware parenthood.
With a better awareness of the inner mechanism
of the mind, the culture could have allowed you to
throw many things.
For example, when a child is angry we tell him, “Do
not be angry.” He begins to suppress anger. By and
by, what was a momentary happening becomes
permanent. Now he will not act angry, but he will
remain angry. We have accumulated so much anger
from what were just momentary things; no one
can be angry continuously unless anger has been
suppressed. Anger is a momentary thing that comes
and goes: if it is expressed, then you are no longer
angry. So with me, I would allow the child to be angry
more authentically. Be angry, but be deep in it; do
not suppress it.
Of course, there will be problems. If we say, “Be
angry,” then you are going to be angry at someone.
But a child can be moulded; he can be given a pillow
and told, “Be angry with the pillow. Be violent with
the pillow.” From the very beginning, a child can
be brought up in a way in which the anger is just
deviated. Some object can be given to him: he can go
on throwing the object until his anger goes. Within
minutes, within seconds, he will have dissipated his
anger and there will be no accumulation of it.
You have accumulated anger, sex, violence, greed,
everything! Now this accumulation is a madness
within you. It is there, inside you. If you begin with
any suppressive meditation – for example, with just
sitting – you are suppressing all of this, you are not
allowing it to be released. So I begin with a catharsis.
First, let the suppressions be thrown into the air;
and when you can throw your anger into the air, you
have become mature. If I cannot be loving alone, if I
can be loving only with someone I love, then, really, I
am not mature yet. Then I am depending on someone
even to be loving; someone must be there, then I
can be loving. Then that loving can only be a very
superficial thing; it is not my nature. If I am alone in
the room I am not loving at all, so the loving quality
has not gone deep; it has not become a part of my
being.
You become more and more mature when you are
less and less dependent. If you can be angry alone,
you are more mature. You do not need any object
to be angry. So I make a catharsis in the beginning
a must. You must throw everything into the sky,
into the open space, without being conscious of any
object.
Be angry without the person with whom you would
like to be angry. Weep without finding any cause;
laugh, just laugh, without anything to laugh at. Then
you can just throw the whole accumulated thing –
you can just throw it. And once you know the way,
you are unburdened of the whole past.
Within moments you can be unburdened of the
whole life – of lives even. If you are ready to throw
everything, if you can allow your madness to come
out, within moments there is a deep cleansing. Now
you are cleansed: fresh, innocent – you are a child
again. Now, in your innocence, sitting meditation
can be done – just sitting, or just lying or anything –
because now there is no mad one inside to disturb
the sitting.
Cleansing must be the first thing – a catharsis –
otherwise, with breathing exercises, with just sitting,
with practising asanas, yogic postures, you are just
suppressing something. And a very strange thing
happens: when you have allowed everything to be
thrown out, sitting will just happen, asanas will just
happen – it will be spontaneous.
Begin with catharsis and then something good can
flower within you. It will have a different quality,
a different beauty, altogether different; it will be
authentic.
When silence comes to you, when it descends
on you, it is not a false thing. You have not been
cultivating it; it comes to you; it happens to you. You
begin to feel it growing inside you just like a mother
begins to feel a child growing.
(Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy, Chapter #4)
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INDIA MY LOVE
WITH CENTRE, CIRCUMFERENCE
BECOMES SIGNIFICANT
The colour orange that I have chosen for
sannyas is the colour of the rising sun. It
symbolises the East and it symbolises light. It
symbolises that the night is over, that the East has
become red and soon the sun will rise. The East
is the land where all the religions were born, just
as the West is the land where all the scientific
discoveries were made.
The West has not given birth to a single religion.
It is strange. Even Christianity is Eastern.
Jesus learned all his secrets in Egypt, in India.
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism,
Sikhism, Taoism, Shinto - all the great religions
were born in the East; it is not just coincidental.
The East has not given birth to any scientific
enquiry. All that is great in science has been given
birth to in the West.
It represents the two hemispheres of the mind,
not only of the earth. The East is intuitive,
feminine. Its functioning is from the heart; hence
the birth of all the great religions. The West is
reason, logic, objectivity; hence its approach is
scientific.
Science can explore the outer world but leaves
man unexplored. It explores things; it cannot
explore consciousness. Even if it thinks about
consciousness it thinks in terms of it also as being
a thing, an object. Even psychology does not go
deeply into consciousness but only observes
behaviour, from the outside. Even psychology is
not really psychology; the word psychology means
‘science of the soul’. It is not yet a psychology...
very rudimentary.
The objective approach denies that there is any
subjectivity in the world. This is such an absurd
state. The scientist goes on denying himself. He
says ‘I am not’, he says ‘There is no soul inside
me.’ He believes in the machine he creates but he
does not believe in the creator of the machine.
