< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Chid means consciousness, akash means sky. One sky is outside us, but another and a far more significant one is inside us. Our body is just dividing two skies. The moment we forget our body, those two skies become one and that meeting of those two skies is samadhi; the meeting of the inner with the outer is enlightenment....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, nirvana means liberation. Man cannot liberate himself – that is impossible, because man himself is the cause of bondage. The very idea ‘I am’ is the root cause of bondage, so there is no way to go beyond the ‘I’, through the ‘I’; it won’t allow. It will go on surrounding you in new ways, in new forms....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a fourteen-year-old boy the name Swami Prem Ajita – unconquerable love] And love is the only power that cannot be conquered. There is no way to conquer it. The only way to approach it is to surrender – not through conflict, not through conquering. The only way to attain to love is to bow down to it....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [true religion – Satdharma.] The religion one is born into is never true; it cannot be true, because one has never chosen it. To be true a religion has to be consciously chosen, otherwise it remains just a conditioning. One is born into Hinduism; he is a Hindu. Another is born into Christianity and he is a Christian, but this is only upbringing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a couple an ‘energy darshan’] Good. Come back. This is the best way to say something of the heart. And there is much the heart wants to say but the mind is incapable of saying it. It can be said only through the energy. Words are inadequate; only vitality can be adequate for it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a meditation to a sannyasin.] You start one meditation, and that is just sitting silently and allowing your fingers to have their own movement. Feel the movement from the inside. Don’t try to see it from the outside. So keep your eyes closed and just feel the movements from inside. let the energy flow more and more into the hands....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: Sometimes I wonder whether you’re real or not.] Everything is unreal – I am too – because reality is not a thing. All things are unreal. Reality is a nothing, no-thing. Things are only appearances, forms of something which is formless. That formlessness is real but that cannot be seen by the eyes and cannot be touched and felt is unreal; it is all dream stuff – and I am included in it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks about earning money in the West and finding time for sannyas activities.] Do at least one meditation every day. Choose any meditation, but persist with one method; don’t go on changing. Whether results come or not, go on persisting in it. Results certainly come; all that is needed is patience. Methods don’t work....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, padmaja means the lotus-born lotus-born love. And the lotus is one of the greatest symbols in the East: it is a representative of the beyond. It exists on the earth but it is not of the earth. The beauty of it, the grace of it is so tremendous, so incredible, that it cannot be of this world – it must be of the other....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I felt lots of times to write. Once I nearly came and spoke to you but I didn’t, and things have worked out fine. It’s just: am I using you enough? – that’s what I’m not sure of.] You are... and it is good. Writing is not of much use. If sometimes it becomes impossible and you cannot help it, write....