I was looking for information on the human Body Mind & Soul Healing Books and entered “Soul Books” in Google search. The first, main answer “Chicken Soup for the Soul” surprised me slightly … and encouraged to create this blog.
15 years ago I was looking for an answer to the questions that bothered me about the meaning of life, whether the soul we talk so much about exists, whether there are other lives, etc., I discovered Osho, a Modern Mystic and Soul Master. Since my traditional belief in God, which is currently not known as a religion (about this later), cultivated and improved my depression and diseases, the Osho Insights and Meditation techniques discovery for me was the real “EUREKA.”
<…> It is awareness that brings change, not your effort. Why does it happen through awareness ? – because the awareness changes you. And when you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world, it is only a question of creating a different you. You are your world, so if you change, the world changes. <…> Osho.
Medical science has confirmed these facts as well. Fits of my depression disappeared, improved physical health, mood, and overall sense of life.In the past, before meditation, I was normally ill within a year from 1 to 3 weeks with many different infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, becoming incapacitated – disabled, and my losses would turn into the medical industry’s profits. After three years of meditation, the problem is gone. Now I am resistant to infection and medical customers. I know them, and perhaps it is a loss, but a joy for me since I finished my loss-making business.
I support medical science, but I am against the benefits received by the medical profession for countless human diseases. Here, we should remember the ancient Chinese medical practice, the Confucian era. A doctor’s profit depended on community health, not sickness, as it is now.
This legacy of the Meditation and Soul Master to my Body Mind Soul now is a Light Therapy and a very good daily practice. Now I understand that belief to … is over and began the real journey to … Life is Invaluable.
“Any religion, any ideology, that is based only on belief, faith, is bound to cripple your intelligence.” Osho
The question you have asked is very complex. You will have to understand a few other things before you can understand what real authentic friendliness is.
The first is friendship. Friendship is love without any biological tones to it. It is not the friendship that you understand ordinarily — the boyfriend, the girlfriend. To use the word friend in any way associated with biology is sheer stupidity. It is infatuation and madness. You are being used by biology for reproduction purposes.
If you think you are in love, you are wrong; it is just hormonal attraction. Your chemistry can be changed and your love will disappear. Just an injection of hormones and a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man.
Friendship is love without any biological tones. It has become a rare phenomenon. It used to be a great thing in the past, but a few great things in the past have completely disappeared. It is a very strange thing that ugly things are stubborn, they don’t die easily; and beautiful things are very fragile, they die and disappear very easily.
Today friendship is understood either in biological terms or in economic terms, or in sociological terms — in terms of acquaintance, a kind of acquaintance. But friendship means that if the need arises you will be ready even to sacrifice yourself. Friendship means that you have made somebody else more important than yourself; somebody else has become more precious than you yourself. It is not a business. It is love in its purity.
This friendship is possible even the way you are now. Even unconscious people can have such a friendship. But if you start becoming more conscious of your being, then friendship starts turning into friendliness. Friendliness has a wider connotation, a far bigger sky.
Friendship is a small thing compared to friendliness. Friendship can be broken, the friend can turn into an enemy. That possibility remains intrinsic in the very fact of friendship.
I am reminded of Machiavelli giving guidance to the princes of the world in his great work, The Prince. One of his guidelines is, Never tell anything to your friend which you would not be able to say to your enemy, because the person who is a friend today may turn into an enemy tomorrow.
And the suggestion following that is, Never say anything against the enemy, because the enemy can turn into a friend tomorrow. Then you will be very embarrassed. Machiavelli is giving a very clear insight: that our ordinary love can change into hate, our friendship can become enmity any moment. This is the unconscious state of man — where love is hiding hate just behind it, where you hate the same person you love but you are not aware of it.
Friendliness becomes possible only when you are real, you are authentic, and you are absolutely aware of your being. And out of this awareness, if love arises it will be friendliness. Friendliness can never change into its opposite. Remember this as a criterion, that the greatest values of life are only those which cannot change into their opposite; in fact there is no opposite.
You are asking, “What is real authentic friendliness?”
It will need a great transformation in you to have a taste of friendliness. As you are, friendliness is a faraway star. You can have a look at the faraway star, you can have a certain intellectual understanding, but it will remain only an intellectual understanding, not an existential taste.
