Get Out of Your Own Way
Talks given from 7/4/76 to 2/5/76 Darshan Diary
Talks given from 7/4/76 to 2/5/76 Darshan Diary
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 19 26 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An assistant groupleader says: I’m not feeling unhappy or happy.] If you want to be happy then who is blocking the way? ... That can be an even bigger problem. If you feel unhappy, it is easier to feel happy, but if you are not feeling unhappy, it will be more difficult. This will create a sort of numbness....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 8 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin studying acupuncture, said that he was a little dubious about the value of what he was doing... ] Just these weeks you spend here will create much. It will give you more confidence and centring. And everybody hesitates in the beginning. It is good... only fools don’t hesitate. You are moving in a very delicate world....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 20 27 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A small boy sannyasin asks what it means to be enlightened.] (chuckling) Very good! I will make you enlightened and then you will know! The word means when the inner light bums and you are full of light. It is just like a small lamp inside which is not burning yet, mm? It has to be kindled and then you will be full of light....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 21 28 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A newcomer, asked Osho what he should do in the time he was here.] Start the meditations and do one group, Aum marathon. It will stir your energy, your bio-energy. We have been taught to live at the minimum and the society is absolutely afraid to allow the maximum possibility, so we have been taught, somehow, to lower our energy....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 22 29 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A couple ask Osho about their relationship. He wants more space amd freedom. She says her whole life revolves around him. At first she wanted to blame him or herself for the problem, but then she realised there was nothing wrong with them.] There is nothing wrong. In fact there is never anything wrong with anybody....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 23 30 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said he had learnt a form of massage based on the acupuncture points which worked on the blood circulation and the nervous system. He said he would like to share this.] Share whatsoever you know and want to share. It is always good to share, because the more you share, the more you know....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 24 1 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dharma Deepam. It means light of religion, light of the law, light of the ultimate. Dharma means many things, but basically it means exactly what Tao means – the fundamental law of existence. It is used for religion because religion is also a fundamental law, life. The english word ‘religion’ has very wrong connotations with it – sectarian, moral, theological; less concerned with the spontaneity of existence....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 25 2 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Santan means silence and anand means bliss. These two things have to be remembered. Be as peaceful and silent as possible. Let it become a climate around you. Walking, feel as if you are surrounded by a deep silence. In the beginning it will just be ‘as if’, but every idea becomes a reality, and every reality was just an idea in the beginning....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 9 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin about his responsibilities as a father as he would be separating from his wife. His wife and he had arranged that the three boys would live with him, while the girl would live with her mother.] Much will have to be done, because when the mother is not there, your responsibilities become greater, bigger....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 10 April 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I want to feel more of an intensity with you, but things seem cloudy. Nothing is wrong, and nothing is especially right.] That’s how it should be. Because anything special is not going to last. Anything special is a sort of excitement. No excitement can become a permanent thing. It is a honeymoon....