< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 6 November 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium The book of this title is a description of events centered around Osho’s arrest and deportation form America. The book consists of interviews with those involved and excerpts from discourses. Foreword: This This A Thousand Times This 4 30/5/88 pm Part 1: 1. From Unconciousness to Consciousness 2 31/10/84 pm 2. From Darkness to Light 23 24/3/85 pm...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 15 October 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, JOSHU, ALSO KNOWN AS CHAO-CHOU, WAS BORN IN 778. WHEN HE FIRST MET NANSEN, JOSHU ENTERED THE MASTER’S ROOM IN THE MONASTERY. NANSEN WAS LYING DOWN, AND HIS FIRST QUESTION TO JOSHU WAS: “WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?” ANG TEMPLE,” REPLIED JOSHU. (“JUI-HSIANG” MEANS HOLY IMAGE). “DO YOU STILL SEE THE HOLY IMAGE?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Hans means God’s gracious gift, Ananto means infinite. The full name will mean God’s infinite gracious gift. Life has no beginning and no end. It is eternity, and that is God’s gift. God has given himself in the gift, because life is God. All that is needed is a certain awakening in your heart so you can see it, feel it, taste it, touch it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, Madhyama means the middle – the divine middle. The extreme is the disease, and the mind lives through the extremes. The mind always thinks in terms of either/or, and reality is just exactly in the middle. It is never either/or; it is both/and. It is neither day nor night, neither life nor death, neither body nor soul....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 “Do you love me, Mulla?” whispered the girl. “Of course I do,” Mulla Nasrudin whispered back. “Will you marry me then?” she asked. “LET’S NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT?” said Nasrudin. 2. Mulla Nasrudin in the upper berth was awakened by a persistent tapping from below. “I am terribly cold down here. I wonder if you mind getting me a blanket,” said a lady’s voice. “I have a better idea,” the Mulla replied sleepily....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1984 in Lao Tzu Grove SESSION 1 Never act out of fear. Don’t be worried about my body, it is okay. Don’t listen to my body but to me. My body is always a little strange... it’s bound to be. Once you are aware, the body starts losing its grip over the consciousness. Once you are aware, you are no more of this world....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 13 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor asked what the agreement of sannyas meant.] That you are no more. It is a total surrender. No agreement – because in an agreement there are two parties. You simply surrender. Much courage is needed... It is not an agreement because it is not a legal thing. It is just a love affair....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 1 January 1966 Fearlessness is the first condition for the life of spiritualism. One who cannot take courage to that, cannot dive deep into his own self. The courage which is required for going alone in dark nights, in darkness and in unknown and fierce path, a greater courage than that is required to go into the self, because it breaks the sweet dreams which one has built up about his own self and because as one has to face such ugly and condemnable sins from which one has taken himself to he entirely free....

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< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 PREFACE I too am a farmer and I sowed some seeds. They sprouted and now flowers have come to them. My whole life is filled with the fragrance of these flowers and because of this fragrance now I am in a different world. This fragrance has given me a new birth, and now I am no longer that which is seen by ordinary eyes....