Individual Talks
These 3000 Individual Talks were originally spoken as Series of Talks, published as chapters of books.
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A Single Moment’s Decision Is Enough
Talk #12 from the series The Great Zen Master Ta Hui"One of the most fundamental problems that has to be faced by everyone on the path to enlightenment is that when you become enlightened, all that you have passed through looks illusory. It is just..." Learn More -
Becoming Aware of Your Existence
Talk #59 from the series The Book of Secrets"Man is Janus-faced – animal and divine both. Animal belongs to his past, divine belongs to his future, and this creates the difficulty. The past has passed, it is no more; just a shadow of..." Learn More -
Christianity Is Basically Masochistic
Talk #7 from the series the Antidote to All Poisons and Zen the Deadliest Poison ChristianityAlso Available As: eBook"Friends,
"One of the would-be sannyasins, Graeme McIntyre, has left his body in deep meditation in this Gautama the Buddha Auditorium, amongst other meditators, in deep peace and silence. He had expressed his desire to..." Learn More -
Discover Yourself, Whatever the Cost
Talk #30 from the series The Great Zen Master Ta Hui"The problem with every awakened soul has always been the same: before awakening it is the very fact of awakening that is his problem. After awakening, it is again the awakening that comes as a..." Learn More -
Entering Darkness
Talk #51 from the series The Book of Secrets"Once a doctor, a very well known historian and an eminent scholar, was staying in a village. The postmaster, the old postmaster of the village, became curious about this old man, this doctor. He was..." Learn More -
Everything Is Beautiful in Its Ordinariness
Enlightenment – the most ordinaryTalk #66 from the series The Book of SecretsOsho,
Last night you said that when there are no thoughts in the mind, the mind becomes an empty space and the doors to all the mysteries are opened. I feel this inner space deeply and clearly but there is nothing special that I feel as mystery.
Will you explain what you mean by the mystery and how is it felt? Learn More -
Everything Needed for Enlightenment
In your handsTalk #58 from the series The Book of SecretsOsho, techniques are shortcuts, revolutions, but are not these against Tao, swabhav, the nature?
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Friendliness Rises Higher than Love
Talk #30 from the series Reflections on Khalil Gibran's The Prophet"The very word 'friendship' is not of the heights -- the word 'friendliness' rises to the moon, to the sun -- because the word 'friendship' is just of the mind. It is confining -- you can be in friendship with only a few people. But friendliness is vast; you can be friendly to the trees, to the mountains, to the stars." Learn More -
If Your Inner Eye Is Open
Talk #3 from the series Kyozan: A True Man of ZenAlso Available As: eBook"Maneesha, the understanding of Zen is not an ordinary understanding, for the simple reason that Zen does not care about language, does not care about common communications. It has evolved in its own way, a..." Learn More -
Life and Death Are Continuously Meeting
Talk #11 from the series The Invitation"The coming and going are happening simultaneously. Each moment you are dying, and each moment you are resurrecting. Each moment goes on becoming past, and past is nothing but another name of the dead. Each..." Learn More
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