Discourses on the Desiderata
Talks given from 26/08/80 am to 10/09/80 am English Discourse series
1 Go Placidly2 Going Essential3 The Feel of It4 Don't Compare5 God Never Repeats6 The Virtuous Circle7 Create a Context8 I say, Rejoice!9 Be Yourself10 Doubt is a Sword11 Beliefs are Lies12 The Total Man13 Child of the Universe14 The Only Miracle15 Kiss or Kill16 Surprise Me!
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 Go Placidly 26 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall HEAR THEN THE WISDOM OF THE WISE: “GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND THE HASTE, AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE. “AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SURRENDER, BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY AND CLEARLY; AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN TO THE DULL AND THE IGNORANT; THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 10 Doubt is a Sword 4 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO WHEN MY CHILDREN KNEW I WAS COMING TO SEE YOU, THERE WAS NO REQUEST FOR GIFTS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING THEY WANTED FOR ME TO BRING BACK SOME OF YOUR JOKES. THEY TOLD ME THAT ALL THE STUFF BETWEEN THE JOKES WAS GOOD FOR GROWN-UPS, BUT FOR THEM JUST THE JOKES....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 11 Beliefs are Lies 5 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, IS THERE QUALITY IN NOTHINGNESS? Anudeya, NOTHINGNESS CAN EITHER BE just emptiness or it can be a tremendous fullness. It can be negative, it can be positive. If it is negative it is like death, darkness. Religions have called it hell. It is hell because there is no joy in it, no song in it, there is no heartbeat, no dance....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 12 The Total Man 6 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, IN REFERENCE TO YOUR ADVISING INDIRA GANDHI TO IMPOSE A STRICTER EMERGENCY AND SUSPEND ELECTIONS FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, Mid-Day CARRIES THE HEADLINE: “STICK TO YOUR RELIGIOUS PURSUITS, MR. RAJNEESH!” DO YOU HAVE ANY RESPONSE, OSHO? Krishna Prem, I TEACH THE TOTAL MAN. One of the greatest problems that humanity is facing today is the fragmentary man....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 13 Child of the Universe 7 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall “BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE NO LESS THAN THE TREES AND THE STARS; YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HERE. AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU, NO DOUBT THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD. “THEREFORE BE AT PEACE WITH GOD, WHATEVER YOU CONCEIVE HIM TO BE....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 14 The Only Miracle 8 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS SURRENDER? I USED TO THINK I KNEW. NOW IT IS A MYSTERY. Prem Prabhat, THE FALSE KNOWLEDGE de-mystifies existence; the true knowledge re-mystifies it. Knowing, if authentic, makes life more of a mystery than it has ever been before. Knowledge certainly covers your eyes with dark clouds, creates a wall of thick smoke, and you start feeling you know....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 15 Kiss or Kill 9 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, THERE IS DEEP IN MYSELF A YEARNING FOR THE PERMANENCY OF LOVE. IS THAT STUPID? Prem Anna, LOVE CAN EXIST in two dimensions: either as horizontal or as vertical. We are acquainted with the love which is horizontal. That is also the dimension of time; the vertical is the dimension of eternity....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 16 Surprise Me! 10 September 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHO NEEDS GOD WHEN WE ARE BLESSED WITH THE BEAUTIFUL FEET OF A BEAUTIFUL MASTER TO SIT UNDER? Sheela, YOU FOOL! That is the surest way to find God – one cannot miss. The Master is only a window. The Master simply opens into God, just as the window opens into the sky....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 Going Essential 27 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Osho, Question 1 CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE ESSENTIAL? Prem Samadhi, Man is also a seed, a possibility, a potential, a hop, a promise. But the seed is not yet the flower. In essence it has the capacity of millions of flowers, but not in reality. Those flowers have to be actualized....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 The Feel of It 28 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 OSHO, MY PROBLEM IS THAT I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME. IF I THINK THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM THEN I REALLY DO HAVE ONE. IN FACT, THINKING SEEMS TO BE JUST THE MAKING UP OF PROBLEMS. WHAT DO YOU THINK? Deva Saguna, I don’t think at all!...