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No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
If you believe in any religion you cannot meditate. Religion is an interference in your meditation. Meditation needs no God, no heaven, no hell, no fear of punishment, and no allurement of pleasure.
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000)
Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable.
Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
The so-called mahatmas and saints are all cowards. I have never come across a single mahatma—Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist—who can be said to be really a rebellious spirit. Unless one is rebellious, one is not religious. Rebellion is the very foundation of religion.
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000)
Tantra says you are missing because you are running. Tantra says you are missing because you are in such a hurry.
The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Tantra is a very very poetic approach, not arithmetical. And tantra believes in love, not in mathematics. It believes in sudden enlightenment.
Every sentence started with I.
Just Like That: Talks on Sufism (1993)
We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality.
The Inward Journey in Osho's Guidance (2005)
Tantra offers you enlightenment right here and now – no time, no postponement
Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Tantra says: Don’t focus your attention on the acts, focus your attention on the person who has done the acts. Yoga focuses on acts. Tantra focuses on the person, on the consciousness, on you.
The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition … If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)
Yoga is effort, tantra is effortless.
Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people; but the people are retarded. So let us say government by the retarded, for the retarded, of the retarded.
Is Democracy the Best Way of Government? (1981)