"Personality is your enemy. It is in the hands of those who are exploiting you, who are destroying you. My work is exactly deprogramming. I simply deprogram you and leave you alone, to yourself"
Can You Choose to Be Unhappy?
The Yearning for Utopia - and It Is Possible!
Cathartic Release Goes Hand-In-Hand with Meditation
Grateful – a Meditator’s Perspective
Here's How to Clean out Your Suppressed Emotions
Books by Osho Burned by the Catholic Church
Gratitude Is Knowing You Are Invited by Existence
The Individual is the Root of a Harmonious Society
Honesty Is the Best Policy - Not!
Boost Your Immunity with Active Meditations
From Instinct to Boredom – Have Human Beings Stopped Evolving?
Misunderstanding Love
Is Making Money Good or Bad?
Impressions: A Meditation of Love & Relating
Confucian Madness or Taoist Sanity?
Find the Center, Find Absolute Silence
Living with Anger
Become a Dancing Energy
Insomnia Is a Way of Life and Not a Disease
No News at All
You Praise Ambition — Then Denounce Extremism
Anxiety Be Gone
A Web of Interdependence – Cutting through the False Division of Free Will vs Determinism
Only When Love Becomes Prayer Our Roots Grow out of the Darkness
The Liberating Fun of Gibberish and Osho's No-Mind Meditation
To Suffer in Love Is Not to Suffer in Vain
Let Fear Possess You
From Natural Selection to Conscious Evolution to Total Consciousness
The Humble Wants to Be on the Side of Truth, the Egotist Wants the Truth to Be on His Side
The Future of Education – Five Dimensions
How Osho Taught Hindi to Think
Misery Loves Attention
Emotions Are the Key to Your Transformation
Silence Shared in Words
The Art of Listening
Now You Guys Have Wrecked the Planet –
To Be Authentic Means to Be Totally Factual
Why Don't I Want to Be Alone?
Understanding Addictions and All Our Efforts to Avoid Being Conscious
Osho Bardo: A Planned Death
I Use Words for You to Become Silent
Food Is Sacred
Love Brings Aloneness
Catastrophe Chronicle – 2022
Politics Is Collective — Transformation Is Individual
Is It Possible to Live Without Jealousy?
Osho’s Warnings Ignored: Gorbachev’s Deadly Legacy Follows
Reactionaries vs. Revolutionaries – How Could Humanity Have Gotten It So Wrong?
Always Remain Young!
Animal Habitats - the Power of Science to Destroy
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AI at a Crossroads – Human Extinction Edition
AI's human extinction scenario is a prisoner's dilemma that can only be solved if super intelligence is modeled on the consciousness of our interconnected humanity
Pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, May 1934. Photo credit: Alamy
What’s Wrong with Hannibal Lecter?
What kind of society do we live in that produces Hannibal Lecters and genocidal leaders we elect and then worship? Osho offers us a practical guide to a sane world.
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Use This Time of Crisis to Be Transformed
Use this time of crisis, use this door, this opportunity, and be transformed. That's why my emphasis is on individual revolution.
Feminine Qualities Belong to the Future
"It is the long condemnation of feminine qualities that have gone deep into the blood and the bones of women. It is man’s conspiracy to prove himself superior to women – which he is not." Osho
What Does It Mean to Be Authentic?
"If you have an authentic life you don't need the priest; you are so fulfilled, you are so blissful that no paradise can become in any way an improvement on it."
Why Women Are More Courageous Than Men
Osho says courage comes more from the heart than logic. Love, vulnerability, and emotional openness require deep courage.
The Sickness of Man’s Mind Is Created by the Family
Osho on the family: "It is the basic unit of the old society; unless the family disappears the old society will continue because its basic unit is intact."
Why Is No-Mind So Relevant to Today’s World?
Use the Wisdom of the Body to go from Mind to No-mind. To be in the present is the only way to experience the herenow.
OSHO INSIGHTS
Mind the Gaps
Meditation reveals the space between thoughts. In the silence, awareness deepens as the mind slows and gaps begin to appear.
Don’t Suppress Your Desires Transcend Them
Embrace desire with awareness. Osho says don’t suppress your desires, move into them fully, without fear or attachment, and they transform into pure awareness.
Life Begins When We Start Living with Totality
Osho explains how the fear of death dissolves when life is lived intensely in the present moment, turning each experience into total awareness, celebration and timeless depth.
How to Be Happy – Your Greed Is Too Much!
“See the Dictionary under the Letter ‘H’ – Only There Will You Always Find Happiness. ”Most of us are in...
The Difference between Loneliness and Aloneness
Knowing Oneself Is the Only Richness. Lost in loneliness, we feel like beggars. Finding our aloneness, we become buddhas. “The...
Relationship Is Ugly, Relating Is Beautiful
Love is not possession but presence — two people meeting freely, deeply, and continuously, without turning each other into certainty.
