< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Once Upon a Time 1 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COW. IN ALL THE WORLD THERE WAS NO ANIMAL WHICH SO REGULARLY GAVE SO MUCH MILK OF SUCH HIGH QUALITY. PEOPLE CAME FROM FAR AND WIDE TO SEE THIS WONDER. THE COW WAS EXTOLLED BY ALL. FATHERS TOLD THEIR CHILDREN OF ITS DEDICATION TO ITS APPOINTED TALKS....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 10 Exactly in the Middle 10 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 YOU MAKE IT ALL SOUND SO EASY. BUT IS IT? IS IT REALLY? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE WHOLE THING IS OUT OF OUR HANDS. WE HAVE NO MORE CHOICE TO SURRENDER THAN TO BE IN THE EGO. I LIVE MY LIFE AND SOME DAYS I’M HAPPY AND SOME DAYS I’M SAD, BUT I’M NOT ENLIGHTENED....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 There is no Self, no Other 2 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MASTER AND A PSYCHOTHERAPIST? A MASTER IS NOT: A PSYCHOTHERAPIST IS. The Master is a hollow bamboo, a mere passage, for the divine to descend. He is not on his own. He has nothing to say, he has nothing to do – but much happens through him....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 Out of Context 3 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall A CERTAIN SUFI TEACHER WAS EXPLAINING HOW A FALSE SUFI HAD BEEN UNMASKED. “A REAL SUFI SENT ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES TO SERVE HIM. THE DISCIPLE WAITED ON THE IMPOSTER HAND AND FOOT, DAY AND NIGHT. PRESENTLY EVERYONE BEGAN TO SEE HOW THE FRAUD LOVED THESE ATTENTIONS, AND PEOPLE DESERTED HIM UNTIL HE WAS COMPLETELY ALONE....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 How Can You Deceive? 4 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WHY DO I FEEL SO CLOSE AND SO DISTANT FROM YOU AT THE SAME TIME? VIDYA, IT IS SO, YOU ARE CLOSE AND YOU ARE DISTANT, and at the same time. Your being is close, but your dreaming is not close and cannot be close....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 Love Needs No Time 5 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall A SCHOLAR SAID TO A SUFI, “YOU SUFIS OFTEN SAY THAT OUR LOGICAL QUESTIONS ARE INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO YOU. CAN YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEY SEEM LIKE TO YOU?” THE SUFI SAID, “HERE IS SUCH AN EXAMPLE. I WAS ONCE TRAVELLING BY TRAIN AND WE WENT THROUGH SEVEN TUNNELS....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 Be Rejoiced in Me 6 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 WHAT IS IT TO BE MASTER OF ONE’S SEXUAL ENERGY? VEERESHWAR, TO THINK IN TERMS OF DUALITY IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. To divide yourself in two is to move towards a split. You are one! How can there be a master and a slave? The very idea is poison....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 The Lion’s Roar 7 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall AT THE TIME OF KING MAHMUD, THE CONQUEROR OF GHAZNA, THERE LIVED A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF HAIDAR ALI JAN. HIS FATHER, ISKANDAR KHAN, DECIDED TO OBTAIN FOR HIM THE PATRONAGE OF THE EMPEROR, AND HE SENT HIM TO STUDY SPIRITUAL MATTERS UNDER THE GREATEST SAGES OF THE TIME....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 The Bell Tolls for Thee 8 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 YOU HAVE SPOKEN EXTENSIVELY ON KNOWLEDGE. KINDLY EXPLAIN THE THINGS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEING. ANAND VEETRAG, BEING NEVER DEVELOPS. BEING SIMPLY IS. There is no evolution. There is no time involved in it. It is eternity. It is not becoming. Spiritually, you never develop, you cannot....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 A Stranger to Yourself 9 July 1978 am in Buddha Hall IT IS RELATED THAT THE SUFI MASTER, IBRAHIM BEN ADAM, WAS SITTING ONE DAY IN A FOREST CLEARING WHEN TWO WANDERING DERVISHES APPROACHED HIM. HE MADE THEM WELCOME, AND THEY TALKED OF SPIRITUAL MATTERS UNTIL IT WAS DUSK. AS SOON AS NIGHT FELL, IBRAHIM INVITED THE TRAVELLERS TO BE HIS GUESTS AT A MEAL....