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Osho, born Rajneesh, was an Indian mystic and spiritual teacher who blended ancient wisdom with modern insight. He founded a global following through dynamic meditation, Zorba-like joy, and uncompromising authenticity. Osho’s writings and dialogues encourage inner transformation through awareness, celebration, and freedom from dogma. Despite controversy, his emphasis on living with total presence and creativity resonates globally. His legacy guides seekers toward courage, honesty, and deep self-understanding.
"Drop the idea that you need to be perfect. You are already complete."
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"The whole of history is the history of murderers. If you become a murderer, fame will be very easy. You can become a prime minister, you can become a president-but these are all masks. Behind them you will find very violent people, terribly violent people hiding, smiling. Those smiles are political, diplomatic. If the mask slips, you will always see Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Nadir Shah, Napoleon, Alexander, Hitler, hiding behind."
2
"Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your ego functions like a seed in it. Your will to do this or that, to achieve this or that, to become this or that " acts like a seed. And the moment the art of your doing meets the womb of nature, a body is formed.Therefore, buddhas say: Give up all desires, only then will you be liberated.: If you desired for heaven, you will become an angel, but that won't be liberation either. Because as long as desires persist, there can never be any liberation. All desires lead to the formation of bodies."
2
"The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth."
2
"What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos."
10
"So if you are confused, please remember " don't help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are confused don't be occupied with others, because you are simply creating trouble, your disease will become infectious. Don't give advice to anyone, and if you have a little clarity of thought, don't take advice from someone who is confused. Remain alert, because confused people always like to give advice. And they give it free of charge, they give it very generously!"
2
"Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a companion. No matter how much you long for it, regardless of how much you close your eyes and dream of them " you will still remain alone. For lives you built a home, you built a family, and then you lost it " and all through that you have always remained alone. Not even slightly has your aloneness been ever affected. So one who has known, one who has accepted that he is alone, for him there is an indication in this sutra: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. Only being is yours, nothing else."
3
"You are imprisoned by your own mind. Freedom comes when you see the mind as a tool, not as your master."
2
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
10
"Tantra acceptance is total, it doesn't split you."
2
"A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected."
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"Man wants to make certain about the future,about tommorow--which cannot be done. Let it sink as deeply in your heart as possible, it cannot be done. Don't waste your present moment trying to make the future certain. The future is uncertainity that is the very quality of the future.One can do only one thing: Be alert and wait."
3
"And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy,you never look deep,you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover."
2
"When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing.You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don't say society is responsible, don't say that parents are responsible, don't say the economic conditions are responsible, don't throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible."
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"Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don't escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door."