His belief in what he discovers and invents is

tremendous but his belief is not at all in the
discoverer himself.
Religion is an approach towards the very
phenomenon of our being. ‘Love for the East’
means: love for that hemisphere of the mind
which is intuitive, which is based on love, which
is poetic not mathematical – which is feminine,
The West has not given birth to a
single religion. It is strange. Even
Christianity is eastern. Jesus learned
all his secrets in Egypt, in India.
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism,
Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Shinto - all
the great religions were born in the
East
of existence, it cannot touch the centre. And
without the centre, what is the meaning of
the circumference? Yes, with the centre, the
circumference also becomes significant.
We need a world where religion will be the deity
of the temple and science will be the temple; but
without the deity the temple is empty. The deity
can exist even without the temple - just under a
tree the deity can exist.
A Buddha statue can sit beautifully under a tree -
no need for a temple - but if the temple is there,
it is beautiful, it adds to the beauty. But a temple
without the Buddha statue, without a Jesus inside,
without God inside, is an empty temple.
That’s why in the West more and more people
are feeling a kind of meaninglessness; the deity
is missing. The temple is beautiful. They have
decorated it really beautifully - the walls are made
of gold, studded with diamonds. But it is empty...
the master is missing. And the master can be found
only if you go inwards.
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not masculine. The West is masculine, the East is
feminine, and all that is great is known only when
you are in a receptive mood, in a kind of passive
receptivity. When one is just feminine, then God
descends in one. An active search for God is going
to fail. One has to wait, and wait prayerfully.
Become more and more intuitive; lean more and
more towards the heart. And nothing is wrong
in the objective approach - I am all for science
- but science can only explore the periphery
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SHARING OSHO
Inspire your friends and relatives with Osho’s quotes by uploading
them on Twitter, Facebook, your WhatsApp or Telegram group or
any other social media platform.
Here is a selection for you to share.
• Love makes everything sacred. Carelessness
makes everything ugly. - Osho
• You have to transform each small thing through
your awareness, watchfulness, alertness, into a
beautiful act. Then ordinary things can become
extraordinary. - Osho
• Move! Be dynamic! And whatever you do, do it
so lovingly that the very act becomes creative
and divine. - Osho
• Rebellion without prayer becomes egoistic:
rebellion with prayer becomes religious. It
becomes humbleness, humility. - Osho
• The person who lives with “don’ts” lives not. His
life is shallow, his life is pseudo, and his life is dry
of all juice. - Osho
• A non-tense person is a blessing; his very
presence is a blessing to the world. A tense
person is a curse. - Osho
• God is available to individuals not to crowds.
Each has to move on his own, alone, utterly
alone. - Osho
• Possessiveness makes you miserable and
possessiveness destroys and poisons all love.
- Osho
• Problem means just a symptom not the true
cause. Real problems are deep down in you - a
relationship simply helps them to surface. - Osho
• Rather than dropping a situation it is better to
change yourself. That needs guts, to change
oneself. - Osho
• Drop all beliefs, all disbeliefs. Let the mind
become less cluttered. Remove all unnecessary
luggage, become more unburdened. - Osho
• Knowledge is mechanical; it is not rooted in
experience. Wisdom is existential; it is rooted in
experience. - Osho
• Science is male energy: religion is female energy.
In science you acquire more knowledge: in
religion you allow more wisdom to happen.
- Osho
• God is everybody’s potentiality; it has to become
everybody’s actuality too. Unless it happens we
remain in misery. - Osho
• Contentment is a key: it opens the door of
paradise. Paradise is not there - paradise is here.
- Osho
• My emphasis is not on what you have to do, my
emphasis is on how you do it. If you do it totally,
it becomes meditation. - Osho
• For the outside journey use the vehicle of doubt
and for the inner pilgrimage use trust. One
should be capable of both. - Osho
• Be life-affirmative. Rejoice in being alive and help
others to rejoice. - Osho
• The real victory is inner, not outer. Unless
you know yourself you cannot be victorious.
In knowing oneself one becomes the greatest
conqueror. - Osho
• Beauty is physical, grace is spiritual. Grace cannot
be cultivated, it cannot be invented; it has to be
discovered. It is divine. - Osho

BOOK REVIEW
On the Edge: Living with
an Enlightened Master
Author: Punya
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Punya’s book: On the Edge: Living with
an Enlightened Master, is a revelation
– not only of Punya’s fascinating internal
growth process but that it equally unfolds
the magical transformative process of the
collective growth in the presence of an
enlightened Master, Osho.
In her writing, Punya is honest,
transparent, and open. She is full of
love energy and consequently her vivid
description of an event, an episode, a
situation is so alive and exhilarating.
