< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Flute on God’s Lips 21 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 5 1. AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM: 2. AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, 3. BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT: FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 4. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN: FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Future Belongs to Krishna 20 July 1970 pm in C.C.I. Chambers Question 1 QUESTIONER: WHAT ARE THE DISTINGUISHING VIRTUES OF KRISHNA THAT MAKE HIM RELEVANT TO OUR TIME? WHAT IS HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR US? PLEASE EXPLAIN. Krishna is utterly incomparable, he is so unique. Firstly, his uniqueness lies in the fact that although Krishna happened in the ancient past he belongs to the future, is really of the future....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Golden Mean 31 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall LISTEN, AND IN THINE HEART ENGRAVE MY WORDS, KEEP CLOSED BOTH EYE AND EAR ’GAINST PREJUDICE, OF OTHERS THE EXAMPLE FEAR; THINK FOR THYSELF. CONSULT, DELIBERATE, AND FREELY CHOOSE. LET FOOLS ACT AIMLESSLY AND WITHOUT CAUSE, THOU SHOULDST, IN THE PRESENT; CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE. THAT WHICH THOU DOST NOT KNOW, PRETEND NOT THAT THOU DOST....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Great Way 21 October 1974 am in Buddha Hall THE GREAT WAY IS NOT DIFFICULT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO PREFERENCES. WHEN LOVE AND HATE ARE BOTH ABSENT EVERYTHING BECOMES CLEAR AND UNDISGUISED. MAKE THE SMALLEST DISTINCTION, HOWEVER, AND HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE SET INFINITELY APART. IF YOU WISH TO SEE THE TRUTH THEN HOLD NO OPINION FOR OR AGAINST....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Greatest Luxury 21 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall RENDER TO THE IMMORTAL GODS THE CONSECRATED CULT; GUARD THEN THY FAITH: ... REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, OF SPIRITS, DEMI-GODS.… BE A GOOD SON, JUST BROTHER; SPOUSE TENDER; AND GOOD FATHER. CHOOSE FOR THY FRIEND, THE FRIEND OF VIRTUE; YIELD TO HIS GENTLE COUNSELS, PROFIT BY HIS LIFE; AND FOR A TRIFLING GRIEVANCE NEVER LEAVE HIM;...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The language of suddenness 26 September 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, WHEN HYAKUJO FIRST ARRIVED AT CHIANG-SI TO PAY HIS RESPECTS TO MA TZU, MA TZU INQUIRED, “FROM WHERE HAVE YOU COME?” “FROM THE GREAT CLOUD MONASTERY AT YUEH CHOU,” ANSWERED HYAKUJO. “AND WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GAIN BY COMING HERE?” ASKED MA TZU. HYAKUJO REPLIED, “I HAVE COME SEEKING THE BUDDHA-DHARMA....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Lion’s Roar 11 December 1977 am in Buddha Hall ALL BEINGS ARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BUDDHA. IT IS LIKE WATER AND ICE: APART FROM WATER, NO ICE, OUTSIDE LIVING BEINGS, NO BUDDHAS. NOT KNOWING IT IS NEAR, THEY SEEK IT AFAR. WHAT A PITY! IT IS LIKE ONE IN THE WATER WHO CRIES OUT FOR THIRST; IT IS LIKE THE CHILD OF A RICH HOUSE...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The man of compassion has to lie 2 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, YOU SAID THAT YOU LIE OUT OF COMPASSION, AND WE, YOUR SANNYASINS, CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. BUT CAN THE OUTSIDE WORLD EVER UNDERSTAND? WON’T IT CREATE MORE MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT YOU, ABOUT RAJNEESHISM, ABOUT YOUR SANNYASINS? PLEASE COMMENT. Compassion knows no conditions. It can do anything, it knows no right and no wrong....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Man with the Inexplicable Life 2 March 1978 am in Buddha Hall THERE WAS ONCE A MAN NAMED MOJUD. HE LIVED IN A TOWN WHERE HE HAD OBTAINED A POST AS A SMALL OFFICIAL, AND IT SEEMED LIKELY THAT HE WOULD END HIS DAYS AS INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE GARDENS OF AN ANCIENT BUILDING NEAR HIS HOME, KHIDR, THE MYSTERIOUS GUIDE OF THE SUFIS, APPEARED TO HIM, DRESSED IN SHIMMERING GREEN....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Master of the shouts 23 October 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, RINZAI BECAME KNOWN AS THE MASTER OF THE SHOUTS. ON ONE OCCASION, A MONK ASKED, “WHAT ABOUT THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLE OF THE BUDDHA-DHARMA?” RINZAI SHOUTED – THE MONK BOWED. “DO YOU SAY THAT’S A GOOD SHOUT?” RINZAI ASKED. THE MONK COMMENTED: “THE THIEF IN THE GRASS HAS MET COMPLETE DEFEAT....