< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 13 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks about his work in the West and his relationship:... it’s crazy that I should ask you these things... I’ve got my own mind.] No, you ask... that is a way of making up your mind, mm? Now you are part of me and I am as much involved in you as you are – even more....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 25 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veera means courageous, prem means love – courageous in love. And that is the only courage there is... all else is cowardice. So be more loving, and love completely unconditionally, mm? That is going to be your flowering of being. [A sannyasin says she is afraid of going back to the West: I’m afraid that all the things I’ve dropped will come back again, and that I will drown in them....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 26 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she is very scared to go back to the West; she is scared of just about everything.] Everything will be okay... don’t be worried. The mind goes on imagining things, and ninety-nine percent never happen and that one percent that happens is always good. Trust always that everything is going to happen – and that it is going to be good....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 27 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Geetanjali. It means an offering of the songs. You can offer God flowers, or you can offer your songs. So Geetanjali means offering God your songs. It is the name of one of the most famous books in India. Have you heard the name of Rabindranath Tagore? He is the only nobel-prize-winning indian poet, and it was for this book ‘Geetanjali’ that he was given the nobel prize....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 28 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Marpa is one of the greatest tibetan mystics... one of the rare geniuses. You cannot count more than ten of his equal in the whole world. And anand means blissful – blissful Marpa. Rad his life, teachings, and everything about him. ... Milarepa. That is another tibetan mystic. Read him – all the books are translated into English – particularly his ‘A Thousand Songs of Milarepa’; they are tremendously beautiful....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 29 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Arihanto means one who has attained, and anand means bliss – one who has attained bliss. and I give you this name for a particular reason. Start living from this moment as if you are blissful. don’t try to achieve it – rather feel that it is achieved, and now you have just to live it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 30 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho suggested to a sannyasin to start a small meditation centre.] It will be good for you also. This is my observation, that there are many things that you learn only when you start teaching them. The best way to learn a thing is to teach it. And you grow more when you are less concerned about your own growth and more concerned with others’ growth, their problems....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 31 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin who had said he was studying history in the West, but didn’t like it.] History is not good...(laughter) it is just useless. Read something else, study something else which can be of creative use for your future. Ninety-nine percent of history concerns foolish politicians. It is better not to know it, because it gives you a wrong notion about human beings....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 1 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that she was feeling sad because she had separated from her man recently, and she found it difficult to stop thinking of him.] Sadness can become a very very enriching experience. You have to work on it. It is easy to escape from your sadness – and all relationships ordinarily are escapes; one simply goes on avoiding it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 2 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she is afraid of leaving for the West.] Don’t be afraid of such things. It is always difficult to leave the ones you love, but it becomes difficult because when we are with them we don’t love them. If you really love them, feel for them, care for them – and you will be there for three, four months – you can leave them without any fear....