Reading this wonderful book, one comes
to realize how vibrantly the commune
around Osho functioned, how the Master
worked on the seekers, individually and
collectively, and enhanced the spiritual
maturity of anyone open and committed
to His Vision and Work.
Punya, remarkably leads the reader
through her intense personal change
which resulted because of her focused
attention to Osho, her totality in making
effort, and her undying optimism. Her
exposition of the mysteries of relating/
relationship is touching. Filled with
subtle humour, she makes her playful
observations, interesting.
All in all, reading, On the Edge, is more
like watching a movie which is insightful
as well as entertaining. I feel the book will
prove highly useful for a seeker on the
path.
Swami Satya Vedant
(Dr. Vasant Joshi)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Mich.,USA.
M.A., Ph.D., M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda,
India.
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HOW OSHO CHANGED MY LIFE
‘life is joyous.
i laugh, cry, dance.’
Swami Deva Shunyam
MY HEART MELTS WITH OSHO
It may sound funny but my inner journey started with
watching the famous TV serial, “Shaktimaan.” As a
teenager, I wanted to be strong like him. I learnt about
Kundalini and supernatural powers in this serial.
Years later, one day, I went to a book store to buy a
book on Kundalini.
At the book store, I felt pulled towards the title, “Sex
to Superconsciousness” however I did not have the
courage to ask for it. I ended up buying the book next to
it by Bhagwaan Shri Rajneesh. Bhagwaan as a prefix felt
awkward to me. For me, Bhagwaan was either Krishna
or Shiva.
I started reading the book and loved it. I was never fond
of reading before but reading Osho was totally different.
I can never forget the following words that hit me the
most.
“Sadness is very cheap. In fact you need not seek it, it
goes on coming on its own. It is so cheap, it asks nothing
in return; just your readiness to be sad is enough. It is so
plentifully available that open any window of your house,
any door on any side, and it rushes in. It is all over the
place, because the whole world is in misery.
But bliss requires a very determined search. It requires
that one should start moving in a particular direction
without going astray... because life is short, time is not
really enough. And much has to be done and one has to
go far. Unless one moves in a straight line, unless one
finds the shortest possible route – without going zigzag,
without going astray, without having many objects in the
mind– unless one has only one object in life, bliss cannot
be attained. It needs one-pointedness.”
I melted into it. It was like listening to a beautiful song.
I was an Engineering student in Allahabad. My college
invited students to attend a meditation course by Art of
Living. I liked it but my thirst was not quenched.
I soon went to the Goenka school of Vipassana for
ten days. It was a deep experience for me. It opened
the doors to myself. But somehow I knew I needed
something else and something more.
In 2008, I was an M.Tech student with IIT Roorkee.
Listening to Osho was my favourite way of enjoying my
free time. Soon, I booked myself for a meditation camp
in Osho Om Boddhisattva ashram in Dehradun. The
first meditation was Dynamic which shook me to my
roots. I didn’t know I was so full of garbage. Tears,
anger, laughter and dance were finding their way out.
This was my real need. Catharsis! I felt deep silence
within. For the first time, I experienced life with my
heart.
Everything was beautiful however I was scared of taking
sannyas. My idea of sannyas was that I will have to
renounce my ordinary life and I was not ready for it.
In 2009, I came to Oshodham and read, “Tales of ten
thousand buddhas” by Ma Dharm Jyoti. I attended the
meditation camp and took sannyas after understanding
the real meaning of sannyas from Osho.
In 2014, I did the Mystic Rose group which was nothing
less than a Tsunami in my inner journey. It took away all
the garbage inside. Mystic Rose is a blessing for seekers
on the path.
Life is joyous. I laugh, cry and dance. I have found
expression to the unsung song in my heart.
Another big change is that I can hear creativity knocking
at my door. I am learning to play the flute. I notice that I
am innovative with my work in Office. I am able to share
my love and laughter with colleagues. Some of them
have even started reading Osho.
With Osho, I am able to introspect and see how I create
problems for myself. Having said that, I realize that it is
a long and beautiful journey of transformation.
My favourite quote from Osho is, “Remember that from
this moment meditation becomes your goal; everything
else is secondary. So arrange your life in such a way that
everything revolves around meditation. Arrange your life
in such a way that everything helps your meditativeness.
Do things, but do with such consciousness, such
alertness, that every act has the flavor of meditation,
because it is only meditation that brings transformation.”
Meeting Osho is the biggest achievement of my life.

CELEBRATE
ABaNDON YOURSELF
Continue to meditate and to dance and sing.
See life in as many ways as possible, in all
its colours. Celebrating, you come closer and
closer to the heart of reality. The moment you
stop celebrating you are cut, disconnected.
