Words of Osho

Temple???

No church or temple built by man can be greater than man. And man-made churches and temples are so small and insignificant there isn't enough room for Buddha or God!

A temple built by someone whose mind is not a temple itself is of no use.

Priest Vs Politician

The politicians and the priests have always been in deep conspiracy, they have divided man. The politician rules the outside and the priest rules the inside: the politician the exterior and the priest the interior. They are joined in a deep conspiracy against humanity--they may not even be aware of what they are doing. I don't suspect their intentions; they may be absolutely unconscious.

The really religious person is rebellious; the society condemns him. Jesus is condemned as a criminal and Mother Teresa is respected as a saint. There is something to be pondered over... Charlatans are always praised by the society because they are helpful--helpful to this society, to this status quo.

Whatsoever adjectives I have used I have used very knowingly. I never use a single word without consideration. And I have used the word 'hypocrites'. These people are hypocrites because their basic life style is split: on the surface one thing, inside something else.

Truth

Truth has to be said as it is. The moment you compromise, the moment you bring truth to the ordinary level of human consciousness, it loses its soul, it becomes superficial, it becomes a dead thing. You cannot bring truth to the level of human beings; human beings have to be led to the level of truth. That is Buddha's great work.

Remember this...

Remember this: Buddha is nonrepressive. And if you find Buddhist monks to be repressive, remember, they have not understood Buddha at all. They have brought their own pathology into his teachings. And Buddha is non-ideological. He gives no ideology, because all ideologies are of the mind. And if ideologies are of the mind, they cannot take you beyond the mind. No ideology can become a bridge to reach beyond the mind. All ideologies have to be dropped, only then the mind will be dropped.

记住这个：佛陀是非压抑的。如果你发现佛教徒是压抑的，记住，他们并没有全盘理解佛陀。他们将他们自己的病态加诸到他的教导中。而且佛陀是非观念性（非思想体系）的。他给予无观念，因为所有的观念都是头脑的。如果观念是头脑的，它们不能使你超越头脑。无观念可以成为一座桥梁去达到超越头脑。所有的观念必须被空掉，只有那样头脑才会被空掉。

Light and Delight

If you forget what it means to be Light

you will forget what it means to be Delight-full,

because they are two aspcts of the same phenomenon.

To be Light is a basic requirement for Delight to happen.

Delight happens only in Light moods.

Don't take life as a problem - it is not a problem at all.

It is a mystery to be lived, not to be solved

- enjoyed, danced, loved, sung, but not to be solved.

It is not a riddle which is a challenge to solve.

It is a challenge to explore, with wonder, with awe,

just like a small child.

So learn to be cheerful; take things as fun.

Everything has to be taken as fun!

Look!

Look at the trees, look at the birds,

look at the clouds, look at the stars...

and if you have eyes you will be able to see

that the whole existence is joyful.

Everything is simply happy.

Trees are happy for no reason;

they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents

and they are not going to become rich

and they will never have any bank balance.

Look at the flowers - for no reason.

It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Go Out!

Relate with others, but relate with yourself also.

Love others, but love yourself also.

Go out! - the world is beautiful, adventurous;

it is a challenge, it enriches.

Go out fearlessly - there is nothing to lose,

there is everything to gain.

Courage

You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous.

You cannot be loving if you are not courageous.

You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous.

You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous.

Hence courage comes first... and everything else follows.

Sheer Joy!

Take hold of your own life.

See that the whole existence is celebrating.

These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.

The rivers and the oceans are wild,

and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight.

Watch existence, listen to the existence

and become part of it.

Accept Yourself!

There is no need of any competition with anybody.

You are yourself,

and as you are,

you are perfectly good.

Accept yourself.

Your Choice

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life,

ugliness starts disappearing.

If you start looking at life with joy,

sadness starts disappearing.

You cannot have heaven and hell together,

you can have only one.

It is your choice.

Enlightenment

This is what enlightenment is all about -

a deep understanding that there is no problem.

Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do?

Immediately you start living.

You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work,
you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance.....

- what else is there to do?

Moved by Love

Don't move the way fear makes you move.

Move the way love makes you move.

Move the way joy makes you move.

Osho

A Man of Love

Nobody can teach you love.

Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. And when love comes, there is no question of responsibility. You do things because you enjoy doing them for the person you love. You are not obliging the person, you are not even wanting anything in return, not even gratitude.

On the contrary, you are grateful that the person has allowed you to do something for him. It was your joy, sheer joy.

Love knows nothing of responsibility. It does many things, it is very creative; it shares all that it has, but it is not a responsibility, remember. Responsibility is an ugly word in comparison to love. Love is natural. Responsibility is created by the cunning priests, politicians who want to dominate you in the name of God, in the name of the nation, in the name of family, in the name of religion -- any fiction will do.

But they don't talk about love. On the contrary, they are all against love, because love is unable to be controlled by them.

A man of love acts out of his own heart, not according to any moral code.

A man of love will not join the army because it is his responsibility to fight for his nation.

A man of love will say there are no nations, and there is no question of any fight.