Homosexuality is not such a big problem, it is not a problem at all, in fact. It is part of human freedom. There is nothing wrong if two persons choose a certain style of sexual relationship; it should be nobody's business. But the priests and the politicians are poking their noses into everything! They create guilt in you -- absolutely unnecessary. If two men are in love, what is wrong in it? What harm are they doing to anybody? In fact, they look happier than the heterosexuals; that's why they are called "gay".... Homosexuals become more feminine and they start having a certain beauty, a certain "richness" about them, a certain roundness, a grace.... Why make much out of a simple thing? If you are enjoying a relationship with a man, enjoy it! The Christian God himself seems to be homosexual -- the whole trinity consists of three men. How they are managing it nobody knows -- not a single woman! Only the Holy Ghost is a little suspect -- maybe the Holy Ghost is bisexual? Ghosts can do any kind of thing! Otherwise the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost -- what kind of trinity is this? It is very homosexual! They have not allowed a single woman to be in it, just to keep out of trouble. One woman would have destroyed the whole trinity; it would have become a real triangle! So homosexuality is not a problem. We should start looking at real problems and should not be concerned about unreal problems. There are real problems to be solved. And this is a trick of the human mind: to create unreal problems so that you become occupied with them while real problems go on growing. And this is an old strategy: politicians, priests, so-called religious leaders go on giving you pseudo-problems to solve so that you become occupied with the pseudo. The problem in itself is meaningless, the problem is not a problem at all, but how much fuss has gone on down the ages about homosexuality! There are countries where people are still killed for homosexual acts, murdered, sentenced to jail for their whole lives. Strange world! This is a 20th Century world? Homosexuality is not a problem at all; there are thousands of real problems to be solved. But man has to be kept engaged with toys. My effort is to withdraw all your attention from toys so that you can focus on the real problems of life; and if you focus on the real problems of life, they can be solved. Now, I don't see how homosexuality becomes a problem. How does it become a problem? Why should it be of concern to anybody? A love affair is two individuals' private concern; it is their intimacy, it is not a social phenomenon. And, in fact, it will help the world population if more people turned homosexual. It will be good, very good for the world: less people will be born, the earth will be less burdened, there will be less poverty. Of course, less orphans and less Mother Teresa’s! There will be less need for contraceptives, birth control methods, sterilization, and of course the whole business of the Polack Pope will go out of his hands. That is his whole business! For one year continuously, he has been talking against contraceptives, against birth control, sterilization, abortion. Homosexuality can solve all these problems simply! So I don't see there is much problem in it.... Don't make unnecessary problems for yourself, so that your whole energy can become focused on the essential problem. And the essential problem is only one: Know thyself!
OSHO.
The Goose Is Out, #3

The world needs the disobedient ones now. That does not mean that disobedience becomes your character, no. Just because one is ordered one doesn't necessarily have to obey, because the order may be wrong, the woman or man who is ordering may be wrong.
OSHO.
The Sun behind the Sun behind the Sun.
Darshan Diary.
January 19. 1978

Whatever I am saying to one person, everybody has to look within himself to see whether that is applicable to him also. I cannot talk to each of you differently; it is an impossibility. Every person to me is symbolic. What I said about Anando is just symbolic-you all have to ponder over it. Perhaps the same tendencies, the same unconscious feelings, jealousies, greed, ambitions may be hiding in you. Most probably they are. Before Enlightenment you all have this barbarous mind. Anando is not an exception, nor are you an exception, Maneesha-and it is perfectly okay. What is needed is an awareness that these things are within you. Nothing has to be done. Just watch them and they will wash out.
OSHO.
Joshu: The Lions Roar.

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target-you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target-not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you: not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
OSHO.
Ancient Music in the Pines.
Chapter 2.

OSHO:When will you becoming back?
SWAMI: If everything goes well, by fall.
OSHO: By fall? Everything will go well-Cross out that "if"! Never get hooked by "ifs" and "buts". Make life simple, and without "ifs" and "buts" life is very simple. "Ifs" and "buts" create great complexity. Because we create our life through our thinking: if you say "if" then there will be an "if"; you are projecting it. Don't project hesitations. Just say "Everything will be well and I will be here by fall"... and everything will be well; there is no problem in it. Man creates his own world by thinking about it continuously.
OSHO.
The Ninety-Nine Names of Nothingness.
Darshan Diary.
Monday 15 May. 1978.

