This Is It

Talks given from 01/05/77 pm to 31/05/77 pm Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, nishavda means unuttered, unspoken, wordless, soundless – unuttered love, unspoken love, love without any word interfering with it. The tendency of the mind is to analyse, to interpret, to express, and in that very effort much is lost. Love is something which cannot be uttered. You can be love but you cannot say what it is....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and dhyana means the state of meditation – divine state of meditation. The word ‘meditation’ is not as adequate as dhyana, because nothing like dhyana has ever existed in the West so no western language has any appropriate word for it. Meditation comes closest but still misses the target. Meditation means contemplation, to think about, and dhyana means not thinking at all, just being....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin said that he only came to visit a friend and decided to stay.] One never knows! And that’s the beauty of life – that there is always surprise and there is always the unexpected... and because the unexpected happens there is joy, excitement, ecstasy. Whenever only the expected starts happening, joy dies....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 30 30 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is leaving says she has been feeling very open towards Osho but says that just now, as she is leaving, she feels closed and is sad that she is leaving feeling like this. Osho reassures her that her heart is open.] That happens many times, because the heart and the mind have become almost disconnected, so whatsoever happens in the heart, the mind does not take note of it, it neglects it....

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< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 31 31 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he wants to be able to open up more to Osho and to other people. Osho tells him that any effort to be open makes you more closed. You can’t do openness.… The sannyasin explains: I don’t say anything that I mean in conversation, I don’t seem to be direct. If I want to say one thing I end up saying something else – something not related to what I wanted to say....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva guhen.And the heart is just a divine cave. The heart does not consist of the lungs only. The lungs are the centre of the body, life circulates through the lungs, but hidden somewhere behind the lungs is the cave where you live, where god livesBecause you and god are not two separate...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, suman means a flower – a blissful flower. And remember that man is also a tree and has roots. They are invisible but they are there. We are as much rooted as any tree. Certainly our earth is different – our earth is our past, the whole past of humanity is our earth; it is there we are rooted....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, returned from the West, says she is not ready to live in the West. She has a strong desire to be loved, feels a desperation that she hasn’t been loved. Osho says that is one of the basic problems that touches everyone] .… because we live in a society which is absolutely loveless, so everybody is hungry for love, desperately hungry, dying for it, starving....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says his parents have asked him to guarantee that if ever the need arises, he will return to Italy to be with them for a few months. He is an only child and sees his parents regularly each year, but his relationship with both of them is heavy. Osho says if this is all they are asking, then he should give them the guarantee they want from him....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 May 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and hara is a japanese name for the centre just below the navel, two inches below the navel... and becoming aware of this centre is going to help you tremendously, so the more you abide there, the better. Whenever you have nothing to do, just sit silently and move inside and fall into the stomach – just two inches below the navel – and remain there....