< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and patanga is a special moth that is very much attracted to fire, flame, and whenever there is flame the moth will come and jump into it. Its only love is fire. And hence the name ‘patanga’ has become a metaphor in the east – a metaphor for the lover. A lover has to be like the moth – ready to jump into fire, ready to die, ready to disappear....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1 August 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Birgitta. Prem means love; birgitta means strength, power, energy. Love makes you strong, makes you powerful, because love transforms your possibilities into actualities. It transforms the seed into a sprout, it transforms the potential into the real. Without love one is empty, with love one is overflowing. Without love one is a beggar, with love one is an emperor....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, renu means dust – love dust. But once dust is of love it is divine. Love transforms it: then it is no more dust; it is dust only if love is missing. If love is missing then man is nothing but dust. Once love enters into life, dust becomes aflame with the divine....
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< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem kutera. It means a small shrine of love, a small hut of love, a small space for love. Prem means love and kutera means a small place. And that’s all that a man needs to be fulfilled: if one can become a small shrine, nothing is lacking. The very phenomenon of love integrates you, and when love is missing, you start falling apart – it is the glue that keeps you together....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 7 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin, a film-producer who is returning to the States, Osho said that meditation could be introduced to many people through the medium of film and television.] Books are very old media. The days for books are gone. People don’t have that much time to read, because reading is active; you have to do something....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA It is a beautiful morning. Again and again the sun rises and it is always new. It never grows old. Scientists say it is millions of years old; nonsense! Every day I see it. It is always new. Nothing is old. But scientists are grave-diggers, that’s why I say they look so grave, serious. This morning, again the miracle of existence....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 12 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, and tyagi means renunciation. Tyagi means one who has renounced – love and renunciation. I make a special condition for renunciation – and that is love. A man can renounce out of anger, a man can renounce out of hatred, a man can renounce out of frustration... but then it is meaningless....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 1 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, aikanta means aloneness. Self-knowledge is possible only in deep aloneness. Ordinarily whatever we know about ourselves is the opinion of others. They say “You are good” and we think we are good. They say “You are beautiful” and we think we are beautiful. They say you are bad or ugly... whatsoever people say about us we go on collecting....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 10 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To the leader of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar)] It has to be remembered that the leader is not, in fact, a manipulator. He should not be. If you manipulate, then it is something from the mind, and that which comes from the mind cannot go deeper than the mind. So the leader has to be open to the beyond....