Unless you have an existential taste of friendliness, it will be very difficult, almost impossible to make a distinction between friendship and friendliness. Friendliness is the purest thing you can conceive about love. It is so pure that you cannot even call it a flower, you can only call it a fragrance which you can feel and experience, but you cannot catch hold of. It is there, your nostrils are full of it, your being is surrounded by it. You feel the vibe, but there is no way to catch hold of it; the experience is so big and so vast and our hands are too small.
I said to you that your question is very complex, not because of the question, but because of you. You are not yet at the point from where friendliness can become an experience. Be real, be authentic and you will know the purest quality of love — just a fragrance of love surrounding you always. And that quality of the purest love is friendliness. Friendship is addressed to someone, somebody is your friend.
Once Gautam Buddha was asked, “Does the enlightened man have friends?” and he said, “No.” The questioner was shocked because he was thinking the man who is enlightened must have the whole world as his friend.
But Gautam Buddha is right, whether you are shocked or not. When he says, “The enlightened man has no friends,” he is saying he cannot have friends because he cannot have enemies. They both come together. Friendliness he can have, but not friendship.
Friendliness is unfocused, unaddressed love. It is not any contract, spoken or unspoken. It is not from one individual to another individual; it is from one individual to the whole existence, of which man is only a small part, because trees are included, animals are included, rivers are included, mountains are included, stars are included. Everything is included in friendliness.
Friendliness is just the way of your being real and authentic; you start radiating it. It comes on its own accord, you don’t have to bring it. Whoever comes close to you will feel the friendliness.
That does not mean that nobody will be your enemy. As far as you are concerned, you will not be an enemy of anyone, because you are no more a friend to anyone. But your height, your consciousness, your blissfulness, your silence, your peace will annoy many, will irritate many, will make many, without understanding you, your enemies.
In fact the enlightened men have more enemies than the unenlightened. The unenlightened may have a few enemies, a few friends. The enlightened men have almost the whole world antagonistic towards them, because the blind people cannot forgive the man who has eyes, and the ignorant cannot forgive one who knows. They cannot feel love towards a man who has attained to his fulfillment, because their egos are hurt.
Just the other day I received four letters from four different American prisons. All the four prisoners are asking for sannyas. One American prisoner has been reading my books. Since I was in that prison for one day, the authorities became interested, the prisoners became interested, so they must have ordered my books. The prisoner has been reading those books.
Although he is an American, he writes that “Osho, reading your books, listening to you on the television, and when you were in the prison for one day, I was also here.” He has been there for almost five years… “It was a blissful experience for me and I will never forget the day we were together in the same cell; it has been the most important day of my life.
And I have been carrying something in me which I want to express to you. You have not committed any sin. Of that I was absolutely certain the moment I saw you. But to be innocent seems to be a greater crime than any other. And because you were talked about on the radio, on the television, your books were read all over the country, there came a moment when you were more important a figure than the president of America. That’s what triggered the whole process of destroying your commune, imprisoning you — just to humiliate you.”
I was surprised that a prisoner would have such a deep insight. He is saying “People like you are bound to be condemned, because even the greatest, most powerful people look like pygmies before your consciousness and your height. It is your fault,” he is saying to me. “If you were not so successful, you would have been ignored. If your commune was not so successful, nobody would have bothered about you.”
The enlightened man has no friends, no enemies, but only a pure love, unaddressed. He is ready to pour into anybody’s heart who is available. That is real authentic friendliness.
But such a man will provoke many egos, will hurt those who think they are very important and powerful people. The presidents and the queens and the prime ministers and the kings will become immediately worried, concerned. A man who has no power has suddenly become the focus of attention of the people, attracts more people than the people who have power and money and prestige. Such a man cannot be forgiven. He has to be punished whether he has committed any crime or not. And a man of enlightenment cannot commit a crime; that is just a sheer impossibility.
But to be innocent, to be friendly, to be loving for no reason at all, just to be yourself is enough to trigger many egos against you. So when I say, “The enlightened man has no enemies,” I mean that from his side he has no enemies. But from others’ side, the greater his height, the more will be their antagonism against him, the more will be the enmity, hatred, condemnation. This is how it has been happening for centuries.
Nirvano was just telling me the other day that the day I was fined four hundred thousand dollars — more than half a crore rupees — knowing perfectly well that I don’t possess a single paisa, a single cent, the attorney who was working for Nirvano told her, “They have done it again.”
She asked him, “What are you saying?” And he said,Yes, they have done it again. They have again crucified Jesus, they have again punished a man who is utterly innocent — but his innocence hurts their egos.”
