< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The Other is never Responsible 3 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin mother says she is having problems in her relationship: I find myself being very bitchy and nagging sometimes. I feel I’m just asking for a fight all the time.] Mm mm, love always brings trouble – and it has to be faced. Love cannot be always smooth, and it is good that it is not always smooth, otherwise you would not grow....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Don’t be Limited by Religion 12 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says: I’ve been a university student in theoretical physics. I love it very much. Sometimes you speak against science and sometimes you praise it. What should I do?] If you want to go inwards you have to leave the scientific attitude completely. If you want to move outwards, the scientific attitude is the only way....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Innocence is the Base of Spirituality 13 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said that he felt himself to be like a child inside.] If one is like a child, many things happen, because one is open, vulnerable, soft, sensitive, and one is innocent. Innocence is the base of all spirituality. The moment you think you know, you are no more a child....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Love out of Freedom 14 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shanti Deva. It means goddess of peace. Let it be a remembrance – feel as peaceful as possible. And it is only a question of feeling. If you feel peaceful, you become peaceful. Nobody is barring you; there is no hindrance. The idea becomes the actuality. A continuous thought can be transformed into a thing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 The Religious Attitude is Alchemical 15 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin returning to the West, expressed sadness at the thought of leaving Osho.] Sadness is also good. One has to learn that everything is good. Goodness is not a quality of anything, it is just your approach, and how you look at it. Sadness is also good because it gives you a depth which no happiness can ever give....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 The Courage of a Madman is Needed 16 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that he would like to return to the West for a short period as his father had died two days ago and he felt he would be needed at home.] Help them, because they will need you. Death is a great experience. If you don’t know how to use it you can be destroyed by it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 Life Should be a Passion 17 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sahaj Bharti. Sahaj means spontaneous. That is going to be your work. Be spontaneous. Never act out of the past; always act out of the present moment. This moment is all there is. If you respond from this moment, you respond from your reality. You are responsible if you respond from your reality in this moment, herenow....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 A Sannyasin has no Future 18 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I heard... you said that a sannyasin is one who has no past and no future, and that that could be frightening.] The future is a great problem and one has to come to grips with it. Firstly the future is nothing but your unlived past, projected....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Put Yourself Aside 19 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dharma Veera. Veera means courage and dharma means religion, the ultimate truth. And that is the only courage – to know the ultimate, because in the very process of knowing it, you will dissolve. The ultimate courage is to be ready to dissolve, to disappear, so God can appear and manifest....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 Love Yourself 20 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says that he had a problem about sannyas. Osho asked him why the question of sannyas arose... ] ... because if you don’t feel like taking it, there is no problem. And if you feel like taking it, there is no problem. The question arises only if you are feeling a conflict within your heart....