< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sindhu means ocean – divine ocean. Man appears to be just a dewdrop, but that is only the appearance – don’t be deceived by the appearance – man contains an ocean within him. The boundary of man exists not. The boundary is just our imagination, because we begin nowhere and we end nowhere....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, surupa means beauty – divine beauty. This is one of the most fundamental things to be remembered always – that the innermost core of everything is beautiful. Even when the circumference is not beautiful, then too the center is always beautiful. But because we cannot see the center and we become acquainted only with the circumference, sometimes we start thinking: this is ugly, that is bad, this is sin and that one is a sinner....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, nirmalo means innocence – divine innocence, the original state of consciousness, the empty state of consciousness, before knowledge enters in. That’s what Zen people call “the original face – the face that you had before you were born and the face that you will have again when you are dead. Between the two we have many false faces – all those false faces constitute our personality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, artha means meaning – divine meaning. Meaning has disappeared from man’s life. These three hundred years have seen it disappearing slowly slowly. Now man stands utterly devoid of meaning. And he is very hollow, naturally. He feels there is no purpose in life; nothing seems to make sense any more. This is one of the greatest crises that man has ever faced....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, samai means ecstasy – divine ecstasy. The word “ecstasy” is very significant. In its root form it means “to stand out” – ex-statis. The moment you can stand out of your mind you are in ecstasy. Ordinarily we are too involved in the mind. We have become the mind, this is our agony, so we have completely forgotten who we are....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sahaja means simplicity, naturalness, spontaneity. Simplicity is living a life without any idea about how to live it, without any ideology. Ideology brings complexity into life. Animals are simple, no animal is ever complex because no animal is burdened by any ideology. There is no “should”; the animal simply lives the way it feels....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, prartho means prayer. Love is not an act. It is a state. You cannot do it – you can only be it. And love is not a relationship either; it is a participation. In a relationship two persons become entangled with each other, intertwined. They create slavery for each other, a mutual kind of bondage....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, chhitijo means horizon – beyond the horizon, beyond the horizontal. Life consists of two dimensions: one is horizontal, the other is vertical. Millions of people simply live in the horizontal – they crawl and creep, they remain asleep. That’s why in sleep you have to go to the horizontal position. It is easier to fall asleep in the horizontal position; if you are standing it is difficult to fall asleep....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, rasal means full of juice – full of divine juice. My teaching is of life-affirmation. The old religions were based on life-negation; they denied life, they were against it. Their God could only be reached if you denied life. That was a false God, because God cannot be against life. God is the source of life – in fact God is another name for life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, prabhavo means impressions, influences, conditionings – beyond all impressions, beyond all influences, beyond all conditionings. That is where truth is. That’s why the mind cannot know it, because the mind consists only of conditionings. Whatsoever has been taught, whatsoever has been put inside you from the outside is your mind. It is a deep effort, a cunning effort of the society to control you from within....