Celebration is the bridge. When you dance, it is
not only you who is dancing; the whole existence
is dancing with you – the earth, the sun, the moon
and the stars. It is a celebrating existence... it is
continuously dancing.
The moment you stop celebrating and you become
serious, you start taking yourself too seriously.
That’s what a monk is: taking yourself too
seriously, being too self-obsessed. Self-obsession
makes a person a monk. He is too worried about
the past and the future and the karma and the
result, about hell and heaven and nirvana; but
everything revolves around the self, his small self.
How can one attain to nirvana when the entire
effort is just centred on the self?
In celebration the self disappears. That’s the
beauty, that’s the divinity of it. When you are
celebrating, you are not; celebration is, you are
not. Slowly, slowly the realisation dawns on you
that when you are not, nirvana is. Then one day
one simply forgets all about oneself. To forget
oneself is to know oneself. Not to be is the way.
To be comes out of not to be. Being arrives
through nothingness, but how to be nothingness?
There are two ways that have been practised.
One is the false way, you make an effort. But this
creates the ego and the I; the monk becomes one
of the most crystallised egos. That’s a false, pseudo
path.
The only real path is when you start dancing and
singing. You start losing yourself, you abandon
yourself, you become drunk. Then small glimpses
start coming to you. Suddenly something happens:
for a few moments you are and you are not. As
if a door opens, you see a totally different vision
of reality. The gestalt changes: there is no matter,
there is only
consciousness.
There is no bondage, there is only freedom.
And there has never been any misery; it was just
imagination. All is joy and bliss. These moments
come, and slowly the track is created in you. They
become frequent visitors, and then suddenly one
day they decide to reside in you. Then for twentyfour
hours of each day one is in a kind of dance.
Just remember celebration; let this be the key
word.
Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast
Chapter #28
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HAPPENINGS
Mulla nasruddin Day celebration

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OSHO EVENTS
Osho events keep happening all the time all over India and here we
present some of the recent ones ranging from meditation camps to
exhibitions to meetings and get-togethers.
Anand, Gujarat
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Ambala Cantt, Haryana
Dallas, USA
Pune, Maharashtra

San Diego, USA
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Barnala, Punjab
Rajkot, Gujarat
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Texas, USA
Nargol, Gujrat
Tapoban Nepal

FORTHCOMING EVENTS
“Whatever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you
do it lovingly, if your act of doing it is not purely
economical, then it is creative. If you have
something growing out of it within you, if it gives
you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine.”
– OSHO
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Buddha Purnima Celebration
May 1 - 5
Swami Amit Saraswati
Ma Prem Devyani
Meditate Celebrate
May 6 - 7
Swami Prem Tanmay
Discovering Osho’s New Man
May 8 - 10
Swami Anand Kul Bhushan
Meditate Celebrate
May 11 - 14
Swami Avinash Bharti
Born Again Group
May 15 - 21
Swami Prem Vartan
Children Meditation Camp
May 22 - 24
Ma Prem Devyani & Team
Parents Meditation Camp
May 22 - 24
Swami Shiv Bharti
Ma Yog Madhu
Art of Relaxing BodyMind
May 25 - 31
Swami Shiv Bharti
Ma Yog Madhu
Children Meditation Group
May 25 -June 14
Ma Prem Devyani
Swami Amit Saraswati & Team
No Mind Group
June 1 - 7
Swami Avinash Bharti
Osho Meditation Camp
June 8 - 14
Swami Prem Tanmay
Mystic Rose Group
June 8 - 28
Swami Dhyan Pulak
Osho Meditation Camp
June 15 - 25
Swami Amit Saraswati
Ma Prem Devyani
Osho Meditation Camp
June 26 -July 1
Swami Ravindra Bharti

OSHO MEDITATION CAMPS
BIHAR
Jhanjharpur
Buddha Purnima Celebration
3 to 4 May
Venue: Osho Ashiya Trust,
Madhubani
Contact: 9470883342
Conducted by: Ma Prem Isha
CHHATTISGARH
Champa
Osho Neo-Vipassana Dhyan Shivir
4 to 10 May
Conducted by: Swami Govind Kartar
