OSHO’S BUNCH OF THOUGHTS

           OSHO’S BUNCH OF THOUGHTS

Osho was an Indian mystic and philosopher.  He was born on 11 December 1931 and died on 19 January 1990. His real name was Rajneesh. Because of his spiritual qualities which he expressed in his numberless public discourses ,he came to be known as Bhagwan Rajneesh and ultimately just Osho.

Initially, he started his career as a college professor. He was a vastly learned man but his thoughts were amazingly original. He believed in the personal freedom of every person.

 Introducing himself, he says  in a lecture, “I am just an ordinary man, just like everybody else. If there is any difference, it is only of quality. It is only of knowing. I know myself, you don’t know.”

“As far as our beings are concerned, I belong to the same existence, you breathe the same air. You just have not tried to know yourself. The moment you know yourself, there is no difference at all. It is just like I am standing and looking at the sunrise and you are standing by my side with closed eyes…..You just have to be shaken and told, “Just open your eyes. It is morning, the night is over.”

Here is a small bunch of Osho’s thoughts for your enlightenment. (1.) When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation. (2). Just count how many thoughts are your own. All are from other sources, all are borrowed. (3).Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life. (4).The mind is the root of all the questions that arise in you. The mind cannot rest at ease with things as they are. It is the nature of mind. (5). There is something of immense importance about truth: Unless you find it, it never becomes truth to you. If it is somebody else’s truth and you know it, in that very borrowing, it is no longer true ----it has become a lie.”

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G.R.Kanwal

14 July 2024