Category Archives: Osho Insight

“My sannyasins celebrate death too because for me death is not the end of life but the very crescendo of life.
“Whenever somebody dies – somebody you have known, loved, lived with, somebody who has become a part of your being – something in you also dies.
“Life has to be lived to be known. It has been given to you to live. It is a gift of nature to you. It is not a punishment; it is simply a gift from existence.
“Rejoice in it, and burn your life’s candle from both ends together.
“Live as intensely as possible, and the very taste of life will give you the clue why death is not to be feared. In my religion death is celebrated because there is no death.
“Let this be a send-off of dancing, celebration, festivity.
“Dance as much as you can. Let your whole energy become a dance.
“Dance to orgasm… forget yourself completely.
“When you are happy and bubbling with some unknown joy, then your eyes are clear; then they have a clarity. And for this moment, deep clarity is needed, so that you can see the body burning on the funeral pyre, and you can also see the spirit moving away.
“If you dance, and happily, gracefully, sing… It will be difficult I know — but not as difficult as you think. Once you do it, by and by you will feel that it comes easy.
“It is a moment of rejoicing. When you say good-bye to him on a funeral pyre
“When you have lived in your body for so many years there arises naturally a certain attachment to the body. But when the consciousness sees the body burning — with the body burning, all your attachments with the body, all your prisons that have taken you to many bodies in many lives, start disappearing. One feels a tremendous freedom rising with the flames towards the sky.
“Rejoice, and dance, and celebrate. Such a death is rare. Very few human beings are so blessed.
“Even small kids, if they want to go, take them with you. Let them also face the truths.
“And when the funeral pyre’s flames start moving upwards, remember why in this country for thousands of years we have chosen not to bury the dead, but to give them to fire. There is a special reason for it.
“Fire is the only thing you know which does not allow any gravitation. It always goes upwards. The fire is a symbol of your spirituality; it always goes upwards.
“You see flames, and soon they disappear. They are visible only for a few moments, then they become invisible
“Fire is a great symbol of purification, of detachment, of rising vertically towards the ultimate space which is our home.”

~ OSHO

“Think of all the great words and great teachings as your deadly enemy. Avoid them, because you have to find your own source. Don’t be a follower, an imitator. You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no dogma. It is a dark night, but everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe.”

~ Osho

“Remember only one quality that Awakening has. That quality is witnessing. Whatever is happening, just be a witness, don’t be identified. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the astral body. You are not the silence. You are only a witness. The witness is the very being of a Buddha.”

~Osho

“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it. But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking.
And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak. Perhaps to know too much makes it difficult to speak; the mind knows so little, it is possible for it to speak.”

~ Osho

You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to hurt you; everybody is engaged in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens, because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for anything.
You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? – because there is no one to be touched. There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word whole is beautiful. The word heal comes from the whole, and the word holy also comes from the whole. He is whole, healed, holy.
Be aware of your wound. Don’t help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound will heal; with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Just for twenty-four hours, try it – total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don’t react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before

~ OSHO