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„The collective is animal. The individual is human and the universal is divine. When a person enters into meditation he does not become part of the collective. He becomes dissolved into the universal. Which is a higher point then the individual itself. But politicians always talk about the collective.

They are always interested in changing the society. And in changing the society, in making efforts to change the society and change the structure of society and this and that, they become powerful. The society has never been changed. It remains the same. The same rotten thing. And it will remain the same, unless this is understood; that all consciousness happens in the individual.

When it happens the individual becomes the universal. If it happens to many individuals the society is changed. Not as a social thing, not as collectivity. Let me explain it to you: you are 500 people here. You can not be changed as a collective unit. There is no way. You can not be made divine as a collective unit. There is no way. The souls are individual.

Your consciousnesses are individual. But if out of these 500 people 300 people become transformed. Then the whole collective will have a new quality. But these 300 people will go through individual changes, through individual mutations. Then the collective will have a higher consciousness. 300 people are pouring their consciousness into the collective.

When one man becomes a Buddha then the whole existence becomes a little more awakened. Just by his presence. Even if he is a drop on the ocean. Then too, at least as far as the drop is concerned, the whole ocean is more alert, more aware. And that drop disappears into the ocean. It raises the quality of the ocean.

Each individual being transformed raises the society. When many, many individuals are changed, the society changes. That is the only way to change it. Not the other way around. If you want to ch[a](https://youtu.be/8B85d8h9kFU?si=\_qjidpaZiJ\_MIF4z)nge the society directly, your effort is political.“

~ Osho

„The collective is animal. The individual is human and the universal is divine. When a person enters into meditation he does not become part of the collective. He becomes dissolved into the universal. Which is a higher point then the individual itself. But politicians always talk about the collective.

They are always interested in changing the society. And in changing the society, in making efforts to change the society and change the structure of society and this and that, they become powerful. The society has never been changed. It remains the same. The same rotten thing. And it will remain the same, unless this is understood; that all consciousness happens in the individual.

When it happens the individual becomes the universal. If it happens to many individuals the society is changed. Not as a social thing, not as collectivity. Let me explain it to you: you are 500 people here. You can not be changed as a collective unit. There is no way. You can not be made divine as a collective unit. There is no way. The souls are individual.

Your consciousnesses are individual. But if out of these 500 people 300 people become transformed. Then the whole collective will have a new quality. But these 300 people will go through individual changes, through individual mutations. Then the collective will have a higher consciousness. 300 people are pouring their consciousness into the collective.

When one man becomes a Buddha then the whole existence becomes a little more awakened. Just by his presence. Even if he is a drop on the ocean. Then too, at least as far as the drop is concerned, the whole ocean is more alert, more aware. And that drop disappears into the ocean. It raises the quality of the ocean.

Each individual being transformed raises the society. When many, many individuals are changed, the society changes. That is the only way to change it. Not the other way around. If you want to change the society directly, your effort is political.“

~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/xggTJCCxFss?is=YxbZWH-jqlvuD6yh

Questioner:

„I’m confused hearing you say there is no God. There have been many beautiful moments in my life when I feel something moving through me which I know is not me. I used to call it God, now I call it godliness. But I still don’t like hearing that there is no God. Can you ease my confusion?“

Osho:

„Baby, my whole work is to confuse you! Unless you are utterly confused, you are not going to drop your knowledgeability. What do you mean when you ask me to “ease your confusion”? In other words, you want certain, settled knowledgeability. You want to convince yourself that you know it.

I cannot commit that crime. You do not know it. So first I have to remove all your knowledge which is bogus anyway. You have not earned it, you don’t deserve it. It has not grown within you, it is all rubbish that you have collected from books, from people. I am going to confuse you more and more. And look, what is your confusion? You say that there have been moments in your life which you used to call God you cannot deceive me. I know you may have experienced a few beautiful moments; everybody experiences a few beautiful moments of well-being, of great uplift.

Seeing a sunset, suddenly you are silent. Or listening to the tidal waves of the ocean shattering on the rocks on the shore, suddenly you feel almost a nobody before this vast existence. Looking into the sky and the stars you may have had certain moments, and you may have called them God. Don’t make God so cheap. I am raising God Higher than he has ever been.

