Discourses on the Treatise of St. Dionysius
Talks given from 11/08/80 am to 25/08/80 am English Discourse series
1 2 God is a Ventriloquist3 True Life4 Mystical Unknowing5 Man's is Life's Invention6 7 Translucent Darkness8 The Real Magic9 I laughed10 11 The Real Alcoholics12 13 Neither This Nor That14 Understanding is Enough15
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 5 Man’s is Life’s Invention 15 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, TO WHAT EXTENT DOES LIFE HAVE RELEVANCE TO LOGIC? Mavji Savla, LOGIC is a very small thing, life is vast. Logic is utilitarian, it is an invention of man. Life is non-utilitarian, it is not an invention of man; on the contrary, man is life’s invention....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 6 16 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING AN INDIVIDUAL AND JUST BEING STUBBORN Yoga Prem, THE DIFFERENCE is immense – it is absolutely unbridgeable. Two things will have to be understood: one is personality and the second is individuality. We ordinarily don’t have individuality at all. That’s what Gurdjieff means when he says it is very rare to find a person who has a soul....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 7 Translucent Darkness 17 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall WE LONG EXCEEDINGLY TO DWELL IN THIS TRANSLUCENT DARKNESS, AND THROUGH NOT SEEING AND NOT KNOWING TO SEE AND TO KNOW HIM WHO IS BEYOND BOTH VISION AND KNOWLEDGE – BY THE VERY FACT OF NEITHER SEEING HIM NOR KNOWING HIM. FOR THIS IS TRULY TO SEE AND TO KNOW, AND, THROUGH THE ABANDONMENT OF ALL THINGS, TO PRAISE HIM WHO IS BEYOND ALL ABOVE ALL....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 8 The Real Magic 18 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, I UNDERSTAND YOU SAID THE OTHER DAY IN THE LECTURE THAT JESUS DID NOT WALK ON WATER AND THERE ARE NO MIRACLES AS SUCH. BUT BY PRACTICING THE SAMYAMA ON PATANJALI’S UDANA SUTRA, IS NOT MAN ABLE TO DO THIS? PLEASE COMMENT. Anand Guenter, I SAY again that there are no miracles as such, because the whole existence is a miracle....
< Previous | Contents | Next > CHAPTER 9 I laughed 19 August 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, I AM DEEPLY CONVINCED THAT OUR WAY IS TO DROP THE EGO, TO COME BACK TO OUR POTENTIAL OF SENSUALITY AND EMOTIONAL SENSITIVITY, AND TO INCREASE IN TOTAL AWARENESS. I NEVERTHELESS HAVE DIFFICULTY IN COMPREHENDING THAT SPIRITUAL CREATIVITY SHOULD NOT BE AN ORIGINAL PART OF OURSELF. AGAINST THIS I REALIZE THAT THE CREATIVE SPIRIT IS HAPPENING HERE AND THAT NEW FORMS OF LIFE HAVE BEEN CREATED IN POONA....