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Osho on Carl Jung

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

  1. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1 #16: In the Lake of the Void · 34 mentions · 26 August 1978
    “Habib, Carl Gustav Jung was groping in the right direction but he had not yet arrived.”
  2. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #4: To become free in an unfree society · 21 mentions · 24 April 1975
    “YES, I don't give much value to Freud, Jung, Adler, or Assagioli.”
  3. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #5: The meeting os sun and moon · 16 mentions · 15 April 1976
    “Freud and Jung and Adler and others, whatsoever they have been doing is more or less centered around man.”
  4. From Darkness to Light #9: Your suffering makes you special · 14 mentions · 8 March 1985
    “He was so much afraid of ghosts that a simple incident became the breaking point between his chief disciple, Carl Gustav Jung, and himself.”
  5. The Tantra Vision, Vol 1 #5: Man is a myth · 12 mentions · 25 April 1977
    “Just the other day I was reading about Carl Jung, one of the greatest psychologists of this age.”
  6. From Ignorance to Innocence #26: Meditation: watchfulness, awareness, alertness -- the real trinity · 11 mentions · 25 December 1984
    “If you go to Jung then he will find through those same hairs some mythological phenomenon.”
  7. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 9 #6: Truth cannot be lost · 11 mentions · 16 February 1980
    “Once Jung wanted to psychoanalyze Freud.”
  8. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 2 #2: Love is the only friend · 11 mentions · 28 August 1978
    “Just the other day I had answered Habib's two questions about Carl Gustav Jung.”
  9. Geeta Darshan 2 Vol. 1 2 #5 · 10 mentions
    “Jung has recorded a reminiscence: two insane professors were admitted to his asylum for treatment.”
  10. From Darkness to Light #12: A single humanity rejoicing · 9 mentions · 12 March 1985
    “It is strange to remind you that this idea was given currency by one of the best minds of Europe -- Karl Gustav Jung.”
  11. The Path of the Mystic #1: Thoughts are always subversive · 9 mentions · 4 May 1986
    “And the same is true about Jung.”
  12. From Bondage to Freedom #38: Enough just to be with me · 8 mentions · 22 October 1985
    “Hence, in the muddy waters of the mind, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler and their progeny -- they are all just making the water more muddy.”
  13. From Death to Deathlessness #2: Abandon hope all those who enter here · 8 mentions · 3 August 1985
    “It is not science; how can it be science when Freud, Jung, Adler, Assagioli, are not agreeing on a single point?”
  14. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood #18 · 8 mentions
    “That is why Carl Gustav Jung could not stay with him for long.”
  15. Nowhere To Go But In #14 · 8 mentions · 7 June 1974
    “Carl Gustav Jung's secretary has written some memoirs.”
  16. Nahin Ram Bin Thaon #14 · 8 mentions · 7 June 1974
    “Carl Gustav Jung’s secretary wrote in her memoirs that Jung would sometimes get very angry about small things—disproportionately so.”
  17. Sahaj Samadhi Bhali #5 · 8 mentions · 25 July 1974
    “It happened to Sigmund Freud: he sat in his room; his leading disciple Jung sat opposite.”
  18. From Unconciousness to Consciousness #28: Commandments, No -- Just a Few Requests · 7 mentions · 26 November 1984
    “Sigmund Freud, Jung, Adler -- all these people have been working on dreams.”
  19. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #4: I Mean Business! · 7 mentions · 24 December 1978
    “According to legend, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung once travelled together on a train, and during the journey Jung began to analyse Freud, probing deeper and deeper into the man's psyche in an attempt to pinpoint the origin of his neurosis.”
  20. The Mustard Seed: My Most Loved Gospel on Jesus #1: The Mustard Seed · 7 mentions · 21 August 1974
    “And another time also, Jung was talking about death, corpses, and suddenly Freud trembled and fell down, fainted, became unconscious.”
  21. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 #7: Techniques to put you at ease · 7 mentions · 7 October 1972
    “Jung remembers in his autobiography, in his memoirs, a very beautiful and funny incident.”
