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Osho on Tilopa

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

  1. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #1: The Ultimate Experience · 38 mentions · 11 February 1975
    “It is beautiful that Tilopa has called it a song.”
  2. 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.”
  3. Sahaj Yog #11 · 27 mentions · 1 December 1978
    “In this same tradition of the eighty‑four siddhas, Tilopa also appeared.”
  4. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #6: The Great Teaching · 22 mentions · 16 February 1975
    “Tilopa is difficult to comprehend, but Tilopa is rare.”
  5. 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.”
  6. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #10: The Supreme Understanding · 20 mentions · 20 February 1975
    “This you have to remember and then try to understand Tilopa.”
  7. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #5: The Innate Truth · 16 mentions · 15 February 1975
    “The tantra attitude is the very being of Tilopa.”
  8. 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.”
  9. 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.”
  10. 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.”
  11. 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.”
  12. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #8: Cut the Root · 10 mentions · 18 February 1975
    “This is the no-self of Tilopa.”
  13. 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.”
  14. 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.”
  15. 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.”
  16. Sahaj Yog #15 · 5 mentions · 5 December 1978
    “Saraha and Tilopa would not support it; I don’t either.”
  17. Just Like That #3: An open and shut case · 4 mentions · 3 May 1975
    “This is the distinction between Patanjali and Tilopa.”
  18. 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.”
  19. Sahaj Yog #13 · 4 mentions · 3 December 1978
    “Therefore Saraha and Tilopa demolish, they do not adorn.”
  20. 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.”
  21. 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.”
  22. Sahaj Yog #14 · 3 mentions · 4 December 1978
    “And here we are speaking of Saraha and Tilopa—both are sahaj-yogis.”