9 min read "That is the true problem! Come out of your Catholicism. And when I say come out of your Catholicism, I mean come out of all kinds of stupid ideologies – Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian.... Don't make unnecessary problems for yourself, so that your whole energy can become focused on the essential problem. And the essential problem is only one: Know thyself."
Category: Society
“Never belong to a crowd, never belong to a nation, never belong to a religion, never belong to a race. belong to the whole of existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.” – Osho
Spirituality Includes Everything – Even Politics
2 min read "I look at life in its totality and that total vision is what I call spirituality. Politics is one of the subjects, and so is mathematics, and human rights. Spirituality is not a single category; spirituality means life in its totality." Osho
What Does It Mean to Be Authentic?
7 min read "Ordinarily everybody is living as a personality; hence his life is not authentic. It is false, it is deceptive, it is a hypocrisy. He is not only cheating others, he is cheating himself. He is deceiving others and he is deceiving himself too." Osho
Use Times of Crisis to Be Transformed
4 min read Osho, It has been said that in times of great stress – social, economic, religious – that great good is possible. Would you speak on this? “Yes, a time of crisis is a very valuable time. When everything is established and there is no crisis, things are dead. When nothing is changing and the grip...
Who Is the Rebel? – Rebellion in the Age of Rage
9 min read "No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, and no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity. Just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it."
The Yearning for Utopia – and It Is Possible!
8 min read "Up to now it was revolution. The point was society, its structure. It has failed again and again in different ways. Now it should be the individual; and not revolution, but meditation, transformation."
Richness Comes Because of Variety
6 min read "Essentially we are made of the same stuff called godliness, but on the circumference, godliness comes in every shape and size, in every color, in every form. There is such difference. And it is beautiful because if people were really the same, both at the center and on the circumference, the world would be a very boring place."
Feminine Qualities Belong to the Future
10 min read "It is the long condemnation of feminine qualities that have gone deep into the blood and the bones of women. It is man’s conspiracy to prove himself superior to women – which he is not." Osho
The Sickness of Man’s Mind Is Created by the Family
10 min read Osho on the family: "It is the basic unit of the old society; unless the family disappears the old society will continue because its basic unit is intact."
What Lies Behind the Abuse of Power?
4 min read Osho, With the President of the United States being impeached for abuse of power, would you please speak about the misuse of power? “There is the famous statement of an English philosopher: ‘Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ “I do not agree with him. My analysis is totally different. Everybody is full of violence, greed,...