Absolutely free to be funny
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I Love to Disturb People. In a series of excerpts from an interview with Jeff McMullen of Australia's "60
Minutes" Osho offers a series of one-liners about Gandhi, Hitler, the Pope and Mother Teresa -- and goes
on from there to talk about his reputation for being controversial, contradictory, and, in the words of the
interviewer, "one of the funniest people I've ever
met."
Selling bliss
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--FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY-- Perhaps a Christian conditioning makes people think
that anything 'spiritual' should be free. Osho's insight is that the mind gives scant value to anything
that is free. Nothing around Osho was free. He reminded us again and again of the importance to remember that
freedom comes only from responsibility and one such responsibility is that of paying.
Osho has responded to many questions in this regards. Some text excerpts here, another excerpt is available
as video from a press interview.
"You are ready to go to the movie and pay for it; why should you not pay for your meditation and the lecture
if you want to hear it?"
Emotional wellness
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Emotions that we don't know how to handle effectively lie at the core of so many difficulties in the life of
the individual. They play a profound role in how we feel about ourselves, and can even affect our physical
health. Expressing our emotions can often hurt others, but by repressing them -- even in the benevolent guise
of "self-control" -- we risk hurting ourselves. Osho
offers a third alternative, which is to understand the roots of our emotions and to develop the knack of
watching them and learning from them. Osho's unique insights into emotions, the workings of the mind, and
the "being" of the individual go far beyond the
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OSHO: Behave As if You Are the First Here
My whole vision is of a human being, totally alive,
intensely alive, enjoying everything that life makes available, and enjoying it with grace, with gratitude
towards existence.And that's what loving yourself means. It means that
you have thrown all the garbage of religious rejection,
repression. You have dropped all the ideals that they have given to you; you are now standing on your own as
if you are Adam and Eve. No priest has been there before, no religion has been there before; you are
uncorrupted, unspoiled, clean.
Start like Adam and Eve -- just think of the idea!
Why bother about the past? Forget about it. You are the first man......
I am a threat - certainly
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OSHO: I am a Threat, Certainly
Excerpt from Interview with Howard Sattler, 6PR Radio, Australia. "...If you don't understand what I am saying, I am a
threat, certainly. But if they understand what I am saying, they will rejoice, there is no threat. In fact,
I want to make these people contemporaries. They are not. Somebody is hanging two thousand years back with
Jesus Christ, somebody is hanging even farther back
with Moses or Buddha. These people certainly will feel me a threat because I belong to the present.....
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