Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Sosan Jianzhi Sengcan or Sosan is known as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chán (Zen after Bodhidharma and thirtieth Patriarch after Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha. He is considered the Dharma successor of the second…
Osho on Japanese Haiku Poet Issa Born on June 15 1763 in Japan, Kobayashi Issa was a Japanese poet and a Buddhist priest of the Joda Shinshu. He is known for his haiku poems and journals. He is better known…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Ryokan Ryokan Taigu was a Japanese Zen Master born in Echigo Province in Japan. He renounced the world at the age of seventeen to follow Zen practice. He was an…
Osho on Silence BELOVED OSHO, WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOU SAY, “SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, THE SPRING COMES AND THE GRASS GROWS BY ITSELF,” MY WESTERN MIND THOUGHT THIS WAS A METAPHOR, AND SOUGHT TO…
Osho on Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS BEYOND PSYCHOTHERAPY? PLEASE EXPLAIN. Beyond psychotherapy is your real being. Psychotherapy is confined to the mind — and you are not the mind. The West has…
Osho on Witnessing WHEN THE MIND STOPS MOVING IT ENTERS NIRVANA. NIRVANA IS AN EMPTY MIND. Empty mind can be misinterpreted. I would suggest it is better to call it “no-mind”, because mind is never…
Osho on Master-Disciple Relationship The greatest art in the world is to be a disciple. It cannot be compared to anything. It is unique and incomparable. Nothing like it exists in any other relationship, nothing…
Osho on Love To me, neither God is important nor heaven nor hell nor angels — all those are just hypothetical. To me, meditation is the very soul of religion. But it can be attained…
Osho on Fear YAGYU TAJIMA NO KAMI MUNENORI WAS A TEACHER OF SWORDSMANSHIP TO THE SHOGUN. In Zen, and only in Zen, something of great import has happened. That is, they don’t make any distinction…
Birthday of an Irish Writer Oscar Wilde 16th October is the birthday of the flamboyant Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford, he lived his adult life in London moving in…