" Enlightening Osho Quotes ".

Enlightening Osho Quotes :

1) Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet,
dark-light, summer-winter.
Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience,
because the more experience you have,
the more mature you become.

2) Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.

3) Remain in wonder if you want
the mysteries to open up for you.
Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning.
Questioners sooner or later end up in a library.
Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures,
because scriptures are full of answers.
And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

4) All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be -- don't try to become.
Within these two words,
be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment,
becoming is ignorance.

6) Truth cannot be defined,
although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition.
A definition is made by the mind,
experience comes through participating.
If somebody asks,
" What is a dance? " how can you define it?
But you can dance and
you can know the inner feel of it.
God is the ultimate dance.

7) To be creative means to be in love with life.
You can be creative only if you love life enough
that you want to enhance its beauty,
you want to bring a little more music to it,
a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

8) No dead principles can help,
but only living consciousness.
Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life.

9) You can go on changing the outer for lives
and you will never be satisfied;
something or other will remain to be changed.
Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

10) Any human being who is
becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

11) To be alone in the only real revolution.
To accept that you are alone is
the greatest transformation that can happen to you.

12) Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.

13) Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

14) If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it.
Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start;
moving into the world of light and crystallization,
but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is.
Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.

15) Intelligence is a natural phenomenon --
just as breathing is, just as seeing is.
Intelligence is the inner seeing; it is intuitive.
It has nothing to do with intellect.
Never confuse intellect with intelligence, they are polar opposites.
Intellect is of the head; it is taught by others, it is imposed on you.
You have to cultivate it.
It is borrowed, it is something foreign, it is not inborn.
But intelligence is inborn.
It is your very being, your very nature.

16) Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously.
Now consciously drop it and be mature.
Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

17) Know the whole world is nothing when
it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

18) Seriousness is a sickness;
your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor -- according to me --
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

19) Misery nourishes your ego --
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.

20) The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.

21) What is needed is not something in which you can forget your loneliness;
what is needed is that you become aware of your aloneness – which is a reality.
And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it,
because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other.
It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.

22) Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness.
And without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
It can't be anything else.
Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

23) The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic,
he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect.
And perfection as such never happens,
it is not in the nature of things.
Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

24) Your innermost core has always been pure.
Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.
Your virginity is eternal. You cannot lose it, there is no way to lose it.
You can only forget about it or you can remember it.
If you forget about it, you live in confusion.
If you remember about it, all is clear.

25) In this world the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. T
here is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -- there are no distinctions. 

26) The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time;
it exists in the past and the future.
And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future.
The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity.

27) Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.

28) Millions of people are suffering:
they want to be loved but they don't know how to love.
And love cannot exist as a monologue;
it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

29) There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world.
There are only people of awareness,
and there are people who are fast asleep --
and sleep has no force.
The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people.
And one awakened person can awaken the whole world.
One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

30) The heart is always right--
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart--
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.

31) The 'truth' is only a way of speaking;
there is not something labeled ' Truth ,' that
one day you will find and open the box and see the contents
and say, ' Great! I have found the truth. '
There is no such box.
Your existence is the truth, and when you are silent you are in truth.
And if the silence is absolute then you are the ultimate truth.
But don't think of the truth as an object –it is not an object.
It is not there, it is here.

32) Mind functions in ' either/or ' way:
either this can be right or its opposite can be right.
Both together cannot be right --
as far as mind, its logic, its rationality is concerned.
If mind is 'either/or' then the heart is ' both/and. '
The heart has no logic, but a sensitivity, a perceptivity.
It can see that they both can not only be together, in fact they are not two.
It is just one phenomenon seen from two different aspects.

33) The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
The heart has no time concept.

34) If the whole existence is one,
and if the existence goes on taking care of trees,
of animals, of mountains, of oceans –
from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star --
then it will take care of you too.
Why be possessive?
The possessiveness shows simply one thing –
that you cannot trust existence.
You have to arrange separate security for yourself,
safety for yourself; you cannot trust existence.
Non-possessiveness is basically trust in existence.
There is no need to possess, because the whole is already ours.

35) Drop guilt! --
because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty,
you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.

36) If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

37) Existence is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.
And you should be perfectly aware what the difference is between a mystery and a problem.
A problem is something created by the mind; a mystery is something which is there, not created by the mind.
A problem has an ugliness in it, like disease.
A mystery is beautiful. With a problem, immediately a fight arises.
You have to solve it; something is wrong, you have to put it right; something is missing, you have to supply the missing link.
With a mystery there is no question like that.
The moon arises in the night.... It is not a problem, it is a mystery.
You have to live with it. You have to dance with it.
You have to sing with it, or you can be just silent with it. Something mysterious surrounds you.

38) Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that
when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself,
you stop judging others too.
And that makes you more human,
more compassionate, more understanding.

39) Looking at a sunset,
just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset.
That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.
But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it;
you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego.
Now the mind is speaking.
And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing;
and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak.
Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak.

40) The witnessing soul is like the sky.
The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints.
 That's what Buddha says,
that the man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints.
He is without wounds and without scars; he never looks back -- there is no point.
He has lived that moment so totally that what is the need to look back again and again?
He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment.

41) All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas.
It is like water and ice: Apart from water, no ice, outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near they seek it afar, what a pity!

42) You are a Buddha.
But remember you are not a Buddha in any special sense.
Everybody is - So don't take it in an egoistic sense that " I " am a Buddha.
Don't make it ambitious, don't go on an ambition trip.
All is Buddha. Life is Buddha, being is Buddha-hood, existence is Buddha-hood.

43) All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.
There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God,
there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization.

44) The whole world is a cyclone.
But once you have found the center the cyclone disappears.
This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

45) All that this world needs is a good cleansing
of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and
laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.

46) Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

47) If you are absolutely without mind,
just pure consciousness,time stops completely,
disappears, leaving no trace behind.