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OSHO

Tragedy of the Modern World

Adolf Hitler wrote in his autobiography Mein Kampf that if you go on repeating a lie it becomes

real. Repetition is the key. And he should know. He practised it. He is not simply assertingsomething theoretical, he practised it the whole of his life. He uttered lies, absolutely absurd lies,

but one thing he insisted on -- he went on repeating. When you go on repeating some lie again and

again and again it starts becoming real, because the mind starts getting hypnotised by it.

Repetition is the method of hypnosis. Repeat anything and it becomes engraved in your being --

thats how we are deluded in life.

OSHO

The Art of Dying, Chapter 7

Tragedy of the modern world is dictated greed.

Greed that is transformed to power.

Power that is transformed to control of masses via mass media.

OSHO readers are mostly not aware about what happened with OSHOs heritage to the humanity.

compiled by Greg Yang, February 2012

Open Source Document


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Here is a brief overview of whats being claimed and the real facts. "This is being offered in the hope

that truth can act like a breath of fresh air to free up the space for OSHO to flower in a dazzling

variety of ways around the world.

Claim: Since the 1970s OSHOs name and meditation techniques have been trademarked.

Fact: OSHOs meditation techniques have never been trademarked. (See His quote about thatbelow.) In the late 1970s a couple of OSHO groups attempted to register trademarks for "Rajneesh"

for their own specific goods and services, but those trademarks were never used and theres no

evidence OSHO even knew about them. No one before OIF ZURICH has ever attempted to use a

trademark to monopolize the use of OSHOs name or control OSHO centers. No one ever assigned

legal rights in OSHOs name to OIF ZURICH.

You dont understand what meditation is. It is nobodys belonging, possession. You cannot have

any copyright. Perhaps if your country gives you trademarks and copyrights on things like

meditation, then it will be good to have a copyright on stupidity. That will help the whole World to

be relieved... Only you will be stupid and nobody else can be stupid; it will be illegal.OSHO

Om Shantih Shantih Shantih, Chapter 26, Q 1

Claim: OIF ZURICH trademarked OSHO when OSHO changed His name.

Fact: OIF ZURICH could not have "trademarked" the name OSHO when OSHO changed His name in

1989 unless OIF ZURICH owned exclusive rights in the name OSHO at that time, which it did not. If

OSHO had wanted to, He could have assigned the rights in his new name "OSHO" to OIF ZURICH or

some other person or group to use as a trademark, but OSHO chose not to assign the name to

anyone. Instead, OSHO asked all the people who had been using His personal name, Rajneesh, intheir work, to use OSHO instead. This is a use exactly opposite to a trademark use.

Claim: "In particular, trademark law allows the Foundation to act against people who misuse the

name OSHO. For example, anyone changing any of the OSHO meditations, and still presenting them

as "OSHO" meditations, can be stopped from putting the title "OSHO" on the changed meditation."

Fact: OIF Zurich has not been able to do this till now and will not be able to do this legally. OSHOs

meditation techniques have been in the public domain since the 1960s. This is because OSHO openly

encouraged people to take the techniques and teach them to others without exercising any control

over them. OSHO never assigned ownership in the techniques to anyone else. No entity, includingOIF ZURICH, can now take the meditation techniques out of the public domain and claim to own or

control them. A trademark registration would not give OIF ZURICH control over the meditations. The

US Trademark office has already pointed out to OIF ZURICH that it does not own the meditation

techniques that have been widely used for many years.

Claim: Trademarks allow OIF ZURICH to "protect" OSHO by controlling claims people make about

OSHO, such as false claims that He created certain meditations or did artwork.

Fact: Trademarks have absolutely nothing to do with historical people. Even if a trademark is the

same as the name of a historical person (George Washington. Lincoln. etc.). If people make falseclaims about the person OSHO, His estate might be able to take some action, but a trademark holder


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for "OSHO" would have no legal grounds to bring an action. Someone selling a fake piece of artwork

would be guilty of fraud.

Claim: Trademarks allow OIF ZURICH to prevent people from using OSHO as a trademark for other

goods and services like hamburgers, brothels, tissue, etc.

Fact: OIF Zurich has not been able to do this, even with Trademarks. Trademark law allows the sametrademark to be used for goods that wont be confused by the public. For example, two companies

couldnt use the same trademark for computer accessories and computer programs, because the

public would confuse them. Two companies probably could use the same trademarks for cars and

stuffed animals, or some other products that the public wouldnt confuse.

There is already a trademark for OSHO in the US for a Japanese restaurant. Internationally theres a

brand of OSHO bicycles. OSHO is a Japanese word that has several different meanings. No one who

had a trademark for OSHO as related to the teachings of OSHO could prevent anyone else from

having trademarks of OSHO for some other kind of goods or services.

Claim: OSHOs name is protected in 40 countries.

Fact: OIF ZURICH Zurich, the entity claiming tademarks in the US has also registered trademarks in

Switzerland, the EU, Canada and Australia. A trademark registration is not the same thing as

trademark ownership. To register a trademark the applicant has to swear it owns the trademark and

pay the fee. No evidence of ownership is required. If the trademark claim is challenged by anyone, or

if the trademark claimant tries to enforce it, then the claimant will have to prove ownership. In the

US OIF ZURICH failed to prove a trademark existed at all.

Claim: The inner circle is involved in trademark claims.

Fact: The inner circle was set up by OSHO as an advisory group with no legal standing or power.

OSHO could have had the inner circle set up as a charitable trust, and He could have transferred

ownership of His rights in His name and His work to it, but OSHO chose not to do any of those things.

The original members that Osho appointed, to the Inner Circle has long been changed.

The inner circle is also not directly concerned in any trademark claims. Exclusive rights to use

"OSHO" and to control how other people doing OSHOs work use "OSHO" is being claimed by OIF

ZURICH, a small Zurich-based group. This is a small group of men with a board including thefollowing: Jayesh, Amrito, Yogendra, Pramod, and Mukesh. The inner circle has no legal control over

this group.

Claim: There has been a copyright of OSHOs work since the 1970s that is registered and protected

by international treaties.

Fact: The documents on file with the US Library of Congress show that the document purportedly

signed by OSHO in the 1970s (no original is available) was only a conditional license of publishing

rights for eight early OSHO books. There is no document known where OSHO assigns His copyrights

to anyone else.


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International treaties on copyrights only apply when a copyright actually exists. OIF ZURICH has

never produced any document showing it received copyrights from OSHO.

Claim: OIF ZURICH was selected by OSHO to protect His work/name, etc.

Fact: OSHO never selected or assigned anything to OIF ZURICH. Theres not even any reliable

evidence that OSHO knew OIF ZURICH existed. OIF ZURICH was a Rajneesh Foundation Europe setup in 1984. OIF ZURICH has always been a paper corporation without an office (it has a mail drop and

answering service in Zurich) that has never run any OSHO-related activities like meditations. OIF

ZURICH claims to own copyrights and trademarks and seeks to license both of those for profit. In the

US trademark case OIF ZURICH claimed it has the right to take all profits from all work related to

OSHO, including center activities.

