Osho on Heraclitus
29 discourses in which Osho speaks about Heraclitus, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.
- The Hidden Harmony #1
· 45 mentions · 21 December 1974
“I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #2: Attraction to the Difficult
· 38 mentions · 2 January 1975
“You have not understood what I had been saying about Heraclitus, Christ and Zen, and if you cannot understand Heraclitus, Zen and Jesus, you will not be able to understand Patanjali either.”
- The Hidden Harmony #6: Here, Too, Are the Gods
· 22 mentions · 26 December 1974
“Heraclitus says:”
- The Hidden Harmony #9: The Sun is New Each Day
· 20 mentions · 29 December 1974
“Heraclitus is a nondualist.”
- The Hidden Harmony #3: Wisdom is One and Unique
· 19 mentions · 23 December 1974
“A few things before we enter these sutras of Heraclitus.”
- The Hidden Harmony #11: You Cannot Step Twice into the Same River
· 19 mentions · 31 December 1974
“Heraclitus says just the opposite: that which appears permanent is the appearance, the maya, and that which changes is the brahma.”
- The Hidden Harmony #2: Fast Asleep Even While Awake
· 15 mentions · 22 December 1974
“Heraclitus touches the deepest problem of man: that is -- fast asleep even while awake.”
- The Hidden Harmony #7: A Dry Soul is Wisest and Best
· 14 mentions · 27 December 1974
“Heraclitus calls the downward flow of consciousness the state of moisture, and the upward rise of consciousness the state of dryness.”
- The Hidden Harmony #4: God is Day and Night
· 12 mentions · 24 December 1974
“Only receptivity is needed, not concepts, not philosophies, doctrines -- this is what Heraclitus means.”
- The Hidden Harmony #5: Such is the Depth of its Meaning
· 12 mentions · 25 December 1974
“Heraclitus has laughed about Pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known.”
- The Hidden Harmony #8: Man is Not Rational
· 11 mentions · 28 December 1974
“What Shankara calls the brahma, Heraclitus calls the logos.”
- Books I Have Loved #4
· 10 mentions
“First: The FRAGMENTS of Heraclitus.”
- The Hidden Harmony #10: Nature Loves to Hide
· 8 mentions · 30 December 1974
“Says Heraclitus, it uses signs.”
- Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet #18: Of old and new law-tables part 2
· 8 mentions · 16 April 1987
“Zarathustra was a contemporary of Heraclitus and Gautam Buddha.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #7: The Obstacles to Meditation
· 7 mentions · 7 January 1975
“You may call it electricity, you may call it sound, you may call it fire like Heraclitus, you may call it water like Lao Tzu: that depends on you.”
- The Last Testament, Vol 1 #14: The Function Of A Master
· 5 mentions · 31 July 1985
“That's why all those people -- Gautam Buddha, Bodhidharma, Chuang Tzu, Plotinus, Heraclitus have failed.”
- The Tantra Vision, Vol 1 #3: This honey is yours
· 5 mentions · 23 April 1977
“and Heraclitus is right: you cannot step in the same river twice.”
- The Wild Geese and the Water #7: Life's Complementariness
· 5 mentions · 17 February 1981
“Heraclitus has a tremendously pregnant statement.”
- Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries #5: Existence does not like carbon copies
· 4 mentions · 21 February 1986
“If people had followed Socrates, if they had followed Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Epicurus, they would have been the very crown of the world today.”
- The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3 #5: Freedom contains all
· 4 mentions · 16 August 1979
“Heraclitus would have agreed with Buddha, Buddha would have agreed with Heraclitus; they would have embraced each other.”
- The Guest #14: I am not a person
· 4 mentions · 9 May 1979
“Hegel, Kant -- these are philosophers; Buddha, Kabir -- these are NOT philosophers -- Plato, Aristotle -- these are philosophers; Heraclitus, Plotinus -- these are not philosophers, although in the books of philosophy they are also called philosophers.”
- The Osho Upanishad #26: The Master -- your death and your resurrection
· 4 mentions · 13 September 1986
“For example, I was speaking on Kabir, on Meera, on Thomas, on Heraclitus, on Pythagoras.”
- Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master #17: Take the risk wholesale
· 3 mentions · 13 July 1987
“Heraclitus says, "You cannot step in the same river twice because it going so fast.”
- Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho's Haikus #3: In search of a lost treasure
· 3 mentions · 28 September 1988
“They are saying exactly what Epicurus and Heraclitus in Greece said: "You cannot step in the same river twice."”
- The Open Secret #16
· 3 mentions · 16 November 1977
“Heraclitus says that you cannot step into the same river twice because the river is changing.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #1: The Meaning of Samadhi
· 3 mentions · 1 January 1975
“He talks like Aristotle and he is a Heraclitus.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #5: The Master of Masters
· 3 mentions · 5 January 1975
“Whatsoever he says, he can say like Heraclitus: "I have searched."”
- Jin Sutra #8
· 3 mentions · 18 May 1976
“The great Greek sage Heraclitus said, you cannot step into the same river twice.”
- Jyun Macchali Bin Neer #2
· 3 mentions · 22 September 1980
“In Greece, the great mystic thinker Heraclitus said: the world is constant flux.”