Sermons in Stones ~ 23

event type	discourse
date & time	22 Dec 1986 pm
location	Sumila, Juhu, Bombay
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 30min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse.
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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	SERMON23

notes

synopsis: Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.

Question 1

Beloved Osho, I'm often tortured by the idea that I have to do something special to realize myself. A few years ago, I was on the point of becoming a psychoanalyst. Fortunately, I dropped this idea and I took sannyas. I tried to work as a doctor, but I was getting so tense that I was no longer loving with the people who were coming to me. Now I do simple jobs but still the idea is there: Am I wasting my time? Am I running away from my responsibility? On the other hand, every time this idea of doing was dropped, I experienced days of bliss. Can you please tell me something more about the difference between doing and being?

Question 2

Beloved Osho, you said a few days ago, "I love you like nobody could ever love you." I know in my heart that it is true. I would also like to tell you that I love you more than anyone I could ever love. Without you, my life is absolutely meaningless. When I took sannyas, I used to say I would die for you, I'm ready to give my life to you. Now I say I would like to live for you and I'm ready to give my life to you. Thank you for the life you are giving me. I bow down to you with unexpressible gratitude.

Question 3

Beloved Osho, a boy cockroach was talking to his grandfather. He said, "Grandpop, my teacher says in school that no matter what people do, we're always gonna be here. He says we're going to be the only ones around after the atomic bomb explodes." The grandfather said, "Well, son. Let me tell you what my grandfather told me. He said, 'Roaches won't croak when the world's up in smoke and though they step on us now, we'll have the last joke.'"

Question 4

Beloved Osho, since I have been here with you this time, I have felt a great longing, a great thirst, a great urgency to go into meditation. I love you and I know that this is the only thing you ask of us and this is the only real thank you I could give -- to one day know what meditation really is. I see you so alive, sitting here right now with us in this very moment, and I long to become so drunk with you that there is no turning back. I'm drinking you as much as I possibly can. Doubts arise and I feel fear about going back on Wednesday. I'm afraid I will not find you there and will slip back again. Oh, my beloved master -- what does it mean to risk all for a single moment of love?

Question 5

Beloved Osho, do you have something to say about Gandhi's fourth monkey?

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