"OIF ZURICH and its predecessors have received (and in the future will continue to receive) all

benefits, including all money and all goodwill, resulting from their own and their licensees use of the

OSHO trademarks." (OSHO International Foundations Memoranda of Law in Opposition to

Petitioners Motion for Summary Judgment. p.4)

Claim: Trademarks for OSHO are for the purpose of protecting and spreading OSHOs work.

Fact: The only effect trademarks for could possibly have would be to restrict and control the work of

people who are actually engaged in OSHOs work (centers, sessions, groups, books, etc.). They can

not protect or spread His work. OIF Zurich has been known to force closure of websites spreading

Oshos work, threatening Osho centres, stopping publishing work of centres.

We can agree with GC, at least, that its time for us all to enjoy the spread of OSHOs work in as

many diverse ways as there are individual successors of OSHO. Let the wildfire burn!

Because the people who are around me.... It is not an established religion. I had started alone, and

then people started coming and became, fellow travelers; it became a big caravan. But their love

gives me the authority. I dont have any pourer over them, but their love gives me the authority.

I would not like them to become an organized religion because that is the death of the very search

for in which they had come to me. So now it is simply an open movement of religiousness, with no

catechism, with no church, with no clergy, with no holy hook: an experiment totally new to the

whole history of man.

And because they love me, they listen to me. It is still up to them: it they want to organize

something they can, but not around me. I am absolutely free. If they want to organize something

they can go to hell and do whatever they want, but 1 am not going to allow anything to be

organized around me.

OSHO

The Last Testament, Vol 3, Chapter # 25

Nobody is my follower. Nobody is going to be my successor. Each sannyasin is my representative.

When I am dead, you all-individually-will have to represent me to the world. There is not going tobe any pope. There is not going to be any shankaracharya. Each sannyasin, in his own capacity, has

to represent me.


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This has never happened but it is going to happen! You are all my successors.

When I am dead, that simply means I have left this body and entered all the bodies of my people.

I will be within you.

I will be part of you.

OSHO

From Death to Deathlessness, Chapter 25

Wouldnt it be great if OIF ZURICH would drop its claim to control a non-existent OSHO

organization and simply enjoy the wonder of the diversity around OSHOs work?

You can see gathered around me here all kinds of people from all countries, all races-but we are

not a new religion. I am not trying to create one religion; we are just creating a quality:

religiousness, meditativeness, prayerfulness, trust, gratitude towards existence. Yes, on these

things humanity can become a great brotherhood, but about details many things are bound toremain different and they should remain different. There is no reason to destroy this variety. It will

be like when you love roses, so you start growing only roses.

OSHO

Come, Come, Yet Again Come, Chapter 10, Q2

But when religion is alive and breathing-thats what I mean by religiousness then you are

possessed by it, but you cannot possess it. You cannot possess a Buddha or a Lao Tzu or a

Zarathustra. You cannot possess Bahauddin, Jalaluddin, al-Hillaj Mansoor.. no, that is not possible.

These are people who have known the ultimate freedom-how can you possess them? They cannot

fulfill your expectations, they cannot move according to you; they will have their own way. If itsuits you, you have to be with them. You will not be able to force them to be with you: there is no

way possible.

OSHO

Come, Come, Yet Again Come, Chapter 13, Q1

Did Osho ever transfer His copyrights to others?

Assignment

No, He didnt. Two documents have come to light that may (or may not) have been signed by Osho. These are

publishing licenses for some of His books. (See 'What are the documents OIF is relying on to claim copyrightownership?' for the documents and a complete discussion of their legal effects.]

Copyrights are legal rights that must be transferred clearly in writing. They cant be transferred through

inference or oral statements. There has to be a valid written document that clearly transfers all legal interest

in the copyrights. If such a document ever existed, which isnt likely, we dont have that document now.

The question of copyright ownership was part of the US trademark case, but none of the documents produced

in discovery or in evidence in that case over nine years of litigation are assignments of copyright ownership. In

other words, OIF appears to have no such documents to produce. (Since the Trademark Board did not have

direct jurisdiction over copyrights, it could not decide whether OIF, Zurich owned copyrights, only how the

claim to own them impacted the trademark claim.)

A copyright claimant for Oshos copyrights has to have what is called a complete chain of title linking Osho to


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it. To really own Oshos copyrights OIF would have to prove that Osho assigned copyright ownership to RF, RF

assigned it to RFI, and RFI assigned it to OIF, Zurich. If any link in this chain is missing, OIF gets nothing. The

weakest link in this chain is the first document of 1978 (Document 1), which not only cant be authenticated,

but is on its face a license, not a copyright assignment. Document 2 is essentially the same as Document 1 and

could, at most, transfer publishing rights in unidentified works or the eight works for Document 1. (See What

are the documents OIF is relying on to claim copyright ownership?)

This means that OIF does not own Oshos copyrights by assignment, as it has claimed.

Work-for-hire

There is one other theory that OIF, Zurich has tried to use to justify copyright ownership. OIF filed copyrights

for books and recordings of discourses given by Osho with the US Library of Congress for several titles of

Oshos work claiming that OIF owned copyrights through a work-for-hire agreement with Osho. (Its important

to remember that a registration is not proof of ownership and means nothing if OIF didnt actually own the

copyrights.)

Generally a copyright attaches to a creative work as soon as the work becomes fixed, for example, put in

writing, recorded, music put into notations, photograph taken, or artwork made. The person creating the

work is presumed to own the work he or she creates. If someone creates something on behalf of someoneelse and is paid for the work, the copyright might belong to the person financing the project. In the US this is

true if, and only if, the creator of the project signs a work-for-hire agreement before the project is completed

specifying that the rights in the work will belong to the financer.

Osho was never employed by any foundation, never was paid for giving discourses, and never signed a work-

for-hire agreement with anyone. The two license agreements Osho was alleged to have signed both specified

that Osho got to choose whether or not He included any discourse in the publishing license agreement

(Documents 1 & 2) In other words, He kept control over His work and only agreed that He might grant limited

rights (a publishing license) after the work was created (discourse recorded) and a copyright had been

(attached) that belonged to Him.

Neither Theory Can Succeed

The only reason the RFI/OIF, Zurich would have registered copyrights in the US claiming a work for hire basis

for ownership is because they realized that the documents allegedly signed by Osho were not assignments of

copyright ownership, but license agreements. They may have hoped that they would have more luck passing

off the agreements as work-for-hire agreements than as assignments of copyrights. In the US trademark case

OIF opted to make the assignment of ownership argument instead.

In truth, neither of these theories can ultimately succeed. The license agreements allegedly signed by Osho

clearly do not transfer any ownership rights in Oshos copyrights. A transfer of ownership rights would have

been just as necessary for a right-to-hire agreement as it would be for an assignment of copyright agreement,

and there is no document that transfers ownership rights from Osho.

Oshos Understanding

Though there is no existing original of the document allegedly signed by Osho in 1978 (Document 1), it is

possible that Osho signed this very limited agreement with RF India. The language of that agreement makes it

absolutely clear that Osho intended to reserve the rights to control His own work at that point in time. He set

all kinds of conditions on the license He granted and reserved the right to withhold future work from the

license and to revoke the license and give it to someone else. The fact that no original is known to exist may

indicate that Osho decided to end that license and asked that the original be destroyed. That isnt the kind of

document that would have been lost otherwise.

