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Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Osho, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, or simply Bhagwan, was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy. He advocated a more permissive attitude toward human sexuality.

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The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything. " Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds, waiting, never in a hurry, giving their time to them. The Bauls say, "Everything happens at its right time, everything happens in its own season. Wait, don't be impatient, don't be in a hurry. All hurry is greed, and all hurry is a subtle fight. " That which is going to happen will happen. Whenever it is going to happen it will happen; you need not fight existence. You can surrender, you can trust.

Fighting, Flower, Happen, Letting Go, Time, Waiting

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Destroyed, Higher, Names, Relationship, Value

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Beautiful, Mean, Roots, Unawareness, Unconsciousness

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

Beautiful, Eye, Eyes, Life, Lost, Treasure

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Belongs, Body, Meditation, Mind

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Creative, Creativity, God, Worship

The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.

Christian, Mean, Part, Prayer, Universal, Whole

It has happened, women have helped their husbands, sacrificed their whole lives, never thought about themselves. Their surrender, their devotion to their lovers has been total. In this totality, they have achieved before their lover has.

Husband, Lives, Lovers, Surrender, Total, Totality

You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

False, Inspirational, Misery, Old, Old Friends, Spiritual

Knowledge always liberates.

Knowledge, Liberates

She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

Children, Create, Drama, Grow, Inferior, Writing

Who is a god? A god is one who has learned the secret of being happy with the whole universe, with every flower and with every river and with every rock and every star; who has become one with this continuous eternal celebration; who celebrates, who doesn't bother whose celebration this is. And wherever there is a celebration, he participates.

Celebration, Flower, Participates, Rocks, Secret, Stars

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful.

Eternal, Flower, Inner, Marriage, Morning

When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are deep in awareness, you don't feel awareness, you feel bliss. When you begin to feel bliss, that means now you have begun to be aware. Awareness creates the situation in which bliss is felt.

Begin, Begun, Bliss, Mean, Meditation

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

Art, Ego, Meditation, Shocked

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Disease, Ego, Essence, Laughter, Religious

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Drunk, Meditation, World

Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.

Country, Flower, Forgotten, Rain, Religion

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Thinking, Meditation, Mind, Thinks

Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

Aloof, Goal, Mind, Quagmire, Remain

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