Topic guides 27
What Osho said on the subjects people ask about most, passage by passage, each linked to the exact place in the talk.
Osho on Anger
Neither express it nor repress it: anger is your own energy, to be known and watched.
1,363 talksmost in 1975
Osho on Awareness
Choiceless, unpracticed, closer than breath — the single key Osho offered for every lock.
2,269 talksmost in 1975
Osho on Buddha
Osho spoke on Gautam Buddha more than on any other awakened one — and refused to let him harden into a religion.
2,888 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Death & Dying
For Osho, death was not the end of life but its crescendo — a door, not a wall. What he taught about the fear of death, dying consciously, and why he celebrated funerals.
3,868 talksmost in 1974
Osho on the Ego
A shadow with no substance of its own — yet the one disease behind all the others.
2,103 talksmost in 1975
Osho on Enlightenment
Not an attainment of the ego but its evaporation — and, in Osho's telling, nothing serious at all.
1,120 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Fear
The shadow of the ego, the fear of life wearing death's mask — and the strange freedom of trembling totally.
1,479 talksmost in 1974
Osho on Freud
Osho credited Freud with mapping the basement of the mind — and faulted him for never finding the stairs up.
138 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Gandhi
Osho was one of modern India's most outspoken critics of Mahatma Gandhi — of his politics, his asceticism, and his worship of poverty. Here is what he actually said, in his own words.
236 talksmost in 1989
Osho on God
Not a person to worship but a presence to live — Osho kept the temple and threw out the idol.
4,679 talksmost in 1979
Osho on Jesus
A rebel, a Jew, never a Christian — Osho separated the man on the cross from the church built in his name.
1,514 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Krishna
The complete man — flute and battlefield together. Why Osho called Krishna the one figure whole enough for the future.
628 talksmost in 1970
Osho on J. Krishnamurti
Rivals to the world, colleagues in the same work — what Osho said about Jiddu Krishnamurti: his enlightenment and his limits.
124 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Kundalini
Kundalini, the chakras and the third eye: the awakening of life energy, in Osho's own words.
48 talksmost in 1970
Osho on Love
Love as freedom, love as meditation, love as the death of the ego — in Osho's own words.
4,972 talksmost in 1979
Osho on Mahavira
'The Self is ahimsa' — Osho on the naked seeker whose nonviolence was a state of being, not a policy.
927 talksmost in 1971
Osho on Meditation
Not concentration, not prayer — a settling into your own center, awake and at ease.
3,235 talksmost in 1989
Osho on the Mind
Not an entity but an activity — the past pretending to be you.
4,792 talksmost in 1974
Osho on Nietzsche
The philosopher Osho defended against the whole world — 'he was never mad. He was just too much ahead of his time.'
79 talksmost in 1989
Osho on the Purpose of Life
Life has no ready-made meaning: it is an opportunity, and meaning is created by living it fully.
169 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Relationships
Two alonenesses meeting — not two hungers bargaining. Osho on love, marriage, possessiveness and space.
467 talksmost in 1977
Osho on Samadhi
The state beyond the duality of the observer and the observed, which no words can describe.
355 talksmost in 1970
Sannyas: What Osho Meant
Not renouncing the world but renouncing its grip on you — a rebellion lived in the marketplace.
2,322 talksmost in 1980
Osho on Sex
Why repressing sex creates obsession, and how understanding it opens a door beyond it.
1,069 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Silence
Not the absence of noise but the presence of your own center — the only language truth speaks.
2,110 talksmost in 1989
Osho on Truth
No criterion, no proof, no end to the search — truth as a subjective explosion, not a doctrine.
2,713 talksmost in 1969
Osho on Witnessing
Sakshi bhav: watching the body, the mind and the emotions without becoming identified with them.
692 talksmost in 1989