< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 12 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The sannyasins who had done the Aum marathon had darshan this evening. The groupleader says: I’ve been a leader in the West... I’ve never had anyone to account to. I started to look at what I’m doing, and I realise that a lot is wanting to please you, to get your approval. I think that was important for me....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 13 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: My mind is doing a beautiful job of driving me crazy! But I feel that mostly I’m witnessing, rather than doing anything about it.] Just be a witness. Don’t do anything about it, because anything that you do can never be very deep. It can be at the most a temporary arrangement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 13 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The first sannyasin Osho addressed had sent him a letter earlier saying that she was in a deep loving relationship with her husband, but at the same time she felt attracted to someone else.] Two things to remember. The first: love grows only in deep intimacy and trust. If you change persons, from A to B, from B to C, it is as if you are transplanting your being from one place to another....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 30 14 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that when she meditated, many pictures would emerge which she liked to draw and become involved with.] If pictures come it is a good release, so paint them; you continue it. Just go wild in it, and don’t paint through reason. Don’t be worried about what you are making, because it is not a performance....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 31 15 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that since his girlfriend, also a sannyasin, had been involved in a serious car accident some months ago, she had changed quite dramatically, and seemed no longer to be the woman he had known before. Osho said he felt that she was in a very deep crisis, and in need of much tolerance and care....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 14 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Now a few things have to be understood, mm? No relationship can be secure. It is not the nature of relationships to be secure. And if any relationship is secure, it will lose all attraction. So this is a problem for the mind. If you want to enjoy a relationship, it has to be insecure....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 15 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An elderly woman, the mother of a sannyasin who was also present, says: I turned my back on religion many years ago, so I’ve been saying no for a very long time.] That’s very good! I was talking about you this morning! (Osho had talked about yea-sayers and no-sayers that morning in the discourse....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 16 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she is feeling anxious about leaving.] Mm mm... just relax and don’t become anxious about it because anxiety disturbs everything. It doesn’t help in any way; it creates only more and more hindrances. If you love and anxiety comes in, it creates a distance and then the relationship becomes a burden....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 19 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Rikta means emptiness, deva means divine – divine emptiness. That is how you, by and by, have to imbibe the spirit of emptiness in you. Inside there is just emptiness, mm? That is how I feel your seed is. The more empty you feel, the more empty you can become. And you can feel it easily, it will not be difficult; it will just come naturally....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 21 December 1975 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor – not a sannyasin – asked through a translator if Osho could explain to her the meaning of an experience she had had two years ago. She described the experience as one in which she felt like an empty box, nothing was there. It reached a point where she couldn’t remember her name, or who she was....