In every way


the ego is the greatest disease
 that can happen to man. If you succeed, your ego becomes big – that is a danger, because then you will have to remove a big rock which is blocking the path. Or if the ego is small – you have not been successful, you have proved to be a failure – then your ego will become a wound. Then it hurts, then it creates an inferiority complex. Then too it creates a problem: you are always afraid to enter into anything, even in meditation, because you know you are a failure, you are going to fail. That has become your mind because everywhere you have failed. And meditation is such a great thing, you cannot succeed.
 

Osho

Fearless interference

'After Vilas Tupe threw the knife everybody in the auditorium was disturbed except for Osho. He was speaking about the devil inside us when the knife was thrown. There was not even a trace of fear or worry on Osho’s face, not even a hair flickered on him and he remained as calm and poised like a Buddha statue. Osho gracefully said, “An agent of devil seems to be present amongst us today. Please escort him outside with respect.” If Osho had not spoken, the man would have probably been beaten by 2000 others who were there to listen to the master.'