The Cypress in the Courtyard

Talks given from 29/5/76 to 27/6/76 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 29 May 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin returning to the West, said that he was feeling ‘okay’ about himself.] Okay is not enough... feel blessed. Okay is not a very ecstatic word; it is just lukewarm. So feel blessed – and it is a question of feeling. Whatsoever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility. If you are not feeling good, that’s how you have created it in the past....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 13 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a newly initiated sannyasin, who said he was a Primal therapist, Osho spoke about the difference between groups here and in the West, adding that it would be helpful for to be a participant rather than a leader for a little while] ... and the milieu here is totally different. In the West it is a therapy and the relationship is between a doctor and a patient, the healer and the healed....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 14 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A newly arrived sannyasin says: So much has happened in the past few months. I just don’t understand. Everything’s changed.] Once it starts happening, and if you don’t create any obstacle for it, it goes on happening. It is a chair. thing. You only have to take the first step and then things follow....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 15 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a new sannyasin who had told Osho of the various groups and therapies she had experienced in the States] No method is for all persons – and no method can be. For each person something suits, but something else does not. Sometimes the method that suits somebody may be very destructive to somebody else....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 16 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and Samadhan means one whose problems are all solved. So from this moment this is going to be your constant awareness: that there is no problem. And in fact there is none. All problems are our illusions. First we create a problem and then we start seeking solutions. The first step is wrong....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 17 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is returning to Italy, said that his mind had been working less and less so that now he felt he had no centre, that he was dead and had no mental life.] Nothing to be worried about. It’s nothing to do with life and death. It is just because you have not used the mind for so many months, that’s all....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 18 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that he felt a confusion because whatever he tried to verbalise was never what he really meant. He said he would like some meditation that would help him clarify things. The problem is a very common one. People have impossible notions of being happy, so whatsoever happens is never satisfactory. Whatsoever happens is just so-so because of their ideas that something extraordinary and great has to happen....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 19 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dharma Bodhi. It means awareness of the ultimate law. Dharma means the ultimate law that holds everything together and bodhi means awareness. The concept of dharma is very very significant and needs to be understood. Something invisible is holding everything visible. It is not a person. It is just the very energy of the cosmos....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 20 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says that before he came here he found it difficult to cry. Over the past few days he has been crying a lot.] Mm mm, something has broken inside and you should be happy about it. Some ice has broken, some coldness has broken, some dead layer has broken. Whenever it happens, one starts crying because one again becomes a child....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 21 June 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said that he was a high school counsellor and teacher of Karate... Osho suggested he do some groups while he was here as they provided a balance, being just the opposite to Karate] One needs to move between the polarities because then life becomes more intense. Otherwise if you remain at one pole, life becomes monotonous and richness is lost....