And remember you are just initiates, beginners. You may think that you are a rooster but you are just learning the alphabet. I am an old hand, and only I can help you. All the experts have failed, that's why you are here. You have knocked on many doors, for many lives you have been in search-nothing has been of help to you. But I say I can help you because I am not an expert, I am not an outsider. I have travelled the same path-the same insanity, the same madness. I have passed through the same-the same misery, the anguish, the same nightmares. And whatsoever I do is nothing but to persuade you to come out of your madness.
OSHO.
The Empty Boat

A few things to be understood..... one: there is no need to hectically change you’re interest from men to women. If it changes on its own, that's good, but there is no need to force that change. A forced change never goes very deep, never works, and there is no need to force. Accept your homosexuality. Don't condemn it; there is no need. It is a perfectly valid way. And if you accept it, one day you can go beyond it; if you reject it, you can never go beyond it, that's the problem. If you reject it, it will haunt you. If you deny it, it will try to overpower you. The denied parts of your being become revengeful. So there is no need to deny it. It's perfectly valid.Mm? There are so many ways to relate sexually, homosexuality is one of the ways; simply accept it. Joyously accept it, not grudgingly, not reluctantly...
OSHO
Believing The impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Friday 24 February 1978.

You are living in competition-that will create tension. You are living in continuous comparison-that will create tension. You are always thinking either of the past or of the future, and missing the present which is the only reality-that will create tension. It is a question of simple understanding; there is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, This is the way existence wants you to be. Some trees are taller; some trees are smaller. But the smaller trees are not tense-neither are the taller trees full of ego. Existence needs variety. Somebody is stronger than you; somebody is more intelligent than you-but in something, you also must be more talented than anybody else. Just find your own talent. Nature never sends any single individual without some unique gift. Just a little search.... perhaps you can play on the flute better than the president of the country can be a president- you are a better flautist than he is a president.
OSHO.
The Hidden Splendour.

Growth certainly needs one thing, and that is courage. That is the most fundamental religious quality. Everything else is ordinary and can follow, but courage is the most fundamental thing, the first thing.
OSHO
VIII. Courage.
Tarot in the spirit of Zen.

There is no going back, and there is no need to go back. You have to go forward, not back. Again and again you will think about how to go back. There is no going back; there is no need to go back. You have to go forward. You have to attain your own light; and that can be done. There is no possibility of going back, and even if there were, the same experience wouldn't satisfy you anymore. It would just be a repetition-it wouldn't give you the same thrill: The thrill was in the novelty of it. Now the same experience is not going to give you any joy. You will say," This I know-but what more is there? What is new in it?" And if it is repeated a few times, you will get bored with it. One has to go forward, and each day there are new experiences. Existence is so eternally new, that you never have the same glimpse again. It has so many millions of aspects that each day you can have a new vision-so why bother about the old? There is no need.
Every day OSHO
Number 263.

THE SPECIAL FEAR. " It's a good kind fear when you don't know what exactly it is. It simply means that you are on the verge of something unknown. When your fear has some object, it is an ordinary fear. One is afraid of death-it is a very ordinary fear, instinctive; there's nothing special about it. Being afraid of old age or disease, illness-these are ordinary fears, garden-variety.
The special fear is when you cannot find an object for it, when it is there for no reason at all. That makes one really scared! If you can find a reason, the mind is satisfied. If you can answer why, the mind has some explanation to cling to. All explanations help things to be explained away, they don't do anything else, but once you have a rational explanation, you feel satisfied It is better to see the thing as it is without asking why. Something unknown is hovering around you, as it is going to hover around every seeker.

This is the fear every seeker has to pass through. I am not here to give you explanations but to push you into it. I am not a psychoanalyst-I am an existentialist. My effort is to make you capable of experiencing as many things as possible-love, fear, anger, greed, violence, compassion, meditation, beauty, and so forth The more you experience these things, the richer you become.
Everyday OSHO.
Number 15.

Master's don't teach the truth; there is no way to teach it. It is a transmission beyond scriptures, beyond words. It is a transmission. It is energy provoking energy in you. It is a kind of synchronicity.You have to approach the master with great love, with great trust, with an open heart. You are not aware who you are. He is aware who he is, he is aware who you are. The caterpillar might be said to be unaware that it may become a butterfly. You are caterpillar's-bodhisattvas. All caterpillars are bodhisattvas and all bodhisattvas are caterpillars. A bodhisattva means one who can become a butterfly, who can become a Buddha, who is a Buddha in the seed, in essence......
The master/disciple relationship is the relationship between the caterpillar and a butterfly, a friendship between a caterpillar and a butterfly. The butterfly cannot prove the caterpillar can become a butterfly; there is no logical way. But the butterfly can provoke a longing in the caterpillar-that is possible..
OSHO
Ah This.
Chapter 1.