The Jewish God says, “I am a jealous God. I am a very angry God. I am not nice, I am not your uncle.” Jesus tried to raise the Jewish God, and that was his crime. He said, “God is love.” Now, this is very contradictory. The Jewish God says, “I am jealous, I am angry, I am not nice,” and Jesus makes him a goody-goody: “God is love.” This man should be removed before he destroys their certainty that God is jealous, angry.

You have to be afraid of him, because that will keep you on the right path. If God is love, then who bothers what is right and what is wrong? A loving God cannot punish you in hell for eternity. But Jesus on the one hand says, “God is love,” and on the other hand he is a Jew after all the eternal hell remains. He cannot see a simple fact, that if God is love then eternal hell should be removed because you need not be afraid of love. Love gives you freedom to be yourself; and sandwiched between heaven and hell you cannot have any freedom, any individuality.

I am trying to raise God. When I say there is no God, I mean there is no person as God, there is no personality in God. You have to understand clearly that personality is something false. The word personality comes from the Greek persona persona means a mask; in Greek drama the actors used to have a mask. You know sona means sound; a sound coming through a mask was called persona. You cannot see who is behind the mask; hence the actor has a personality.

And if you all have personalities you are all actors you are not being authentic, sincerely yourself. Personality and individuality don’t mean the same thing. I am taking the personality of God away. I don’t want him to be an actor you have so many in Hollywood. Strange, that the place is called “Hollywood”… all gods, personalities, great personalities.

I don’t want God to be a Hollywood actor. I am trying to destroy his mask, and once the personality drops what is left is godliness. That is the true individuality of existence. I will not say, “God is love,” because that still keeps God as a person. On the contrary, I say, “Love is God.” You can forget all about God. If you can understand love, that’s enough religion; more than that is not needed. I use the word godliness and you are confused, because those moments… have you seen anybody in those moments that you can call God? You have not seen anybody in those moments, because there is nobody.

You were using a wrong word, I am correcting you. Those moments you can call moments of godliness. I am changing God from a quantity to a quality. God is a quantity; godliness is a quality. And you are confused by it? Just a hangover. Shake yourself well slap yourself and shake yourself and all confusion will disappear.“

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/xggTJCCxFss?is=YxbZWH-jqlvuD6yh

Questioner:

„I’m confused hearing you say there is no God. There have been many beautiful moments in my life when I feel something moving through me which I know is not me. I used to call it God, now I call it godliness. But I still don’t like hearing that there is no God. Can you ease my confusion?“

Osho:

„Baby, my whole work is to confuse you! Unless you are utterly confused, you are not going to drop your knowledgeability. What do you mean when you ask me to “ease your confusion”? In other words, you want certain, settled knowledgeability. You want to convince yourself that you know it.

I cannot commit that crime. You do not know it. So first I have to remove all your knowledge which is bogus anyway. You have not earned it, you don’t deserve it. It has not grown within you, it is all rubbish that you have collected from books, from people. I am going to confuse you more and more. And look, what is your confusion? You say that there have been moments in your life which you used to call God you cannot deceive me. I know you may have experienced a few beautiful moments; everybody experiences a few beautiful moments of well-being, of great uplift.

Seeing a sunset, suddenly you are silent. Or listening to the tidal waves of the ocean shattering on the rocks on the shore, suddenly you feel almost a nobody before this vast existence. Looking into the sky and the stars you may have had certain moments, and you may have called them God. Don’t make God so cheap. I am raising God Higher than he has ever been.

The Jewish God says, “I am a jealous God. I am a very angry God. I am not nice, I am not your uncle.” Jesus tried to raise the Jewish God, and that was his crime. He said, “God is love.” Now, this is very contradictory. The Jewish God says, “I am jealous, I am angry, I am not nice,” and Jesus makes him a goody-goody: “God is love.” This man should be removed before he destroys their certainty that God is jealous, angry.

You have to be afraid of him, because that will keep you on the right path. If God is love, then who bothers what is right and what is wrong? A loving God cannot punish you in hell for eternity. But Jesus on the one hand says, “God is love,” and on the other hand he is a Jew after all the eternal hell remains. He cannot see a simple fact, that if God is love then eternal hell should be removed because you need not be afraid of love. Love gives you freedom to be yourself; and sandwiched between heaven and hell you cannot have any freedom, any individuality.

