Osho Quotes and Sayings

• It takes a little time to attain to pure watchfulness. And the moment you are a pure watcher, you will be surprised that the mind has disappeared. There is a proportion: if you are only one percent a watcher, then ninety-nine percent is mind. If you are ten percent a watcher, then ninety percent is mind. If you are ninety percent a watcher, then only ten percent of the mind is left.
   
• If you are one hundred percent a watcher, then there is no mind -- no sadness, no anger, no jealousy -- just a clarity, a silence, a benediction.
   
• I simply take you beyond the mind. That is the whole method of meditation. Once you yourself know that, "I am not the mind, not the brain, not the body," you start dropping all conditionings which are unnecessary hindrances in your growth, an unnecessary burden to carry.
   
• My sannyasins don't have any discipline, no law to follow anything. Just they have to be witnesses and then they are free. Their witnessing will decide what is right and what is wrong.
   
• The watcher goes on watching every up and down in life. Now there is no need to get identified. When you are down you need not be sad, because the watcher is only a watcher. When you are up you need not become egoistic; you are just the watcher. Slowly, slowly all turmoil around you starts settling. Your identification with things which you are not is the problem. Your disidentification is meditation. Disidentify with everything until only the pure watcher remains. Remain settled into the watcher, whatever you are doing, wherever you are going.
   
• Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.
   
• I want individuals to be absolutely free, responsible, alert, aware, neither allowing anybody to dictate to them; nor allowing themselves to dictate to anybody.
   
• You will have to take all the responsibility for what you are doing. And you will have to grow in your consciousness and awareness so that only the right flows through your actions, so that whatever you do beautifies the commune, helps people.
   
• Zen is not a teaching but it is an education. It draws out whatever you have in your innermost core -- the joy, the bliss, all the flowers that are possible; compassion and love, all the songs that are hidden in you, all the dances, all creativity. You are part of a creative universe; you must have some part to play in the whole creativity that is going on everywhere.