  22. Light on the Path #16: I want a meeting of east and west · 6 mentions · 17 January 1986
    “Carl Gustav Jung was going to be his successor -- Freud himself had chosen him -- and he was a man of great intellectual possibilities.”
  23. Nowhere To Go But In #12 · 6 mentions · 5 June 1974
    “Carl Gustav Jung, the great Western psychologist, came to travel in India.”
  24. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #8: Escape to Reality · 6 mentions · 7 January 1979
    “for example, Carl Gustav Jung, was so much afraid of death that if you talked about death, just talked about death, he would almost go into a tantrum.”
  25. The Last Testament, Vol 5 #28 · 6 mentions · 23 January 1986
    “Carl Gustav Jung was in India.”
  26. The Transmission of the Lamp #38: Base humanity into golden humanity · 6 mentions · 14 June 1986
    “And Carl Gustav Jung, the great psychoanalyst and his friend, simply did a diagnosis -- but a diagnosis is not a cure.”
  27. Geeta Darshan Vol. 12 #9 · 6 mentions
    “In the West, the great psychologist of this century, Carl Gustav Jung, established this insight for the first time.”
  28. Sanch Sanch So Sanch #4 · 6 mentions · 24 January 1981
    “Carl Gustav Jung, a great Western psychologist, wrote that the West should discover its own yoga and meditation; it should not imitate the East.”
  29. From Ignorance to Innocence #25: Jesus -- the only savior who nearly saved himself · 5 mentions · 24 December 1984
    “For example, when Sigmund Freud, Jung and Adler and other great psychologists of the beginning of this century started talking of the unconscious mind, the subconscious mind, the conscious mind, it was Freud's rediscovery.”
  30. Glimpses of a Golden Childhood #22 · 5 mentions
    “This morning, by the way, I referred to Carl Gustav Jung's word "synchronicity."”
  31. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 2 #6: This is it · 5 mentions · 6 July 1979
    “Jung touched still another part of your mind -- he could not satisfy, because parts are parts and the problem belongs to the whole.”
  32. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 4 #7: See yourself in others · 5 mentions · 28 August 1979
    “Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung were traveling in a train together, when Jung was still a disciple and had not betrayed the master.”
  33. The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty #11: The Paradox that Life is · 5 mentions · 21 April 1979
    “Once Freud and Jung were travelling in a train, and they started talking about psychoanalysis.”
  34. The Secret #6: Life Is An Empty Canvas · 5 mentions · 16 October 1978
    “The Jungian was very angry, Meeto, because I had mentioned Jung's name in the same breath with Freud's.”
  35. The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1 #11: The Whole and Holy Circle · 5 mentions · 21 August 1978
    “And not just Sigmund Freud, but even a man like Carl Gustav Jung was afraid.”
  36. This Is It #29 · 5 mentions · 29 May 1977
    “Jung went a little deeper -- he ends with the second layer: visions, sensitivity, smells, light, the world of myth and the world of dream and the world of heart.”
  37. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose #3: Heart is the soil -- trust is the climate · 5 mentions · 21 March 1988
    “Just in this century, Carl Gustav Jung has been able to find a right word for this experience which in the past has been called the transmission, the transfer, the communion.”
  38. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #6: The existentialist cul-de-sac · 5 mentions · 26 April 1975
    “And it was the same with Jung.”
  39. Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 1 #6: A Concession to the Gods · 5 mentions · 16 June 1977
    “On his deathbed Carl Gustav Jung was reading a book by Charles Luk: CH'AN AND ZEN TEACHINGS.”
  40. Nahin Ram Bin Thaon #12 · 5 mentions · 5 June 1974
    “Carl Gustav Jung, the great Western psychologist, came to India and visited Puri, Konark, Khajuraho.”
  41. Saravsar Upanishad #14 · 5 mentions · 15 January 1972
    “Western psychology too, with Jung, stepped into a new phenomenon.”
