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 Tears BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS IT, THAT WHEN I SIT IN YOUR PRESENCE TEARS START TO RUN FROM MY EYES? THEY ARE NOT TEARS OF SADNESS OR HAPPINESS. THEY COME FROM AN UNKNOWN…
Osho on Mystic Rose You are asking, “In what soil and in which climate might one find the mystic rose?” Your heart is the soil. Your trust is the climate. And your being is the…
Osho on Whirling BELOVED MASTER, I READ A POEM OF RUMI THE OTHER DAY WHICH WENT: “MOVE WITHIN, BUT DON’T MOVE THE WAY FEAR MAKES YOU MOVE.” AROUND THE SAME TIME I AWOKE FROM A…
Osho on Witnessing OSHO DOES WITNESSING ALWAYS BRING JOY? THE MOMENTS THAT I CALL WITNESSING SOMETIMES FEEL DISTANT — ALMOST COLD IN THEIR NEUTRALITY. OTHER TIMES IT IS LIKE SPROUTING WINGS AND SOARING IN JOY…
Osho on Tears BELOVED MASTER, WHEN I SIT IN DISCOURSE, AND YOUR EYES ARE DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM MINE, AFTER A SHORT WHILE THE FEELING OF CRYING AND LAUGHING, OF SADNESS AND GREAT JOY ARISE IN…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Kyozan Born in Shaozhou in the south (in modern Guangdong Province), Kyozan became a novice at a young age, and while still a teenager he became determined to follow the…
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…
But we are doing the experiment again and we are in a far more successful stage now. Our people are more joyous, more meditative, more intelligent, uncompromising. This is the meeting of the eccentric people…
Osho on Enlightened Zen Master Ummon Zen Master Ummon, one of the most eloquent of the Zen Masters, lived from 864 – 949 CE. He founded the Yunmen school, one of the five major schools…