One more thing is clear, and that is that no document exists that transferred Oshos copyright ownership to

anyone else. This means that Osho owned His rights during His entire life and OIF has no valid claim to

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ON HIS WORDS

Lao Tzu is innocent, Buddha is innocent, Krishna is innocent, Jesus is innocent. These are not

knowledgeable people. Of course what they have said out of their knowing we have changed it into

knowledge; what they have said out of their wonder, we have reduced it into philosophy, theology.

That is our work; we have destroyed all that was beautiful in it. We have given it a certain shape, acertain pattern and structure. We have interpreted it, commented upon it, dropped many things out

of it. And this happens always.

Just the other day I received a note from Arup, that Sarjano is translating your book into Italian; but

he changes many things. He drops few things, he adds few things from his own knowledge."

Of course he is trying to do some good work, his intention is good! He wants to make it more logical,

more intellectual, more sophisticated. And I am a little wild type of man! He wants to trim me here

and there. You look at my beard! If Sarjano is allowed he will trim it like Nikolai Lenin, but then it will

not be MY beard. He is trying to make it more appealing. There is no doubt about his intentions, butthese are the intentions which have always destroyed.

When he was told my message that he has to do exactly as it is: "Don't try to improve upon it. Leave

it as it is. Raw, wild, illogical, paradoxical, contradictory, repetitive, whatsoever it is, leave it as it is!"

It is so difficult for him. He said, "Then I will not translate. I would rather like cleaning work."

You see how the mind works? He is not ready to listen to me, he would rather like to do cleaning

work. Otherwise he has to be allowed to interpolate, to change, to color things according to HIS idea.

Now, whatsoever you will do you will do wrong, because what I am saying is from a totally different

plane and what you will be doing will be a totally different effort -- it won't belong to MY plane, it

won't belong to MY dimension. It may be scholarly, but I am not a scholar. It may be knowledgeable,but I am not a knowledgeable person.

Knowledgeable people have their own ways. Just small things they will do...

For example, I had said that Saraha is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. Now, no scholar will say so

decisively. Only a madman can say so decisively because you have to give proofs, you have to give

footnotes and you have to make a big appendix in which you have to give proofs. I never give any

proofs, I never give any footnotes, I never give you any sources from where... I know only one source

-- the Akashic records!

So just to make it more appealing, more digestible, he had changed it just a little, not much: that

"Saraha can be said to be the founder of Tibetan Tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, CAN BE SAID. Now this is

a scholarly way, a legal way, but it destroys the whole beauty of it. It destroys its whole certainty, its

decisiveness, its hammer-like quality. And hammers are not supposed to be digestible!

Sarjano, it is not a spaghetti! He is a good cook and makes beautiful spaghetti. I don't know anything

about spaghetti, but I know Saraha is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism. And I will not give any proof

about it -- I don't believe in proofs, I simply KNOW. I know Saraha; it is a personal friendship with

Saraha. Even if the historians prove something else, I won't listen. I won't pay any attention to them,

because I know Saraha.

OSHO

Tao: The Golden Gate Vol. 2 , Chapter Title: Just Joking Around


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ON COPYRIGHT, SUCCESSION, SUCCESSORS

"Things can be copyrighted, thoughts cannot be copyrighted, and certainly meditations cannot be

copyrighted. They are not things of the marketplace. Nobody can monopolize anything. But perhaps

the West cannot understand the difference between an objective commodity and an inner

experience. For ten thousand years the East has been meditating and nobody has put trademarks

upon meditations.

OSHO

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

I am not going to leave any successor because we have seen what happens to successors. Two

thousand years of popes coming and going.... If you want to find idiots in history, it is so easy -- take

the names of all the popes, because other names have disappeared. These popes are representing

Jesus Christ, and because they are representing Jesus Christ they are infallible. I am not going to

leave any successor behind me, because in the first place I, myself, am fallible. How can my

representative be infallible?

OSHO

From Death to Deathlesssnes

But nobody is my follower. Nobody is going to be my successor. Each sannyasin is my

representative. When I am dead, you all -- individually -- will have to represent me to the world.

There is not going to be any pope. There is not going to be any shankaracharya. Each sannyasin, in

his own capacity, has to represent me. This has never happened -- but it is going to happen! You are

all my successors. When I am dead, that simply means I have left this body and entered all the

bodies of my people. I will be within you. I will be part of you.

OSHO

From Death to Deathlesssnes

But as far as I am concerned, it is not needed at all for any buddhas to have preceded me or to

precede you. I don't accept any followers and I don't accept any predecessors. Successors or

predecessors are not needed, you are enough unto yourself. It is just a question of awakening. So

everybody will wake up -- how long can you sleep? We will go on harassing you.

OSHO

The Miracle

"I want my sannyasins to inherit my freedom, my awareness, my consciousness. And each sannyasin

has to be my successor, has to be me. There is no need for anybody to dominate. There is nobody for

anybody to dictate to. They are on their own. If they want to be together they can be together. Out

of their own freedom, it is their choice and their decision. If they want to move free they have all the

rights to move free." It is quite clear then that he was neither interested nor intended that his

discourses and meditations be copyrighted or trademarked.

OSHO

The Last Testament


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The very idea of succession is not the right idea in the world of consciousness. That's why I have

said, I will not have successors. But you are right in saying that you will carry in your bones and in

your blood my love, my insight. But don't use the word `successor', rather use the words `you will be

me'. Why be so far away, a successor, when you can be me? Be so empty that I can make a home in

you, that your emptiness can absorb my emptiness, that your heart can have the same dance as my

heart. It is not succession; it is transmission.

The very idea of succession is political. Only one person can be a successor, so there is bound to be

competition, ambition. There is bound to be a subtle struggle to be closer to the master, to force

others away. It may not be on the surface but, underneath, the problem will remain in the disciples:

"Who is going to be the successor?"

I destroy the whole conception. Every disciple who has loved has become one with the master.

There is no need of any competition, nor one successor. It is for everybody who has offered himself

in deep gratitude, who has become one in a certain sense with the master's presence. There is no

need of any competition. Thousands can have the same experience, millions can have the same

experience.

To avoid politics in religion, I have said that I will not have successors. I want religion to be absolutely

devoid of ambition, competition, being higher than another, putting everybody lower than oneself.

With me you are all equal. And I trust and love you, that you will prove this equality. In equals there

is no competition; there is a combined effort. You will all carry my message, but nobody will be

higher or lower, nobody will be a successor. All will be my lovers and they will carry me.

OSHO

Nansen: The Point of Departure

Once I am gone, the serious people are dangerous. They can take possession, because they are

always in search of taking possession of things. They can become my successors, and then they will

destroy. So remember this: even an ignorant person can become my successor, but he must be able

to laugh and celebrate. Even if somebody claims that he is enlightened, just see his face: if he is

serious, he is not going to be successor to me! Let this be the criterion: even a fool will do, but he

should be able to laugh and enjoy and celebrate life. But serious people are always in search of

power. People who can laugh are not worried about power -- that is the problem. Life is so good,

who bothers to become a pope? Simple people, happy in their simple ways, don't bother about

politics.

