Responses to Disciples Questions
Talks given from 11/02/81 am to 24/02/81 am English Discourse series
1 And Escape to Reality2 Religion is Rebellion3 Ecstatic All the Way4 Soul-living by Loving5 Pure Non-Zense6 Still Believing in Leprechauns?7 Life's Complementariness8 When Ignorance Becomes Luminous9 Bon Voyage Baby!10 The Dignity of the Poor?11 No Higher, No Lower12 Back to the Garden13 The Immediate is the Ultimate14 The Bird has Flown
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 1 And Escape to Reality 11 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR SANNYASINS AND FRIENDS GATHERING AT THE CAFE ROYAL, LONDON, FOR THE “MARCH EVENT”? ANAND POONAM, SANNYAS IS A REBELLION against both the past and the future. Man has either lived in the past or in the future, but never in the present....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 10 The Dignity of the Poor? 20 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, THE LATEST FROM THE POPE: “DEFENDING THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF THE POOR AND THEIR HOPE FOR A HUMAN FUTURE IS NOT A LUXURY FOR THE CHURCH, NOR IS IT A STRATEGY OF OPPORTUNISM, NOR A MEANS FOR CURRYING FAVOR WITH THE MASSES. IT IS HER DUTY....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 11 No Higher, No Lower 21 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, “HOLIER-THAN-THOU” SEEMS TO BE MY LIFELONG MANTRA. GROWING UP AS A CATHOLIC, I THANKED GOD DAILY THAT I WAS A PART OF THE ONE TRUE RELIGION. AS A CATHOLIC NUN I KNEW I HAD “MADE IT”. NOW, AS A SANNYASIN, I OBSERVE THOSE SAME ATTITUDES AND JUDGMENTS HAPPENING AT EVERY TURN....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 12 Back to the Garden 22 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, CATHOLICISM, MOHAMMEDANISM, HINDUISM, JAINISM AND BUDDHISM, WHICH ARE THE MOST “RELIGIOUS” OF RELIGIONS, SEEM MOST CONCERNED ABOUT PURITY, CLEANLINESS AND SEXUAL ABSTINENCE. YET, THE PRESIDE OVER THE MOST UNHYGIENIC, MALNOURISHED AND MISERABLE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH. IS THERE A CONNECTION? DEVARAJ, THERE IS CERTAINLY AND ABSOLUTELY a tremendous connection....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 13 The Immediate is the Ultimate 23 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, I AM NOT A SANNYASIN, AND I AM VISITING THE ASHRAM FOR A SHORT PERIOD. I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT IS DONE HERE, BUT THERE IS ONE QUESTION THAT I CANNOT AVOID ASKING. THE THEORY IS NICE, BUT FROM THE DOZENS OF SANNYASINS WITH WHOM I HAVE SPOKEN, NOBODY COULD SAY, “I HAVE FOUND THE WAY, I AM PROCEEDING, AND I AM SURE ONE DAY I WILL BE ABLE TO STAND ON MY OWN FEET....
< Previous | Contents CHAPTER 14 The Bird has Flown 24 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, THE DUTCH TELEVISION HAS ASKED ME TO PARTICIPATE IN A PROGRAM. ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ON WHICH THEY WANT ME TO SPEAK IS AS FOLLOWS: WHAT IS LACKING IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES THAT IS ATTRACTING SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE TO THE NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS? DEVA OJAS, The christ is missing....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 2 Religion is Rebellion 12 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, I HAVE HEARD THAT THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR, HELMUT SCHMIDT, DECLARED ON TELEVISION THAT SANNYASINS WERE VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE FOR THE STATE AND SOCIETY, AND SHOULD NOT BE ENGAGED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE OR BY RESPECTABLE COMPANIES ANY MORE. LOTS OF GERMANS ARE TELEVISION-WATCHERS AND BEHAVE ACCORDING TO WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAY....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 3 Ecstatic All the Way 13 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WOULD YOU PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ON THE FOLLOWING WORDS OF THE POET, KAHLIL GIBRAN: “WHEN LOVE BECKONS TO YOU, FOLLOW HIM. LOVE POSSESSES NOT NOR WOULD IT BE POSSESSED, FOR LOVE IS SUFFICIENT UNTO LOVE. LOVE HAS NO DESIRE BUT TO FULFILL ITSELF.” ANIL BHARTI,...
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 4 Soul-living by Loving 14 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, WHY IS HUGGING SUCH AN INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC TOOL? P.S. I USED TO THINK THAT CLARITY, WIT AND ANALYSIS WAS THE WAY, BUT THEY ARE ALL GARBAGE ALONGSIDE HUGGING. PREM AMIDA, MAN NEEDS TO BE NEEDED. It is one of the most fundamental needs of human beings....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Pure Non-Zense 15 February 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question: Question 1 OSHO, PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST AND TELL US WHAT IT COULD BE. I HAVE ALWAYS HEARD IT BEING COMMENTED UPON WITH GREAT FEAR AND WITH NO EXPLANATION. PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS AND YET THEY FEAR IT. JOSEFINA, THE PRIEST HAS LIVED AS A PARASITE; he has been sucking people’s blood....