< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 30 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and shantam means silence. So you have to be blissful and very silent. Happiness has a fever in it; it is never silent That’s the difference between happiness and bliss. Happiness is tense. One really gets tired of everything – even happiness. One cannot remain happy for a long time; you will get fed up with it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 13 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and pradeepam means flame – a flame of love, a light of love or lamp of love. And sannyas is nothing but coming closer to me so that your unlit flame can be lit. Just coming closer to a flame is enough. In a certain moment the flame jumps from one flame to another....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 31 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium This will be your name... and to explain this a few things have to be understood. There has been a perennial debate down the centuries about man’s being – whether man comes into the world with an essence or just comes without any essence and accumulates essence through actions, through lifestyles, through experience... whether man comes like a seed or comes empty....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 1 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I feel if I don’t ask you whatever comes up – every week almost something new comes up – I’ll go off the track; I’ll go off on some incredible ego trip.] Mm, mm. Even the fear of going in a wrong direction is an ego trip. Why are you so afraid of being in a wrong situation?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 2 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The mother of a sannyasin said that Osho’s discourses had helped her to understand Jesus teachings: But when I go back, catholic students will ask me the difference between Osho Christ’s teaching and Jesus Christ’s teachings. And there is one point, if I may ask, I would like enlightenment on. We are taught that the kingdom of heaven flowers in a love which shows itself in good works, in caring for the poor and the sick....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 3 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and arpita means offered – offered to the divine, an offering to God. And that’s how life has to be. If it is not an offering one remains miserable. If it is not an offering one can never feel any meaning. Meaning comes only when you are joined together with something bigger than yourself; then suddenly there is meaning....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 5 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, natya means drama – a divine drama. And that’s what life is. It should not be taken seriously. The moment you take it seriously, you miss. It is a drama. Taken as a drama it is tremendously beautiful. One has nothing to lose in it and nothing to gain; it is simply fun....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 6 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin leaving for the West.] Continue to meditate. There are many temptations for dropping meditation, and they are not all from the outside; many are from the inside. The mind tends to be lethargic and it can always find good reasons, so don’t listen to the mind. Even if the reason seems to be perfectly right, be irrational but continue to meditate, because only those moments which have been used for meditation are the saved moments – all else is lost....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 26 7 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin, recently-arrived from the West:] These groups are just processes to unburden you a little, because God is not very far away; you just need a weightlessness. All that is needed is wings. He is very close, but everybody is so burdened – rocks upon rocks, and we cherish those rocks as if they are treasures....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 14 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and dheeraj means patience – divine patience. And that is very significant to remember. On the path nothing more is needed than patience. Man can do everything that he is capable of, but still there is no necessity that the ultimate happens; it may happen, it may not. We can grope in the dark; the door may open, it may not So if one has not infinite patience, one starts getting tired of the search....