From Darkness to Light

Answers to the Seekers on the Path

Talks given from 28/02/85 pm to 31/03/85 pm English Discourse series

1 Who says humanity needs saving?2 Innocence: the price you pay for the failure of success 3 Help your child -- protect him from yourself!4 The death penalty: not punishment but revenge 5 Successful criminals and cowardly politicians 6 Every child's original face is the face of god 7 Time is very short but my methods are very quick 8 Agony is missing yourself, ecstasy is finding yourself 9 Your suffering makes you special 10 Not spiritual guidance but spiritual presence 11 Science and religion -- two petals of the same rose 12 A single humanity rejoicing 13 Truth is found in your own boutique 14 The best government is no government 15 The sweet taste of corruption 16 Till you live life totally 17 Love is a very unscientific idea 18 Meditation: the door from slavery to freedom 19 Where nothing is right and nothing is wrong 20 Don't drop -- transform!21 I am a man who hopes against hope 22 Truth is here but you are not 23 Our way is of humour our way is of bliss 24 The third alternative: the whole man 25 The bell always tolls for somebody else 26 The enlightened and the endarkened 27 This time it can be one earth 28 Either politicians remain or humanity remains 29 History repeats itself, unfortunately 30 Does a flower need religion?

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1 Who says humanity needs saving?

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Who says humanity needs saving? 28 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN WE SAVE HUMANITY FROM FALLING EVEN MORE? It is one of the trade secrets of all the religions to propose propaganda that humanity has to be saved. It is a very strange idea, but it is so old that nobody seems to look into the implications....

10 Not spiritual guidance but spiritual presence

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Not spiritual guidance but spiritual presence 9 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IS NOT SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR HUMAN GROWTH? There are no absolutes in real life – including this statement too. Life is full of exceptions; that’s one of its most beautiful things. Exceptions mean freedom. Exceptions mean you are not in a concentration camp....

11 Science and religion \-- two petals of the same rose

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Science and religion – two petals of the same rose 11 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, ISN’T A SYNTHESIS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION NEEDED? The very idea of synthesis already accepts that they are not only two but opposed to each other. Unless there is an antithesis there is no question of synthesis at all....

12 A single humanity rejoicing

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 A single humanity rejoicing 12 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, THE EUROPEAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT EASTERN RELIGIONS, WORRIED THAT THEIR VITALITY CAN DESTROY THE NATIONS. IS THERE THIS DANGER/BLESSING WITH YOUR RELIGION TOO? Religion is not geography. It is neither Eastern nor Western. It cannot be divided in such a stupid manner; otherwise there will be a Southern religion, a Northern religion, and there will be no end to these divisions....

13 Truth is found in your own boutique

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Truth is found in your own boutique 13 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHY SHOULD RELIGION AND STATE REMAIN SEPARATE? Religion as such does not exist yet; hence, whatever is known as religion should remain separate from the state for the simple reason that it is not religion – it is pseudo, fake. You cannot ask the same question in reference to science....

14 The best government is no government

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 The best government is no government 14 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE BEST GOVERNMENT? No government. The very idea of somebody governing somebody else is inhuman. Government is a game, the ugliest and the dirtiest game in the world. But there are people in the lowest state of consciousness who enjoy it: these are the politicians....

15 The sweet taste of corruption

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 The sweet taste of corruption 15 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, THE OTHER DAY I GAVE A TALK AT A COLLEGE WHERE A MIDDLE-AGED MAN IN THE AUDIENCE, VISIBLY UPSET, SAID, “BY SPEAKING AGAINST GOD, AGAINST CHRISTIANITY, AGAINST ALL RELIGIONS, YOU ARE CORRUPTING THE MINDS OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE.” WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMENT? I have never spoken against God for the simple reason that God does not exist....

16 Till you live life totally

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 Till you live life totally 16 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THE GOAL OF LIFE? WHY IS THERE A DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO LIVE FOREVER? There is no goal of life, for the simple reason that life is its own goal. The goal is intrinsic, not something outside; not there, far away, but herenow, in this very moment....

17 Love is a very unscientific idea

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Love is a very unscientific idea 17 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY THAT SCIENTISTS ARE ONLY NOW DISCOVERING THINGS THAT PEOPLE IN THE EAST KNEW FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO. HOW DID WE COME TO GO BACKWARDS? Science as such has no intrinsic value like life, like love, like blissfulness. These are ends in themselves....

18 Meditation: the door from slavery to freedom

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 Meditation: the door from slavery to freedom 18 March 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, MODERN SCIENCE HAS DISCOVERED A NUMBER OF LAWS SUCH AS THE LAW OF GRAVITY, WHICH DESCRIBE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MATERIAL WORLD. DOES THE SCIENCE OF THE INNER SOUL ALSO HAVE LAWS WHICH APPLY TO CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEING? It is one of the most fundamental differences between the outer and the inner....