I am trying to raise God. When I say there is no God, I mean there is no person as God, there is no personality in God. You have to understand clearly that personality is something false. The word personality comes from the Greek persona persona means a mask; in Greek drama the actors used to have a mask. You know sona means sound; a sound coming through a mask was called persona. You cannot see who is behind the mask; hence the actor has a personality.

And if you all have personalities you are all actors you are not being authentic, sincerely yourself. Personality and individuality don’t mean the same thing. I am taking the personality of God away. I don’t want him to be an actor you have so many in Hollywood. Strange, that the place is called “Hollywood”… all gods, personalities, great personalities.

I don’t want God to be a Hollywood actor. I am trying to destroy his mask, and once the personality drops what is left is godliness. That is the true individuality of existence. I will not say, “God is love,” because that still keeps God as a person. On the contrary, I say, “Love is God.” You can forget all about God. If you can understand love, that’s enough religion; more than that is not needed. I use the word godliness and you are confused, because those moments… have you seen anybody in those moments that you can call God? You have not seen anybody in those moments, because there is nobody.

You were using a wrong word, I am correcting you. Those moments you can call moments of godliness. I am changing God from a quantity to a quality. God is a quantity; godliness is a quality. And you are confused by it? Just a hangover. Shake yourself well slap yourself and shake yourself and all confusion will disappear.“

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/xFBV3RopGRI?si=V5TDE7iHuvTv4KC3

„It was Sigmund Freud in the West who for the first time used the words "unconscious mind". He had no idea that in the East we have five thousand-year-old scriptures using the idea of the unconscious mind. So he thought he had discovered something.

Then Jung found that if you go deeper than the unconscious, you find a collective unconscious mind. That too in the East we have been aware of for centuries.

One thing more we have been aware of which the West has still to find out if you go below the collective unconscious mind, you will find the cosmic unconscious mind. And that is very logical. Conscious mind is personal, unconscious mind is impersonal. The collective unconscious mind is all that has preceded you: the whole history of mind is contained in it.

But this cannot be the foundation. Below it there is a cosmic unconscious mind, which is the mind of the whole existence. These are the steps if you go below, downwards. So -- collective unconscious mind, unconscious mind, cosmic unconscious mind these three are the steps below the conscious mind.

Exactly three are above the conscious mind, which nobody has in the West yet even thought about. Above the conscious mind is the state I call no-mind. It is just like the impersonal, unconscious mind which is below.
This is above. It is also impersonal, but you are fully conscious of it; it is not unconscious mind. It is above the conscious mind. You can call it "conscious no-mind" no-mind because there are no thoughts, just absolute silence. Many meditators stop here, thinking that they have arrived. So there are a few religions in the East which have stopped at the no-mind, just as Sigmund Freud stopped at the unconscious mind and never bothered to go deeper into it.

But there have been seekers who tried to reach higher. As you go higher than the conscious no-mind, you find superconsciousness, or the superconscious mind. This superconsciousness is exactly the equivalent of the lower collective unconscious mind. In this state of superconscious mind you experience that you are not separate; you are part of a consciousness sphere which is above the biosphere that surrounds the earth, you partake with the whole sphere. This makes you aware of the oneness of consciousness. A few religions have stopped at the superconsciousness,
just as Jung stopped at the collective unconsciousness.

Above it is the cosmic conscious mind that makes you feel one, not only with consciousness but with the whole existence as such. This is the point where one can feel what Patanjali calls samadhi. The word samadhi means all problems are solved, all questions are dissolved. You have come to a space which knows no questions, no problems which is eternally blissful. This is the place which can be called godliness, because you are one with the whole existence.

Western psychotherapy has gone only on the lower steps of the ladder. And the reason why they have gone on the lower steps of the ladder is because Western psychology started studying sick, mentally deranged people. They were on the lower steps, so naturally they started finding out more and more about those lower steps. Eastern psychology has simply mentioned that these steps are there to be avoided, but they have not been studied. No thesis is available in the East which goes into details about these steps, they have simply been mentioned.

But in the East the higher steps have been very deeply studied, because they were studying the meditators, not the sick people. Because the objective study was different, the whole approach became different. They were studying the meditators so they became aware of the no-mind, of superconsciousness, of cosmic consciousness. They were moving towards healthier states of consciousness, and they were finding ways how to move.

Western psychology unfortunately started with sick people. It has arrived at least up the collective unconscious; someday somebody will find the cosmic unconscious too.

