The Razor's Edge

Miracles are bound to happen 25 February 1987

Mysticism turns the dark night into a light one: dissolve the unreal, unite sacred and mundane, open to love and courage to receive the master's energy.

The new man: a citizen of the world 26 February 1987

Five imminent dangers—nuclear arms, runaway population, AIDS from enforced celibacy, ecological collapse, and sectarian divides—demand a new world-citizen.

Just like the open sky 26 February 1987

At death the physical and subtle bodies separate; be the witnessing consciousness beyond both, guiding the dying into formless freedom and quieting the mind.

First be selfish 27 February 1987

First be selfish: discover your own inner riches and awaken consciousness; only from this fullness can true, effortless unselfishness and service arise.

Existence loves imperfection 27 February 1987

Total involvement heals the split self; imperfection allows growth. Share your awakening freely—don't hoard secrets, even the 'giggling fellow' may receive.

Laughter is the essential religion 28 February 1987

Drop the ego's head: be grateful to existence, not to the guru; relax to know yourself—laughter is religion—and power exposes the corruption within people.

When the ocean has called you 28 February 1987

When there are no words for a question, it's an answer—trust existence, let the inner knowing be lived, not solved; surrender, joy and silence will express it.

Our dance is forever 1 March 1987

The river's dance leads to the ocean: don't stop at the lovely beginning—surrender ego, let the seed die; the ocean (union) unfolds a deeper, infinite journey.

Love is never too much 1 March 1987

Love is not an act but a being; its overwhelming intensity may feel like pain until consciousness expands. Accept suchness, release ego, keep doors open.

With trust, it is always spring 2 March 1987

Seek truth, not only beauty—artists may die with songs yet unfulfilled; trust belongs to being while love is seasonal; when love joins trust, always spring.

Bring the dawn, dispel the darkness 2 March 1987

Outer technological progress without inner consciousness creates humanity's peril; unless individuals awaken like lotuses from mud, civilization courts ruin.

God is also seeking you 3 March 1987

God seeks you as you seek him; take one decisive step inward, move beyond mind into heart-space, and meet the divine within rather than waiting for priests or proofs.

You can't hold on and clap too 3 March 1987

Let go and fall the six-inch gap from mind to heart: clap and relinquish clinging; the master's task is to drop you so you resurrect into fearless, new life.

Easy is right 4 March 1987

Easy is right: naturalness and effortlessness dissolve ego; Chuang Tzu’s paradoxes stop the mind and reveal truth in ordinary, relaxed being.

One coin, two sides 4 March 1987

Eyes are doors to consciousness: seeing no 'thou' in the master dissolves the disciple's 'I', bringing relief as emptiness ripens into divine presence.

Who created god 5 March 1987

A woman's remorse reflects love, not guilt; Osho defends women's sensitivity, exposes male bias, celebrates five enlightened women and the 'Who created God?' challenge.

Playing a part in the movie 5 March 1987

True witnessing dissolves the mind—dreams can fake the watcher and make mental drama entertainment; meditation clarifies but can seem 'cold' to lovers.

The river needs no guide 6 March 1987

Drop the 'I' - suchness dissolves ego; stop willing, melt into trust and let the river flow to the ocean: enlightenment is the absence of 'me' and pure knowing.

Awareness will not go to war 6 March 1987

Tears can overflow from innocence and gratitude—allow them; and the fear of being nobody dissolves into nobodiness, the silent, immortal self.

Each human being is a longing of existence 7 March 1987

Existence longs through each human; awakening begins when you drop defenses and pay the inner price—nurture what grows, don't hunger for what's missing.

What am i doing here? 7 March 1987

Leap from cage-bound safety into the open sky: stop trying to take sannyas, let it arise like love; drop the past and trust existence completely.

Don't be worried -- the worst will also happen 8 March 1987

Art becomes sacred when born of silence rather than the mind; let meditation precede doing, and the ego dissolves as your authentic being awakens.

It is a carbon copy 8 March 1987

Meditate to find life's source, drop conditioned ego and anti-life doctrines; then love and awareness arise, transforming ordinary living into total aliveness.

No heaven, no hell, no doubt 9 March 1987

Love absorbs all energy—doubt, shame, fear vanish; the master lives in devotees' hearts; like Ramakrishna, love is the golden key to godliness.

The same vicious circle 9 March 1987

Mind is a servant not a master: use it in the marketplace but drop it to find truth; love and being outrank logic, silence reveals reality.

Live fearlessly, die fearlessly 10 March 1987

Cultural repression makes women fear intimacy; orgasm offers no-mind and timelessness; reclaim sexual joy as meditation, live fearlessly and die without fear.

This i call the "razor's edge" 10 March 1987

False personality is borrowed and permanent; drop falseness to reveal the real — your divine, ever-changing center. Cross the razor's edge into the unknowable.

Truth: the greatest surgery 11 March 1987

Truth is the greatest surgery: let the false die so your real self awakens; trust in the master becomes self-trust, and truth must not be softened.

The answer is you 11 March 1987

Drop willpower and ego; practice effortless silence where questions evaporate and your own silent awareness becomes the answer, so death is witnessed, not feared.

A little more courage, a little more love 12 March 1987

The third-eye's emptiness is ego-death before rebirth; move inward with meditation, drop fear, shift from head to heart, and let love become your guide.