< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 3 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, newly arrived from America, said she was constantly thinking of her husband whom she had left for someone else. She expressed a sense of guilt because she felt she was the reason for their separating.] Mm, never think much about the past. That which is gone, is gone; you cannot undo it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 17 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asked just what was happening here, with Osho, in relation to human psychological growth.] We are trying to present a new synthesis between East and West. The eastern methods are more individualistic, more inward-going, and more concerned with solitude, aloneness, and the person. They are meditative methods, more concerned with the person and his integrity....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 4 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium People who had done the Aum marathon had darshan tonight. Veeresh, one of the leaders, said that he followed Osho’s advice: “Let Veeresh not be there”; and when he got stuck to close his eyes, relax, and think of Osho. Veeresh recounts three incidents in the group when this had happened.] Mm, really fantastic it has been....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 5 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says she is a painter.] Very good. Things will go well with me! Religion is the greatest art... and unless you understand religion something will be always missing in your art, something will remain incomplete, because whatsoever you do without religion, you are the doer. Once religion enters your life you are no longer the doer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 6 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin recently returned said that he didn’t feel Osho in the West but as soon as he arrived in India he felt Osho’s presence.] That too, is possible. It depends on the personality. It may be so with you. There are two types of persons: one person – who is never in the present – is the common type....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 7 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin returned to darshan after having over-eaten consciously for seven days as Osho had suggested, as she was concerned that she was stuffing herself. She says: Well I’m not interested in food anymore!] Good. That’s how the mind works: if you want not to eat, then the desire arises to eat too much....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 8 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin sings a love song in French to Osho. She has brought a translator with her. ] When one talks about love, there is no need to translate it. ... A few things can be understood without knowing the language, and those are the same few things that cannot be translated. That’s why poetry is impossible to translate, and a song still more difficult, because the words can be translated but not the rhythm....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 9 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dharma means the ultimata law, the very base of life, the very ground of existence. and Kaya means body – the body of the ultimate law. This is a buddhist term, very meaningful... [A couple come with a relationship problem: She has a black eye and complains of lack of privacy in the room they share; and he wants more freedom to move with others....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 10 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sudheer means infinitely patient, and prem means love. Love is patient and everything else is impatient. If there is no patience, there is no love. Passion is impatient, love is patient. and once you understand that to be patient is to be loving, and to be patient is to be in prayer, then everything is understood....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 11 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium This will be your name, so forget the old, forget it completely, as if it never belonged to you. A discontinuity is needed with the past so that one can start from ABC; fresh, with a clean sheet. That is the meaning of the new name – so that you can forget the old, and then with the old, the whole past disappears....