< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Religion: The Door of Feeling Date Unknown Question WHAT IS THE BASIC INDIAN PHILOSOPHY? As far as I am concerned, I do not see philosophy as Indian or non-Indian. It is not possible. Philosophy is only universal. There can be no geographical division in the human mind. These divisions, these distinctions, are political. Indian, Japanese and German, or eastern and western – all these divisions are political....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Sannyas is The Apprenticeship in Bliss 1 August 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [to a sannyasin returning to her husband in the West] Just be there and be totally there. It is not a question of where you are; the question is always of being total or partial. Whenever you are partial, something goes on missing. But my feeling is that you will be partial there too – because you could not be total here, so how can you be total there?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > Sarvasar Upanishad 8 January 1972 pm at Matheran Meditation Camp, India AUM, SUPREME ONE, GUARD US (MASTER AND DISCIPLE) TOGETHER.NOURISH US TOGETHER.LET BOTH OF US STRIVE TOGETHER.LET OUR LEARNING SHINE BRIGHTLY. LET US NOT HATE ANYONE.AUM, SHANTI, SHANTI, SHANTI (PEACE). To know and to be are one and the same. To be is the only way to know. And there are two dimensions of growth: one of knowledge and one of being....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Satyam, Shivam, Sundram 7 November 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE MYSTIC CONCEPTION OF ULTIMATE REALITY? Maneesha, the mystic’s conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic, real experience. It is not a thought or a concept, but an existential experience. But the mystic does not deal with the mind. His whole effort is to get rid of the prison of the mind....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Secrets of death and karma 11 April 1976 am in Buddha Hall 23. BY PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE TWO TYPES OF KARMA, ACTIVE AND DORMANT, OR UPON OMENS AND PORTENTS, THE EXACT TIME OF DEATH CAN BE PREDICTED. 24. BY PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON FRIENDLINESS, OR ANY OTHER ATTRIBUTE, GREAT STRENGTH IN THAT QUALITY IS OBTAINED. 25. BY PERFORMING SAMYAMA ON THE STRENGTH OF AN ELEPHANT, THE STRENGTH OF AN ELEPHANT IS OBTAINED....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Seven Valleys 27 August 1977 am in Buddha Hall THERE WAS ONCE A WOMAN WHO ABANDONED THE RELIGION IN WHICH SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP. SHE LEFT THE RANKS OF THE ATHEISTS TOO, AND JOINED ANOTHER FAITH. THEN SHE BECAME CONVINCED OF THE TRUTH OF YET ANOTHER. EACH TIME SHE CHANGED HER BELIEFS, SHE IMAGINED THAT SHE HAD GAINED SOMETHING, BUT NOT QUITE ENOUGH....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Sex, the genesis of love 28 August 1968 pm in Gowalior Tank Maidan Question 1 WHAT IS LOVE? To feel it is easy, to define love is difficult indeed. If you ask a fish what the sea is like, the fish will say, “This is the sea. The sea is all around. And that’s that.” But if you insist – “Please define the sea” – then the problem becomes very difficult indeed....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Silence, the Pull of the Innermost Zero 30 October 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO YOU CALL YOUR RELIGION THE FIRST AND THE LAST RELIGION? It is a little difficult for me to speak again. It has been difficult always, because I have been trying to speak the unspeakable. Now it is even more so....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Sound is our mind – silence is our being 26 February 1988 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, I AM ALWAYS INTRIGUED BY EASTERN SCRIPTURES THAT BEGIN WITH OM, SHANTIH SHANTIH SHANTIH AND END WITH OM, SHANTIH SHANTIH SHANTIH. WOULD YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS? Maneesha, the East has approached reality in an almost diametrically opposite way to the West....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Surrendering to What Is 6 April 1973 pm in Bikaner Palace Hotel Three sutras that are basic for life transformation, that are ultimate in a way. The first: Be nonambitious. KILL OUT AMBITION TOTALLY. UNLESS AMBITION IS KILLED, you will remain in misery. Ambition is the source of all miseries. What is ambition? ‘A’ wants to be ‘B’, the poor wants to be rich, the ugly wants to be beautiful....