< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 On the Road of Sighs 11 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall MY FRIEND, EVERYTHING EXISTING EXISTS THROUGH HIM; YOUR OWN EXISTENCE IS A MERE PRETENSE. NO MORE NONSENSE! LOSE YOURSELF, AND THE HELL OF YOUR HEART BECOMES A HEAVEN. LOSE YOURSELF, AND ANYTHING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. YOUR SELFISHNESS IS AN UNTRAINED COLT. YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE: HENCE YOUR LOVES AND HATES; YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE:...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Once Upon a Time 1 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COW. IN ALL THE WORLD THERE WAS NO ANIMAL WHICH SO REGULARLY GAVE SO MUCH MILK OF SUCH HIGH QUALITY. PEOPLE CAME FROM FAR AND WIDE TO SEE THIS WONDER. THE COW WAS EXTOLLED BY ALL. FATHERS TOLD THEIR CHILDREN OF ITS DEDICATION TO ITS APPOINTED TALKS....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 One Short Note 11 December 1974 am in Buddha Hall KAKUA WAS THE FIRST JAPANESE TO STUDY ZEN IN CHINA, AND WHILE HE WAS THERE HE ACCEPTED THE TRUE TEACHING. WHEN HE WAS IN CHINA HE DID NOT TRAVEL. HE LIVED IN A REMOTE PART OF A MOUNTAIN AND MEDITATED CONSTANTLY. WHENEVER PEOPLE FOUND HIM AND ASKED HIM TO PREACH, HE WOULD SAY A FEW WORDS, AND THEN MOVE TO ANOTHER PART OF THE MOUNTAIN WHERE HE COULD BE FOUND LESS EASILY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 One whose arrow is shot 21 April 1977 am in Buddha Hall THE ROYAL SONG OF SARAHA I BOW DOWN TO NOBLE MANJUSRI I BOW DOWN TO HIM WHO HAS CONQUERED THE FINITE AS CALM WATER LASHED BY WIND TURNS INTO WAVES AND ROLLERS, SO THE KING THINKS OF SARAHA IN MANY WAYS, ALTHOUGH ONE MAN. TO A FOOL WHO SQUINTS...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Outer help in the growth of kundalini energy 4 July 1970 pm in Question 1 YOU SAID AT THE NARGOL MEDITATION CAMP THAT THE MEANING OF SHAKTIPAT – TRANSMISSION OF THE DIVINE ENERGY – IS THAT THE ENERGY OF THE DIVINE DESCENDS INTO THE MEDITATOR. LATER ON YOU SAID THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SHAKTIPAT AND GRACE. THESE TWO STATEMENTS SEEM CONTRADICTORY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Peace of mind, my foot! 13 January 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, ONE DAY, WHEN MASTER RINZAI WENT TO HO-FU, THE GOVERNOR ASKED HIM TO TAKE THE HIGH SEAT. THEN MA-YU CAME FORWARD AND ASKED RINZAI, “THE GREAT COMPASSIONATE ONE HAS A THOUSAND HANDS AND A THOUSAND EYES. WHICH IS THE TRUE EYE?” RINZAI RESPONDED, “THE GREAT COMPASSIONATE ONE HAS A THOUSAND HANDS AND A THOUSAND EYES....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Polishing the Mirror of the Heart 1 November 1978 am in Buddha Hall WE TRIED REASONING OUR WAY TO HIM: IT DIDN’T WORK; BUT THE MOMENT WE GAVE UP, NO OBSTACLE REMAINED. HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF TO US OUT OF KINDNESS: HOW ELSE COULD WE HAVE KNOWN HIM? REASON TOOK US AS FAR AS THE DOOR; BUT IT WAS HIS PRESENCE THAT LET US IN....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Prologue part 1 26 March 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, PROLOGUE PART 1 WHEN ZARATHUSTRA WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD, HE LEFT HIS HOME AND THE LAKE OF HIS HOME AND WENT INTO THE MOUNTAINS. HERE HE HAD THE ENJOYMENT OF HIS SPIRIT AND HIS SOLITUDE AND HE DID NOT WEARY OF IT FOR TEN YEARS. BUT AT LAST HIS HEART TURNED – AND ONE MORNING HE ROSE WITH THE DAWN, STEPPED BEFORE THE SUN AND SPOKE TO IT THUS:...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul 29 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHY IS HUMANITY TODAY BECOMING MORE AND MORE MISERABLE? THE cause is very simple, perhaps too simple. It is very close, very obvious, and this is the reason why most of the people go on missing seeing it. When something is very obvious you start taking it for granted....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Pursuit of Knowledge 11 August 1975 am in Buddha Hall LAO TZU SAYS: WITHOUT STEPPING OUTSIDE ONE’S DOORS ONE CAN KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD. WITHOUT LOOKING OUT OF ONE’S WINDOWS ONE CAN SEE THE TAO OF HEAVEN. THE FURTHER ONE PURSUES KNOWLEDGE THE LESS ONE KNOWS. THEREFORE THE SAGE KNOWS WITHOUT RUNNING ABOUT UNDERSTANDS WITHOUT SEEING, ACCOMPLISHES WITHOUT DOING....