Watch the gap between two things, two breaths, two thoughts… Shrini was a brilliant young man with many skills, but somehow he could not complete his studies of engineering. He dropped out in the last year. And once he lost his confidence it was very difficult for him to gear it up again. Parents and...
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Memory Is a Problem
Memory is said to be a vital instrument in learning. Although memory starts with perception, it is encoded and stored with the help of neurons. Once memories are ‘encoded’, they are transferred to either the long-term memory or the short-term memory. This transfer is a part of memory storage, which is the second step in...
Be Alone and Together in Love
Remember this beautiful song from the seventies? “Love is in the air, everywhere I look around Love is in the air, every sight and every sound And I don’t know if I’m being foolish, don’t know if I’m being wise… ‘ The crooning voice of John Paul Young is the voice of everybody’s yearning for...
Free Yourself from Bondage: Go Deep in Meditation
To Attain the Ultimate Forget Outward Symbols and Look inside Yourself Osho,In one of your latest letters to the therapists your secretary said that you abandoned the outer sannyas in favor of the inner sannyas. Would you please say more about it? “I have been working hard to abandon everything that is outer, so that...
Rebellion Is Freedom and Hope for Humanity
Osho, What Is Your Notion of Rebellion and of a Rebel? “My notion about the rebel and rebellion is very simple: a man who does not live like a robot conditioned by the past.Religion, society, culture… anything that is of yesterday does not in any way interfere in his way of life, in his style...
Is Making Money Good or Bad?
Money is a touchy subject. Many people equate richness with being rich, being wealthy, having a lot of money, and, often, with making money and showing that money off. They think it is something outside themselves. But increasing numbers are starting to realize that without an inner richness, without the kind of resources money cannot...
Equality Destroys Individual Freedom
Only Machines Can Be Equal; Man Cannot Be “If you want man to be equal, then you will have to destroy his humanity and make him a robot. “It is very simple: just as two faces are not the same, in the whole world even two fingerprints are not the same – and you want...
Foster Equal Opportunity and See Women Blossom
Women Have Been Oppressed For Millennia The feminist movement has done its best to liberate women from this oppression, to create equal opportunity yet it is only very recently that a campaign has started to make the voices of those who’ve suffered at the hands of men heard. Osho’s vision is clear “Man has always...
How Much is Modern Technology Restricting Our Freedom?
Fearing the future is a thing. Googling this phrase gets me about 2,76,00,000 results. The increasing threats from climate change, renewed focus on nuclear capability and terrorism. Things are being made possible by newer technologies, it looks like it’s restricting our freedom. Are we becoming robots? “The mechanization of all that you are surrounded with...
Freedom Is Yours to Lose
Terrorism Rises as Societies Crumble Q: It is many years since World War II and this ‘peace’ seems to now be threatened by terrorism. Would you please talk about why terrorism is happening now? “Everything is deeply related with everything else that happens. “The event of terrorism is certainly related with what is happening in...