According to Osho, the true path is one, timeless, and nameless: a turning inward. It belongs to no religion or person; labeling it breeds conflict. Right is inwardness, wrong is outwardness. Seek self-remembering—discover who breathes and is conscious—rather than accumulating outer facts. This inner journey is your, my, and everyone’s path, whether recognized or not.
Your path is to look inside yourself, not chase labels or outside stuff, and remember who you truly are.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, what is my path? Please be gracious and tell me.
Leaving geography, I entered history. The teacher was explaining about Alexander the Great. I said to him, You feel no shame in saying this—Alexander the Great? Don’t spoil the word “great”! Otherwise what will you call Buddha? What will you call Socrates? What will you call Pythagoras? And do you know that when Alexander was dying, just before his death he said to his ministers, This is my last will—and mind you, there should be no alteration in my will. The will is very small: when you carry my coffin toward the cremation ground, let my hands hang outside the coffin. People said, What a strange will! Hands are never left hanging outside the coffin. This is not the tradition. Alexander said, Forget tradition; in that very tradition I lived and died—uselessly. But why do you want your hands to hang outside? they asked in curiosity. Alexander said, So that…
What is your path, the path that you reveal to us?
IT is not a path at all; you are not to travel it. Rather, it is a simple understanding. You have to stop all travelling. A path is to travel and to go somewhere; a path is to reach somewhere, to attain something; a path is a means and the end is far away in the future. That's what I mean when I say whatsoever I am talking to you about is not a path; it is a simple understanding. If you understand, you have already reached to the goal. If you understand, you have always been in the goal, never for a single moment have you been away from it. You may have been dreaming that you have gone away, but you have not left your home for a single moment. This is a no-path. Or, if you insist for the word, or if you are so fascinated with…
Deva means divine, amarga means pathlessness -- divine pathlessness. There is no path to God; all paths are false. In the very nature of things there can be no path to God because God is all and everywhere. A path leads somewhere. God is not somewhere: God is everywhere. A path is needed when you are going from here to there. But God is here, and there is no need for any path to be here. So all paths misguide, all paths mislead, all paths take you away from reality, not to reality. The path exists because of the desiring mind. The desiring mind is always dreaming of somewhere else. It is never in the moment so it creates the path. All paths are mind creations, and to come back to reality one has to renounce all paths. All paths are fabrications, lies, so are all philosophies, all religions.
Osho, please shed light on what walls stand between religion and man.
There aren’t many walls—just one: ego. Though there are many bricks in that wall, and they all get mortared in the same way: whatever is against nature becomes a brick for the ego. I teach a natural life. My message is straight and simple. Live simply. Don’t run away from anywhere; don’t avoid anything. Whatever God has given is auspicious—give thanks. And if he has given mud, he gave it in the hope that lotus flowers would bloom from it. And if he has given iron, he did so in the hope that you also have the philosopher’s stone within—find it. At its touch, iron becomes gold. And not merely gold—fragrance comes into gold. And don’t keep asking the pundit-priests. Avoid them. They neither know nor have experience. But in this world very few are simple-hearted enough to say, “I don’t know.” If someone asks you something, even if you…
Osho, it is said that whatever can be named cannot be the eternal and changeless truth. But the names given to the Ultimate are provisional, and through the practice of name-remembrance people have also attained the Nameless. Please explain why one cannot begin with a changing name and arrive at the changeless Nameless?
No! I say Lao Tzu is absolutely right, precisely right. And still, when I speak on Chaitanya, I will say Chaitanya is absolutely right. One can arrive by the stairs too. But do not raise that now. Bringing it in will not make Lao Tzu any easier to understand. Forget it—forget it completely. If you sit to understand Lao Tzu, then understand the leap in its entirety. Otherwise our mind behaves this way: when I sit to explain the leap, you bring up the stairs; when I sit to explain the stairs, you bring up the leap. You miss. It is the mind’s dishonesty. When I say, “Do kirtan,” you say, “What will kirtan do?” And when I say, “Throw everything away; burn the names and all that,” you say, “But you were saying it will happen through kirtan.” You did neither that nor this. You keep seeking a way…