Osho Insights on Mind

Osho on Unending Chattering of Mind

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[Osho gives a sannyasin an ’energy darshan’, after which the sannyasin said he had been feeling increasingly frustrated by the unending chatter of his mind.] Osho – No, it is going well. It just takes time. We have cultivated the habit of continuously chattering for so long that it has become autonomous. Even when you [...]

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Osho – Mind is always mediocre. Mind is never bright, never brilliant

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Osho – Mind is always mediocre. Mind is never bright, never brilliant. By its very nature it cannot be so. Mind is a dust-collector. Mind means the past. It is always dead; it is nothing but an accumulation of memories. And how can dust be brilliant? How can the past be intelligent? It is dead. [...]

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Osho Insight on Mind – Mind lives in discontentment

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Osho – Mind lives in discontentment. That is its food. To be discontented is its nourishment. If you become contented mind dies out of starvation… and the mind has to die, only then you can know who you are. So learn the ways of being contented. Whatsoever is, feel grateful for it. Don’t ask for [...]

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Osho – The mind has to cease, completely cease for the truth to be

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Osho – Knowledge that is borrowed from others is untrue, knowledge that is gathered from scriptures is untrue. It may have come from a very original source, from a Jesus, from a A Lao Tzu, from a Zarathustra — it does not matter, because truth is untransferable. There is no way to express it. So [...]

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Osho – If you go beyond the mind you are really born

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Osho – Adventurousness is one of the most essential qualities for those who want to live life in its totality. And to live one’s life in totality is to be religious, to live it whole is to be holy. Life is a great adventure, but people are so afraid that they cling to the familiar, [...]

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