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1931–1990 India
Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to
Also known as: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), Osho, Osho movement
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever.
Your Answers Questioned (2003)
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen.
Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.
Tantra believes not in GRADUAL development of the soul, but in sudden enlightenment.
I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.
The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
Tantra masters are wild flowers, they have everything in them.
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive.
Italian TV Interview (1989)
Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation.
Tantra says readjustment, adjustment, is not the goal; it is not worth much – transformation is the goal.
Buddha declared before his death that he would be coming again after twenty-five centuries, and that his name would be Maitreya. Maitreya means the friend.
The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.
You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila.
Tantra is a great hope. Tantra is like an oasis in a world of deserts.
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.
I am the white cloud, and the whole effort is to make you also white clouds drifting in the sky. Nowhere to go, coming from nowhere, just being there this very moment — perfect.
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds (1995)
Man has nothing else to do but surrender — in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.
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