"Osho Philosophy and Debate | The Osho Perspective"

This platform is to explore Osho’s spiritual teachings alongside critical discussions from other philosophical viewpoints. It delves into his ideas on meditation, freedom, and self-awareness while inviting debates with thinkers like Nietzsche and Freud, encouraging deeper reflection and diverse perspectives on his work.

Osho Discourses

We cover a wide range of topics, from meditation and self-awareness to love, freedom, and consciousness. His teachings emphasize inner transformation and spiritual awakening, encouraging individuals to break free from societal norms and live authentically. These discourses blend Eastern philosophy with modern existential insights, offering a unique perspective on personal growth.

Osho's philosophy

Osho's philosophy blends Eastern spiritual traditions with Western existentialism, focusing on inner freedom, meditation, and self-awareness. He challenges conventional norms, promoting living authentically and transcending the ego. His teachings encourage embracing life’s experiences fully while pursuing enlightenment, combining materialism and spirituality for holistic growth.

Comparative Analysis

A comparative analysis of Osho’s philosophy reveals contrasts with other thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud, and Eastern mystics. Osho embraces spirituality, rejecting societal norms, while Nietzsche promotes the "will to power" and self-overcoming without spiritual dimensions. Freud’s psychoanalysis focuses on the unconscious, whereas Osho advocates transcending the mind entirely for self-realization.

Osho's Quote: "Sex is the seed, love is the flower, and compassion is the fragrance."Osho compares sex to a seed, suggesting that sexual energy can grow into love and evolve into compassion as one reaches higher states of consciousness.

Counter:Traditional spiritual teachings, especially in religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, often advocate celibacy for spiritual growth. Critics argue that focusing on sexual energy can distract individuals from achieving spiritual purity. For them, detachment from sexual desires leads to enlightenment, not the cultivation of it.

"Philosophy is a blind man in a dark room on a dark night, searching for a black cat which is not there….”

“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."

Once a person is lost in the jungle of philosophy he becomes more and more entangled in words, concepts, abstractions and there is no end to it.

"Love is not about possession.Love is about appreciation.”
But Osho possessed every thing. His Hypocrisy

Love Is Secondary, Meditation Is Primary

“Yes, I would like you to love yourself, because unless you love yourself you cannot love anybody else. You don’t know what love is if you have not loved yourself. But before you can love yourself you have to know yourself; hence love is secondary, meditation is primary.” oshofriends

“My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. . It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently”

‘GOD chooses first, then you start feeling a hunger for him…men can not choose God, it is God who chooses man.’

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love"

Celebration is Unconditional

“To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant – I celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: ‘When I am happy then I will celebrate,’ or, ‘When I am unhappy I will not celebrate.’ No. Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life. It brings unhappiness – good, I celebrate it. It brings happiness – good, I celebrate it. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.”

Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Talk #10