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Got married to nothingness

March 7, 2022 · by · in Buddhism, Osho, Spirituality, Stories, Tao

There is a beautiful Buddhist story in China. In a certain town a very beautiful young lady suddenly arrived out of the blue. Nobody knew from where she came; her whereabouts were completely unknown. But she was so beautiful, so enchantingly beautiful, that nobody even thought about where she had come from. People gathered together, […]

Masters and their birth…

August 5, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

  The first incident happened before Ashtavakra was born. Nothing is known of what came afterwards but this is an incident while he was still in the womb. His father, who was a great scholar, would recite the Vedas every day while Ashtavakra listened from the womb. One day a voice came from the womb […]

Buddha and a Small Girl

June 3, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

There is a beautiful story. Gautam Buddha comes into a town. The whole town has gathered to listen to him but he goes on waiting, looking backwards at the road — because a small girl, not more than thirteen years old, has met him on the road and told him, “Wait for me. I am […]

Cherry Blossom and the Misty Moon

May 30, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

It happened about a very famous Zen woman, her name was Rengetsu…. Very few women have attained to the Zen ultimate. This one is one of those rare women. She was on a pilgrimage, and she came to a village at sunset and begged for lodging for the night, but the villagers slammed their doors. […]

Master of Silence

May 29, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

People are so foolish. Either they are deceived by words or they are deceived by silence — but they are deceived either way. There is a famous Zen story. I would like to tell it to you. A monk called himself the ‘Master of Silence’. He was actually a fraud and had no genuine understanding. […]

Ten Bulls of Zen

May 19, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

There is an ancient story, the famous Zen story, The Ten Bulls of Zen. It is a pictorial story with ten picture cards, each card containing a phase of man and his evolution. The original pack consisted of only nine cards; the tenth was added by a madman like me. Everybody opposed him, everybody denounced […]

You have been chosen! — not Buddha

May 16, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

I have heard: A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was […]

God is Dead

May 7, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized

These gods go on being born and dying, but these are not the true God. ‘True God’ simply means life — AES DHAMMO SANANTANO — the inexhaustible law of existence. How can it die? There is no way. Forms change…. It seems God visited the New York subways recently. Someone had scrawled on the wall: […]

Perfect Woman

April 24, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

I have heard about a man who remained unmarried his whole life, and when he was dying, ninety years old, somebody asked him, “You have remained unmarried your whole life, but you have never said what the reason was. Now you are dying, at least quench our curiosity. If there is any secret, now you […]

Bundle of misery

April 21, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · 1 Comment

There is a Sufi parable: A man used to call every night to God and he would pray the same prayer. Again and again he would ask, “Do one favor for me, at least one favor — and I have been asking my whole life. As far as I can see, I am the most […]