< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 30 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving says: It’s like a step into the unknown, to go back. I don’t know what’s happening and I don’t know how I’m going to live anymore.] Yes, it is... it is. You will be back soon. Once you have lived with me you cannot live anywhere else. Sooner or later every sannyasin has to come to me and be here forever....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 29 31 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyas couple who are part of a music centre in the west tell Osho they want to start a meditation centre. He gives them a name: Malar – It means melody, music, rhythm.] And to be in music is to be in meditation, to become music is to be in meditation. There is a kind of music that you hear from the outside; there is also another kind of music that is heard within....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 4 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives someone sannyas:] This will be your new name... and a new beginning, a new birth. Count yourself as being alive from this moment. Up to now you have been a caterpillar, only living in a kind of shell. That’s how everybody is living; their lives are at the minimum, and real life happens only at the maximum....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 5 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, satta means a teacher – a teacher of bliss. It is not that you have to teach bliss, but your whole life has to become a teaching. You should live in such a way that even if a stranger passes by he can feel your bliss. That is the real teaching of bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 6 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin brings her five-year-old daughter to take sannyas. Osho tells her: Help her to get into dancing as much as possible; that will become her meditation, Osho then tells her. Children can enter into meditation through dance very easily, because dance is not anything unnatural, artificial; man is born with the faculty of dance....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 7 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Premmurti. It means image of love. Open your heart more, think less. Get down from the head to the heart, feel more. Through feeling more one gets to the being; through thinking more one gets away from the being. Thinking creates distance from yourself; feeling destroys the distance. The ultimate in thinking is schizophrenia, you become two; the distance is so much that it becomes unbridgeable....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 8 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium The message is to never think about yourself in any way which condemns. One has to learn to respect oneself; that is the beginning of a great change. We have been taught to condemn, to despise, to hate. We have been told to love others but we have not been told to love ourselves, so we don’t have a good image of ourselves....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 9 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Asango means absolute aloneness. It does not mean loneliness. Loneliness is a negative state, it is miserable. You are hankering for the other and the other is not available; you would like to be with the other but you are forced to be lonely. Loneliness is enforced, it is empty. Aloneness is positive; it is not forced....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 10 March 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, ama means darkness – beyond darkness. And everybody is living in darkness. Until god has happened to you, you are in darkness, because god is the only light there is. One can be rich in darkness, one can be poor, one can be educated, one can be uneducated; one can be famous and one can be absolutely unknown, anonymous; one can be successful, one can be a failure – that doesn’t make much difference – but we all live in darkness till god happens....