Quotes From "The Secret Of Secrets" By Osho

A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern. . Osho

A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected. Osho

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics. Osho

Man is a question mark. and it is a blessing–celebrate it. It is a blessing because only man is a question mark; no dog is, no tree is. The rose bush is beautiful but not as beautiful as man, and the moon is beautiful but not as beautiful as man–because they are unconscious. Only man is consciously on a quest. And how can you be on a quest if you don’t have a question mark in your being?. Osho

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary. Osho

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn. Osho

Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It blooms only in courage. Osho

Breathing in, let golden light come into you through your head, because it is there that the Golden Flower is waiting. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your whole body and will make it absolutely full of creativity. This is male energy. Then when you exhale, let darkness, the darkest you can conceive, like a dark night, river-like, come from your toes upwards–this is feminine energy: it will soothe you, it will make you receptive, it will calm you, it will give you rest–and let it go out of the head. Then inhale again, and golden light enters in. Osho

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing. Osho

Real meditation means: don’t avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it. Osho

When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alert–deep down at the very core of one’s being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle of light–then you will see your original face. And to see your original face is to be back in the Garden of Eden. Osho

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being. Osho

Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers can go on blooming and birds can go on singing, why not you? You also belong to this universe. You are part of it. In fact, you are the most valuable part of it, the greatest flowering is going to happen in you–the flowering of consciousness, the golden flower of being. Osho

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth. Osho

A buddha lives in the orgasmic state for twenty-four hours, day in and day out. Between the day Gautama Buddha became enlightened and the day he died there is a distance of forty-two years. For these forty-two years he was utterly in an orgasmic state. Just think! Those few moments you have are nothing compared to a Buddha’s. Osho

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled. Osho

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours. Osho

Love is the key, love is the secret. Osho

Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen. Osho

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one. Osho

Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth. Osho