His secret is just telling the truth bravely and never bending to please others, no matter what happens.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, what is your trade secret? Please make your trade secret an open secret.
They threw my secretary, a young girl, from the first floor to the gravel on the ground, and dragged her into a jeep. I was asleep; I was awakened by the noise, because they started throwing stones and rocks against the beautiful palace that was my host's house. I could not understand what was happening, because I was sleeping on the second floor. And then one sannyasin came running, and he said, "The police seem to be absolutely mad! We were telling them that we were going to wake you up, but they have started throwing stones and breaking windows." So I had to go down without even changing my clothes, and they said, "You cannot stay even for a single moment." No arrest warrant, no search warrant -- and they forced me, at gun point. Forty loaded guns, against a man who has nothing in his hands, and who…
Maneesha has asked a few questions. First: beloved Osho, to be told that truth is a secret, makes me feel that truth is an exclusive club to which one only gains entrance by having some inexplicable qualification. But I don't sense that you have some secret you are keeping from us; if anything my own secretiveness is what is in the way. Is there anything you can say that I might understand?
Every moment I am giving you the rose that Gautam Buddha gave to Mahakashyapa; with my whole being, with my presence. There is no secret at all, both my hands are open. I am not holding my fists closed. But there are investments which would like what you call `exclusive clubs'. The Hindu pundit thinks that truth is only in the Sanskrit scriptures. One very young and alert man, Swami Ramateertha, who had gone to the West and around the world, was loved by thousands of people. He was a man of rare quality. He thought that, coming back home, it would be right for him to first go to Kashi, the capital of Hinduism. But he was not aware that a great disaster was awaiting him. In Kashi, they have the secret council of Hindu scholars. He was asked to present himself before the council, and the first question…
Question: OSHO, ALL THE OTHER MASTERS SEEM LIKE PYGMIES. WHAT IS YOUR SECRET? Ouspensky got fed up. But he loved the man, so although he left Gurdjieff, what he did was divide Gurdjieff in two: the Gurdjieff with whom he was, and the Gurdjieff with whom he wasn't. The Gurdjieff with whom he was not, he was against; and the Gurdjieff with whom he was -- he was his Master. So Ouspensky remembers him as "G"; he never writes the full name because the full name will give you a misunderstanding -- you may think he is talking about the whole Gurdjieff -- so he simply talks about "G." "G" means Gurdjieff when Ouspensky was with him. Certainly Gurdjieff had fragments. He tried hard to make a system out of them, but he was not the man -- poetic, imaginative -- to create the system.
Beloved Osho, you are a delicious bundle of mischief. When you told us we would get a taste of eternity, a glimpse, when we stop mid-flight, in mid-dance, at your signal, I thought a door would open, and a beam of light would enter my darkness. You ripped the whole door off! I thought I was safe inside, and suddenly everything around me was gone -- even me. Since then there has been a giggling fellow walking around in his old clothes, looking for his house, using my name. Shall I let him share our secret?
Devageet, it is time you realized that whenever I do something, I do it totally. I don't hold anything back. And that's my message to you too. Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done half-heartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything half-heartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings -- they are all split. The whole past has given you only one heritage, and that is schizophrenia. The misery in the world is not surprising; it is a natural outcome of our living always half-heartedly, doing everything only with one part of our being, while the other part is resisting, opposing, fighting. And whatever you do with half of your being is going to…
Question: BELOVED OSHO, IS IT OKAY TO HAVE A SECRET? I have been told, those two keys were the keys to all the secret files against the politicians of India -- because that was her power. If those two keys are lost then it will be a difficult job -- first those two keys.... Perhaps one key was concerned with the files and the other key was concerned with the money they were keeping in hiding. And this was a constant fight between Sanjay and Indira: he wanted those two keys. I don't know exactly, but people who knew their house and their inner workings say that he even slapped his mother once because she was adamant and would not give him those two keys. And finally she had to give them to him because he was creating too much trouble for her.