OSHO

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega

So when I say, "Spread the word," I mean whatever I have been telling you, go on spreading in as

many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that

the word reaches to every nook and corner of the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than

any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death -- that is not power. But the

word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring new life to you; it can give you

rebirth, resurrection -- that is power.

OSHO

The Path of the Mystic


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ON HIS TEACHING

My effort here is to de-automatize you. I am doing something absolutely antisocial. The society

makes you a machine and my effort is to undo it. I would like this fire to spread and reach to all the

nooks and corners of the earth, to help as many people as possible to be conscious. If in a great

quantity consciousness grows on the earth, there is a possibility, a hope, we can save humanity yet.

All is not lost, but time is running short. Everything is being controlled by politicians and bycomputers, and both are dangerous. Politicians are mad. It is impossible to be a politician if you are

not mad enough. You have to be absolutely insane, because only insane people are power-

obsessed.

OSHO

The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha

Here we are doing just a totally different thing. We are trying to undo what the society, the college,

the university has done to you. They have made you obsessed with language and logic. Language

certainly divides things; that's why truth cannot be said, it can only be showed. I am only indicatingthe way; I am not really leading you, I am just pointing the way.

Henry Miller has these beautiful lines: "The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point

the way. Unless we become our own leaders, content to be what we are in the process of becoming,

we shall always be servitors and idolaters." I am here just to point the way. Don't start clinging to my

fingers, look at the moon the fingers are pointing at. The fingers are irrelevant!

OSHO

The Wild Geese and the Water

I'm here to help you to be yourself. When you become a disciple, when I initiate you, I am not

initiating you to be imitators. I am just trying to help you to find your own being, your own authentic

being -- because you are so confused, you have so many faces that you have forgotten which is the

original one. You don't know what your real urge is. The society has confused you completely,

misguided you. Now you are not certain of who you are. When I initiate you, the only thing that I

want to do is to help you come to your own home. Once you are centered in your own being, my

work is finished. Then you can start. In fact, a Master has to undo what the society has done. A

Master has to undo what the culture has done. He has to make you a clean sheet again.

OSHO


I teach you a new man, a new humanity, which will not think of the future and which will not live

with shoulds and oughts, which will not deny any natural instinct, which will accept its body, which

will accept all that is given by God with deep gratitude.

OSHO

The Book of Wisdom

I teach you fearlessness.

Live as totally and passionately as possible, because it is through intense living that you will find God.


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God is nothing but life lived at the optimum, with total abandon, a dance danced so totally that the

dancer disappears; only the dance remains. Then you have found and you have come home.

OSHO

Come, Come, Yet Again Come

I teach you the way of fearlessness. It is simply fear and nothing else that is preventing you, althoughyou will not feel very happy with my answer. You must have been expecting that I would say

something very gratifying to your ego. Excuse me, I cannot speak any untruth. I can only speak the

true, and if it hurts, it hurts. It is only through truth that light starts entering into your being. So if you

feel wounded...because your name seems unfamiliar to me, you must be new. And with new people

I am never so rude, but I see a possibility in you, hence I am so hard.

OSHO


I don't teach any philosophy. I teach you existence, truth, beauty, and grandeur. It all happens at thethird step without any effort -- the metamorphosis from a man into a new man.

OSHO

God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth

I am for transformation, hence I teach my sannyasins to be creative. Create music, create poetry,

create painting, create pottery, sculpture -- create something! Whatsoever you do, do it with great

creativeness, bring something new into existence, and your sex will be fulfilled on a higher plane and

there will be no repression. Let your sex become more and more love and less and less lust. And

then finally let your love also become a little higher -- that is prayer. Lust is the lowest form of sex,love higher than sex, and prayer is the ultimate transformation.

OSHO

I Am That

I teach you freedom of your individuality. Destroy all kinds of prisons, destroy all kinds of lies -- and

you can destroy them only by meditation. Rise beyond time and mind, and you will find not only that

you are divine, but the whole existence is divine, life is divine. And you enter into a totally new

dimension that has been completely blocked by scriptures, by priests, by God, by heaven and hell, by

all kinds of fear, by all kinds of greed.

OSHO

I Celebrate Myself

Relationship and meditation: meditation and relationship. Let it be the music, the harmony between

these two. This is what will make you a sage, a real sannyasin. The old sannyas was of renunciation;

the new sannyas I teach you is of rejoicing Rejoice in love, rejoice in meditation! Rejoice in all kinds

of things in life! God has given you a great opportunity -- don't miss it. Missing it will be the only sin.

OSHO

Philosophia Perennis


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I am not going to teach you some new knowledge. I am going to teach you only a pure type of

ignorance. When I say pure ignorance, I mean innocence. I mean a mind which is totally vacant,

open. A mind that knows is never open: it is closed. The very feeling that "I know" closes you. And

when you feel that "I don't know" you are open: you are ready to move, ready to learn, ready to

travel.

OSHO

The Supreme Doctrine

I don't teach renunciation of your wealth or of anything. Let everything be as it is. Just add one thing

more to your life. Up to now you have been adding only things to your life. Now add something to

your being -- and that will do the music, that will do the miracle, that will do the magic, that will

create a new thrill, a new youth, a new freshness.

OSHO

The Transmission of the Lamp

I teach you a new religion! Not Christianity, not Hinduism, not Jainism, not Buddhism. I teach you a

new kind of religiousness -- guilt-free, tabooless, non-repressive. I teach you a religion of joy,

acceptance, naturalness, spontaneity.

OSHO

Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind

I don't teach positivism; I don't teach negativism either. I simply teach an understanding of this

polarity, and through that understanding slowly, slowly going beyond both, going into exactly themiddle. From the middle the door opens. Once you have seen the beauty of the middle, the

unexcited beauty of the middle, the ecstasy without excitement -- once you have tasted of it then

both lose their meaning. Then neither hot nor cold is significant. Then you remain in a new space

which can be called cool if you think in comparison with cold, or can be called warm if you think in

comparison with hot. It is a cool-warm space: from one side it is cool, from another side it is warm. It

is very cosy and very refreshing. Try it!

OSHO

Zorba the Buddha

ON HIS EDUCATION

My idea of education is very clear. All institutions should be free from politics, from religion. And

religion should be allowed to have educational institutions, because they are destroying people's

minds. Educational systems should be free from any pressure -- either from politics or from religion.

They should have an autonomous, independent existence. They should decide themselves what has

to be done so that every child who enters the world of education blossoms to his full potential. He is

not to be molded, he is not to be ordered. He has to be awakened.

OSHO

From Death to Deathlessness

The new education, the true education, has not only to teach you mathematics, history, geography,


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science; it also has to teach you the real morality: aesthetics. I call aesthetics the real morality:

sensitivity to feel the beautiful, because God comes as beauty. In a roseflower or in a lotus, in the

sunrise or in the sunset, in the stars, the birds singing in the early morning, or the dewdrops, a bird

on the wing.... True education has to bring you closer and closer to nature because only by coming

closer and closer to nature will you be coming closer and closer to God.

OSHOPhilosophia Perennis

ON HIS RELGION

The fool lives around the idea of "my" and "mine": my nation, my religion, my race, my family, my

wealth, my children, my parents...he lives around "my" and "mine." And he has come alone and he

will go alone; nobody brings anything into the world and nobody takes anything from the world.