Their whole work is how to pull the sick person back to the normal consciousness, which they think is of great importance. In the East that is the place which has to be left, and in the West that is the place which has to be arrived at.„

\~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/xFBV3RopGRI?si=V5TDE7iHuvTv4KC3

„It was Sigmund Freud in the West who for the first time used the words "unconscious mind". He had no idea that in the East we have five thousand-year-old scriptures using the idea of the unconscious mind. So he thought he had discovered something.

Then Jung found that if you go deeper than the unconscious, you find a collective unconscious mind. That too in the East we have been aware of for centuries.

One thing more we have been aware of which the West has still to find out if you go below the collective unconscious mind, you will find the cosmic unconscious mind. And that is very logical. Conscious mind is personal, unconscious mind is impersonal. The collective unconscious mind is all that has preceded you: the whole history of mind is contained in it.

But this cannot be the foundation. Below it there is a cosmic unconscious mind, which is the mind of the whole existence. These are the steps if you go below, downwards. So -- collective unconscious mind, unconscious mind, cosmic unconscious mind these three are the steps below the conscious mind.

Exactly three are above the conscious mind, which nobody has in the West yet even thought about. Above the conscious mind is the state I call no-mind. It is just like the impersonal, unconscious mind which is below.
This is above. It is also impersonal, but you are fully conscious of it; it is not unconscious mind. It is above the conscious mind. You can call it "conscious no-mind" no-mind because there are no thoughts, just absolute silence. Many meditators stop here, thinking that they have arrived. So there are a few religions in the East which have stopped at the no-mind, just as Sigmund Freud stopped at the unconscious mind and never bothered to go deeper into it.

But there have been seekers who tried to reach higher. As you go higher than the conscious no-mind, you find superconsciousness, or the superconscious mind. This superconsciousness is exactly the equivalent of the lower collective unconscious mind. In this state of superconscious mind you experience that you are not separate; you are part of a consciousness sphere which is above the biosphere that surrounds the earth, you partake with the whole sphere. This makes you aware of the oneness of consciousness. A few religions have stopped at the superconsciousness,
just as Jung stopped at the collective unconsciousness.

Above it is the cosmic conscious mind that makes you feel one, not only with consciousness but with the whole existence as such. This is the point where one can feel what Patanjali calls samadhi. The word samadhi means all problems are solved, all questions are dissolved. You have come to a space which knows no questions, no problems which is eternally blissful. This is the place which can be called godliness, because you are one with the whole existence.

Western psychotherapy has gone only on the lower steps of the ladder. And the reason why they have gone on the lower steps of the ladder is because Western psychology started studying sick, mentally deranged people. They were on the lower steps, so naturally they started finding out more and more about those lower steps. Eastern psychology has simply mentioned that these steps are there to be avoided, but they have not been studied. No thesis is available in the East which goes into details about these steps, they have simply been mentioned.

But in the East the higher steps have been very deeply studied, because they were studying the meditators, not the sick people. Because the objective study was different, the whole approach became different. They were studying the meditators so they became aware of the no-mind, of superconsciousness, of cosmic consciousness. They were moving towards healthier states of consciousness, and they were finding ways how to move.

Western psychology unfortunately started with sick people. It has arrived at least up the collective unconscious; someday somebody will find the cosmic unconscious too.

Their whole work is how to pull the sick person back to the normal consciousness, which they think is of great importance. In the East that is the place which has to be left, and in the West that is the place which has to be arrived at.„

~ Osho

https://youtu.be/xFBV3RopGRI?si=V5TDE7iHuvTv4KC3

„It was Sigmund Freud in the West who for the first time used the words "unconscious mind". He had no idea that in the East we have five thousand-year-old scriptures using the idea of the unconscious mind. So he thought he had discovered something.

Then Jung found that if you go deeper than the unconscious, you find a collective unconscious mind. That too in the East we have been aware of for centuries.

One thing more we have been aware of which the West has still to find out if you go below the collective unconscious mind, you will find the cosmic unconscious mind. And that is very logical. Conscious mind is personal, unconscious mind is impersonal. The collective unconscious mind is all that has preceded you: the whole history of mind is contained in it.

But this cannot be the foundation. Below it there is a cosmic unconscious mind, which is the mind of the whole existence. These are the steps if you go below, downwards. So -- collective unconscious mind, unconscious mind, cosmic unconscious mind these three are the steps below the conscious mind.

