< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 13 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor asked what the agreement of sannyas meant.] That you are no more. It is a total surrender. No agreement – because in an agreement there are two parties. You simply surrender. Much courage is needed... It is not an agreement because it is not a legal thing. It is just a love affair....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 23 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said he found life easier in the West, and it was difficult for him to be totally here. Osho said he should go and live out the fantasies he had been having, but that the moment he reached the States he would start thinking about Poona. He said it was good to go and be finished with those things he felt incomplete, and that he would find that there was a vast difference between reality and fantasy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 24 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Ramteerth was an indian mystic – one of the most beautiful of this century. So read something about him... you can find the books. Just go through them, that’s all – they will be helpful. [A sannyasin says she is going up and down, and she feels that when she is down she should do something about it]...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 25 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asked about watching ’a lot of shit going through his head] It is natural, so don’t feel in any way depressed by it. If you do, it is impossible to get rid of it because you lose all energy in it. People who become interested in meditation, sooner or later start feeling hopeless, because the chatter of the mind seems non-ending; it goes on and on, and the more you try to finish with it, the more it bubbles up....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 26 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [An ashram yoga teacher wanted to teach a synthesis of what he had learnt from several teachers. He asked Osho if he should ‘do my own thing’.] You do your own thing. Absorb whatsoever you can get from anywhere, and always create a synthesis out of your own experience. Otherwise what you teach is borrowed, and the borrowed cannot be taught – because it is an art, not a science....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 27 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is a sculptor, says: I want it to flow here. And I want to give myself to you.] You are accepted. And I looked at your album of sculpture. It is beautiful... but it seems to me that you are working with a very limited idea again and again. [He replies: Now I have no idea....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 28 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The Tao group is present. A group member says she feels like a child, and should she continue with this. Osho checks her energy.] It is good, mm? It is very good to go back to your childhood, because that is the point at which your life bifurcated – at five years old. That is where you missed the real life and you started becoming phoney....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 29 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks about studying Tai Chi and acupunture. Osho said they were both very meditative.] ... both are joined together deep down. So if you learn both it will be good. If you know your own energy and its centring, it is very easy to feel another’s energy. And in fact it is a knack – it is not a science....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 1 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Paravritti means turning in, moving towards oneself. [The new sannyasin says she has been travelling through many countries and experiencing things.] It is good. There is a time to experience many things. When one is young, one has to experience many things – both good and bad, the dark and the light. But the real travelling starts when you start turning in....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌8 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium There was no darshan on March 8th. Chapter 18 contains interviews with people about how they experienced groups. < Previous | Contents | Next >