Osho on English Philosopher Thomas More Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. Born in London, More was the son of a successful lawyer. More later…
Osho on Sufi Mystic Moinuddin Chishti Born in 1143, Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti was a Persian Sunni Muslim preacher and sayyid, ascetic, religious scholar, philosopher, and mystic from Sistan who eventually ended up settling in the Indian subcontinent in the early 13th-century, where he…
Osho on American Poet Allen Ginsberg Born on June 3, 1926, Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer.  He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs,…
Osho on Tears BELOVED MASTER, THE OTHER DAY, WHEN YOU SAID WE LOOK LIKE GAUTAM BUDDHAS WHEN WE LAUGH, A BIG LET-GO HAPPENED DEEP INSIDE ME AND I CRIED FOR A LONG TIME. TODAY I…
Osho on Laughter BELOVED MASTER, TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED, DO YOU NEED TO BE JEWISH OR DOES IT JUST HELP? Amitabh, religion has been missing one very fundamental quality: the sense of humor. It has been…
Birthday of Enlightened Zen Master Dogen Born in year 1200, in Kyoto Japan, Dogen was a Japanese Buddhist during the Kamakura period (1192–1333), who introduced Zen to Japan in the form of the Soto school. A creative personality, he combined meditative practice…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Hyakujo Hyakujo (also known by the name Pai-chang Huai-hai and Baizhang Huaihai) was a Zen Master who lived in China in the 8th century. Hyakujo is credited with introducing the…
Osho on Saint Eknath Born in 1544, Eknath was a poet-saint and mystic of Vaishnavism, the branch of Hinduism that reveres the deity Vishnu and his avatars (incarnations). Eknath is best known for his translations of various Sanskrit texts into Marathi (the local language of the Maharashtra region…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Ikkyu Born in 1394, Ikkyu was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals,as well as on…
Osho on Zen Maneesha, the deeper I look into Zen, the more things become crystal clear. One thing is its absolute uniqueness in the world of religions. In comparison to Zen, all the religions look…