< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌9 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, or blissful, and Subhuti is the name of one the chief disciples of Buddha. The literal meaning is, one who is well-known, world famous, mm? [A sannyasin who is involved in a clothes design business in the West, said that she was afraid it would be a distraction now she was back in Poona....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 14 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A seeker said that he had an experience following Kundalini meditation that had given him a great sense of joy. He had gazed at a tree and had become so filled with its beauty, so full of joy, that he felt he could not contain his feelings, and he became afraid. Osho said that one’s capacity is limited in the beginning, but it increases as the joy increases....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 10 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says that sometimes she feels fear, and when she sees Osho during the lectures, her body begins trembling.] That’s very good, mm? Fear is natural – because you are moving somewhere you have never moved before... a territory completely unknown to you. Not only unknown, but unconnected with all that you have known....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 11 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that during after the meditations she was shaking very much, and she felt really shattered.] You must be trying to control it – that is wrong. Fever can come because you create a contradiction in your being. The energy is arising, and you start controlling it. You are doing two opposite things together....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 22 12 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Vipassana’s body died this afternoon. Most of this chapter contains a description of the death and sannyasin’s reactions to it. Then follows a description of the celebration and Osho’s discourse about her death.] I would like to read you a few lines from Huub Oosterhuis... The man who wants to live the life of a god on earth must go the way of every seed and die before he has rebirth....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 15 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and praghosha means a declaration – a declaration of bliss. Become a declaration of bliss. Don’t hide It – manifest it as much as you can. The more you manifest bliss, the more it will be coming to you. Remember a very basic law: that if bliss is expressed, shared, it grows....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 16 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: Now I know I am not... and this comes to me all the time. Not only when I’m meditating, but when I’m alone in the hotel room, it takes over. Can I let go of it?] Let go of it. Don’t resist it, don’t fight it. That is the whole effort we are making here – so that you disappear and something bigger than you takes possession....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 17 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and sushma means harmony – harmony that comes through love. In fact there is no other harmony – only love gives harmony. Through love you are no more a separate part. You become one with the main, the continent. You are no more an island. And everything that was not in harmony falls into harmony....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 18 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said that she had been practising Vipassana for some time, and had found it helpful. She said that she enjoyed the active meditations, enjoyed the dancing, but found that it did not go as deep for her as being silent. Osho said that Vipassana was good, but that as one became more silent, one tended to become a little sad....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 19 February 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, and siddhanta means principle – principle of love. And that’s the principle of life also. Love is life, and there is no life except love, mm? So become more and more loving, trusting – without any conditions. If one loses everything in love, nothing is lost. And if one can save everything and love is lost, then everything is lost....