< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Neither do I condemn thee 31 October 1977 am in Buddha Hall JOHN 8 1. JESUS WENT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 2. AND EARLY IN THE MORNING HE CAME AGAIN INTO THE TEMPLE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME UNTO HIM; AND HE SAT DOWN, AND TAUGHT THEM. 3. AND THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY; AND WHEN THEY HAD SET HER INT HE MIDST,...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 Go to the Very End 1 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 WELL, I WAS BROUGHT UP AS A CATHOLIC, SO HOW COME JESUS IS A STRANGER TO ME? Jesus is always a stranger. It does not matter whether you were brought up as a Catholic or a Protestant or a Hindu or a Mohammedan. The very being of Jesus is that of a stranger, because he is an outsider....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 To the New as the New 2 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall MARK 9 33. AND HE CAME TO CAPERNAUM: AND BEING IN THE HOUSE HE ASKED THEM, WHAT WAS IT THAT YE DISPUTED AMONG YOURSELVES BY THE WAY? 34. BUT THEY HELD THEIR PEACE: FOR BY THE WAY THEY HAD DISPUTED AMONG THEMSELVES, WHO SHOULD BE THE GREATEST. 35. AND HE SAT DOWN, AND CALLED THE TWELVE, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, IF ANY MAN DESIRE TO BE FIRST, THE SAME SHALL BE LAST OF ALL, AND SERVANT OF ALL....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 Respect and Accept 3 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GREAT SEXUAL SUPPRESSION AND FREEDOM FROM SEX? ON THE SURFACE, BOTH HAVE NO INTEREST IN SEX. HOW DOES SUPPRESSED SEX BUBBLE UP? First, suppressed sex has more interest than expressed sex can ever have. The interest is not direct – it is indirect, it is vicarious, it is cunning; the interest is there, immensely there....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 Ecstasy is Polarities Meeting 4 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall LUKE 7 36. AND ONE OF THE PHARISEES DESIRED HIM THAT HE WOULD EAT WITH HIM. AND HE WENT INTO THE PHARISEE’S HOUSE, AND SAT DOWN TO MEAT. 37. AND, BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN THE CITY, WHICH WAS A SINNER, WHEN SHE KNEW THAT JESUS SAT AT MEAT IN THE PHARISEE’S HOUSE, BROUGHT AN ALABASTER BOX OF OINTMENT....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 An Idea Whose Time has Come 5 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 IS GOD OVERHEAD IN THE SKY, IN HEAVEN? God is everywhere. God is everywhereness. God is not a person. You cannot locate him. God is the totality of all beings, of all things. But down the ages man has looked at the sky overhead for God, for a certain reason....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 Man is an Empty Temple 6 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall MATTHEW 24 1. AND JESUS WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE: AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM FOR TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE. 2. AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, SEE YE NOT ALL THESE THINGS? VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER, THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 Significance is Inner Nourishment 7 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 ARE THERE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF HEDONISM? I SUSPECT ‘EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY’ MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. Yes, Anurag. There are two levels of hedonism, and they are almost polar opposites to each other. Because of that, much misunderstanding has prevailed down the ages. The lower hedonism is of the body, and the higher hedonism is of the soul....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 9 Ye Shall Live Also 8 November 1977 am in Buddha Hall JOHN 14 JESUS SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES: 1. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED: YE BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. 2. IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 3. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO....