< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 28 31 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, jen means a white wave – a white wave of bliss. White is not a single colour: white is all colours together, all colours in a symphony. That’s what creates white – all colours in such deep harmony that they lose their individuality in something total and higher. White is multi- dimensional. And it is the colour of bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, darshano means insight. They say that love is blind; I say that only love is not blind. The person who lives without love lives in blindness and in darkness. His ears hear not but only translate. His eyes don’t see but impose. His mind does not understand but only interprets. His whole life is phoney....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, jurgen means a farmer. Life is an opportunity, just a seed. One can miss it, one can remain a seed; that will be the missing of the opportunity. One has to seek the right soil. One has to be a farmer; One has to learn how to grow. All that is needed in farming is needed in inner growth too: the right soil, the right season, protection for the new sprouts, the right quantity of water and sun and air, and not too much protection; that is the most important thing, because too much protection will not be helpful, it will be harmful....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, ariel means a lion of god... and each sannyasin has to become a lion. There are two many sheep in the world, and the world needs individuals. It needs really free people, because only out of freedom do flowers of love, bliss, arise. Prem means love, janaina means god’s gift. Love is the gift of god, the greatest gift....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Rick Atmo. Rick means a powerful ruler, atmo means your own self. One can rule others or one can rule oneself. To rule others is a poor substitute, because the real ruler is one who rules himself. Because it is arduous to rule oneself, people have chosen the cheaper thing; the cheaper thing is to rule others....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, andy means manly. The past has been very male chauvinistic, so anything manly was praised very much. The woman was thought to be not really human. In China, one could kill one’s wife and it was not a crime. No court would take any note of it; it was a private affair....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas to two small children] Prem means love, dylan means sea, ocean. Prem Dylan will mean ocean of love. Create such huge love... as the ocean, boundless, without any shore. Prem means love, emmet means work. Let your work be your love; do everything very lovingly. Work is worship. [The father of the children says he is a bit upset because his wife was unable to enter the darshan due to a fragrance....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Laila is from a symbolic Sufi story. Sufis believe that god is the beloved, that god is the woman, and that the seeker is the lover. The story of Laila and Majnu represents the seeker and the sought. Majnu is the seeker, Laila is the beloved; Laila represents god. It is one of the most beautiful stories, but it has lost its message....