< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 12 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, and tyagi means renunciation. Tyagi means one who has renounced – love and renunciation. I make a special condition for renunciation – and that is love. A man can renounce out of anger, a man can renounce out of hatred, a man can renounce out of frustration... but then it is meaningless....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 21 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and shunyam means emptiness, nothingness, nobodyness. And that’s what bliss is. When you are empty, only then are you full – never before it. When you are not, only then you are – never before it. Your very absence is the door to the presence of God One has to annihilate oneself utterly; nothing less can help....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 22 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he has always had trouble with relationships, including the present one with his girlfriend.] Mm, mm. A relationship is always a problem because the other becomes the mirror and the presence of the other help you to see your own face in many ways. And the same happens to the other – you become the mirror....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 23 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin with a small child says that her husband has sent her away. He loves her but cannot live with her any more: He wants his silence, and the child and I are too much of a disturbance, I think.] No, no, those are simply excuses. If you love, you accept everything that comes out of it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 24 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A newly arrived sannyasin says: I have been able to start witnessing myself. I don’t know if it’s really witnessing but it feels as if it’s something like that.] Very good! That’s the only barrier – the subtle ego. It comes everywhere and it is so subtle that unless you are very very aware of it, it will go on deceiving you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 25 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Nisarga.… Nisarga means to be natural, to be spontaneous, to be simple and poor. And blessed are the poor – only they shall inherit the kingdom of God. Only the poor are rich. This inner poverty is really an inner richness. When you simply move with nature, by and by you disappear. You are so poor that even you are not there – the poverty is total....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 26 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and batohi means the wanderer. And life is a divine wandering. There is no goal to it. One is not going somewhere – that’s why it is endless. It is not a journey – it is a wandering. A journey has a direction, and a journey has a destination in it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 27 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he feels divided between following his feelings and making more effort.] You simply follow your feelings. And who has said to you that it is easy to follow the feelings? It is the most difficult thing in the world, otherwise so many people would have been following their feelings; nobody follows....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 28 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had previously written to Osho about a fever which she gets in the late afternoon and in the night. Osho checks her energy.] Good. Come back! Do two things: one, tomorrow when you feel this heat coming to you, just go to the bathroom, rub your whole body with a dry towel....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 29 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prabhu means divine, and vairag means renunciation – divine renunciation. And renunciation can either be human Qr it can be divine. When it is human it is futile. When it is your doing it is not of much worth. But when it is God’s doing it has tremendous value. So I don’t teach that you have to practise renunciation....