Don’t Bite My Finger, Look Where I’m Pointing

Talks given from 1/3/78 to 31/3/78 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 20 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin with terminal cancer and a few weeks to live is returning to the west. Osho blesses him.] Don’t be worried... don t be worried. I am coming with you; don’t be worried at all. You have taken it really as it should be taken. I have been very happy. Just accept everything, and something is possible through that acceptance....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 3 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Swatantra means freedom, sarjano means creativity. Freedom is true only if it creates. Creativity is the indication of a true freedom, and creation is true only if it comes out of freedom. Creativity without freedom is not true creativity, it is imitation, it is borrowed. It can be very skilful, it can be technically perfect, but something essential will be missing in it: the soul will be missing....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 22 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [March 21st was Enlightenment Day when everyone could come to celebrate darshan in Osho’s silent presence.] Madhuban means the garden. The garden is a metaphor of joy... celebration, flowering, of life, of vitality, of flow, of change. These two metaphors are very symbolic, the garden and the desert; they are polar opposites. In the past religions have existed more like a desert....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 23 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An Israeli, who is studying at a college in Poona for one year, takes sannyas.] Use this time for meditation also. That will be far more significant than any study. Meditation is self-study. And that is the central core of one’s whole life: if one can become rooted in meditation then all else becomes a blessing, everything starts becoming as it should be....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 24 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Nirjara. It is one of the most important words in the Eastern search for truth. It comes from the Jaina tradition. That tradition is very much unknown in the West but is one of the most important in the East, as important as the Buddhist tradition. But it never gathered too many followers so it remained almost unknown....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 25 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is returning to his job as a therapist in the west says: I fear really giving a lot of energy and never getting any of that love back. It’s something I realise that I really need since I’ve been hereWhat do I do?] Go with this new understanding and try to live in the new way....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 26 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Krishna is one of the names of god. And one has to remember constantly that at the innermost core of our being god abides, lives, that we are shrines of god, that we live only because we live in god. We may not be aware of it – we are not – but life is not possible without god....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 27 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium And remember that the change of a name is not just a change of the name: it means much. It orients you towards the future instead of the past. The old name belongs to the past, it contains your whole past; it holds your whole past like a thread, running through all the events and all the memories....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 28 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium We are alone, all togetherness is just a dream, because in fact there are not two to be together: only one exists. So all relationship is illusory. There is nobody to relate to – only consciousness exists – that is the meaning of kaivalya; and to understand it is to understand all. That is the ultimate peak of understanding....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 29 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Chandrakirti is one of the greatest Buddhist philosophers. He is not only a philosopher but also a Buddha himself, part of that great chain that Buddha created, and one of the most important links in that chain. There are no traditions which have produced as many enlightened people as Buddhism. And Buddha’s disciples have bloomed in such great numbers that it has never happened before or since....