From Personality to Individuality

Answers to the Seekers on the Path

Talks given from 30/12/84 pm to 28/01/85 pm English Discourse series

1 Man is born with a question mark in his heart 2 To define is to confine -- existence has no boundaries 3 Beware! I am here to destroy your dreams 4 Jealousy: society's device to divide and rule 5 Sannyas: the odyssey of aloneness -- a journey to the center of your being 6 Anxiety: Who are you? Anguish: Who am I?7 Conditioning: socially-sanctioned child abuse 8 Rajneeshism: womb for transformation 9 The law of karma: A conspiracy of the priests to manipulate your mind 10 Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy's hang-up 11 God -- the phantom fuehrer 12 Death: The ultimate orgasm 13 The new man: intellect in harmony with the heart 14 The only hope: the enlightenment of humanity 15 Truth said, truth dead 16 Superman: the fantasy for the inferior 17 Holy Scriptures: wholly Bullshit 18 The good shepherd -- the butcher's friend 19 Hell hath no fury like a Christian scorned 20 Fear of hell, greed for heaven, the saviors soft sell 21 Priest and politicians: from genesis to genocide 22 Countdown to catastrophe: global suicide, or sannyas 23 Bored to death? -- you're on the trail to transformation 24 Infallibility: just a popedream 25 My day: the juice, the whole juice, and nothing but the juice 26 Only one sin -- to forget your being. Only one virtue -- to remember it 27 Seek and ye shall miss; relax and ye shall find 28 Knowledge is information; knowing is transformation 29 Belief -- just a blind man's bluff 30 The only authentic democracy: the dictatorship of the enlightened ones

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1 Man is born with a question mark in his heart

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Man is born with a question mark in his heart 30 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT PLACE HAS MYSTICISM IN YOUR RELIGION? My religion is pure mysticism. There is nothing else in it. The other religions have no place for mysticism in them. They cannot have, for the simple reason that they have answers for every question – bogus answers, without any evidence, with no argument....

10 Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy\'s hang-up

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Christianity: just a nice Jewish boy’s hang-up 8 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAY CHRIST WAS THE LAST CHRISTIAN. ARE YOU THE LAST RAJNEESHEE? PLEASE EXPLAIN. IT was not me who said that Christ was the last Christian. I was simply quoting Friedrich Nietzsche; it was Nietzsche who made that statement. In a certain sense Nietzsche is absolutely right, because in this world no individual is ever repeated....

11 God \-- the phantom fuehrer

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 God – the phantom fuehrer 9 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, ALAN WATTS ONCE DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE BY SAYING, “IT IS AS IF GOD IS PLAYING A GAME.” IF THERE IS NO GOD, WHO IS PLAYING AND WHAT IS THE GAME? ALAN Watts was a nice guy but that statement he made was stolen from Hindu mythology....

12 Death: The ultimate orgasm

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Death: The ultimate orgasm 10 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, IN OTHER RELIGIONS DEATH IS ALMOST NEVER SPOKEN OF AND WHEN IT IS MENTIONED THE TONES ARE GRAVE AND FEARFUL. IN YOUR RELIGION, DEATH IS TALKED ABOUT FREELY AND HAPPILY IS THIS SIGNIFICANT? IT is certainly one of the most significant things. It determines whether a religion is authentic or pseudo....

13 The new man: intellect in harmony with the heart

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 The new man: intellect in harmony with the heart 11 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, HOW CAN WE BELIEVE THAT THE SOUL EXISTS AFTER DEATH AND TRANSMIGRATES TO ANOTHER FORM OF LIFE, OR DISSOLVES INTO THE UNIVERSE? I have never asked you to believe in anything. It is my experience that the soul exists after death, that it transmigrates into other forms of life, and finally when there is no more to learn, no question to be answered, no search, no desire – when that ultimate point of absolute contentment, fulfillment, enlightenment arises – then the soul simply dissolves into existence....

14 The only hope: the enlightenment of humanity

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 The only hope: the enlightenment of humanity 12 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WOULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN MUCH EASIER FOR YOU TO WORK WITHOUT BEING ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORD RELIGION? WHAT IS THE SECRET BEHIND YOUR CHOOSING TO DO IT THIS WAY? I would have loved not to be associated in any way with the word religion....

15 Truth said, truth dead

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 Truth said, truth dead 13 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT ARE YOU PREPARING US, YOUR SANNYASINS, FOR? I am preparing my sannyasins for everything and nothing. The second is more important. The first is only a preparation for the second. “Everything” includes everything that is necessary for a person to get to his being, to be fulfilled, to be contented, to be in that ultimate state where there is no desire, no need; where one is sufficient unto oneself...

16 Superman: the fantasy for the inferior

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 Superman: the fantasy for the inferior 14 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, ISN’T THE VISION OF THE NEW MAN SOMEHOW SIMILAR TO THE IDEA OF THE SUPERMAN? THE idea of the new man is not only not similar to the idea of the superman, it is just the very opposite. The superman is a continuity with the old man....

17 Holy Scriptures: wholly Bullshit

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Holy Scriptures: wholly Bullshit 15 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT? THERE is a great difference and also a great similarity. The similarity has to be understood first, because without understanding it, it will be difficult to understand the difference. Both are beyond the mind – madness and enlightenment. Madness is below the mind....

18 The good shepherd \-- the butcher\'s friend

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 The good shepherd – the butcher’s friend 16 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, ARE YOU ESPECIALLY AGAINST CHRISTIANITY? I hate to favor Christianity with any special attention but unfortunately it deserves it. It is the ugliest manifestation of religion on the earth, for many reasons. The first: Christianity is the only well-organized religion. The more a religion is well-organized, the less is the possibility of its being a religion....