This section is a miscellaneous collection of talks and interviews from the late sixties and early seventies. Some of them have been published in pamphlet form.
Miscellaneous talks from the early days Miscellaneous
1 2 No Mission, No Message3 4 5 6 7 Osho Confronts the Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi8 Bhuribai9 Women Mystics10 Man amp; God--The Spiritual Dimension of Life11 Man amp; Man
< Previous | Contents | Next > 3 June 1969 pm in Udaipur, India [NOTE: Text is not available for this talk.] < Previous | Contents | Next >
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 10 Man amp; God–The Spiritual Dimension of Life We begin the journey in search of the Supreme Truth. ‘Meditation’ is going to be our ‘via media’. I shall only light the path for you. Then onwards you shall make the journey on your own spiritual strength. Therefore, do not merely lend me your ears but listen to me with attention and then translate the thoughts into action....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 11 Man amp; Man CONVERSATIONS DR. GUINEBERT: ACHARYAJI, WILL YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY YOGA, YOGI AND MEDITATION? Osho: The first thing about meditation is that it is not something which can be done. In the whole world we have a notion that meditation means ‘doing something’. It is not a doing. It is not an act. It is some thing which happens....
< Previous | Contents | Next > No Mission, No Message 1 October 1969 pm in Pahalgam, Kashmir, India FIRST QUESTIONER: WHAT IS YOUR MISSION IN LIFE? AND WHAT METHOD SHOULD WE USE TO FULFILL THIS MISSION? OSHO: As far as my mission in life is concerned, there is no such thing as my mission. Neither is there any my, nor is there any mission. I am not teaching something to others – there is no message to be given to the world....
< Previous | Contents | Next > 26 August 1970 pm in CCI Chambers, Bombay, India [NOTE: Text is not available for this talk.] < Previous | Contents | Next >
< Previous | Contents | Next > 22 September 1970 pm in CCI Chambers, Bombay, India [NOTE: Text is not available for this talk.] < Previous | Contents | Next >
< Previous | Contents | Next > 2 October 1970 pm in Manali, India [NOTE: Text for this talk is not available.] < Previous | Contents | Next >
< Previous | Contents | Next > DHRITARASHTRA SAID: O SANJAY, ASSEMBLED ON THE FIELD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE FIELD OF THE KURUS, AND EAGER TO FIGHT, WHAT DID MY SONS AND THE SONS OF PANDU DO? Dhritarashtra is blind. However, longing or passionate desire never disappears because of the lack of sight. If Surdas had thought of Dhritarashtra, he would not have pierced his eyes. Surdas pierced his eyes in the belief that the desire and longing would never crop up once sight was destroyed....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Osho Confronts the Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1969 pm in Pahalgam, Kashmir, India In 1969 followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi invited Osho to talk to them. This was the first occasion on which Osho addressed a western audience, and the first time he talked publicly at length in English. The discourse has been published in OTI January 1 & 16, 1991; and February 1, 1991....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 Bhuribai 11 September 1980 pm in Osho Commune International, India Translated from: JYUN THA TYUN THARAYA. Published in OTI 16 August 1991. Bhuribai is very closely connected with me. I have come to know thousands of men, thousands of women, but Bhuribai was unique among them. Bhuribai’s mahaparinirvana – her death attaining the highest liberation – happened just recently. Count her with Meera, Rabiya, Sahajo, Daya – she is qualified to be among these few selected women....