Osho Quotes Your Ego Will Die By

These Osho quotes on Zen come from Osho's book, "Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen"

~ "Zen wants you to be religious, not in a formal way, but to be really religious in your day-to-day life. Zen does not divide your life into the mundane and the sacred, it says everything is sacred. So eating, be meditative. Walking, be meditative. Whatsoever you are doing... taking a bath, be meditative. Wherever you are, you are in the temple. This whole existence is God's temple!"

~ "One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it."

~ "The witness lives in the world just like a mirror, reflecting everything. He may be in a hut, he may be in a palace; it makes no difference. What difference does it make to a mirror whether the mirror is in a hut or in a palace? What difference does it make to the mirror whether the mirror is reflecting beautiful diamonds or just ordinary stones? It makes no difference to the mirror. Witnessing is the art of transcending the world. Witnessing is the very essence of Zen, of religion itself."

If you're not the tarot type, you probably haven't given the Osho Zen Tarot deck much consideration. But if you're the quotes type and the Osho type, you might want to reconsider, because you'll find lots of great Osho quotes in the Osho Zen Tarot set.

I wasn't the tarot type either, but I got the Osho Zen Tarot deck when I realized it comes with a booklet that draws heavily from Osho's words. Each card is pictured in the book, with excerpts of Osho from his various discourses over the course of 30 years. So it's full of inspiring and enlightening Osho quotes. In fact, Osho collaborated with the artist, Ma Deva Padma, closely when she worked on the project.

Once I started using the deck, I realized it's no ordinary, "Mirror mirror on the wall, what does my future hold?" kind of tarot deck. The cards are worth having for their beautiful art value alone, even if you never pull a single card for a reading. But what's most unique about this tarot deck is that it's not about predicting the future. Even if I'm wondering about some down-the-road problem or issue when I draw a card, what I love about the Osho quotes in the booklet is that they bring me right back to the present, where all problems are seen in their true light.

Here are some of the Osho quotes I like best from the booklet:

Card: Truth
Osho says: "If you have found your truth within yourself, there is nothing more in this whole existence to find."

Card: Creativity
Osho says: "Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine."

Card: The Rebel
Osho says: "The enlightened man is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation."

Card: Mind
Osho says: "Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action."

Card: Change
Osho says: "Time changes, the world goes on changing, but the experience of silence, the joy of it, remains the same. That is the only thing you can rely upon, the only thing that never dies. It is the only thing that you can call your very being."

~"The word 'healing' comes from the same root as from where the word 'whole' comes. Whole, health, healing, holy, all come from the same root. To be healed means to be joined with the whole. To be ill means to be disconnected with the whole. An ill person is one who has simply developed blocks between him and the whole, so something is disconnected."

~"Healing almost becomes an experience of prayer, an experience of God, of love, of the whole."

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Let go into what is...
losing yourself, your story.
Give the world what the world
requires, meanwhile going about
your True Business -
truly being.