Alone, empty-handed we come; alone, empty-handed we go. The wise knows it; hence the wise

claims nothing as "mine." He uses things, but he does not possess them. Using is perfectly good --

use all the things of the world, they ARE for you. The world is a gift from God -- use it, but don'tpossess it. The moment you become a possessor, you cannot use things -- the things start using you.

The moment you become a possessor, in fact you are possessed by your things, you become a slave.

And the very idea of possessing is stupid. How can you possess anything? You don't even possess

your own being. What else can you possess? You are not even a master of yourself.

OSHO


I don't think that the world needs one religion. The world needs religious consciousness, and then

that consciousness can flow into as many streams as possible. In fact, my own idea of religion is thatthere should be as many religions as there are people -- each person having his own religion.

It is difficult to have your own language; each person cannot have his own language, otherwise

nobody will understand it.

OSHO


I have not stopped the sannyas movement; I have stopped it becoming a religion. A movement is a

flux; that's the meaning of movement -- it is moving, it is growing. But a religion is dead -- it has

stopped moving, it has stopped growing. It is dead. The only place for it is in the crematorium. That's

where we had to take it. And we have celebrated the death of the religion -- a religion which was not

my idea.

I trust in sannyasins remaining individuals, I trust in their growth and movement; but I don't like the

idea of them becoming like Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists. That's what was done while I was in

isolation. In my absence, Sheela gathered around herself a fascist group and managed to cripple the

sannyas movement, to make it dead, to make it a religion.

We have burned the religion -- that does not mean we have burned our religiousness. That is a

totally different thing.

Religiousness is like love -- invisible, yet so tangible. You cannot explain it, but you can experience it.


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Religiousness has been freed from a dead structure, a bondage that Sheela and her criminal group

have put around it. Now you are not Rajneeshees. And I would like the press, the media to be kind

enough not to refer to my people as Rajneeshees. They need some kind of reference -- they can call

them friends of Rajneesh, and that will be absolutely right and appropriate.

Sheela wanted a dead religion. Every priest or priestess wants a dead religion, because it is

predictable. Everything is just a catechism. There is no opinion, no evolution, no growth. Just look atChristianity: two thousand years have passed -- have they gone even an inch farther than Jesus

Christ? Twenty-five centuries have passed since Buddha -- have Buddhists gone a single step ahead?

This is destroying growth, destroying evolution.

Now I want my people to remain open, alive, growing, always fresh and new. It remains a new kind

of phenomenon, religiousness: no label attached to it, because every label is a full stop. And I don't

like full stops, I don't like even semi-colons: Life is always ongoing....

One journalist was very much worried; he said, "You have destroyed Rajneeshism, the religion. Now

you will be in great trouble on two counts: first, Rajneesh Foundation International will lose its tax-exempt status."

I told the man, "Don't you worry about it. We have burned religion but not religiousness; and we will

fight so that a man can have a growing experience of religiousness without being part of a mob

psychology, without being a member of a collectivity. That is perfectly good for the sheep, but not

for lions. And I want my sannyasins to be lions, not sheep.

"Nobody can take away the tax-exempt status. We are more religious than any Christian, any Hindu,

any Mohammedan. We have just buried the dead structure and freed the soul of religion. That

freedom is religiousness."

He was also worried that it would be difficult now for me in reference to my immigration, on the

same grounds. It is not going to be difficult for me at all. If you don't have a category for

religiousness, that is your fault. Make a category for religiousness.

Even in my interview with the INS I had made it clear that this is no ordinary religion; it is simply a

way of life, a quality of religiousness.

The INS officer said, "But it is difficult, because we don't have any category for that. We have a

category for religion."

"Then," I said, "you can write that it is a religionless religion." And that is on record.

What does "religionless religion" mean?

It simply means a religiousness.

OSHO

From Bondage to Freedom

That's why I say my religion is the first authentic religion; it has no idea of guilt at all.

I don't want you to feel guilty about anything, because nature has given to you out of its bounty. It is

a gift to be received with joy, whatever it is. And a gift has not to be thrown out, repressed. Enjoy it.


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So the first thing is accepting yourself -- which is not very great; but seeing the situation in which

humanity is, still it is a great revolution: accepting yourself.

But I don't like the word "accept," because that means somehow "What to do? This is the way I am; I

accept it." No, with my religion just accepting yourself is not enough.

Loving yourself, that is totally different.

Then you are feeling blessed.

Whatever nature has given -- and we are nature, extensions, parts of it -- we have to live it with a

song, with a dance, with no question of guilt. That idea of accepting yourself has arisen because of

guilt. Guilt says, "Don't accept yourself; reject, go on rejecting. The more you reject yourself, the

greater a saint you are."

OSHO

From Misery to Enlightenment

People ask me what, in my religion, will be the place of worship, of devotion, because they think

worship and devotion are impossible without a God.I want to say to you that they are impossible

with a God. The whole idea of God is so ugly that I cannot be devoted to such an idiotic hypothesis. I

cannot worship God, I don't see any reason to worship Him.

To me devotion is the refined quality of love

It has nothing to do with to whom. It is not a question of to whom it is addressed: Jehovah, God,

Jesus, Buddha. It is not a question of it being addressed.

Devotion is a quality in your heart

You feel full of reverence for everything that is.

You feel a great love for all that is.

OSHO

From Personality to Individuality

But here something totally new is happening. I am not trying to create a religion, I cannot do it,

because the very idea of creating a religion is ugly. But I am releasing a sense of humor in you, a

deep laughter in you. To me laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than

chanting mantras, loving existence far more cosmic than going to a church or to a temple. Becoming

utterly nobody, a pure nothingness, is far more significant than becoming a saint. Innocence, a sense

of humor, a joyous participation in life... you cannot create a dead institution around such

tremendously alive experiences. A dead institution needs something dead to be made out of. It is

made out of the corpses of your saints. My whole approach is nonserious -- sincere, but non-serious.

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My own idea about religion is that nobody should be given a religion by birth. Birth should not be

involved in it. A child should be given a chance to watch all kinds of religions possible. He should be

allowed to go to the synagogue, to the church, to the temple, to the GURUDWARA. He should be

helped in every way; he should be introduced to all kinds of religious varieties going around so that

he can choose on his own. The parents should help him to become alert about all the varieties of

religion -- they should not try to impose any religion on him. Then if he finds that he would like to

become a Sikh, perfectly good. With all blessings he should become a Sikh; he should start going tothe GURUDWARA . If he thinks he would like to become a Buddhist, that's perfectly good.

OSHO

Sufis: The People of the Path

Rami, what theory you are talking about? From where you got the idea that there is a theory here? I

am a destroyer of all theories, and I don't give you any substitute. I only decondition you and I never

recondition you. There is no doctrine, no dogma, no creed, no religion. My whole approach is that of

being innocent, loving, dancing, singing, enjoying the small things of life, because the small things, if

enjoyed totally, become great things. The mundane loved without any conditions becomes thesacred.

OSHO

The Wild Geese and the Water

What I am doing here is bringing creativity back to religion. I would like painters and poets and

musicians and all kinds of people who have some idea to do something. I would like my whole

commune to be in a passionate, creative love affair with existence. Then whether they pray or not,

whether they believe in God or not, doesn't matter at all; they are religious, they are holy people.