If you suffer from jealousy, just watch how it arises in you, how it grabs you, how it surrounds you, clouds you, how it tries to manipulate you, how it drags you into paths where you never wanted to go in the first place, how finally it creates great frustration in you, how it destroys your energy, dissipates your energy and leaves you very negatively depressed, frustrated. Just watch the whole thing. And remember not to condemn, because if you condemn you have started thinking. I am not saying condemn it. Just see the facticity of it, without condemnation, without appreciation, without any judgment for or against. Just watch, aloof, distant, as if you have nothing to do with it. Be very scientific in watching.
OSHO.
THE GUEST.

If you suffer from jealousy, just watch how it arises in you, how it grabs you, how it surrounds you, clouds you, how it tries to manipulate you, how it drags you into paths where you never wanted to go in the first place, how finally it creates great frustration in you, how it destroys your energy, dissipates your energy and leaves you very negatively depressed, frustrated. Just watch the whole thing. And remember not to condemn, because if you condemn you have started thinking. I am not saying condemn it. Just see the facticity of it, without condemnation, without appreciation, without any judgment for or against. Just watch, aloof, distant, as if you have nothing to do with it. Be very scientific in watching.
OSHO.
THE GUEST.

There is an old Tibetan technique called "The Lions Roar." If you are angry, sexual, filled with hatred, jealousy, then the Tibetan master will give you this technique, "The Lions Roar." You have to sit before a mirror and you are to imagine that you are a lion, not a man. You have to make your face like a lion, you have to put your tongue out, and you have roar. And you have to practice it so that the imagination becomes so true that you forget that you are a man daydreaming that he is a lion. And when the point comes when you have really fallen prey to your own imagination, and you have become the lion, and a real roar comes out of you, suddenly you are transformed. In that roar, all hatred, anger, sex, disappears, and you will fall into a deep silence such as you have not known before. In old Tibetan monastery's they have a special room with many mirrors. Whenever someone is suffering from something like anger, hatred, or jealousy, he is to be sent to that mirrored room and he has to remain their until he comes to a climax. And when he comes to the climax, the whole monastery will know, because a real lion will be roaring there. To us, he has gone mad. The whole monastery will gather and welcomed the man, and he will come out a totally different man, It may take three days, it may take seven days. Food will be supplied to him, but he is not allowed to come out. He has to persist in imagining that he is a lion, until from the very roots of the unconscious the roar comes. The whole body is involved, every cell of it; every cell in it roars, and in that roar everything is thrown out. It is the deepest catharsis possible. And you will never see that man angry again because now the poison is not there. For the first time the face will become human.
OSHO
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. Volume 2.

The spiritual search is as illusory as any other search. The search itself is illusory because it has taken one thing for granted: that something is missing. And nothing is missing! Once you take it for granted that something is missing you start looking for it; then you go on looking for it in all directions. And the more you search the more you will miss it, because the more you search the more dust-covered the mirror becomes. The more you travel to seek it, the farther and farther you go in search of it, the more and more frustrated you become. Slowly, slowly you start thinking that it is so far away... "That's why I am not reaching it." The reality is just the opposite: you are not reaching it because you are it. It is not far away, it is so close by that even to call it "close" is not right, because even closeness is a kind of distance. It is not distant at all, it breathes in you. It is not there, it is here. It is not then, it is now. It has always been with you. From the very beginning everyone is a Buddha, everyone is a mirror capable of reflecting.
OSHO.
TAROT in the SPIRIT of ZEN.
Page 166

There is nobody who is closer to me than anybody else, and there is nobody who is more privileged. You have just to understand a simple thing: one thousand people cannot sleep in my room; otherwise I will have to get out!
OSHO.
The Hidden Splendor.

