< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 6 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin reports back on a meditation Osho had given him to stare at a light. (see ‘a rose is a rose is a rose’, friday july 23rd). The sannyasin said he found it hard to sit still; he itched and wanted to scratch.] Allow it – don’t be worried about it. Scratch and just scratch very consciously....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 11 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Maya means illusion, veet means beyond – beyond illusion. Maya in itself is not good. Maya means that which only appears but is not; it is an hallucination. The English word ‘magic’ comes from this root ‘maya’... Veet Maya – it means one who has gone beyond illusion, mm? Good, Maya! Nirguno means the formless, the attributeless, the quality-less....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin couple and their baby are present. The man says he expected to come here and feel better, more loving. Instead, he says, in some ways he feels more sad, tense, angry.] Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without any expectations....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 August 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Anastasia. Prem means love; anastasia means resurrection. Love is the only energy that never dies. Each death only becomes a new birth. Everything else is momentary, except love: love is timeless. That’s why Jesus says love is God. Love is our only experience through which we can have a glimpse of what God is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium The whole of life is a means. And the moment you start thinking of something other than god as a goal, you start going astray. Money can become the goal, then the person has gone astray. Nothing is wrong in money itself – it is perfectly good, useful – but it should remain the means; it should not become the end....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, ketan means house – a house of love or a temple of love, a shrine. Man can function from three centres: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel. If you function from the head you will go on spinning thoughts and thoughts and thoughts....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 17 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said he was feeling a little apprehensive about going, saying that he hoped he would not lose that which he had gained while he was here.] You can never lose that. Whatsoever is attained is attained forever. There is no way to fall back. If you fall back that simply shows that you were imagining that you had attained something....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was looking at some pictures of the marriage procession of Princess Anne, and strangely, the only thing that impressed me in the whole nonsense was the beautiful horses, their joyous dance. Looking at those horses I remembered my own horse. I have not told anyone about it, not even Gudia, who loves horses. But now that I am not keeping anything secret, even this can be told....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 21 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and shunyam means emptiness, nothingness, nobodyness. And that’s what bliss is. When you are empty, only then are you full – never before it. When you are not, only then you are – never before it. Your very absence is the door to the presence of God One has to annihilate oneself utterly; nothing less can help....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin and her two children are leaving. She asks about being frightened of other people. Osho had previously told her to be alone, but she wants love from other people.] That is where the problem is: you want love from other people, and that is the wrong beginning; that is getting out of the bed from the wrong side....