< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 3 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asked about a friend who was paralysed, and wondered if anything could be done to help. Osho suggested the friend should become a sannyasin, and then continued.] If you are lying in bed all day and you can’t move, you will continuously want to, because movement is life. Nothing else is so important as movement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 12 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11TH: [The birthday of Osho Shree. A mass darshan for thousands of seekers from India and abroad... ] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH: [Members from the Enlightenment Intensive group were present] [To a sannyasin who had just learnt that her father died] ... how are you feeling? Your father had been ill at all?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 4 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A woman says she has been doing yoga in the West.] Good, very good. So you are ready, now meditate. Yoga in itself is not enough. It is a good preparation, but preparation for something else. It prepares your body/mind, but if you go on preparing and preparing and never doing the thing for which yoga was preparing you, then it can become an obsession....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 5 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A girl, not yet a sannyasin, had sent a letter to Osho about her relationship with a sannyasin with whom she had been having a relationship in England.] I read your letter. I can understand your inner indecisiveness. Whenever there is something very important the mind always hesitates, because anything more important than the mind is always a danger to it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 6 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that he was feeling much better since last darshan, when Osho had suggested he undertake much physical activity – running, walking, swimming, or whatever he enjoyed.] You have much energy and you had not been using it creatively. Whenever energy is not used creatively it becomes destructive, stagnant, and by and by a prison of solid rock is created around you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 7 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asked Osho if the religious movement he was involved in in America was doing anything generally positive for the spiritual development of the world, and whether he should remain in it. He said that on the positive side he felt the people involved in it were really interested in bringing God to people, but on the negative side he felt they were rather moralistic and had rigid and fixed characters....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 8 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I just don’t have any control over what happens anymore. I don’t even know who I am anymore.] No need to know! That need is the trouble. There is no need to know. One should just move wherever life takes one. Trust life! This is mind interfering and trying to control; to manage and to manipulate....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 9 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I have difficulty accepting other people s looks of disapproval, particularly now that I’m wearing orange. I seem very sensitive to it. I was wondering if you could suggest something I could do.] That’s the whole purpose of orange – so that you cannot hide yourself, and so that you stand out....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 10 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’m isolating myself – and I feel I should be doing something else. At first I felt good alone, but now it’s changed.] Then move out of it! One should always be watchful, because if one is not feeling happy in any situation, in any mood, then one should come out of it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 11 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An Indian sannyasin had come before darshan to talk to Osho about a frightening experience he had had recently while meditating. As people arrived for the darshan Osho was saying:] ... one gets really scared. Really, it came too early and you weren’t yet ready. It can happen that suddenly a key fits, and then the experience of deep meditation is exactly like death....