Osho's Readings III

Substitutes never help; they only create perversions, obsessions.

a man who really loves will sometimes be really angry. But his anger is beautiful-- it is out of love.

do you think it is a question of doing something as much as you can? it is not a question of doing. it is a phenomenon of the heart. it is a kind of transcendence of the mind and the body. it is not prose, it is poetry.

love is not something you do, love is something that you are. love is never a should, it cannot be commanded.

start behaving responsibly and then, you are not a machine. watch, become alert, observe, and go on dropping all the reactive patterns in you. each moment try to respond to the reality, as it is outside. Respond with your total consciousness but not with your mind.

and then when you respond spontaneously and you don't react, action is born. action is beautiful, reaction is ugly. only a man of awareness acts, the man of unawareness reacts. action liberates. reaction goes on creating the same chains, goes on making them thicker and harder and stronger.

Live a life of response, and not of reaction!

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Excerpts from the Osho's " The Book of MAN "


i love this book!

Chapter 2 "The Victim" by OSHO

These are the renderings from the Osho's book "The Book of Man".

you are obsessed with the future ideal and you have forgotten the present reality.

your language has become that of shoulds and oughts, and the reality consists only of is. reality knows no should, no ought.

pain means division, and bliss means no division.

joy is not a goal, it is a by-product.

it is the interpretation, not the fact that gives you pain or happiness. the fact is always liberating.

expression is life; repression is suicide.

live a life of expression, creativity, joy. live the way existence wanted you to live, live the natural way.

a person who is never angry will not be able to love either. they go together, they come in the same package.

be expressive intelligently, and no harm will happen to anybody from you.

once, all obstacles are removed, all the rubbish heaped on you is removed, the conditioning is removed, once, you are your natural self; God starts coming alive in you, the spring of your life starts flowing, the innocence is regained.

innocence regained is paradise regained; you enter again into the garden of eden, the paradise.

Preachings of Osho ...

I am currently reading the book, The Book of Man, by Osho, which impressed my mind greatly either for or against! Some of his views, I seem to agree upon, while others have make the rats in my brain angry at what i've given them!

Anyways, here are selected paraphrases, which I loved absolutely!

Every child has to be thrown out of god's garden <>; it is part of growth.

A man who cannot love himself cannot love another.

unless roots grow deeper, tree doesn't rise higher.

but why should one sacrifice oneself in any name of religion or country?

i want you to come back home. respect yourself. feel the joy and pride that existence needs you; otherwise, you would not have been there. a life with tremendous treasures hidden within you-- of beauty, of ecstasy, of freedom.


i cannot agree with him more fully!

sOMETIMES.. u dONT..

The road is endless…the way unpredictable..Where I am going..no one knows.. not even meIts weird isn’t it..when u c d dyin ppl praying for one more last momentWhile u stare at dem nd for ur own death plea..Its weird wen u don’t need to feel to show ur emotions..U don’t need to be happy to smileU don’t need to b sad to cryU don’t need to be angry to shout..U just gotta feel nthn U don’t need to c d ocean to feel the wavesU don’t need to die to feel death to feel nthningnessU don’t need to feel cold to shiverU don’t needto feel weak to fall to run awayU don’t need to feel strong to go onU don’t need to live to loveU don’t need to love to liveU don’t need to smile to b happy U don’t need to cry to b sadSometimes ..just sometimes..all u need it time to still..Thots to slow..nd life to stop nd u urself to ponder over stuff..Sometimes u don’t noe where ur goin or where ur endin up atSometimes u don’t noe if ur livin or ur deadSometimes u just don’t wanna live ny longer for no reasonSometimes u cant get over stuff bcoz it means getting over urselfSometimes u suffer bcoz u didn’t make a mistakeSometimes u suffer bcoz u were justtoo trueSometimes u just don’t noe how to come outta that blue..Sometimes u hate bcoz u loveSometimes u love bcoz u hate..............................................................

Vedic: Gayatri Mantra

"Om bhur bhuvah svah
tat savitur vareniyam
bhargo devasya dhimahi
dhiyo yo nah prachodayat I"


Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life,
Remover of pain and sorrow,
The Bestower of happiness,
Worthy of Worship;
Who is the embodiment of Knowledge and Light;
remover of all Sin and Ignorance;
Oh! Creator of the Universe,
May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light,
May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.