< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 If You Take the Whole out of the Whole Date Unknown Question HOW CAN WE BECOME ONE WITH THE REALITY AND WHY ARE WE SEPARATE FROM IS? The division is something that we ourselves have created. Reality has always been one; it has never known any division. All division is a mental division, a creation of our own conditioning. Reality has always been undivided, indivisible....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Ignorance Will Show You The Way 8 April 1971 pm in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE PATH OF IGNORANCE ENTER DARKNESS; AND THOSE WHO ARE ABSORBED IN KNOWLEDGE ENTER A GREATER DARKNESS. This sutra makes a profound proclamation of the truth – a very bold proclamation. Such an announcement can be made only by a sage. It is declared that those who tread on the path of ignorance lose their way and wander here and there in this world; but those who walk on the path of knowledge – that is, the path of “I know” – lose themselves in greater darkness....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 It is not too Late 20 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 THE WEST HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO ARISTOTLE, NIETZSCHE, HEIDEGGER, CAMUS, BERDYAEV, MARCEL AND SARTRE. IS IT GOING TO GIVE BIRTH TO BUDDHAS BY ITSELF OR IS A COMMUNION WITH THE EASTERN CONSCIOUSNESS NEEDED? CHINMAYA, THE BUDDHA-CONSCIOUSNESS is neither Eastern nor Western. It has nothing to do with geography or history, it has nothing to do with mind as such....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 It’s a Special Transmission 10 July 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, I WILL BE TAKING SANNYAS IN A FEW DAYS. I WOULD LIKE SO MUCH THAT YOU SAY SOMETHING TO ME. I AM AFRAID – THERE ARE DOUBTS – AND I FEEL HAPPINESS ARISE. Evi Huber, It is natural to feel afraid when you are entering into something unknown....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Jesus is not a christian 5 June 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE RELIGION OF A REBELLIOUS SPIRIT? Maneesha, the rebellious spirit can be religious, but cannot have a religion. And the difference between the two is immense, unbridgeable. To be religious is an experience, just like love. It is an encounter with the totality of existence....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Just a remembrance 10 May 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 WHY IS IT THAT WHENEVER I LEAVE YOUR LECTURE I QUICKLY BECOME DISILLUSIONED WITH MYSELF BECAUSE I AM UNABLE TO LIVE UP TO THE IDEALS YOU PUT FORWARD IN YOUR LECTURE? What are you talking about? Ideals? That’s exactly what I go on destroying. I am not putting any ideals before you. I am not giving you any fantasies about the future....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Just a small coin 10 May 1975 am in Buddha Hall UWAIS AL-QARNI WAS OFFERED SOME MONEY. HE SAID: I DO NOT NEED IT AS I ALREADY HAVE A COIN. THE OTHER SAID: HOW LONG WILL THAT LAST YOU? – IT IS NOTHING. UWAIS ANSWERED: GUARANTEE ME THAT I SHALL LIVE LONGER THAN THIS SUM WILL SUFFICE ME AND I WILL ACCEPT YOUR GIFT....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Just Enjoy Yourself 30 August 1974 am in Buddha Hall THE TENTH SAYING JESUS SAID: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO MOUNT TWO HORSES AND TO STRETCH TWO BOWS; AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A SERVANT TO SERVE TWO MASTERS, OTHERWISE HE WILL HONOR THE ONE AND OFFEND THE OTHER. Everybody is already mounted on two horses, everybody is stretching two bows – not only two but many....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Known, Unknown, Unknowable 9 January 1979 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHICH IS THE REAL QUESTION? Sudhir, SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS ARE ALL REAL, because they are answerable. Religious questions are all unreal because they are unanswerable. Religion is the concern with the unanswerable. To ask a religious question is basically wrong – it is wrong because religion is the search for the mystery, not the search for the answer....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Living in nirvana 20 February 1976 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 DURING ONE OF YOUR LECTURES WE LEARNED THAT IF WE TRY TO LEAVE OUR EGO JUST BY TRYING TO BE HUMBLE FOR EXAMPLE, THEN THE EGO COMES THROUGH HUMILITY. WE ALSO LEARNED THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF THE EGO IS MEDITATION. BUT DOESN’T THE EGO COME THROUGH THAT ALSO? I ASK THIS BECAUSE I’VE SEEN LIVE EXAMPLES IN THE ASHRAM....