Everything in this world has its own place and has its own dignity. By your judgment you are destroying the dignity of someone, You are interfering in somebody's territory. A man who is full of judgment becomes ugly, becomes unbearable. A man without judgment is always welcomed by everyone because he will never interfere in your territory ; he will never trespass your spirituality and your dignity." "You are free to choose but you are not free not to choose. And that's what I am teaching you: don't choose. Explore, discover, don't decide before you have realized. And realization, liberation, freedom, will give you an insight into everything. You will feel compassionate and loving to the whole life that surrounds you, nonjudgmentall. This is the trouble: people judge others and they judge themselves too. When they judge themselves they feel guilty; when they judge others they take people's dignity and honour. This judgmental mind is a double-edged sword: it cuts you, it cuts others. It has destroyed the whole humanity. Drop this judgmental mind, and with this judgmental mind you will drop all your religions, all your moralities. You will become an innocent child, rejoicing in everybody and his uniqueness.
OSHO
I Celebrate Myself.

I call my religion religionless religion. I call it religionless because it has nothing to do with all religions which have existed up to now. But still I call it religion because I also want to deny the atheists, the antireligious. They both were part of the old game. The theist and the atheist-they were the polarity in the past. If I simply call this a religionless phenomenon it becomes atheism, and it is not atheism. I want to insist that I am not a theist nor an atheist. In fact, both are idiots-they are discussing about something which does not exist. One is saying God is; another is saying God is not. But both are concerned about God, and wasting their whole life arguing about God. So I am giving a new term to religiousness. It is no more concerned with God, no more concerned with heaven and hell, no more concerned with all kinds of theologies or anti theologies. It is a scientific search into your consciousness. But because it is a search into consciousness, I call it religion. I cannot call it simply science, because science is arrowed towards the objective reality. Religion is arrowed toward the subjective reality.
OSHO.
The Last Testament.

Catharsis helps. If you go through chaotic meditations, you throw all the clouds outside, all darkness’s outside, then mindfulness becomes easier. That is the reason I emphasize first chaotic meditations and then silent meditations- first active meditations, then passive meditations. You can move into passivity only when all that is there-like junk-has been thrown out. Anger has been thrown out, greed has been thrown out-layer upon layer, these things are there. But once you have thrown them out, you can easily slip in. There is nothing to hinder.
OSHO.
Take it Easy.

I have created meditations like Dynamic Meditation, Gibberish Meditation and the Kundalini Meditation. If you want relaxation, then these meditations have to be done first. They will take out all tensions from your mind and body, and then relaxation is very easy. You don't know how much you are holding in, and that is the cause of tension
OSHO
Satyam Shivam Sundram.

Don't create absolute ideas; remain flexible. Something may be good for you today and tomorrow it may not be good, because life goes on changing and you cannot step in the same river twice. Every thing is moving, a flux, so don't remain fixed. This is one of the diseases of the human mind: you become fixed, you lose flexibility-and flexibility is life. Look at a child; he is flexible. Look at an old man; he has become inflexible. The more flexible you are, the more alive and fresh and young. The more inflexible you become... already you are dead. Flexibility means responding to the moment without any preconceived idea-directly, immediately. Immediacy is flexibility. You look to the situation, you become aware to the situation, you are sensitive to the situation-and then you act. The action comes through the encounter of the situation and you, not from a past mind."
Osho
The Hidden Harmony.

If you look into existence.... and I am not a philosopher; I am simply existential, not even an existentialist, just existential- I see everywhere contradictions. Light cannot exist without darkness, darkness cannot exist without light.
For example, ordinarily people think that a blind man must be living in darkness. They are wrong. A blind man knows nothing of darkness, because to see darkness you need eyes. If a blind man cannot see light, he cannot see darkness. They are two poles of one phenomenon; for both, eyes are needed. Now it is almost impossible to conceive what the blind man experiences-no light, no darkness, then what? Is there something else that he feels? No. You must be thinking that a deaf person is enjoying silence continuously. You are wrong. A deaf person knows nothing of silence because he knows nothing of sound.
Sound and silence go together. Light and darkness go together. Everything... if you find anything, you can predict that there must be something polar opposite to it. Without the polar opposite, it cannot exist.
OSHO
The Last Testament

It is reported of one of the Sufi masters, Junnaid, that he was working with a new young man. The young man was not aware of Junnaid's inner wisdom, and Junnaid lived such an ordinary life that it needed very penetrating eyes to realize that you were near a Buddha. He worked like an ordinary labourer, and only those who had eyes would recognize him. To recognize Buddha was very easy, he was sitting under a bodhi tree. To recognize Junnaid was very difficult, he was working like a labourer, not sitting under a bodhi tree. He was in every way absolutely ordinary. One young man was working with him, and that young man was continually showing off his knowledge. So whatsoever Junnaid would do, he would say,' This is wrong. This can be done in this way, it will be better'-he knew about everything. Finally Junnaid laughed and said'' Young man, I am not young enough to know so much.'' This is really something. He said," I am not young enough to know so much". Only a young man can be so foolish, So inexperienced. Socrates was right when he said," When I was young, I knew too much. When I became ripened, experienced, I came to realize only one thing, that I was absolutely ignorant.
OSHO
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen.

