OSHO ABOUT OSHO

OSHO: My Concern is with People Excerpts from an Interview with Mike Wolfe, KBND Radio, Bend, Oregon “…my basic concern is the individual.

With humor and insight, dotted with anecdotes, Osho tells yet another story of his early childhood. "I have met remarkable men, but the more remarkable a man was, the more alert I was not to be influenced, because I want to remain myself -- good, bad, famous, notorious, but I want to be just myself. And I have retained my individuality, not even a dent on it. I don't like even a dent on my car." Osho Excerpt form an interview with Osho by Denise Kovacevic KATU TV, Channel 2 Portland, Oregon, USA.

Osho speaks about the use of the media to make his message available to the world: "We have all the media, and I'm going to use it fully. Whenever I do anything, I do it fully. I squeeze the last drop out of everything"...

Osho speaks about his "OSHO Talks", the way he is talking and why. "...I don't think anybody has spoken really spontaneously the way I am speaking. And I was not aware that my spontaneity would have such a tremendous effect on people. I am not an orator; I have never been trained for oratory.

Osho speaks about some important aspects of listening to his talks and the purpose of his talks. Question: Cannot we disagree with you? Cannot we criticize you? "A significant question for everyone. This is not a debating club. Neither your agreement is needed, nor your disagreement. What is needed is your right hearing. If you hear rightly, it will be decisive. Agreement is just a mind thing, and disagreement is also the same. Neither of them is going to help you.

For years Osho has spoken to a worldwide audience on timeless issues such as meditation, freedom, love, happiness, and enlightenment. In these talks, the human mind is put under the microscope as never before, analyzed to the smallest wrinkle. In the process Osho exposes hypocrisy and humbug wherever he sees it.

Listening is the same as hearing, isn't it? Osho describes how different these two really are, and how one leads to transformation. "The art of listening is based on silence in the mind, so that the mind does not interfere, it simply allows whatever is coming to you. I am not saying you have to agree with it. Listening does not mean that you have to agree with it, neither does it mean that you have to disagree with it. The art of listening is just pure listening, factual, undistorted.

No philosopher has ever been able to know the truth. All the philosophers have been thinking about the truth. But thinking about the truth is an impossibility. Either you know it, or you don't.

Osho on poverty and Rolls-Royces This is a video excerpt of one of the many responses Osho gave in a series of press interviews. "I am not a worshiper of poverty. That's what those Rolls Royces prove. I respect wealth. Nobody before me has the guts to say it. The pope cannot say that he respects wealth, although he is the wealthiest man on the earth. I am not a hypocrite. I am the poorest man on the earth. I don't have a single cent with me. But I want to prove to these people that what attracts their mind." – OSHO "I was very amazed by his ninety-odd Rolls-Royces.

Why do you always look in your hands before you start answering the first question? Do I see it wrongly, or do you find the answer there? "My hands are empty. I don't have any answer.You have questions; I don't answer you, I simply destroy your questions.