Om Mani Padme Hum

The music of OM 7 December 1987

Om mani padme hum: OM is the inner music—the sound of silence to be heard, not chanted; let mantras sink into being, tears can be celebration, Tibet’s loss mourned.

A very simple and humble affair 7 December 1987

Bliss precedes gratitude: authentic prayer is spontaneous thankfulness born from inner ecstasy and self‑realization, not appeals to a hypothetical external God.

This place is for innocence 22 December 1987

Childlikeness is true meditation: innocence heals where knowledge imprisons, opening the heart to wonder and transformation rather than accumulation of facts.

Never meditate over something 23 December 1987

Never meditate over anything; dhyan is not a practice but no-mind — the disappearance of 'I' and object into pure being beyond words, methods, duality, and bliss.

Just to relax on the river 23 December 1987

Truth is simple; stop the ego's hunger for distant conquest—rest like Diogenes by the river. Being is becoming; insight dissolves becoming into present presence.

Don't just accept: rejoice! 24 December 1987

What is total acceptance? Reject imposed 'total' surrender as repression; rejoice in your unique spontaneity and clarity—acceptance arises naturally.

Time to be completely disillusioned 24 December 1987

Is a good sadhana effortless? True sadhana is choiceless awareness, stop seeking and spiritual games, flow with existence and realize you are already whole.

Aha! 25 December 1987

True insight is wordless silence: neither observer nor observed remains, so it cannot be described; the mind's duality deceives, and awakening is ordinary.

These games keep you retarded 25 December 1987

Drink the wine within: authentic ecstasy is inner, not external drugs or spiritual games; drop all props, be utterly alone, and meet your innermost center.

We disown our past 26 December 1987

Are idiots born or trained? Society trains most idiots; true revolution is individual revolt—disown the past, reclaim inner freedom to blossom anew.

The very nature of things 26 December 1987

Enlightenment is our natural state — not a supernature to attain. Be yourself; oppose imposed ideals and moralities that drive misery. Answer: it's already here.

Existence has its own ways 27 December 1987

The question 'What is the taste of enlightenment?' Osho replies: there is no taste, for enlightenment abolishes taster and tasted into wordless aloneness.

Reality is indivisible 27 December 1987

Silence and celebration must integrate: inner silence fuels authentic joy; reality is indivisible—outer action and inner meditation are complementary.

A rock among the waves 28 December 1987

Why doesn't my body bow though my heart does? Accept the stoniness—rocks make the river sing; drop jealous expectations, say yes to existence and unconditional love.

For no reason at all 28 December 1987

Trust meditation: the 'who am I / why am I here' questions dissolve; existence answers for no reason—simply be, watch, cry, laugh, sing and celebrate.

The psychology of the buddhas 29 December 1987

Osho: psychology of buddhas = drop mind's junk, honour the body's wisdom, free the blank brain through meditation; masters use artful methods to wake you.

Immediate and ultimate ordinariness 29 December 1987

You are already enlightened; stop chasing ideals and future attainments—relax into ordinary life, honor uniqueness, and live enlightenment now.

Personality: the false disease 30 December 1987

Fear before the Master's gaze is the trembling personality; love dissolves the false ego—awareness of the personality as a false disease heals and frees.

Simply singing my own song 30 December 1987

There's nothing to know — innocence beyond mind is true health; the master's speech is song, meaning lives in the silence between words, cherish childlike wonder.

Life has no boundaries 31 December 1987

Love is infinite nourishment; do not confine it to possessions or cults-radiate it universally, reclaim individuality and spontaneous, daring love.

The twain are already meeting 31 December 1987

Ancient Eastern energy fields make meditation like floating toward the ocean while the West resists; bridging inner and outer is urgently needed.

This is my secret: this silence 1 January 1988

Silence is the master-music behind meditation and creativity; Osho's secret is inviting listeners to drop words and taste the inner music—this silence.

I stand for the whole man 13 January 1988

Man is an organic whole; dividing inner and outer creates death. True revolt cuts the roots of politics and religion to save humanity and life.

Nirvana means nothingness 14 January 1988

Power-seeking masks inner emptiness; true liberation is a flowering into nothingness—silence, love and bliss—free from domination and self-torture.

Nowhere to fall to 14 January 1988

Sitting by the master, the razor-edge path toward truth narrows and fear arises; trust that existence protects the seeker—there is nowhere to fall to.

Not a `work' but a celebration 15 January 1988

Longing at sunset is not sorrow but silent awe; there is no distant 'home' or final 'work'—existence is celebration, and love frees, not toil.

Unhinge yourself 15 January 1988

Abandon attachment to the first 'explosion'; cultivate innocent, expectless waiting — existence never repeats; unhinge yourself, charaiveti, walk on.

Start with meditation 16 January 1988

Silence and meditation give rise to unconditional love: start with meditation, not biological infatuation; satsang's silence purifies jealousy and conditioning.

Just be a little saner 16 January 1988

Drop parental fixations instead of replacing them with self-authority; be a sannyasin, seek truth patiently, choose a master by lived authority, not ideology

The greatest synthesis ever 17 January 1988

World Academy of Sciences for Creativity: fuse meditation and pure, life-affirming science and art to dethrone destructive politics and save humanity.