< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 21 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: When I’m in London working, I am very involved in my work and I feel how could I possibly leave it? So I’m really finding things difficult.] Your work is good. You are doing good work there, but your own growth is far more important than your work. It is good work; if you continue, there is nothing wrong in it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 30 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had said at his last darshan (see Dance Your Way to God, August 16th, 1976) that he was too much of an egoist, so Osho had told him to give his ego full play for one week – to set himself up as a guru and adopt some followers etc. Tonight, the sannyasin reported back : I enjoyed it, but I also felt guilty....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 31 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium The first thing is to fall in line with me. Just dose your eyes and feel yourself surrounded by me – as if you have entered me, as if I am only a door. Relax, and if something starts happening in your body energy, allow it. Just go with it .… Geet means song and Govind means God – God’s song....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 1 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is going back to the West said she ran groups in a mental hospital and also privately, but she worries about being too serious.] No, don’t do it, because then it becomes almost impossible to live. As humanity is, it needs many lies, many pretensions, many pretexts. If you are talking to a child, you talk in a language that the child understands....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 2 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: I’ve come here hoping with my heart to be captured by something and I’m still waiting. I have this idea that I won’t be able to have the drive to follow a path until my heart is captured, so I’m just waiting.] Mm, I understand. You don’t know your own strength – nobody knows, hence the problem....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 3 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: I don’t know whether I want to take sannyas or not. I’m troubled about the concept of surrender, because I feel for a long time that I’ve surrendered to a lot of people, and only recently I’ve begun to feel centred.] You must have a wrong notion about surrender, because whatsoever you have been calling surrender was not surrender....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 4 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and shubha means goodness – divine goodness. Human beings are good, but their goodness is also part of their policy. They say that honesty is the best policy. Even through goodness they want to earn something. It is a bargain. To be good is beneficial, hence they are good. Their goodness is not unconditional; it is conditional....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 5 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and bhairava means god – god of bliss. Bhairava is a name of the god Shiva. He is a totally different god to other gods in the world – life-affirmative, celebrating, not in any way life-negating; not in any way against life, but for it. So he is the god of bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 6 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor who had done the Tathata group said he found it easy. Osho suggested he do the Enlightenment Intensive, saying that that would be more intense.] When you take the challenge of a certain difficult method, you grow. Something easy is not necessarily good. Something may look easy but it does not force any change in you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 7 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To two resident sannyasins returning for a brief visit to the States to see their parents, Osho spoke about how one could introduce one’s parents to sannyas, meditation, and Osho, in a way that would be acceptable. He said one should not try to argue, but simply let one’s being, one’s happiness, be evidence of one’s new life....