Osho | Internal Reference¶

This version presents source texts for deep study. Quotations reflect Xuefeng's original teachings.

I. Osho as Xuefeng's Kindred Spirit — Osho's Words¶

As far as I am concerned, I have always been against any organized religion. My love, my longing, is to create as many individuals in the world as possible — completely independent, with freedom to the very bones of their souls, without any religious bondage — Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan. No scriptures, no doctrines… no commandments at all, except awareness — the very fire burning in your soul, letting you see your true nature.

Truth, once organized, becomes a lie. An organized religion is nothing but a disguised form of politics — a means of cruel exploitation by the priesthood.

Truth brings freedom, meditation brings freedom — freedom from scriptures, freedom from those ancient words. Truth brings a silence, a peace, a feeling of the eternal, of immortality. It will bring to your life a dance, a new poetry, a new music, a new life full of grace and love.

But truth has nothing to do with any organized religion.

All organized religions have proved themselves to be criminal — murderous. They have done nothing but massacre. They have burned people alive all over the world. If we want a new world, we have to clean away all organized religions. Religiousness is like love. Have you ever heard of "organized love"?

For prostitution to disappear, marriage must disappear first. Prostitution is a byproduct of marriage; as long as marriage exists, prostitution cannot be eliminated.

Marriage creates a bondage; every bondage produces a tremendous urge to be free — if only for occasional moments.

But why should all women always be enslaved — either under the name of marriage or under the name of prostitute? How ugly, how barbarous! Abandon marriage; let every woman be completely free and independent.

If love destroys freedom, that is love's suicide.

My love is freedom. Everyone who gathers around me — and more will come — must remember this: you are not here to become a member of any sect. You are here simply to walk the same road with friends. At any time, you are free to leave. Everyone is welcome to join; if they wish to go elsewhere to explore, they will be seen off with blessings. (Xuefeng Corpus · Inspiration Chapter · Osho Is My Kindred Spirit, 2006-02-02)

II. Words Osho Never Finished Saying (Written by Xuefeng in Osho's Voice)¶

The truth is, I have not fully awakened. I know that LIFE reincarnates, but how it reincarnates and where it goes — I have no idea. Yet compared to the billions of fools around us, I am greatly awakened. I am a phoenix in the sky; they are hens on the ground.

Am I wrong? I am independent, free, at ease — I am myself. While they are fragmented, enslaved, imprisoned — they are not themselves.

I roam freely like a heavenly horse, unconstrained. While they walk with difficulty, hemmed in on all sides, surrounded and bound by religious doctrines, party ideologies, conventional ideas, money, power, fame, and desire.

I have always done my own work, spoken my own words, thought my own thoughts. Only to guide them did I borrow the language of Jesus, the Buddha, Mahavira, Laozi — in reality, I am not bound by any of them.

I am proud, and I am humble: infinitely proud before fools, infinitely humble before existence. People say "beyond every mountain lies a higher mountain, beyond every sky lies a higher sky." I dare not claim I am the highest of all — for I have not yet glimpsed the other heavens.

The highest point on earth is the summit of the Himalayas — Xuefeng, the Snow Peak, where the cold cuts to the bone. I have never reached Xuefeng, but I observed it from close range. There is a solemnity, a nobility, an absolute beauty, a soaring ease — unsullied by worldly pollution, free of all artifice, standing nakedly there, connecting to the blue sky. I can only look up at it. But I feel that is the Lifechanyuan — the final destination for everyone who has revered me.

To be honest, the most I have done is to clear the obstacles for those who wish to journey toward Xuefeng — the Lifechanyuan — and let them catch a glimpse of Snow Peak's splendor. I am only a pioneer, who opened a small path leading toward Xuefeng.

Do you miss me? Do you want to find me? Then heed my words: walk the path I opened; the path's end connects to Xuefeng. If you face the difficulties bravely and climb courageously, you will reach Snow Peak. And I — I have already melted into Snow Peak.

May you reach Snow Peak, climb Snow Peak, and at its summit behold the Lifechanyuan!

May you, like me, melt into Snow Peak — melt into the eternity of LIFE! (Xuefeng Corpus · Inspiration Chapter · Words Osho Never Finished Saying)

III. Xuefeng's Overall Assessment of Osho¶

Without any doubt, Osho is a great thinker and enlightener. His ideas were like a bomb, blasting open the thought-cage that had imprisoned us for thousands of years, letting us see the landscape beyond the cage. Osho is a liberator — he liberated our thinking, enabling us to face reality more rationally and lucidly, no longer muddled, no longer deceived, and thus to think freely.

