< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas:] Just raise your hands, close your eyes, and feel utterly open. These hands are the gestures of openness. Feel receptive, because sannyas has to be received; you cannot take it, you can only receive it. It is a gift: you can allow it to happen. There is no need to grab it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bodha means awareness, ananda means bliss – awareness, bliss. Misery consists of unawareness. Misery has no outer cause for it, the cause is inner. You go on throwing the responsibility outside, but that is just an excuse. Yes, it is triggered from the outside but the outside does not create it. Somebody insults you: the insult comes from the outside but the anger is inside you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dhyana means meditation. And this is the right age when you should start meditating, just when you are coming closer to your fourteenth year. You are twelve; these two years will be of immense value to you. After each seven years the mind changes. The fourteenth year will be one of great change, so if one is ready much becomes possible; if one is not ready then one goes on missing the change....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, nityam means eternal. Eternity is not non-ending time, eternity means no-time. Eternity is not the continuity of time forever; that is the meaning in the dictionaries: forever and forever. But forever is part of time – prolonged time, indefinitely prolonged, but it is still time. Eternity is jumping out of time; it is non-temporal, it is no-time....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Osho gives the name Deva Sura and says that god is the ultimate intoxicant, the ultimate lsd. When people are searching for intoxicants, they are really searching for god. Drink god, and you are drunk forever. Life can be transformed into eternal wine: one can live so utterly drunk that one walks on the earth yet flies in the sky, one lives in the world but the world does not live in one....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, recently returned, says she feels rather neutral at the moment.] Don’t be worried about the neutrality and don’t think that it is something that should not be. We have become accustomed to ups and downs, so both are okay: when we are up we feel good, when we are down we feel bad....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin said he had done an encounter group in the west: It was not very pleasant but I think it gave me a lot.] Mm mm. Encounter cannot be pleasant. If it is true, it is going to be painful; if it is untrue, it can be pleasant. It is an effort to uncover all that which we are hiding....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and megha means path... Man has to become a path of bliss. Bliss comes from the unknown, from the blue. Just as the sun- rays come from far away, so does bliss; from the centre of the universe, bliss radiates. But we are closed to it; we don’t allow the way, we don’t open the door....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, ashad means joy, enjoyment, happiness; all kinds of joys are included in it, from the lowest to the highest. There are bodily joys, there are psychological and there are spiritual joys. Ashad takes them altogether, in one unity. It cannot be exactly translated into English because there are different joys. Somebody may enjoy eating but that’s a physical phenomenon....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, akal means timelessness – divine timelessness. And that has to become your target. The mind is time; when the mind disappears, time disappears. In a state of no-mind there is no experience of time. All is, but nothing moves; everything simply stops. There comes a great pause: that pause is meditation....