A fool falls out of a sixth story window. He is lying on the ground with a big crowd around him. A cop walks over and says,' What happened?' The fool says,' I don't know. I just got here.'
In the old days all great emperors always had one fool in their court. They had many wise men, counsellors, ministers and prime ministers, but always one fool. All the intelligent and wise emperors all over the world, in the East and the West, had a court joker, a fool. Why? Because there are things so-called wise men will not be able to understand, that only a foolish man can understand. Because the so-called wise are so foolish that their cunningness and cleverness closes their minds. A fool is simple, and was needed, because many times the so-called wise would not say something because they were afraid of the emperor. A fool is not afraid of anybody else. He will speak, whatever the consequences. A fool is a man who will not think of the consequences.
OSHO
Tarot in the spirit of Zen.
Page 1.

Drop all spiritual nonsense. All kinds of nonsense continue in the name of religion. The more nonsensical, the more impossible it looks, the more it attracts neurotic people. Simple truths don't attract neurotic people. What I am doing here is very simple, very ordinary, nothing spiritual in it, nothing sacred. I am not trying to make you holy persons, I'm simply trying to make you sane, intelligent, ordinary people who can live their lives joyously, dancingly, celebratingly.
OSHO
Zen: The Special Transmission.

Music is tremendously meaningful, because it can vibrate you. It can bring pulsation to many layers of your being which have become stale, stagnant. It can create ripples in your innermost core. If you allow and you are not afraid, those ripples will go deeper and deeper and deeper. They will touch your very core, you're very centre. Allow music to enter you. Just become a receptivity, an openness. Go all the way and don't hold, because holding will create trouble; your energy starts being divided. When music influences you, when you are under its impact, then complete forget yourself. Just become part of it, and then you are nothing but a vibration. Then the music will start playing upon you and you will be just like an instrument. It is going to give you the greatest meditation that is possible.
OSHO.
The Passion for the Impossible

All perfectionists are neurotic. The very effort to become perfect is obsessive; it creates neurosis, it creates a sort of madness. Then you will never be sane. The only sanity there is, is to accept yourself as you are. Don't condemn and don't judge. Don't make standards to judge and don't make criteria to judge. Suddenly you see that you have started moving, that the river is flowing. And the river reaches to the ocean of its own accord; nobody needs to force it.
The more you try to change yourself, the more you will be in a vicious circle. And then guilt is created; and when you feel guilty you feel condemned, and when you feel condemned, in that condemnation life becomes a hell. Hell does not exist somewhere; it exists in a wrong attitude. Then you live in hell; your whole being is surrounded by a nightmare. Drop that nightmare. Start living and flowing; a deep let-go , acceptance. And wherever you move, don't be worried, because the divine is everywhere. When you create the idea of guilt, for what so ever reason, you create a gap; then you are surrounded by your own darkness. Drop that word guilt, and always remember that words are very potential and powerful. Don't say you feel guilty; never use a wrong word."
If I'm teaching anything here, if it can be called a teaching at all, it is a very simple teaching: to be yourself, and never try to become anything else. If you cannot understand me it's okay, you don't need. Whenever you need, it happens. Let everything happen when it is needed; let everything follow its natural course
OSHO
Come Follow to You.

I don't give you any doctrine, I don't give you any philosophy. To me all those philosophical dogmas and great systems of thought are simply bullshit. But people are so interested in rotten things That they go on carrying all that load their whole life. They are just big words, jargon, esoteric jargon.
OSHO
Going all The Way.

Accept yourself as you are, and accept totally, unconditionally. That is the way existence wants you to be; the way you are, exactly, precisely. That's how you are needed here in this moment. Don't try to change. The very effort to change is foolish, because who is going to change? The very effort is foolish because you are trying to pull yourself up by your shoelaces. You may jump a little, but you will be back again on the same earth, and in a worse condition because guilt will come in; you couldn't succeed you, failed. At least learn one thing from me-total acceptance. And total acceptance brings transformation of its own accord: that's the beauty of it. When you accept yourself you start moving-not that you force, not that you push the river, not that you fight; you flow with life. Wherever it leads is the goal. I am not giving you any goal. I am not giving you any ideal.
OSHO
Come Follow to You.

You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth-everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfilment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions."
Osho
God is Dead: Now Zen is the Only Living Truth.
Chapter 1.

