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Showing posts with label Osho stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osho stories. Show all posts

I and Thou

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A lover knocked at the door of his beloved. A voice cried, "Who is there?" The person outside said, "It is I." He hear...

How to be free from the fear of death?

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Last night a man breathed his last. Today people mourn at his door. At such moments a memory of an event in my childhood arises in my mi...

What is renunciation?

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I had been to a village. I heard someone saying there: "Religion lies in renunciation, and renunciation is a hard and demanding disci...

Missed calls from God

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Many candidates were invited to interview for a position as wireless operator at a telegraph office. They stood in a long line outside the...

A difficult journey

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Sa'adi has written: A Sufi dervish had also joined us - he hadn't a single coin with him, nor anything else for that matter. We we...

A repressed fire can burst into flames at any moment

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A so-called saint was sitting alone before his dhuni , his holy fire pit. Someone came by to test him, saying, " Babaji , is there an...

If you want to attain the divine, learn to die

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Someone went to visit a Baul mystic. He was absorbed in singing his song. Neither his eyes seemed to be seeing this world, nor did it feel...

Learn something from everyone

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I remember a story. It happened in Mecca. A barber was giving someone a haircut. Just then the Sufi fakir, Junnaid, came in and said, ...

Know the strong fort inside you

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A sadhu was asked by his friends, "If wicked people attack you, what will you do?" He said, "I will go sit inside my own ...

Life never waits for you and your mind

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Once a Master said to his disciples: If you utter a word - thirty blows of my stick for you, but if you utter no words just the same, thir...

Classic Sherlock Holmes deduction

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I have heard a dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Watson: Holmes: Ah Watson. I see you have put on your winter underwear. Watson: Ma...

What is nirvana?

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A monk asked Daishu Ekai, What is nirvana? The Master answered: Not to commit oneself to the vicious circle of birth and death or pleasu...

Mulla Nasrudin's cloak falls to the ground with a thump

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One day Mulla Nasrudin's wife, hearing a tremendous thump. ran to his room. Nothing to worry about, said the Mulla. It was only my clo...

The tricks your mind plays to save itself from meditation

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Idries Shah tells a dervish tale: There was once a wise and very rich man who had a son. He said to him: My son, here is a jeweled ring. K...

Dont TRY to be natural, just BE natural

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Suzuki tells a story: A monk once asked one of the old Chinese Masters: What is the way? The Master replied:The natural one, the ordin...

The old problem of the goose in the bottle

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Riko once asked Nansen to explain to him the old problem of the goose in the bottle. If a man puts a gosling into the bottle, he said, and...

What is the holy ultimate truth?

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When the Chinese emperor Wu came to meet Bodhidharma he asked the Master: What is the holy ultimate truth? Bodhidharma laughed and repli...

The monkey way of thinking

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In the BOOK OF AMU DARIA there is an old Sufi tale: Once upon a time there was a monkey who was very fond of cherries. One day he saw a de...

All the ultimate answers are foolish

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In a little backwoods school the teacher was at the blackboard explaining arithmetic problems. She was delighted to see her dullest pupil ...

The educated fool

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In ancient times the king of a certain country was concerned because his son was something of a fool. The king's counsellors urged tha...