Comparison brings inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear. Then you are, you are simply there. A small bush or a big high tree-it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star. Without the grass leaf God will be less than he is. This sound of the cuckoo is needed as much as any Buddha; the world will be less, will be less rich if this cuckoo disappears. Just look around. All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody is higher, and nobody is lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior. Everybody is incomparably unique.
OSHO.
The Sun Rises in the Evening.
Chapter 4.

When I say that there is no commitment to my sannyas, I mean that there is nothing to be done, nothing to be imitated. There are no rules to follow. You are totally free. I throw you into an openness. That is what is meant by initiation. It is not narrowing you down; it is giving you an open sky. It is pushing you so that you can fly in an open sky. Of course, there are no routes and no road maps; there cannot be. There cannot be any path through the sky, you have to fly alone, you have to depend on yourself alone. Your own existence will be your sole company, the only company. Life is just like the open sky. It is not like a path on the earth; you cannot follow it. Following is impossible; you have to go alone. Initiation means that now I push you into the aloneness. Now you are totally alone, not depending on anyone, not even me. It requires courage. To imitate is easy; to follow is easy; to depend on someone is easy. But to be totally alone -- with no map, no discipline, no system -- requires the greatest courage. A sannyasin means one who is courageous. This courage is not something that can be imitated; it has to be developed through living. You will err, you will go astray -- that is implied in it. But by erring you will learn, and by going astray you will come to what is right. There is no other way. You have to pass through many difficulties. This walking alone, this flying alone -- one has to pass through this austerity.
OSHO.
I Am The Gate,
pp. 25-26

A tree is more alive than any temple, than any church; a river is more alive than any mosque. The stone idols in your temples are dead; a tree is more alive. You may be superstitious, but the person who is worshiping a tree is not. He may not be aware of what he is doing, a deep reverence for life in all its forms is there, a deep respect. Wherever you feel that life is growing, celebrate it, love it, welcome it, and a great transformation will happen to you. If life is revered in all its forms, you become more alive.
OSHO.
Tarot in the Spirit of Zen.
Page 165.

but each difficulty is a challenge and has to be accepted. And nothing is more valuable than this, a second childhood. Everything can be sacrificed for it but it can't be sacrificed for anything else. Just enjoy It, enjoy It unashamedly; don't be afraid of what people will say. Never be afraid of peoples opinions. That is the greatest bondage in the world. Once you are not afraid of peoples opinions, you are free. That is the subtle bondage: one is continuously considering others. Gurdjieff used to say "Don't consider!"... and he is right. What others say is their business and their problem, it has nothing to do with you. Just look into your own nature and whatsoever is joyous, go with it. That is your responsibility. You are not answerable to anybody.
OSHO
Let Go.
Darshan Diary.
Saturday 29 April 1978

If you decide before hand that you cannot do something, you will not be able to. Your decision will affect your life. It will become an auto suggestion. It will become a seed. It will sabotage your whole life. Even you cannot decide what you can and cannot do-you have to do it, you have to see for yourself. Only life decides. So it is simply foolish, childish, to decide beforehand-but many childish things continue. The tape keeps playing itself, and if you play it too much, it becomes habitual. It is a trick of the mind to avoid. Once you decide that you cannot make it, then why bother? Why struggle? Why so much conflict, effort? You know already that you cannot make it. It is the mind finding a rationalization so that you can avoid struggle. And of course, if you avoid effort, you will not make it, so you fall back on your decision. You say it was right, it was always right; you knew it beforehand. These are self-perpetuating things in the mind. They fulfil themselves, and the circle goes on moving, the wheel goes on moving. Take twenty-four hours and write down everything that you can remember of how you have been sabotaging-everything in detail. Look at them from every angle, and then don't repeat them. It will become a meditation.
EVERYDAY OSHO.
Number 324.

Life is a moment to celebrate, to enjoy. Make it fun, a celebration, and then you will enter the temple. The temple is not for the long-faced, it has never been for them. Look at life-do you see sadness anywhere? Have you ever seen a tree depressed? Have you seen a bird anxiety-wridden? Have you seen an animal neurotic? No, life is not like that, not at all. Only man has gone wrong somewhere, and he has gone wrong somewhere because he thinks himself to be very wise, very clever. Your cleverness is your disease. Don't be too wise. Always remember to stop; don't go to the extreme. A little foolishness and a little wisdom is good, and the right combination makes you a Buddha.
OSHO.
I Celebrate Myself.
Chapter 4.