Osho Hasya Dhyan Shivir (For
Children & Parents)
11 to 15 June
Conducted by: Swami Anand Ekant,
Swami Veet Gyan
Venue: Osho Madhuban, Janjgir Road
Contact: Ma Prem Samarpita,
07746968159
Ma Prem Muskan, 09575518984
DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI
Silvassa
Osho Meditation Camp
24 to 28 June
Venue: Khanvel Resort, Vapi
Contact: Swami Vitthal, 9833993593
Conducted by: Swami Samdarshi
GUJARAT
Rajkot
Buddha Purnima Celebration
4 May
Venue: Osho Vatika, Balsar
Vagudad Village, Kalavad Road
Contact: 9898980440
Conducted by: Swami Sanjay
Saraswati
Junagadh
Osho Sufi Dhyan Shivir
14 to 16 June
Venue: Osho Antaryatra Ashram
Contact: 9451111582, 7398283431,
8858358241
Conducted by: Ma Prem Isha
Valsad
Osho Meditation Camp
30 April to 3 May
Conducted by: Ma Prem Nisha
Osho Meditation Camp
3 to 7 May
Conducted by: Swami Atmo Jitu
Osho Meditation Camp
7 to 10 May
Conducted by: Ma Atmo Sangeeta
Osho Meditation Camp
10 to 14 May
Conducted by: Swami Kundkund
Osho Meditation Camp
14 to 17 May
Conducted by: Swami Atmo Kranti
Osho Meditation Camp
17 to 21 May
Conducted by: Ma Ajasta
Osho Meditation Camp
21 to 24 May
Conducted by: Swami Vitthal
Osho Meditation Camp
24 to 27 May
Conducted by: Swami Govind Kartar
Osho Meditation Camp
27 to 31 May
Conducted by: Swami Om Prakash
Venue: Osho Shanti Kunj Meditation
Centre,
Round Building, Near Sai Baba
Mandir, Tithal
Contact: Swami Kiran, 9375853439
Nargol
Osho Meditation Camp
28 to 31 May
Venue: Nargol, Maharashtra
Contact: 9825978625, 9825650699
Conducted by: Swami Samarpan
Bharti
HIMACHAL PRADESH
Dharamshala
Yes to Silence
9 to 17 May
Conducted by: Ma Yoga Neelam
Alchemy of inner Transformation
21 to 24 May
Conducted by: Swami Vivekanand
The Way of the Heart
28 to 31 May
Conducted by: Swami Deva Naman
Dance Your Way to God
04 to 07 June
Conducted by: Ma Neelam & Ma
Nidhi
Osho Born Again Meditative Therapy
14 to 20 June
Conducted by: Swami Antar Khirad
Balancing Body Mind and Soul
24 to 28 June
Conducted by: Ma Antar Pragya
Venue: Osho Nisarga, Village Shilla,
Post Office Pantehar,
District Kangra, Dharmashala,
Himachal Pradesh - 176057
Contact: 91- 9418037370,
1892275592
Shoghi
Buddha Purnima Celebration
2 to 4 May
Venue: Osho Vatika Resort
Contact: Ma Alok Swati, 9560921112
Swami Dhyan Samira , 9459260621
Conducted by: Swami Jivan Abhiviraj
Manali
Osho Meditation Camp
5 to 7 June
Venue: Osho Holiday Home and
Meditation Center
Contact: Swami Kranti, 9418437155,
08627888121
Conducted by: Swami Anand Ekant
Shimla
Osho Meditation Camp
31 May to 3 June
Venue: Himgiri Resort, Meditation
Valley
Purani Kothi
Contact: Swami Antar Nirdosh
09899559011, 09810215918
Conducted by: Swami Anand Vijay,
Ma Jeevan Darpan
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Solan
Osho Dhyan Sadhana Shivir
16 to 18 June
Venue: Shivalik Hotel, Kasauli Road,
Dharampur
Contact: Swami Gyan Anugrah,
8894925396,
Swami Anand Ajay, 09805809702
Conducted by: Swami Satya Vedant
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Ladakh
Osho Meditation Camp
25 to 28 May
Venue: Devachan, Choglamsar, Leh
Ladakh
Contact: Prem Musafir, 8130811532
Conducted by: Swami Bodhi Vimal
MADHYA PRADESH
Jabalpur
Buddha Purnima Celebration
2 to 4 May
Swadarshan and Abhinav Vipassana
Camp
8 to 17 May
12 to 21 June
Venue: Osho Amritdham
Contact: Swami Chaitanya Shikhar
09926549359, 09977716042
Conducted by: Swami Anand Vijay,
Ma Jeevan Darpan, Swami Anadi
Anant
MAHARASHTRA
Lonavala
Osho Dhyan Shivir
1 to 5 May
Venue: Dudhiware, Lonavala
Contact: Swami Darpan,
09922320063
Conducted by: Swami Kundkund
Bhusaval
Osho Buddha Purnima Shivir
30 April to 4 May
Venue: Osho Urja Meditation Center,
Yawal Tapi Road, Akrudi village
Contact: Swami Anand Prem,
09370005721
Conducted by: Swami Vitthal
Akola
Osho Meditation Camp
22 to 24 May
Conducted by: Swami Gopal Bharti
Osho Meditation Camp
1 to 7 June
Conducted by: Swami Amano
Surdham
Venue: Osho Heart Meditation
Centre
Contact: 7030706101, 8446588361
PUNJAB
Hoshiarpur
Osho Tathata Sadhana Camp
01 to 04 May
Venue: Osho Silence Valley
Contact: Swami Shikhar,
08283821672,
Ma Sambodhi, 8283821670,
Gyan Naseeb, 09417221745
Conducted by: Swami Anadi Anant
Bathinda
Osho Meditation Camp
3 May
Conducted by: Swami Dhyan Sagar
Osho Meditation Camp
7 June
Conducted by: Swami Krishan Dev