But Osho does not understand the principles and mysteries of LIFE, and knows even less about what time and space are. Therefore he could only enlighten, not guide. He knew where the problem was but did not know the path and method for resolving it. Anyone who follows his methods completely will inevitably labor in vain. (Lifechanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice Chapter · Osho's Meditation Method — It Won't Work, 2012-03-27)

IV. The Limitations of Osho's Meditation Methods¶

Osho's meditation methods are merely scratching the surface. Although there are now more than a thousand groups practicing Osho's meditation methods around the world and reportedly achieving good results, in my view that is an ostrich mentality — self-deception. Whether it is awareness, observation, breathing, or anything else — all of it is illusory and cannot resolve the fundamental problem.

Osho's definition — "meditation is transcending the mind and entering into an unknown dimension" — is itself erroneous and equivocal. Meditation methods built on an erroneous and equivocal foundation will inevitably be disordered and confused — the more one meditates, the harder it becomes to quiet the mind. (Lifechanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice Chapter · Osho's Meditation Method — It Won't Work, 2012-03-27)

V. What Real Meditation Is — Xuefeng's Answer¶

What is meditation?

Meditation is a mind that abides nowhere — a mind not bound by form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought — reaching the state of "no sensation, perception, volition, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought; no realm of sight … no realm of mental consciousness; no ignorance, nor any extinction of ignorance … no aging and death, nor any extinction of aging and death; no suffering, origination, cessation, or path; no wisdom and no attainment."

As long as the problems of food, clothing, shelter, transportation, aging, illness, and death have not been resolved, any meditation method is no more than superficial work.

So how does one achieve a mind-free state?

Read the Lifechanyuan Corpus, read the Xuefeng Corpus, and enter the life of the Second Home that Lifechanyuan has established — then one can achieve a mind-free state. (Lifechanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice Chapter · Osho's Meditation Method — It Won't Work, 2012-03-27)

VI. Lacking a View of LIFE — Xuefeng's Final Verdict¶

Osho was famous in his time — one of the outstanding figures in the realm of thought. I read many of his articles and admired his genuine insight and honesty, yet I felt regret for his lack of a view of LIFE. I wrote an essay designating Osho as having come only as far as the foot of Snow Peak.

Without a view of LIFE, people can only value the present and not the future. They can only consider how to live this one life well and will not think about the next life. Thinking that ignores the future and the next life is shortsighted thinking — it cannot provide people with a correct outlook on life and values, and of course cannot point the direction of development and the goal for all of humanity.

My conclusion: thinkers without a view of LIFE are all lame. (Xuefeng Corpus · Miscellaneous Essays Chapter · Thinkers Without a View of LIFE Are All Lame, 2025-08-14)

VII. Osho as a Recommended Reading (2006)¶

For Chanyuan Celestials and guests, reading the following classics and books alongside Lifechanyuan texts will be greatly beneficial in understanding Lifechanyuan's ideas and inaugurating the Lifechanyuan New Era.

… IX. The wisdom of Osho. … (Xuefeng Corpus · Chanyuan Chapter · Supplementary Readings for Lifechanyuan, 2006-09-07)

VIII. Osho in the New Age Consciousness Framework¶

The New Age consciousness is a vast and complex system that inherits, defends, and develops nearly all the wisdom of humanity's sages, spanning science, philosophy, psychology, biology, spirituality, astronomy, … the Way of Christ, Buddhism, Laozi's philosophy, and the views of many Indian masters and gurus (such as Osho, Bhagwan, Krishnamurti, etc.) — encyclopedic and magnificent, laying the foundation for humanity's next leap forward. (Xuefeng Corpus · Chanyuan Chapter · Embracing New Age Consciousness in Its Entirety)

About fifteen years ago, a wave of enthusiasm arose for Western spirituality and Osho's teachings. Masters emerged like mushrooms after rain; online platforms overflowed with high-profile figures; spiritual cultivation content dominated the discourse — for a time it seemed a new world was being born. Yet more than ten years on, the tide came in and went out, and they have all disappeared from sight.

Where did things go wrong?

The problem was that no one built a life program aligned with what they had learned and aspired to. Without the protection of a program, one is swiftly — even instantly — thrown back into suffering by the brutality of reality, quickly compromising and surrendering to it. (Lifechanyuan Corpus · Cultivation Practice Chapter · The Blind Spots of Cultivation Practitioners for a Thousand Years, 2021-01-12)

X. Comparing Chanyuan Celestials with Osho Practitioners¶

Now I invite everyone to compare the various kinds of cultivators you know — those studying Buddhism, pursuing immortality, going to church, going to the mosque, Falun Gong practitioners, Zhong Gong practitioners, Osho practitioners, and so on — with us at Lifechanyuan. Do you feel their path of cultivation is simpler, easier, and more effective? Or is the path walked by Chanyuan Celestials simpler, easier, more direct, and more effective? (Xuefeng's Other Writings · 2017 · Looking Back on Our Path of Cultivation Practice, 2017-07-29)