  42. A Sudden Clash of Thunder #6: Life Undefined is What God is · 4 mentions · 16 August 1976
    “Just as alchemists are no longer remembered, forgotten, you cannot even mention their names, sooner or later Freud and Jung and Adler will be forgotten the same way -- they are alchemists of the inner world.”
  43. From Personality to Individuality #19: Hell hath no fury like a Christian scorned · 4 mentions · 17 January 1985
    “This is the only contribution of Carl Gustav Jung to the modern world.”
  44. Light on the Path #17: No-mind is emptiness and fullness together · 4 mentions · 18 January 1986
    “This was the reason why Carl Gustav Jung got an idea that perhaps below the unconscious mind there is another mind which goes on supplying more and more dreams.”
  45. Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol 1 #5: A World Inside You · 4 mentions · 15 June 1980
    “Only one modern psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, had some insight about this Taoist approach.”
  46. Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol 2 #6: I really mean business · 4 mentions · 26 June 1980
    “That was the cause of the rift between Freud and his disciple Carl Gustav Jung; the rift was of tremendous significance.”
  47. The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty #5: An Alive Buddhafield · 4 mentions · 15 April 1979
    “Carl Gustav Jung in his memoirs writes...”
  48. The Great Secret #8: Why go to others? · 4 mentions · 18 January 1975
    “Even the greatest amongst them -- Freud, Jung, Adler -- suffer from their own complications, from their own diseases.”
  49. The Last Testament, Vol 3 #7 · 4 mentions · 28 September 1985
    “Sigmund Freud was afraid of Jung because he was just next to him, and people had started talking about Jung, saying that he is going to be the successor.”
  50. The Messiah, Vol 2 #22: A peak unto yourself · 4 mentions · 9 February 1987
    “Carl Gustav Jung was first expected be the successor of Sigmund Freud, but he became too close.”
  51. The Perfect Master, Vol 2 #2: There is no Self, no Other · 4 mentions · 2 July 1978
    “Carl Gustav Jung was exactly the same.”
  52. Koplen Phir Phoot Aayeen #11 · 4 mentions · 9 August 1986
    “Modern psychology—especially the research of Carl Gustav Jung—reaffirms an ancient Eastern insight.”
  53. Saravsar Upanishad #2 · 4 mentions · 9 January 1972
    “But as a result of the efforts of Freud, Jung, and Adler over the last fifty years, the situation now is that psychologists speak almost of nothing but dreams.”
  54. From Bondage to Freedom #41: The psychology of the buddhas · 3 mentions · 25 October 1985
    “Sigmund Freud's closest colleague, and the most talented psychologist, was Carl Gustav Jung.”
  55. From Darkness to Light #30: Does a flower need religion? · 3 mentions · 31 March 1985
    “Moving from Freud to Adler, from Adler to Jung, from Jung to Assagioli, he will become more and more of a crackpot -- because these are all crackpots!”
  56. From Ignorance to Innocence #7: Shame is the name of their game · 3 mentions · 5 December 1984
    “The problem has to be different; otherwise, what purpose has Jung there in the world?”
  57. God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth #1: God is a puppeteer · 3 mentions · 6 February 1989
    “Once Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, another great psychoanalyst, were traveling from Europe to America to deliver lectures on psychoanalysis to many universities.”
  58. Going All the Way #8 · 3 mentions · 8 November 1980
    “…n extrovert or an introvert -- and not only the old traditions say so; even one of the most important psychologists of this age, Carl Gustav Jung repeats the same thing -- either-or, either you are an extrovert or you are an introvert.…”
  59. Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy #1: Yoga: the Growth of Consciousness · 3 mentions
    “Jung mentions that in the nineteenth century no Westerner concerned with psychology could conceive of anything beyond the conscious mind or below the conscious mind, because mind means consciousness.”
  60. Philosophia Ultima #5: That State is Awakening · 3 mentions · 15 December 1980
    “Carl Gustav Jung is not right at all in saying that Eastern mysticism is introvert.”
