Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There

Talks given from 1/9/77 to 30/9/77 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and patanga is a special moth that is very much attracted to fire, flame, and whenever there is flame the moth will come and jump into it. Its only love is fire. And hence the name ‘patanga’ has become a metaphor in the east – a metaphor for the lover. A lover has to be like the moth – ready to jump into fire, ready to die, ready to disappear....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin couple and their baby are present. The man says he expected to come here and feel better, more loving. Instead, he says, in some ways he feels more sad, tense, angry.] Expectation always creates misery. If you expect something, that very expectation will become the barrier. So live a life without any expectations....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin asks if she can train in tantra yoga, as she is a therapist and can use it in her work.] You can train. You can be of immense help to people.… Yes, you can. So you do the tantra group here. You can bring very good energy into helping people. And people’s problems are basically concerned with sex energy....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, vasant means spring – bliss spring. And when bliss comes it comes like a spring. It was not there and suddenly it is there; suddenly the whole climate is different. It takes you unawares. It comes very unexpectedly, and one never knows from where it will start and begin. which tree will bloom first, will have the first taste of spring, nobody knows....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 14 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, prasava means birth – birth of love. And let sannyas be a birth of love... a birth in love. Live love as intensely as possible; let that be your doing. Everything else in life is a means; the end is always love. And if the means fulfill love then the person is sane; if the means don’t fulfill love then the person is insane....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 15 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, samoda means delight – divine delight. And let that be your climate – live in it, breathe in it. It is only a question of remembering, and it comes. And you can do it very easily. You can easily become miserable, you can easily become blissful; it is one’s own creation....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 16 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving, says she has a lot of fear, and perhaps she is running away.] No, it is not escaping. It is not running away; it is part of the process. If you want to come close to me, sometimes you have to go away. Then next time you will come even closer....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 17 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving for Goa says: Thank you.] Meditate in Goa, mm? Goa is very related to me! Either the sannyasin has first to go to Goa then come to me or has to come to me and then go to Goa! This way or that but Goa is related. It is a beautiful place, so be on the beach in the sun and meditate, mm?...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 18 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho talks to a new sannyasin about being a therapist. He says, do you know the word ‘therapist’ comes from an ancient parsi word from Buddha’s time meaning elder brother?] Anand means blissful, and Rinzai was a great zen mystic – a Chinese – founder of the Rinzai sect of zen. Literally the word means: one who helps people to cross the river, the boatman....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 19 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says he is not sure about becoming a sannyasin.] Nobody knows unless they become! How can one know without becoming? It is something to be experienced; it is something existential, experiential. It is not something that can be explained in any way. It is like love or like death: you know only when you have gone through it....