The Open Door

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

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 21 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, ragen means the king of the harmony or god of the harmony. Bliss is a harmony. When all your being, all parts of your being are functioning in tune, when there is no conflict, when you are not at war with yourself in any sense, when your mind, your body, your heart, are all together, on one wavelength, that is the state of bliss, that is harmony....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A couple are present. The man, known for his crazy behaviour, says that he’s been feeling crazier than ever, that he feels he’s been trying to prove something, that he’s consciously trying for something way out to happen. Osho talks at length to him about only doing that which is true to his nature....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 23 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says she is continually making plans, having dreams, and how to stop?] I will stop it; you just go on making, mm? They were there in the unconscious. That’s why I have given you the name, so that you become conscious about them. Once you become conscious about something which has been unconscious, it starts surfacing, and by surfacing it is released from your being....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 24 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, malik means god, lord – god of bliss, lord of bliss. Malik is a sufi name for God. ‘Ya Malik’ means ‘oh, Lord’. Sufis have ninety-nine names for God and one wonders why not one hundred; the list seems to be incomplete. The hundredth is the real name which cannot be uttered....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 25 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Love knows how to forgive. Not only does one have to forgive others, one has to forgive oneself too, and that is the harder thing because we have been taught to feel guilty; we are burdened by guilt. A burdened man cannot grow and one who feels guilty feels always sick; he does not allow his wounds to heal....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 26 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, giri means mountain – a bliss mountain. And bliss has something to do with height, with plenitude. It takes you to the peaks, it takes you to the ultimate plenitude, beyond which one cannot go. Bliss is the omega point, and everybody is seeking that peak. Sometimes one may be seeking a wrong way, may be moving in a cul-de-sac or may be thinking that one is going up and is actually going down, but still the unconscious desire is for the peak....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 27 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, rashid means unerring quality. God is unerring, that is the meaning, and whatever mistakes happen in life, they happen because of us, not because of God. So never complain, and whenever you see something is going wrong, remember: it must be going wrong because of you. Everything goes right if we surrender to God; everything settles, becomes harmonious....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 28 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, gaffar is a Sufi name for God. It means: one who forgives, love-forgiveness, that will be the whole meaning, or love-forgiveness. And that is one of the very fundamental secrets: if you can love and forgive, then nothing else is needed. If you cannot forgive, you cannot love; if you cannot love, you cannot forgive....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 29 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Mother and six-year-old son are at darshan. The mother says: I worry about him and since he’s been at the ashram he’s doing the sorts of things I don’t like, things be didn’t do before like fighting and begging and lying... ] Don’t worry, mm? – he will not need any Encounter groups later on!...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 30 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, blissfulness, wahhab means one who can bestow bliss on others too. And bliss is true only when you can shower it on others, when you can share it. If it is something that you can’t share then you have imagined it, it is not true. Truth is always something that has to be shared, that can always be shared....