< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 In this silence 20 January 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, AND AN ORATOR SAID, SPEAK TO US OF FREEDOM. AND HE ANSWERED: AT THE CITY GATE AND BY YOUR FIRESIDE I HAVE SEEN YOU PROSTRATE YOURSELF AND WORSHIP YOUR OWN FREEDOM, EVEN AS SLAVES HUMBLE THEMSELVES BEFORE A TYRANT AND PRAISE HIM THOUGH HE SLAYS THEM. AY, IN THE GROVE OF THE TEMPLE AND IN THE SHADOW OF THE CITADEL I HAVE SEEN THE FREEST AMONG YOU WEAR THEIR FREEDOM AS A YOKE AND A HANDCUFF....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the path of Yoga 25 December 1973 pm in NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA. YOGA IS THE CESSATION OF MIND. THEN THE WITNESS IS ESTABLISHED IN ITSELF. IN THE OTHER STATES THERE IS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MODIFICATIONS OF THE MIND. We live in a deep illusion – the illusion of hope, of future, of tomorrow. As man is, man cannot exist without self-deceptions....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Inward revolution 24 July 1970 pm in Question 1 ON MAN’S PATH OF EVOLUTION IS IT POSSIBLE THAT AT SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE HUMANITY AS A WHOLE CAN ATTAIN ENLIGHTENMENT? AT WHAT POINT OF EVOLUTION IS MAN TODAY? With man, the natural, automatic process of evolution ends. Man is the last product of unconscious evolution. With man, conscious evolution begins. Many things are to be taken into account....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 It all depends on the disciple 1 April 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE MY MASTER IF I DO NOT WISH TO TAKE SANNYAS? I think you do not understand the meaning of discipleship. You are asking something impossible. It is almost as if I ask you: Can you be my sannyasin if I don’t want to be your master?...

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 Jokes of Mulla Nasruddin Dedication written on July 21, 1971 1. A rich farmer had been trying desperately to marry off his daughters. One day he met Mulla Nasrudin. “I have several daughters,” the farmer told the Mulla. “I would like to see them comfortably fixed. And I will say this, they won’t go to their husbands without a little bit in the bank, either....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Just an empty passage 11 June 1980 am in Buddha Hall THE VENERABLE MASTER SAID: THE SUPREME TAO IS FORMLESS, YET IT PRODUCES AND NURTURES HEAVEN AND EARTH. THE SUPREME TAO HAS NO DESIRES, YET BY ITS POWER THE SUN AND MOON REVOLVE IN THEIR ORBITS. THE SUPREME TAO IS NAMELESS, YET IT EVER SUPPORTS ALL THINGS. I DO NOT KNOW ITS NAME BUT FOR TITLE CALL IT TAO....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Knowledge and understanding Date Unknown YOU ASK WHAT MY MESSAGE IS? It is a brief one indeed: those who are awake are alive; those who are asleep miss everything. NO MAN IS GIVEN MANHOOD READY-MADE. He has to build it by himself. This is both a blessing and a bane. It is a blessing because there is always the possibility he will die without ever having become a man....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Kundalini – The Sleeping Serpent 2 May 1970 am in I do not know why you have come here. Perhaps you too, do not know. Most of us live in such a way that we are not aware why we are living, where we are going and why. We do not ask of ourselves, “Why?” When our whole life is spent without asking these basic questions it is no wonder if you all have come without knowing the purpose of your coming....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 La Illaha Ill Allah 11 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall A MAN CAME TO BAHAUDIN NAQSHBAND, AND SAID, “I HAVE TRAVELED FROM ONE TEACHER TO ANOTHER, AND I HAVE STUDIED MANY PATHS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE GIVEN ME GREAT BENEFITS AND MANY ADVANTAGES OF ALL KINDS. “I NOW WISH TO BE ENROLLED AS ONE OF YOUR DISCIPLES, SO THAT I MAY DRINK FROM THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THUS MAKE MYSELF MORE AND MORE ADVANCED IN THE TARIQA, THE MYSTIC WAY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Leaving the mind far behind 8 January 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, BANSHO GYOSHU STUDIED MEDITATION FIRST WITH MASTER SHOMOKU. HE TOLD BANSHO, “STUDYING THIS PATH IS LIKE REFINING GOLD. WHEN IT IS IMPURE, THE PURE GOLD DOES NOT SHOW. “AS I LOOK BETWEEN YOUR EYEBROWS, THERE IS VERY MUCH SOMETHING THERE. IF YOU DON’T PIERCE THROUGH COLD BONES, ONCE, YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO CAST THIS THING OFF....