Exactly three are above the conscious mind, which nobody has in the West yet even thought about. Above the conscious mind is the state I call no-mind. It is just like the impersonal, unconscious mind which is below.
This is above. It is also impersonal, but you are fully conscious of it; it is not unconscious mind. It is above the conscious mind. You can call it "conscious no-mind" no-mind because there are no thoughts, just absolute silence. Many meditators stop here, thinking that they have arrived. So there are a few religions in the East which have stopped at the no-mind, just as Sigmund Freud stopped at the unconscious mind and never bothered to go deeper into it.

But there have been seekers who tried to reach higher. As you go higher than the conscious no-mind, you find superconsciousness, or the superconscious mind. This superconsciousness is exactly the equivalent of the lower collective unconscious mind. In this state of superconscious mind you experience that you are not separate; you are part of a consciousness sphere which is above the biosphere that surrounds the earth, you partake with the whole sphere. This makes you aware of the oneness of consciousness. A few religions have stopped at the superconsciousness,
just as Jung stopped at the collective unconsciousness.

Above it is the cosmic conscious mind that makes you feel one, not only with consciousness but with the whole existence as such. This is the point where one can feel what Patanjali calls samadhi. The word samadhi means all problems are solved, all questions are dissolved. You have come to a space which knows no questions, no problems which is eternally blissful. This is the place which can be called godliness, because you are one with the whole existence.

Western psychotherapy has gone only on the lower steps of the ladder. And the reason why they have gone on the lower steps of the ladder is because Western psychology started studying sick, mentally deranged people. They were on the lower steps, so naturally they started finding out more and more about those lower steps. Eastern psychology has simply mentioned that these steps are there to be avoided, but they have not been studied. No thesis is available in the East which goes into details about these steps, they have simply been mentioned.

But in the East the higher steps have been very deeply studied, because they were studying the meditators, not the sick people. Because the objective study was different, the whole approach became different. They were studying the meditators so they became aware of the no-mind, of superconsciousness, of cosmic consciousness. They were moving towards healthier states of consciousness, and they were finding ways how to move.

Western psychology unfortunately started with sick people. It has arrived at least up the collective unconscious; someday somebody will find the cosmic unconscious too.

Their whole work is how to pull the sick person back to the normal consciousness, which they think is of great importance. In the East that is the place which has to be left, and in the West that is the place which has to be arrived at.„

~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/DZ7KhWJu0vk?is=\_hIeuYL93q9QZ20f

„One sannyasin has asked me: Cannot we disagree with you?
Cannot we criticize you?
A significant question for everyone.
This is not a debating club; neither your agreement is needed, nor your disagreement.
What is needed is your right hearing. If you hear rightly, it will be decisive. Agreement is just a mind thing, and disagreement is also the same. Neither of them is going to help you.

What is going to help you is to experiment, to experience, but that comes only when you have heard me. The greatest difficulty is to hear rightly, to hear silently. If you are thinking to agree or disagree, then you cannot hear me. Your prejudices are there functioning as a curtain, they will distort everything.

I don't ask you to agree with me, and I don't ask you to disagree with me. Our whole approach is beyond the mind. You have to learn how to listen, how to be silent and let your silence decide. Let your no-mind decide. And I know that your no-mind will be in absolute synchronicity with what I am saying to you. I will not use the word agreement that word belongs to the mind nor disagreement.

They are two polarities of the mind -- positive/negative, theist/atheist, believer/nonbeliever. I am trying to approach your no-mind, where it is never a question of choice. No-mind functions choicelessly. Once I have approached the no-mind, if you have allowed me, putting your prejudices aside, you won't have to agree or disagree, you will find an immense synchronicity.

You will be in absolute harmony with me. And only that harmony can help your evolution. What will you do with agreement? Just a belief will be created, and I am against all beliefs. What will you do with your disagreement? Your prejudice will remain, and your prejudice is your problem.

You will remain within the boundaries of your past upbringing, your programming by the family, by the school, by the society, by the church. This is not an intellectual discussing club; this is a place for seekers. It is a totally different phenomenon than you will come across anywhere else around the world.

