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Path of Will or Path of Surrender? – Osho
Osho, last night you spoke about witnessing as a method; other times I have heard you speak about becoming a thing totally, being totally involved in any given situation. Usually I am at a loss as to...
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We Surrender the Wrong Thing – Osho
I love to hear you call us your friends. Why is it both exciting and challenging? It has many implications. It was twenty-five centuries ago that Gautam Buddha said as a departing message to his...
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Deeksha Is My Device – Osho
You want us to be individuals, but during work in the ashram we have to be very disciplined. Discipline and individualism—are they not diametrically opposite? I would like you to be individuals, but...
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On Meher Baba and Krishnamurti – Osho
My observation has been this: that Krishnamurti is surrounded by the most egoistic people of this world, and the reason is because there is a safe place – no need to surrender, no need to drop your...
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What is Surrender? – Osho
What is surrender? I used to think I knew. Now it is a mystery. Prem Prabhat, the false knowledge de-mystifies existence; the true knowledge re-mystifies it. Knowing, if authentic, makes life more of a...
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Feel First Your Own Feeling – Osho
This morning you spoke of the need to be responsible, to not lean on others, to be alone. I see I have been taking sannyas as an excuse to avoid these things – Asking you all the time what to do,...
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Rain Falling Softly on Earth – Osho
You tell me to float, but my body is so heavy with a dead-weight mind that I feel I will drown if I float. So I keep swimming in panic. Floating is a totally new way of life. You are accustomed to...
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Surrender and 112 Meditation Techniques – Osho
On the path of surrender, how does the seeker come to the right technique out of one hundred and twelve methods? On the path of will there are methods – these one hundred and twelve methods. On the...
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If I Say Surrender You Ask How – Osho
Techniques are shortcuts, revolutions, but are not these against tao, swabhav, the nature? They are. They are against tao, they are against swabhav. Any effort is against shabhav, tao; effort as such...
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Your Meditation Will Take You, I Cannot Take You Anywhere
Krishna said to Arjuna, “Surrender and I promise you moksha.” Jesus also said to his disciples, “Come follow me and I will take you to the kingdom, to God.” But you say to us that you can only show...
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Create a Perfect Ego Just to Dissolve it – Osho
Isn’t it true that all meditation techniques are really doings which lead the seeker to his being? In a way, yes; and in a deeper way, no. Meditation techniques are doings, because you are advised to...
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Surrendering to Nobody – Osho
You say that religion is total freedom or moksha, and you also stress the importance of surrender in religion. But are not freedom and surrender contradictory in terms? They appear contradictory but...
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Surrender is Understanding – Osho
My surrender is goal-oriented. I’m surrendering in order to win freedom, so it is not real surrender at all. I’m watching it, but the problem is: it is always “I” who is watching. Therefore, every...
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Are You Self-Realized – Osho
Are you self-realized? And how do you explain your relationship with existence and with people? The word you say, “self-realized,” is not right, because realization always means a transcendence of the...
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The Purity of the Path – Osho
Seeing the dialectical facts of life, can one practice the path of relaxation and the path of effort simultaneously? No, it is not possible! You cannot practice both simultaneously because both are...
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Create a Perfect Ego Just to Dissolve it – Osho
Isn’t it true that all meditation techniques are really doings which lead the seeker to his being? In a way, yes; and in a deeper way, no. Meditation techniques are doings, because you are advised to...
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Surrendering to Nobody – Osho
You say that religion is total freedom or moksha, and you also stress the importance of surrender in religion. But are not freedom and surrender contradictory in terms? They appear contradictory but...
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Are You Self-Realized – Osho
Are you self-realized? And how do you explain your relationship with existence and with people? The word you say, “self-realized,” is not right, because realization always means a transcendence of the...
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The Purity of the Path – Osho
Seeing the dialectical facts of life, can one practice the path of relaxation and the path of effort simultaneously? No, it is not possible! You cannot practice both simultaneously because both are...
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The Art of Dying – Osho
In this seventh stage, the state of videhamukti, liberation while living in the body is achieved. This stage is totally silent and cannot be communicated in words. It is the end of all stages, where...
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