Talks on Sufi Stories
Talks given from 21/06/78 am to 30/06/78 am English Discourse series
1 When the Disciple is Ready2 There is Communion3 A Rolling Stone4 Via Confusiva5 Yes, Just Like That6 Only One Ecstasy7 It Will Devour You Too8 The Grass Grows By Itself9 Hail Great Scholar!10 Buddha and the Beast
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 When the Disciple is Ready 21 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall A CERTAIN MAN DECIDED THAT HE WOULD SEEK THE PERFECT MASTER. HE READ MANY BOOKS, VISITED SAGE AFTER SAGE, LISTENED, DISCUSSED AND PRACTISED, BUT HE ALWAYS FOUND HIMSELF DOUBTING OR UNSURE. AFTER TWENTY YEARS HE MET A MAN WHOSE EVERY WORD AND ACTION CORRESPONDED WITH HIS IDEA OF THE TOTALLY REALIZED MAN....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 10 Buddha and the Beast 30 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHAT EXACTLY IS MAN? MAN IS A MERE PERHAPS, A POSSIBILITY, A POTENTIAL, a becoming, a longing. Man is not yet. Man has to be. That’s the agony of man, and the ecstasy too. The beast is – there is no growth possible. It is a finished product. There is no possibility to seek and search and be....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 There is Communion 22 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, YESTERDAY YOU MENTIONED THAT TO BE A DISCIPLE ONE NEEDS TO BE IN PRAYER – BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS PRAYER? PRAYER IS AN EXPERIENCE OF RESURRECTION, A REBIRTH, the birth of a new vision, a new dimension, a new way of looking at things, and a new way of being....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 A Rolling Stone 23 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall A WANDERING SEEKER SAW A DERVISH IN A REST-HOUSE AND SAID TO HIM, “I HAVE BEEN IN A HUNDRED CLIMES AND HAVE HEARD THE TEACHINGS OF A MULTITUDE OF MENTORS. I HAVE LEARNT HOW TO DECIDE WHEN A TEACHER IS NOT A SPIRITUAL MAN. I CANNOT TELL A GENUINE GUIDE, OR HOW TO FIND ONE, BUT HALF THE WORK COMPLETED IS BETTER THAN NOTHING....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 Via Confusiva 24 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WHATEVER YOU SAY SEEMS TO BE RIGHT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING AT THAT MOMENT. BUT IT MAY BE CONTRADICTORY. YOU DRAW THE LISTENERS IN ONE DIRECTION CONFIRMING A PARTICULAR POINT, AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU GO VIA THE BACK DOOR TO THE OPPOSITE POINT....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Yes, Just Like That 25 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall A SUFI TEACHER WAS VISITED BY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE OF VARIOUS FAITHS WHO SAID TO HIM, “ACCEPT US AS YOUR DISCIPLES, FOR WE SEE THAT THERE IS NO REMAINING TRUTH IN OUR RELIGIONS, AND WE ARE CERTAIN THAT WHAT YOU ARE TEACHING IS THE ONE TRUE PATH.” THE SUFI SAID, “HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF THE MONGOL HALAKU KHAN AND HIS INVASION OF SYRIA?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 Only One Ecstasy 26 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 HOW DOES THE INTERNAL WORLD OF EXPERIENCE RELATE TO EXTERNAL REALITY? ANURAG, THERE ARE NOT TWO REALITIES. All duality is only in conceptualization. Reality is one. It is mind that divides: the lower and the higher, the good and the bad, the internal and the external, heaven and hell....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 It Will Devour You Too 27 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall IT IS RELATED THAT A DERVISH ONCE STOPPED A KING IN THE STREET. THE KING SAID, “HOW DARE YOU, A MAN OF NO ACCOUNT, INTERRUPT THE PROGRESS OF YOUR SOVEREIGN?” THE DERVISH ANSWERED, “CAN YOU BE A SOVEREIGN IF YOU CANNOT EVEN FILL MY KASHKUL, THE BEGGING BOWL?” HE HELD OUT HIS BOWL, AND THE KING ORDERED IT TO BE FILLED WITH GOLD....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 The Grass Grows By Itself 28 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHAT EXACTLY DO YOWL MEAN BY ‘CONSCIOUS IGNORANCE’? IS IT THE RECOGNITION THAT ONE IS ULTIMATELY, FUNDAMENTALLY IGNORANT? OR IS THERE MORE TO IT? Ashoka, conscious ignorance is not ignorance at all. It is the ultimate state of consciousness – how can it be ignorant?...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 Hail Great Scholar! 29 June 1978 am in Buddha Hall NAWAB MOHAMMED KHAN, JAN-FISHAN, WAS OUT WALKING IN DELHI ONE DAY WHEN HE CAME UPON A NUMBER OF PEOPLE SEEMINGLY ENGAGED IN AN ALTERCATION. HE ASKED A BYSTANDER, “WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?” THE MAN SAID, “SUBLIME HIGHNESS, ONE OF YOUR DISCIPLES IS OBJECTING TO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS QUARTER....