  61. Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol 2 #10: Out of the Mud and the Mire · 3 mentions · 5 September 1977
    “Jung had to go deeper.”
  62. The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty #3: The Prints of Your Inner Being · 3 mentions · 13 April 1979
    “This is one of the greatest contributions of Carl Gustav Jung to modern humanity: the law of synchronicity.”
  63. The Last Testament, Vol 2 #5 · 3 mentions · 25 August 1985
    “And this is one of the greatest contributions of Carl Gustav Jung to modern age, that...”
  64. The Last Testament, Vol 2 #8 · 3 mentions · 28 August 1985
    “Even Freud or Jung, Adler -- they are not completely psychoanalyzed, they themselves.”
  65. The Perennial Path: The Art of Living #8: Perfect knowledge · 3 mentions · 16 November 1970
    “In modern times psychologists like Jung, Freud and Adler talk about the unconscious, but they have no experience of the unconscious as a Sadhak has.”
  66. The Psychology of the Esoteric #7: Transcending the seven bodies · 3 mentions · 25 March 1971
    “Jung was better than Freud as far as the search beyond superficial consciousness is concerned, but Jung too is just a beginning.”
  67. The Supreme Doctrine #15: Now You Can Go · 3 mentions · 15 July 1973
    “For example, Carl Gustav Jung came very near to discovering the secret of these symbols.”
  68. The Sword and the Lotus #15: A meditator is a rain cloud · 3 mentions · 4 February 1986
    “For example, Carl Gustav Jung discovered a new law which has been known to the mystics all down the centuries.”
  69. The Sword and the Lotus #16: Life is a school · 3 mentions · 5 February 1986
    “His closest disciple was Carl Gustav Jung.”
  70. The Tantra Vision, Vol 1 #10: Hingle de jibity dangely ji · 3 mentions · 30 April 1977
    “Jung is tricky, and what Jung is saying is the old crap.”
  71. The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself #10: The less you are, the more you are · 3 mentions · 9 April 1989
    “He expelled one of his most deserving disciples, Carl Gustav Jung, who was supposed to succeed him.”
  72. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 #8: The potentiality of the seed · 3 mentions · 1 April 1973
    “Jung has written in his memoirs that once it happened to him that he wanted to analyze Freud's dreams.”
  73. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9 #7: Highest knowledge: all at once · 3 mentions · 27 April 1976
    “When Jung analyzes the same dream, his interpretation is different.”
  74. Es Dhammo Sanantano #54 · 3 mentions · 5 April 1976
    “Carl Gustav Jung, after a lifetime of psychological study and observation, said: of the patients who come to me, those past forty do not need psychotherapy; they need religion.”
  75. Geeta Darshan Vol. 8 #11 · 3 mentions
    “Freud’s disciple—later separated and in opposition—Carl Gustav Jung, pursued this unconscious even more deeply.”
  76. Geeta Darshan Vol. 9 #13 · 3 mentions
    “But in the past five thousand years, after the Gita, only in the modern age has Carl Gustav Jung made a deep effort to understand this mental difference between woman and man.”
  77. Jharat Dashahun Dis Moti #2 · 3 mentions · 22 January 1980
    “Carl Gustav Jung, the great Western psychologist, endorsed a new principle.”
  78. Jyon Ki Tyon #5 · 3 mentions · 5 September 1970
    “Gustav Jung inferred the collective unconscious — that even below the personal unconscious there seem to be layers; it does not end there.”
  79. Kahe Hot Adheer #17 · 3 mentions · 28 September 1979
    “The great Western psychologist Carl Gustav Jung came to India; he went to Ajanta, to Ellora, saw the Taj Mahal, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta.”
  80. Mrityoma Amritam Gamaya #6 · 3 mentions · 6 August 1979
    “Carl Gustav Jung, a great psychologist of the West, propounded a new principle.”
  81. Samadhi Kamal #6 · 3 mentions
    “Jung, the psychologist, was studying some madmen.”