OSHO

Dont Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Itself

This is my vision and this I call true religion. The true religion has no idea of sin at all; the true religion

is so innocent that it knows nothing of sin. And the idea of sin has condemned people so much that

they have forgotten all their glory, they have forgotten all their splendour. The priests have

condemned man so much that he feels ugly, unworthy, worthless. This is just a strategy of the priests

to exploit man. You can exploit man only if you can make him feel guilty.

My work is to undo what the priests have done, to destroy all guilt and instead to create self-love.And whenever one loves oneself, one becomes capable of loving the whole existence.

OSHO

Darshan Diaries , Hallelujah!

In the old spiritual dimension, laughter does not exist at all; Christians say Jesus never laughed. Now

this is utter nonsense! Only Jesus is capable of laughter; who else can laugh as beautifully as Jesus?

But the Christian saints are depicting Jesus according to their idea of religion: a non-laughing God,

utterly serious. That is not my vision of God. My God is a dancing God. He laughs, he loves, he sings,

he plays... And I say to you, my God is closer to the truth; bliss to me is the most fundamental thing

in religious life. To be cheerful is to be prayerful, to remain constantly blissful, rejoicing in ordinary

life, in small things... because it is not a question of what you are rejoicing about, the question is that


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you are rejoicing. Then anything you can rejoice about becomes spiritual. Anything that makes you

cheerful is spiritual. Then we can transform the whole of life into something extraordinarily beautiful

and that's what a man of enlightenment does: his walking, his sitting, his talking, each of his

gestures, is full of bliss, full of great joy. His every breath is a breath of joy itself.

OSHO

Darshan Diaries , The Rainbow Bridge

In my vision, each person should have his own religion. There should be as many religions as there

are people. Only then this conflict, this continuous conflict, will stop, this fight between religions will

stop: when everybody has a religion and it is something unique like your signature, like the print of

your thumb -- unique. Then there will be no problem, no conflict; nobody will try to convert

anybody. You don't try to convert people saying, "Make your signature just as I do." In fact, if

somebody does it you will inform the police: "This man is trying to imitate me."

OSHO

Ah This!

I am giving you an insight, not a religion. And you are not my followers, remember, Zareen. Nobody

here is my follower -- -friends, of course, but nobody is a follower. The orange color creates the

illusion that people are following me. Just to avoid that, I cannot wear orange myself. I love the

color, but if I start wearing orange then it will become a logical proof that you are following me.

Certainly, you are not following me; I am a white person, you are orange people -- what connection

can there be?

You are not my followers but friends. And because I love orange, out of your love you have accepted

it. It is not a uniform; it is not that by wearing orange you become part of a certain sect or church.There is no church, no sect. Because I love orange, just out of love for me you are wearing orange.

That is just a gesture of love, nothing else.

Zareen, you are not my follower, nobody is. But certainly you have chosen to be with me. That is

your choice. You have fallen in love with a madman, and when you fall in love with a madman a little

bit of madness is bound to enter in your heart. That's what is happening here. I am drunk, I am

making you drunk. What else can I do? But this is not a religion. Hence you can love me and you can

love Jesus, and there is no conflict. In fact by loving me you are bound to love Jesus. By loving me

you will find for the first time the real taste of Jesus. By being with me you can love Buddha. In fact

for the first time you will have an insight of what Buddha is. By being with me, in communion withme, you will be in communion with Zarathustra, with Lao Tzu, with Mahavira, with Mohammed. But

this is a totally different approach I become the door, and when you enter in me you find all the

Buddhas -- because it is like the ocean: you can taste it from anywhere, it is salty. If you taste me,

you have tasted all the Buddhas; it is the SAME taste.

OSHO

Be Still and Know

But I have never said it before, and people have always wondered: if I don't have a religion, don't

have a doctrine, don't have a teaching, then why do I go on talking to people? I could not tell them;

they would not understand. Only those who will experience the relaxation of superconsciousness

will be able to see the point. And then certainly, as Kaveesha says, they will understand how long I


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have been waiting, and how long I have been patient, and how I have been condemned for things

which have nothing to do with me. But I have remained silent -- because it does not bother me; the

only thing that I am interested in is that my people should attain to the state from where they

cannot fall before I leave the body.

I cannot give you anything more precious.

OSHO

Beyond Psychology

This is my understanding: that if religion has disappeared in the world today, it is not because of

science -- no. It is not because of atheists -- no. It is not because of rationalists -- no. It is because of

pseudo-religion. There is too much pseudoreligion and it is so bogus, phoney, that only people who

are phoney can be interested in religion. People who have even an iota of reality will go against it,

they will rebel. Real people have always been rebellious, because reality wants to assert its being, to

express its freedom. Real people are not slaves. Remember this, then we will enter into the sutras.

OSHO

Come Follow to You

Don't be too interested in ideas; they don't exist. Remain more concrete, more realistic. Each

individual has uniqueness, and I respect that uniqueness, and it is his freedom, whatsoever he

chooses. And it is nobody else's business to give you a religion. It is not even your parents' business,

or the priests', or the society's, or the state's. It is nobody's business to give you your religion.

Everybody should be allowed to find his own religion. That will be the real state of fraternity. We

have to respect the other with all his uniqueness. And we have to say to the other, "If it is good for

you, you follow it; it is not good for me so I am going on another route. And if by chance we meetsomewhere, it will be beautiful. I will share my journey with you, and you will share your journey

with me, and we both will be enriched in that way."

OSHO


My effort here is to give you a total religion, which contains all the three M's in it. It is a very

ambitious adventure. It has never been tried before; hence I am going to be opposed as nobody has

ever been opposed before. You are moving with a dangerous person, but the journey is going to be

of tremendous beauty. Dangers, hazards don't make a journey ugly; on the contrary, they make ittremendously beautiful. All the dangers that you will have to face with me are going to give you a

thrill. The journey is not going to be dull, it is going to be very alive. We are going to move towards

God in such a multidimensional way that each moment of the journey is going to be precious.

OSHO


I am giving you a total religion, a religion which allows both. When you are feeling tired with the

other, move into meditation, swing into meditation. When you are feeling tired of aloneness, swing

into love. Both are good. Both are contradictory, but through contradiction great joy arises. If you

have only one you will not have that kind of richness. The one can give you silence or can give you

great joy, but both can give you something infinitely precious, incomparable. Both together, they can


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give you a silent ecstasy, a peaceful joy. At the innermost core you remain utterly silent, and on the

periphery, the dance. And when silence dances or silence sings, that is the richest, the peakest of

peaks. Hence my insistence for both.

OSHO

The Diamond Sutra

Religion is the art of dropping questions. So, good that now you don't have any questions. I am

happy, my blessings are with you. My hand is on your head. And be careful -- sooner or later you will

find only my hand is there, your head has disappeared! That is the whole effort. If you don't believe

me, you can ask Yatri, our cartoonist. A few days ago he made a beautiful cartoon for me. He has

understood the point -- that this is the whole magic.

