The Path of the Mystic

Talks given from 04/05/86 pm to 26/05/86 am English Discourse series

1 Thoughts are always subversive 2 Start the journey from the heart 3 Enchanted with the unknown 4 Reality is always fragile 5 The moment truth compromises, it dies 6 The flower of discipleship 7 Between these two dreams...8 A longing for the beyond 9 Grateful to existence 10 You are not to be somebody 11 Ego is the greatest bondage 12 Mind is the whole problem 13 Misery is nothing but choice 14 Just by celebrating 15 The real riches 16 Treasures or dragons 17 Existence has no hurry 18 Intelligence is our only treasure 19 The bliss of aloneness 20 Tears of gratitude 21 Only if love allows 22 The watcher is not amused 23 Fall into trust 24 Meditation is a revolution in religion 25 Stealing the truth 26 I don't answer your questions, I answer your hearts 27 Something that knows no going back 28 Nowhere to go 29 New skies to fly in 30 The name is love, but the game is politics 31 I cannot leave my garden unfinished 32 My vision is of the whole 33 More dangerous than nuclear weapons 34 The word cannot be crucified 35 Nothing to lose 36 A tiger is also a guest 37 A silent equilibrium 38 Death is others' opinion about you 39 My words are only indicators towards silence 40 The thought of silence excites nobody 41 The secrets of life are very simple 42 Politics is a disease 43 Unnecessarily barking at each other 44 I am talking to transform your heart

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19 The bliss of aloneness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 The bliss of aloneness 13 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IT SEEMS THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST HURDLES THAT FACES A HUMAN BEING IS TO BE ALONE, TO STAND ALONE IN THE FACE OF THE OPINIONS OF THE WORLD, TO STAND ALONE IN THE FACE OF THE LIES OF THE WORLD, TO BE ABLE TO BE PHYSICALLY ALONE, AND, ULTIMATELY, TO BE ALONE WITHOUT EVEN OUR MINDS – THE COMPANION OF LAST RESORT....

2 Start the journey from the heart

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 Start the journey from the heart 5 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHEN YOU SPEAK SO BEAUTIFULLY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, AWAKENING AND DREAMING, FOR ME THE DREAMING IS SO REAL THAT EVEN IMAGINING AWAKENING SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE. I WONDER AT YOUR BEAUTY, YOUR GRACE, YOUR LOVE, YOUR UNDERSTANDING, BUT TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE SEEMS A SITUATION SO UNLIKELY FOR ME THAT IT MUST BE EITHER A DREAM OR SOME BIZARRE ACCIDENT....

20 Tears of gratitude

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 Tears of gratitude 14 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHEN I LISTEN TO YOU TALK ABOUT SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCES AHEAD OF US, I OFTEN FEEL LITERALLY UPLIFTED, AS IF MY BODY BECOMES WEIGHTLESS. ONLY MY HURTING BACK REMINDS ME THAT I AM STILL HERE! THIS EXPERIENCE IN YOUR PRESENCE IS SO PRECIOUS. BUT THIS FEELING CAN TURN INTO A PAIN WHICH IS NOT PHYSICAL....

21 Only if love allows

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 Only if love allows 14 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS ON SEXUAL ETHICS? My views on sexual ethics are against all the views that have been held up to now. They were all repressive of sex; they were condemnatory and created a split in the human mind. The whole schizophrenia and all the perversions of man are rooted in those wrong sexual ethics....

22 The watcher is not amused

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 The watcher is not amused 15 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, HOW DOES THE MAN OF ZEN TAKE HIS TEA? For the man of Zen everything is sacred – even taking a cup of tea. Whatever he does, he does as if he is in a holy space. There is a story about Moses. When he went on Mount Sinai to meet God and to receive the Ten Commandments, he saw a miracle happening: a green bush, lush green, and inside it a beautiful flame, fire....

23 Fall into trust

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 Fall into trust 15 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES NEUROLOGISTS BECAME VERY INTERESTED IN AN AREA OF THE BRAIN STEM CALLED THE “RETICULAR FORMATION.” IT IS SAID THAT THIS IS THE AREA THAT FILTERS INPUT INTO THE BRAIN WHILE WE ARE ASLEEP. THUS, A MOTHER SLEEPS THROUGH ALL SORTS OF NOISES, BUT WAKES THE INSTANT HER CHILD CRIES – THIS FUNCTION WAS SAID TO BE ACHIEVED BY THE RETICULAR FORMATION....

24 Meditation is a revolution in religion

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 Meditation is a revolution in religion 16 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHEN I FIRST HEARD YOU SAY, “SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, THE SPRING COMES AND THE GRASS GROWS BY ITSELF,” MY WESTERN MIND THOUGHT THIS WAS A METAPHOR, AND SOUGHT TO FIND THE MEANING. THEN I THOUGHT YOU REALLY MEANT TO SIT SILENTLY – AND I FELT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE....

25 Stealing the truth

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 Stealing the truth 16 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHEN YOU WERE RESPONDING TO THE QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER THE WATCHER IS AMUSED, I FOUND I SLIPPED INTO THE SPACE OF A WITNESS WHILE LOOKING INTO YOUR EYES AND FELT A MEETING HAPPENED. IT WAS SUCH A CLEAR, COOL MEETING, AND IN COMPARISON I SAW HOW STICKY, CUMBERSOME AND CONFINING ARE ANY OF THE EMOTIONS I HAVE EVER FELT FOR YOU AND THROUGH WHICH I THOUGHT I COULD MEET YOU....

26 I don\'t answer your questions, I answer your hearts

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 I don’t answer your questions, I answer your hearts 17 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, DURING THE DISCOURSES YOU GAVE IN POONA, YOU WERE OFTEN TALKING ABOUT SURRENDER. WHEN YOU WERE IN SILENCE SHEELA WAS MISUSING THE SENSE OF SURRENDER TO MAKE PEOPLE OBEDIENT, AND THEN, EVEN HEARING THE WORDS “JUST SURRENDER” MADE ME FEEL CLOSED....

27 Something that knows no going back

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 Something that knows no going back 17 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHAT DID YOU DO IN THOSE YEARS IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT? It is a difficult question. The first thing was that a great silence, almost unbreakable, followed the experience, as if the mind had stopped functioning. There was nothing to do about it – except to watch....