< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌May 1982 pm in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA [NOTE: This was published in THE RAJNEESH TIMES, 5th November 1982, while Osho was in silence.] ED BRADLEY OF THE 60 MINUTES TEAM VISITED RANCHO RAJNEESH IN MAY TO GET FOOTAGE FOR LAST SUNDAY’S PROGRAM. SINCE IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO INTERVIEW OSHO DIRECTLY, HE SENT OSHO A LETTER CONTAINING FOUR QUESTIONS....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌1 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Satyo Dorothee. Satyo means truth; Dorothee means a gift of God. Truth is never an achievement; one cannot seek and search it. Seeking is a sure way of not finding it. Search and you will miss, because the very idea of searching, seeking, is rooted in desire, and desire is the barrier. Truth happens when there is no desire in the mind....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 17 October 1970 am in Poona, India [Note: This is a translation from the Hindi Neo-Yoga Sutras, which is in the process of being edited. It is for research only.] My Beloved Ones, Last year, in a world conference of biologists, the president of the British Biological Association, Badkun(?), gave a statement. I want to begin today’s talk with that statement. He said a very significant thing in that statement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Khabira. It is a sufi name, a name of God. Literally it means: one who sees all, the cognizant one, the seer of all. And that is hidden in everybody – the witness. What we see may be true, may not be true, but the seer is always true. The seen may be, may not be....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 29 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin returning to the West, said that he was feeling ‘okay’ about himself.] Okay is not enough... feel blessed. Okay is not a very ecstatic word; it is just lukewarm. So feel blessed – and it is a question of feeling. Whatsoever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. If you are not feeling good, that’s how you have created it in the past....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 I also wanted to hear that music. Therefore, I went in search of that sea. After several years of wandering, at last I did reach that sea-shore. But, behold what was there was the loud tumult of the sea. The strokes waves, after striking on the rocks, were resounding manifold in that lonely place. Neither was there any music nor were the ringing bells of the temples....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 19 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving says: I am facing new things which I have not faced before.] Very good. This new space is your reality. Whatsoever you have known up to now was not really you. It was the identity given by others – the parents, the society, the world. Now you are coming to encounter yourself....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in the now – no past, no future. This moment is all there is and just this moment is god. Everything else is just the mind dreaming, desiring, imagining....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, blissfulness, and buddha means the awakened state of consciousness – the utterly awakened state when there is no more any unconscious desire, when there is no dark corner left, when all is consciousness within... when the conscious goes on spreading, spreading, and takes over the whole territory of the unconscious....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says she lives at Esalen Institute, a pioneer growth centre in california.] Mm mm, good! That is going to become my institute! It will become! Become a sannyasin – that will help you to come close to me, because to come close something has to change inside you. Something that is a kind of no has to become yes; only then can you come to me....