Ecstasy The Forgotten Language ~ 04

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event type discourse
date & time 14 Dec 1976 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona
language English
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shorttitle ECSTAS04
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synopsis
Reader of the questions: n/a; questions are being read by Osho himself.
Question 1
What is the difference between a crystallized self and a big, strong ego?
Question 2
Please will you explain to me what "the way of religion" means? I have always been so strongly against religion that I cannot imagine what it means. But, anyhow, I suppose it is the way of total aloneness. And this makes me a little uneasy.
Since you gave me sannyas, I feel like I am in an abyss. Other people are not reachable for me; I am only fixed up to the fire of your eyes -- a tremendous Poona fiction story.
Question 3 from Sw Yoga Chinmaya
In your lectures you talk about Gurdjieff, Raman, Ramakrishna, Basho, and others who are physically not alive, but why don't you talk about the enlightened persons who are physically alive today?
Question 4
There was a little polar bear who asked his mother, "Was my daddy also a polar bear?"
"Of course your daddy was a polar bear."
"But," goes on the little one after a while, "mommy, just tell me, was my grandfather also a polar bear?"
"Yes, he was also a polar bear."
Time goes by and the little one keeps asking his mother, "But what about my great-grandfather? Was he a polar bear as well?"
"Yes, he was. But why are you asking?"
"because I am freezing."
I was told my father was a polar bear, I was told my grandfather was a polar bear, I was told my great-grandfather was a polar bear; but I am freezing. How can I change this, Osho?
Question 5
I have heard, a man in an orange robe entered the Vrindavan juice bar, barged up to the front of the line, and demanded tea and cake. He paid with a hundred-rupee note and complained about the cost and the long lineup. After choosing the biggest piece of cake and the biggest cup, he took over an old lady's seat and proceeded to gobble the food. A bystander, puzzled by his behavior, asked the meaning of it.
"Why," he explained, "Osho said that only a crystallized ego can be dropped."
Question 6 from Amit Prem
Dear Osho, there are more and more non-moments, periods of no time, especially when talking with others, when suddenly I am not talking anymore, talking is just happening: there is a flow, a sense of power and wholeness, hands move in perfect synchronization with thought feelings, space expands, and there is openness with no sense of separation -- and no "I" that is separate.
The front of the body seems to be nonexistent and I am talking with myself.
Are these the here-and-now-I moments you are talking about, or is there more, or is it a matter of more more frequently?
Question 7
What is enlightenment? Please explain.


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