The No Book (No Buddha, No Teaching, No Discipline)

Talks given from 1/8/77 to 31/8/77 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, blissfulness, and buddha means the awakened state of consciousness – the utterly awakened state when there is no more any unconscious desire, when there is no dark corner left, when all is consciousness within... when the conscious goes on spreading, spreading, and takes over the whole territory of the unconscious....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin agrees to do the groups Osho suggests, but says she would like to travel around india first.] I think the better course will be that first you be here and then travel... First groups. Then you will have a better vision to see the country; you will have a better attitude....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Rahim. Prem means love, rahim means compassion. Love for those whom you can love.… And I don’t demand the impossible: I don’t say to love all because theat will not be possible. Love is something you cannot manage. Sometimes it clicks and you feel love arising for a person; sometimes it doesn’t click....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin couple are leaving for the West. The man explains they have to travel on separate days because the wife had come to poona after him.] Mm mm, separately?... That’s very good... that’s very good! We come separately and we go separately, and all our meetings are just on the way, mm? One should remember it – that we are strangers – and one should never take the other for granted; that destroys all love....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Deva Marifa – the divine way of knowing. It’s a sufi term. Osho explains that God can be known in two ways, either through intelligence or through feeling... the way through intelligence is marifa... ] You have to become more and more alert, more and more mindful: watch life, watch yourself. Try to come out of the sleep everybody is in; that slumber has to be broken....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and sujan means awareness. This has to be remembered – that awareness is good only when it is suffused with blissfulness. If it is dry it will enhance the ego; if it is dry, with no joy in it, it will not lead you towards the divine; it will make you more and more self-centred....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says she wants to leave the work she is doing in an embassy in rome and to separate from her husband, who is a writer but earns no money. Osho advises her to leave him unless she wants to be a babysitter for the rest of her life! He says that a relationship should only be out of love and for no other reason....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho talks about monastic life... ] So help the monks to get free... they need to! They are good people, they are in search; they are honest sincere people. They are good people but they are trapped and it happens that good people are easily trapped because they are not cunning. It is very difficult to trap cunning persons....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Jivan means life, harito means green – green life, fresh life, young life. and always remember that life is green, theories are grey. Avoid the theories and plunge into life. Theories are suicidal, poisonous; they destroy. Life is divine, life is eternity. To get in tune with life is to enter into god, and to remain confined to the theories is to remain in the prison of the mind....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Prem Deval... let love be the god and you become the temple... Feel love for anybody and for everybody... for all, with no conditions.… ... Shift from the intellectual to the world of feeling. Intellectuality is just rubbish. Words cannot fulfil, logic cannot satisfy. One can have beautiful philosophies but one remains ugly; those philosophies don’t help....