Just an intellectual understanding will not be enough — although it is good to have some intellectual understanding, because that may help you move towards existential experience. But only the experience will give you the full taste of the tremendous sweetness, the beauty, the godliness and the truth of love.
Life is overflowing, life is blissful, but man has lost contact with life. He has become too self-conscious. That self-consciousness functions as a barrier, and one remains alive yet not truly alive. Self-consciousness is the disease.
The birds are happy, the trees are happy, the clouds and the rivers are happy, but they are not self-conscious. They are simply happy. They don’t know that they are happy.
Buddha is happy, Krishna is happy, Christ is happy, but they are pure consciousness. They are happy, but they don’t know that they are.
While the 10 titles of the Insights Series explore universal human qualities including courage, intelligence, compassion, maturity and others – the new series will focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual — timeless and always-contemporary questions that are essential to our personal search for meaning and purpose. Osho has responded to tens of thousands of such questions and Osho Life Essentials is based on a selection of truly unique and transformative responses to essential life questions.
This series does not present the run of the mill ‘quick-fix’ or “self-improvement” approach, but instead helps to develop an understanding of who we are and why we are here.
Each book comes with a separate DVD of Osho addressing such questions, allowing each reader to become a witness to this existential process of question and answer.
Man is a bridge, says Osho, between the animal and the divine – and our awareness of this dual aspect of our nature is what makes us human. It is also what makes us restless, full of conflict, so often at the crossroads of selfishness and generosity, of love and hate, frailty and strength, hope and despair. The Journey of Being Human looks into how we might embrace and accept these apparent contradictions, rather than trying to choose between them, as the key to transforming each twist and turn of life’s journey into a new discovery of who we are meant to be.
“Slowly, slowly watching movies, watching television, watching a football match, watching a tournament, people have simply become observers …”
Are we all turning into Couch Potatoes?
Osho speaks about watching TV and movies as substitutes for actual life. Are you just an observer or are you participating in life?
… A man of understanding lives life here and now; every moment he lives it.
For him there is no death because there is no future life. He exhausts the moment, he lives it totally, he enjoys it, he thanks God for it, he is grateful. Where is the fear of death if at this moment you are alive? Here, at this moment, you are alive – where is the fear of death? Don’t try to get ready to die, just live. And I tell you: everybody, as he is, is ready to live this very moment.
A new life comes into existence when you live now. A new life is a “now” life. Then where is the fear? Who is worried about death? Then you can play a joke in the end. And if you live you start feeling what life is. It is felt only through living, there is no other way to feel it. It is just like swimming: you swim and you learn. Swimming comes through swimming, life is felt through living.
You postpone; you don’t feel life, you feel death all around. Through postponing you will feel death, through living you will feel life. If you feel life, it is eternal. It has no death to it, it never dies; it goes on and on and on, and each moment is eternity.
Remember it as deeply as possible: don’t postpone, don’t move into tomorrow. Here, now, is all that you need. Enjoy it, and the more you enjoy the more will be given to you. That is what Jesus meant when he said: Knock and the door shall be opened unto you. Ask and it shall be given. This very moment the door is there. Ask, knock, live! – don’t postpone. …
If You Really Want Happiness, then Never Ask for Happiness.
Then no one will ever be able to make you unhappy, no power on earth will ever be able to make you unhappy. Then, even if this whole world is against you, it cannot cause you one iota of suffering. If you don’t ask for happiness, then you step outside the circle of unhappiness. The moment you ask for happiness you enter into the world of unhappiness. However much happiness you ask for determines how much unhappiness you get. <…> Osho
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Did you know that people who meditate are much happier and healthier than everyone else? It‘s true. And they have greatly extended life spans, too. As a matter of fact, there have been numerous studies showing that meditation dramatically reduces, and even reverse disease of all types—including cancer.
But the benefits of meditation don‘t stop there. Studies also show that experienced meditators—those whoare able to achieve the deepest levels of meditative states— are able to tap into dormant levels of brain function they never thought possible—levels of function that exist in each and every one of us—resulting in increased intelligence and moving us closer to answering life‘s mysterious questions.
Upon closer examination of meditators brains, they consistently show to function at a superior level than the average person‘s on every single test, measurement, and assessment generated among the scientific community. In fact, if you do your homework, you‘ll discover that many of history‘s greatest inventors, philosophers, and scientists received the revolutionary, future—changing ideas during their daily meditation sessions.
