< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 20 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyasin to someone saying, just feel lost; lose control; don’t hold yourself together; just fall into pieces, and if the body starts falling on to the floor, allow it. Don’t be worried.] The easiest is the most difficult; the difficult is not so difficult. The ego is always ready to do the difficult because doing the difficult the ego is enhanced; it feels good....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, nispati means conclusion. And there are two types of conclusion: one is logical, intellectual, another is of the heart. The logical conclusion is superficial; only the conclusion that arises in life through love is decisive. You can go on arguing and thinking round and round; thinking moves in a circle. It always feels as if something is happening, as if one is arriving, but one never arrives, and each conclusion simply begins to be another question....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 22 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says that he has been thinking on, and getting depressed about, the past. Osho says that to keep looking back to the past is an effective way of making misery for oneself. Good or bad, the past is finished. It has no more any validity, no more any relevance. Look forwards, never look backwards....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 23 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks how to make his hobby of painting a meditation.] Art is meditation. Any activity becomes meditation if you are lost in it. So don’t just remain a technician. If you are just a technician then painting will never become meditation. You have to be crazily into it, madly into it, completely lost, not knowing where you are going, not knowing what you are doing, not knowing who you are....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 24 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin newly returned says: I’m pretty shaky but I feel good.] One is shaky if one is feeling good! People don’t feel so shaky when they are not feeling good. People are acquainted with that state of not feeling good. They are perfectly familiar with it; they are not shaky. When you really feel good you feel shaky....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 25 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin has brought her son because she is worried about the way he doesn’t eat, which may be causing bronchitis, and how he relates with other children.] What is the way? I think the problem is more with you than with him! He seems to be perfectly okay! You seem to be too worried about him....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 26 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho tells an initiate to close her eyes and to feel a sound arising from her heart. Let yourself be possessed by the sound. If it starts coming – any sound – allow it. If you start saying it loudly, go with it; go into it. Osho then explains the meaning of prem bhajan – worship through sound....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 27 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand vipal – bliss moment. And remember that the moment is the penetration of eternity into time. The moment is not part of time; the moment is something that comes beyond time. In fact, the real moment is between two moments of time. It is just as these two fingers are there and there is a gap....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 28 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving has difficulty surrendering to the commune. He asks Osho to decide whether he leaves or not... ] Then I can just direct you what to do. Then there is no problem.The problem arises only when you start doing your own thing, and then you fall out of tune with the things here....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 29 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, madhumaya means sweet as honey. And love is the only sweetness; everything else is bitter. We can even tolerate bitter things if there is a little mixture of love in them; otherwise life becomes unbearable. Life is unbearable; it is only love that makes it bearable. Life in itself is meaningless – it is love that brings meaning to it....