Bharti
Venue: Osho Prem Dhyan Mandir
Contact: Swami Dev Naman,
09780076800, 9417090402
RAJASTHAN
Udaipur
Osho Dhyan Shivir
3 to 5 May
Venue: Osho Dhyan Vihar,
Ahmedabad Road, Near Amargarh
resort
Contact: 9828263450, 9414156929
Conducted by: Swami Prem Vartan
UTTARAKHAND
Dehradun
Osho Vipassana Meditation Camp
1 to 5 May
Venue: Osho Om Bodhisattva
Commune
108, Post Office Road, Clement town
Contact: 0135-2642535, 6537071
Conducted by: Ma Divya Gandha,
Swami Prem Samarpan
Bhimtal, Nainital
Osho Appo Deepo Bhav Buddha
Purnima Utsav
1 to 5 May
Osho Dhyan Sadhana Shivir
14 to 17 May
Osho Vipassana Group
27 to 31 May
Osho Manorog Chikitsa Dhyan
Group
4 to 7 June
Osho Family Meditation Group
11 to 14 June
Osho Yog-Dhyan Sadhana Shivir
18 to 21 June
Osho Beyond Body and Mind Group
25 to 28 June
Venue: Osho Om Prakash Peeth,
Bhimtal, Nainital
Contact: 09557713399, 9639598282
Conducted by: Swami Shunyam
Prakash
UTTAR PRADESH
Ghaziabad
Osho Zorba The Buddha Dhyan
Shivir
17 May
Venue: Zorba The Buddha Wings,
Raj Nagar
Contact: Swami Hariom Bharti,
8800139880, 9458580880
Conducted by: Swami Dhyan Mudito
Note: Please contact the
organisers for information
and details of the
meditation camps listed
above. Osho World News
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TAROT MAY 15
MA PREM RITAMBHARA
ritambhara7@gmail.com
Message from the master:
Religiousness is not something to be
believed in, but something to be lived,
something to be experienced…not a belief
in your mind but the flavour of your whole
being, says Osho, the Zen master.
ARIES
(March 21 - April 20)
You mask intense passion with a calm surface this month!
Its best to be flexible and elastic about plans and ideas if
blocks come in your way, as this is a time to get on with
your business rather than be caught up in emotional or ego
conflicts. You become aware and feel disturbed about a
young man who is subtle and crafty in the work area. Ruthless
people with overweening ambition need to be avoided.
You tend to get angry, moody or emotional easily at this
point so remain centered and witnessing within rather than
over reacting to situations outside. Deep feelings of love in
emotional relationships are countered by negative attitudes
at work. Trust your intuition and use a light approach to deal
with negative or traditional people. Buddha Purnima on the
4th is a great time to meditate and get in touch with silence
and bliss. Lucky number is 6. Good colour is sky blue.
TAURUS
(April 21 - May 21)
Things happen quickly this month and you may need to make
snap decisions or you are liable to miss a rare opportunity.
You are likely to fall in love with a new person or idea
unexpectedly. Your energy is of high velocity and you end up
involved in multifarious activity. You are fast approaching a
professional goal that takes you to another level of success,
especially during Buddha Purnima on the 4th. Visitors and
positive communications can be expected. You opt for
freedom and space in partnerships and relationships that are
restricting. Beware of being too forceful or coming on too
strong in new relationships and business connections. Also be
aware of what you say to whom or your words can go against
you in the future. You need to be open and receptive to
changes and challenges that life offers you. Lucky number is 8.
Good colours are pastels
GEMINI
(May 22 - June 21)
You are brilliant, individualistic and not ready to make
compromises in any aspect of life this month. Mental clarity
and perspective bring balance in chaotic relationships and
stability in professional ventures. You are intensely perceptive
and don’t miss any undercurrents or political games that go
on around you. You observe personal relationships keenly and
express yourself in subtle terms. You can evaluate people and
situations swiftly and accurately but need to act graciously.
Tender, loving care is needed in personal relationships. You
clear a misunderstanding with an old friend during Buddha
Purnima on the 4th. Be aware and conscious to break through
conditioning and reach the truth of your own heart to see life
as it really is. Participate in current events and share views,
ideas and feelings with people around you to feel part of the
whole. Lucky number is 6. Good colour is turquoise blue.