OSHO

The Discipline of Transcendence

ON DISCIPLE AND DISCIPLESHIP

One of the most beautiful phenomena in the world is that of being a disciple, because now you know

what rapport is. Now you breathe, inhale, exhale with the master; now you lose your boundaries and

become one with him. Now something of his heart starts flowing towards you; now something of

him comes into you.

OSHO

And the Flowers Showered

That is what sannyas is: an authentic discipleship. It means putting your mind aside. You have livedaccording to your mind up to now. If that is fulfilling, then there is no need for anybody to become a

sannyasin.

If you feel you are blissful with your mind, then why bother about a master? Why carry an

unnecessary load? Why become tethered? It is certain that as your mind is, it is nothing but anguish;

it is suffering, misery, despair. But you are not ready to become a sannyasin. That means you are not

ready to put your mind aside.

OSHO

From the False to the Truth

Discipleship is of the heart. The mind goes on rambling and talking and doubting and being

suspicious. In spite of that, in spite of the chattering mind, one takes the jump. I say "in spite of

that". That is the only way -- you simply don't listen to the mind. You simply move beneath the mind,

reach the heart, and ask the heart. Discipleship is like love, it is not like a business partnership. It is

not a bargain. You simply give, without knowing whether something is going to happen or not.

Whether you will receive anything back, you don't know. You simply give. That's why it is courage.

OSHO

The Grass Grows by Itself

I deny being a guru, but I do not deny your being a disciple. One should never be a guru, but

discipleship is something without which nothing is possible. And when there is no guru, then


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discipleship is something inner -- an inner discipline. Both these words come from the same root.

'Discipleship' means a mind which is ready to seek, search, learn -- a mind which is open and

vulnerable. So I deny being a guru, but I do not deny your being a disciple.

OSHO

I Am The Gate

There is no God, there is godliness. There is no religion, there is religiousness. There is no Master,

there is only mastery, masterliness. And as the Master becomes a quality, immediately the disciple

becomes a quality. Then there is no disciple, only discipleship.

Discipleship is a totally different thing. Disciplehood, or to come to the exact right word, discipline.

The word discipline means learning, the process of learning. There is no disciple, no learner, but

there is a process of learning.

There is no Master who teaches you, but there is a Master -- being who shares that which he has

found. And his treasure is infinite, inexhaustible.

OSHO

The Last Testament

Discipleship is a training, a learning to become a tilled, right earth. The seed is there but the right

earth has to be found. You have the tree within you; the master can only give you the right earth. He

can till you, he can throw the weeds out, he can make the soil worthy to receive. He can make the

soil rich with fertilizers -- he is a gardener.

OSHOThe Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus

And remember, if you are a student you can become a teacher but never a master. Only a disciple

can become a master. If you are a student, a scholar, you can become a teacher -- never a master.

Only a disciple can become a master. Discipleship means egoless surrender. And once you surrender,

your innermost self is revealed to you. That is the master who is waiting for you. He has been waiting

for you for lives and lives.

In any moment of surrender, the master will be revealed to you. And that master is no one. It is your

own innermost self, it is your own atman. So really, this can be said: when you are a perfect disciple

you have become a master. You are no longer a disciple at all. Discipleship achieved, you are now

transformed into a master.

OSHO

The New Alchemy: To Turn You On

Devotion is the ultimate flowering of discipleship.

When love is so deep, the respect is so immense that everything is forgiven, the disciple can slap the

master and yet the master simply laughs -- because he knows his devotion. He knows that this slap

has not come from a logical mind, it has come from a loving heart. It is as if with his own hand he has

slapped himself -- no distinctions are there anymore. Even to say that the devotee is close to the

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The devotee is one with the master.

OSHO

The OSHO Upanishad

Discipleship is no ordinary experience. So remember neither can I make you a sannyasin nor can you

make yourself a sannyasin. I can give you the direction, the incentive, and you have to work hard toexhaust yourself completely, not holding anything back, knowing perfectly well that this is not going

to give you disciplehood. But in a way it is going to give... because when you have done everything

that you can do, a silence descends on you, the effort drops. You are in a state of non-action, and in

that state, in that moment, the blossoming of discipleship -- suddenly so many flowers surround you,

so much fragrance, so much light.

OSHO

The Path of The Mystic

Discipleship simply means an attitude to learn -- moment to moment remaining aware that "I don'tknow." This knowing that "I don't know," this awareness that "I am ignorant," gives you opening;

then you are not closed. The moment you say, "I know," you are a closed circle; the door is no more

open. But when you say, "I don't know," it means you are ready to learn. It means the door is open.

OSHO


ON INITIATION INTO SANNYAS

It is only the blind who miss, it is only the deaf who miss, but the greater part of humanity consists ofblind and deaf people. Initiation into sannyas means that now you will search for the eyes and the

ears. They are there, we just have not used them. Because they have not been functioning for a long

long time, they are not working. If you start using them a little bit, slowly slowly blood circulates in

them, slowly slowly life is revived, slowly slowly you start seeing, hearing, feeling -- and these are the

beginnings. The ultimate is when all these have happened to the maximum: you come to know

being.

OSHO

Dont Let Yourself Be Upset by the Sutra, rather Upset the Sutra Itself

Anand means bliss, abhishek means initiation into. Sannyas is an initiation into bliss. My religion is

that of celebration. My worship is to be in a festive mood, to be constantly cheerful, to always be in

that mood of rejoicing in the existence.

The old sannyas used to be an initiation into something serious, heavy, because it was renouncing

the world. My sannyas is totally opposite, diametrically opposite. This is neo-sannyas, a totally new

vision of sannyas not of renunciation but of rejoicing, and not of the spirit of seriousness but of the

spirit of festivity, of light-heartedness, of taking life as fun, play.

OSHO

Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot

Udbhava means real birth. Sannyas is the science of real birth. The first birth is physical; it only


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makes your body but not you. Your body arises in the mother's womb but you have still to be born.

The temple is empty, the master is not there yet, or in other words the master is asleep. And only

when the master awakens is one really born; that is the second birth. That is the meaning of all

methods of initiation. Initiation means that you are entering into a school which will function like a

womb to create your soul.

Sannyas is a great commitment -- a commitment to yourself to be reborn.

OSHO

Zorba the Buddha

Freedom is the taste of sannyas, the fragrance of sannyas. My sannyasins are not trying to cultivate

any character, they are trying a totally different phenomenon: they are raising their consciousness.

And then I leave everybody free to live according to his own light.

OSHO


Sannyas is empathy -- to be totally with me, utterly with me, to drop all defences, to come so close

that my nothingness starts overflowing in you, to come so close that there are no more boundaries,

that we start overlapping. For that experience, sannyas is needed And a Buddha can be known only

that way, there is no other way.

OSHO

The Diamond Sutra

"I am a totally different kind of man. My approach is utterly different. I say become a sannyasinwithout any conditions and sannyas will transform you slowly, slowly, and will bring into existence all

those qualities that other religions were asking before sannyas. Before sannyas, those qualities are

not possible.

"If I say to this man, `First you stop drinking alcohol completely, only then can I give you sannyas,' he

will not be able to . He has tried his whole life -- and the more you fail again and again, the more you

know that it is completely useless to try. You know you are going to fail. I don't make any conditions.

