The 99 Names of Nothingness
Talks given in Chuang Tzu Auditorium from 1may 1978 to 31may 1978 Darshan Diaries
Talks given in Chuang Tzu Auditorium from 1may 1978 to 31may 1978 Darshan Diaries
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 7 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Halima is a sufi name, a name of God. It means: one who forgives, forebears all. Even if you go against Him, He is not against you. Even if you deny Him, He will not deny you. Even if you go astray, He knows you will come back. His trust in you is absolute....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 8 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Basiro. It is a sufi name for God. It means ‘all-seeing.’ There is no way to hide from God but man goes on trying. Not that he succeeds, he cannot succeed in the very nature of things. But in the effort he wastes his life and becomes alienated from God, starts believing he has deceived God....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 9 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shahido. It is a sufi name for God and means: one who witnesses all, the great witness] Nothing is hidden from God because God is the inside of everything. And the inside knows all. You can hide something from others but you cannot hide it from yourself, and it is there that God is hiding....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 10 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Wajid. Wajid is a sufi name for God. It means: one who has no needs, one who is fulfilled, contented. Fulfilment is another name for God. Unless one becomes God one remains unfulfilled. Dissolving into God is disappearing from the world of needs. Then one simply is and all is good. Then whatsoever happens is blissful: life is blissful, death too....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 11 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Alima. It is a sufi name for God. It means: one who knows. Only God knows and unless we become one with God there is no knowing. All else that we think is knowledge is just trivia, rubbish – at the most information, but not knowledge. And the difference is great: to know means to know from the inside; information means to collect something from the outside....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 12 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Wahid – all is one.] Multiplicity is false, it is only an appearance. Oneness is the truth of reality. We differ only superficially; deep down we are all one. On the circumference many, at the centre one. So if you look at the circumference it is a chaos: everything seems to be accidental, unrelated to everything else....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 13 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says since he read Osho’s book, he has found a new relationship to Christ... and it’s wonderful, full of life.] That’s true. That’s good christians have destroyed all bridges towards Christ. Christ needs a new interpretation, a new approach, a new breakthrough. Christ needs people now who are not christians; only they can relate with him....