The Transmission of the Lamp

Talks given from 26/05/86 pm to 18/06/86 am English Discourse series

1 The animals must all be laughing 2 A whole glass of water 3 True balance 4 Spreading a net of perfume 5 The very foundation for one world 6 Pure consciousness has never gone mad 7 The caravan became bigger and bigger 8 Change is the law of life 9 Get in tune with the essence 10 When the heart is ready the guest comes 11 Footprints in the sky 12 Laughter is the highest spiritual quality 13 Boots, flesh, marrow, and...,14 The greatest surgery possible 15 : There are times when you need the open sky 16 When it is ripe, the heart opens 17 If you live totally, once is enough 18 You just have to gather courage 19 Don't miss the head 20 The revenge of the pygmies 21 Spice in buddha's pot 22 Man has suffered enough 23 Nothing but a dead skeleton 24 Souls are not male or female 25 Bravo, America!26 Cut the social crap completely 27 Go on, go on!28 Unless your feet are holy...29 Just like ripe fruit 30 This chair is empty 31 I am an adamant optimist 32 Water into wine is not the real miracle 33 I need your intelligence, not your surrender 34 Truth cannot be humiliated 35 Worship may be a worse crucifixion 36 And if the song bursts forth...37 There is no power which is higher than love 38 Base humanity into golden humanity 39 Donkeys carrying great scriptures 40 In this mood of festivity all rules are put aside 41 The salt of the earth 42 Reality is far richer than imagination 43 The monkey is dead 44 The very perfume of love 45 I am the only challenge 46 Energy moves better when it is warmer

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19 Don\'t miss the head

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 Don’t miss the head 4 June 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, A VERY REVEALING INCIDENT OCCURRED RECENTLY. IN THE WAKE OF THE SO-CALLED “GIANT STEP FOR MANKIND,” WHEN THE FIRST ASTRONAUT SET FOOT ON THE MOON, THE AMERICANS HAVE CONTINUED THEIR SPACE EXPLORATION, NOW WITH THE REUSABLE SHUTTLE. SUDDENLY, A LITTLE WHILE AGO, THIS 2.3-BILLION-DOLLAR SPACECRAFT BLEW UP IN THE SKY, KILLING ALL SEVEN PASSENGERS....

2 A whole glass of water

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 A whole glass of water 27 May 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IN THE OLDEN DAYS IT WAS CALLED MELANCHOLIA; TODAY IT IS CALLED DEPRESSION, AND IT COUNTS AS ONE OF THE MAJOR PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. IT IS DESCRIBED AS A SENSE OF DESPAIR OR HOPELESSNESS, A LACK OF SELF-ESTEEM WITH NO ENTHUSIASM OR INTEREST IN THE SURROUNDINGS....

20 The revenge of the pygmies

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 The revenge of the pygmies 5 June 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IT SEEMS THAT THE IMPLICATIONS OF GURDJIEFF’S WORK WERE AS REVOLUTIONARY, AS THREATENING TO THE STATUS QUO, AS YOURS. MANY OF HIS METHODS WERE UNEQUIVOCALLY OUTRAGEOUS, YET IT SEEMS HE WAS NEVER REPORTED IN THE LOCAL RAGS AS RUNNING A CAMP FOR SLAVE LABOR, DISRUPTING PUBLIC TRANSPORT, BEING A MENACE ON THE ROADS OR BEING THE INSTIGATOR OF RIOTOUS BACCHANALIAN ORGIES....

21 Spice in buddha\'s pot

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 Spice in buddha’s pot 5 June 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, BODHIDHARMA ADDED A SPICE TO BUDDHA’S COOKING, WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME ZEN. WHO ELSE HAS THROWN SPICE IN BUDDHA’S POT? The number is really vast. Buddhism in itself became a world of philosophy – not just a philosophy, but a source of many philosophies because it spread all over Asia, meeting with different cultures, different people, different philosophies....

22 Man has suffered enough

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 Man has suffered enough 6 June 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, EACH NEW ERA OF THE LAST FEW CENTURIES HAS AFTER A SLOW START EMERGED VERY SUDDENLY – THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE ERA OF COMMUNICATIONS ARE TWO OBVIOUS EXAMPLES. BEING WITH YOU I ALWAYS HAVE THE FEELING THAT WE ARE SITTING AROUND A WARM COSY FIRESIDE, AT THE FEET OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIRE, WHILE ALL AROUND ARE THE HOWLS OF AGONY AT THE ICY WORLD EVERYBODY ELSE IS ENDURING....

23 Nothing but a dead skeleton

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 Nothing but a dead skeleton 6 June 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE WAY THAT DIFFERENT BUDDHIST MASTERS HAVE BEEN ADDING THEIR OWN FLAVOR TO BUDDHA’S TEACHING, I STARTED WONDERING WHETHER THERE WILL EVER BE ANYBODY ADDING A NEW FLAVOR TO YOUR POT. IT LOOKS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO ADD A NEW SPICE TO SOMETHING WHICH ALREADY CONTAINS ALL THE SPICES WHICH CAN BE FOUND ON THIS EARTH....

24 Souls are not male or female

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 Souls are not male or female 7 June 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, I LOVE HEARING THE STORIES OF THE OLD MASTERS AND THEIR DISCIPLES. IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL TO FEEL THE ESSENCE OF THOSE SMALL OASES OF CONSCIOUSNESS – WHICH CENTURIES OF RELIGION HAVE SINCE COVERED IN THE DUST OF DOGMA AND DECEIT. BUT STILL, AS I LOOK AT US SITTING HERE, FEELING THE JOY, THE SILENCE, THE TEARS, THE LAUGHTER, I SUSPECT THERE IS SOMETHING PRESENT THAT NO MASTER MAY EVER HAVE EVOKED BEFORE....

25 Bravo, America!

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 Bravo, America! 7 June 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, MAHAVIRA WAS THE TWENTY-FOURTH TIRTHANKARA OF THE JAINA RELIGION. DID THE JAINA RELIGION START WITH THE VERY FIRST TIRTHANKARA OR WITH MAHAVIRA? AND WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘JAINA’? The word ‘Jaina’ has a very beautiful meaning, just like the word ‘Buddha’. Buddha means the awakened one....

26 Cut the social crap completely

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 Cut the social crap completely 8 June 1986 am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, YESTERDAY I WAS TOLD THAT I AM INTELLIGENT. I FELT AS IF I HAD BEEN CALLED SOMETHING TERRIBLE... AS IF IT WAS EVEN DANGEROUS. WOULD YOU PLEASE SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE FEAR OF INTELLIGENCE? Avirbhava, to feel terrible for being called “intelligent” proves you really to be intelligent....

27 Go on, go on!

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 Go on, go on! 8 June 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, IN HOMER’S GREAT EPIC STORIES, THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY, HE DESCRIBES ULYSSES’ VOYAGE HOMEWARD WHEN HIS SHIP SAILS NEAR THE ISLAND OF THE LOTUS- EATERS. THE SIREN’S SONG WAFTS ACROSS THE OCEAN, HYPNOTIZING THE SAILORS AND CAUSING THEM TO STEER OFF THEIR COURSE TOWARDS THE SENSUOUS SOUND....