"I have given sannyas to your husband. Don't be worried, because my sannyas is not renouncing the

wife or the children or the house or the business of the world. I am bringing a totally new conception

of sannyas into the world.

OSHO


But my sannyas is totally different: it has nothing to do with age.It has something to do with youth

rather than old age. The younger you are, the more possibility there is of entering into my sannyas.

Even those who are old physically but young spiritually will feel attracted.towards it -- ONLY those

will feel attracted towards it.

I am not teaching you escape from life. I am not teaching you the other world. I am teaching you

how to live this life with great gratitude, with immense joy, with ecstasy. I am not anti-life. I am all

for life, because to me life is God. There is no other God.


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OSHO

The Guest

And my sannyas does not involve any obligation either -- the moment you are a sannyasin, you are

totally at freedom. It means now you have taken a decision, and this is the last decision. Now you

have not to take any decision anymore. You have taken the last decision now -- to live in indecision,

to live in freedom.

OSHO

I Am The Gate

My sannyas is life-affirmative. Nothing like this has ever flowered on the earth. It is a totally new

phenomenon. All the old ideas about sannyas were based on escapism, on renunciation. My sannyas

has nothing to do with escape, it is AGAINST escape, because to me God and life are synonymous. It

has never been said that God and life are synonymous. God has always been put AGAINST life: you

have to drop life to attain God. And I say to you, you have to live as totally as possible, as intensely as

possible, as passionately as possible if you want to know God at all, because there is no other Godthan life.

OSHO

Tao: The Golden Gate

ON HIS MOVEMENT

I have not stopped the sannyas movement; I have stopped it becoming a religion. A movement is a

flux; that's the meaning of movement -- it is moving, it is growing. But a religion is dead -- it has

stopped moving, it has stopped growing. It is dead. The only place for it is in the crematorium. That'swhere we had to take it. And we have celebrated the death of the religion -- a religion which was not

my idea.

I trust in sannyasins remaining individuals, I trust in their growth and movement; but I don't like the

idea of them becoming like Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists. That's what was done while I was in

isolation. In my absence, Sheela gathered around herself a fascist group and managed to cripple the

sannyas movement, to make it dead, to make it a religion.

OSHO


I am going to revive Neo-Sannyas International. That is a movement; anybody can join it, and I have

made it wider, I have given it a wide base. There are millions of people who love me, who love my

insights, but cannot become sannyasins because they have to change their clothes -- that creates

trouble in their family, in their job, with their friends, in the society. I have withdrawn it.

OSHO


And you are going to a society which is continuously preparing to commit suicide, where AIDS is

spreading like wildfire. My communes will be the only refuge where we can prevent AIDS, where wecan promote a great world movement of meditation, silence and peace -- and destroy the mad

dreams of politicians to kill all life on this earth.


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OSHO

From Death to Deathlessness

My movement is not egoistic. I am not here to make your ego more and more strong -- it is already

too strong. My movement is towards egolessness. That's where I depart from the growth movement.

And no one can grow by strengthening the ego. He will remain just an imaginary being; he will not

come to know his authentic reality.

OSHO


You have to become the savior of yourself. I teach selfishness, because to me to be selfish is not

wrong, it is natural. Everybody should be selfish, self-centered, not waiting for anybody's help.

Declare your freedom individually. And that's my movement. You are here, not as a society, not as a

community, you are here as an individual. There is nothing higher than an individual and his

freedom.

OSHO


He says: the moment OSHO dies, his whole movement will disappear like a soap bubble.

I loved it! That's how it should be! Why should it continue? For what? There is no reason. I live now, I

am not interested in the future at all. How does it matter whether my movement disappears like a

soap bubble or not? I love soap bubbles! They look beautiful in the sun. And they should disappear

so that a few other people can make other soap bubbles. I have no monopoly over them. In fact, the

world would have been better if the soap bubble that was created by Jesus had disappeared withhim. Then these Polack Popes would not be here. Now they are making much fuss about a bubble

which is not there. The soap bubble that Buddha created, had it disappeared, would have been a

great blessing to humanity, because all these Buddhist monks and theologians, and all kinds of stupid

people.... We would have been saved from them!

OSHO

The Goose is Out

Before I leave the world, one thing I am certainly going to do -- it is private, so please don't tell

anybody else -- before I leave the world, I am going to declare all of my sannyasins blessed ones.

Thousands of Bhagwans all over the world! There will be no need to make any special nook and

corner for me, I will be dissolved in my people. Just as you can taste the sea from any place and it is

salty, you will be able to taste any of my sannyasins and you will find the same taste: the taste of

Bhagwan, the taste of the Blessed One.

I am waiting for the right moment.

Once the new commune is established, all my sannyasins will be called Bhagwans. Then it really will

be a Bhagwan movement.

OSHOThe Goose is Out


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All missionaries are against freedom.

But as far as I am concerned, I am happy that a lot of the load has been taken off my shoulders

because I feel responsible for you, I want you to grow. I don't want your life to be wasted. If you

cannot grow, even while I am here, then when are you going to grow up?

So whatsoever is happening is perfectly good. Only those will remain who are worthy to remain.Those who leave were unnecessarily wasting their time and my time; they should have left long

before. Now sannyas will be a totally different movement: it will be for more authentic seekers. It

will not be just for anybody who wants to change the society because he is fed up with the society.

He wants an alternative society so he joins a sannyas commune as an alternative society -- but he

has no desire and no longing for truth.

OSHO

The Path of the Mystic

My movement around the world will give you a feeling of a world commune. Up to now you weresmall communes here and there, and because I was staying in one place you felt that you missed me,

that a certain commune was fortunate to have me. Now that will not be the case. I belong to you all

and I will be moving everywhere, wherever there is need.

I want sannyas to become a worldwide phenomenon. It is already ready to explode, and it has the

greatest potential right now. There is no other alternative, so you are in a great position of power.

We can make this whole world thrilled with a new vision, with a new dream, with a new hope. The

old man has lost all hope, has lost all dreams, has lost all possibilities of growth, evolution.

Sannyas can bring the hope back. You are the hope of the world.

OSHO

Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries

This is not a movement like other movements. Nobody is planning it, nobody has ever planned it. I

started living out of my silence and peace, and people started coming to me and joining me. In the

beginning I was alone, a wanderer; slowly, slowly more and more people came. I had not called

them; something in them fell in love with me, and what had begun only with one man has become

now a vast caravan covering the whole earth -- even countries where I have never been, like the

Soviet Union, China, other communist countries.

My feeling is that when you have something truthful it has its own fragrance. It spreads by itself. And

whoever is receptive to it, whoever is in search of it immediately gets hold of it. Just like subtle

threads... people start moving towards the source of it.

OSHO


I never think in terms of a movement, in terms of making a church, a religion; I simply go on sharing

my heart with whosoever knocks on my door. And the grass goes on growing....

There are one million sannyasins around the world, and at least three million people who have

tremendous sympathy towards me and towards my people. If you want to know something about


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miracles, this is the miracle -- not walking on water, that is simply stupid; not turning water into

wine, that is criminal.

The only miracle I know of is the miracle that starts happening like a wildfire spreading from heart to

heart, changing and transforming people's consciousness and bringing them to a higher level of

being -- creating a new man in them.

OSHO
