< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Exactly in the Middle 10 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 YOU MAKE IT ALL SOUND SO EASY. BUT IS IT? IS IT REALLY? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE WHOLE THING IS OUT OF OUR HANDS. WE HAVE NO MORE CHOICE TO SURRENDER THAN TO BE IN THE EGO. I LIVE MY LIFE AND SOME DAYS I’M HAPPY AND SOME DAYS I’M SAD, BUT I’M NOT ENLIGHTENED....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Freedom opens the door of responsibility 15 February 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WAITING FOR THE SHIP TO COME IN, AND BEING PASSIVE AND FATALISTIC? Satyam Svarup, the difference between waiting for the ship to come, and being passive and fatalistic is immense, although very delicate. The fatalistic mind does not believe in the individual’s own freedom, does not believe in the individual’s own longing and search....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Fulfillment through becoming centered 13 November 1972 pm in Woodlands, Bombay Question 1 IS SELF-ACTUALIZATION A BASIC NEED? There are many questions. The first: IS SELF-ACTUALIZATION A BASIC NEED OF MAN? First, try to understand what is meant by self-actualization. A. H. Maslow has used this term “self- actualization.” Man is born as potentiality. He is not really actual – just potential....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 God – the nobody everybody knows 8 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, GOD DID NOT CREATE PEOPLE LIKE ADOLF HITLER IN HIS OWN IMAGE. HE CREATED PEOPLE LIKE JESUS CHRIST, HAZRAT MOHAMMED, KRISHNA AND BUDDHA. IT is not a question. It is a statement, an answer, but I have not asked the question. The person seems even to know whom God created in His own image and whom God did not create in His own image....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 God is because you are full of fear 9 December 1986 pm in Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, RECENTLY I DEVELOPED EPILEPTIC FITS – APPARENTLY DUE TO A TINY CYST IN MY BRAIN – WHICH THE SPECIALISTS DON’T UNDERSTAND. BUT FOR ME IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING AMAZING IS HAPPENING. THE FIRST FIT, IN JUNE, CAME TOTALLY AS A SURPRISE, AND FELT LIKE A BIG HIT ON THE HEAD: WAKE UP!...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Here and Now: The Only Time, The Only Place 5 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, CAN YOU THROW SOME LIGHT ON THE FEELING OF NOSTALGIA? FREUD CALLED IT REGRESSIVE AND A SEEKING OF THE WOMB. THIS DOES NOT SATISFY ME. SOMETIMES THE PERFUME OF A FLOWER, SOUNDS, A PLACE OR AN INCIDENT FROM CHILDHOOD, CAN EVOKE A FEW SECONDS OF FEELING AND YEARNING THAT ARE SO SAD AND SO SWEET, IT CAN CHOKE ME WITH ITS INTENSITY....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Hingle de jibity dangely ji 30 April 1977 am in Buddha Hall The first question – it is from Prabha: Question 1 DEAR OSHO, HINGLE DE JE, BIPITY JANG DANG – DO RUN NUN, DE JUN BUNG. HINGLE DE JIBBITY DANGELY JI. THIS IS WONDERFUL, PRABHA! THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. This is just far out, baby. I am driving you sane. Just a step more... and the Enlightenment....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 I am “That” 1 August 1972 pm in SOHAM BHAVO NAMASKARAH “THE FEELING OF I AM THAT – SO-AHAM – IS THE SALUTATION.” EXISTENCE is one, or rather, Existence is oneness. Al-Hillaj Mansoor was flayed alive because he said, “I am the Beloved; I am the Divine; I am That which created the world.” Islam was totally unacquainted with this type of language....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 I am in favor of love 10 May 1976 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHY IS EVERY HUMAN BEING FULL OF PROBLEMS AND UNHAPPY? THE FIRST THING: because man can be tremendously happy, the possibility exists, hence, his unhappiness. Nobody else – no animal, no bird, no tree, no rock – can be so happy as man. The possibility, the tremendous possibility that you can be happy, eternally happy, that you can be at the top of a bliss mountain, creates unhappiness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 I love the rascal saints 9 January 1986 pm in Kathmandu, Nepal Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT A SAINT CAN BE A RASCAL? The question reminds me of a small story – it happened in a Christian monastery. Two monks were discussing in the garden of the monastery – every day they were given one hour to walk in the garden and meditate on God....