< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌1 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, nastiko means no – beyond no-saying. The religions in the past have been teaching people a kind of negative attitude. The old religions depend on the don’t: don’t do this, don’t do that. Their whole approach is: How to negate life? They think that by negating life they will be a coming closer to god, and that is just absurd....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Jesus says again and again: Unless you are like a child you will not enter into my kingdom of god. The child has something which the grown-up loses; that something has to be regained. The child has some qualities of paradise. Once you start growing up you start losing paradise; that paradise has to be regained....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, marga, in Sanskrit, means the way... beyond the way. The outward journey needs a way, the inward needs no way at all. If you want to go to the moon, there is distance, and the distance has to be covered by a way. But if you want to go into your own being there is no distance at all; you are already there....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, nishedh means negation – beyond the negation, beyond the negative, beyond the no. The mind exists as a no, the heart exists as a yes. That’s the difference between the mind and the heart. The whole climate of the mind consists of nos and nos. It cannot say yes, it is impotent in saying yes....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sandip means a lamp – a divine lamp. The light is already there – it has not to be created; it is inborn, innate. But it has to be discovered. All that is needed is a deep penetration into one’s own being. One has to make an arrow of one’s consciousness so that the arrow can go to the very target of one’s heart, and there is the light of all lights....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, santap means anguish – beyond anguish. Anguish is one of the most fundamental problems of the human mind. Man exists in anguish, man is anguish, a constant anxiety, a constant feeling of falling apart, a constant fear of being torn. No other animal in existence lives in such anguish. All other animals are at peace with themselves, except for man....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, nijo means individuality. Individuality is your essential core. Individuality is not your personality. Personality is given to you by the family, the society, culture; individuality is that which you bring into the world – that is your original face. The individuality gets lost in many layers of personality, and a man has many personalities....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, lolit means moved by – moved by the divine, moved by god. God always comes as a great stirring in the heart. God always comes as a tremendous movement in the being, because god is energy and because god is creativity. God comes as a dance, god comes and possesses you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Baba has three meanings. One is: the small child, the innocent child, the child who cannot yet speak, because the moment a child starts speaking he is no more a child; he has become part of civilisation. Language is the world of civilisation; it is language that makes man different from animals. If language disappears then man will be just as one of the animals; there will be no distinction....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had sent Osho some photos of his stone sculptures; stone arrangements.] I looked at your stone sculpture – beautiful! In the new commune you will have to do a few things. When the new commune is ready you have to plan a small place for your statues. Just make as many Buddhas as possible!...