< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Samvad means communion. Man is living as an island, and that’s from where all misery arises. Down the centuries man has been trying to live independently from existence. That is not possible in the very nature of things. Man can neither be independent nor dependent. Existence is a state of interdependence: everything depends on everything else....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium This will be your new name... and the end of the old life and the beginning of the totally new. Let it be totally new. Sometimes a thing is new, but not totally new – then it doesn’t work. Then it is just a modification of the old, a continuity with the past. Only the discontinuous works – absolute discontinuity with the past; only that is radical....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 31 March 1970 pm in Jabalpur University, Jabalpur, India The students here wish me to say something on the hippies. The first thing that comes to my mind in this connection is the book MAXIMS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY by George Bernard Shaw, as it enumerates some golden rules, the first of which is indeed wonderful. In a way it can be said that the whole thing has finished with the first rule....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 1 July 19th 1969 pm in K. C. College, Bombay, India [Note: this is an adaptation from Hindi, which was prepared for publication, but not published. It is for reference only.] It was noon, everything around was still, silent. I was sitting on a bench, underneath a statue of Mahatmaji, in a garden of the capitol. I thought of asking Gandhiji the whereabouts of true Gandhians....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, christopher means Christ-bearer. The story is that Saint Christopher bore the Christ child across the river. But it can become a tremendously significant metaphor for the inner journey. The meaning that I would like to give it is that each person, man or woman, is a Christbearer in the sense that everybody is pregnant with Christ, that we are carrying the child in our womb....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bliss is not a result of prayer, it is not a reward: it is prayer itself. It is not that prayerful people become blissful; just the contrary: blissful people are prayerful. There is no question of becoming; bliss and prayer are synonymous. And once this is understood then the whole of life can be a prayer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An ashram press office representative asks: Osho, what is your message to humanity on this new year’s day?] My message is simple. My message is a new man, homo novus. The old concept of man was of either/or; materialist or spiritualist, moral or immoral, sinner or saint. It was based on division, split. It created a schizophrenic humanity....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 A dawn unto his own day 8 January 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, ALMUSTAFA, THE CHOSEN AND THE BELOVED, WHO WAS A DAWN UNTO HIS OWN DAY, HAD WAITED TWELVE YEARS IN THE CITY OF ORPHALESE FOR HIS SHIP THAT WAS TO RETURN AND BEAR HIM BACK TO THE ISLE OF HIS BIRTH. AND IN THE TWELFTH YEAR, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF IELOOL, THE MONTH OF REAPING, HE CLIMBED THE HILL WITHOUT THE CITY WALLS AND LOOKED SEAWARD; AND HE BEHELD HIS SHIP COMING WITH THE MIST....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 A Hand Beckoning 11 February 1978 am in Buddha Hall THERE IS NOTHING BUT WATER IN THE HOLY POOLS, I KNOW, I HAVE BEEN SWIMMING IN THEM. ALL THE GODS SCULPTED OF WOOD AND IVORY CAN’T SAY A WORD. I KNOW, I HAVE BEEN CRYING OUT TO THEM. THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST ARE NOTHING BUT WORDS. I LOOKED THROUGH THEIR COVERS ONE DAY SIDEWAYS....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 A little bit of sky 27 August 1978 am in Buddha Hall MASTER LU-TSU SAID: YOUR WORK WILL GRADUALLY BECOME CONCENTRATED AND MATURE, BUT BEFORE YOU REACH THE CONDITION IN WHICH YOU SIT LIKE A WITHERED TREE BEFORE A CLIFF, THERE ARE STILL MANY POSSIBILITIES OF ERROR WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO YOUR SPECIAL ATTENTION. THESE CONDITIONS ARE RECOGNIZED ONLY WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED....