< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Okay. Get ready for your notes. The world would have lost much without people like Devageet. We would not have known anything of Socrates if Plato had not written notes, nor of Buddha, nor Bodhidharma. Jesus too is known through his disciples’ notes. Mahavira is said never to have uttered a single word. I know the meaning of why it is said....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Now the work begins. “Athato brahman jigyasa – now the inquiry into the ultimate...” that’s how Badrayana begins his great book, perhaps the greatest. Badrayana’s book is the first I am going to talk about today. He begins his great book BRAHMAN SUTRAS with this sentence: “Now the enquiry into the ultimate.” That’s how all the sutras in the East begin, always with “Now....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Now the postscript. In the last session, when I said this is the end of this series of fifty books that I wanted to include in my list, it was only arbitrary. I don’t mean the end, but the number. I had chosen fifty because I thought it would be a good number. Anyway one has to decide, and all decisions are arbitrary....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Okay. I have heard your notebook open. Now it is my hour, and my hour does not consist of sixty minutes. It can be anything – sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred... or beyond numbers even. If it is my hour then of course it has to be consistent with me, not vice versa....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Be a Junnatha – a seeker. The P.S. continues. The first book is Friedrich Nietzsche’s WILL TO POWER. He never published it while he was alive. It was published posthumously, and meanwhile, before it was published, many of your so-called great men had already stolen from the manuscript. Alfred Adler was one of the ‘greatest’ psychologists....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Now is my time. I don’t think anybody has spoken in a dentist’s chair. I feel privileged. I see buddhas envious of me. The P.S. continues.… The first book today: THE DESTINY OF THE MIND by Haas. I don’t know how his name is pronounced: h-a-a-s – I pronounce it Haas. The book is not very well known for the simple reason that it is so profound....