From Death to Deathlessness

Answers to the Seekers on the Path

Talks given from 02/08/85 am to 14/09/85 am English Discourse series

1 The man of compassion has to lie 2 Abandon hope all those who enter here 3 Belief is a barrier, trust is a bridge 4 The taste of peace 5 If you really love me, then wake up 6 Wait and you shall find 7 Doing is going to be your undoing 8 No society rewards lovers 9 My empire consists only of Emperors 10 Become more and more sensuous 11 I am not your father 12 The song of the tide 13 Put Mother Theresa in jail 14 Get out of this sheepskin 15 We are the only alternative 16 This moment: The golden key 17 Becoming is going away from being 18 Man's monkey mind 19 Belief is a dirty word 20 There is a bigger universe within you 21 Science has to be religious 22 Tomorrow is in the womb of today 23 You are born as freedom 24 Blessed are those who doubt 25 Cut the roots of guilt 26 Your aloneness cannot be destroyed 27 Anonymous graves 28 Education is amoral 29 Judgement Day - a very stupid idea 30 A sunrise that never sets 31 The art of being human 32 Silence is the highest music 33 This nonsense of nations 34 The power of nothingness 35 Too much doing 36 Rise in Love 37 The eternal light at your center 38 Enjoy this orgasmic moment 39 The journey from despair 40 Your music is your madness

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19 Belief is a dirty word

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 Belief is a dirty word 24 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT EFFECT ON SCIENCE WOULD BE FELT IF PEOPLE STOPPED BELIEVING IN THE OLD RELIGIONS? The fact of believing is the greatest barrier in the progress of science. In three hundred years science has done much in spite of all the religions, their superstitions, their beliefs. In these three hundred years, there would have been at least a hundred times more progress if religions had not come in the way at each step....

2 Abandon hope all those who enter here

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 Abandon hope all those who enter here 3 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, YOU HAVE OFTEN USED THE WORD “EXISTENTIALISM,” AND YOU HAVE REFERRED TO YOURSELF AS AN EXISTENTIALIST. PLEASE DEFINE THESE WORDS. There has been a contemporary school of philosophy in Europe called existentialism. I have nothing to do with it. That is only a philosophy, a mind game....

20 There is a bigger universe within you

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 There is a bigger universe within you 25 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, THE SCIENTIFIC VISION OF OBJECTIVE REALITY AND THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF EXISTENCE SEEM TO BE TWO COMPLETELY SEPARATE AND UNBRIDGEABLE DIMENSIONS. IS THIS BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THINGS, OR IS IT ONLY AN ILLUSION OF OUR MIND? The scientific approach to existence and the religious approach have been in the past separate and unbridgeable....

21 Science has to be religious

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 Science has to be religious 26 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, CAN SCIENCE ITSELF BE RELIGIOUS? It has been one of the greatest misfortunes that science is not religious. It can be religious and it should be religious. Science is only a method. It has no direction, no values; it is just a method. It can be used for destruction, it can be used for creativity, because in itself it is only a neutral methodology....

22 Tomorrow is in the womb of today

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 Tomorrow is in the womb of today 27 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WILLIAM JAMES SAYS, “THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS TO LIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR LIFE.” CAN YOU COMMENT? What William James is saying has been said for thousands of years, by almost all the politicians, all the priests – and you can see the result of such a teaching....

23 You are born as freedom

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 You are born as freedom 28 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY FREEDOM. WHEN I TALK ABOUT FREEDOM, I MEAN FREEDOM FROM SOMETHING OR FREEDOM TO DO SOMETHING; IT IMPLIES MORE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. BUT MY IMPRESSION IS THAT CHOICELESS AWARENESS PRECEDES THE FREEDOM You TALK ABOUT. WHAT KIND OF FREEDOM DOES NOT INVOLVE CHOICE?...

24 Blessed are those who doubt

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 Blessed are those who doubt 29 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT DOUBT AND NEGATIVITY? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? The difference between doubt and negativity is great. They look alike; on the surface they have the same color, but deep down the difference is unbridgeable. First, doubt is not negativity; neither is it positivity....

25 Cut the roots of guilt

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 Cut the roots of guilt 30 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, I’VE OFTEN HEARD YOU SPEAK WITH LOVE AND ADMIRATION OF ZORBA. YET NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, THE MAN WHO CREATED HIM, LED A TORTURED LIFE – GUILT-RIDDEN, OBSESSED WITH RELIGION, FEARFUL OF WOMEN, PREOCCUPIED WITH DEATH. ARE ZORBA AND KAZANTZAKIS THE TWO SIDES OF ALL OF US WHO ARE UNENLIGHTENED?...

26 Your aloneness cannot be destroyed

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 Your aloneness cannot be destroyed 31 August 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, AIDS CONFRONTS US WITH THE IMMEDIACY OF OUR DEATH. OUR SERIOUSNESS SEEMS TO CREATE MORE DISEASE AND PARANOIA. INSTEAD OF FEELING LIKE VICTIMS, HOW CAN WE RESPOND THROUGH CELEBRATION? Death is always there. You may be unaware of it, but it is always confronting you with immediacy....

27 Anonymous graves

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 Anonymous graves 1 September 1985 am in Rajneeshmandir Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, I WANT TO CONCENTRATE MY EFFORTS. BE SINCERE WITH ME. IS TO BE A WITNESS OF MYSELF THE ONLY THING, OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE? I am not interested in intellectual questions. First, be a witness to yourself, then ask. You want me to be sincere with you; please just be sincere with yourself....