The Sound Of One Hand Clapping

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 1 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103015 ShortTitle: CLAPP01 Audio: No Video: No mind is just the opposite of meditation it is the closing of the heart meditation is the opening of the heart man can live through the mind but then life will not have any significance any poetry, any song, any music it will be trivial, mundane, superficial ultimately frustrating...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 10 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103105 ShortTitle: CLAPP10 Audio: No Video: No meditation transforms you into a beloved of the whole existence as the meditator becomes centred, silent, aware the whole existence starts converging upward the same world but no more the same before it was cold, alien now it is cosy, a home a man without meditation...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 11 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103115 ShortTitle: CLAPP11 Audio: No Video: No man lives in a deep anguish for the simple reason that he has not the courage to merge with the whole he is afraid hence he creates all kinds of defenses barriers, walls he is afraid of losing his identity and that is the greatest fear in the world and just the opposite is the case with courage courage means readiness to lose one's identity the moment you lose your identity all anguish, anxiety disappears then the whole takes over...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 12 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103125 ShortTitle: CLAPP12 Audio: No Video: No truth cannot be achieved by human efforts because all human efforts are bound to originate in the mind and mind is the barrier between truth and consciousness the mind has to be put aside that's what man is capable of doing not using the mind, putting the mind aside by-passing the mind, transcending the mind and the moment the mind is not functioning consciousness immediately becomes connected with the truth...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 13 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103135 ShortTitle: CLAPP13 Audio: No Video: No love and life are synonymous in language they may have different meanings but in existence they are precisely the same phenomenon no difference, no gap exists between the two the really alive person is pure love and if love is missing then life is nothing but a vegetation one can go on vegetating...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 14 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103145 ShortTitle: CLAPP14 Audio: No Video: No mind is a coward, mind is basically fear-oriented it is always suspicious always doubting, always on guard mind creates a situation in which you feel a stranger to existence because of all those suspicions that mistrust disconnects one from all that is and then there arises a vicious circle the more you feel lonely, an outsider the more afraid you become because the vast universe seems to be inimical this is mind's projection...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 15 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103155 ShortTitle: CLAPP15 Audio: No Video: No man lives in a state of turmoil for the simple reason that he is divided into many fragments and all those fragments are fighting to dominate man has not got one self, he has got many selves the idea of one mind is very false man is poly-psychic: he is many minds he is a crowd and of course the crowd cannot be peaceful there is continuous competition each fragment trying to come up on the top there is great politics in everybody's inner world unless this whole politics ceases there is no possibility of peace at the most people can manage just a facade of peace, just on the surface but deep down they are boiling deep down there is always war sometimes hot, sometimes cold, but no peace in fact the only way to be peaceful is to help all these fragments melt into oneness unless that integration happens one can befool others that one is living in peace 1/08/07...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 16 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103165 ShortTitle: CLAPP16 Audio: No Video: No 1/08/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- love needs great courage for the simple reason that the basic requirement of love is to drop the ego and man is very afraid of dropping the ego it seems almost like committing suicide it only seems so because we don't know anything other than the ego ego has become our only identity and to drop it certainly means you are dropping your individuality it is not true...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 17 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103175 ShortTitle: CLAPP17 Audio: No Video: No one thing very significant to be remembered is 1/08/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- that contentment does not mean satisfaction satisfaction is pseudo contentment deep down there is discontentment satisfaction is only a cover-up, it is a mind trick otherwise life would become impossible if the wound of discontentment is continuously there...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter title: None‌ 18 March 1981 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Archive code: 8103185 ShortTitle: CLAPP18 Audio: No Video: No the moment one becomes blissful one becomes simultaneously 1/08/07 Copyright Osho International Foundation 1994 Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- a beloved of the whole existence the miserable remains separate from the whole misery creates a kind of boundary it creates a prison...