< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss; Jorrit means a Farmer. Once a farmer asked Buddha “I never see you doing anything. What is your work? What are you doing in the world?” Buddha laughed and he said “I am also a farmer, but my farming is invisible. I sow the seeds of bliss and love and truth....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss; Pujan means worship. Bliss is worship. To be blissful is to be prayerful. To have the capacity to celebrate life is religiousness. But down the ages the so-called religions have done Just the opposite: they have made religion a very serious, somber affair. They have made it almost pathological, morbid. They have made it utterly negative: life denying, love denying, bliss-denying....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Laurel is a symbol of two things; one is victory, the other is immortality. Love brings both: it brings victory, it brings immortality. Love is the only experience in which defeat is impossible because the very first requirement of being in love is to be surrendered. If a person is surrendered how can he be defeated?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 30 30 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, Anna means grace – grace that is a byproduct of bliss. Grace follows bliss as a shadow. One cannot achieve grace directly, there is no way to it. It comes via bliss. If somebody tries to be graceful without being blissful he will only be pretending, he will be at the most a good actor....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 31 31 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; Helmut means great courage. Love is the greatest courage in life. It really needs guts to be in love. It needs a capacity to die into the love, to disappear into love. It needs courage because the ego has to be surrendered. Hence many people would like to love and be loved, but cannot dare....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means going beyond, transcending, Christian means a follower of Christ. Go beyond following, that’s the only way to be a Christ. Go beyond following, and that’s the only way to be a Buddha. The follower never reaches the goal. Love Christ but don’t follow, don’t imitate, don’t be a shadow, don’t be a carbon copy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, Eli means light – a blissful light. The light is there, it has not to be enkindled. We bring it with us. We are made of it, it is our innermost core, but we are keeping our back to it. And because we go on keeping our back to the inner light, our life becomes dark, unnecessarily dark....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Gyan means wisdom, prem means love – wisdom through love. There is a knowing that is possible only through love. All other kinds of knowing are only acquaintances from the outside. Love takes you to the very inside of a thing. The scientist can say many things about a rose flower but all that is from the outside....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Marian means rebellion and grace. Mary means rebellion; Ann is part of Hannah, it means grace. Your full name will mean love, rebellion, grace. Love is rebellion and love is grace too. Love is rebellion because it is the expression of your innermost core. It is not imitation, it is not being a carbon copy; it is your originality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, das means a servant – a servant of love. But to be a servant of love is the way to become a master. One who is ready to surrender to love becomes immensely powerful. It is not a defeat; it is a victory. The way of love is very illogical. If you surrender you are victorious....