A few things to be understood..... one: there is no need to hectically change you’re interest from men to women. If it changes on its own, that's good, but there is no need to force that change. A forced change never goes very deep, never works, and there is no need to force. Accept your homosexuality. Don't condemn it; there is no need. It is a perfectly valid way. And if you accept it, one day you can go beyond it; if you reject it, you can never go beyond it, that's the problem. If you reject it, it will haunt you. If you deny it, it will try to overpower you. The denied parts of your being become revengeful. So there is no need to deny it. It's perfectly valid.Mm? There are so many ways to relate sexually, homosexuality is one of the ways; simply accept it. Joyously accept it, not grudgingly, not reluctantly...

[to the group leader] And , many many homosexual people will be coming, so once in a while there should be a homosexual group.Mm, just plan, just think about it. Right? Because if you can give them the feeling that their sexual interest is valid it will be a tremendous importance to them: they will feel rooted, grounded, and from the rootedness change becomes easy, becomes possible.

(To the Sannyasin) And if nothing changes there is no problem in it. Remain homosexual and yet start growing spiritually. It is not that homosexuality is necessarily a barrier for spiritual growth. If you accept it then there is no problem; the problem arises if you reject it. Sometimes I have to say to a few homosexuals, lesbians, to drop it. I say only to drop it when I see that they reject it deep down and are still in it; then it is a hindrance. But if a person simply feels easily homosexual, then there is no problem. And that's my feeling about you. It is a very natural phenomenon to you; but the mind listens to things, and the homosexual minority has been so condemned down the ages. One cannot avoid knowing those things, that everybody condemns it, that everybody is against it, the law is against, the religion.. Naturally, one thinks that when so many people are against it something must be wrong in it! Even if one feels the pull towards it, one goes reluctantly. Don't go reluctantly. That reluctance is the real problem, not homosexuality. And there is no need to change it drastically; simply allow your natural flow. Meditate, grow. It is possible one day that it may change. When you change, all the things change. But remember, you are not to change it; no effort has to be made to change it. So you will be doing other groups....... if this problem arises, simply express your feeling and say that you're not interested in women at all; and not with any guilt, there is no need, no need to feel any guilt. You are not doing any sin, you are not harming anybody. You are not destructive to anybody, you are not violent to anybody. Homosexuality is your enjoyment; it is fun, it is nothing serious. With that acceptance this nightmarish situation will disappear and you will feel very much at ease. And that at- easeness will not be only on the surface, it will become part of your depth.
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Friday. February 24. 1978.

The pain is not to make you sad, remember. That's where people go on missing..... This pain is just to make you more alert- because people become alert only when the arrow goes deep into their hearts and wounds them. Otherwise they don't become alert. When life is easy, comfortable, convenient, who cares? Who bothers to become alert? When a friend dies, there is a possibility. When your man leaves you alone, those dark nights, you are lonely. You have loved that man so much and you have staked all, and then suddenly one day he is gone. Crying in your loneliness, those are the occasions when, if you use them, you can become aware. The arrow is hurting: it can be used. The pain is not to make you miserable, The pain is to make you more aware! And when you are aware, misery disappears.
OSHO
Take It Easy.
Volume 2. Chapter 12.

Question There are a lot of people, of course, struggling with the ego in the group. People say I am ego tripping. Should I just accept that?

OSHO replies. " Accept it. To accept the ego is to go beyond it, because the ego is never willing to accept. That's its defence. The ego is always protective and defensive. It goes on always saying that you are not on an ego trip. Once you say' Yes, maybe I am on an ego trip', it is finished. Then what is the point of the ego? Then you become defenceless; you accept it. But if you feel that yes, you are on an ego trip, there is no need to even say 'maybe'. Say' Certainly I am on ego trip and I am enjoying it!' In that moment there is no ego, because when you accept, the whole game is gone. The game consists of not accepting. People are saying that you are on ego trip, and you say that you are humble man, the most humble man in the world. You say that you are not on an ego trip. You may be. That is the ego, accept it. If you feel certain, accept it with certainty. If you are not certain, say' maybe', 'perhaps'. If you think you are not on ego trip, but the other is feeling very happy saying that you are, then let him enjoy it! That is her ego trip, so why be worried about it! Good.
OSHO
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle.
Darshan Diary .

