< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 The courage of a madman is needed 21 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium ... Let the past be dropped as if it were part of a dream, as if it belonged to somebody else, as if you had seen it in a movie that you were just a witness to and not a participant in – just a watcher, a spectator, standing aloof....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 To be with a master is just a device 2 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he is continually changing his mind about staying or going to the West: So there’s never an acceptance of the way the thing is. It’s always wanting the other, and then as soon as that possibility happens, I don’t want that either....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 Become an instrument to me 22 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving for the west says he has a hard time accepting everything about himself and finds it particularly tricky relating to people – especially to strangers and to groups of people: I don’t know whether to just accept it, or to try and do something about it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 People who are full of wonder are people of god 23 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin is returning to the west. Osho gives him a box, saying that whenever he needs him, he should hold the box in his hands, close his eyes and feel Osho. Don’t remember me, Osho reiterates, feel me] Remembrance is just memory. Live it rather than remember it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 Walk, enter – the way is here 24 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says he is a musician. Osho says, perfectly good – that will fit with me!... ] People who are in any way concerned with art are my people, because to me art is closer to religion than anything else. A mathematician is far away; a musician is very close....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 Doing is okay – non-doing is okay 25 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A fifteen-year-old sannyasin tells Osho he left school, in the West, because he had some problems there. Very good! says Osho, the earlier the problems start, the better, so one can start solving them. He suggests some groups and then asks him if he has anything to say....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 The beginning is half the journey 26 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: For a long time I’ve been trying to understand ‘tat twam asi’. I’ve been meditating on it and intellectually I can’t get any understanding about this phrase.] Intellectually there is no way to understand it; it has nothing to do with intellect and it is not a philosophical statement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 We are coming closer to a better world 27 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Ram is one of the names of god. In india we have one thousand names for god. The basic idea is that all names are of god – obviously, because there is nobody else other than god so all names are his, all forms are his....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 To me, this and that world are not separate 28 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said he had been, for a short time, in a seminary in rome monastery in Thailand.] ... This is also good, mm? – nothing is bad, everything helps. Do a few groups here – that will help you to come out of the monastery....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 Love is the bridge between the human and the divine 29 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Keshava.… It is Krishna’s name and literally it means ‘the long-haired one’. He has many names, each name to indicate just one of his qualities. He is called ‘the long-haired one’ because he was one of the greatest incarnations of the feminine spirit, of yin....