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A controversial spiritual teacher who established a large commune in Oregon, USA, known for its dynamic meditation techniques and unconventional views on spirituality, sexuality, and social norms. His teachings often challenged traditional beliefs and emphasized the importance of individual freedom and self-expression. Despite facing legal and ethical issues, he attracted a large following and made a significant impact on contemporary spirituality. His approach combined elements of Eastern mysticism with a modern, often provocative, perspective on personal and spiritual growth.

Osho (Rajneesh) Icon Image
Osho (Rajneesh)
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A controversial spiritual teacher who established a large commune in Oregon, USA, known for its dynamic meditation techniques and unconventional views on spirituality, sexuality, and social norms. His teachings often challenged traditional beliefs and emphasized the importance of individual freedom and self-expression. Despite facing legal and ethical issues, he attracted a large following and made a significant impact on contemporary spirituality. His approach combined elements of Eastern mysticism with a modern, often provocative, perspective on personal and spiritual growth.

Every answer will make more questions.

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As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.

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I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.

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Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

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The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

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In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

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Silence is the space where man wakes up.

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Ordinary is the door for extraordinary.

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When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.

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Learn to listen and trust your inner voice.

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Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

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If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.

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Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

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Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

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Man is always exploited through fear.

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CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.

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The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.

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Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

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Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.

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You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'

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I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.

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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

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Seriousness is a sickness... Existence is pure playfulness.

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