< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 16 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’m changing all the time... Since the group, I don’t know... I don’t like talking, I don’t like laughing... I feel like crying... ] Whatsoever happens, accept and enjoy, and don’t force anything. If you feel like talking, talk. If you feel like being silent, be silent – just move with the feeling....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 25 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The Encounter Group are at darshan. The leader says it was nothing special... every group is different.] Mm, it has to be so because the group depends on the people. It should depend more on the people who participate... and no rigid structure should be given to it – so it remains loose, flexible....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 26 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had previously told Osho he had powerful experiences of death in his meditation. Osho had suggested he do the humming meditation. Tonight he says he is having problems with it: I feel morose. I don’t feel happy. I used to feel happy before, but now I’m just going into my shell. I don’t feel like doing anything....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 27 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho spoke first to a woman, a mother of a sannyasin, saying that her leaving was premature because she had just started to move in from the periphery and things would have started happening. She asked wasn’t it possible for things to happen anywhere, if they were going to happen at all, but Osho said for the first glimpse one needs a suitable situation, and after that ‘you have a thread in your hands....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 28 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, upset and tearful, told Osho that she had left the group she was doing to return home to Holland as her daughter was missing her. She said she had received a letter from her saying she was longing for her so she is leaving.] Children are true, they always say whatsoever they feel....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 29 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Satsang is a very significant word – it means the presence of the master. It cannot be translated into English because there has never been such a thing as satsang in English. In India, in the whole of the East, this is the most precious thing – just to be in the presence of the master; not doing anything, just being there....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 30 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, recently returned from the West, said he was experiencing difficulty in maintaining a relationship as well as meditating and moving deeper into his ‘inner world’.] When you move on an inner pilgrimage, the energies turn inwards, the same energies that were moving outwards, and suddenly you find yourself alone like an island....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 31 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Nitya means eternal and anand means bliss – eternal bliss... And this is going to be your constant remembrance... to just feel as if you are eternal. In the beginning it is ‘as if’. By and by you become more and more aware that this is a truth. In the beginning you start with an hypothesis – as if – but soon glimpses start coming....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 1 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says that he was at John Bennett’s school in England, where they did Gurdjieffian exercises: Actually I left there quite confused – I suppose there’s no way out of that. I never had much ability to do any of the exercises or things like that.] It may not have suited you because Gurdjieff’s work is for a particular type, the will type – people who can work hard and very persistently, almost madly....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 2 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’ve been able to open up to people in a way I’ve never experienced before, and people have come to me. I’d just like to say thank you.] One never knows. One never knows unless it happens, because we remain confined with our past experiences, with all that we have known before....