The Buddha Disease

Talks given from 1/1/77 to 31/1/77 Darshan Diary

1 If you meet the Buddha on the Way...2 I declare you a god, a goddess 3 This feeling of belonging -- that you are together with these trees and the stars and the moon and the sun -- is what I call trust 4 In life, surrender is the key 5 Take life in the spirit of a picnic 6 Everything is within the reach of an empty hand 7 Meditation is the art of creating inner beauty 8 Meditation is learning to wait 9 Only dare-devils reach that which is called god 10 Man is made of the stuff called love 11 Love is the essential religion 12 My whole work is to help you to die 13 Meditation is the door to timelessness 14 Go to God through laughter, through dancing 15 Our home is beyond the stars 16 Dance is the basic language of religion 17 Become an offering, an opening, a prayer 18 In the hands of love even a rock starts throbbing 19 The master is to shock you out of your sleep 20 Just get more and more drunk with me 21 Celebrate as if you are already a buddha 22 When the dance is total, the ego is nullified 23 You are just part of a big orange ocean 24 To become aware is to become desireless 25 Life is a risk, that's why it is so beautiful 26 OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly 27 To be blissful is the greatest courage 28 My whole work is to push you into emptiness 29 Thorns are as significant as roses 30 If you know one secret -- to be happy right now -- you have learned it all 31 Theology becomes alive only when a person is alive who knows God by existential experience

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2 I declare you a god, a goddess

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 I declare you a god, a goddess 2 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a new initiate Osho gives the name Ma Prem Kalpa] Prem means love and kalpa means imagination – love imagination. And you have to work on it. Imagination is going to be your path. You have the capacity to visualise, to imagine – you have a poet’s heart – and images will come very easily to you....

20 Just get more and more drunk with me

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 Just get more and more drunk with me 20 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To Toshen who had taken sannyas in the West: .… And do you know the meaning of your name? That should not remain just the meaning of your name – it should become the meaning of your life too! It means bliss, contentment... and both are aspects of one phenomenon....

21 Celebrate as if you are already a buddha

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 Celebrate as if you are already a buddha 21 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, anshujal means a net of rays, light rays. the whole name will mean a net of love and light rays, a synthesis of love and light. And in fact, that’s how reality is. If you go through the scientific approach you will find nothing but light, a network of light and rays....

22 When the dance is total, the ego is nullified

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 When the dance is total, the ego is nullified 22 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, godly, and shalabha means a moth. And in indian mythology and in indian poetry too, the moth is a metaphor. Just as the moth is attracted towards light, knowing well that coming closer to the flame is going to be his death....

23 You are just part of a big orange ocean

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 You are just part of a big orange ocean 23 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, and vasundhara means the earth; divine earth. And I give you this name for many reasons: one, the earth represents the feminine mind – the sky represents the male mind. The feminine mind is very earthly, and every woman has to understand the meaning of the earth because that is her innermost core of being....

24 To become aware is to become desireless

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 To become aware is to become desireless 24 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, and mahashunya means the great emptiness. Anand is the natural state of resting in oneself. It is not happiness – because it is not unhappiness. It is not part of the duality, the dual world – happy and unhappy, sound/silence, day/night, life/death. It is not part of duality; it is the non-dual state....

25 Life is a risk, that\'s why it is so beautiful

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 Life is a risk, that’s why it is so beautiful 25 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, atideva means the great god; love, the great god. And love is the great god. All gods are lower than love – there is no value higher than love. Every value is a value because it partakes of love, but love is the supreme value....

26 OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly 26 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, and sadhu means simplicity; blissful simplicity. And these two things are to be remembered – be blissful and be simple. Only a complicated mind is lost – a simple mind is never lost. A simple mind is always at home – and you have that simple mind....

27 To be blissful is the greatest courage

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 To be blissful is the greatest courage 27 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means the ultimate state of bliss, mahavira means greatly courageous. And that’s what is needed! Nothing else but courage is needed, and everything will happen on its own accord. We go on missing many things in life just because we lack courage. In fact, no effort is needed to achieve – just courage – and things start coming to you rather than you going to them....

28 My whole work is to push you into emptiness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 My whole work is to push you into emptiness 28 January 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas to a seeker.] This will be your name... and not only a name but a radical change – a one-hundred-and-eighty- degree turn. Less than that won’t do... Less than that never does anything. You can go on boiling water at ninety-nine degrees....