Osho on Pythagoras

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

1. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #1: The Greatest Luxury · 38 mentions · 21 December 1978
   “Just twenty-five centuries before Pythagoras, a great continent, Atlantis, had disappeared into the ocean.”
2. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #1: The Golden Mean · 24 mentions · 31 December 1978
   “Pythagoras has contributed much to human thought, to human evolution.”
3. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #6: Logos: Power: Necessity · 20 mentions · 26 December 1978
   “Before Pythagoras, other words were used for the same purpose.”
4. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #4: The Perfume of Absolute Contentment · 18 mentions · 3 January 1979
   “Pythagoras was a whole man, a holy man.”
5. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #11: Only God Is · 17 mentions · 10 January 1979
   “So this is the first thing to be remembered, otherwise Pythagoras will be misunderstood by you, Pythagoras will be distorted by your mind.”
6. Beyond Psychology #30: New bottles for the old wine · 16 mentions · 27 April 1986
   “Pythagoras is a link between East and West, between a civilization that disappeared in the Atlantic and a civilization that we are living in; hence he has a significance of his own.”
7. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #6: Enlightenment is Your Birthright · 13 mentions · 5 January 1979
   “Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West.”
8. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #3: Falling Upwards · 12 mentions · 23 December 1978
   “The truth of Pythagoras, the truth of the greatest synthesis ever attempted, CAN trigger a process in you, CAN start something so immense that you could not have ever dreamt about it.”
9. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 #5: Five techniques of attentiveness · 10 mentions · 5 October 1972
   “When one of the great Greek philosophers, Pythagoras, reached Egypt to enter a school -- a secret esoteric school of mysticism -- he was refused.”
10. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #7: Awareness: The Master Key · 9 mentions · 27 December 1978
    “That's what Pythagoras wants you to understand: you reflect.”
11. Books I Have Loved #4 · 8 mentions
    “Second: The GOLDEN VERSES of Pythagoras.”
12. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #2: Zorba The Buddha · 8 mentions · 1 January 1979
    “That's what Pythagoras wants you to do, and all the great Masters of the world: choose, will, be a light unto yourself.”
13. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #2: Love Comes Faceless · 7 mentions · 22 December 1978
    “Remember when you are contemplating on Pythagoras, that's what he means: Be a good son.”
14. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 1 #10: Bliss Beyond All Duality · 6 mentions · 30 December 1978
    “BECAUSE OF THIS THEOREM, and only because of this theorem, Pythagoras has been misunderstood down the ages.”
15. The Hidden Harmony #5: Such is the Depth of its Meaning · 5 mentions · 25 December 1974
    “Heraclitus has laughed about Pythagoras, one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known.”
16. Jyotish #1 · 5 mentions · 9 July 1971
    “Long before him, Pythagoras in Greece—six hundred years before Jesus, that is, about twenty-five hundred years ago—unfolded a great philosophy regarding planetary harmony: that among the planets there is a musical relationship.”
17. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #3: Don't Spit on the Ceiling! · 4 mentions · 2 January 1979
    “It is true with Krishna, it is true with Lao Tzu, it is true with Pythagoras, it is true with Patanjali, it is true with Buddha, it is true with me.”
18. From Darkness to Light #19: Where nothing is right and nothing is wrong · 3 mentions · 19 March 1985
    “And we know about these three Jaina monks through Pythagoras, because Pythagoras was going to India through Egypt.”
19. Hidden Mysteries #5: Astrology: The Science of Cosmic Oneness · 3 mentions · 9 July 1971
    “Many years before Paracelsus, a Greek named Pythagoras gave birth to the very valuable principle of planetary harmony.”
20. Om Shantih Shantih Shantih #13: Be, known thyself, keep the measure · 3 mentions · 6 March 1988
    “In the death of Socrates starts the decline of a tremendously beautiful and great civilization which has given to the world people like Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Epicurus, Plotinus and many more.”
21. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #7: A Bold Experiment · 3 mentions · 6 January 1979
    “Pythagoras calls it the golden mean.”
22. The Osho Upanishad #26: The Master -- your death and your resurrection · 3 mentions · 13 September 1986
    “For example, I was speaking on Kabir, on Meera, on Thomas, on Heraclitus, on Pythagoras.”