Meditate. Sit silently watching your thoughts, homosexual, heterosexual, whatsoever they are, it doesn't matter. You watch, you become the witness. Slowly slowly a distance will be created between you and your thoughts. And one day suddenly; the realization that you are not your mind. And that day a revolution has happened within you. After that day you will never be the same again. A transcendence will have happened. After that, whatsoever you do is right; you can't do wrong then. And before that, whatsoever you do is wrong. So when I say I have nothing against homosexuality I'm not supporting it, remember, I am not saying' Be homosexual' I don't have anything against heterosexuality either, but I am not supporting heterosexuality. I am not supporting anything. These are all mind games. And you have to go beyond all the games.
OSHO.
The Book of The Books

The founder of the Theosophical movement, Blavatsky, used to carry two bags on both her shoulders, big bags, full of seeds. Wherever she would travel.... if she were travelling in a train, she would sit by the side of the window and go on throwing seeds. She might never come across that patch of land again. People were puzzled and they would ask’ What are you doing?' She would say' These are beautiful seeds, and when the rains come they will bloom.' Those people were naturally puzzled. They would say' Will you be coming this way again?' She would say' I am a world traveller, I may never come again; but that doesn't matter! Somebody will pass, somebody will see the flowers, somebody will be happy-that is enough. Just to conceive of it, to contemplate on it, that next time after the rains and when this train goes by, thousands of passengers will be able to smell those flowers! To see those colours is more than enough! What more can one ask?' This is what sharing is: you simply go on throwing seeds. So you travel,mm? And throw the seeds! Good.
OSHO.
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Tuesday 21 February. 1978.

A few things to be understood..... one: there is no need to hectically change you’re interest from men to women. If it changes on its own, that's good, but there is no need to force that change. A forced change never goes very deep, never works, and there is no need to force. Accept your homosexuality. Don't condemn it; there is no need. It is a perfectly valid way. And if you accept it, one day you can go beyond it; if you reject it, you can never go beyond it, that's the problem. If you reject it, it will haunt you. If you deny it, it will try to overpower you. The denied parts of your being become revengeful. So there is no need to deny it. It's perfectly valid.Mm? There are so many ways to relate sexually, homosexuality is one of the ways; simply accept it. Joyously accept it, not grudgingly, not reluctantly...
OSHO
Believing The impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Friday 24 February 1978.

Sometimes pain is so cleansing that pleasure is nothing compared to it, to the value of it. Pleasure is almost always superficial. That's why the rich people look so shallow: they don't have any depth. They move from one sensation to another, they live on the surface. Pain brings depth. It goes like an arrow into the heart, it pierces; its thrust is deep. It hurts, but once the arrow has penetrated your being, you will become aware of a different plane. You will feel that you were not that superficiality, that you have a certain depth; but each depth has to be attained through a death, and that death is painful. Intensive Enlightenment is of immense value. So go through the pain and you will come out of it so fresh, young, as if you had taken a spiritual bath
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast
Darshan Diary.
Tuesday 21 February 1978.

And don't demand perfection in the other. Be human! Don't ask for inhuman perfections." " And real people are real people! Nobody is here to fulfil your fantasies. Drop your fantasies and you will see the world is full of beautiful people. If you want to be accepted, first accept yourself, And then accept somebody's love. Fulfil these conditions-and you will be accepted. And don't ask for the impossible. Be a little more positive, and you will find something beautiful even in the meanest person. Be negative, and you will find something ugly even in the most beautiful person. If you want to live in a world of ugly people, be negative, and you will make the whole world ugly. It is your mind that will create ugliness all around, because you will be looking only for the ugly, only for the negative, only for the wrong. This is what hell is. The negative mind creates hell, the positive mind creates heaven: it all depends on you. You are the creator of your life. It can have tremendous meaning, beauty, joy: but you will have to create it in your heart, and you will have to spread it all over the place. You will have to create something in yourself, only then will you find it in existence. Existence echoes you.
OSHO
Philosophia Perennis.

Even now, if you are open to Buddha, the help will be coming to you. Even now, if you are passionately in love with Buddha, the help will be coming to you. He is still shouting from the other shore, but the shout from the other shore is very far away. You will have to listen very attentively, more attentively than you are listening to me, because the voice will be coming from the other shore. Sooner or later I will be gone. If you learn how to listen to me attentively, many of you will be able to listen to me from the other shore too.
Osho:
The Diamond Sutra,
Lecture#4

So let this be your criterion. Whenever the question arises of what has to be done, this has to be the criterion: if it brings joy, do it. And whatsoever brings joy to you will bring joy to others too. Sometimes it may not be very apparent, but this is the fundamental law: that which brings joy to you is bound to bring joy to everybody, and that which brings misery to you is bound to create misery for others, sooner or later. Be utterly self- full, and remember that in being self-full, you are serving humanity. There is no other service. All that goes on in the name of duty is ugly Duty is a dirty four letter word: avoid it! Do things out of joy but never out of duty.
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Sunday 19 February 1978.

