Individual Talks
These 3000 Individual Talks were originally spoken as Series of Talks, published as chapters of books.
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A Gathering of Independent Individuals
Talk #2 from the series Joshu: The Lion's Roar"Maneesha, Joshu is a very rare case. Joshu had become a priest when he was still a child and experienced his first satori when he was seventeen. He said of this experience: 'Suddenly, I was..." Learn More -
All Going Is Going Astray
Talk #10 from the series The First PrincipleOsho,
There are moments when I feel no hope, without feeling desperate, when there is recognition that the 'I' has fought enough and cannot help anymore. Yet under these momentary covers lingers the one and only longing: to become my real nature, to experience truth and to live it in the world. My mind pleases itself to call this longing an authentic, genuine thirst. However, the suspicion is there that it is just a way to hide my plain greed. Learn More -
Be Total Like a Child and Remain a Learner
Talk #3 from the series The Vol. 1 Wisdom of the SandsOsho,
One day you emphasize being mature, another day you say, 'Be like a child.' If I adopt a mature attitude, I feel my child is repressed and starved for expression. If I let my child dance, sing, then also childish attitudes come up, like clinging to a love-object. What should I do? Learn More -
Belief Systems Repress Inquiry into Truth
Talk #34 from the series The Path of the MysticAlso Available As: eBook"The most important need of humanity today is to be made aware that its past has betrayed it; that there is no point in continuing the past, it will be suicidal; that a new humanity..." Learn More -
Beyond Sex
Talk #10 from the series Vol. 1 Sufis: The People of the PathOsho,
Surely meditation is for mystics. Why do you propose it for ordinary people and their children?
"First, I have never come across an ordinary person; they do not exist. They are only..." Learn More -
Invest Every Breath for the Ultimate Purpose
Talk #4 from the series No-Mind: The Flowers of Eternity"Maneesha, this time has been of historical importance.
"For seven weeks I was fighting with the poison day and night. One night, even my physician, Amrito, became suspicious that perhaps I cannot survive. He was..." Learn More -
Know Truth in Its Totality
Talk #21 from the series From Personality to IndividualityAlso Available As: eBook"They are pygmies. It is not a question that they seem like pygmies, they are in fact so – for the simple reason that religion is now having its birth.
"The so-called masters of the..." Learn More -
Learn from This Experience
Talk #3 from the series From Bondage to FreedomAlso Available As: eBook"It is one of the most significant questions about life. The roseflower is beautiful, full of fragrance. The rock is almost just the opposite, but the rock can kill the roseflower very easily.
"So one..." Learn More -
Let-Go into Your Own Being
Are You Willing To Be Made Nothing?Talk #17 from the series The Secret"Religion is as simple as the fish swimming in the ocean, but man has become very complicated. It is because of man's complexity that religion looks arduous. Religion cannot be arduous because it is our..." Learn More -
Life and Death Are Part of the Same Circle
Talk #6 from the series Vol. 2 Zen: The Path of ParadoxOsho,
I am fifty, but I don't yet feel really mature and fully grown up. What is the matter with me?
"Maybe you have not yet killed anybody. That's a must. If you..." Learn More
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