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Osho on Heraclitus

29 discourses in which Osho speaks about Heraclitus, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. The Hidden Harmony #1 · 45 mentions · 21 December 1974
    “I have been in love with Heraclitus for many lives.”
  2. 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.”
  3. The Hidden Harmony #6: Here, Too, Are the Gods · 22 mentions · 26 December 1974
    “Heraclitus says:”
  4. The Hidden Harmony #9: The Sun is New Each Day · 20 mentions · 29 December 1974
    “Heraclitus is a nondualist.”
  5. The Hidden Harmony #3: Wisdom is One and Unique · 19 mentions · 23 December 1974
    “A few things before we enter these sutras of Heraclitus.”
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.”
  8. 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.”
  9. 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.”
  10. 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.”
  11. The Hidden Harmony #8: Man is Not Rational · 11 mentions · 28 December 1974
    “What Shankara calls the brahma, Heraclitus calls the logos.”
  12. Books I Have Loved #4 · 10 mentions
    “First: The FRAGMENTS of Heraclitus.”
  13. The Hidden Harmony #10: Nature Loves to Hide · 8 mentions · 30 December 1974
    “Says Heraclitus, it uses signs.”
  14. 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.”
  15. 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.”
  16. 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.”
  17. 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.”
  18. The Wild Geese and the Water #7: Life's Complementariness · 5 mentions · 17 February 1981
    “Heraclitus has a tremendously pregnant statement.”
  19. 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.”
  20. 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.”
  21. 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.”
  22. 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.”
  23. 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.”
  24. 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."”
  25. 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.”
  26. 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.”
  27. 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."”
  28. Jin Sutra #8 · 3 mentions · 18 May 1976
    “The great Greek sage Heraclitus said, you cannot step into the same river twice.”
  29. Jyun Macchali Bin Neer #2 · 3 mentions · 22 September 1980
    “In Greece, the great mystic thinker Heraclitus said: the world is constant flux.”