Talks on Pythagoras
Talks given from 21/12/78 am to 30/12/78 am English Discourse series
1 The Greatest Luxury2 Love Comes Faceless3 Falling Upwards4 I Mean Business!5 Beep Beep!6 Logos: Power: Necessity7 Awareness: The Master Key8 You Are Without Stain9 Bliss Beyond All Duality10 Bliss Beyond All Duality
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 The Greatest Luxury 21 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall RENDER TO THE IMMORTAL GODS THE CONSECRATED CULT; GUARD THEN THY FAITH: ... REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, OF SPIRITS, DEMI-GODS.… BE A GOOD SON, JUST BROTHER; SPOUSE TENDER; AND GOOD FATHER. CHOOSE FOR THY FRIEND, THE FRIEND OF VIRTUE; YIELD TO HIS GENTLE COUNSELS, PROFIT BY HIS LIFE; AND FOR A TRIFLING GRIEVANCE NEVER LEAVE HIM;...
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 10 Bliss Beyond All Duality 30 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH YOU. WHY? Larry Obenfeld, I AM SORRY, YOUR QUESTION IS UNANSWERABLE. This is the only question which cannot be answered – hence the beauty of it. Whenever you come across a question which is unanswerable you are very close to God....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 Love Comes Faceless 22 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question, Dharma Chetana, Question 1 OSHO, MEMORY CAN’T RECALL YOUR FACE, SO LOVE COMES, FACELESS. UNFAMILIAR IS THE PART OF ME THAT LOVES YOU. SHE HAS NO NAME, AND SHE COMES AND GOES AND WHEN GONE, I WIPE MY TEAR-STAINED FACE SO THAT IT REMAINS A SECRET. Dharma Chetana,...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 Falling Upwards 23 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, THANK YOU FOR THE DELICATE SYNTHESIS. GREAT JOY ARISES IN UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSELESSNESS OF EXISTENCE. Deva Nirguna, TRUTH ALWAYS TRIGGERS A PROCESS IN YOU, even if the truth is not your own. The very hearing of it creates a parallel process in you. It is not caused by hearing it; it follows not the law of cause and effect but the law of synchronicity....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 I Mean Business! 24 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO – BUDDHA, MAHAVIRA, MOHAMMED AND CHRIST WERE ENLIGHTENED MAN. THEY TRIED TO TEACH THEIR DISCIPLES THE METHODS TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED. THEY WANTED TO FORM AN ENDLESS CHAIN OF ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE, AND, INSTEAD OF BECOMING ENLIGHTENED, ALMOST ALL OF THEM TRIED TO BE CUNNING ENOUGH TO CHEAT THE COMMON PEOPLE BY MAKING LARGE SCALE BUSINESS FIRMS BEHIND THESE GREAT MEN....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Beep Beep! 25 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, PLEASE TELL A LITTLE STORY ABOUT JESUS TODAY.… IN THE GUTTER OF THE MARKETPLACE lay a dead dog, to the disgust of the passer-by. “How loathsome!” said one, and turned his head. “Pah, how he stinks!” said another and held his nose as he passed. “Look at his protruding ribs – how ugly!...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 Logos: Power: Necessity 26 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall STILL IT IS GIVEN THEE TO FIGHT AND OVERCOME THY FOOLISH PASSIONS: LEARN THOU TO SUBDUE THEM. BE SOBER; DILIGENT, AND CHASTE; AVOID ALL WRATH. IN PUBLIC OR IN SECRET NE’ER PERMIT THOU ANY EVIL; AND ABOVE ALL ELSE RESPECT THYSELF. SPEAK NOT NOR ACT BEFORE THOU HAST REFLECTED; BE JUST....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Awareness: The Master Key 27 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, TODAY YOU SPOKE OF AWARENESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS AND IT SEEMED AS THOUGH THIS WAS ALL THAT WAS NEEDED TO GUIDE ONE S ACTIONS. DOES THIS MEAN THEN THAT MURDER, RAPE AND THEFT ARE ONLY WRONG IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE DONE WITHOUT AWARENESS, WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 You Are Without Stain 28 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, PLEASE COMMENT ON THE EXPULSION OF INDIRA GANDHI FROM THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT, AND HER IMPRISONMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT OF MORARJI DESAI, WHICH HAS CAUSED SUCH CHAOS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY. Kamal Bharti, INDIRA GANDHI IS NOT PUNISHED BUT REWARDED. This is the fate of every revolutionary....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 Bliss Beyond All Duality 29 December 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE TOTALITY OF MYSELF? WHY DO I GO ON AVOIDING IT? Vasumati, THE TOTALITY OF YOURSELF has nothing to do with you. It is not your totality or my totality; totality is one – in which we all disappear. That is the fear....