God Is Not For Sale
Talks given from 12/10/76 to 7/11/76 Darshan Diary
Talks given from 12/10/76 to 7/11/76 Darshan Diary
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 15 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: : I feel very close to you. I’ve been on the spiritual path for about twenty years... I’ve had many masters. When I first read the first few words of ‘My Way: The Way of the White Clouds’ I knew it was for me!] (a chuckle) Good, very good. One has to learn from many sources, and one should never be closed to any possibility....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 16 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: I’ve been here for five days and have been running the gammit of feelings from thinking you’re a phoney, to laughing at you. Now I’m at the point where all I have to say is – good, lord! Osho had recounted a joke at the morning discourse that went like this:]...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 17 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Jaina is one of the most important concepts in the East. It means the conqueror of one’s own being. Literally it means the conqueror. And deva means divine – one who has become a god, or divine, by conquering himself. And there are only two possibilities to conquer: either you conquer others or you conquer yourself....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 18 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and dhara means river – river of bliss. And become more and more river-like. Never allow anything to become stagnant Never allow anything to become frozen. The moment you see that something has become frozen, do something and get out of it.Because that frozen thing is nothing but a dead part which has no more any life....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 19 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and subhan means well-aware – awareness of bliss. That you have to develop. Ordinarily we are more aware of misery. We are more aware of pain, more aware if something goes wrong, more aware of illness, disease, less aware of health, well-being. That creates much trouble, because if you are too much aware of pain you help pain to be there, you feed it....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 20 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A therapist, recently arrived back from the States, was at darshan tonight Osho suggested he begin to plan a new group, commencing with just a vague idea of what he wanted... ] .… There is no need to have a very fixed notion about it; just a hypothetical idea... just the direction, the line – like a vision – and then start working....