Just imagine what you could do if you had access to these deep levels of meditation!One of the reasons meditators experience greater levels of happiness and health is because meditati
on significantly increases the brain‘s production of several euphoric chemicals—the same chemicals that flow through your bloodstream on those days when you’ve never felt better. Even more, meditation allows these euphoric brain chemicals to be produced constantly <… > Click here to visit EOC Institute
How meditation increases your happiness
If you experience depression, excess anger, or anxiety; twenty minutes of daily meditation will go very far in bringing about a truer sense of happiness. The medical community now recognizes that twenty minutes of daily meditation not only promotes happiness, but can reduce the effects of anger and depression, and provide other health benefits. Long term anger and depression can lead to medical conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and in some cases, cancer. If you are taking medications for any of these conditions and are not satisfied, you should try meditation to promote happiness.
When you begin to meditate, you first learn to focus your mind on the present moment. There are many ways to do this, but the important thing is that you stop your thoughts from wandering here or there, and begin to observe your body and your breath. When you do this, you automatically lose sight of the things that are making you upset, and you experience the simple joy of being alive. The more you experience the present, the more happy you become.
Did you know that there is a much, much faster way to acquire the many benefits of meditation? <… >
Creativity and rebellion go hand in hand for American singer, song writer and pop icon Lady Gaga. Arriving in India she spoke in a press conference about her love for books by Osho. — Asked about a quote about creativity from the book “Creativity” by Osho she sent in August via her Twitter account to her 15 millions followers, the 25 year old singer from New York responded in the press conference:
“Oh yes Osho!
I read a lot of Osho’s books and I believe Rebellion was my favorite so far. I have been reading a lot about rebellion and how creativity is the greatest form of rebellion in life. It’s important to stand up for what you believe in and to fight for equality. … So I read Osho because not only do I love his work and what he writes about, but I guess I am kind of an Indian hippie!”
“Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis. And each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is fighting only with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed; what is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude. Surrounded by all these qualities you are born anew.” — Osho
The relationship of stress to a variety of physical illnesses is by now well known. In the United States, it is estimated that stress helps to account for two-thirds of family doctor visits, and according to the US. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is a significant contributor to half the deaths in Americans under the age of 65. It has been predicted that by 2020, five of the top ten medical problems worldwide will be stress related.
But in today’s environment, it’s often difficult for people to balance the overwhelming demands of work, family, and community with the need to take time out for rest and relaxation. All too often our approach to dealing with stress comes down to having a drink or two in the evening, or taking the occasional over-the-counter sleeping pill.
offers a wide variety of simple, non-chemical techniques for dealing with the symptoms of stress. In its pages you’ll find remedies for everything from tension headaches to insomnia, from the vague feelings of discomfort we all experience at one time or another to very specific issues such as trying to quit smoking or changing your relationship to what and how much you eat.
Because bringing our lives into a more harmonious balance between work and play, stress and relaxation, responsibilities and freedoms isn’t just about finding ways to combat stress— it’s also about discovering and nourishing the inner wisdom of torture it: “The body is your enemy and you have to get free from the body, its attachments.”
I also know that you are more than the body and there is no need to have any attachment to it. But love is not an attachment; compassion is not an attachment. Love and compassion are absolutely needed for your body and its nourishment. And the better your body, the better the possibility for growing consciousness. It is an organic unity.
A totally new kind of education is needed in the world, where fundamentally everybody is introduced into the silences of the heart—in other words, meditations—and everybody has to be prepared to be compassionate to his or her own body. Because unless you are compassionate to your own body, you cannot be compassionate to any other body. It is a living organism, and it has done no harm to you. It has been continuously in service since you were conceived, and will be in your service till your death. It will do everything that you would like it to do, even the impossible, and it will not be disobedient to you.
It is inconceivable to create such a mechanism that is so obedient and so wise. If you become aware of all the functions of your body, you will be surprised. You have never thought about what your body has been doing. It is so miraculous, so mysterious. But you have never looked into it. You have never bothered to become acquainted with your own body—and you pretend to love other people? You cannot, because those other people also appear to you as bodies.
The body is the greatest mystery in the whole of existence. This mystery needs to be loved—its mysteries and its functioning need to be intimately inquired into.
The religions have unfortunately been absolutely against the body. But this antagonism is a clue, a definite indication that if a man learns the wisdom of the body and the mystery of the body, he will never bother about the priest or about God. He will have found the most mysterious within himself, and within the mystery of the body is the very shrine of your consciousness.
