From Misery to Enlightenment

Answers to the Seekers on the Path

Talks given from 29/01/85 pm to 27/02/85 pm English Discourse series

1 Your birthright: to take flight 2 Meditation -- jumping board to your being 3 4 Above all, the truth of man -- beyond that, nothing 5 Sex to ecstasy 6 From pseudo-faith to your original face 7 Politics brings out the beast in you 8 From idiotocracy to meritocracy 9 Courage is a love affair with the unknown 10 Drop god, drop guilt -- become religious 11 Consciousness: the only criterion of virtue 12 God: an idea whose time has come -- and gone 13 Real love is real wild!14 Don't walk on water -- jump into consciousness 15 From oy-veh to ole 16 The Master: a gesture to the light within 17 Religion begins where ideas end 18 In the silences, the semi-colons and the full stops...19 Man: the greatest problem -- and the only solution 20 The pagan: chrysalis of consciousness 21 My message -- a matter of life and death 22 Exactly how do you do it!23 You'll never find a lion in the lion's club 24 The key to unawareness: keep thinking 25 Religions, like diseases, are many: truth, like health, is one 26 Innocence -- the natural outlaw 27 One ma, one swami -- and we can start the whole game again 28 AIDS: disease of the existential orphan 29 Rebel or robot?30 Rebellion: hallmark of the new man

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1 Your birthright: to take flight

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Your birthright: to take flight 29 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, SEEING AND HEARING YOU SPEAK, ONE THING CONTINUES TO STRIKE ME: FROM YOUR EARLIEST CHILDHOOD, UP UNTIL THE LATEST SPLIT SECOND, YOU HAVE ALWAYS HAD SO MUCH SELF-RESPECT AND SO MUCH SELF-DELIGHT. ARE WE ALL CAPABLE OF SO MUCH? MAN is not aware of what he is capable unless he comes to realize it....

10 Drop god, drop guilt \-- become religious

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Drop god, drop guilt – become religious 7 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACCEPTING MYSELF AND LOVING MYSELF? THERE is great difference between the two. Accepting yourself is a much lower state of consciousness – better, of course, than rejecting yourself. It is a medicine; the disease is rejection. And anything medicinal has no permanent or ultimate value; its value is only in curing the disease....

11 Consciousness: the only criterion of virtue

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Consciousness: the only criterion of virtue 8 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US? I FEEL ITS IMPORTANCE MORE AND MORE, BUT I AM ALSO CONFUSED ABOUT IT. AM I AVOIDING SOMETHING? THE problem of responsibility is one of the most fundamental issues. But before we can go into it, a few words will have to be understood rightly....

12 God: an idea whose time has come \-- and gone

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 God: an idea whose time has come – and gone 9 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, ARE YOU AGAINST GOD AND JESUS CHRIST TOO? IT FREAKS ME OUT. IT freaks me out too. How I can be against God, who does not exist at all? To be for or to be against, one thing is absolutely necessary, the existence of God....

13 Real love is real wild!

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Real love is real wild! 10 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAY THAT LOVE AND HATE ARE ONE; BUT I SEE MORE HATE IN THE WORLD THAN LOVE. AT THE SAME TIME, YOU SAY THAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS NEITHER LOVE NOR HATE. ARE YOU SPEAKING OF TWO DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF LOVE? HOW DOES THIS FIT WITH YOUR MESSAGE OF LOVE?...

14 Don\'t walk on water \-- jump into consciousness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 Don’t walk on water – jump into consciousness 11 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, DO MIRACLES REALLY NOT EXIST? I am sorry to disappoint you, but I can’t help it. I cannot give you the consolation that has been given by all the religions down the centuries. I cannot do it because that consolation has cost too much....

15 From oy-veh to ole

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 From oy-veh to ole 12 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHY IS THE WORLD IN SO MUCH MISERY? WHY CAN’T WE ALL BE JUST AS BLISSFUL AS YOU ALWAYS ARE? THE child is the father of the man, and down the centuries we have been destroying the child. And once the child is destroyed, the whole life becomes unnatural, miserable, meaningless....

16 The Master: a gesture to the light within

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 The Master: a gesture to the light within 13 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT JESUS’ FINGER POINTING TO THE MOON IS NOT A VERY GOOD ONE. IS THERE A BETTER ONE? I have never said that. I could not have said it because Jesus’ finger is not pointing to the moon at all....

17 Religion begins where ideas end

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Religion begins where ideas end 14 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHY ARE YOU DESTROYING THE GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND IDEOLOGIES OF THE WORLD? I am not in favor of destroying anything at all. My whole approach is creative. But creation involves destruction. That is not my problem. Creation itself is not possible without destroying something. The moment you create something you are simultaneously destroying something else....

18 In the silences, the semi-colons and the full stops\...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 In the silences, the semi-colons and the full stops... 15 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT? THE most significant thing about enlightenment is that it is the most insignificant thing in the world. The scriptures are full of great attributes, qualities, about enlightenment. It is the highest peak human consciousness has ever achieved....