Your head makes many questions, but when you quietly watch like a clear mirror—without love or hate coloring things—your heart ends the confusion.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, as I look to see what my question is I remember the saying, "when there is love, everything is beautiful. And when there is no love, all is ugly." do all my questions and apparent problems arise as a result of being out of touch with my heart?
The second part of your question is right. All questions, not only yours but everybody's, arise because you are not in touch with the heart. Mind is a question producing mechanism. It cannot find any answer, but it can produce millions of questions. The heart has the answer. The questions may be millions, but the answer is one. So if you are in touch with your heart, your questions disappear. This is the second part of your question. But the first part is a totally different thing. You say, "When there is love everything looks beautiful, and when there is no love everything looks ugly." That is an hallucination. Love creates a kind of hallucination. You are happy, you are joyous, you are covered with a haze of joy, and you project on everybody the same joy, the same beauty that you are feeling -- but it is a projection,…Read the full discourse →
Osho, what question could I ask, and what answer could you give! You are the question and the answer too. In love, should there be a question, or an answer, or silence?
Life’s ultimate peaks are peaks of paradox. Words are noise, a spectacle; in the ocean of feeling they are sugar-candy that melts. Do not speak the heart’s secret with your lips; silence alone is the language of feeling. Weep—your tears will speak. Dance—your gestures will tell. Hum. Yesterday evening it so happened. Vani, a sannyasin, has come from Germany. I asked her, “Is there something you want to say?” And I felt she had so much to say; her heart was full. She had come from so far, and could stay only for a day or two. She cannot remain long. Every two or three months she rushes here. Even if time allows only two or three days, sometimes only a single day—she comes from Germany to Poona even for a single day! Once she stayed only five hours. So she comes to say something, to make some offering. I…Read the full discourse →
Osho, you have titled this series of talks “Sahaj Yoga.” Do “sahaj” and “yoga” not seem mutually opposed?
Anand Maitreya! They don’t just seem opposed, they are opposed. But no ultimate truth of life can manifest without contradiction. Life is made of opposites—darkness and light, day and night, woman and man, negative electricity and positive electricity, birth and death. The very structure of life is woven of opposites. Hence the opposites are not only opposed; they are complementary to each other. If you have labored hard all day, you will be able to sleep deeply. Labor and rest are opposites, yet only the one who has worked can rest deeply—and the one who has not worked cannot. So the opposites are not only opposed, they complete each other. And only the one who has rested deeply at night can rise in the morning and engage in work again. One who has not rested through the night will not be able to work in the morning. Look closely at…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, here again, I find myself in the distress of a relationship finishing. It's still the same pattern. I feel that I cannot deal with it any differently than before. Is there no other way than playing the record again and again and again and just watching it? Each time, I think, "with awareness it will be different this time." but no -- the anger, the distress, the hurt, the aloneness, and also the understanding that love comes and fades away. I also am doubting that these moments of love were real. But when those moments of love and connecting are there, they do feel real.
Life is a vicious circle. One things lead to another thing until the circle is complete. To go on moving in a circle is boring, is monotonous, is heavy on the heart. It destroys all playfulness, it destroys weightlessness; it takes away the charm, the magnetic pull towards life. You go again and again in the same routine, in the same circle, unwillingly. You do not want to repeat; nobody wants to repeat. Repetition is the function of a machine. Wherever there is a consciousness, there is a revolt against mechanical repetition. So I can understand your tragedy. Moreover, it is the tragedy of millions of human beings. They are all caught in a circle and then they don't know how to jump out of it. The problem can be reduced to very simple terms: You find it difficult to jump out of the routine because you have some vested…Read the full discourse →
Osho, it seemed to me that the day before yesterday you said all the illnesses of the mind arise from a lack of love.
Certainly all ailments of the mind are born of a lack of love. But this truth has to be understood. There are three events in life that are priceless: birth, death, and love. One who understands these three has understood everything. Birth is the beginning, death is the end, love is the middle. The wave that sways between birth and death is love. That is why love is also dangerous. One of its hands touches birth, the other touches death. Hence love has a great allure and a great fear. Its allure is the allure of life, for there is no higher experience of life. So Jesus called God love—in fact, he called love God. Its wave rises the highest; there is no wave higher. No peak rises above the peak of love. Therefore love has a wild, irresistible magnetism—because love is life. But it also carries great fear—because love…Read the full discourse →