The Tantra Experience Quotes

“Beware of your own mind; don’t trust it, doubt it. If you start doubting your mind, that is a great moment. The moment the doubt about mind arises, you start trusting the self. If you trust the mind, you doubt the self. If you mistrust the mind, you start trusting the self. That is the whole meaning of trusting a master. When”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“That’s what meditation is all about: a state of no-mind, a state of nonthinking – yet fully aware, luminous with awareness. When there is not a single thought, your sky is clean of all clouds, and then the sun shines bright.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“It almost always happens that nearabout the age of forty-five one starts feeling that their whole life has gone. Death is coming closer, and because of death coming closer, either you become spiritual or you become more sexual.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind, just being herenow. Being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars. You are not in a prison. You are in God’s house,”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Please don’t become a Christian, don’t become a Hindu. You are a christ. Why become a Christian? Christhood is your nature. Christhood has nothing to do with Jesus; it is as much yours as Jesus’. Christhood is a state of choiceless awareness. So please don’t start thinking in terms of desire: “I would like to become true.” Now this is the way to become untrue. Drop this desire, just be, don’t try to become. Becoming is becoming untrue; being is truth. See the difference: becoming is in the future, it has a goal, being is herenow; it is not a goal, it is already the case. So whosoever you are, just be that, don’t try to become anything else. You have been taught ideals, goals – become! Always you have been forced to become something. My whole teaching is: whatsoever, whosoever you are, that’s beautiful. It is more than enough, just be that. Stop becoming and be! Now naturally when you ask, “I would like to become true, but what is it and how is it?”… Once you start thinking in terms of becoming, then certainly you want to know what the goal is. “What is it, what is this truth that I want to become?” And then naturally, when goal comes there, how also comes: how to attain it? Then the whole technology, methodology… I am saying you are that. The mystic in the Upanishad says: “Tat-tvam-asi: Thou art that.” Already you are that, it is not a question of becoming. God is not somewhere in the future; God is just now, this very moment, within you, without you, everywhere, because only God is, nothing else exists. All that exists is divine.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“When you look at me, it is God looking at me; it is nobody else.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Buddha says: “To be worldly is to be worldly and to be otherworldly is also to be worldly.” To be for money is to be mad after money, to be against money is to be mad after money; to seek power is foolish; to escape is also foolish.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“If you are waiting and praying and dreaming for love and fame, it will happen one day. It is not a difficult phenomenon. One just needs stubbornness and it happens.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“If you continue to dream, enlightenment will not be possible.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Enlightenment is absence of dreaming”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“I invite you,” says Saraha, “for a great harvest: the harvest of consciousness, the harvest of awareness.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“If you cannot imagine it, that also is one of the criteria of truth: truth cannot be imagined. It can be seen, but not imagined. You can have a vision of it, but you cannot dream about it. That is the difference between a dream and a vision”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“If ineffable, never is one unsatisfied.
If unimaginable, it must be bliss itself.
Though from a cloud one fears the thunderclap,
the crops ripen when from it pours the rain.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“The moment you get it, give it, and you will be getting more and more and more. The more you give, the more you get. Then everything becomes nectar. Everything is nectar; we just have to know how to turn it, we have to know the alchemy.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Buddha insists on two things: meditation and compassion, pragyan and karuna. He says that sometimes it happens that a meditator can become too selfish; then too something goes sour.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“You can create that cloud. That cloud is created by meditation. You go on intensely meditating, dropping thoughts, dropping desires, ambitions, by and by your consciousness is a burning fire: that cloud is there. Now you can transform anything through that fire; that fire transmutes, that fire is alchemical.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“meditative energy is like a cloud which turns your sexuality into higher realms, which turns your physical existence into non-physical existence,”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Tantra says: love reality in its totality. Yes, much can be evolved, but all evolution is through love; there is no need to fight.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“The body is not the enemy of your soul; the body is just the sheath of your sword. The body is just the temple, it is your abode; it is not the enemy, it is your friend.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Tantra says you are one – there is no need to have any confusion. You can be fused into one reality. There is no need to have any conflict, there is no need to be torn apart, there is no need to go insane. You can love all that is available, and you can evolve it – with deep love, care, creativity, it can be evolved.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Tantra is non-divisive; Tantra is the only religion which is not schizophrenic. Tantra is the only religion which is really sane, the sanest religion, because it doesn’t divide. If you divide you create a split. If you tell people that the body is bad, that the body is the enemy, that the body has to be condemned, that the body is in the service of the Devil; then you are creating a split in man, then the man becomes afraid of the body.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“The basic Tantra attitude is: the sensual can be transformed into the sublime,”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Like salt sea water that turns sweet
when drunk up by the clouds,
so a firm mind that works for others,
turns the poison of sense-objects
into nectar.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“An ox’s footprints filled with water
will soon dry up;
so with a mind that’s firm,
but full of qualities that are not perfect,
these imperfections will in time dry up.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“To live with things is to live in samsara. To live with persons is to live in nirvana.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“A person cannot be used; only things can be used. A person cannot be purchased; only things can be purchased. A person has such tremendous value, such divinity, such dignity – how can you use a person?”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Samsara means to live as body, as mind, as ego. Samsara means to live outwards, samsara means to live with things. Samsara means to live with the idea that all is matter and nothing else. Samsara means three poisons: power, prestige, pull – to live”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Beings who discard nirvana
covet coarse samsara’s realm.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“Saraha himself was reading scriptures to the king before, he knows it well. He knows what the king knows, his knowledge is just information. Saraha says: “It has happened to me, but to see it you will need a different quality of seeing.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love

“You can become gods. That is possible, but the mind cannot contain godliness.”
― Osho, The Tantra Experience: Evolution through Love