< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 28 27 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and vatya means whirlwind – a whirlwind of love. It is a beautiful word and it gives the sense of the wildness of love. Love is wild, and the moment one tries to domesticate it, it is destroyed. It is a whirlwind of freedom, of wildness, of spontaneity. You cannot manage it and control it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 30 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, said she was unable to communicate with her sister, who is also here. She said she felt her sister had some jealousy towards her which she did not understand.] There may be many hidden things involved. Some childhood jealousies are bound to be there. You repressed them, she repressed them, because we are taught to be nice to each other, and that is one of the most dangerous things....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 1 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor: I’m not sure if I want to take sannyas or not because I’m not sure exactly what it means. I’m not sure whether I can surrender because it would be putting you before Christ. And I know you speak much about Christ so I really don’t know yet how I feel.]...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 2 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and Rudra is one of the names of Shiva. The Hindus have a trinity of gods. Brahma is the creator god, or God’s creative function. Vishnu is one who maintains the existence, or God’s maintaining function. And Shiva or Rudra is one who destroys the world when it is no more needed; God’s destructive functioning....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 3 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks about the way in which people misunderstand what Osho is teaching, particularly in reference to sex.] It has always been so. People live in such an unconscious state that it is almost impossible for them to understand anything. Misunderstanding comes natural to them. The mind functions as a distorting mechanism. They cannot see what is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 4 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, said he felt a lot of jealousy at the possibility of his girlfriend having sexual relations with anyone else. He said he tried to just witness the fear of her leaving him for someone else, but it still persisted.] Nothing is wrong in the fear because that is always possible – she may go to somebody else, she may be taken by somebody else....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 5 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and divyo means divine – divine bliss. And that has to be remembered. I give you the name so it becomes unconsciously an undercurrent of remembrance – that wherever there is bliss, there is the divine. Bliss is the manifestation of the element divine. So become more blissful if you want to become more God-full....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 6 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho recommended that a newcomer undertake the course of Rolfing, saying:] When the mind is melting and changing, it is very simple to go into Rolfing, and great is the benefit because the body can change very easily with the mind. Something changes in the mind and, parallel to it, the body has to readjust, or if something changes in the body, the mind has to readjust....