< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 From the Alone to the Alone 25 May 1974 am in Buddha Hall [NOTE: This is a translation from the Hindi discourses: Nahim Ram Bin Thaon. It is being edited for publication, and this version is for reference only.] Question BELOVED OSHO, BEFORE WE ASK ANYTHING WE WOULD LIKE TO OFFER OUR GRATITUDE AND GREETINGS TO YOU. THE MYSTICS HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT “THERE IS NOWHERE TO GO BUT IN....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Go Placidly 26 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall HEAR THEN THE WISDOM OF THE WISE: “GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND THE HASTE, AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE. “AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER, BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY AND CLEARLY; AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN TO THE DULL AND THE IGNORANT; THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 God is a puppeteer 6 February 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, ON THEIR FIRST MEETING, SEIGEN ASKED SEKITO, “WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?” AND SEKITO REPLIED, “I COME FROM SOKEI.” SEIGEN HELD UP A WHISK AND SAID, “DID YOU FIND THIS OVER THERE?” SEKITO REPLIED, “NO, NOT ONLY WAS IT NOT OVER THERE, BUT IT WAS ALSO NOT IN THE WEST LAND....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Here it is... 1 July 1980 am in Buddha Hall CHAO CHOU ASKED NAN CHUAN, “WHAT IS THE TAO?” NAN CHUAN ANSWERED, “THE ORDINARY MIND IS TAO.” CHAO CHOU THEN ASKED, “HOW CAN ONE APPROACH IT?” NAN CHUAN REPLIED, “IF YOU WANT TO APPROACH IT, YOU WILL CERTAINLY MISS IT.” “IF YOU DO NOT APPROACH IT, HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS THE TAO?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Hey! Wait a Minute 21 June 1977 am in Buddha Hall ONE EVENING AS SHICHIRI KOJUN WAS RECITING SUTRAS A THIEF WITH A SHARP SWORD ENTERED, DEMANDING EITHER HIS MONEY OR HIS LIFE. SHICHIRI TOLD HIM: ‘DO NOT DISTURB ME. YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY IN THAT DRAWER.’ THEN HE RESUMED HIS RECITATION. A LITTLE WHILE AFTERWARDS HE STOPPED AND CALLED: ‘DON’T TAKE IT ALL....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 I am a beginning and an end 19 March 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, MY WHOLE BEING BOWS TO YOUR FEET, BUT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO TAKE MY EYES FROM YOUR BEAUTIFUL, RADIANT BEING, WHEN YOU GREET US COMING AND GOING IN THE MORNING. AM I MISSING BY PEEKING? IS THIS ATTACHMENT TO YOUR PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND FORM SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE TRANSCENDED?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 I belong to my own category 5 November 1986 pm in Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, MANY CONTEMPORARIES AND ENLIGHTENED ONES – RAMAN MAHARSHI, MEHER BABA, GEORGE GURDJIEFF AND J. KRISHNAMURTI – HAVE WORKED WITH PEOPLE, BUT PEOPLE GET MORE OFFENDED BY YOU THAN BY ANYBODY ELSE. OSHO, WHERE DOES YOUR TECHNIQUE DIFFER FROM THAT OF OTHER ENLIGHTENED ONES? The question is very fundamental....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 I belong to the whole world 19 February 1986 pm in QUESTIONS FROM The Rajneesh Times, GERMANY. Question 1 YOU ARE TRAVELING LIKE THE POPE. DO YOU WANT EVERYBODY TO BECOME A SANNYASIN? The first thing to be remembered: you cannot compare me to the pope. He represents Jesus Christ, and through Jesus Christ he represents God. I represent no one....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 If you can accept your ignorance your life will have the quality of magic 4 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, and agyana means ignorance; divine ignorance. And this has to be understood. All knowledge is superfluous. Knowledge as such is superfluous. And all knowledge creates only an illusion that we know – we don’t know. You can live with a man your whole life, and you can think that you know him – and you don’t know him....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 If you meet the Buddha on the Way... 1 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Buddha means one who is enlightened, and prem means love – love for the enlightened one, or love for enlightenment. Buddha is not a person – mm? it is a state of ultimate being. There have been many buddhas, and everybody is potentially a buddha. The word itself means tremendously awakened, absolutely alert....