< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, sanjaya means a special kind of victory... not just victory but a special kind of victory. In English there is no word to translate it. Victory is possible in two ways: one is through coercion, violence; the other is through love. And the ways of both are totally different... not only different but diametrically opposite....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin couple have problems with their relationship. The woman says: So much misunderstanding and... ugliness from myself and him.] Love has to grow through misunderstanding. Understanding is not easy – it is very rare to arrive at understanding; because you are confused, he is confused, you don’t know who you are, he does not know who he is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin brings her baby and says she has been screaming a lot which upsets her.] That is part of being a mother.… It is not an easy job.… But now it is too late! Every woman wants to become a mother without knowing the responsibilities. It is a long commitment. And remember: never think of what is right and what is wrong....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god, samarpo means surrendered – surrendered to God. And that is the very secret of religion, the most fundamental secret, the secret of the secrets. All that is needed is a total surrender – relaxing oneself into the totality of existence, dissolving, merging, melting, not keeping oneself separate. The whole misery of man consists in keeping oneself separate....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, amiro means rich, richness – richness that love brings. And in fact, except for love nothing else ever brings richness. And all other riches are substitutes. People search for them because they have missed love. The person who is too obsessed with money is of necessity the person who is empty of love....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, jay means the idea of victory – one who has gone beyond the idea of winning. The idea of winning is the basic problem. It creates the whole politics of life. It creates violence. And one suffers infinite misery because of it, because this game of life is not a game in which anybody can be a winner....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sagar means ocean, sundar means beauty – oceanic beauty. And remember that beauty is something of the wild beauty is never civilized. The moment you civilize it, it becomes ugly. There is no way to civilize beauty. Beauty has to be intrinsically wild, because beauty is part of nature. It is not nurture; it is nature....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shunya means silence, shabdo means sound – the sound of silence. There is a sound of silence, and once it is heard then one has heard all. That is the fundamental of existence. Existence is constituted of that sound of silence. The Bible calls it “the word,” “logos,” and the Zen people call it “the sound of one hand clapping....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, tosha means contentment – and that is what has to be taught to her. The only way to teach love to a child is to be loving, there is no other way. Shower as much love as possible, and let it be unconditional, with no expectations. Just give it for the sheer joy of giving....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 September 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho reminds someone who is leaving of the importance of meditating regularly so that it becomes one’s climate; then only does it go deep. Through whatever you do a subtle current of meditation has to continue; only then does meditation become a transformation. So by the time you come back the thread will be there; then higher planes can be made available to you, He reminds her....