< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, mani means diamond – bliss diamond. And everybody is carrying that diamond within his soul. If we are feeling like beggars, it is just because we have not looked into our being, otherwise everybody is born an emperor. God never creates any beggar, that is an impossibility – god cannot do that....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god or divine and pashianti means clarity, vision. capacity to see. Capacity to clearly see god – that will be the meaning of the whole name. Everybody is born capable; somewhere on the way we lose the capacity. Every child comes with a very clear vision of god, but by and by we force him to forget; we force him to remember the world and forget god....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is returning to the West says: I feel vulnerable and somehow strong... I just hope you’ll be with me... through all of this turbulence.] Yes, I will be with you. And this is really important, to be vulnerable and strong. There are people who feel strong only when they are not vulnerable; that strength is bogus....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving, says: Would you say something about dying? I’m very much engaged with that. I awoke last night and suddenly I saw how absolute it was. I’ve never seen it before like that – I could hardly get any air. In response to Osho’s query she says she likes Kundalini meditation best.]...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin returning to the West says he will stay with his brother: My brother is a carpenter on the river – he works with boats.] Very good. Just be there, mm? by the river. It is good to be with a carpenter; people who work with their hands are beautiful people. It is not just accidental that Christ was born to a carpenter....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving, says: It’s bothered me for a long time that I feel I never meditated... I opened a lot but I never go inside at all. Osho checks her energy.] Mm mm, just come closer. Raise your hands, close your eyes, and if something starts happening in the body energy, allow it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium ... Dweepam – and this is a special word in the buddhist tradition. Buddha says to his disciples again and again ‘Become an island’ – and by that he means to remain in your aloneness totally. Just like an island unconnected to anything, just you yourself in your absolute aloneness – then you become an island....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The Primal therapy group is present. Osho asks the leader for comments. The leader says it was a very soft group, influenced by a new co-leader. He then asks about a personal problem.] Mm! First you talk about the group, mm? and when you want to talk about yourself, come separately – always remember this!...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: It’s been a strange time here for me. I’ve been feeling the West a lot and so have decided to go back. I also feel sad about it sometimes.] No, there is no need to be sad – go to the West. One day the west will disappear from the mind, but it will take time....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho asks a sannyasin couple who is leaving when they will be coming back. The man answers: God knows... maybe fall.] In the fall? Have you heard the famous Mulla Nasrudin story? Mulla had saved up to buy a new shirt. He went to a tailor’s shop, full of excitement. The tailor measured him and said, ‘Come back in a week, and – if Allah wills – your shirt will be ready....