< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Zen: The Koan of Life 27 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, DO YOU REALLY THINK ZEN IS FULL OF ZEST, ZIP, ZAP AND ZING? Samadhi, Zen is not a religion, it is living life in its totality, herenow. Religions are always postponing life: they are giving you beautiful illusions about life somewhere in the future, far away, beyond death....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Here and Now: The Only Time, The Only Place 5 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, CAN YOU THROW SOME LIGHT ON THE FEELING OF NOSTALGIA? FREUD CALLED IT REGRESSIVE AND A SEEKING OF THE WOMB. THIS DOES NOT SATISFY ME. SOMETIMES THE PERFUME OF A FLOWER, SOUNDS, A PLACE OR AN INCIDENT FROM CHILDHOOD, CAN EVOKE A FEW SECONDS OF FEELING AND YEARNING THAT ARE SO SAD AND SO SWEET, IT CAN CHOKE ME WITH ITS INTENSITY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Man: The Call of the Eternal 6 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS IT TO BE A MAN? Prem Agama, It is one of the most difficult questions to ask – difficult because it cannot be answered. It cannot be answered because it is not really a question but a quest. Questions are simple, they can be easily answered, but a quest is a challenge, it is an adventure....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Life: Let it have it’s Dance 7 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I HAVE HELD MYSELF ALOOF, SEPARATE AND ISOLATED, AND I HAVE THEREFORE BEEN PROTECTED FROM PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS. MY INNERMOST FEAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT IF I OPENED MY HEART TOTALLY THE VAST LOVE THAT I FEEL WOULD RUSH OUT LIKE WATER FROM AN OVERFLOWING WELL AND BE LOST, DIVERTED OR REJECTED....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Godliness: An Experience of Immense Joy 8 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, WHY DO I WANT PEOPLE TO ADMIRE ME? WHY DO I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THAT ONLY VERY SENSITIVE AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE CAN ASK SUCH A QUESTION? WHY DO I WANT YOU TO TELL ME THAT YOU WERE ONLY WAITING FOR ME TO SAVE THE WORLD?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 The Child: Father to the Man 9 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, DOES A CHILD NOT HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CONDITIONING AS THE PARENTS THEMSELVES EXPECT? D. M. Silvera, It is one of the most fundamental problems facing humanity today. The future depends on how we solve this problem....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 15 The Philousia 10 January 1981 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO VIMALKIRTI? Arup, Nothing is happening to Vimalkirti – exactly nothing, because nothing is nirvana. The West has no idea of the beauty of nothingness. The whole Western attitude is extrovert, oriented towards things, oriented towards actions. ‘Nothing’ sound like emptiness – it is not so....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 Innocence: Lost and Found Again 28 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE? Prem Pramod, There is no heaven anywhere, it is here. It is always here, it is never there. It is always now, it is never then. The very idea of heaven somewhere else – there, then – is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the heaven that surrounds you every moment....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 Sex, Love and Compassion: Seed, Flower and Fragrance 29 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 OSHO, I HAVE BEEN REFLECTING ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘FEELING SORRY’ FOR SOMEONE AND ‘HAVING COMPASSION’. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TO BE SORRY FOR SOMEONE HAS AN ELEMENT OF CONDESCENSION IN IT, AS IF YOU WERE SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER, AND THAT IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH LOVE, WHEREAS COMPASSION MUST BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF LOVING....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 Mind: An Expert Coward 30 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall Question 1 OSHO, MY UNCLE, PANDIT SATYAVRATA SIDDHANTALANKAR, WHO IS EIGHTY-TWO YEARS OLD, IS A GREAT ADMIRER OF YOURS. HE HAS COME AND STAYED FOR TWO WEEKS AT A STRETCH ON TWO SECRET OCCASIONS IN KOREGAON PARK JUST TO LISTEN TO YOUR DISCOURSES. PANDIT SATYAVRATA IS A NOTED HINDI SANSKRIT SCHOLAR AND HAS AUTHORED OVER SEVENTY-FIVE BOOKS ON SUBJECTS RANGING FROM THE UPANISHADS TO HOMEOPATHY....