< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Neither do I condemn thee 31 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall JOHN 8 1. JESUS WENT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 2. AND EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE TEMPLE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME UNTO HIM; AND HE SAT DOWN, AND TAUGHT THEM. 3. AND THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY; AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER INT HE MIDST,...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Never be the First in the World 23 August 1975 am in Buddha Hall LAO TZU SAYS: ALL THE WORLD SAYS: MY TEACHING, TAO, GREATLY RESEMBLES FOLLY. BECAUSE IT IS GREAT, THEREFORE IT RESEMBLES FOLLY. IF IT DID NOT RESEMBLE FOLLY, IT WOULD HAVE LONG AGO BECOME PETTY INDEED! I HAVE THREE TREASURES; GUARD THEM AND KEEP THEM SAFE. THE FIRST IS LOVE....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 No Water No Moon 11 August 1974 am in Buddha Hall THE NUN CHIYONO STUDIED FOR YEARS, BUT WAS UNABLE TO FIND ENLIGHTENMENT. ONE NIGHT, SHE WAS CARRYING AN OLD PAIL FILLED WITH WATER. AS SHE WAS WALKING ALONG, SHE WAS WATCHING THE FULL MOON REFLECTED IN THE PAIL OF WATER. SUDDENLY, THE BAMBOO STRIPS THAT HELD THE PAIL TOGETHER BROKE, AND THE PAIL FELL APART....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Nonviolence 9 November 1970 am in Violence is a disease of human beings, but it is not so for beasts. For beasts, it is their nature. There is no possibility of nonviolence at the level of beasts. That is why they haven’t got any idea of violence. Violence is the disease which man bas inherited from beasts, and it is a disease obstructing his evolving consciousness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Now or never 11 December 1976 am in Buddha Hall I. 13. mo ko kahan dhunro bande O FRIEND, WHERE DOST THOU SEEK ME? LO! I AM BESIDE THEE. I AM NEITHER IN TEMPLE NOR IN MOSQUE: I AM NEITHER IN KAABA NOR IN KAILASH: NEITHER AM I IN RITES AND CEREMONIES, NOR IN YOGA AND RENUNCIATION. IF THOU ART A TRUE SEEKER, THOU SHALT AT ONCE SEE ME: THOU SHALT MEET ME IN A MOMENT OF TIME....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Now Sit Down and Listen 1 July 1977 am in Buddha Hall THE MASTER BANKEI’S TALKS WERE ATTENDED NOT ONLY BY ZEN STUDENTS BUT BY PERSONS OF ALL RANKS AND SECTS. HE NEVER QUOTED SUTRAS NOR INDULGED IN SCHOLASTIC DISSERTATIONS. INSTEAD, HIS WORDS WERE SPOKEN DIRECTLY FROM HIS HEART TO THE HEARTS OF HIS LISTENERS. HIS LARGE AUDIENCES ANGERED A PRIEST OF THE NICHIREN SECT BECAUSE THE ADHERENTS HAD LEFT TO HEAR ABOUT ZEN....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Of the famous philosophers 8 April 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, OF THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS YOU HAVE SERVED THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE’S SUPERSTITIONS, ALL YOU FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS! – YOU HAVE NOT SERVED TRUTH! AND IT IS PRECISELY FOR THAT REASON THAT THEY PAID YOU REVERENCE.… AND YOUR HEART ALWAYS SAID TO ITSELF: ‘I CAME FROM THE PEOPLE: GOD’S VOICE, TOO, CAME TO ME FROM THEM....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 On Knowing The Eternal Law 21 June 1975 am in Buddha Hall ON KNOWING THE ETERNAL LAW: ATTAIN THE UTMOST IN PASSIVITY, HOLD FIRM TO THE BASIS OF QUIETUDE. THE MYRIAD THINGS TAKE SHAPE AND RISE TO ACTIVITY, BUT I WATCH THEM FALL BACK TO THEIR REPOSE, LIKE VEGETATION THAT LUXURIANTLY GROWS BUT RETURNS TO THE ROOT (SOIL) FROM WHICH IT SPRINGS....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 On The Absolute Tao 11 June 1975 am in Buddha Hall ON THE ABSOLUTE TAO THE TAO THAT CAN BE TOLD OF IS NOT THE ABSOLUTE TAO ON THE RISE OF RELATIVE OPPOSITES WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW BEAUTY AS BEAUTY, THERE ARISES (THE RECOGNITION OF) UGLINESS. WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH ALL KNOW GOOD AS GOOD, THERE ARISES (THE RECOGNITION OF) EVIL....