The Open Door

Talks given from 1/12/77 to 31/12/77 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says she lives at Esalen Institute, a pioneer growth centre in california.] Mm mm, good! That is going to become my institute! It will become! Become a sannyasin – that will help you to come close to me, because to come close something has to change inside you. Something that is a kind of no has to become yes; only then can you come to me....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 12 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [On 10th and 11th December there were no speaking darshans. The 11th was the birthday celebration, and the book contains a description of this.] Anand means bliss, apta means one who has achieve – done who has achieved bliss. And this is the paradox – that the goal is already achieved before the journey has even started....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 13 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas to a woman.] Raise your hands, close your eyes and feel like a tree, become a treeIt is sunny and windy and the tree is delighted. whatsoever the tree feels to do, allow: if the tree sways in the wind it is okay.… Let me give sannyas to the tree! Just look at me as if you are a tree....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 14 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and samadhan is the state where all questions and problems disappear. It is the state of mind where no question arises, a non-questioning state. It comes through love. It is only love that we never question, it is beyond question. We never ask, ‘Why am I in love? What is the purpose of love?...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 15 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho tells an initiate to raise his hands in a gesture of receptivity, to feel that great energy is pouring on him, showering on him in torrents. Be utterly absorbed by the energy, Osho continues, with no resistance, no control. If the energy starts moving, be moved.] You have been seeking for many lives, now don’t miss the opportunity....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 16 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, returning to the West, says he has felt exhausted for years; here it seemed to become more intense. Osho checks his energy.] It is there and it must have been there for many years – maybe from your very birth. But you were not aware of it, that’s all. Tell me a few thingsOne is: how is your love relationship?...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 17 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, dhamma means religion. I teach a religion which is beyond religions. I teach a religion which is religionless, because religions – Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism – have not helped. They have, on the contrary, been very great disasters to humanity. Now something is urgently needed which will not have any adjective to it, just pure religion....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 18 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, indu means splendour – divine splendour. And always think in that dimension – the dimension of splendour, beauty, blessing, benediction, the dimension of grace. If one can be full of the sense of beauty, one is full of God. Aesthetics should be the only religion; poetry and dance should be the only prayer....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 19 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a seeker sannyas:] Come here. Close your eyes and feel as if you are dying. Lose control. Let me contact you at the moment of death, and whatsoever happens if death is coming, you have to allow it. If you fall to the floor, you fall to the.. whatsoever happens. ... Good!...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 20 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, ashu means quick – quick in love. And love is possible only if you are quick; life is possible only if you are quick. If you hesitate, you miss; if you brood, you miss, because time goes on flowing out of your hands – it does not wait. If you are too much of a thinker you will go on missing all opportunities....