From Death to Deathlessness

The man of compassion has to lie 2 August 1985

Compassion may require lying to wake the sleeping: truth is inexpressible. Anecdotes of a father's lie and Buddha's compassion show transformation not deceit.

Abandon hope all those who enter here 3 August 1985

Abandon hope and live herenow: existence is tasted, not thought; meditation-not philosophy or God-reveals being; beware psychologists as new priests.

Belief is a barrier, trust is a bridge 4 August 1985

Trust is a heart-born bridge beyond belief's mental barrier: unconditional trust frees love, tolerates contradictions, and prevents teachings from becoming dogma.

The taste of peace 5 August 1985

Discover inner peace by witnessing the mind; it's alive and endlessly exciting, not flat. Meditative humanity alone can prevent war and nuclear annihilation.

If you really love me, then wake up 6 August 1985

Love brings the fear of ego's death; to truly love one must wake up, drop the old self, and allow resurrection into deeper communion with the master.

Wait and you shall find 7 August 1985

Simplicity and trust dissolve the ego: stop seeking, wait with childlike innocence, and being—rather than becoming—reveals truth and freedom.

Doing is going to be your undoing 8 August 1985

A true master descends from the pedestal to be a friend, healing the disciple's split; witness fear, practice non-doing, and free love frees energy.

No society rewards lovers 9 August 1985

Learn to love yourself first: self-love is the root of responsibility and true giving; society suppresses it to control you, so be selfish to become free.

My empire consists only of Emperors 10 August 1985

Freedom must be inner and independent: true disciples trust without seeking approval; love that demands is dependence and breeds resentment. Ultimately.

Become more and more sensuous 11 August 1985

Drop religious renunciations, reclaim the body and senses: embrace warmth, hugging and sensuous playfulness so love becomes the lived God and joyful life.

I am not your father 12 August 1985

Drop hypocrisy and the fantasy of replacing parents with a master; resentment is a rootless parasite—let your false personality die to discover your true self.

The song of the tide 13 August 1985

Contradictions dismantle the mind so heart opens; 'I don't know' precedes feeling and being, freeing you from worldly illusion. And dance opens you to source.

Put Mother Theresa in jail 14 August 1985

Religious consolations keep people poor; true revolution means rejecting God's lies and poverty's sanctification, awakening to responsibility and inner witnessing.

Get out of this sheepskin 15 August 1985

America's spiritual poverty stems from roots, conditioning, and priestly power; drop the sheepskin of belief, be natural, playful and discover inner truth.

We are the only alternative 16 August 1985

Osho compares Hitler and Gandhi to expose hypocrisy and repression, urging inner transformation: create life-affirming, non-ambitious new humans to avert death.

This moment: The golden key 21 August 1985

Answering the President, he says India worships the dead and misses the present; the atomic here-and-now is the golden key to transformation and meditation.

Becoming is going away from being 22 August 1985

Wanting enlightenment blocks it: becoming pulls you away from being. Joy, desirelessness and the master's prompting return you to innate enlightenment.

Man's monkey mind 23 August 1985

Refusing to address an 'audience' - there is no separation - Osho rejects titles and sex repression, urges orgasmic freedom and doubt to still the monkey-mind.

Belief is a dirty word 24 August 1985

Belief blocks inquiry; if people abandon old religions, science and wisdom would explode—religions and politics obstruct a worldly paradise, as Galileo showed.

There is a bigger universe within you 25 August 1985

Science and religion become one when scientific doubt turns inward: explore the larger inner universe through meditation and self-knowledge replacing belief.

Science has to be religious 26 August 1985

Can science itself be religious? Osho: science must adopt humility and doubt, embrace meditation to overthrow priestly exploitation and serve life.

Tomorrow is in the womb of today 27 August 1985

Reject sacrifice for distant ideals; live the present fully—tomorrow is born from today's richness. Don't give life away for nation, God, or future generations.

You are born as freedom 28 August 1985

No external goal exists — life is its own goal. Live each moment with thoughtless awareness; consciousness turns death from an end into the climax of life.

Blessed are those who doubt 29 August 1985

Doubt is sacred openness—neither yes nor no; it keeps inquiry alive, leads beyond belief/disbelief to direct knowing, and awakens the witnessing self.

Cut the roots of guilt 30 August 1985

Religions split the person, sowing guilt and fear of death; integrating Zorba (life) and Buddha (meditation) dissolves guilt and frees the psyche.

Your aloneness cannot be destroyed 31 August 1985

Facing AIDS reveals death’s immediacy as a wake-up call to inner meditation and celebration; shed religion-made guilt, embrace authentic love and aloneness.

Anonymous graves 1 September 1985

Be a witness: choiceless awareness dissolves desire and brings spontaneous responsibility; imposed choices and religious dogma breed hypocrisy and war.

Education is amoral 2 September 1985

Education must be value‑free: cultivate doubt, freedom and meditation, not imposed religious morals—responding to Reagan's call to teach 'values'.

Judgement Day - a very stupid idea 3 September 1985

Heaven and hell are inner states, God and Judgment Day are fictions created to control fear and greed; live an undivided, authentic life to find paradise.

A sunrise that never sets 4 September 1985

What is the dark night of the soul? It is unconsciousness; witness thought, feeling and being to dissolve ego and separation and enter sunrise that never sets.

The art of being human 5 September 1985

Human cruelty stems from religious repression, exploitation and crowding; meditation and communes awaken love, dissolve violence and reclaim human dignity.

Silence is the highest music 6 September 1985

Awareness, not moralizing, reveals the roots of violence and abuse; silence and inner sensitivity heal suffering and transform love, sex, and society.

This nonsense of nations 7 September 1985

Celebrate being a misfit: preserve individuality, refuse compromise, dissolve family into communes to free children and create a new, aware humanity

The power of nothingness 8 September 1985

Liberating education dissolves sectarian universities, modernizes teaching, mandates meditation and English; true discovery is finding nothingness within.

Too much doing 9 September 1985

India's political crisis stems from colonial bureaucracy and career politicians; replace them with non-political experts, decisive reforms and technology.

Rise in Love 10 September 1985

Rising love, not falling, is conscious, freeing and mature; cultivate love from awareness, and when it ends, part gratefully and help each other rise.

The eternal light at your center 11 September 1985

Nature uses human intelligence to improve itself: research done with love (artificial organs, blood for AIDS) serves life and awakens the inner, eternal light within.

Enjoy this orgasmic moment 12 September 1985

Make love as sacred meditation: orgasmic timelessness is the doorway beyond blind biology to conceive unconditioned, free children and true seekers.

The journey from despair 13 September 1985

Honeymoon wasn't real, initial sannyas ecstasy was hallucination; drop yes/no, examine despair, work to transform by witnessing and embracing your nature

Your music is your madness 14 September 1985

Aloneness reveals true self: disidentify from society‑seeded mind, witness and silence it; madness dressed as music must become meditation before it can heal.