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“We are on the deathbed. Humanity cannot survive – the way it has been behaving with nature – for more than fifty years, sixty years, or, at the most, one hundred years, which is nothing. If the Third World War does not happen, then we will be committing a slow suicide. Within a hundred years, we will be gone. Not even a trace will be left.”1 Osho

See also: Osho, “Religion: The Crimes Against Nature and the Environment”
And: Priests & Politicians: The Mafia of the Soul

Osho,
I realized that it is easier to become silent while listening to you than in any other meditation. When you stop talking everything seems to stop for a moment and I get a glimpse of what meditation can be! These are the most precious moments for me! Osho, why is it easier to become silent in your presence?

“The question you have raised is significant not only to you, but to many more who are not fortunate enough to be in my presence, but who will be reading these words or listening or seeing this on the video screen all over the world.

Osho,
The crises that you have so often warned about are now happening everywhere and people seem to be scared of the future. They seem to choose to cling to their misery rather than change and enjoy life. What is this attachment to misery? And why is it so difficult to be happy?

“Your question is significant: ‘What is this attachment to misery?’

It was a coincidence that you were born in a certain family and those people conditioned your mind in a certain way.

They gave you certain ideologies, gave you a certain religious outlook, gave you a certain theological jargon; and you learned it like a parrot.

“I have to introduce to the Museum of Gods a gift from Rafia.
“For a few months there has been a very strange tension arising in American traffic, because so many cars are on the road that you can walk home faster than you can take your car. For three hours, four hours, five hours people are simply stuck.

“You were born just as a human being — then how did you become a Mohammedan or a Hindu or a Christian?
“One of the most important novelists of America has asked me a question: “Osho, what do you think about the Jewish and Arab conflict in the Middle East? What is the solution, and what are the implications for the future?”

Osho,
Looking at others, I get the feeling that they are always far better, more beautiful or intelligent than me. How can I be more satisfied with myself?

“And never compare. Comparison is a disease, one of the greatest diseases and we are taught from the very beginning to compare.
“Your mother starts comparing you with other children, your father starts comparing you with other children. The teacher compares you: ‘Look at Johnny, how well he is doing, and you are no good at all! Look at others!’

Osho,
What is the difference between traditional Yoga and Tantra?
Are they the same?

“Tantra is feminine, Yoga is male. Tantra is surrender, Yoga is will. Tantra is effortlessness – Yoga is tremendous effort. Tantra is passive, Yoga is active. Tantra is like the earth, Yoga is like the sky. They meet, but there is no synthesis. They meet at the top, but at the foothill where the journey starts, where you are all standing, you have to choose one path….”1

Osho,
Often I get totally carried away by my emotions. I find it is very beautiful when it is deep love. But it also happens with fear, anger and sadness. Could you please comment?

“There is certainly something very similar in very different emotions: the overwhelmingness. It may be love, it may be hate, it may be anger — it can be anything.

Osho visits a jail and talks to its inmates:
“My friends, do not be under the illusion that you alone are in fetters. Those outside this prison, who are apparently free, are also in chains, though their shackles are of a different kind. Their desires are their chains; their ignorance is their imprisonment.