Once you have become aware of your consciousness, of your being, there is no God above you. Only such a person can be respectful toward other human beings, other living beings, because they all are as mysterious as he himself is—but different expressions, varieties, all of which make life richer. And once a man has found consciousness in himself, he has found the key to the ultimate. Any education that does not teach you to love your body, does not teach you to be compassionate to your body, does not teach you how to enter into its mysteries, will not be able to teach you how to enter into your own consciousness.
The body is the door—the body is the stepping-stone.
<…> And that is the definition of a really happy man: a really happy man is one who does not know anything about happiness, who has never heard about it, who is so happy, so unconditionally happy, that how can he know that he is happy? Only unhappy people say, “I am happy, things are going great.” These are unhappy people. A happy person knows nothing about happiness. It is simply there, it is always there. It is like breathing.
Happiness is herenow, it needs no condition. Happiness is natural. Just see the point of it. Don’t make any conditions on your happiness. Remain happy for no reason at all. There is no reason to find some cause to be happy. Just be happy.
Trees are happy and they will not get any beer in the evening and any cigarettes, and they are perfectly happy. Look!…And the wind blowing is happy, and the sun is happy, and the sands are happy and the seas are happy, and everything is happy except man – because nobody is making any conditions. Just be happy.
If you cannot be happy, then don’t make such impossible conditions – that it is difficult. Then Mulla is right – such a small thing. I understand. He is far more intelligent than you understand him to be. Such a simple device – wearing one size smaller shoes – such a small device, nobody can prevent you from it, and by the evening you are happy. Just small devices, create small devices, and be as happy as you want.
But you say, “I will be happy only when this great house is mine.” Now you are making a big condition. It may take years, and you will be tired and exhausted, and by the time you reach to the palace of your desires you may be close to death. That’s what happens. And you wasted your whole life and your great house will become your grave. You say, “Unless I have a million dollars, I am not going to be happy.” And then you have to work and waste your whole life. Mulla Nasruddin is far more intelligent: make small conditions and have as much happiness as you want.
If you understand, then there is no need to put any conditions. Just see the point of it – that conditions don’tcreate happiness, they only give relief. But the relief cannot be permanent, no relief can ever be permanent. It lasts only for a few moments. Have you not watched it again and again? You wanted to purchase a car; the car is in your porch and you are standing there, very very happy. How long does it last? Tomorrow it is this old car, one day old. Two days after it is two days old, and all the neighborhood has seen it and they all have appreciated it, and finished! Now nobody talks about it. That’s why car companies have to go on putting out new models every year, so that you can have new conditions. <…>
The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual. Each volume contains timeless and always-contemporary investigations and discussions into questions vital to our personal search for meaning and purpose, focusing on questions specific to our inner life and quality of existence.
The first title in this dynamic and exciting new series, Destiny, Freedom, and the Soul: What Is the Meaning of Life? explores deeply human questions, such as: Is there really such a thing as “soul,” and if so, what is it? Where does the concept of karma fit in? Does my life have a special meaning or purpose?
Destiny, Freedom, and the Soul includes an original talk by Osho on DVD. This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.
“I want you to be rich in every possible way – material, psychological, spiritual. I want you to live the richest life that has ever been lived on the earth.” – Osho
Fame, Fortune, and Ambition examines the symptoms and psychology of preoccupations with money and celebrity. Where does greed come from? Do values like competitiveness and ambition have a place in bringing innovation and positive change? Why do celebrities and the wealthy seem to have so much influence in the world? Is it true that money can’t buy happiness?
These questions are tackled with a perspective that is thought-provoking, surprising–and particularly relevant to our troubled economic times.
Hence I say, the moment you drop God you are moving in the right direction of becoming godly. You will be divine in your ecstasies, in your silent spaces of the being. You will be divine. But you will be divine because you will be participating in the divine existence. Everything is sacred to the man who has come to know himself, who has discovered his hidden secret of life. Everything becomes sacred. <…> Osho. I celebrate myself: God is no where–life is now here
<…> God has to be forgotten.
If you remember God you will go to the church and to the temple and to the mosque and you will do all kinds of stupid things which have been done down the centuries. If you remember godliness then it is not a question of going to Kaaba or Kashi; then it is a question of living it. Then live in a way which is godly. Live in harmony, live beautifully, live aesthetically, live sensitively, live lovingly. Let your life be a tremendous love affair. Osho. The Way of the Buddha – This Is the Path to the Ultimate Truth
<…> Life is tremendously beautiful. It is divine. When we say life is godly we are simply saying that life is so tremendously beautiful that one feels a reverence for it, that’s all.
