According to Osho, every person is a potential vessel of dharma—no one is an exception. You already carry the same peak consciousness as any buddha, but it unfolds only by turning inward through meditation and watchfulness. Enlightenment cannot be imported or proven by logic; drop rational mind, explore within, and discover your inner treasure, where the buddha-nature reveals itself.
Yes—everyone can hold the truth, but you find it by being quiet inside and watching, not by collecting things or arguments from outside.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Question: Maneesha has asked: OUR BELOVED MASTER, ARE WE ALL, THE TEN THOUSAND BUDDHAS, POTENTIAL VESSELS OF THE DHARMA? Maneesha, as far as being potential vessels of dharma, nobody is an exception. You all have the potential -- the same potential, the same highest peaks of consciousness, as any buddha. But you have to go inwards and find your treasures. Outside you are a beggar, everybody is a beggar. Alexander the Great came to India just three hundred years after Buddha had died. He wanted to meet some master. The name and the fame of Buddha had reached faraway shores -- even to Greece and Athens. Alexander's master was the father of Western logic, Aristotle. Aristotle had told him, "You are going to conquer the world, you must reach India. I don't want you to bring anything as a present for me, just meet an enlightened master.
If you don't understand by yourself, you'll have to find a teacher to get to the bottom of life and death. But unless he sees his nature, such a person isn't a teacher. Even if he can recite the twelvefold canon, he can't escape the wheel of birth and death. He suffers in the three realms without hope of release.
LONG AGO, THE MONK GOOD STAR WAS ABLE TO RECITE THE ENTIRE CANON. BUT HE DIDN'T ESCAPE THE WHEEL BECAUSE HE DIDN'T SEE HIS NATURE. IF THIS WAS THE CASE WITH GOOD STAR, THEN PEOPLE NOWADAYS WHO RECITE A FEW SUTRAS OR SHASTRAS AND THINK IT'S THE DHARMA ARE FOOLS. UNLESS YOU SEE YOUR MIND, RECITING SO MUCH PROSE IS USELESS. TO FIND A BUDDHA, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEE YOUR NATURE. YOUR NATURE IS THE BUDDHA. AND THE BUDDHA IS THE PERSON WHO'S FREE, FREE OF PLANS, FREE OF CARES. IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR NATURE AND RUN AROUND ALL DAY LOOKING SOMEWHERE ELSE, YOU'LL NEVER FIND A BUDDHA. THE TRUTH IS, THERE'S NOTHING TO FIND. BUT TO REACH SUCH AN UNDERSTANDING YOU NEED A TEACHER. AND YOU NEED TO STRUGGLE TO MAKE YOURSELF UNDERSTAND. LIFE AND DEATH ARE IMPORTANT. DON'T SUFFER THEM IN VAIN. THERE'S NO…
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
WE ARE WHAT WE THINK. ALL THAT WE ARE ARISES WITH OUR THOUGHTS. WITH OUR THOUGHTS WE MAKE THE WORLD. SPEAK OR ACT WITH A PURE MIND AND HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW YOU AS YOUR SHADOW, UNSHAKABLE. "LOOK HOW HE ABUSED ME AND BEAT ME, HOW HE THREW ME DOWN AND ROBBED ME." LIVE WITH SUCH THOUGHTS AND YOU LIVE IN HATE. "LOOK HOW HE ABUSED ME AND BEAT ME, HOW HE THREW ME DOWN AND ROBBED ME." ABANDON SUCH THOUGHTS, AND LIVE IN LOVE. IN THIS WORLD HATE NEVER YET DISPELLED HATE. ONLY LOVE DISPELS HATE. THIS IS THE LAW, ANCIENT AND INEXHAUSTIBLE. YOU TOO SHALL PASS AWAY. KNOWING THIS, HOW CAN YOU QUARREL? HOW EASILY THE WIND OVERTURNS A FRAIL TREE. SEEK HAPPINESS IN THE SENSES, INDULGE IN FOOD AND SLEEP, AND YOU TOO WILL BE UPROOTED. THE WIND CANNOT OVERTURN A MOUNTAIN. TEMPTATION CANNOT TOUCH THE MAN WHO…
Dharma is. The day you recognize it—that day is knowledge. Dharma is present, but your eyes are closed. The sun has risen, but you have shut your doors. The lamp is lit, but you have turned your back to it. The rain is falling, but you are deprived of being drenched. You are hiding in a dark cave. Dharma is in motion, but you have moved far away. Coming back is called knowledge. And every human being will have to return. For man has the capacity to go far. Animals have no dharma. Plants and birds have none. Because they cannot go far at all. They are incapable of doing anything unnatural. Whatever they do is natural. They do not even have enough awareness to stray. To stray needs a little intelligence. To go wrong needs a little courage. To step off the path needs a little consciousness.
The moment I awaken, there is no lack. The moment I become the sun, there is no darkness. I say this having awakened; I say this having become the sun. I say this brimming in every way—come, look at my hands. Are they not full? Remember, you too are the sun, and your hands too are full. But your eyes are closed; you sleep. Because of this sleep, your filled hands do not appear filled. And then, to fill them, you dream by the thousands. But, friend—can those hands ever be filled that are not empty? And can that inner lack be filled that is not? Therefore man’s whole chase inevitably ends in failure. This inevitable failure is man’s torment. And one who is in torment spreads torment. One who is in sorrow distributes sorrow. Man is bound to give what he is—for without distributing oneself, one cannot live.