< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 29 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, rupena means form – the form of bliss. Each being is a form, a certain form, a certain manifestation of the ultimate reality, and the ultimate reality consists of nothing but bliss, hence the search. We are searching for our home, we are searching for our original source, our original face....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 30 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, mimanso means enquiry into truth. The full name will mean: loving enquiry into truth... and only a loving enquiry succeeds. One can enquire into truth without love; then one is doomed to fail, there is no possibility of success. Love has to be a necessary ingredient in the enquiry. Without love the enquiry remains lopsided: it remains only logic, arithmetic, science, objective....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving says she loves her old mother and grown children and is reluctant to stay here a long time.] Remember one thing always, that unless you follow your desire towards blissfulness, whatsoever you do will be wrong. If you stay there you will take revenge on those people, because it is for them that you are staying there....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 31 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A mother has brought her baby. Osho reminds her to enjoy being a mother.] Don’t think of it as a duty. One tends to think of it as a duty sooner or later, and the day you think of it as a duty, something dies, something of immense value disappears; the relationship is broken. Think of it as a celebration....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva is a sanskrit root; it means divine. Hasido is a hebrew root; it means pious – divinely pious. There is a piety that can be cultivated by man, but deep down it remains an ego trip. Only on the surface is it pious. Deep down it is just the opposite. It is the ego playing a new game....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin wants to go home because his father is dying of a brain tumor but is still conscious.] Then it is good – you go. And help him to die meditatively. Meditation is a bridge between life and death. It is of immense value while one is alive and it is also of immense value while one is dying....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, salama means peace. Bliss can have two expressions: either it can be an ecstasy, overflowing, or it can be silence, peace, stillness. If bliss flows outward it is ecstatic. If it simply remains in then it is peace, and peace is a higher state than ecstasy. Even if one has attained to ecstatic joy, one has to go one step more, because one cannot remain in ecstasy forever; it tires....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of anand avoda.] Anand means bliss; it is the ultimate state of nature... Misery is unnatural. That s why nobody wants to be miserable. It is alien. It is an encroachment on your nature; it is something foreign that does not belong to us. We cannot absorb it – it remains like a poison in our being....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, gatya means movement – divine movement. Life is a movement, and misery arises because we don’t go with the movement. Either we start clinging to the past, then we obstruct the movement; or we start planning for the future, then too we obstruct the movement. To be with the movement one needs to be without past and without future....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving, says: It’s one year today since I arrived here, and I’m leaving feeling that I haven’t done enough work on myself here.] It is never enough... and it is good that it is never enough. Growth has no end. It is not a journey with a destination – the journey itself is the destination....