First meditate, be blissful then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You don't depend on others and you don't make others dependent on you. Then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. It never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness. You relate, but you don't create a marriage. Marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. You relate; as long as things are moving beautifully, you share. And if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths separate at this Cross Road, you say goodbye with great gratitude for all the other has been to you, for all the joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. With no misery, with no pain, you simply separate.
OSHO
THE WHITE LOTUS.
Chapter 10.

So I teach you to be egoists so that you can become ego less. I teach you to be perfect egoists. Don't hide it, otherwise hypocrisy will be born. And don't struggle with the unripe phenomenon. Let it ripen and help it. Bring it to a peak.. Nothing unripe can be thrown-unripe fruit clings to the tree and the tree clings to the unripe fruit. And if you force it to separate a wound is left behind. And the scar will continue, The wound will always remain green, and you will always feel hurt. Remember, every thing has a time to grow, to be ripe, to fall down into the earth and dissolve. Your ego also has a time. It needs maturity... So to me, ego is part of natural growth. But that doesn't mean you have to remain with it forever. It is a natural growth, and then there is a second step when it has to be dropped. That too is natural. But the second step can be taken only when the first has come to its crescendo, its climax, when the first has reached its peak. So I teach both-I teach "ego ness" and I teach egolessnes. First be egoists, perfect egoists, absolute egoists, as if the whole existence exists for you and you are the centre; all the stars revolve round you and the sun rises for you; and everything exists for you, just to help you be here. Be the centres and don't be afraid because if you are afraid you will never be ripe. Accept it! It is a part of growth. And enjoy it and bring it to a peak. When it comes to a peak, suddenly you will become aware that you are not the centre. This has been a fallacy, this has been a childish attitude. But you were a child, so nothing is wrong in it. Now you have to become mature, and now you can see you are not the centre. Really, when you see that you are not the centre, you also see there is no centre in existence-or everywhere is the centre.
OSHO
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds.

That's what everybody is doing-people are doing their best to hold onto the negative, to the suicidal. People are not really willing to let go. Pain and misery, hell-they are trying in every way to hold onto them. They think it is a treasure; if it is lost, then all is lost. Even if they are destroyed in holding onto it they are ready to sacrifice themselves, but how can they leave the treasure? Hence pain. Pain is holding onto the negative and pleasure is let-go. When you stop holding onto the negative, when you open your fist and you allow all that is negative to fall from your being, suddenly pleasure arises-great pleasure, great sensuousness, sensitivity, great awareness. A new quality of life starts happening: one becomes affirmative. And to be affirmative is to be religious. To be able to say yes is the quality of a religious person." "So let your sannyas become a beginning of saying yes, of becoming white, moving from the negative to the positive. And we all have been trained to say no. We have been brought up to say no. We have learned all the tricks of being miserable. And unless one takes a drastic step to get out of this vicious circle... It is not easy, it is not going to happen on its own; one has to jump out of it. My work here consists in this simple phenomenon: of trying to help you to jump out of the vicious circle of the negative. A single glimpse of the positive and the whole of life starts changing.
OSHO.
Let Go!
Darshan Diary.
Thursday 27 April 1978.

Always affirm happiness, never affirm any negative thought. Millions of thoughts are crossing your mind. Only that thought which you choose becomes real. Scientists say that fifty thousand thoughts pass through an ordinary, average man's mind in one day. But only a few will become real and those will be the thoughts which you choose. Once you have chosen, you are trapped, and then it becomes difficult because it creates a vicious circle. If you have chosen misery it becomes easier for you to choose misery again; it becomes a practice. You get more and more deeply into misery. You start descending into hells and each hell takes you into a deeper hell. Once you start choosing happiness, you start rising upwards and each happiness makes you more confident to claim more, to choose something even better.
OSHO.
Let Go!
Darshan Diary.
Wednesday 26 April 1978.