SEX GURU
Sex Is the Very Basic Problem
"Sex is the basic problem. All the habits that man has created are basically sex-oriented. That's why no society allows total sexual freedom."
Sex, Love, and Sleep – Being in the Present Moment?
Man got the idea of samadhi from two things: sex and sleep. because in both these moments, time disappears, time stops, the mind stops.
Orgasm Is Freedom and the Root of Meditation
A man like Gautam Buddha is living every moment of his life in orgasmic joy – it has nothing to do with sex.
The Reality Is: There Is No Vaginal Orgasm
"Just being a scientist does not mean that you have gone beyond your male chauvinistic ideas.They still want to emphasize the fact that for sexual pleasure the woman is dependent on the man."
Meditation – a Deep Sexual Orgasm
Sex and meditation share a deeper orgasmic dissolution where ego disappears. Osho explains this inner merging of opposites as a spiritual union beyond body, fear, and individuality.
Sex Is Natural, Sexuality Is Not
Sex is natural; obsession and repression create sexuality. Accepted simply and consciously, sex can deepen into love.
MEDITATION 101
Eat and Drink Consciously
Eat and drink consciously. Osho says most people consume mechanically. Slow down and become aware so every bite becomes meditation, alive and fully present.
Use This Meditation Technique to Rechanneling Your Sex Energy
This practice releases stored tension, allowing blocked energy to flow naturally, bringing relaxation, vitality, and a deeper experience of sexual energy.
Use This Meditation Technique to Transform Sex into Ecstasy
In The Cypress in the Courtyard, Osho describes love as deep presence, where meditation, touch, and silence dissolve two people into a shared, flowing energy beyond desire.
Use Your Sadness and Transform It
Sit with sadness instead of escaping it. When fully felt with awareness, it dissolves and reveals a deeper silence within you.
Four Steps to Awakening: From Misery to Bliss
"Misery is a state of unconsciousness. We are miserable because we are not aware of what we are doing, of what we are thinking, of what we are feeling."
A Revolutionary Approach to Consciousness
I am making you aware of silences without any effort on your part. My speaking is being used for the first time as a strategy to create silence in you.
OSHO VIDEOS
You Can Run but You Can’t Hide
“And the moment you are no more conditioned, you will not ask what is the goal of life. Your...
He Was Not a Thief. He Was a Kleptomaniac.
“In my university days, I used to happen to partner with a student who was a kleptomaniac. He was...
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Pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, May 1934. Photo credit: Alamy
What’s Wrong with Hannibal Lecter?
What kind of society do we live in that produces Hannibal Lecters and genocidal leaders we elect and then worship? Osho offers us a practical guide to a sane world.
Healing: Osho’s Non-Freudian Primal Therapy and the Return to Original Innocence
Non-Freudian Primal Therapy is the embodied process of undoing the belief the organism learned – somatically and emotionally – that its natural being is wrong.
Stalin's boots
Confused about the State of the World?... The Invisible Blindness
The calamity of the modern world is that every nation is run by politicians. We are caught in an almost invisible loop. Everything is framed by the belief systems we accept as truth.
Pain and Trauma – The Medicalization of Sadness
Psychiatry is being used as a political tool of compliance. Depression, anxiety, low self-worth, or existential emptiness are appropriate responses to a genuinely malfunctioning societal structure. The entire system is the real pathology, not the child.
A Fallacious Premise: Born in Sin
"We have not developed a single psychotherapy because we know psychotherapies can’t heal. They may help you to accept your wounds, but they can’t heal."
Consciousness at the Crossroads – AI and the Revival
"What is needed is not the discovery of something new but the remembering of something we have forgotten. In that sense, AI may serve as consciousness's most powerful via negativa."
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When Life Is a Continuous Celebration, Every Day Turns into a Festival!
When life is a continuous celebration, every day turns into a festival. Celebration need not be on preset days only but just a way of life.
Bombay High Court Agrees with Foundation:
The April 25th clarification clearly states that visits to the Osho International Meditation Resort and Osho’s bedroom are only possible “in accordance with the rules, conventions and traditions” of the meditation resort.
Osho “Lovers” Hate Osho’s Guidance
The prime motivation for the protests is that this offers its leaders an opportunity to display their long-standing animosity against the management team. In the past, these same people have invented endless rationalizations to provoke a rent-a-crowd phenomenon.
The Traditional Mind Wants to Turn Osho into a God They Can Worship
For many sannyasins, symbols have become more important than the message. The master is a device, a means for our growth, not a god to be worshiped.
Sheela Silverman in her self-appointed role of “Pope." She invented “a religion” based on her complete misunderstanding of Osho’s insights on the poison of organized religion — and then appointed herself its pope.
Sheela’s Crimes and Deceptions – A Documented Summary
Sheela's documented crimes and deceptions include conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assassination plots, kidnapping and poisoning.
General Meeting – Buddha Hall – May 1989
"We are not just a religious center, religiousness will be our very atmosphere, but we are now going to make a greater expansion."
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