Life is so tremendously beautiful that one feels like worshipping it. That’s all we mean when we say life is godly. When we say life is godly we only mean, “Don’t see life as ordinary; it is extraordinary. There is tremendous potentiality, just open your eyes.”
I have never seen a person who is not interested in godliness – although he may not know it – because I have never seen a person who is not interested in happiness. If you are interested in happiness you are interested in godliness, if you are interested in being blissful you are interested in godliness. <…> Osho. Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen, Mind Suddenly Stops
<…> Existence is God called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayerfulness, existence becomes godly.
The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes godly. It is a transfiguration of the same energy.
Because it is the most difficult thing – almost impossible for the mind to do. First comes trust and then arises God. You create God through your trust. Here you open the eyes of trust and suddenly life takes a change, is transformed – it becomes godly, it becomes divine. <…> Osho. Nirvana The Last Nightmare
<…> A buddha does not come from above, he comes from below and he rises upwards. You see the difference: he becomes godly as he goes on upwards.
And all the Christian or Jewish or Mohammedan prophets and messiahs come from up to down.
Buddha is an evolution. It is an intrinsic potentiality that starts going upwards like a tree, and when the spring comes it blossoms. They have never thought that man becomes godly; they have always thought only God can come down. Hindus believe in incarnation – God comes as Krishna, God comes as Rama <…> Osho. I celebrate myself: God is no where–life is now here
<…> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
… Meditation is not addressed to anyone; it is a pure inquiry, an exploration of your ultimate depth and of your ultimate height. The moment you know your ultimate height and your ultimate depth, you know the very secret of existence. That secret is not a person, that secret is enlightenment. That secret makes you a buddha, a godly man. …
When Christ declares “I am God,” he’s simply saying to you, “You are godly. Look! I have the courage to declare. You also participate. See the point. I am as much of the flesh as you are, I am as much the body as you are.
There is nothing special about Christ; the only special thing is his courage, otherwise he is just like you. I am just like you; the only thing is that I respect myself and you don’t respect yourself, I love myself and you don’t love yourself.
There are not stations between you and godliness. The moment you are concentrated in your courage, suddenly the gestalt changes – godliness is revealed in millions of forms. And the moment you become godly, the whole existence becomes godly. If somebody says “I am godly and you are not godly,” then he is a cheat, he is a charlatan, he is playing a game, he is on an ego-trip. <…> Osho. Wisdom of the Sands: v. 1
<…> If I say I am God, it becomes an offense. I am simply saying that you can also become godly, never settle for less.
But you feel offended. And you are living only two percent of your possibilities; ninety-eight percent of your possibilities are being wasted. As if you were given a hundred days to live and you lived only two days and died. Even your great thinkers, painters, musicians, geniuses, they live only fifteen percent of their potentiality.
If you can blaze to your utmost, you become godly.
When your prana flowers you are godly. Right now your prana is just crawling on the earth – not even standing and walking. <…> Osho. Secrets of Yoga
<…> Food is godly
is the experience of that state when senses have surrendered to the soul within. Then you will see godliness even in bread; then bread will be only the outer shell and godliness will be the reality within it. Then bread will enter your body and later leave it, but the godliness will remain within. Then all your senses will be experiencing brahman in the world. <…> Osho.Nowhere to Go But In: Unique Answers to Real Questions
<…> In meditation you enter as if you are a self, but the deeper you go, the self starts withering away.
When you finally reach your center, you are no more. The question of being a god does not arise. You are certainly godly, because the whole of existence is godly, but it is not a power trip because a power trip needs others to be lower than you are and for you to be higher. <…> Osho. God is Dead: Now Zen is the Only Living Truth
<…> Now, to make this sentence –“most godless and yet the most godly”.
And that is my whole problem. I want the world to be free from God but not free from godliness. I want the world to be free from religions but not from religiousness. And religiousness is a totally different phenomenon than being Hindu or Christian or Mohammedan. <…> Osho. The Last Testament, Vol. 3
<…> Obviously, when you have become absolutely blissful, that blissfulness is divine, it is godly.
There is nothing more godly than blissfulness because out of that blissfulness many flowers blossom: love, freedom, deathlessness. It becomes the source of all the values, of all that is good. It is the summum bonum, the ultimate good. <…> Osho. Zen: Zest, Zip, Zap and Zing (Sterling Library of Osho Vision)