CANCER
(June 22 - July 22)
You are patient, laborious and clever with material aspects
and manage finances and business ventures with ingenuity
and success. Health problems for you or family members can
be resolved with natural healing and alternate therapies. You
are supported through a busy month with healing and earthy
energy. Despite being somewhat preoccupied with material
and professional affairs you manage to attend to loved ones
with devotion and care. Parents may need your support and
attention while children need your guidance and love. Be
prepared to travel by road and enjoy a journey with friends or
family. Beware of an avaricious, surly and petty man at work
who vies for your position. Building a home or redecorating
can be a passion. Sporty pastimes and physical activity keep
you fit and energetic. Meditate during Buddha Purnima on
the 4th to experience higher levels of consciousness. Lucky
number is 5. Good colour is earthy brown.
LEO
(July 23 - August 23)
Loosen your grip on whatever you are holding on to, be it
anything material or emotional and feel the freedom and
expansiveness sharing can bring. You bring order and clarity in
chaotic situations at home and at work this month. You tend
to dominate professional undertakings with your rank and
power. You display leadership qualities and special skills to
draw respect and confidence of people who matter. You have
the need to feel emotionally secure in relationships and tend
to be possessive or jealous without good reason. It’s time
to be free and open to whatever life brings rather than be
afraid of changes. An associate seeks impossible goals ignore
him. Material power and stability are on the cards! You allow
yourself a brief vacation and some meditative moments to
get in touch with your inner peace, especially around Buddha
Purnima on the 4th. Lucky number is 4. Good colour is
saffron.
VIRGO
(August 24- September 23)
This is a sensitive time for you when you need to conserve
energy, resources and forces rather than meet impossible
goals and demands. Your energy can be depleted this
month as you have too much to handle at work and at
home. Despite low energy and exhaustion you carry on

valiantly doing what you have to. Situations in business can
be complicated and people concerned can be tiring. Beware
of people who take advantage of your good nature and
demand too much of your time and attention. Take time off
by yourself and rejuvenate your energy, especially around
Buddha Purnima this month. Health problems should not
be neglected. Finances need to be conserved. A beloved
helps you gain back your self-esteem and energy. You face
obstacles and difficulties with courage and can expect victory
in some areas. Personal relationships are sensitive and need
to be treated with care. Lucky number is 7. Good colour is
peacock green.
LIBRA
(September 24 - October 23)
You prove to be a capable manager and a steadfast,
competent worker this month. You may get heavily involved
in business and professional affairs and need to take a break
in order to attend to personal matters and relationships. You
are slow to anger but implacable if aroused. Your social life
can be dull so you can use this time to relax and attend to
family, home and loved ones. This is a good time to explore
and use opposite energies within you, for instance if you are
soft and receptive, it’s time to be dynamic and strong and
vice versa. A young man or son is ready to take off on an
independent journey and career. You bring abundance to
yourself by using all your talent but in an unconventional way.
A balance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energies
is recommended. Meditate during Buddha Purnima this month.
Lucky number is 15. Good colour is emerald green.
SCORPIO
(October 24 - November 22)
A bit of introspection and soul searching takes you past
delusions and to the brink of an important change. You are
able to see karmic patterns clearly and make a breakthrough.
Personal relationships are rejuvenated as attitudes, priorities
and values are transformed. You are able to restore selfesteem
and recognize the fear or insecurity that motivated
negative happenings. People and opportunities are drawn
to you as you have a mystical and charismatic quality that is
irresistible. You opt for professional projects that allow you
freedom to be creative and original. Beware of deception at
work and crazy outbursts in the family. Love and romance
make this a special time of enjoying the finer things of
life. Watch your health and adopt fitness routines again.
Management of finances brings balance and stability at home
and at work. Witness your moods during Buddha Purnima on
the 4th. Lucky number is 18. Good colour is midnight blue.
SAGITTARIUS
(November 23 - December 23)
There is likely to be strife and conflict in the work area and
rivalry or competition in personal and professional situations
this month. Quarreling and infighting if not curbed in the bud
can be detrimental to your business and disturb harmony in
the home. Family matters and business affairs may take time
to resolve be patient and persistent. The knack of responding
totally to whatever comes, as it comes in life equips you to
face problems and challenges! Taking one step at a time with
complete attention and energy brings vitality and creativity to
all you do. Avoid negative and destructive people around you.
Friends, family and loved ones are generous and supportive.
A Leo person lends energy and resource to your business
venture. Beware of an unwelcome visitor or admirer who may
try to take advantage of you. Avoid confrontations and invite
discussions instead. Yoga and meditation are good for you.
Lucky number is 5. Good colour is old rose.