Here, we are searching to find a deep harmony. If you can be harmonious with me it is not agreement you are one with me. Agreement needs two. If you can be harmonious with me, I can transfer much that cannot be said. And only that which cannot be said is going to help your growth.“

~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/Zo\_P2rbEtwo?is=eWxN5GynpYSnmMLI

Questioner:

„Do you think its true that the more light you have the better you can see what is trivial and outmoded in your conditioning?“

Osho:

„Right.
The more comfortable you are the more luxurious you live the more richness in all the dimensions of life more is the possibility for you to become aware of one thing: that you have everything but you don't have yourself — that you are surrounded by all the luxuries there is nothing more to be added to it, but who are you?

Living in a palace but what the hell you are doing here? The question is bound to happen. The poor man cannot ask it. He is looking for bread, he is looking for his children's medicine, he has no house You think he will start inquiring about his interiority, about truth, about the meaning of life? It is impossible for a poor man to be religious. That's why I say I am the rich man's guru. It has nothing to do with me.

Only the rich man has the opportunity to inquire beyond the mundane things The poor man I feel sorry for him but I cannot think that I should go to Ethiopia and teach meditation there They will kill me. And I am not suicidal. The world has enough technology now. If its old prejudices and stupidities can be dropped we can make the whole world a paradise. Nothing is lacking. If we can reach to the moon, if we can create so much destructive power, why we cannot create creative power?

The same power can be transferred into creativity because power is always neutral. You can burn your cigar by the lighter you can burn your house too Cigar does not... your lighter does not give you any instructions what to do. Science has made available all the energies. You are using them in the service of death. Use them in the service of life. I would like the whole world to live so luxuriously that people start becoming bored with luxury. You should ask me how I am bored with Rolls Royces.

How are you bored with Rolls Royces? Ninety Rolls Royces anybody will be bored. And my people are going to try to have three hundred sixty-five. They are bent upon to bore me. What you can do? And the whole earth is capable for the first time to be so luxurious that you don't feel any material need. All material needs are fulfilled. Then what you are going to do? There is nothing else than meditation.

That is the only door that is left still open. All other doors you have knocked and seen there is nothing. Only one door is still open, inviting. And whoever has entered that door has never come frustrated, disappointed — not a single case in the whole history of humanity that anybody who has reached the center of his being was disappointed, felt meaningless, was miserable, committed suicide. Not a single exception. That's why I say meditation is a scientific thing. That's how science works: if you can find something without any exception it becomes rule.

Meditation is a scientific method because in the whole history nobody has denied that it does not lead you to the ultimate blissfulness. This is such a strange phenomenon that these politicians go on sympathizing with the poor people, with the starving people, with the dying people, and the same politicians go on throwing food into the sea. Ethiopia is dying and Europe has thrown thousands of tons of fresh oranges into the ocean. And the political leaders go on talking about sympathy, compassion. The religious leaders go on talking about sympathy and they are against birth control.

They are against abortion: it should not be legalized. Strange, they are responsible for creating more population; that means more poverty. The politicians are putting seventy-five percent of their nation's income into wars, army, nuclear weapons, and people are dying — even their own people. Thirty million people in America itself are on the streets. And you are creating nuclear weapons, and you are making efforts to reach to the mars or to the moon. You must have gone nuts!“

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/0Eq1ZcHaL2Y?si=2zivQXGbyOtsmHnY

„The greatest courageous life in the world is to have guts to stand alone, without ever bothering about the majority of the world. What their opinion is.

But this is Possible only when your rebellious idea is not borrowed. Is not only a thought in the mind but is a realization; a deep insight into things of your own.

If your authority is somewhere else, you cannot have that much courage. If your authority is within you. If you feel that what you are fighting for is your experienced truth and that it is not to destroy the world but to create a better world, a better humanity, better people, better individuals, better opportunities for growth for all, then you are the majority of one.

And the whole world is the minority of 5 billion people. Then it does not matter how many people are against you if the truth is yours, then nothing matters no wavering ever comes to you not even in your dreams.

And when I am saying this to you I am saying out of my own experience not for a single moment I have been visited by the thought that perhaps I am alone the whole world is against me. And the whole past millions and millions of people, if they were alive they would have been also against me.

My being alone has never created a single doubt in me, because I am not fighting for anybody elses‘ truth. I am fighting for my own experienced truth. I feel it in every beat of my heart, that even if the whole universe is against me, then too I will remain unwavering. Undisturbed.

