< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 La Illaha Ill Allah 11 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall A MAN CAME TO BAHAUDIN NAQSHBAND, AND SAID, “I HAVE TRAVELED FROM ONE TEACHER TO ANOTHER, AND I HAVE STUDIED MANY PATHS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE GIVEN ME GREAT BENEFITS AND MANY ADVANTAGES OF ALL KINDS. “I NOW WISH TO BE ENROLLED AS ONE OF YOUR DISCIPLES, SO THAT I MAY DRINK FROM THE WELL OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THUS MAKE MYSELF MORE AND MORE ADVANCED IN THE TARIQA, THE MYSTIC WAY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 No Lower, No Higher 20 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 DEAR MASTER, WHAT IS SIMPLICITY? Colin Doyle, simplicity is to live without ideals. Ideals create complexity; ideals create division in you and hence complexity. The moment you are interested in becoming somebody else you become complex. To be contented with yourself as you are is simplicity....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 The Lion And The Fox 21 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A FOX WHO MET A YOUNG RABBIT IN THE WOODS. THE RABBIT SAID, “WHAT ARE YOU?” THE FOX SAID, “I AM A FOX, AND I COULD EAT YOU UP IF I WANTED TO.” “HOW CAN YOU PROVE THAT YOU ARE A FOX?” ASKED THE RABBIT....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 The More Mysterious It Becomes 22 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS MYSTICISM? Mysticism is the experience that life is not logic, that life is poetry; that life is not syllogism, that life is a song. Mysticism is the declaration that life can never really be known; it is essentially unknowable. Science divides existence into two categories: the known and the unknown....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 The Mirror Goes On Reflecting 23 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall THEY ASKED FIRMANI, “HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT SUCH AND SUCH A MAN WAS VICIOUS? YOU REFUSED TO CONVERSE DEEPLY WITH HIM WHILE HE WAS HERE, ALTHOUGH EVERYONE SAID THAT HE WAS A SAINT.” FIRMANI SAID, “IF A STRANGER COMES TO ORDINARY MEN AND SAYS, ‘LIGHT IS MADE BY WEAVING....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 Forget The Dancer And Be The Dance 24 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, I KEEP MEETING PEOPLE WHO CAN SEE AURAS, AND I FEEL I AM MISSING. WHAT CAN I DO TO SHARE THIS SIGHT? Anand Buddha, God is not an experience. No experience as such is spiritual; all experiences are mind games. Beware of it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 Trust In The Master 25 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall IT IS RELATED THAT A MAN WENT TO THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MASTER BAQI-BILLAH OF DELHI AND SAID, “I HAVE BEEN READING THE FAMOUS VERSE OF THE MASTER HAFEZ, ‘IF YOUR TEACHER BIDS YOU STAIN YOUR PRAYER CARPET WITH WINE, OBEY HIM.’ BUT I HAVE A DIFFICULTY.” BAQI-BILLAH SAID, “DWELL APART FROM ME FOR SOME TIME AND I SHALL ILLUSTRATE THE MATTER FOR YOU....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 Now, Something Beyond The Machine 26 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, TO ME THE FUTURE OF THE EAST APPEARS BLEAK WHICHEVER WAY ONE LOOKS AT IT – EITHER POVERTY AND STARVATION THROUGH FATALISM, OR WESTERNIZATION THROUGH CAPITALISM – FOR IS IT NOT NECESSARY FOR THE EAST TO BECOME WEST BEFORE PEOPLE AGAIN BECOME INTERESTED IN THEIR INNER SEARCH?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Are You Willing To Be Made Nothing? 27 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall THERE WERE TWO MEN OF GREAT RENOWN AS TEACHERS OF THE RIGHT PATH. IBN HALIM RELATES THAT HE WENT FIRST TO SEE ONE OF THEM, WHOSE NAME WAS PIR ARDESHIR OF QAZWIN. HE SAID TO PIR ARDESHIR, “WILL YOU ADVISE ME AS TO WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 The Master Is A Metaphor 28 October 1978 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHY AM I SO MUCH AFRAID OF TWO GROUPS HERE, THE TANTRA AND THE ENCOUNTER? Man has always been afraid of two things, life and death. He is afraid of life because life brings death; he is afraid of death because death ends life....