A man who has no rebellion in him has no salt, A man who has no rebellion in him has no spine; but the society consists of spineless people." " People who are rebellious, people who are not able to fit in the common rut, people who are not mediocre and who aspire for something higher, who aspire for something greater, people for whom this life as it is does not give any contentment. They are the adventurers, the explorers, they are the salt of the earth. They need no therapy: they need all encouragement to go into their rebellion as deeply as possible, to go in search of the unknown. They are the pioneers. The pioneers have always been thought somehow to be mad, eccentric, crazy, and the society has always tried to pull them down to the bourgeois level. Society needs yes sayers; it does not want anybody who is individual. It wants people who are only personas, just pseudo, individual for the names sake, otherwise not, people who dress in the same way as everybody is doing, who go to the same church as everybody is going, who want to live a life which is everybody's life. These pioneers don't want to live their life-that's what rebellion is." " I am not here to destroy your rebellion. I am here to enhance it, to protect it, to help it, to make it stronger.
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Sunday 19 February 1978

If you are intelligent you can use the stones on the road as stepping stones; there is no need to think of them as hindrances. And that is the whole art of intelligence: to transform hindrances into stepping stones.
OSHO.
The Miracle.

Analysis is a vicious circle. If you really go into analysis, you will be simply puzzled-how is it possible? If, for example, you try to go into the past, where will you end? Where exactly? If you go into the past, were did your sexuality start? When you were fourteen years of age? But then it came out of the blue? It must've been getting ready in the body. So when? When were you born? But then when you were in the mother's womb, wasn't it getting ready? Then when? The moment you were conceived? But before that? Half of your sexuality was maturing in your mother's egg and half of the sexuality was maturing in your fathers sperm Now go on.. where will you end? You will have to go to Adam and Eve. And even then it does not end: you will have to go to Father God Himself. Why in the first-place did He create Adam? Analysis will always remain half, so analysis never helps anybody really. It cannot help. It makes you little more adjusted to your reality, that's all. It is a sort of adjustment. It helps you to attain a little bit of understanding about your problems, their genesis, how they have arisen. and that little intellectual understanding helps you to adjust to the society better, but you remain the same person. There is no transformation through it, there is no radical change through it."
OSHO
Tantra Vision.
Volume One.

If you feel you are a fighter, if you enjoy fighting, not only that, if you are proud of being a fighter, then relax-fight totally! Then don't fight your fighting nature. That will be a let- go for you. It is perfectly beautiful to stand before the strongest storm and laugh. Don't feel guilty. Just try to understand one thing: when I say let go, I don't mean you have to change anything. I simply mean, what ever you feel that you are, just allow it in its totality. Be a fighter with your whole being, and in this totality you will find the melting of the heart. That will be the reward of being total. You do not need to do anything for it; rewards come on their own. Just be total in anything that you feel that you love, that you feel proud of. Don't create a split. Don't be half and half. Don't be partial. If you are total, one day-standing against the strongest storm, laughing-you will suddenly feel your heart melting in the sun. That will come to you as a reward. Man unnecessarily creates problems. I want you to understand that there are no problems in life except those you create. Just try to see: whatsoever feels good for you is good. Then go the whole way. Even if the whole world is against it, it doesn't matter. Whether you have been total and whole will be decided by the reward. If you start feeling at one point a sudden melting then you know you have not cheated yourself, that you have been sincere, true. Now that is really the point where you can be proud.
OSHO
Beyond Psychology.

Sex for pleasure is sin. Sex is right only for reproductive purposes. --That is the religious idea. If you reproduce children, then sex is right. If you are just having fun, then you are committing a crime against God. --Because sex is sacred, and fun is not sacred. Now, who has decided that fun is not sacred? I say to you: Fun is more sacred than reproducing in an overcrowded world. But these popes and these priests are all for reproduction. And then they want to save the dignity of the poor -- they create poverty!
OSHO
The Wild Geese & The Water
Ch.10

I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology-I don't have any. Secondly, I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom. So my function is not that of teacher, not that of a prophet, not that of a saviour, not that of a messenger. My function simply is that of a reminder. I want just to be a mirror to you so that you can see your original face. And if you can see a Buddha in me, there is no difficulty in seeing a Buddha in you too-maybe a little lazy, a little sleepy, a little gone off the track. But a Buddha is a Buddha. It does not matter whether his nuts and bolts are a little loose, we will fix them. Ones Buddhahood is one's essential nature. I don't want you to worship Buddha’s, I want you to become Buddha’s. That is the only right worship. If you love it, become it."
OSHO
Beyond Enlightenment.
October 29. 1986

And that has to become your work. Say yes to life, drop as many nos as possible. Even if you have to say no and it is difficult to avoid it, say it but don't enjoy saying it. And if it is possible, say it also in the form of yes. Don't miss a single opportunity of saying yes to life. When you say yes, say it with great celebration and joy. Nourish it, don't say it reluctantly. Say it lovingly, say it with enthusiasm, with zest; pour yourself totally into it. When you say yes, become yes! You will be surprised to know that ninety nine nos can be dropped very easily. We say them only as part of our ego; they were not needed, they were not inevitable. The one no that remains will be very significant, that need not be dropped. But even saying that essential no, one has to be very reluctant, hesitant, because no is death and yes is life. People are dead because they go on saying no. Watch yourself and watch others and you will be surprised: people are saying no for no reason at all. But they are enjoying saying it: it gives a kind of power. When you can say no to somebody you feel powerful."
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
February 16 Thursday 1978

