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 ‌CHAPTER 28 30 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says his wife, a non-sannyasin, wants to study psychology.] Where can she study psychology better than here? Just tell her!... Anywhere else you can study psychology as a dead subject – here it is alive. Here people are opening up, growing, and that’s what psychology basically is: the science of the soul. The western psychology is yet not worthy enough of being called psychology....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of prem nutan: new, fresh love. Love is synonymous with life. If you can be true to love then there is no need for any other religion. Love is the highest religion possible and it takes you tot the ultimate goal. When there is flow, life has a glow. When there is no flow, life is just so-so....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Osho explains the meaning of veet nisadha: beyond no, beyond negation.… Drop no-saying; become more and more of a yea-sayer.] Yes, say yes to life. And if one is aware, then one will be surprised that many times we unnecessarily say no... and we harm nobody except ourselves by saying that. No is fear-oriented; yes is love....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Ananda means bliss, svatma means the innermost self, the innermost core, the being. Bliss being – that will be the meaning of the name... and there is a message in it for you. I give names as messages. You will have to unfold it, live it, and by and by the name will become a reality....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho checks someone’s energy saying: Create a space of fear in and around yourself. Osho tells him that he is sitting on a deep layer of fear. Fear and anger are two sides of one coin. Fear is a good policy but very bad for growth. Anger is not a very good policy but is very good for growth....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas to a baby who throws the mala off. Then he tells the mother: And always treat him with great respect. Each child brings divine fragrance into the world and each child should be treated as a god or a goddess. The following morning Osho spoke about him in discourse.] Just last night, a sannyasin came with her small boy for sannyas....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of prem akal – timeless love. And love is the only phenomenon that exists in time and yet is beyond time] Once a gardener brought to me a summer flower – a small plant. After three, four weeks it bloomed. It was really a beautiful flower but within three, four weeks the flower was gone and the stem also died....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 September 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, shravan means listening – blissful listening. And there is a difference between hearing and listening. If one is not deaf, one hears; it is the physical part of listening, the gross part. But if you are not listening attentively, if you are not hearing totally, if you are not there in it participating, then it remains hearing; it is not listening....