Quotes from Paul Reps

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a body has no place to rest. . . . Let another continue this poem.

Seeing the smile in your eyes, I have forgotten that people die

It is too clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, He could have cooked his rice much sooner.

If you meet a fencing-master on the road, you may give him your sword, If you meet a poet, you may offer him your poem. When you meet others, say only a part of what you intend. Never give the whole thing at once.

Meeting a Zen master on the road, Face him neither with words nor silence. Give him an uppercut And you will be called one who understands Zen.

When the mouth opens All are wrong.

While listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence.

Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts and assuming delicate configurations.

Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.

Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing.

Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei called and stopped him. When the boy turned his head to Gutei, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was enlightened.

When asked to perform a miracle, a Zen master responded: "My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

22. Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious.

55. See as for the first time a beauteous person as an ordinary object.

When there is no place for Zen in the head of our generation, it is in grievous trouble.