CAPRICORN
(December 24 - January 20)
Feelings and emotions rather than intellectual ideas and plans
influence your professional direction and personal decisions
this month. You are closer to fulfilling a heart’s desire this
month. Personal relationships are happy, loving and reflective
with a promise for the future. You can expect to spend
time in natural surroundings while experiencing beauty and
relaxation during Buddha Purnima on the 4th. Business is
likely to be brisk and you are highly productive and creative
in professional ventures and projects. You are good with your
hands and have special skills that are exposed and appreciated.
You are able to exhibit your talent and express your creativity
this month. Long-term plans materialize in one year from
today and surprise you with phenomenal success. Others may
not agree with you or accept your original ideas but don’t let
that faze you. Lucky number is 1. Good colour is lotus pink.
AQUARIUS
(January 21 - February 19)
‘The Priestess’ who is Isis veiled in light projecting a luminous
spirit brings a pure, exalted and gracious influence in your
life this month. Changes in relationships, and alternation of
moods; increase and decrease in business and fluctuation
of finances can keep you busy and guessing till the end
of the month when you regain inner balance, harmony in
relationships and professional stability. You can trust your
intuition and insights about people and situations. You are
ready to make lasting commitments in personal relationships
that may lead to marriage. Loyalty and support of friends and
family is heartening. Business partnerships and professional
collaborations can be gainful and supportive. You are likely
to handle two aspects of work simultaneously and balance
opposite energies with diplomacy and tact. Yin and Yang
energies are in balanced manifestation, especially around
Buddha Purnima on the 4th. Lucky number is 2. Good colours
are blues of the sky.
PISCES
(February 20 - March 20)
You are blessed with spiritual insight that gives you clarity
of vision in different aspects of life. You shine with true
confidence in professional situations and self-esteem in
personal relationships. You work well with groups or
institutions and leave a lasting impact on people and situations.
Unexpected professional support can be expected when you
most need it. Visitors from overseas, friends and family make
this a happy time as events are celebrated. Disappointment
in certain aspects is likely, as you are full of dreams and
expectations, its best to be realistic and practical. An associate
close to you can make an error of judgement and cause some
financial loss. This is a wonderful time to meditate, be silent
and come home to yourself. You gain a new perspective and
adopt a positive attitude. Health and finances need to be
conserved. Lucky number is 17. Good colour is midnight blue.
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Laughing
Buddha
The Best Meditation
Start the morning by
laughing at yourself, and
whenever you can find a
moment in the day when
you have nothing to do,
have a good laugh. For
no particular reason - just
because the whole world is
so absurd, just because the
way you are is so absurd.
There is no need to find any
particular reason, The whole
thing is so absurd that one
has to laugh.
Osho
After the bride’s first
dinner, she asked her
husband, Mulla Nasrudin,
“Now, dear, what will I get
if I cook a dinner like that
for you everyday?”
“My life insurance,” said
Nasrudin.
Mulla Nasrudin, who was
really unaccustomed to
public speaking, arose in
confusion after dinner and
muttered hesitatingly:
“M-m-my f-f-friends, when
I came here tonight only
God and myself knew what
I was about to say to you
and now only God knows!”
Mulla Nasrudin’s young
wife, recently returned
from her honeymoon,
was complaining to her
friend about her husband’s
drinking habits.
“If you knew he drank, why
did you marry him?” her
friend asked.
“I did not know he drank,”
said Nasrudin’s wife, “Until
one night he came home
sober.”
Mulla Nasrudin’s son,
home from college, was
talking to his father
about the “Law of
Compensation,” which
he had studied. “If a
person loses one eye,” he
explained, “the sight in the
other becomes stronger.
If he loses the hearing in
one ear, the hearing in the
other becomes more acute.
If he loses one hand, he
becomes more agile with
the other.”
“I guess that’s right,” said
Nasrudin. “I have always
noticed that when a man
has one short leg the other
is longer.”
“This book,” said the
salesman, “will do half your
work.”
“Fine,” said Mulla Nasrudin.
“I will take two of them.”
Mulla Nasrudin used to
say:
“If you want your wife to
pay close attention to what
you are saying, whisper it
to another woman in a low
voice.”
The two burglars worked
as a team. One stayed
outside as a lookout, while
the other robbed the
house.
One night, when the inside
man returned, his buddy
said, “How much did you
get?”
“Nothing,” the other said.
“This is the house of Mulla
Nasrudin.”
“Gee!” said his buddy.
“Then how much did you
lose?”
It seemed that every time
Mulla Nasrudin met his
lawyer, he had some added
legal fees. It worried the
Mulla to the point of ulcers.
Then one day, he met his
lawyer in the post office
and said, “Nice day, isn’t it?
And remember, I am telling
you, not asking you, sir.”

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