Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast - Discourses Series by Osho

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"Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast" is a captivating discourse series wherein Osho invites seekers to explore the potent capacity of belief and the open-minded pursuit of truth. Central to these teachings is the dismantling of conventional mindsets, encouraging individuals to transcend rigid belief systems that stifle spiritual growth. Osho provocatively examines the notion of impossibility, suggesting that what is deemed impossible is merely a limitation imposed by the mind. Emphasizing freedom from societal and mental constraints, he inspires a journey beyond the familiar, urging the embrace of paradox and the unknown. In this series, Osho elucidates that true spirituality is not bound by logic alone but by a profound trust in the infinite possibilities of life. He shifts the focus from intellectual understanding to experiential learning, fostering an inner trust that can lead to genuine transformation. Through compelling anecdotes, humor, and profound insight, Osho challenges the listener to awaken from habitual thinking, inviting them to a space where the extraordinary becomes accessible. His unique perspective beckons individuals toward a life of spontaneity and presence, where the miraculous can be encountered before even the first morning meal.

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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #1 1 February 1978
Let go and receive Tao: abandon oughts, taste surrender; love as the starry Milky Way—unmotivated, luminous, weightless; die to the ego to taste immortality.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #2 2 February 1978
Return to the blissful source: choose love over fear; accept trembling and danger, meditate to relive womb-satori, and channel energy into creativity.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #3 3 February 1978
Choose motherhood only after inner growth; don't bring a child into a crowded, pathological world. Accept death, allow energy, vulnerability, and love.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #4 4 February 1978
Dissolve the small 'I' into the cosmic Mind to find bliss through surrender; live as an offering to the eternal thread. For night fear: exhale from the navel.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #5 5 February 1978
Shift from sun to moon: let intuition and surrender master reason; cathartic practice dissolves a critical personality and fear must be accepted to grow.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #6 6 February 1978
True silence arises when the mind stops interpreting—accept noise and ego rather than fighting them; then inner samadhi reflects reality without distortion.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #7 7 February 1978
Bliss is poetic innocence, not calculative intellect; choose the risky new over comforting old, embrace the fear of growth to find authentic life.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #8 8 February 1978
Awaken by facing life's pain: bodhi shatters illusions; become receptive, slow down, and cultivate cool moon-bliss and mature love as wisdom.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #9 9 February 1978
Neither Pakistani nor English — drop national identities and claim whole earth; find joy in the creative process itself and make love impersonal to avoid suffering.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #10 10 February 1978
Bliss arises from inner awareness; misery from unawareness—take total responsibility for your reactions, move from the periphery to the center through no-thought.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #11 11 February 1978
Begin meditating: lose yourself in dance, forgetfulness is meditation; surrender peels the ego like an onion so a divine thunderbolt can strike and bring rebirth.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #12 12 February 1978
Eternity is no-time accessed in the present; bliss requires courage; silence and Vipassana transform love and reveal God only as an unanswerable experience.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #13 13 February 1978
God is the ultimate intoxicant; meditation gives eternal drunkenness, not Soma or drugs. Transmute sexual energy: stop masturbating, offer yourself in love.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #14 14 February 1978
Accept the neutral zero point (upeksha) as fertile silence that births insight; let love dissolve the ego so life becomes creative — will you welcome neutrality?
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #15 15 February 1978
Encounter's painful surgery exposes hidden ugliness so you can heal; seek the inner thread of bliss that connects lives and unite with existence.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #16 16 February 1978
Drop fear and open to bliss by saying wholehearted yes; serve others with love and humility, not domination, and trust life to provide—can service be humble?
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #17 17 February 1978
Embrace all dimensions of joy - physical, psychological, spiritual; use tears as prayer, keep love and work separate, and let heart-energy transform your life.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #18 18 February 1978
Abandon time-consciousness - timelessness (akal) is meditation's peak; embrace sannyas and love's wisdom to transcend ego, jealousy, and mere techniques.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #19 19 February 1978
Make celebration your religion: choose joy over duty, let body, mind and soul dance; surrender in sannyas to dissolve fear, transform loss into opportunity.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #20 20 February 1978
Orange symbolizes the synthesis of life, death and love; Osho advises experiential freedom for stalled marital desire and nightly 'dying' meditation.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #21 21 February 1978
Love is the master key to God and bliss—ineffable and soundless; endure cleansing pain, practice meditation, live beyond history, and share without imposing.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #22 22 February 1978
Awareness dissolves tension; being, not becoming, reveals the unbounded present—drop boundaries, relax, and the natural way arises without forcing it.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #23 23 February 1978
Renounce inner talk, listen to silence to realize bliss; be heart-centered and drunk with God so the ego dissolves. Courageously drop hiding and be natural.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #24 24 February 1978
Free yourself from obsessive attachment and comparisons; embrace human variety, unlearn prejudices, and accept natural homosexuality without forcing change.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #25 25 February 1978
Remember God by waking inwardly; live poetically, embrace loving silence, accept symbolic name-change, and drop all searching to attain the fourth state.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #26 26 February 1978
God dwells in your inner mountains; balanced love (sammo) becomes prayer. Don't control - let the primal sound and rising bliss take you. I'll be with you.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #27 27 February 1978
Open your eyes to inner light; embrace all colors of life, transform denied energies into creativity and love, and commit courageously to growth.
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Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast #28 28 February 1978
Love is the true path: see life poetically, trust and celebrate to lose the self and awaken insight; celebration and love reveal ultimate reality.

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