Osho Zen Quotes – Zen is a non-political religiousness. You cannot call it even religion. It is so individualistic and so emphatically concerned only with the potential of the individual. It does not want anything from the individual, it simply wants him to be himself

Osho on first Zen Master Mahakashyap – Buddha was the source, and Mahakashyap was the first, the original master of Zen. Buddha was the source, Mahakashyap was the first master.

Osho on Gautam Buddha, Maulingaputta Mahakashyapa and Zen Masters – Mahakashyapa was immensely courageous to be utterly silent for twenty years, not even to ask the master, but just to wait.

Osho – Zen is the path and I am the gate and you live in the house. You have completely forgotten – that’s what makes the possibility of making a path, to remind you. The path is only a reminder.

Osho on Zen Master Ma Tzu and Nansen – Ma Tzu has his own methods; he has brought Bodhidharma’s methods to the ultimate peak. Nansen loved Ma Tzu, but was not ready to become his successor. If he had remained, he would have been the successor of Ma Tzu.

Osho on Zen approach to Meditation – Meditation has to become something like your breathing. For Zen, meditation has to be a twenty-four-hour affair. Zen does not believe in meditating one hour in the morning, or one hour in the night. It does not make meditation a separate, particular act.