Just one day I said homosexuality is a perversion. Immediately, few letters arrived, very angry. Because there are few homosexuals. And they said, "What are you talking? We have come here only thinking that you accept all -- and you don't reject, don't condemn anything. I have not condemned. But the question and the answer were for a particular person. You need not be worried about it. It may not be relevant to you. To a homosexual, homosexuality is religion, his religion. He does not believe in heterosexuality. He thinks the heterosexuals are a little perverted -- or at least very orthodox, out-of-date people, should not exist anymore, are no more contemporaries. What nonsense they are talking about? To the heterosexual, the homosexual seems to be very perverted, animalistic, even below the animals. And to the homosexual, the heterosexual is animalistic -- because homosexuality is the invention of man, the superior man. Animals are not homosexual, at least not in their wild state. In zoos, sometimes, yes. But there they become affected by human beings. They learn from human beings. But in wild, they are not homosexuals. So homosexuality is something special that man has discovered. It is a defining phenomenon. Just as Aristotle says, "Man is a rational being", the homosexual says, "Man is a homosexual being -- only man has the capacity to rise to such heights.
OSHO
The Book Of The Books
I, #16

Nobody wants to give you pain; the pain is because of your past. Those wounds are there, They have to be opened. When you open a wound, the puss oozes out. You'd forgotten the pain and again the pain is there, but that is the only way to heal it. To open a wound to the sun to the wind is the only way to heal it." " It is an effort to uncover all that which we are hiding. Those are unpleasant things we are hiding, that's why we are hiding them: anger, violence, hatred, jealousy and all that. We are hiding them because we are afraid that if people come to know about them, they will not like us. It is not only that we hide them from people; by and by we start hiding them from ourselves too, because if we know about them, then we will not like ourselves. And it will be very difficult to live with yourself if you constantly know how ugly you are. So not only do we have to hide facts from others, we have to learn strategies to hide facts from ourselves too
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary.
Wednesday 15 February 1978.

My whole message is: accept the you that you are. Existence respects it, and you have not respected your being yet. Be immensely happy that existence has chosen you to be, to exist, to see this world, to listen to music, to see the stars, to see people. Love and be loved-what more do you want? Rejoice! And in that very rejoicing, by-and-by, it will explode in you like lightning that you are special. It will not come as an ego that you are special as against others. Now, in that moment you will know that everybody is special. The ordinary exists not. If you think I AM SPECIAL -more special than that man, more special than that woman-then you have not yet understood. It is an ego game. You are special, not in comparison with anybody-special just as you are. Comparison brings conflict. Comparison brings ambition, and comparison brings imitation." " You're perfectly okay as you are. This is what I call respect towards one's own being. Respect, accept, recognize, and all those foolish efforts to be special will disappear
OSHO
I Say Unto You.

Misery arises because we don't allow change to happen; We cling, we want things to be static. If you love a man you want him tomorrow too, the same way as he is yours today. That's how misery arises. Nobody can be certain about the next moment. What to say about tomorrow? A man of awareness knows that life is constantly changing. Life is change. There is only one thing permanent and that is change. Everything else except change changes. To accept the nature of life, to accept this changing existence, with all its seasons and moods, this constant flow which never stops for a single moment, is to be blissful! Then nobody can disturb your bliss. It is your hankering for permanency that creates trouble for you. You want to live in a life with no change, and that is not possible. You are asking the impossible.
OSHO .No Man Is An Island.

That's the situation that almost everybody is in. Fear is the state of the normal human mind; one is afraid, simply afraid. It is not a question of what one does; all are excuses, just pegs to hang your fear on, that's all. So if you are here, you are afraid of that; if you go there, you are afraid of that. If you do this, you are afraid of this; if you do something else, you will be afraid of that. So rather than thinking about why you are afraid, go deeper into this state of fear. Don't be bothered by the excuses, they are irrelevant. Go into this fear, just be afraid -- why find excuses? If fear is there, then why not be simply afraid? And you will have a tremendous experience. From tonight, every night for one hour before you go to sleep, sit in the darkness of your room and just be afraid, for no reason at all. Tremble, shake, be afraid -- and remember, don't try to find any reason for it. There is no reason really. Man is fear, and if we can go deep into fear without finding any explanations, then the fear can be transformed into love. It is the same energy that becomes love. But first you have to go into it, to the rock bottom of it. So this has to be your meditation for a few days, and after six weeks report on how you are feeling.
OSHO
Won't You Join The Dance?

