Osho on Tilopa
22 discourses in which Osho speaks about Tilopa, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #1: The Ultimate Experience
· 38 mentions · 11 February 1975
“It is beautiful that Tilopa has called it a song.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #9: Beyond and Beyond
· 30 mentions · 19 February 1975
“But Tilopa goes beyond all the three; Tilopa goes beyond all three, and now it is difficult to classify him.”
- Sahaj Yog #11
· 27 mentions · 1 December 1978
“In this same tradition of the eighty‑four siddhas, Tilopa also appeared.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #6: The Great Teaching
· 22 mentions · 16 February 1975
“Tilopa is difficult to comprehend, but Tilopa is rare.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #7: The Pathless Path
· 21 mentions · 17 February 1975
“So first you will have to understand what is the path of a soldier, a warrior, only then will you be able to understand what Tilopa means by the royal path.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #10: The Supreme Understanding
· 20 mentions · 20 February 1975
“This you have to remember and then try to understand Tilopa.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #5: The Innate Truth
· 16 mentions · 15 February 1975
“The tantra attitude is the very being of Tilopa.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #5: The pure look
· 14 mentions · 5 March 1975
“Tilopa may say, but that is not the point -- that Tilopa says.”
- Sahaj Yog #16
· 13 mentions · 6 December 1978
“And whenever someone becomes unbound here, he becomes a Buddha, a Mahavira, a Muhammad, a Jesus, a Saraha, a Tilopa.”
- Sahaj Yog #12
· 11 mentions · 2 December 1978
“So whenever a Saraha, a Tilopa, a Kabir, a Gorakh raises his voice, it gets lost in the din of the pundits.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #2: The Root Problem
· 10 mentions · 12 February 1975
“And if it becomes your own experience -- not because I say it, not because Tilopa sings about it, no, that won't be of much help -- if it becomes YOUR experience, if it becomes a fact of your own knowing, then suddenly many things start changing.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #8: Cut the Root
· 10 mentions · 18 February 1975
“This is the no-self of Tilopa.”
- Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #4: Be Like a Hollow Bamboo
· 8 mentions · 14 February 1975
“And you have to watch it in your own life, because whatsoever I say, or Tilopa says, will not be of much meaning unless you watch it in yourself: that your activity is irrelevant, it is not needed.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #3: Awareness, not knowledge
· 7 mentions · 3 July 1975
“It is about Siddha Naropa, the disciple Of Tilopa.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #9: The fall of the idiots
· 5 mentions · 9 March 1975
“Through Buddha a new keyhole opens, through Patanjali another, through Tilopa still another.”
- Sahaj Yog #15
· 5 mentions · 5 December 1978
“Saraha and Tilopa would not support it; I don’t either.”
- Just Like That #3: An open and shut case
· 4 mentions · 3 May 1975
“This is the distinction between Patanjali and Tilopa.”
- The Transmission of the Lamp #15: There are times when you need the open sky
· 4 mentions · 2 June 1986
“Tilopa is saying that with the body, the only thing that people are not doing is relaxation, particularly while meditating.”
- Sahaj Yog #13
· 4 mentions · 3 December 1978
“Therefore Saraha and Tilopa demolish, they do not adorn.”
- The Grass Grows By Itself #3: Emptiness and the Monk's Nose
· 3 mentions · 23 February 1975
“Either you create emptiness, like a Buddha, Tilopa, Sekkyo, and others; or you create love, like Meera, Chaitanya, Jesus.”
- Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #2: Ego's attraction
· 3 mentions · 2 March 1975
“Tilopa belongs to another path, the path of being loose and natural -- not even bothering about awareness -- just being whatsoever you are, not making any effort for any improvement.”
- Sahaj Yog #14
· 3 mentions · 4 December 1978
“And here we are speaking of Saraha and Tilopa—both are sahaj-yogis.”