< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 28 28 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, eberhard means brave. Love is the most courageous quality of human consciousness, because love can risk all. It is the very centre of courage, because it can even encounter death. The man of fear cannot love and cannot even allow anybody to love him. The man who can love and can allow himself to be loved, slowly slowly forgets what fear is; fear becomes a forgotten language....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful; raphael is Hebrew, it means healed by god, or a divine healer, or a medicine of god. Raphael is also the name of one of the angels, one of the four angels that surround god’s throne. He represents one dimension of god’s being. Existence is four-dimensional. Three dimensions are very visible, the fourth dimension is invisible....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, tim is a short form of Timotheus. It is a Greek name; it means worshipping god, honouring god. And bliss is possible only if you become related with the existence in a personal way. That’s what the word ‘god’ implies – a personal relationship with existence. The person who does not believe in god does believe in existence but there is no personal bridge, there is no love affair....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand is Sanskrit, it means bliss or blissful. Arno is Teutonic. it means the eagle. Anand Arno will mean: the blissful eagle. It is a message. Plotinus says: The search for god is a flight of the alone to the alone. It is a flight, and it is the greatest flight there is, because you are not simply changing one place for another, you are changing one space for another....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; leon is Latin, it means lion, or lionlike. Love is the greatest courage, because it needs total sacrifice. It wants you to die so that you can be reborn. It is a death and the beginning of an eternal life; but death is first, hence the courage needed. One has to be really lionlike, ready to take the risk....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love. Asa is Hebrew; it means healed by god. God heals, all healing is through god, god is the only healer: all those meanings are involved in it. Prem Asa will mean: the god of love heals. Prem means love. Simone is Hebrew; it means god has heard. Prem Simone will mean: love that has been heard by god....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, the ultimate state of consciousness where no content exists, not even a ripple of experience. Where all experiences have been dissolved, where only the experiencer is without any experience, that state is of bliss. There is no happiness, no unhappiness, because they are all experiences, they come from the outside. They are all disturbances....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love. Christina is Greek, it is from Christ. Christ is Greek for messiah, the one who has arrived; it is exactly the equivalent of the Buddha. We are in the journey. Life is a pilgrimage, and only very few have arrived at the goal. These few are called the messiahs, the Buddhas, the Christs....