All learning happens through meditation; it does not happen through study. That is accumulation of information, it is not learning. Always be alert about borrowed knowledge: howsoever precious it appears it is always false,pseudo-for you. It is not pseudo for the man who has lived it. It is true for Buddha, true for Jesus, true for Krishna, but not for you. Buddha also had the Scriptures available. He could have learned the Gita so absolutely that he would have been able to repeat it from memory, but then he would have missed Buddhahood. In Jesus' time the Old Testament was available, but Jesus tried to find out the truth for himself. This is something very essential to understand: truth has to be found by oneself. It is only by experiencing truth on your own that freedom happens. Freedom is the fragrance of the experience of truth.
OSHO
The Dhammapada: The way of the Buddha.

Difficult are challenges. They provoke you to work, to think, to find ways to overcome them. The very effort is essential. So always take difficulties as blessings. Without difficulties, we would be nowhere. Bigger difficulties come-that means that existence is looking after you, it is giving you more challenges. And the more you solve them, the greater challenges will be waiting for you. Only at the last moment, difficulties disappear, but that last moment comes only because of difficulties. So never take any difficulty negatively. Find something positive in it. The same rock blocking the path can function as a stepping stone. If there were no rock on the path, you would never rise up. And the very process of going above it, making it a stepping stone, gives you a new altitude of being. So once you think about life creatively, then every thing is useful and everything has something to give you. Nothing is meaningless.
Everyday Osho.

Remember one thing: here I am speaking for so many people. They are different, their approaches are different. Sometimes it will fit with you, sometimes it may not fit with you. When it doesn't fit, you have to keep patience. Because when it fits with you, it will not fit with somebody else, he has to keep patience. I am speaking for many people. And not only I am speaking with you, and for you, I am speaking for millions who are not here, to whom these words will reach. Sometimes if you feel the thing is too difficult for you or unapproachable for you, be patient, listen. Maybe your heart is not dancing, maybe it is higher or deeper than the heart. There are things of the head, there are things of the heart, and there are things which are beyond. This is of the beyond. And the beyond is very difficult. You know something of the head, you know something of the heart, but you know nothing of the beyond. But these words ARE rare. This Diamond Sutra is a diamond, the most valuable diamond that exists in the world literature. Nobody has spoken like that, nobody has taken such flights. But if you feel that you cannot fly so high, don't close yourself. Make efforts. Even if you can go a little farther than you can go right now, even if you can take few steps toward the unknown, that will be enrichening to you.
OSHO
The Diamond Sutra #7

Misery consists of unawareness. Misery has no outer cause for it, the cause is inner. You go on throwing the responsibility outside, but that is just an excuse. Yes, it is triggered from the outside but the outside does not create it. Somebody insults you: the insult comes from the outside but the anger is inside you. The anger is not caused by the insult, it is not the effect of the insult. If there were no anger energy in you the insult would have remain impotent. It would have simply passed, you would not been disturbed by it. In fact, when you are carrying your anger energy you are waiting for somebody to insult you, you are searching for somebody to insult you, because without finding somebody to insult you it will be so difficult to be angry. If you cannot find anybody who can trigger it then you will become a self triggered: you will imagine something or you will think of the past or even of the future and you will trigger it yourself. But then it looks more neurotic, so the rational mind always tries to find an excuse for it; and there are millions of excuses available. A man may be there who can create passion in you, but the passion is in you. He may be just an instrument in bringing it to the surface of your consciousness. He may be a catalyst but he is not the cause. Causes don't exist outside human consciousness, causes exist inside you. You are the cause of your life, and to understand this is to understand one of the most basic truths. To understand this is to start a journey of transformation.
OSHO
Believing The Impossible Before Breakfast.
Darshan Diary
Friday 10 February 1978.

At that moment when you want to escape remember to persist, because it is exactly at that moment when it is almost impossible to bear, that the door opens, and suddenly energies are transformed. If you escape in that moment you miss.
OSHO
Above All Don’t Wobble.
Darshan Diary.
Friday, January 30.

There are some things that cannot be done; they only happen. The things that can be done, those things belong to the world. Things that cannot be done belong to God or belong to the other world, or however you name it. Things that cannot be done-only these are the real things. They always happen to you; you become the receiving end-and that is the meaning of surrender. Become a receiving end-be patient and just wait. Wait with deep love, prayerfulness, gratitude-gratitude for that which has already happened, and patience for that which is going to happen. Ordinarily the human mind does just the opposite. It is always grumbling for that which has not happened, and it is always to impatient for it to happen. It is always complaining, never grateful. It is always desiring, and never creating the capacity to receive. The desire is futile if you don't have the capacity to receive.
OSHO
At the Feet of the Master.