The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here

The great pilgrimage: from here to here 6 September 1987

Begging for attention comes from a false personality; discover your inner individuality through meditation so external approval no longer nourishes the ego.

Be a joke unto yourself 7 September 1987

Embrace life's mystery: stop trying to understand, love and laugh—be playful, drop seriousness and hierarchy; be a joke unto yourself to awaken joy.

Into the open sky 7 September 1987

Deep questions demand silence: truth cannot be spoken, only lived. Drop the ego through awareness and humor to open into spacious, unbounded being.

Suddenly you have blossomed 8 September 1987

God and the devil are human hypotheses; the devil has run history, but both must 'die' so people can be free to stop serving and awaken to spontaneous bliss.

You have never looked inside 8 September 1987

True meditation is an inner turning—no sutra, no object, pure no-mind awareness; live sex fully to transcend it; be in the world but not of it.

Expectation breeds frustration 9 September 1987

Expectation breeds frustration; the world is already saved—become the guitar through which existence plays its music; I am merely a passage for you.

First have your cup of tea 9 September 1987

Hurry blocks awakening; be still, trust existence, 'first have your cup of tea' — patience ripens enlightenment; beware quick fixes and false teachers.

Forget trying to get it! 10 September 1987

Sex and the sexual personality must die for true transcendence: when sex 'drops' or you 'drop', the immortal self is revealed — headaches can signal this shift

Enlightenment is none of your business 10 September 1987

Stop chasing enlightenment; settle the mind through meditation, drop goal-orientation — let inner awakening happen naturally rather than making it your business.

Drunk with awareness 11 September 1987

Synchronize your heart, not your watch — be drunk with awareness: a joyous, wordless synchronicity with the master through meditation, love and silence.

Meditation -- now or never! 11 September 1987

Dry leaves falling at thirty — sexual energy waning is a blessing that frees you for a new inner life; exhaust or watch the mind, and begin meditation now.

I am the first world citizen 12 September 1987

Soul is never poor; poverty is man-made—of body and mind. Reject imposed beliefs, discover your eternal being through silence, celebration, and freedom.

Human mind is a miracle 12 September 1987

The human mind is a miraculous computer; meditation transcends it through love, not fight. Refine and cherish mind, accept aging with gratitude to reach no‑mind.

A very delicate and complex affair 13 September 1987

Therapist's role must be sharing, not saviorship: open heart, drop domination, make therapy a doorway to meditation and ultimately enlightenment.

Man is born to celebrate 13 September 1987

Gossip and old-age labels mislead; freedom is your birthright, not a goal - drop golden chains of God, religion and roles, and awaken into aware living.

Innocence regained 14 September 1987

Regain a second conscious childhood—innocence without ignorance—drop pretence, stop clutching straws and accept responsibility for your own freedom, stop seeking saviors now.

On the master's operating table 14 September 1987

A master is a surgeon: exposing psychological wounds with loving harshness to heal, clarifying aloneness vs loneliness, and urging work to become meditation.

The alphabet of rejoicing 15 September 1987

After you hit my head — a loving shock to wake the unconscious; destroy unconscious sabotage, live in rejoicing, dance and let music lead to silence.

Cowards cannot enter here 15 September 1987

Gossips don't define you; discover your own consciousness so age or gender cannot wound you — remain courageous, let rumors drop away and know your beauty.

A graceful old age is your birthright 29 September 1987

Ancientness is your birthright: aging and death are natural ripening; don't renounce life—rejoice, laugh, and embrace old age with grace and freedom.

Philosia... the path of the mystic 30 September 1987

Answering 'Am I a philosopher?' Osho urges abandoning thought-bound philosophy for philosia - love of seeing and living truth through receptive silence.

The sweetness of silence on your tongue 30 September 1987

Gossip need not be overcome - enjoy it enlightenedly; meditation is wordless silence beyond sutras, and the teacher's silence reveals your own reality.

Knowledge is the corpse of knowing 1 October 1987

All questions are escapism; knowledge is the corpse of knowing—drop 'my', destroy questions and become luminous ignorance; the master is only a window.

The only way to be is not to be 1 October 1987

True being arises only after 'not-being'—the ego must die; dissolve like an ice-cube into the ocean to become whole, and forgiveness flows from boundless love.

Don't renounce the world, renounce the rubbish! 2 October 1987

Empty the mind of borrowed rubbish - renounce conditioning, not the world; move from head to heart to being to see people and life as they are

A glimpse of your own future 2 October 1987

Sudden enlightenment can shatter the unprepared; readiness lets you absorb the lightning of samadhi. Wait in silent preparedness; don't trust mind-made visions

Become the mystery 3 October 1987

The mystery of women is the mystery of the heart versus the head: understanding requires melting thought into feeling through meditation so one can become the mystery.

Education for life -- and for death 3 October 1987

Education's secret is matching birth to innate potential via genetic choice, then training for a full life and a conscious death, culminating in meditation.