Yes—it’s tougher now because truth reaches everyone at once and many won’t get it, but you still have to say it bravely.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, you have said, the wheel of truth needs to be turned again and again. Seeing the efforts of so many countries to prevent you from meeting your friends, the question arises: is the turning of the wheel more difficult than ever?
It is more difficult than ever -- but it is, at the same time, more challenging than ever, too. It is with more excitement, more ecstasy. It is difficult for the simple reason that the earth has become very small. Gautam Buddha, twenty-five centuries back, never moved out of a small state, Bihar, in India. He never even went through the whole of India. Just walking, he could not manage; forty-two years he was speaking, but he could reach only a small portion of the earth. The same is true about Mahavira, about Parshwanatha, and Socrates. Socrates never went out of Athens; there were different reasons. Athens was the only cultured city in the whole world, and if Athens was unable to understand Socrates, he knew it would be simply futile to go anywhere. Whatever he said would just go above their heads. When he was sentenced to death by…Read the full discourse →
Osho, the title you have chosen for the discourse series beginning today is: Saanch saanch so saanch. Osho, we request your compassion in helping us understand this verse of Dariya Sahib—“Gold is always gold; glass is only glass. Dariya says: the false is false; the true is truly true.”
Those who have truly seen You—their eyes are other eyes! I call to those eyes—to such seeing! All have eyes, but keep them closed. Tell them to open, they become angry. With eyes shut for ages, they have forgotten they even have eyes. Like a bird in a cage that has forgotten it has wings. Even if set free, it may not live, may not fly; it has forgotten how to use its wings. So are people’s eyes—bound in chains, covered in stone, wrapped in beliefs, buried under scriptures. They seem to see, but they see nothing. Those who have truly seen You—their eyes are other eyes! Moments that become verses of worship—those are other moments! I call to those moments, those eyes that become hymns of adoration. Where the garden blooms in glory—all flowers are Yours, but that garland which clasps Your neck—those flowers are other flowers! You can…Read the full discourse →
Osho! You state the truth as it is—straight and blunt. That’s why enemies arise. Like what you said yesterday about Dayanand. The point is true, but it stings. Wouldn’t it be better to remain silent in such matters?
When in the Chikmagalur election Indira won, and the news reached him that Indira had won, he clapped and laughed. The newspapers reported that he was pleased, delighted with her victory. Then he must have thought it over: a costly bargain. Morarji was in power then; to be happy at Indira’s victory was a slip. Soon a statement came that his clapping and laughing had nothing to do with Indira’s victory; he sometimes claps and sometimes laughs just out of playful mood. He changed the story. Just four or six days ago, before these election results, he told a certain minister that Indira’s Congress would win in only nine states. The minister issued a statement; it was printed. Two days later he must have felt that if victory did not occur in all those states, my word would be proved false; and as soon as it was seen that in…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, I see that people go on saying that they want the truth -- nothing but the truth -- and freedom; they want to live in freedom. But when it actually comes down to it, nobody wants to hear the truth or live in freedom. They want to continue to live in lies and possess what they think they have. I see that in myself, and it is becoming less and less as I am walking the path with you. Why do we want to hold on to the ugly lies of life so much that we give up our trueness and our nature?
The court of the king was full. For the first time everybody was present; the queen was present, the princesses were present. The man said to the court and to the king, "I have brought the clothes. And for these clothes, the two, three million rupees that you have given are nothing. When you see the clothes you will see they are a thousandfold more costly. In fact you cannot appraise their cost on the earth; they are something that belongs to heaven. They are not found on the earth." The king was in a hurry. He said, "Open your box!" The man said, "The way it must be done has been explained to me. You give me your cap. First I will put your cap into the box, then I will take out the cap of God and put it on your head. Just one condition has to be…Read the full discourse →
Osho, what kind of justice is it that you are distributing nectar, yet people want to poison you! You want to give humankind a new life, and people are trying to snatch away your life! Does history keep repeating its mistakes?
You see this all around. The crowd has no insight of its own. No one in a crowd has their own seeing. That is precisely why they gather in a crowd. They think others will have the insight; the others think they will. No one has it. Kabir says: “The blind push the blind; both fall into the well.” The blind are shoving the blind. The blind have become leaders of the blind—and then all fall into the well. And you can see that every person has fallen into a well. In whose eyes is there a ray of joy? In whose being are the songs of love? Upon whose lips is the taste of nectar? Who has recognized God? Who has had a glimpse of the eternal life? Whose feet are ankleted with the eternal—whose life is a dance, a song, a celebration? All are sad—utterly sad. Everyone’s life…Read the full discourse →