The first step

Q: What is the first step one must take toward reaching God? M: We must pray that if God exists, please guide me, please help me. And stick to your religion and pray to that religious head that you believe in to help you. If you’re Christian, pray to God, pray to Jesus, Santa Maria. If you’re [...]

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How to become a millionaire in no time

Blessed by the Living Master Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai  Malaysia February 25, 1992 (Originally in English) Q: What is involved in the process of You, as a Master, giving a blessing to people? For instance, when You want to give a blessing to the people here tonight, what is involved? M: I have [...]

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Just a little patience is needed.

Osho occupies the window seat and I sit next to Him. He tells me that He needs to rest and I have to make sure no one disturbs Him. I nod my head in assurance and He closes His eyes. After about half an hour our breakfast of tea and toast has arrived. I keep [...]

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Expectation leads to frustration

I look outside the window, the train is passing through Khandala. It is a very beautiful scene with vast green fields surrounded by a range of mountains, and clouds are floating in the valleys. It all looks magical. My mind is diverted by a man who is standing near me calling me by my name. [...]

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Spiritual dog

Osho is conducting a meditation camp at Matheran hill station. Near about five hundred people are participating in the camp. He is staying at Rugby Hotel which has a big open ground in the middle where the camp is arranged. One dog comes regularly and sits silently near the podium while Osho is speaking. I [...]

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Love the Stranger

It is very hard to burn this kerosene stove. It is giving lots of trouble. I have to clean its nipple with a pin very often and pump it for a while and somehow miraculously it burns up. First I prepare tea and then keep the lid directly on the stove to make toast. Osho [...]

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Where are You going ?

The series of discourses on Mahavira is arranged in Kashmir for eighteen days. Osho will be coming from Jabalpur to Delhi by train and will fly from Delhi to Srinagar. From Bombay, we are nearly thirty friends who will be meeting Him there. One other group of about twenty friends from Delhi will join us [...]

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How to have a Heart of an emperor ?

Today is the last day in Pahalgaon. With Osho, sometime it feels the time hasstopped and at other times it feels it is running very fast. While I am busy packing, I hear the voice of this Muslim watchman, who is standing at the door. I ask him to come after an hour to help [...]

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Simply osho

After the meditation camp at Nargol, Laxmi has started wearing orange color Lunghi and Kurta. Osho has appointed her as secretary and she comes to C.C.I. Chambers at 7:00am. Anyone wanting to see Osho has to take appointment from her. This is beyond my imagination. My mind is not ready to accept this new arrangement. [...]

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Who is the real Sannyasin

As I come out of the room, I see Chaitanya Bharti standing there with his camera. I ask him if he will take a picture of me with Osho after discourse. He agrees to it. I tell him that after discourse I will go near Osho, where he should be available. I sit down on [...]

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Thy will be done, Oh Beloved of my heart

After wearing this orange dress for two days, I wash it and go to the morning discourse in my ordinary clothes. When He looks at me, I feel He is not happy about my wearing other clothes. There is a question in His look, “What has happened to the orange dress?”I can’t understand it. How [...]

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Sexually suppressed society

Osho has started speaking every evening from 8:00pm at His apartment in Woodlands. Sometimes discourse goes on for a couple of hours. It takes me more than an hour to reach my home in the suburbs. It is quite an odd time. There are hardly any women traveling by local train at that late hour. [...]

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Nothing can stop spirituality ?

By and by, people have started to understand us. My office people don’t give me any funny looks. Some have started reading Osho’s books and are coming to listen to His discourses also. The whole atmosphere has changed. My boss is no longer angry at me. On the contrary, he helps in whatever way possible.Morning [...]

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Truth will reveal itself.

After this taxi incident, my girl friend, who is also coming for discourse every evening and I decide that either she will come to stay with me in the night or I go to her house. In the morning, we can depart. She likes to come to my home; I have arranged an extra bed [...]

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Jesus loves me .

“A man just got married and was returning home with his wife. They were crossing a lake in a boat when suddenly a great storm arose. The man was a warrior, but the woman became very much afraid because it seemed almost hopeless — THE BOAT WAS SMALL AND THE STORM WAS REALLY HUGE, AND [...]

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Osho touches mothers feet

Osho is giving discourses on Mahavira at Patkar Hall in Bombay. It is the eighteen-day religious festival of the Jainas called Paryushan. Today Osho’s mother and aunt, who have arrived from Gadarwara, will be taking Sannyas before discourse. The auditorium is over-full. Osho has arrived two minutes early today, and after greeting everyone with folded [...]

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RELIGION IS LIKE A PENIS

RELIGION IS LIKE A PENIS Is good to have one… It’s fine to be proud of it… But please don’t whip it out in public and start waving it around… And PLEASE don’t shove it down my children’s throats…

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Who can preach ?

“It is extremely difficult to teach others. A man can teach only if God reveals Himself to him and gives the command. Narada, Sukadeva, and sages like them had such a command from God, and Sankara had it too. Unless you have a command from God, who will listen to your words? “Don’t you know [...]

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Please explain again

Osho – Once it so happened that a man came every day for twenty-one days to hear Lao Tzu. Every day he would tell Lao Tzu, ”I have forgotten what you said yesterday. Please explain again”. This went on for a few days. Lao Tzu’s one disciple Ma Tzu could bear it no longer. On [...]

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How to get out of Fear ?

Question : How does one get rid of fear ? Ramana Maharshi : What is fear ? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self ? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does [...]

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HOW TO DECIDE BETWEEN YS AND NO ?

October 13, 2011(Below is the transcript of Satsang with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.You can watch the Live webcast of future satsangs)There are three type of knowledge or information we get. One is through the five senses. You see and you get some knowledge, you listen and you get knowledge, you smell and you get information, [...]

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Employment and the Spiritual Life

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching HaiParis, France, January 24, 1997(Originally In English and French) Q: We must work outside spiritually, but we cannot always choose our work and our boss; and sometimes some bosses are not honest and they force us to follow them because we work for them. They exploit us, they want money, [...]

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Ego or True Self

Answered by Quan Yin messenger (Originally in Chinese) Q: How do we distinguish whether it is our real inner great wisdom or our human mind that is functioning? A: If we do anything that is harmful to another person, other beings, our nation or society, then we should not do it. Similarly, if we do [...]

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Attachments

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Haiat the Quan Yin Restaurant, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.November 14, 1993 (Originally in English) Q: How do we begin to rid ourselves of all our attachments that might keep us further away from our spiritual path? Can we become more selfless, and not want to have this and be this? M: [...]

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Allergic to Spirituality VASUDEV

Sadhguru : It is very important that the spiritual dimension of life is brought into everybody’s lives. Why many people have developed an allergy to spirituality is because somebody always told them, ‘spirituality means leaving everything and going to the mountains.’ Even if you want to go, there is not enough space for all of [...]

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