< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 3 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A couple returning to the West. The man had recently had hepatitis and was feeling apprehensive about trying to cope with the weakness it had left him with.] For a few weeks, just go and rest... don’t do anything, mm? Sometimes weakness of the body can be used in very very creative ways....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 14 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The brother of Vipassana, a sannyasin who died three days ago of an inoperable brain tumour came to darshan.] You did well. It is difficult, but you did well. And if one can face a loved one’s death, one comes out of it completely integrated. Death can be very disintegrating... it can shatter you, or it can be a very crystallizing force and can make you integrated....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 4 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gave an individual meditation to a newly-arrived sannyasin.] Start doing one meditation in the night before you go to sleep. Put off the light and just stand in the darkness. Then start shaking from the head, just the head. Enjoy the shaking and feel how it feels from inside, mm? Then shake the upper part of the body – the head, the hands, the torso; don’t shake the lower part....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 5 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I have a lot of problems about girls... I really get frightened – sometimes just of everything, sometimes of nothing. It’s just a general sort of fear.] A few groups will be very very helpful. The fear has to be dropped, but first you will have to go into it. You can drop a thing only when you have understood perfectly; otherwise you cannot drop it....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 22 6 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that she had not been meditating for the past few months as she felt the presence of a force almost like a person’s presence when she started to meditate, and in fear she would have to open her eyes. Osho checked her energy.] It is nothing to be worried about. Rather you should be happy that it is happening....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 15 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A japanese man expressed some apprehension prior to taking sannyas, as he was already involved with a movement in Japan, called Tenrikyo, which he said started just one hundred and fifty years ago in Japan, and was something akin to Buddhism, yet not Buddhism.] No need to leave it right now. Just go on making all efforts to search deep....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 16 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium ... this will be your name: Ma Anand Soma. Soma means the moon, and anand means bliss – blissful moon. Meditate on the moon more and more. Whenever the moon is in the sky, just sit looking at it, but with very empty eyes. Looking, and yet not concentrating. Just looking, but with no strain....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 17 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’m wondering about my relationship. There is a lot of good feeling, but we’re sort of keeping each other safe, and I feel restricted. We’ll both be starting groups and I think we’ll be able to branch out.] No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centres remain alone....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 18 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I don’t want to be here – and I don’t know why. Since Vipassana died I have felt afraid of death. And Amitabh (her boyfriend) seems different... I feel frightened. Sometimes I don’t even want to be human any more. But I also don’t believe that if I went away I would feel any different....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 22 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An indian visitor, who is a professional dancer, asked what meditation technique would be right for her, and then went on to ask about love and relationships.] There is no need to find any other meditation. Dance itself becomes a meditation if the dancer is lost. The whole point is how to lose oneself....