For the simple reason, because truth is with me.

They may be a vast crowd but truth is not with them…

…and Truth is real power. Truth is the seed of final victory. However long it may take… but truth is going to win…“

\\\~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/0Eq1ZcHaL2Y?si=2zivQXGbyOtsmHnY

„The greatest courageous life in the world is to have guts to stand alone, without ever bothering about the majority of the world. What their opinion is.

But this is Possible only when your rebellious idea is not borrowed. Is not only a thought in the mind but is a realization; a deep insight into things of your own.

If your authority is somewhere else, you cannot have that much courage. If your authority is within you. If you feel that what you are fighting for is your experienced truth and that it is not to destroy the world but to create a better world, a better humanity, better people, better individuals, better opportunities for growth for all, then you are the majority of one.

And the whole world is the minority of 5 billion people. Then it does not matter how many people are against you if the truth is yours, then nothing matters no wavering ever comes to you not even in your dreams.

And when I am saying this to you I am saying out of my own experience not for a single moment I have been visited by the thought that perhaps I am alone the whole world is against me. And the whole past millions and millions of people, if they were alive they would have been also against me.

My being alone has never created a single doubt in me, because I am not fighting for anybody elses‘ truth. I am fighting for my own experienced truth. I feel it in every beat of my heart, that even if the whole universe is against me, then too I will remain unwavering. Undisturbed.

For the simple reason, because truth is with me.

They may be a vast crowd but truth is not with them…

…and Truth is real power. Truth is the seed of final victory. However long it may take… but truth is going to win…“

\~ Osho

Video (source):

https://youtu.be/0Eq1ZcHaL2Y?si=2zivQXGbyOtsmHnY

„The greatest courageous life in the world is to have guts to stand alone, without ever bothering about the majority of the world. What their opinion is.

But this is Possible only when your rebellious idea is not borrowed. Is not only a thought in the mind but is a realization; a deep insight into things of your own.

If your authority is somewhere else, you cannot have that much courage. If your authority is within you. If you feel that what you are fighting for is your experienced truth and that it is not to destroy the world but to create a better world, a better humanity, better people, better individuals, better opportunities for growth for all, then you are the majority of one.

And the whole world is the minority of 5 billion people. Then it does not matter how many people are against you if the truth is yours, then nothing matters no wavering ever comes to you not even in your dreams.

And when I am saying this to you I am saying out of my own experience not for a single moment I have been visited by the thought that perhaps I am alone the whole world is against me. And the whole past millions and millions of people, if they were alive they would have been also against me.

My being alone has never created a single doubt in me, because I am not fighting for anybody elses‘ truth. I am fighting for my own experienced truth. I feel it in every beat of my heart, that even if the whole universe is against me, then too I will remain unwavering. Undisturbed.

For the simple reason, because truth is with me.

They may be a vast crowd but truth is not with them…

…and Truth is real power. Truth is the seed of final victory. However long it may take… but truth is going to win…“

~ Osho

Video (source of quote):

https://youtu.be/Tf8PUAG2aYU?is=d8tQaJ6otZvPN1HC

Questioner:

„You have no philosophy of life?“

Osho:

„No philosophy of life; I have life itself. There are people who have philosophies of life, but they don't have any life.“

Questioner:

„Your philosophy, if there is one, has been expressed in "the three L's," love, life, laughter. Is that a philosophy of life?“

Osho:

„No.“

Questioner:

„Could you explain that?“

Osho:

„It is just a consequence of being silent and in tune with existence: love arises in you, life becomes abundant laughter for no reason, just because this whole existence is so hilarious.

This is not philosophy, this is the consequence of being silent. Is it to enjoy life and not worry about tomorrow? There is no tomorrow. If there is a tomorrow, you cannot stop worrying about it.

Tomorrow never comes, it is a process of worrying. Nor is there any yesterday. One is no more, one is not yet. All that is in our hands is the present moment, now, here. And this is a miraculous experience. If there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, and this very moment you are silent, all worrying disappears.

All imagining, dreaming, projecting disappears. And it is not that you have to enjoy this moment. That rejoicing arises out of this moment. But you are never here, you are always somewhere else.

You are never in the now, you are always then. Otherwise, everything is available but you are absent. I want my people to understand a very simple fact -- not a philosophy, something existential, not philosophical be present to this moment and then see what happens.“