Sermons in Stones ~ 20

event type	discourse
date & time	19 Dec 1986 pm
location	Sumila, Juhu, Bombay
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 22min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1986 first edition : Sermons in Stones (1987.04) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	SERMON20

notes

synopsis: Reader of the questions: Ma Marya ?

Question 1 from Surabhi

Beloved Osho, I am becoming aware more and more how much I focus on the other, whether it is a friend, a lover, a mountain, or music. One thing remains always the same: the other is a longing within me because without the other, I can never feel complete, reconciled. Beloved master, who is the other? Is it imaginary?

Question 2 from Purna

Beloved Osho, having read recently several books on the master-disciple relationship, I was struck by the immensity of suffering, physical endurance tests, dark nights of the soul and hardness of training the disciples had to undergo. There seems to be a tradition -- regardless of school -- of suffering and hardness. Looking at my eleven years with you, beloved master, it has been a bed of roses -- the ample amount of thorns being provided by my ego only. You certainly are no bullshit, yet so light, delicate, humorous and joyous that I never think of you as a hard master. And even when you were hitting me, you have never been as hard as my conditioning had taught me to be on myself. You seem to prefer, whenever possible, to dissolve and melt the thorns and corns rather than hacking them off. Over and over I have the feeling that I am just starting. My question is: Am I just extremely slow and insensitive and are the really tough times still to come? Or, have you created a way of working with us which is very different from the ways other masters and enlightened beings used to work with their disciples?

Question 3 from Sw Milarepa

Beloved Osho, am I a hypochondriac? I'm also worried about my sex life in old age.

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