A Cup of Tea (88)
Osho continues to explain the alchemical secrets of places of holy pilgrimage, here with reference to the tirthankaras. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 2 of 9. “A tirthankara is a greater phenomenon than an incarnation.”
Samudaya’s sannyas darshan. “Sat means being, samudaya means arising. Up to now you have lived as a becoming, as a desire: doing this, doing that, trying for this, trying for that. You have never given yourself any rest in being.”
“That’s how the ego exists. We magnify our virtues, we magnify our sins, we magnify everything,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
“These people who are in power are almost on the brink of destroying the world, rather than lose their power. “
Osho speaks about the alchemical secrets of places of holy pilgrimage. From ‘Hidden Mysteries’, Ch 2, Part 1 of 9 – “A tirtha, a sacred place of pilgrimage, is a unique invention, very deep and symbolic, made by an ancient civilization.”
Q: Osho, when I dropped my job as a political reporter in order to come to Poona, some of my friends who are engaged in the struggle against atomic war, atomic power, destruction of the environment, the dismantling of democratic freedoms, etcetera, called me an escapist. Sometimes I wonder if they are right. Are they?
“Why are you searching outside for the bliss that you have lost within?” asks Rabia about whom Osho says, “Rabia al-Adawiyya is one of the rarest women in the whole human history.” From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho speaks about the Nadabrahma meditation in a darshan, “Let the body get drunk, let the mind get drunk, let them fall into a deep love-affair with each other, and you slip out of it.”
Osho declares him as one of the Western minds who has come very close to the Eastern way of looking at things.
“You cannot hoard flowers, that is one of the most beautiful things about flowers,” says Osho. From our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Beloved Osho, There are sannyasins living all over the world who feel a deep connection with you. However, on celebration days there is always that longing to be in your silent presence in Buddha Hall.
Osho has spoken many times lovingly about Dr. S.K. Saxena, one of his professors at the University of Jabalpur during the 1950s.
Osho says: “The problem is that, because you have repressed your tears of sadness, misery, pain — when you are joyful, rejoicing, then too your old repression continues; you go on holding your tears.”
Q: Looking at myself and others here, is it possible there have been others like us – such as Buddha’s disciples? Were they amazed and did they find themselves laughing at how greedy, cunning, inept they appeared and how absolutely unlike what they thought a sannyasin to be – or do we take the cake?
In view that Osho Chairs are now being established, we are publishing a discourse Osho gave on December 23, 1967 in Lonavala, India.
Q: If the whole history of the world were condensed into one year, with us standing at the end of that vast year, it would look something like this:
Beloved Master,
After two years here, I had heard Bodhidharma’s laughter. I never heard him again. Is he still around?
Osho tells a rare account of a second meeting between Alexander and Diogenes, published here in the series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Osho talks on Laughter: “The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it.”
Ashoka created a group which is still existing – a group of nine persons. Whenever a person dies, another replaces him, so the group still continues.
Beloved Master, You always said that women are better than men as far as ruling and governing people is concerned.
Beloved Master, Why have you always emphasized that women are better than men in ruling and administration, taking care? Is that what you experience in your commune or is it only a theory?
Osho speaks on the ways of the world to fill the inner vacuum, in the series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
Beloved Osho,
My fear around your vision of the birth of the new man through test-tubes and genetic engineering comes not from the technology itself, but from fear of who might control the technology.
Osho speaks on acceptance and the Buddhist nun Rengetsu in our series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
This question has been hovering in me for years. A few times you have talked around it, but this has mystified me more, so please enlighten.
“People look into books, find out fragments, make philosophies out of fragments. That’s how all the religions have evolved, and all the theologies and all the philosophies. They are all fragmentary,” says Osho. Related story in the series 1001 Tales, compiled by Shanti.
We can learn much, seeing what is happening, and then we can think introspectively about other civilizations which have disappeared, either through war or through calamities which apparently look natural.
Man is so miserable, that he wants to forget his misery in any kind of entertainment, howsoever stupid it may look to those who have a little intelligence.
You can go on moving backwards, and you will find everything that has happened in existence up to now, had to happen for you to happen.
What exists? There are so many layers. If one is only aware of the surface, then matter exists. Matter is the surface of existence.
Gramya: I would like to ask about prayer, because I was taught as a child to pray and the prayer was of thanksgiving.
Neeraj is going back to Devon, England. She is unsure whether to spend her time travelling around England, or starting a meditation centre where she lives.
So now scientists are almost in the hands of the politicians. … The world has to be one, and it has to be governed by creative people, not by politicians.
Okay. The first book I am going to talk about in this P.P.S. is one nobody would think I would ever talk about.
Beloved Osho,
What is healthy journalism? Can journalism survive on positive news? Please explain your vision on the responsibility of the media.
Beloved Osho,
The longing for a better life, for a utopia, has been constantly in man’s mind since he became aware of his consciousness. On the other hand he became more and more afraid of all his irrational powers. Can you please comment?
I have come to know, Devageet, that you freaked out this morning. Once in a while freaking is a good exercise, but freaking out I don’t support.