Osho quotes...

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.


Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.


This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.


Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind.


Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.


Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.


Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy.


You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.


Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.



Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.



You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.



You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.


The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.


Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.