Osho on Zen Tea Ceremony – The tea ceremony is a religious phenomenon; it is not something mundane. The way you drink tea is a mundane thing. The way tea is served in a Zen monastery is sacred.

Osho on Zen Monks living with Zen Masters for years – Because of their stupidities. You can be enlightened in a single minute; you can wait for forty years. It depends how gross you are. The Master is just a presence. You can partake of him.

Osho on Samurai warriors – In Japan they tried to create a different type of person – they called him a samurai. He was a monk and also a warrior. They also teach jujitsu and judo and the arts of wrestling, swordsmanship and archery.

Osho Zen Quotes – Zen is a religion of beauty. There are Zen gardens where rocks are used with flowers, arranged in such a way that the rock enhances the beauty of the flower, the flower enhances the beauty of the rock. They are in an attunement, they are no more enemies.

Osho on Zen – Zen is one of the purest spiritual experiences, uncontaminated by any thought, any theology, any speculation. Zen is not a philosophy, it is not a doctrine. It is an experience, an experience of your own interiority, of your own subjectivity – not an objective experience.

Osho on Zen swordsmanship – Swordsmanship became one of the UPAYAS, one of the basic methodologies. Because the very thing is so dangerous that it doesn’t allow thinking.