Far Beyond the Stars

Talks given from 1/7/77 to 31/7/77 Darshan Diary

1 The moment you become part of the community, you dissapear 2 One needs the courage to be oneself 3 Love is the natural meditation 4 Will divides, awareness unites 5 Sannyas is pure adventure 6 Sipping tea can be prayer 7 When the abyss is your home 8 The victory that comes through surrender 9 Every pain can become a satori 10 Meditate on the early morning.…11 The key is in your hands 12 With me, nobody is going to be a loser 13 No answer is needed.…14 While you are here let your head disappear 15 Now begin the enquiry into god 16 I am not a guru -- at the most a friend 17 We can all become gods.…18 You have known me, heard me -- you cannot go back 19 Happiness is a gift that only you can give to yourself 20 Being lost is the beginning of finding oneself 21 A space created for people who want to be spontaneous...22 My work is with individuals 23 The unfamiliar has to be invited, the unknown has to be loved...24 Spirituality is a vision of living this life with totality 25 The significance is not in the goal but in the journey 26 Become a part of the family 27 Everybody is carrying a sun within him 28 Life is eternal dance, a non-ending hallelujah!

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19 Happiness is a gift that only you can give to yourself

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 Happiness is a gift that only you can give to yourself 22 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin married couple bring their one-year-old daughter for sannyas.] Deva tara... It means divine star. Tar means star, mm? – the english word ‘star’ comes from the sanskrit root ‘tara’. In sanskrit it is ‘sitara’; from sitara it has become tara in Hindi and star in English....

2 One needs the courage to be oneself

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌One needs the courage to be oneself 3 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of prem veeresh. Prem means love and veeresh means courage, and you have to imbibe the spirit of love and courage. Love is the basic quality of the religious man, and out of love, courage grows.] When I was a small child at school there was a wrestling competition for the whole district; I have never been able to forget that incident....

20 Being lost is the beginning of finding oneself

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 Being lost is the beginning of finding oneself 23 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is returning to the West, says he is feeling emotionally exhausted since he completed the primal group two months ago: I feel there’s just big wounds inside me, and I’m just a bit afraid that they won’t heal when I go back to the west....

21 A space created for people who want to be spontaneous\...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 A space created for people who want to be spontaneous... 24 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho checks the energy of a sannyasin who has come to darshan for the first time.] The energy is perfect... just on the verge, mm? Something is going to happen, it can be predicted. Very few people are on the verge, so much has to be done before they can come to that, to the verge, because only from the verge is the jump possible....

22 My work is with individuals

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 My work is with individuals 25 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning deva aukash. It means divine space] Create more and more space within yourself. Remove all furniture, remove everything from the inside; let there be just pure emptiness. When nothing exists, god exists: nothing is synonymous with god. When you cannot find anything within yourself, not even yourself, then god isthat very space is...

23 The unfamiliar has to be invited, the unknown has to be loved\...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 The unfamiliar has to be invited, the unknown has to be loved... 26 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving says: I’m a horrible kid, she says, embarrassed – I’m always wasting everything!] Stop doing that, because it is wasting a great opportunity; you are not wasting anything else but your own opportunity. Life is very precious and these moments may not be repeated....

24 Spirituality is a vision of living this life with totality

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 Spirituality is a vision of living this life with totality 27 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a seeker sannyas.] And just start visualising a bluish light at the third eye... just a bluish flame. Forget everything and let that flame be there, the only focus... the whole consciousness focused on it.… Prem means love, chinmaya means consciousness – love consciousness....

25 The significance is not in the goal but in the journey

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 The significance is not in the goal but in the journey 28 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says he’s been doing zen meditation for two years... he was frustrated; it was only discipline.] It is... but we will change it. Once you have passed through a few cathartic groups, you will start enjoying the same zen meditation....

26 Become a part of the family

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 Become a part of the family 29 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is a teacher says she gets angry with her students. No, we will take it away, promises Osho. The problem is not with the students – it is with you. The expectations create trouble, and teachers down the ages have enforced things; now they can’t do that....

27 Everybody is carrying a sun within him

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 Everybody is carrying a sun within him 30 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Anand suriya. Anand means bliss, suriya, the source of light: the sun, blissful source of light... ] And everybody is carrying a sun within him. If we are living in darkness it is not because we don’t have light; it is because we never look at the light....