< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: For these last two years I was a musician... I play the piano.] Very good. So my meditations will fit you; they will go very deep in you. If somebody has been interested in music he has already been in meditation unknowingly. Now the effort will become deliberate and conscious....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 20 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall I THINK, TOO, THAT YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD HOW THE DISCUSSION OF PARTICULARS IS MORE LENGTHY THAN OF UNIVERSALS. FOR THE MORE WE ASPIRE TO HIGHER THINGS, THE MORE OUR DISCOURSE UPON THINGS OF THE INTELLECT IS CUT SHORT, EVEN AS, WHEN WE ENTER THAT DARKNESS WHICH PASSES UNDERSTANDING, WE SHALL FIND NOT BREVITY OF SPEECH BUT PERFECT SILENCE AND UNKNOWING....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, garima means glory – divine glory. One thing is very important for you to understand, and it is that when a person is young a few things are easy, a few things are difficult. For example, religion is difficult. It is easier to be in desires, it is difficult to leave them....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Premendra. It means god of love. Love has to become the very centre of your whole life. Whatsoever you do, it has to be kept in mind that you are doing it out of love, that you are doing it for love. It has to be part of your growing heart, then only does one enter into the world of god....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means the ultimate state of silence, peace, joy. It is all three together. It is not just joy, because joy can be very maddening. It is very clam and quiet; it has no excitement in it. Joy can have much fever, passion. So it is joy with a totally different quality to it – very silent joy, not like laughter but just like a smile....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, sandeh means doubt. To go beyond doubt is the most fundamental step towards god. Doubt is a tremendously important method of enquiry into matter, but not into consciousness. It is utterly valid as far as matter is concerned, and utterly invalid as far as consciousness is concerned. If you use trust in science, there will be no science at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Atmo means the self, and volker means the master – master not of the people but master of one’s self. That is true mastery; to be master of others is really a poor substitute. People try to be masters of others because they are not masters of themselves. Once the self-mastery has happened, all desire to dominate, all desire to possess, all desire to be superior, simply disappears....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Deva Bhavito – god of feeling.] That is going to be your path. Get deeper and deeper into the heart. Forget your head completely. Become headless, as if the head is no more there. Function from the heart. Never do anything unless it is your feeling to do it; never do anything only because you think it is right....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 A Challenge to my Love 20 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO: “WE’RE PLAYING THOSE MIND-GAMES TOGETHER PUSHING THE BARRIER, PLANTING SEEDS. PLAYING THE MIND-GUERILLA, CHANTING THE MANTRA ‘PEACE ON EARTH’. WE’VE ALL BEEN PLAYING THOSE MIND-GAMES FOREVER... LOVE IS THE ANSWER, AND YOU KNOW THAT’S FOR SURE. LOVE IS THE FLOWER, YOU GOT TO LET IT GROW....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 A Love Affair With the Universe 9 November 1979 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF HYPOCRISY IN INDIA ABOUT SEX. PEOPLE ARE NOT EVEN WILLING TO DISCUSS IT OPENLY, YET THERE IS A GROWING PROLIFERATION OF, AND OBSESSION WITH, NUDE PICTURES. WILL THIS FLOOD OF PORNOGRAPHY HELP? CAN IT FINALLY BRING SEX OUT INTO THE OPEN IN INDIA?...